Spiritual Warfare #7 - Demons & Deliverance: Doorways
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Dean Odle’s seventh Spiritual Warfare class catalogs ways people give the devil “place” and break the protective hedge described in Scripture. He urges deliverance ministers to ask when a bondage began, bring hidden sins into honest confession, and identify the specific doorway rather than treating every case with a generic formula.
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Ephesians 4:27 and the hedge around Job establish the lesson’s governing claim: Christians can surrender real ground to the devil through sin or occult participation. Odle particularly warns that relabeling yoga or Eastern practice as Christian does not remove its religious meaning.
Job and Ecclesiastes are used to picture divine protection as a hedge that can be breached, allowing the serpent to bite. The sermon argues that demonic access is not arbitrary but commonly follows choices, agreements, inherited patterns, or other openings.
Odle advises counselors to ask when a struggle began and to examine childhood and earlier life rather than immediately issuing commands. Job’s desire to know the sins of his youth and James’s instruction to confess faults support a written, specific inventory that can be repented of and closed.
Generational curses are presented as the first major doorway, illustrated by sexual sin and violence repeating through David and Solomon’s family. Odle says inherited bondage does not remove personal responsibility, but it may explain why a recurring temptation or destructive pattern predates a person’s conscious choices.
Statistics and ministry examples concerning sexual abuse show how trauma can become a deep point of demonic exploitation. The speaker calls for healing and deliverance for survivors while condemning abuse within religious institutions and wider culture.
Hebrews 4:12 anchors a distinction between body, soul, and spirit and introduces the claim that the Fall disrupted humanity’s direct spiritual communion with God. New birth restores communion through the Holy Spirit, while occult exercises attempt to open spiritual perception through another source.
A passage from Shirley MacLaine describing meditation and an out-of-body experience is examined as an example of occult technique opening what she called a tunnel in the mind. Odle contrasts Spirit-led experiences in Scripture with deliberately inducing separation through Eastern meditation.
Ecclesiastes 12’s silver cord is connected to the human spirit and death, and the testimony is used to interpret claims of out-of-body travel. Examples of telekinesis and stage magic are attributed to demonic cooperation rather than neutral human potential.
Proverbs 18:21 supports a warning that Masonic and other occult oaths can create spiritual agreements that must be confessed, renounced, and broken. Biblical laying on of hands shows that spiritual influence can be imparted beneficially, while careless touch and close association may also transmit defilement.
Odle closes with examples from Santería, African religious practice, and objects he believed carried curses to show that the list of doorways is not exhaustive. The practical response is to reject occult objects and practices, repent of participation, and rely on Jesus Christ to close every identified entrance.
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All right, good morning everyone. We'll welcome all of our students to fire and grace school of ministry this morning. This is our second semester block uh what is that four so this is block four spiritual warfare uh this is class number seven so we'll be dealing with and really this is uh in the spiritual warfare block this is demons and deliverance part two um just calling this one doorways so um and what i've done is uh combine some of the older stuff together with some new stuff but we've got a lot to cover i think i have at least 50 slides this morning so we're going to go through doorways so last week of course we talked about um we talked about you know demons and how they get in a little bit we talked about uh how they you know we can break the hedge we can give place to the devil whosoever we're going to go look back over those verses again as well spiritual warfare class seven and this is what we're hearing the specifics of opening the doors giving place to the devil uh breaking the hedge we're going to talk about all that and what it does also going to explain a little bit more about astral projection today and uh how that doorway is opened and that's really one of the main goals of people in the occult world or those toying with yoga and eastern mysticism and those kind of things but anyway spiritual warfare class seven demons and deliverance doorways here we are we're going to start off on this i shared last week but we need to get these verses down in us ephesians 4 27 neither give place to the devil and paul was speaking this of course to the church at ephesus and the church at ephesus if you go back to ephesians 1 1 he says when he's writing this letter that the holy spirit inspired him to write he says he's writing this to the saints and to the faithful in christ jesus so this is not to the lost this is not to the unsaved this is not even to the backslidden christian this is to the born again christian who is considered holy a saint and faithful in christ jesus and he instructs them do not give place to the devil all right now if it was impossible for a christian to give place to the devil why would there be a warning right so anybody can open a door now some people ask me well christian can't have a demon i said well let's ask ask this question how does anyone get a demon in a demon stronghold in him sin right can a christian sin well yeah so if a christian can sin and a christian can open the door to a demon right so first peter 5 8 be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring line walk is about
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seeking whom he may devour uh this is first peter 5 8 and again who was peter talking to in this if you go back and you look at the context you look at first peter chapter five look at verse one he's talking to christians so again warning that satan is he said be sober be vigilant the word vigilant there means to be alert and aware that danger is around you that there is the possibility for satan to get a stronghold to get a doorway to get a legal right to devour you again if it was impossible if you were saved if just being born again and you're born again and your sins are washed away by the blood of jesus if that was enough and you didn't have to do anything to make sure the devil doesn't get a place in you or a a doorway or a way of entrance to attack you then why i mean why would why would the apostles under the inspiration of the holy spirit give these warnings so it's just logical just logical deductive reasoning here it goes okay so we need to be alert we need to be sober and vigilant aware that there is danger that we need to be aware we can give place to the devil we can open doors and we can do that any number of ways here's another verse that we covered he that diggeth the pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh a hedge a serpent shall bide him now the hedge is the hedge of protection that god puts around us god does put a hedge around his people he promises that but that hedge can be broken and he says who so that means whosoever breaks the hedge gives legal right through sin disobedience even ignorance can get you in trouble but whosoever breaks the hedge it says here a serpent shall bite him now we know luke 1019 jesus said i behold i gave you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy so that this serpent here is a reference to demon spirits now when a serpent bites you like that serpent biting that gentleman's foot there what's he doing his things are going where in you and he's leaving some of his poison in you to harm you to kill you okay this is what happens when we open the door to the devil he brings in some poison he brings in some he leaves he leaves an aspect of himself there and uh and can build a great stronghold there a strong man with multiple demon spirits and again it doesn't mean we're total demon possession we covered that last week last class um the difference between having one demon stronghold the woman in luke 13 versus the mary mackin luke 8 who had seven demons versus the gathering demoniac who had
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up to 2000 a legion of demons there are degrees of demon possession or infiltration or demonic strongholds in a person and so there are degrees and level of influence in a person when there's demonic strongholds but anyway so i said here ignorance is not bliss you know there's that saying ignorance is bliss no it's not when it comes to satan and demons you cannot be ignorant um paul warned here second corinthians chapter two he said to them less satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant to his devices well if you there's always the flip side of the coin what's he saying there well if you are ignorant of satan's devices then he can get an advantage so he's saying there don't you know satan's not going to get advantage of us because we are not ignorant of his devices how he works but i'm going to tell you right now many christians are ignorant because they're pastors in churches and bible schools and seminaries do not teach on spiritual warfare and deliverance and so people are ignorant and hosiah four six of course four six and seven i should say the lord says here this is the lord speaking he said my people did he say the heathen the wicked the unsaved no he said my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge and then he says this because thou has rejected knowledge i will also reject thee that thou shall be no priest to me seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy god i will also forget thy children as they were increased so they sinned against me therefore will i change their glory into shame so he says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge but that's not the only problem sometimes the knowledge is brought to them and they reject it it's pretty strong when god says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge that should never be because god is always ready to give his knowledge and wisdom to his people but again we get caught up in the doctrines of men denominations traditions we get caught up in you know false teachings and we don't listen to him and we reject knowledge or again we stay in places that keep us ignorant we don't read the bible and study it enough for ourselves and so we stay ignorant and ignorant people uh satan gets an advantage over them and they do things and open doorways to him and give him place when they shouldn't trust me after 30 plus years of ministry and counseling christians i can tell you that christians for the most part are ignorant to this and do stupid things and give satan place all the time i mean we got christian yoga need i say more all right how do you mix christianity and eastern religions bowing down to the sun god and all the the uh what is it the positions of yoga
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each one's about to the sun i mean it's it's that's what it was created for and we got christians doing it in churches now like it's okay uh it's crazy um let's keep going here uh jobe we talk about you know the who so breaks the hedge a serpent will bite him uh just so you see the lord talking about the hedge here um but he says here jobe 1 9 through 10 and satan answered the lord and said doth jobe fear god for naught or for nothing hast not thou made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath and on every side thou hast blessed the work of his hands and the and his substance is increased in the land so he's you know here's the reference satan said yeah i'd like to attack joe but you know what you've made a hedge around it basically you have a you have a wall of protection around him i can't touch him and that's when of course the lord was like okay i'm going to let you touch him but you can't do you can do this but you can't do this this and this but here's the reference to the hedge again in the bible remember the wisdom of solomon by the holy spirit who so ever breaks the hedge a serpent shall bite him again he's talking about the demons the devils the principalities and powers of the rulers of the darkness of this world now let's look at this word because this word hedge is interesting and i looked it up and this was this was a couple of years ago when i was really doing a study in the paleo hebrew the ancient hebrew letters and what they mean and i found this interesting because joe won here the word for hedge is suk suk okay and the letters um it's just three letters it's uh we're going to show you this shin or shin vav and dalette and we'll get into what those mean in a minute but just the definition in the lexicon the strong's definition suk uh to entwine to shut in for formation protection restraint offense make a hedge so talking about a fence coming around uh to hedge in to protect all right so that's suk but even the letters uh the the hebrew letters bear this out um here's the letter shin of course you got early hebrew and middle hebrew and so are late hebrew but looks kind of like rw but it it represents teeth it represents fire and it's also just so you see it uh it represents remember the bible says in hebrews that our god is a consuming fire also shin is also stands for the word shaddai a name for god so whenever you see the shin it can have multiple meanings but it can also mean the name of god like kind of like his initials kind of like his uh
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