We as regenerated believers live in the new paradigm of the “no condemnation” reality of Romans 8:1.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:1

Satan uses thoughts of condemnation to robe us of our new life in Christ. We must deal with these thoughts by knowing and standing upon the truth of the word of God.

“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into [not water, but into] his death? ⁴ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:3-4)

But, if Satan’s lies can get us to accept condemnation for his temptations shot into our minds or get us to believe again that we are independent selves living apart from the Lord Jesus, ignoring the truth that He actually indwells us as the new us, then what we believe has us in his grips. We must know who we are a grace-believers and live with the truth as the overarching truth in mind… we must know our Scripture and stand upon it. E.g., There is no sin in temptation, for the Lord was tempted … yet without sinning.

But if, instead of being tricked into such negative believing, we accept temptation as Satan's right by all his emissaries of people and things, we then do not deny or oppose any forms of temptation. Rather, we recognize that they do not issue from our flesh, but from the sin-nature in our flesh (Rom. 8:3, 7:17-18), and then we reject any condemnation.

By this we see that Satan has becomes a roaring but toothless lion (1 Peter 5:8), unless we give him teeth by responding by fear or self-condemnation.

We answer the Accuser’s assaults by affirming who we are by Christ in us/as us, which really is an act of practicing the daily death-resurrection process… not I but Christ in me.

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus [as our death to Sin so], that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” (2 Corinthians 4:10)

The light of expressing ourselves as Christ (He the “light” and we as the “lamp”) swallows up the darkness. Where we are tempted to hate, we choose to love with God's love, including enemies. Where tempted to fear (which is really negative believing in evil), we have the faith of Christ for the situation. We counter a temptation to anxiety with assurance; depression with affirmation of Him as our joy.

We ‘resist the devil,’ as James says (James 4:7) by submitting to God and the truth of the power of the cross as our death and new life source, and in that affirmation that the devil flees.