Breaking Free #2: Can a Christian Have Demons in Them?

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   Alright everybody we're ready to get started on part two here. Can a Christian have a demon? Christian have demons in them This has been the hottest one of the hottest theological debates for 30 40 years I've debated argued fussed with pastors and Christians But this right here comes from many years of study and all this And again, we've been told lies. We've been told lies about a lot of things, but we've been told well, you know If I'm a Christian, you know What Concord has Christ would rely on light with darkness can't mix and I'm like, okay let's we're gonna have to straighten all of this out because Christians do have demonic strongholds in them. I found it out very early on One of my first converts came out of high-level Satanism in witchcraft. One of the first people I led to the Lord and a group of us started discipling this young lady and She was doing good. She was she was telling us everything that went on in Satanism the occult world at the time I found out things back then before the Internet existed For us anyway But I found out things back then that have turned out to be very true Everything from the truth about the Nephilim the Giants Being in the last days all kinds of stuff. She revealed but she was walking with the Lord when one day out of this young lady came this very loud male voice and She was born again So my theology God started out early By just letting me see it happen. All right, and then I had to go and figure out. Okay Where is this in the word? Because when you got a 16 year old girl going? My name is Lee John And it's so loud that it hurts your ears and you're like Okay We've just stepped into a whole new realm here and of course it took about 15 minutes, but we finally Got those demons out of her and she told me she said it was strange when they took over She said I felt like that I was pushed down in a well and I could hear the demons talking to you through my body And I could hear you talking to them, but I couldn't say anything that I wanted to say She said but I heard the whole conversation going on And the whole fight so when we got rid of the Legion because she did she had a legion and She had been brought up in Satanism generational Satanism, so

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   it was that was my beginning and It was because God wanted me to teach this and try to help people get free When we come to talking about Christians can Christians have demons in them when the first scriptures that should come to your mind Is this one in Ephesians 4 27 neither give place to the devil now? This was written to Christians if you go to Ephesians 1 1 when he wrote Ephesians and Paul wrote Ephesians the Holy Spirit led him to do this He said to the saints and to the faithful in Christ Jesus So he's not speaking the book of Ephesians is not written to the unsaved not any part of it it is written to the born-again Christians the church of Ephesus and they were plainly told Neither or don't give place to the devil now if a Christian couldn't give place to the devil Why would you be told to not give place to the devil all right the word? Place there is the word we get us topos where we get the word topography from meaning any place on your map folks Don't give them place if you give the devil place meaning you open a door you give him legal right he will seize that That land Which is you he'll seize that part, and he'll stay there, and he he's a squatter Everybody know what a squatter is He'll squat and not want to leave of course we know That we need to be careful Christians were told this that we would be sober vigilant because the devil seeking to devour us So again warnings to Christians so that the just the concept that a Christian couldn't be attacked or a door couldn't be open or Place-given it's just not biblical. I know it sounds like you're you know preaching the victory, but no You give them the place they will take it every time all right, so let's look at this verse Ecclesiastes 10 8 Says whose soul ever Breaks the hedge a serpent will bite, but let's read the whole thing he that dig at the pit shall fall into it So that means if you dig your own pit guess what? you're gonna fall into it and who so breaketh a hedge a Serpent shall bite him now. I do believe God puts a hedge of protection around his people Right, but then he says who so who's who so? You me you We're all who so The whosoever breaks the hedge a serpent will bite him now a serpent bites you guess what I've been bitten by water moccasins So I know how this goes Things go in you and there's poison Then I'm injected in you and left in you to do you harm When God uses these terms like if you break the hedge a serpent will bite you he's letting you know a demon a devil is

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   Going to put something in you That's to do you harm. That's the whole picture. That's the whole word picture you get But who so means just the unsaved No No, saved or unsaved you open doorways you get demons Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to the kingdom of God and spiritual warfare Second Corinthians 2 11 lest Satan should get advantage of us for we are not ignorant to his devices Well, what's the flip side of that coin if you're ignorant to his devices? He will get an advantage over you he will find a way to get in through your ignorance You will do something that will let him in that's why God said my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge in Hosea 4 6 Think about that. My people my people my people Are destroyed for a lack of knowledge and then he says what happens God brings some knowledge and then they reject it Because you've rejected knowledge. I will also reject you You want to know why a lot of people are in in trouble Christians are in trouble Because first of all, they either ignorant and then God tries to bring them knowledge and then they reject that Don't reject knowledge of God's Word and truth Matthew 12 43 to 45. I mentioned this a minute ago, but we're gonna read it Jesus said here when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man He walked it through dry places seek and rest and find it done then he saith I'll return into my house from whence I came out and when he has come he findeth it empty Swept and garnish then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself And they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first even so shall it be? Also into this wicked generation So Jesus is talking about when he says when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man Well, what does that mean? Do they just leave once they get in? No, let me tell you why they want a body because they used to have a body and they they cannot find any rest or satisfaction Unless they're in a body. This is why demons want to get in you They don't want to just hang out with you They want to get in you because they want to use your body to feel and do the things they used to do when they were wicked when they were wicked entities walking around the earth But he says here when the unclean spirits gone out of a man, so somebody cast the demons out of somebody But he said that house was empty Swept and garnish. So if the house is empty meaning no Jesus no Holy Spirit The house is empty the demons can come right back in. This is why I tell you and I've been teaching this for over 30 years You don't cast demons out of unsaved people Unless you know you can lead them to Jesus. Now. There's a few exceptions. I have ministered to people who were so demon possessed that they were about to be put in a mental institution and

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   I have cast demons out of them just so I could talk to them sense to them and hopefully lead them to Jesus and I've Seen success with this. I mean we had a guy completely flipping out demon possessed He was in another location from me another house in the same city people were with him And he was telling them tell Dean to stop praying for me and I was praying for him was I was trying to come over to To minister to him and he was about to be taken down to a mental hospital And I just said, you know, we got to do what we can So it started casting some demons out of you know what he got better He got out of there pretty quick and he got better. He got his life together. He got a job. He had a family. I mean This guy was headed down a bad road, but very rare situation Okay, I wouldn't advise it because if you do it and they they're empty. They don't have Jesus They're not born again. They don't have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. You're gonna make them worse All right, which again confirms That deliverance is primarily for us The children's the children's bread as we're gonna see right? Let's keep going here. Oh, there's your little devil in the dry places Right you still buying the demons in an unsaved person Right like we did with my mom that night you bind the demons in them and command them to stop their works So they can hear what you're saying Definitely all the time. All right. There's your devil's First Corinthians 10 9 through 20 again written to Christians He says what say I then this Apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit saying that the idol is anything or that which is offered to sacrifice The idols is anything but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice They sacrifice to Devils or demons or unclean spirits and not to God I would not that you should have fellowship with devils He was warning them Christians if you Participate in anything pagan or idolatrous You are going to be fellowshipping with demons This word fellowship is the same Greek word used about having fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God And where do you have fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God in you? So he's saying if you open the door Christians through paganism Witchcraft sin you open the door. He's saying don't do it because I don't want you to have fellowship with Devils and that spiritual fellowship and there it is partakers with demon coinos share associate Same word as having being a partaker having communion having fellowship with the Holy Spirit. There it is right there I like to prove what I believe here. All right, so let's go to this. We're gonna move through this

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