Spiritual Warfare #6 - Demons & Deliverance
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In Spiritual Warfare class six, Dean Odle argues that casting out demons was a normal and prominent part of Jesus’ ministry and was meant to continue through believers. He distinguishes different degrees of demonic influence, traces the origin of demons through his reading of Genesis 6, Jude, 2 Peter, and 1 Enoch, and uses Gospel deliverance accounts to explain how spirits gain and exercise control.
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Odle introduces demons and deliverance as a major New Testament subject, noting that the Gospels repeatedly portray Jesus casting out spirits. He argues that this ministry continued through the apostles and should not be treated as a relic of the biblical world.
Jude, 2 Peter, Genesis 6, and material attributed to 1 Enoch are brought together to explain Odle’s view of fallen angels, the giants, and disembodied evil spirits. He acknowledges interpretive questions while emphasizing that Scripture plainly describes angels who sinned and are held for judgment.
Accounts involving Fergie, violence, addiction, and the Virginia Tech shooter illustrate the speaker’s claim that demonic oppression remains active in modern life. He stresses that family or ministers cannot force lasting deliverance on someone who is unwilling to seek freedom.
Ephesians 2 and Matthew 8 frame Satan as presently active and show deliverance as routine in Christ’s healing ministry. Odle defines being “possessed with devils” broadly as coming under demonic power, rather than limiting it to spectacular movie-style manifestations.
The Gerasene man in Mark 5 demonstrates an extreme case in which many spirits dominate a person’s conduct, strength, isolation, and self-harm. Jesus’ questions and commands are used to argue for identifying spirits and their access before expelling them.
Luke 4 and Romans 10 support a sequence of announcing freedom, building faith through the Word, and then ministering liberty. Odle warns that rushing into a case without knowing whether the person is saved, willing, or prepared can leave that person in greater danger.
Odle interprets Jesus’ language about captives as prisoners of spiritual war and maintains that believers can still hold areas surrendered to the enemy. The returning-spirit warning is used to caution against casting demons from an unsaved person whose life remains spiritually empty.
Personal ministry stories, including prayer for a young child displaying sexualized behavior, illustrate Odle’s belief in generational curses and inherited demonic access. He describes prayer as calm, specific, and dependent on Christ’s authority rather than theatrical confrontation.
The brazen altar and laver are presented as Old Testament patterns for two distinct needs in Christian life. First John 1 is applied to forgiveness and cleansing from sin by Jesus’ blood, while 2 Corinthians 7 is applied to believers cleansing themselves from defilement of flesh and spirit.
Israel’s passage through the sea and under the cloud is treated as a pattern of water baptism and baptism in the Holy Spirit. Odle concludes that conversion is foundational but does not eliminate the need for Spirit-filled discipleship, deliberate cleansing, and continuing resistance to demonic bondage.
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Good morning, everyone. We want to welcome all of our students out there. This is Fire and Grace School of Ministry and We are in semester two Block number four spiritual warfare. This will be spiritual warfare class number six today we're going to get into demons and deliverance, so I I don't know I'm combining and renewing some stuff from the old series and putting in some new stuff, so I'm not sure if this will take two or three classes, but we'll see how it goes anyway demons and deliverance spiritual warfare class number six let's get started here. This is just from some I don't know Bible school seminary I thought it was interesting so I want to read a little bit of this paper from this gentleman here, but just talking about demon possession and demons in general. I think he made some interesting observations He says here in the New Testament The picture changes considerably when one turns to the New Testament He was comparing the the stories of demons and demon possession in the Old Testament versus the New of course in the new There's a lot more. He says in the New Testament demons are referred to more than 100 times now that I didn't know I'd never counted them up but demons are referred to more than 100 times with many of those references involving possession and we're going to define what that means and the different degrees of possession as we get into this class today. He goes on to say this particularly true of the gospel counts where J. Ramsey Michaels professor at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary search quote nothing is more certain about the ministry of Jesus than the fact that he performed Exorcism or he cast out devils. I mean, this is absolutely a huge part of the ministry of Jesus and this ministry was to continue it continued on in his Apostles it continued on under the 70 disciples that he sent out and it continued on in the early church and Has continued on in the church for centuries even though most churches ignore it He says here dealing with demon possession was an integral part of Jesus daily life and ministry It was also something in which he involved the Apostles and his other followers as Bible scholar and Christian apologist Merrill Unger reminds his readers quote not only did Jesus cast out demons But he delegated his power to the 12 to the 70 and even to believers now I want to read that again You know Unger's Bible dictionary anybody ever heard of that one. Well Merrill Unger says and I'm going to quote him again here He reminds his readers not only did Jesus cast out demons, but he delegated his this power to the 12 to the 70 and even to
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Believers and I don't say all believers true born-again believers in Jesus Christ He said unfortunately only a few cases in Scripture are treated with sufficient detail to be of any help in this study Even those descriptions are often briefer than one would wish in several passages where demon possession is mentioned It is only in passing such as in Mark 132 they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons the lack of any further detail doesn't provide much help for A study of this type except to support a distinction being made in Scripture between demon possession and illness nine cases in the New Testament are described with enough detail to make possible some comparisons between them and Modern day phenomenon such as the Haitian Leo possession now. I want to say this that right there I think there's plenty of evidence But I think the Lord didn't give as much as maybe we would like because he wants us to be led by the Holy Spirit and A lot of it we learn by by doing and by gaining experience Ministering people but he says the synoptic Gospels Matthew Mark and Luke The authors include seven cases of demon possession in which some detail is given. These are the demoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum gathering demoniac Mark chapter 5 the other ones mark chapter 1 in Luke 4 the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman mark 7 in Matthew 15 the demonic boy mark 9 Matthew 17 the dumb man or deaf and dumb Matthew 9 Luke and Luke 11 The blind and dumb man Matthew 12 and then the crippled woman in Luke 13 now at some point in This class we will cover all these We're going to cover a lot of them today, but I wanted to start out again with just a reminder about this verse Ephesians 6 12 You couldn't state it more plainly that we wrestle not with flesh and blood he says But with but against rather principalities and powers and the ruins of the darkness of this world and get spiritual wickedness in high places or as we said before wicked spirits in heavenly places in our particularly in our atmosphere We've discussed that especially as we talked about binding and loosing last week now I do have a couple of quotes from the book of Enoch and I'm gonna state again Don't bother sending me stuff about the book of Enoch. I don't put it on the same level as Scripture But it is it kind of holds a place of its own and I do believe it holds correct information Just like I don't believe a history book Is on the same level of Scripture? But I do believe that some of our history books, you know contain correct information now one of the reasons I believe the book of Enoch is a Legitimate historical source is because we know that it was quoted by Jude who was the half-brother of Jesus
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His book is in the Bible and he quotes the first chapter of Enoch one now the Enoch two and three forgeries but Enoch one he quotes word for word and said Enoch prophesied and so he was looking at what was Recorded in the book of Enoch as a prophetic utterance from the Lord and he recorded it Word for word in the book of Jude and of course the book of Enoch or Enoch one here Was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. So It is an ancient book. It's not a medieval forgery. It is a very ancient book that was referred to and I believe that we see even the Lord Jesus and Some of the other apostles Peter even quoting from it almost word for word. So having said that I think we've lost some things in Translation there may be aspects of it in especially in later chapters of the book of Enoch that you know You'd have to call in the question. But again as as I say many times eat the hay Spit out the sticks. Okay, we have to do that with anything we read outside of Scripture outside of the 66 books we call the can now, let's read this. This is the book of Enoch chapter 15 verses 8 through 11 Talking about there's a difference between the fallen angels and what demon spirits are and I believe this to be true because I believe the Bible gives us also enough hints and clues that we can deduct this but Let's read this. Anyway, Enoch 15 8 through 11 says and now the Giants who are produced From the spirits and flesh shall be called evil spirits upon the earth and on the earth shall be their dwelling evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies because they were they are born from men and from the holy watchers or the Angels known as the sons of God and this was their beginning and their primal origin They shall be evil spirits on the earth and evil spirits. Shall they be called as for the spirits of the of heaven In heaven shall be their dwelling but as for the spirits of the earth which are born upon the earth The earth shall be their dwelling. Now listen this and the spirits of the Giants afflict Oppressed destroy attack do battle and work destruction on the earth and cause trouble It's very interesting here. So they take no food, but nevertheless they hunger and thirst Not interesting and they walk through Jesus said they walk through dry places seeking rest, but they find none right, and It says cause offenses and these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women because they have proceeded from them So I'd say that's a pretty accurate description of evil spirits. Now. Why do we believe? that this is True here because if we look here at two passages in the Bible here in the New Testament 2nd Peter chapter 2 4 through 5 and
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June verse 6, of course, Jude is just one Chapter but Jude is also the book that quotes the book of Enoch word for word almost all of chapter 1 of Enoch But here it says this Will read 2nd Peter 2 4 3 5 verse 4 if God spared not the angels that sin But cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment And spared not the old world but saved no other the eighth person a preacher of righteousness Bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly So here says God spared not the angels that sin but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains This sounds as though that the fallen angels or at least a majority of them Were delivered into Chains into hell. So then what are we fighting out here now? I do believe there's some fallen angels that are loosed But he makes this statement here, too It says the angels this is Jude 6 and the angels was kept not their first estate but left their own habitation He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. So It seems as though we see that there are the fallen angels at least I mean this these passages make it sound like all of them I don't know if it's all of them. We know Satan Lucifer, you know, we know he's still loose but This shows you then, you know, then what are these thousands and thousands and thousands or what are these unclean spirits? so I do believe in the realm of where you have principalities powers the rulers of the darkness of this world and Wicked spirits, I believe you're getting a breakdown that the principalities like we covered Last week are the fallen angel princes that have more authority than the unclean spirits, but that the unclean spirits are the disembodied spirits of the Giants who were the half-breaths now, I believe that You may not believe that there be people out there who disagree with me and not believe that that's fine But it doesn't really take away from the issue The Bible talks about foul spirits unclean spirits evil spirits. Those are terms used and in Jesus name the true born-again believer has power and authority to bind them and cast them out of people and Resist them and to make them flee and it really doesn't matter if you believe they're all fallen angels or you believe that There are some fallen angels and some Evil spirits that are the disembodied Spirits of the Giants either way. We have authority over them. Whatever they are Whatever they came from I'm just telling you what I believe I do believe that this in Enoch is valid Here's the other passage in the book of Enoch that I also believe to be
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