There is a growing habit of removing personal responsibility and placing it on something external, “a spirit made me do it,” “a demon caused this,” “I’m under attack.” But the pattern of Scripture does not support that way of thinking. The Torah consistently brings the focus back to the man himself, to the heart, and to the choices we have before us.
See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil… and you shall choose life.” – Debarim (Deuteronomy) 30:15, 19
The responsibility is not handed off to an outside force. It is placed directly in our hands.
From the beginning, the issue has always been the inclination within. After the flood, YaHuWaH declares “The inclination yod-tzadi-resh (yetser) of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” – Bereshith (Genesis) 8:21
That word “inclination” (yetser) speaks of a forming, a shaping from within. It is not describing an external entity controlling a person, but an internal bent that must be brought into submission.
So an “internal bent” is simply this, it is the direction your inner man has been trained to go, and the very thing the Torah calls you to take responsibility for and bring into obedience.
This is why the call of the Torah is not “cast out spirits,” but “circumcise the heart.”
And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.” – Debarim (Deuteronomy) 10:16
Circumcision is not the removal of an external adversary, it is the cutting away of what is already part of you.
Even when Qayin (Cain) was confronted, he was not told a spirit was overtaking him. He was told, “Sin is crouching at the door, and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” Bereshith (Genesis) 4:7
The authority to rule was his responsibility.
This is the Hebraic foundation, mastery, discipline, obedience, and transformation, not deflection.
To live as Hebrews is to walk in accountability before YaHuWaH. It is to recognize that obedience is a choice, rebellion is a choice, and repentance (teshuvah) is a turning of the will, not an exorcism of behavior.
When people constantly attribute their actions to “spirits,” they unintentionally deny the very thing the Torah emphasizes, that we are called to become mature, accountable men and women who walk in covenant faithfulness.
Yahusha Himself made this plain, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings…” – Marqos (Mark) 7:21
Not from outside. From within.
So the call is not to chase unseen forces, it is to submit the heart, renew the mind, and walk in the instructions already given.
For the Word of Elohim is living, and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through even to the dividing of being and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” – Iḇ`rim (Hebrews) 4:12
That is where real freedom is found.
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