Demons & Deliverance Part 4: Accursed Objects & Demonic Healing

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   Heat up here. Sh you [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Everlasting God. Everlasting God. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. We worship you today. We praise you today. You're the everlasting God, Jesus. We worship you. We thank you, Lord, that you died on that cross for our sins. You rose from the dead on the third day, and you've given us power and authority to walk in this life as more than conquerors. Father, teach us to fight. Teach us to stand. teach us what it means to truly walk with you and be victorious over all the forces of darkness. And we pray this today in Jesus name. Amen. Praise God. You may be seated this morning. We welcome everyone to Fire and Grace Church. Welcome those listening by Blog Talk Radio. Hopefully they're working this week. They had a technical problem last week and blog talk didn't work and then we had a problem. YouTube didn't work but Facebook live worked last week. So, uh, but I think everything should be working this week. So, we welcome you. Uh, this week we're going to continue the series. We're in part four of demons and deliverance. Demons and deliverance part four. This one we're going to talk about oursed objects and demonic healing. Uh this is uh this is a subject that's hard to cover all of

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   it, but we're going to try this morning. So this is demons and deliverance for our cursed objects and demonic healing. Now, as an introduction as we get into this, I want everyone to understand this. And I've got a list of several scriptures here on this slide that I want everyone to look up. You have your Bibles with you this morning? Because I want you to understand something. Just as there is God Almighty, the creator and his angels, there is a devil. There is a very real Satan, fallen angel that many call Lucifer. His original name was Hal, but many call him Lucifer, Satan, the devil, the adversary. But he has a host of demon spirits that work with him. It's amazing that a lot of the church world will believe in angels, but they don't want to talk about the demons. The fact is that we have more more of a battle going on with demons every day than we even realize. And so that's what I've been covering over the last few weeks, and I know there's more to come on this because we're going to get into the weapons of our warfare next week, God willing. But I just want to give you a few verses. John 10:10. This is Jesus speaking. And he said, 'The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy, but I am come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly. I want to make it very clear this morning that you will have no victory against sin, against the devil, against the demons, against the dark forces of this world, unless you are truly born again by faith in the blood of Jesus. and the fact that you have repented of sin and you've become a true disciple of Jesus. If you don't do that, if you are not truly saved, walking with the Lord in obedience, walking in faith, walking in the power of the blood of Jesus and the resurrection power of Jesus, if you are not doing that, you have no chance, no hope to defeat Satan and the demons and the plans that they have for your life. You know, everybody talks about, you know, the remember the four spiritual laws, the the the track that that that got passed out for years, but one of the things that God loves you and has a wonderful plan with your life. Well, the devil has one, too. And if Satan hates you, and he has a terrible plan for your life, and you're going to follow one of those plans. You're you're not going to follow even your own plan. You think you are, but you're not even going to follow your own plan. You're going to follow God's plan for your life through Jesus, or you're going to follow Satan's plan, and he's going to bring destruction and depression and devastation into your life. That's why Jesus said here, the thief, speaking of Satan, Jesus called him a thief because he's out to steal everything from you. He says, "The thief

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   cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy, but I am come," he said. And Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly." Why did he say might? Because it's up to you. Jesus has already paid the price on the cross. He's already risen from the dead. He's already conquered the forces of sin, the forces of Satan. He's already conquered all that. He has the keys of hell and death. And he says to the true sons and daughters of God, he says, "I give unto you the keys of the kingdom. I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. I give the power to you. In my name you cast out devils. In my name you resist Satan. In my name you obey me. Amen. It's might. M might you might have it. Most Christians are not having victory over the powers of darkness. Here's another verse. 1 John 3:8. He that it says he that committh sin is of the devil. Everybody, let me let me just give you a little Greek lesson real quick. When you see this committh in the King James Bible, that usually denotes a present tense Greek verb, which means ongoing continuous action that's taking place in the present. So what he's saying is the person who practices sin against God habitually, continually, and presently is of the devil. For the devil sinnth from the beginning for this purpose was the son of God, Jesus Christ, was manifested, became flesh, that he might destroy the works of the devil. That's why Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. So how is it that most churches won't even talk about the devil? won't even talk about demons. Won't even talk about deliverance. Won't even talk about it. Yet, the Bible talks about it all the time. Let's keep going. Revelation 12:11. And it says, "And they," speaking of Satan, he just listed Satan. He called him Satan, that old serpent, the devil and Revelation 12:10 and there and above. But he said here in Revelation 12:11, "And they overcame him, Satan, by the blood of the lamb, Jesus Christ, by the word of their testimony, and because they love not their lives unto death." So they see, he's telling you here that the only way we overcome Satan is one by the blood of Jesus shed on the cross and our faith in that blood and our willingness to obey and walk in that what everything that that means. the word of our testimony because we're willing to speak the name of Jesus and the word of God and what Jesus has done in our lives. We're willing to speak that out of our mouths and then we're willing to even die for this. They can put a gun to my head and I'm never going to deny him or a sword for that matter. So that's how we overcome.

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   I I mentioned this on Facebook the other day. Ephesians 6:11 and 12. If if if being saved was all that was needful, if if if if just being born again was enough to overcome the devil, why would Paul write to people who are already strong and devoted Christians at Ephesus, why would he write and say, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the ws of the devil." If I if all I had to do is be born again, that's all I had to know, and the devil couldn't touch me, why does Paul say to Christians, you better put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand? The hint, flip side of that coin, if you don't put on the whole armor of God, you will not be able to stand even as a Christian. We'll get into the armor next week and what that means. But he tells us in verse 12 of Ephesians 6, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places or heavenly places." Wicked spirits. Everybody thinks the wicked spirits are in hell. No, that the fallen angels are chained in hell. The demon spirits are here. We'll get more on that later. Here we go. James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." Guess what? If you don't resist, he will not flee from you. He will hang out with you. Right? And last but not least, 1 Peter 5'8, "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom," speaking of the devil, "resist steadfast in the faith." The word resist means to actively fight against. You have to choose to fight. Now, guess what? If you're constantly living in sin and you're constantly loving the world and the things of the world and playing with the things of the world, Satan's stuff, then you're not resisting. You're playing with him. And he's going to play with you. He's going to play with your mind. He's going to play with your body. He's going to play with your spiritual life. and he's going to try to rob your soul for all eternity and make sure you go to hell. That's his job. Now, this morning I told you we're going to talk about our cursed objects. A lot of people don't realize that this is both an Old Testament and a New Testament truth. Now, I'm not going to put this verse up, but if you go to the Ten Commandments in Exodus 21, one of the Ten Commandments, he told them, "You shall not make any graven images of anything that is on the earth, in heaven, or under the earth to bow down yourself to it." But then, not only does he say, God says, "Don't make any graven images of anything to bow down to it,"

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