Are we to bind Satan and cast out demons?

I want to pick up where we left off last week. I believe there is a lot of confusion in the universal church today concerning how we are to engage in spiritual warfare so as to defeat the enemy. You have probably already heard from some that we are to claim the blood of Jesus and bind the enemy… we are to take authority over Satan by engaging in a power encounter and command the demons of anger, lust, rage, depression, etc. to leave us alone. Neil Anderson, author of The Bondage Breaker, is perhaps the best known advocate of this type of ministry.

Luke 4:31-44

Last week we saw that it was Jesus’ custom to be in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Now I am sure that Jesus found a lot of things to be less-than-perfect in the worship of God in the synagogue, but notice, He didn’t use that as an excuse to “forsake the assembling of ourselves together.” If anyone didn’t need to “go to church” it was Jesus… yet it was His custom to do so. What a rebuke to everyone who is slack in their faithfulness to the local church. If Jesus found it important to establish that custom, what does that say about those who attend when “it is convenient?”