Blake Robert Templeton argues that defeating evil requires not fighting it directly but hating it so intensely you sever your connection to sin. Speaking with authority makes the enemy flee, and declaring "I'm not of it anymore" creates an internal fire that burns evil away from within.
The enemy begins to tremble in your presence. When you speak, the enemy flees. When you speak, the enemy is cast down. When you speak, the enemy literally is removed. And so that's why severing the actual flesh, cutting ties and saying, I'm not of it anymore, I actually hate it, I despise it, I'm not a part of it, I will not be a part of it. And we do that with the hatred of evil, boiling point of hatred, creating this Fire within us of a mighty man.
