Breaking Free #3: Doorways for Demons

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   Time to get started. This is part three here. We'll do this session on the doorways. We're going to talk about doorways There's the scary doorways for demons right there, right? Well, you don't want to let anything like that in do you? Yeah, but you sure can and this just goes back to what we've been talking about the whole time That's that scripture Ephesians 4 27 give no place to the devil meaning you can a doorway is simply where you give a demon or Satan legal ground To step into your life to establish a foothold or a stronghold That means he's totally possessed you and controlling everything about you. It just means you've given place and in that place he's going to try to cause you trouble and pain and loss and difficulty and The thing about it is you can get rid of him now I want to say before we go into this any further you still have the sinful flesh nature Let's just say you go through deliverance thorough delivers you get rid of every demonic stronghold in your life You still have a flesh nature a sin nature. The flesh is always going to want to sin and do wrong Deliverance is not a way to escape that Paul himself talked about how he still struggled with the flesh and he was free. He was delivered He was a holy man of God and he said, you know what? There's things I want to do. I don't do there's things I don't want to do I do Sin dwells in me sin finds a way to try to creep out So Paul talked about in first Corinthians 9 He said I keep my body and I bring it under Subjection less by any means when I have preached to others. I myself Will be a castaway. So there's deliverance is not an excuse For you to say well, I'm not delivered so I can just sin, you know, I'm not delivered, you know, the devil made me do it No, sometimes the devil's there to push But your flesh will want to walk along with him the direction he's pushing So the devil has an ally in you already your sinful flesh and you have to bring that under control By the ways that God's gonna remember when Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane and he was praying and He said to the disciples fell asleep and he said pray That you enter not into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak And what he's saying is if you didn't have a prayer life Your your flesh is going to be is going to overtake you if you don't study the word if you don't read the word If you don't fast from time to time if you don't do the things that you need to do Spiritually that that that Jesus taught us to do then your flesh is going to be stronger than your spirit and your flesh is going to do things that You even don't you can you can even say I don't want to do these things but it's just like two dogs if two dogs are you know, the dog fighters that Michael Vick would tell you if

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   If you have two dogs and they're gonna fight in the day ahead and you feed one and you don't feed the other Which dog you think is winning the one you feed So if you feed in the flesh and you're not feeding the spirit man, the flesh is going to win But if you feed the spirit you feed your spirit the things you need the word of God prayer time fasting Not letting a bunch of stuff flood into your mind through your eyes Evil stuff if you will do what you need to do The spirit man your spirit will be stronger than the flesh and you got to have that But now let me tell you this we all have the battle with the flesh. We're all equal We're all an equal playing field when it comes to the flesh wanting to see it But demonic strongholds in you make it more difficult for you to resist The demonic strongholds in you make it almost impossible for some people Some people call these things addictions and a lot of time it's not an addiction It's because you already have a sinful nature and then you have demonic strongholds in there pushing and fueling that And let me say this right now if I had to fight three guys right now Would I want to fight them in my house or outside of my house? No, no Outside if we had a fight in my house, it's gonna tear my house up. You hear what I'm saying? That's why come on guys, you know, should we do this in here take this outside outside? It's always safe for outside Okay, you get the demons outside. It's much easier to fight them You don't want to fight them all the time when they have room. They're gonna break up your house. All right So just remember that it's just easier. I tell people all the time. I said do you want to climb a mountain? With just you or a hundred pound pack on your back, which is easier Just you Trying to fight the devil when you have all these demons still there It's like trying to climb that mountain with a hundred pound pack on your back. It's not necessary You can get rid of the pack. You still got to climb the mountain But you get rid of the pack. All right, so let's look at the doorways here. Of course, we already covered this Don't give place to the devil I'm gonna go through some of these these were repeated whosoever breaks the hedge. So again, we're talking about opening a doorway This is a very important scripture here. All right Ignorance is not bliss. We've covered this this one. I want to get to So he talked about Job. Have you not made a hedge about him? So again, we're talking about there is a hedge but you can break the hedge. You can open a doorway. We're talking about doorways I'm gonna go through this quick. Of course the the Greek word I mean he reword here for hedge is soup and it means fence Or to fence in with thorns to fence about to hedge in so God does does give us a hedge a fence a protection

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   Job had it we know that now here's an interesting verse here that when the Lord spoke to Cain when he was angry with his brother and he was angry with his brother because his brother was doing what God wanted to do He was righteous and Cain got mad because his stuff wasn't accepted in the same way because Cain was trying to do it his own Way instead of God's way. So he got mad at his brother and the Lord spoke to Cain It's amazing how Cain could hear God. This was after the fall yet Cain had enough relationship with God He could hear his voice. He's a way ahead of a lot of people The Lord said in the cane. Why aren't thou Roth or why are you angry? Why is thy accountant it's fallen if thou do as well shall thou not be accepted and if thou do is not well Sin lieth at the door now this is the Lord speaking he said it and unto thee shall be his desire meaning sin desires to take you and The demons desire to take you but you Shall rule over him. We're supposed to rule over sin. Does this sound familiar you go to the book of Romans The book of Romans says chapter 6 sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace So it no sin should have dominion over you That's the way we're supposed to walk as Christians If you have a habitual ongoing sin in your life habitual adultery habitual fornication habitual pornography habitual Whatever drugs and alcohol if there's something that's going on sin has dominion. It has control over you You're supposed to control it not it control you The picture in in Hebrew of this term sin lieth at the door is like an animal That's crouched and we're gonna get through here Well, let me back up. That's not I thought I had another side But I guess I forgot to put that in but the if you look up the Hebrew word It means like an animal crouched like a tiger Or a lion crouched in the grass Waiting to pounce on you So when sin is at the door when you there's a you you sin you there's a doorway there and there's always a demon There's always a lion Ready to pounce through that doorway and that's what God was warning came about if you don't deal with this issue You got right now your anger and your hatred towards your brother There's a sin line at the door. What was that sin lying at the door? murder and when he wouldn't let go of his sin the door opened and The demon came in there and it says in the book of 1st John that Cain was of that wicked one That Satan came in and that's why he became a murderer So this issue about doorways is a biblical thing now Why do we go back? You know, some of you have seen our questionnaire Why don't we go back into childhood because Jesus gives us this example when they brought to him?

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   This is mark 9 23 23 when they brought unto him he saw they saw him they brought on him this boy that was possessed and When they saw him straightway the spirit tear him This is evil spirit tear him and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming and he asked his father This is Jesus ask his father. How long ago since this came unto him? See what Jesus Jesus didn't go just run over to the boy and go come out of him devil Come out. He didn't start doing deliverance. He said, okay, let's let's figure out Where this came from how long ago? When did this start in that interest a lot of us see somebody? Wallowing on the ground foaming. We just run over and start praying for him Sometimes the question is is people just having demonic problems is where did this start? Where'd this begin? And of course the father answered said of a child When he was a child and oftentimes it had cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him But and then the father says this but if you can do anything This is something you don't say to God You don't say this to the Lord if you can do anything Have compassion on us and help us And what did Jesus say if you can believe? Again, if a preacher did this people be walking out the door All right if you can do anything if What this what what Jesus found out was the reason that the son was having these demonic problems Is because he inherited his this these demons from his father's unbelief And probably some other generational curses don't talk about that in a second But this is why Jesus asked when did these things happen? Do you think Jesus had to do any of this? No, the things that he did were for our sake So we would learn He was trying to show us go back as far as you have to go To figure out when this stuff began because you know what a lot of our problems are demonic problems psychological problems emotional problems Come from our childhood. It's just a fact and it comes from a lot of it comes there was sexual abuse Some of it there's incest and all kind of stuff that's gone on in families that you know, everybody keeps the secrets But people are messed up people are hurting those things cause great psychological emotional spiritual damage and they open the door for demons And yeah, it wasn't your fault if that happened to you But there's still a demon there that has to be dealt with There's women that have been raped, but they tell no one There's women that's had abortions and they tell no one These are doorways for demons my wife had more than one abortion Long before we met she told no one she kept that nobody knew

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