Demons & Deliverance Part 3 - Doorways
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Pastor Dean Odle continues the deliverance series by identifying what he calls doorways through which demonic bondage gains or retains access. He begins with prayer and biblical imagery, then turns to personal sin, inherited patterns, trauma, occult practices, false spiritual impartation, unforgiveness, and destructive relationships. His emphasis is that spiritual attacks should prompt careful repentance and inquiry rather than fear or superstition.
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The message begins with prayer over Christ’s blood and protection, then uses Hebrew-letter and fire imagery to introduce spiritual conflict. Odle presents God’s authority as the basis for identifying and closing access points rather than approaching demons with fear.
Odle explains that deliverance ministry must ask how bondage gained access instead of dealing only with manifestations. He introduces sin, family patterns, trauma, occult contact, false spiritual impartation, and unforgiveness as major categories of doorways.
Pastoral contacts involving children and adults with disturbing manifestations illustrate the need for careful history and discernment. Odle cautions that simply demanding that a spirit leave may fail if the underlying permission or unrepented behavior remains.
Job’s questions about hidden iniquity become a model for asking God to expose forgotten or unrecognized causes of affliction. Odle urges honest prayer and repentance while warning against assuming that every difficulty has the same explanation.
Contrasting the descendants of Jonathan Edwards and Max Jukes, Odle argues that godly and ungodly choices can shape generations. The historical comparison is used illustratively to encourage families to interrupt inherited patterns through conversion and obedience.
The sermon discusses severe trauma and dissociation as coping responses that can also create spiritual vulnerability in Odle’s deliverance framework. He references clinical descriptions while distinguishing the psychological mechanism from the demonic influence he believes may exploit it.
Odle recounts personal use of a Ouija board and the board’s apparent disclosure of private information. He treats the event as evidence that occult games invite real spiritual intelligence and tells listeners to renounce séances, divination, and similar practices.
False religions and indiscriminate laying on of hands are presented as possible channels of spiritual transfer. Odle contrasts this danger with the New Testament use of laying on of hands for recognized ministry and urges believers to know who is praying over them.
Unforgiveness and bitterness receive extended attention as doorways that keep the wounded person bound to the offense. Odle explains that forgiveness does not call evil good; it releases vengeance to God and removes the enemy’s continuing leverage.
The final section applies the teaching to marriage and daily relationships, where quick confession and forgiveness prevent resentment from hardening. Odle calls listeners to repent, reconcile where possible, remove occult connections, and close every identified doorway.
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Your show will go live in five seconds four three two one We thank you father for the precious blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross the holy sinless spotless blood that provided Everything we need more forgiveness healing deliverance Eternal life everything gone that you provide We thank you for the power of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead We thank you the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead can dwell in us if we will believe Obey become your people be born again and walk with you Well, we ask you Lord to just give us years to hear and hearts to understand Well, I truly pray this morning that you will speak To our hearts and change our lives Lord Everyone here at Fire and Grace Church this morning everyone listening watching Today we ask you Lord to touch them To give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you that the eyes of their understanding Will be enlightened Well, we pray for freedom to come in many people from the truth of your word in Jesus name Amen working Vlog talk radio mixler YouTube live Facebook live continue to expand our outreach so this morning We are going to continue the series. I started a few weeks ago entitled demons and deliverance This is part three This is on doorways Open doors how we open doors to the devil of course I've covered the scriptures From Ephesians 4 27 it says give no place to the devil. Are we good? Go ahead. You can start Okay All right. I just didn't see it up here. So I didn't know Anyway Ephesians 4 27 Makes it real clear give no place to the devil and as I've stated over and over again in this series That was spoken to Christians by the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul So if if he had to tell people that if you had to tell Christians that then it's possible to give place
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To the devil in your life. Well, how do we do that? Well, we do it mostly through ignorance Now let's look at a couple of verses here. I mean that ignorance is not bliss Now in this second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11 in the context of it Paul's talking about forgiveness and we'll get to that because today we're going to talk about really the seven primary Doorways that we give place or open doors to demon spirits in our lives for them to afflict us One of them will be unforgiveness. We'll get to that toward the end But in context Paul said he's talking about forgiveness, but then he says this in 2nd Corinthians 2 11 He says less Satan should get an advantage of us For we are not ignorant to his devices So what is this verse implying here? It's implying that if you're ignorant to Satan's devices if you're ignorant to how he works to how he tries to Attack you and manipulate you and work To get in your life if you're ignorant that he will get an advantage of you Paul was saying hey, we're not ignorant So ignorance is not bliss other passage of Scripture here Hosea 4 6 and 7 Something God said here. We have both Old and New Testament to witness this God said my people Not the lost not the Gentiles not the unsaved not the heathen He said my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge my people the people of God This should know better We shouldn't be destroyed devoured vexed tormented afflicted be in bondage We shouldn't be controlled by the devil. We shouldn't be destroyed remember Jesus said in John 10 10 He said the thief cometh not before to kill still and destroy it But I am come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly We like to look over those words, but Jesus said you might have it might maybe hopefully But Paul, but through Hosea here the Prophet Hosea God says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge He says because you have rejected knowledge. I will also reject you That you shall be no priest to me seeing you have forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children and then God says as they were increased or as they were blessed He's on by these people so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory into shame? so pretty serious that we are not ignorant to Satan's devices now Let's go back to a passage that we we mentioned last week in a different context about Satan standing in the presence of God at his throne He made his statement To the Lord about this hedge that God puts around his people the hedge of protection God in the book of Zechariah. He says he is a wall of fire around his people
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Bible talks about the name of the Lord is a high tower and the righteous run into it and they are safe The Lord does desire to be a hedge a wall a shield around his people and As we see even in the old covenant We see this hedge of protection this wall this barrier and this is job one nine and ten And Satan answered the Lord and said does Job fear God for not for nothing has thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that He hath on every side thou has blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land So God said, you know, the devil even said I can't touch him You put a hedge about it You've put a wall a fence a shield. I can't do anything to it. Don't you want to be in that place? Right, but most of us sadly are not because we're ignorant to the devil's devices Because we want to continue playing with sin. We want to play with things that belong to the devil. And so we are constantly Breaking the hedge we're constantly Opening a door to the devil. Now, what's interesting about this this word in the Hebrew for hedge. I Want you to see it's called suk The Hebrew word here is suk and it means to fence about or to hedge in with thorns But I want you to look at the letters of the word. Of course, I've been studying more and more the Ancient Hebrew the paleo Hebrew, but look at these letters And of course Hebrew goes from right to left So Move on here These are the letters of the word hedge here This letter here they go from right to left so you have shin valve and dalette shin valve dalette What blew my mind is as you look up these letters and what they mean It's mind-blowing. Here's a picture of shin and it's as it's kind of evolved over the centuries, but it it has Deep meaning each letter this word shin means Teeth it also the picture is teeth, but it means to consume. It's also a fire or flames of fire Here's another picture of that It just gives you an idea of the word shin or sheen as some pronounce it When it has a little dot on the other side, it's pronounced sin without this But it also means flames of fire. So it appears that it's actually like it's flames here There's something else significant about this letter is that this letter is kind of God's initial
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This is from Wikipedia just to give you it says shin also stands for the word Shaddai a name for God El Shaddai Because of this a coin of priest forms the letter shin with his hands as he recites the priestly blessing in the mid 1960s actor Leonard Nimoy old Spock Used a single-handed version of his gesture to create the Vulcan hand salute for his character, mr. Spock So when he did this he was making the three the shin letter Of Course they use it on all kind of different things God also said he would put his name in Jerusalem and you see and I've been there I've stood on Mount Zion. I've stood on Mount Moriah and I've stood on Mount the Mount of Olives I've been all through walked all through here But there's three valleys that run through here Coming up through this way and it makes the letter shin as God said he would put his name in In Jerusalem, so the shin is like another and you know, this is another picture of it here the Henan Valley here the Tyro poi in there whatever have they say poi on Going up through here. There's the Temple Mount in the Kidron Valley that divides the Temple Mount and Mount olives So you see the word shin there of the letter shin Let me just give you a little interesting tidbit here about this letter. Do you notice in fact, let's back up Let's back up one here. If you notice this letter shin, I didn't know this but I Watched a video the other day and saw a Jewish rabbi talking about that. This letter is made up of three valves The letter valve is the straight, you know, kind of a little Almost arm at the top and then a straight letter. Remember the letter valve is a nail. That's the picture It's a nail. I find that this being God's signature are part of one of his names in This letter that it's made up of three nails Well, Jesus had a nail in each hand and a nail one nail through his feet three nails Also, it's one letter but it's made of three So three father son Holy Spirit one letter So you get both the Trinity and that and of course it being representative of a flame of fire God said in multiple places in the scripture. I am a consuming fire That is part of a part of his nature So you see that letter so we're going to move on here and here's the other two letters in the word valve the nail or the hook the tent peg and Dalette which means door doorway entrance Its picture is a door. So let's look back at this. So the word hedge is made up of God the God of Israel El Shaddai The nail or the tent peg which means to secure and Dalette means the door
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