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Alright, good morning everyone. Welcome all of our students, Fire and Grace School of Ministry this morning, and this is class number eight. Can a Christian have a demon, or can Christian have demons, I should say, spiritual warfare class eight. Now I know I've already mentioned this, already talked about this a little bit in this part of the series, but I did skip some things. So we're going to recover, you know, refresh over the beginning, and get into the rest of it. Because this is very important. You need to be able to defend this and answer this question, because can a Christian have a demon, or have demons in them? Absolutely. I think I can prove that by the scriptures, and by many years of dealing with demons and Christians. So let's get started this morning. And Christian, I Christian have demons in them. Let's start back where we have started, covered this passage. And just so you know, any passage we cover two, three, four times will be on your test. So it's imperative to know these verses. Ephesians 4, 27, Paul speaking to Christians. He said in Ephesians 1, 1, to the saints and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. So in context he's speaking to Christians, and then he says neither give place to the devil or do not give place to the devil. Now if he has to tell Christians not to do that, that means they can do that. You can give the devil place in your life. Spirit, soul, or body, you can open a door, and you can give him place. Again, same principle, 1 Peter 5, 8, the Apostle Peter by the Holy Spirit speaking to Christians. Says again, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary. The devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour. What is he seeking? He's seeking to get you to sin or to do something out of ignorance, but he's getting, he wants you to open a door to him, break the hedge, give him a legal right in your life. And a Christian can do that. Okay, let's look at this verse again. Please, he asked, he's ten-eight. He that diggeth the pit shall fall into it, and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. Of course, Luke 10, 19, Jesus said, behold, I give you power over all the power of the enemy, give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. So serpents and scorpions are types of demons. They're a symbol for demon spirits, for the devil, for Satan, fallen angels. So he says, whosoever here, whoso breaks the hedge, a serpent shall
bite him. So it's the same principle, giving place to the devil, opening a door for the devil, breaking the hedge. They're all synonymous terms and very important to understand. We continue here. As I said last week in this class, ignorance is not bliss. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 2 again to the Church of Corinth to Christians. He says, lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. And I've often said the flip side of that coin is if we are ignorant to his devices, he will get an advantage over us. So there's because there's a bunch of people walking around in Christianity think, okay, I'm a Christian. I'm born again. I've been delivered from the kingdom of darkness in essence. And so Satan can't touch me. And it's just not true. It's not what the Bible teaches as Hosea 4 6 concurs with what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians. He says here, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, not those outside of the blood covenant of God Almighty. But he says my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Very important to understand. Ignorance to the devil's devices, the weapons of his warfare that he uses against us, the ways that he can gain advantage, the ways that he can break, you know, get through the hedge or the door. Very important for us to understand because we are in a battle. And we started off this spiritual warfare class or, you know, this whole semester with a class talking about know your enemy. Very important to know your enemy, how he operates, how he works. But to sit around and be oblivious. I mean, if you actually believe a lie that your enemy cannot touch you in any way or he can't get through in any way, and he can, you're at a terrible disadvantage in a battle because really your pride, your arrogance, or your ignorance, one of the three or all of the three are going to get you in trouble. Of course, that's what Sun Tzu says. Your enemy is overconfident or you're overconfident and you don't know your enemy, you're going to be in trouble, right? So that's the principles we've been covering. Now we're going to cover this here again. I said this earlier in an earlier class, but I'm going to say it again and again and again. Ninety eight percent of the time you're not going to be casting demons out of an unsaved person. There's only two exceptions to that rule, and I've told you what that is. A person so demon possessed that they're not in their right mind enough even to accept the Lord and you're just trying to get them to a place where they can hear and understand the gospel from. I've had to do that on a couple of occasions, but it's a rare situation that you would do that, all right? That you would actually
cast demons out of an unbeliever who's so totally demon possessed that they can't even think or function. And it's okay to do that as long as you're prepared to try to lead them the rest of the way to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior and be born again and get their house filled with Him or they're going to be in trouble. Why? Because here's what this verse says, this passage, Jesus speaking here in Matthew 12 43 through 45, He says, When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man. Let me tell you, they don't go out willingly. They only leave when they are cast out commanded to leave in the name of Jesus Christ by a true born-again believer. So when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walking through dry places seeking rest and findeth none, then he sayeth, I will return into my house from whence I came out and when he has come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished, and then goeth he and takeeth with himself seven other spirits. Yes, seven more. Look, here they come. Little devils, here they come, seven more. So when he comes back he finds the house empty, swept and garnished, then this evil spirit takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So if you go around casting demons out of unsaved people, yes, the demons will go because as a born-again believer, when you bind them in Jesus' name and command them to leave, they have to leave. But if the house, and that's why the house is swept and garnished, the house gets cleaned out of unclean spirits when you take somebody through deliverance. But if they do not have the house filled, if Jesus is not in them, the spirit of Jesus Christ, his Holy Spirit in them because they are born again through faith in Jesus and truly regenerated, truly saved, then the house will be empty and they will be in a worse situation. You're gonna make matters worse. Now I have seen this also work with people that, you know, were Christians and had a lot of demonic strongholds in their lives from their past, go through deliverance, be completely changed. I mean, I know one fellow, hundreds of demons went out of this guy, hundreds. He was so messed up in so many ways, right? And he got free, he got free from them. But then later on he ends up back in sexual sin. And let me tell you, when he opened the door again, this seven times thing happened to him. And he became worse than he was before and where he had just experimented to with drugs before he became addicted to drugs. So this is not a game. This is why I tell people, you need to be very
careful with this. And I said there were two exceptions. One is a person so demon possessed that they can't function. You're just trying to get them a place where they can hear the gospel. And the other is a child that's under the age of accountability, but even then you have to have the permission and the faith of the parents to do that. Alright, so let's keep going. Now, 1 Corinthians 10, 19, and 20. Now remember again, this was written to the Corinthian church. Two born-again Christians, spirit-filled Christians. In fact, Paul told them they came behind in no gift, meaning all the gifts of the Holy Spirit operated in the church of Corinth. So they were not only a born-again true Christian church, but they were Holy Ghost-filled and operated in the gifts of the Spirit. But there were issues. They had problems. They had compromise. They had a lot of issues with sin. And he said even one with compromising with the religions around them, the idolatry and the paganism around them. And Paul's trying to explain to them why they shouldn't eat things sacrificed to idols, why they shouldn't participate in these things. And so what does he tell them? He says, what say I then? That the idol is anything or that which is offered and sacrificed to idols is anything. But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils or demons and not to God. And I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. Now Paul is saying here, he's not just talking about being around demons or being in the same location where some kind of idolatry or pagan ritual is going on. He's saying if you go do this, you're gonna have fellowship with devils. This word fellowship, I mentioned this in the last couple of weeks, but I'm gonna dig into it a little further because I want you to see it, not just hear me say it. But this word fellowship here is the Greek word koinonos there, koinonos, all right? And it means a sharer, an associate, a companion, fellowship, partaker. Of course it talks about partnership, association, sharing and anything of the altar in Jerusalem which the sacrifices are offered, sharing in the worship, partaker of, listen to this right here, see, be partaker of or with demons brought into fellowship with them because they are authors of heathen worship. Now you could say again, you could say, well this just means you're getting, you're closely associating with them, you know, Pastor Dean, this is not, I'm not opening the door for them, they're not coming in. But when you look at how this word is used, and this is how you study the Bible, you look at how it is used. So you have 2 Peter 1 here, and let's look at this. It says, Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. So who's he writing to? Christians, right? He says, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that have called us to glory and virtue whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. Now look at this, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature. Say, partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. The word partakers here, guess what it is? See, we're born again, right? We're regenerated, infused with God's life by his Holy Spirit when we are saved and we are, we become partakers of the divine nature. It's the same word. It's the exact same word that we just read in 1 Corinthians 20 when it says, what? Being fellowship with devils. Same word. All right, we'll see that in a second. Here's another one, just so you know, the word communion here, but we're gonna read this. He says, for we are glad, 2 Corinthians 13 9 through 14, for we are glad when we are weak and you're strong in this also we wish even for your perfection or maturity. Therefore, right out of these things, be an absent, let's be in present, I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification and not to destruction. Finally, brethren, farewell, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss, all the saints salute you, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. Communion with the Holy Ghost. Guess what? Same Greek word. Let's look at it here. All right, here is communion. It is the word, if you'll notice, the similar, koinonia. It's another word, the root word, koinononos. I guess how you say it, this koinonia. That's how you say this one really. And again, it's the same basic Greek word, same root word, all right? And so he's saying here, fellowship, association, partnership, social intercourse, communion. So he's saying here, now listen, how do we have, how do we, if Christians, have communion with the Holy Spirit? Is that just outward, an outward thing, or is that an inward thing? Is that something that happens in our spirit, in our soul? Yeah, see, it's a spiritual thing. And so
what I'm getting at is that what the Apostle Paul was talking about to the Corinthians, he was warning them. If you go and you participate in these idolatrous practices, then you're having fellowship with devils the same way you have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit didn't just come on you, it came in you, all right? So the warning, I'm just making it clear, the warning to Christians. You play games, you open the door through sin, whether it be idolatry, fornication, adultery, sexual immorality of some kind, drugs, witchcraft, any of the doorways we covered last week, a Christian can open and you can have a demonic stronghold in it, okay? Just the way you open the door and let the Holy Spirit come in through faith in Jesus, all right? Now let's look at this again because I want to make the point again that there are different degrees of demonic possession or demonic infiltration, strongholds in a person's life. Just because a Christian opens a doorway for a demon to come in them, it doesn't mean that they're totally possessed, out of control, have no self-control or no ability. They're not Linda Blair, they're not, you know, they're degrees of this thing. And again, the demons consider you a temple, a house, and a house has multiple rooms. And just because you may open the door and have a stronghold in one room doesn't mean the whole house is possessed and controlled and filled. Matthew 8, 16 and 17, when the even was come they brought unto him unto Jesus many that were possessed with devils and he cast out the spirits with his word and he healed all that were sick that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses. So possessed here, possessed means to be under the power of a demon. Possessed with devils, possessed with a devil, of devils, vexed with a devil, have a devil. To be exercised by a demon, be vexed, be possessed. So the word vexed of course means tormented and believe me I know a lot of tormented Christians. The Thayer's goes on to say the same thing, to be under the power of a demon. There's that and I have listed this. We're not going to go back through these again as we covered them a couple of weeks ago but there are three degrees, I believe in the Bible, in the New Testament, three degrees of demon possession or vexation, infiltration, strongholds. We have Luke 13, 11 through 17, a daughter of Abraham had one demon. That's what the Bible says. Jesus cast that demon out and she was healed of her infirmity and he said she was a daughter of Abraham meaning she was under the blood covenant. Very important to remember we're going to cover that thoroughly
today. You know when Jesus said I was not sent but to the law sheep of the house of Israel, he didn't mean that in a blanket statement forever. That's what the Torah people say. But he was saying I'm not sent to do my ministry of healing and deliverance but to the law sheep of the house of Israel until he would go and pay the price and shed his blood for the sins of all mankind. So very important. I'll cover that more in just a second but back to the three degrees here of demon possession. Number one, a daughter of Abraham had one demon Luke 13, 11 through 17. Mary Magdalene had seven demons leave her. That's recorded in Luke 8, 1 through 3. And the Gadarene man had a legion of demons minimum of 2,000 in him, Mark chapter 5. So you see that there are degrees and we've got to stop thinking in our minds letting Hollywood place in us what we believe or the image or the picture we have of what it means to have a demon. There are different degrees of it but let me just say this. One demon in you is one demon too many. You hear me? Because they can cause you a lot of problems mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually. If you have a demon stronghold in you operating from within, whether it be spirit, soul, or body, if they're operating from within they can cause you a lot of problems as a Christian, all right? And so that's why it's important to recognize them, discern them, find the doorway, if it's sin, repent of the sin, ask for forgiveness, and then bind the demon or the specific spirits dealing with that issue, that area, and cast them out in Jesus name. Very important. And this is my illustration. That's the one demon in the house. Does the house look totally controlled or possessed or filled? No, it's just got one. That was the daughter of Abraham in Luke 13. Here you got a few more demons in the house. Still house not in terrible shape but bad enough. Like I said, think about it. You got one bad tenant. If they're a bad tenant, give them a little time. They'll wreck the whole place. Ask anybody that's ever rented property. And of course this is the gathering demoniac but not even close, you know. This is not even a hundred demons in here but you get the illustration, the picture here. Y'all like my little demons I found? All right. Three things we need to understand, all right, as we're gonna go through this because the Bible spells out those different types and shadows that we learn from the Old Testament that are pictures of things that are New Testament reality. So number one, the things that happen unto them in the Old Testament are examples unto us in the New Covenant. Number two, many things that
actually happen in the Old Testament are types, shadows, and allegories of New Testament truth, i.e. the first Passover. Number three, the Lord Jesus was ministering under the Old Testament as He was establishing the New. Please let that sink in as we get into our study this morning. Jesus was operating ministering under the Old Testament as He was in the process of establishing the New. This is what the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes and the lawyers couldn't seem to get a hold of. But so when Jesus ministered to the Israelites, He was ministering to blood covenant children of God. Just remember that. The Old Testament, until Jesus says it is finished on the cross, now He shed His blood on the cross for our sins, His holy sinless, spotless blood, the New Covenant was not instituted yet. So when He was operating, He was operating under the Old Covenant. But that's why He said, I'm not sent but to the Lawsheep of the House of Israel, particularly for healing and deliverance, because He knew if He went outside of that to the Gentiles who had no blood covenant with with God, they would not be able to stay free from the demons. They would be worse. This is this is again same principle. This is I'm telling you why He said what He said in Matthew 12 about when the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, right? And I'm telling you why He said I'm not sent but to the Lawsheep of the House of Israel. Very important. And you're going to see this played out in a minute. But let's look at some of the types and shadows first. We ran through them a couple of weeks ago, but we're going to slow down a little bit. So here He, 1 Corinthians 10, and this is the same chapter, of course, where Paul was telling the Corinthians not to participate in the sin of idolatry, or they would be having fellowship with devils. Right before that, he gives them these examples. He gives them this teaching here. So 1 Corinthians 10, 1 through 6, more of a brother, and I would not that you should be ignorant, now that all of our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. Notice, this is some wild stuff, but he didn't say that rock was a type of Christ or an image or a symbol. He says that rock was Christ. So the rock that the water came out of, he said, was a manifestation of Jesus Himself. But with many of them, he goes on to say, talking about the children of Israel in the wilderness, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples. They're examples to us, meaning we should learn
from these things that happened to them. Of course, putting them into a New Testament, New Covenant context, but we should learn from these examples. To the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. So what he's saying is, let's learn the principle, right? But let's continue reading this passage first, because it goes on. Verses 7 through 12, he says, neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, that people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, sexual immorality, and really fornication, cornea covers all sexual immorality. It's a very broad term, as well as it covers spiritual idolatry as well. He said, as some of them also committed and failed in one day, three and twenty thousand. Then he says this, neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. So remember when they disobeyed God in the wilderness and got into fornication with the pagan women of Bell Peor or whatever it was, and it says here that God sent the fiery serpents among them. What is that? What is that a type or shadow a picture to us? If we open the door through what? Idolatry and fornication and tempting the Lord, what? We will be destroyed of serpents. What are serpents in the New Covenant? Demons, devils, exactly. Remember, see, that's how we take Old Testament truth, put it into New Testament context, very important. He says neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer. Who's the destroyer? The devil, right? Now all these things happen under them. For examples, meaning learn from this, these are examples to us and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come, wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. So here God's telling us through what happened to them in the wilderness, the Apostle Paul's writing this to Christians, and he says if you open the door through idolatry, fornication, through sin, you're going to be destroyed of serpents and the destroyer. Real simple, isn't it? Right? And what was happening to the people? They were being bitten by serpents. Well, didn't we read a verse about that a minute ago? Whosoever breaks the hedge, what? Serpent will bind it, right? Alright, very important. Now let's let's remember this, an example. Here's the word example means of a type, a person, a thing, prefiguring, a future, messianic person or thing. I love it, example, print, figure, pattern, fashion, just letting you know. These things are our
examples. So let's look, let's break down the the types and shadows coming through. Remember I said like the Passover. Alright, Exodus 12, 12 through 13, for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. So the children of Israel coming out of Egypt after they put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost, that's a type, a shadow, a picture of our salvation when we come out of the world, when we come out of our slavery and bondage to sin and to Satan and the world system through faith in the blood of Jesus and then we get to leave that slavery, that world. So that's a type and shadow from the Old Testament of salvation through Jesus through his blood. Then we have the two baptisms spoken of in that verse in 1st Corinthians 10, 1 and 2 that we read a minute ago, water baptism and the Holy Spirit. In fact, Hebrews chapter 6 when it's laying out the foundational doctrines of Christ says of the doctrine of baptisms, plural. As a Christian there's multiple baptisms. There's actually three, baptism of water, baptism in the Holy Spirit that is evidenced by the gift of speaking in other tongues and then the baptism of fire which has to do with sanctification. I think we've covered that already, but let's look at this. So we have the type and shadow of them coming, the example of them coming out of Egypt by the blood of the lamb, out of slavery, out of the world system and then we have this when they go through the Red Sea and the cloud of God appears, his presence appears, from over brother and I would not that you should be ignorant how that all of our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud. Everybody say, in the cloud, familiar y'all, in the cloud and in the sea, baptized in the cloud and in the sea. The sea was the water, the cloud was the presence of God, the manifestation of his Holy Spirit. So he's saying there's two baptisms. Did we find that in the New Testament? Absolutely. After you're born again, after you're saved, you should be baptized in water as a testimony of your faith, as an open public confession. Remember Jesus said, if you don't confess me before man, I will not confess you before my father. Baptism, that's what baptism is about. But the real baptism we need more than anything is the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that was Acts chapter 2, Acts 10, Acts 19. They were baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. That was the beginning of the operation of the power of God and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in our life. It is a second experience aside from salvation that
everyone, every Christian should seek and can have, but some choose not to. And that's, you know, it's not a salvation issue, but it is important. You need that power, all right? You need more power. I don't know any Christian. I don't know why any Christian would say, I don't need, I'm good. I don't need anymore. I just don't have that, that, you know, confidence in myself. You know, in fact, that's what the lukewarm Christians said. Remember Jesus speaking to the church of Laodicea and they said, we're rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. We're good. No, you're not. He said, your eyes are blind. You need, you need the anointing, the eye sal, you need more of the Holy Spirit so you can see. You're a bunch of blind Christians. What do we have that today, right? But anyway, two baptisms. So that's a type in shadow. So we've got salvation, baptism in water, which is the baptism of repentance, and then the baptism, the Holy Spirit, which is the power of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit beginning in our life. And then we have this other little type in shadow because remember I said before, for years and years and years, a lot of the old hymns, a lot of the old preachers and would say that, you know, well, we're going into the Promised Land. That's heaven. One day we're going to cross over that Jordan. And just not. It's just a bad interpretation, right? What was it? I love what the Grinch said about Cindy Lou who was in the Grinch movie when he said, good kid, bad judge of care, right? We got a bunch of good kids, but they just got bad hermeneutics. All right. The reason that going into the Promised Land was not a type in shadow of going into heaven is because once they spied out the land, they discovered that there were the Giants there, the half-breeds, the fallen angel, human being, mutants. And so the Promised Land was not a type or shadow of heaven. And we're going to read Numbers 13, 27 through 28, and 32 and 33. And they told him and said, we came into the land with it thou sinneth us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey. And this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land. And the cities are walled and very great and over. We saw the children of Anak there. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched into the children of Israel saying, the land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And we saw the Giants, the sons of Anak, which come to the Giants. And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And so
we were in their sight. So they had to go into the Promised Land and clean it out. This is really a type and shadow of deliverance after we've come out of Egypt by the blood of the land, after we've come through water baptism, after we've come through Holy Spirit baptism. The going into the Promised Land is where we tear down the strongholds and drive out the evil inhabitants of our land. Everybody catch that? Another picture. Whose land was it? It's a God's land, right? But who did He give it to? He gave it to the people, right? The children of Israel. Those in blood covenant with Him. What is our bodies? Our bodies the temple of the Holy Ghost. We are not our own. We're bought with the price, right? But who's He given it to to take care of? Us, right? So we have responsibility over it, but it's really God's. Well the land was really God's, but He'd given them responsibility over it. He'd given it to them and they were to go in and tear down the strongholds like Jericho and drive out the inhabitants of the land that were evil and wicked and half breeds and not fully human, all right? And it was their failure to not complete this task that brought great trouble upon them, all right? Let's keep going here. See? Israel failed to drive out the Canaanites out of the Promised Land. Now this is what will happen if you don't drive out all of the demonic squatters in your own life from the past, okay? Or from the present if you've opened doors or done things out of ignorance, broken the hedge. But look at here. Judges 1, 28, it came to pass when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly drive them out. The Word of the Lord to them was drive them out of your land, not let them stay, not make peace with them, not just say, oh you know what, they can't touch me, they can't harm me. That's not the issue. The issue is obedience. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Why would any of us make peace with demonic forces in our land when God told us not to, okay? So he goes on to say, and Judges 2, that was Judges 1, 28, Judges 2, 1 through 3 says the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Boqim and said, I made you go up out of Egypt and have brought you
into the land which I swear unto your fathers and I said I will never break my covenant with you and you shall make no league, no covenant, no peace agreement, no we'll just get along. You'll make no league with the inhabitants of this land, you shall throw down their altars, their strongholds, their, right, but you have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this? Wherefore I also said I will not drive them out from before you and basically this is God saying I'm not going to do it for you, I told you to do it. Uh-oh. Remember Jesus said something in my name, what? In my name I will cast demons out for you. Now that's not what he said in Mark 16. He said in my name you cast out them. These signs will follow them that believe. So he said I'm not doing this for you, but they shall be as thorns in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you. Now what are their gods? Demons. So there's nothing you know, it's not just, it wasn't just, even back then, even under the Old Testament, it wasn't just a physical thing. It was a spiritual issue that they were going to have problems with from then on and it was, let me tell you, we don't even have time. Just read the rest of the book of Judges. Things were never good, man. It was a bad season. Several centuries there. 2 Corinthians 6, 13 through 18. Now let's look at this. When you start talking about Christians having demons, of course the first argument you're going to hear is this one right here. Well, how can light and dark dwell in the same place, same time? Let me tell you something right over there. Up under Kevin's little high and lifted up sound booth. Right? Are the lights on in here, gentlemen? Lights on in here, right? But under that sound booth right there that's in the same room we're in, it's completely dark in there. Why? There's no light in there. So that could be said that they're under there, under that little booth, there's a little stronghold of darkness, not spiritual darkness. We're just using illustration. So in the same room there's darkness and light, right? So this argument holds zero water because of the very fact too, that's what? He's speaking to Christians and he's saying don't do this because they were already doing this. This is 2nd Corinthians and he's already been rebuking them about sexual immorality, compromising with that, and
idolatry. He even told them that some of them were taking the Lord's Supper in, you know, eating and drinking damnation to themselves because they were doing it unworthily because they were living in sin and compromise. And yeah, they had problems in Corinth with sexual sin among Christians and participating in idolatrous worship. And so he's trying to tell them again here, you as children of the light should not be messing with the darkness, right? That's what this is saying. Has nothing to do with saying a Christian can't have a demon, yet this is what people do. It's called taking something out of context and misusing it. It's called bad hermeneutics and they hate it. Okay, well let's read it. 2nd Corinthians 6, 13 through 18, light and darkness questions, right? Now, for a recompense in the same I speak as unto my children, be ye also enlarge, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers? For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion hath light with darkness? What concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. I say it said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Now before I finish reading this, remember 1st Corinthians we just read, they were already doing this. He was telling them, if you go do these things, and some of you are, you go to these idol altars with these heathens, you're fellowshipping with devils. He's trying to tell them, stop it. Stop doing it. And that's why he says, wherefore come out from among them? And be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and I will be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Almighty. So that's one reason that the light and darkness argument against a Christian having a demon holds no water. Here's another reason. God is omnipresent. What does that mean? He's everywhere, all the time is what that means. So if light and darkness cannot exist in the same place, then Satan or his demons cannot exist at all. So just like in this room right here, physical light exists here in the sanctuary, but in that place, in that storage spot underneath the sound booth, is some darkness there. Unless, of course, we open the door and let the light in, right? Kevin's got it under his feet, though. Good point. But you get what I'm saying. If God is everywhere, and you say God and the devil or demons can't be
in the same place at the same time, then they couldn't exist anywhere, because God is everywhere. His presence is everywhere, because David said it here in Psalm 139. He said, Whether shall I go from thy spirit, or whether shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness heighteth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day, and the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. So again, we see in Job 1 and 2, Satan came into heaven in the presence of God to petition for Job. So God allows this. He allows this coexistence in his creation. It would always be that way, but he allows it now for his purpose, or I should say purposes. And he will allow both demonic forces and his Holy Spirit to be in a person so that they will learn how to fight, so that they will obey his word and his principle and drive the evil inhabitants out of their land and possess their Promised Land and live in peace. All right, but it takes warfare to do that. Here's the reference in Job, just so you don't hear me just say it. But Job 1, 6 through 12, now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. So here's another reference to the sons of God being angels. And Satan, joining in, they present themselves before the Lord at his throne. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence cometh thou? Then Satan answered the Lord. He said, From going to and fro in the earth. So they're not in the earth. Satan said, I've been going to and fro in the earth, but now where is he if he's not in the earth? He's standing in heaven, right? He's allowed to present himself before the Lord, standing up there on top of the firmament, where he's always wanted to go. I guess he just, let me see this place again, huh? Right? So Satan answered the Lord, Where have you been? Going to and fro in the earth, from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God and sheweth evil. And Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job fear God for naught or for nothing? Hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land, but put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon himself put naught forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, standing right before him. I've asked people, Do you think there might have been any of God's glory, power, spirit at his throne? How in the world could Satan and the Lord exist in the same place at the same time? You see how that argument, it just falls apart. When you do what? Look at the rest of the Bible. Scripture with Scripture. Exactly. Not just pulling one thing out of context and making it a doctrine. There's Satan at the throne, petitioning Job, the little angel of light with his little horns. Now let's look at the type and shadow. Remember we cover types and shadows. Egypt, the Red Sea, the water baptism, the cloud of God's presence, the Holy Spirit baptism, the driving out of the promised land. Well does not the Bible say we're the temple of the Holy Ghost, right? Right? So Solomon, God had Solomon build this temple and this gives you a little breakdown of what it looks like. It was just a bigger version of the, you know, the tabernacle of the ten in the wilderness. But it had an outer court which had the brazen laver, the brazen altar where they offered the burnt sacrifices. Then you had the first veil that went into the holy place where the candle menorahs were and the table of showbread and of course the altar of incense right before the veil, the main veil into the holy of holies. So you had this Solomon's temple and it basically had three compartments. Outer court, inner court, holy of holies. Well guess what that's a picture of? Human being. Our outer court is the human body, our physical body. The holy place where we minister to the Lord is the soul, the holy of holies, the spirit. We're a temple of the Holy Spirit. That's why it had three parts. We have three parts. One temple, okay? Alright, now let's look at Solomon's temple. The presence of God came down in this temple on the day that Solomon dedicated the temple was 964 B.C. And it says that the priests brought in the Ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place into the oracle of the house to the Most Holy Place even under the wings of the cherubims and it came to pass that when the priests were come out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the priests could not stand to minister because the cloud for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. So God's presence comes into the temple into the holy of
holies and dwells there. God has his glory, his presence manifest, evident, seen, witnessed. And remember the high priest would go into that place one time a year on the day of atonement to make atonement for the sins of the whole nation with the blood of sacrifice. Now the presence of God comes in so here we have now let's read this you got 2 Chronicles 33 1 through 7 we're gonna look at so we got the temple and here's the another little schematic I guess you could say a little model of it but let's read this 2 Chronicles 33 1 through 7 Manasseh who was an evil king Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 50 and 5 years in Jerusalem so Manasseh reign 55 years but did that which was evil in the side of the Lord like unto the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel for he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down and he reared up the altars from Balaam and made groves that's to asterisk or the goddess of fertility and worshiped all the host of heaven the sun moon and stars kind of like these heliocentric pastors right oh shouldn't have said that also he built altars in the house of the Lord maybe like a globe in there and it says he built altars through all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and he observed times astrology used enchantments and witchcraft this too was bad news he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards everything that God you know said don't do this guy did it right and it said he wrought much evil in the side of the Lord to provoke him to anger and he set a carved image the idol which he had made where in the house of God what do we have remember what that what did the scripture say a minute ago Paul said it's not the idol that's anything but it's the demons attached to that it's the demonic use you've had fellowship with the idol you have fellowship with devils right so he says here and he set the carved image and the idol which he had made in the house of God so here you've got the presence of God manifest in the holy of holy and Manasseh puts his idol in here and and they're worshiping demons in the house of God all right committing idolatry in the house of which God said to David and
Solomon his son in this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel will I put my name forever so oh we got a problem right so Manasseh does this now let's look at Ezekiel what else was going on in the house Ezekiel 8 3 through 6 the Lord shows Ezekiel even more of what's going on in the house in his temple and he put forth the form of hand it took me by the lock of my head and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and heaven this is actually God taking Ezekiel spirit out of his body and taking him from Babylon to Jerusalem to the temple to show him what's going on so this is the Lord doing doing it not you know not using Easter meditative techniques to astral travel but anyway since he brought me into the visions of God to Jerusalem to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north where was the seat of the image of jealousy which provoked it to jealousy and behold the glory of the God of Israel was there so he takes him and shows him this image this idol set there he sees that and then but the glory of God is still there on the temple and in the temple and the glory of God of Israel was there according to the vision that I saw on the plane then said he unto me son of man lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north and so I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry and he said furthermore to me son of man see us thou what they do even the great abominations that the house of Israel committed here that I should go far off from my sanctuary so the Lord saying is because this has come into my house and they're not removing it or cleaning the house out I'm about to leave but what do we see the picture both the unclean is in the house and the Lord still in the house oh see Christian they can dwell in the same house the same time but not forever one will go eventually you either get rid of the unclean spirits and idolatry and the demons and everything else or the Lord will leave why because you're gonna end up doing if you if you have if you allow demonic forces strongholds to stay in you they will eventually get the vantage over they will eventually get you to do what they want you to do which is sin and disobey and rebellion and you know all that stuff Manasseh was doing but anyway the Lord said that he should go but he said but turn thee yet again and I shall see greater abominations that's Ezekiel 8 3 through 6 it continues verses 7 through 14 and he brought me to the door of the court and when I looked behold a hole in the
wall then he said unto me son of man now dig in the wall and when I had digged in the wall behold the door and he said to me go in and behold the wicked abominations that they do here so I went in and saw and behold every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about so the idols of Israel were portrayed upon the walls of the temple now if it's a picture or a symbol or anything of Satan what does that bring with it demons right that gives them permission to be there he said he goes on to see and there stood before them 70 men of the ancients of the house of Israel and in the midst of them stood Jezeniah the son of Shaphan and with every man his censor in his hand and a thick cloud of incense went up then said he under me son of man has thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery and I could spend a lot of time with this but this was he was saying that this is these guys were into Eastern religions see Eastern religions existed at this time so he's talking about the chambers of their imagery he's talking about in their imaginations so they were doing visualization they were probably chanting and doing things because he does going to say and you'll see in a second that they were worshiping the Sun which is another thing from Hinduism and Buddhism it says that for they say the Lord seeth us not the Lord has forsaken the earth he said also and to me turn the yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north and behold there sat women weeping for tamis that's all kind of insanity going on worshiping of other gods demon gods and idols right there in God's house but he hasn't left yet oh my you mean all this could be going on in the presence of God still in the temple and this is all going on in the temple and in the court of the temple yes continues Ezekiel 8 15 through 16 then said he unto me hast thou seen this O son of man turn the yet again and thou shall see greater abominations than these and he brought me into the inner court somebody say inner court he brought me to the inner court of the Lord's house and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east and they worshiped the Sun toward the east turn their backs on the Lord in his inner core in the temple so they're worshiping the Sun so they're practicing yoga that's what yoga yoga all the positions of yoga is about to decide so they're practicing yoga they're worshiping the Sun probably at sunrise which is what most do in Hinduism and Buddhism in the Lord's house and get
his presence still there think about that there's yoga classes in churches now all across the country it's this it's Ezekiel there is nothing new under the Sun everything that was done back then is being done again now now remember this was 600 BC and we can we can trace Hinduism and Buddhism back to 1500 BC so it's not I'm not speculating here all right just like y'all know that's not speculation these religions existed so why was Jerusalem destroyed so he tells him you know the Lord says here Ezekiel 86 furthermore he said son of man do you see what they are doing the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to make me go far away from my sanctuary now turn again you will see greater abomination Ezekiel the priest was taken to Babylon during the second deportation at 597 BC he was called to be a prophet there he was carried to the temple in a vision he saw the acts of the Jewish leaders he also saw the destruction of Jerusalem so he had a idol in the entrance of the temple the 70 elders were worshiping reptiles and beasts the women were praising tames and 25 men probably priests worshiping the Sun toward these this is all that's going on so just a short recap there everything going on in the temple so this and this breaks down the abominations in the temple here this is where this stuff was going on animal images in here women out here it's just insane right now let's keep going the glory of the Lord so Ezekiel sees the glory of the of the presence of the Lord within his temple in 8 4 the glory of God is seen at the doorway to the temple in 9 3 Ezekiel 9 3 it next leaves the doorway and moves out to the eastern gate in 10 chapter 10 verse 18 so God begins to leave finally why did I take time to go through all that because again type and shadow we are the temple of the Holy Spirit when we're born again at our dedication to him when we dedicate our lives to the Lord and we are born again through faith in Jesus Christ his Holy Spirit comes and links up with our human spirit and revives us brings our dead spirit back to life he quickens us he makes us alive spiritually that's him coming into our holy of holies as we begin to minister and learn how to worship him and serve him that's our soul coming into line and then both our spirit souls to keep our body the outer court in subjection in check all right but if we start
bringing in fornication idolatry we start opening the doorways willful sin or ignorance doesn't matter then what happens stuff starts coming in to the temple and it's demons and it's unclean spirits and sooner or later you're either gonna get rid of them or the Lord's gonna leave right let's look we got another Old Testament picture of this with a person King Saul who says seer Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said is not is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance first Samuel 10 1 so verses 6 and then 9 through 11 say this and the Spirit of the Lord will come upon these the Samuel prophesying to saw the Spirit of the Lord will come upon me and thou shalt prophesy gifts of the Spirit begin to work in your life saw now shall be turned into another man oh what's the New Testament equivalent of that second Corinthians 517 if any man be in Christ he is a new creature a new creation all right he's telling Saul the Spirit of God is gonna come on you and you're gonna be turned into another man and it was so that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel God gave him another heart man this almost sounds New Testament done it the Holy Spirit comes on saw and God gives him turns him into another man makes him a new creature gives him a new heart and all those signs it says came to pass that day and when they came there to the hill behold a company of prophets met him and the Spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied among them so here Saul goes from being this normal guy to be an anointed called to be the king the Holy Spirit comes on him he's turned into another man he's given a new heart and in the gifts of the spirit begin to work in his life he begins to prophesize so he's not only a becomes a king that day but he becomes a prophet that day but we have a problem right and well even the people goes on to say so then it came to pass when all that knew him before time saw that behold he prophesied among the prophets then the people said one to another what is this that is coming to the Son of Gish you saw also among the prophets so again we're looking at the types and shadows now a type of Saul what saw would be this story here would be an example or a type or shadow to us is someone right who gets saved and the Spirit of God and called to the ministry and the Spirit of God comes upon them and they are filled with Holy Spirit they're born again and they become a new person in Jesus Christ and they're given a new heart and then they're baptized they're filled with the Holy Spirit in the gifts of prophecy and tongues and interpretation of tongue
they begin to become they become true New Testament born again spirit filled belief that's what this is a picture of and yet Saul later through his sin and disobedience what happens he becomes demon possessed he opens the door to demons they come in so we have this picture let's read this 1st Samuel 1523 for rebellion this is after Saul starts disobey it in the end Samuel tells me for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of the Lord is also rejected thee from being king then Samuel first Samuel 16 then Samuel took the horn of oil and knowing it him David this is he's moved on to David now in the midst of his brethren and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward so Samuel rose up and went to Rama but the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul departed from Saul just like what just like he departed from the temple he had been there and he left why did he leave the sin came in right sin came in the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled so the Lord people get all worked up about the language here but it's just the Lord left and allowed Satan to take the Lord didn't say go take him or you know just all right the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul the evil spirit from the Lord troubled him and it came to pass when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul that David took a harp and played with his hand and so Saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him this is kind of where Christians a lot of Christians who have demonic strongholds in them this is where they live they'll be tormented and vexed and troubled and depressed and overwhelmed by these spirits maybe with lust maybe with anger maybe with depression many different things addiction they'll go sometimes they'll force themselves into a place of prayer or a place of worship and really really seek the Lord maybe spend some time fasting maybe go to church and it's a good service and they'll feel refreshed for a season and then they end up right back you know right back David was anointed the Holy Spirit was on David he was the man of God he was gifted worship leader so Saul would feel better why because that worship would push the demons back and would kind of subdue them I call it holding the beach balls underwater kind of get the beach balls underwater for a minute get control of them hold them there you can only hold the beach balls underwater for so long though that's what many Christians are doing with the demons in their life instead of casting them out there instead of getting rid of the beach balls they're trying to hold like three or four beach balls underwater and wondering
why they're having problems and why stuff keeps popping up you got to get rid of the demons let's go on down says here this is first annual 18 10 through 12 and it says that it came to pass on tomorrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house so here here oh I've seen this so many times here Saul still operating in the gift of the spirit the Holy Spirit that God gave him while the evil spirit comes upon so can there be this kind of mixture oh yes there can be right now the Pentecostal and Charismatic churches most of them in the world are full of this many of them are truly were saved and baptized the Holy Spirit but they've also opened the door to the counterfeit the Kundalini spirit and so you get a mixture in these churches sad to say anyway came to pass on tomorrow that the evil spirit from Saul came upon from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house and David played with his hand as at other times and there was a javelin in Saul's hand and Saul cast the javelin for he said I will smite David even to the wall with it and David avoided out of his presence twice and Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him and departed from Saul notice you'll see here that this time David played it didn't work didn't help you know why can't put a band-aid on a gunshot wound the band-aid will only help for so long right the gunshot wound will overwhelm the band-aid every time and this is what happens and this is what Christians do they put their little spiritual band-aids on their demon gunshot wounds that they have and they think well if I pray a little more if I fast a little more if I go to church a little more if I read a little more even those those are good things to do demons don't leave because you do those things demons have to be bound you have to bind them in Jesus name by their name or by how they got in or what they are what they're doing in your life bind them and you have to command them to leave in Jesus name and you have to close that doorway so Saul was just getting worse not better so this is a picture of it right and where did King Saul's life end he ended up God not speaking to him anymore he ended up going to witchcraft and witches to try to get communication with the spirit world and then he committed suicide after he was wounded in a battle he went ahead and finished himself off suicide is always a sign of demonic activity right y'all good learning something now let's look at this Matthew 15 the woman the outside the
covenant that came to Jesus for deliverance for her daughter though you see we move now back into the New Testament let's read this story this is Matthew 15 or read 21 through 24 first he says here then Jesus went thence and departed into the coast of Tyrean Sidon and behold a woman of Canaan a woman of Canaan what does that mean not a woman of Israel not a daughter of Abraham it says here a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast and cried into him saying have mercy on me oh Lord thou son of David my daughter is grievously vexed with the devil but he answered her not a word oh people if I did that would freak out you rude nasty mean preacher you how dare you ignore this poor woman who's seeking help for her child oh boy yeah that was veto yeah I said it don't care cuz that's exactly an illustration of mr. Steven veto he didn't get what he wanted when he wanted and so he took his ball he went home so you know see this woman of Canaan comes out my daughter is grievously vexed with the devil but he Jesus answered her not a word didn't speak he just kept walking I mean I'm trying to get y'all to grasp this picture this woman comes up have mercy on me son of David my daughter is grievously vexed with the devil he doesn't even acknowledge her he keeps walking now the great teacher the Messiah God in the flesh the one who always walked in perfect love never sin what is going on here you think he's probably trying to teach us something I'll try and teach his disciples some yeah because he was always teaching so he doesn't answer a word his disciples came and besought him saying send her away or she cries after us but he answered and said I am NOT sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel remember I mentioned this earlier don't listen to the Torah heads because they'll thank you that Jesus is only saving these ten tribes that are the lost ten tribes that are out here and they're one of them and if you get saved you're happen to be one because Jesus was only sent to them they are such bad teachers of Scripture in her minute it is so bad Jesus say remember Jesus is operating under the old covenant this time as he is transitioning us into the new so the only blood covenant intact at this time is God's
blood covenant with the house of Israel that's it that's the only blood covenant what is this woman coming to Jesus to seek she's coming to seek deliverance for him to get rid of a demon to cast out a demon what did Jesus tell us if you the unclean spirits gone out of a man walks through dry place seek rest find none he comes finds a house empty so Jesus knew he couldn't cast demons out of this woman's daughter because she bite would have no means to stay free and would end up worse that's why he kept walking and he didn't answer her at work and that's why he eventually said to his disciples I am not sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel now what changed in this story what happened well something that was going on in this transitionary period Matthew 15 25 to 28 the story continued then came she and worshiped him so she went from and this is what I believe in the story that she went from a place of just wanting something from the Lord just wanting help to acknowledging who he is and who he was so the moment she worships him and says Lord help me she just went from being someone who just wanted something to someone who is acknowledging you are God you are Lord you are the Messiah I'm acknowledging as a Gentile I'm acknowledging you as the Lord as God in the flesh as the Christ the Messiah the Savior the moment she does that she moves from just wanting something to faith in him which is what he wants first and foremost faith in him and the fact that she worshiped him she was acknowledging him as God okay and Jesus did not stop her from doing that so he was acknowledging and admitting to yes I am God so he says this to her when she worships him says Lord help me but he answered and said this and this is so very important when it comes to deliverance you need to know this phrase he said to her it is not meat or it is not right to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs now we got to break that verse down what is she asking for she's asking for Jesus to cast the demons out of her daughter she she's asking for deliverance from demons what is Jesus called what she's asking for children's bread so let's just get this down deliverance or the casting out of demons is for the children of God those in blood covenant when that is what
he's saying it's not for the unsaid again because they can't keep them out they can't they will never stay free they will be worse off so Jesus said it's not right it's not meat or right to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs dogs was a term for people Gentiles outside of the blood covenant at this time the old covenant remember this is it was I mean Jesus is this is strong right so he's telling her look it's not right for me to do this because you are not in blood covenant and that she said and see this is what's beautiful true worship true acknowledgement of who he is humility persistence those are faith that's that's how faith works and she said truth Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table saying you're the master I'll take the crumbs master oh man for a Gentile Canaanite woman to call a Jew to worship him as God and call him her master humility and what does Jesus say to her then Jesus answered and said oh woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt and her daughter was made whole from that very hour she moved from being a Canaanite to faith in the Lord Jesus as Messiah and Savior and healer and so he granted her request this is a powerful story because there's just so much truth here and you know something else that Jesus said he only said twice he only said two times great is your faith and both were the Gentiles and this is one of them so what I tell people here is it's very biblical to say it's not right to take the children's bread deliverance and to give it to those outside the Covenant the blood covenant of God meaning the unsaved those who are not born again and covered by the blood of Jesus because they will never be able to stay free and they'll end up worse off so once you realize this the the question can Christian have Christians have demons in them if not then there shouldn't be any ministry of deliverance at all zip zero and I'll say like I said ninety nine point nine nine percent of the deliverance that I have done in 32 years of cast the demons out
of people have been Christians very rare case that they have not been now here's another illustration we get of deliverance in the New Testament the story of Lazarus I remember I was reading this one day and it just kind of just leaped out at me okay so let's let's look at this I know it was it is a literal event that happened Lazarus was a real person was a close friend of Jesus he died he got sick and died of Jesus after four days went and raised him from the dead didn't he didn't go into the tomb and touch him like it's in the Bible series of what's her name yeah Roma downie and her husband had him go in and touch the dead body which he would never do but Jesus stood outside the tin well let's read this John 11 41 to 44 then took they away the stone remember Jesus told him take away the stone from the place where the dead was laid and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said father I think thee that thou has heard me and I knew that thou hearest me always but because of the people which stand by I said it the thing to believe that thou has sent me and we had said when he had thus spoken he cried with a loud voice Lazarus come forth and he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin and Jesus said unto them loose him and let him go now this I was reading this one day and it just it just jumped out at me Lazarus was dead Jesus by his power his resurrection power his holy ghost power his power as God almighty over life and death raises Lazarus from the dead after three day at four day Lazarus comes forth out of the tomb he is raised from that he has gone from death to life what does that sound like salvation doesn't it you who were dead and trespasses and sins Ephesians 2 are now made alive right so we were dead and trespasses and sins when we are born again we are raised from the spiritual dead to spiritual life so Lazarus was raised from the dead fully alive fully brand-new I mean his body was already decaying in there so he was made new all right restored whole yet when he comes forth either he is still bound he is still in bondage he is still wrapped in the grave clothes of death the chains of death now does Jesus walk over and loose him and let him go from his grave clothes no he tells the people around him go loose him and let him go why that's our job he saves them we cast the demons out oh that's the deal right not mark 15 number 16 15
through 20 these signs shall follow them to believe go preach the gospel to every creature what get them saved then the first thing he said in my name cast out demons so get them saved get them from death to life then loose them from their bondage from their path remember see the grave clothes are still the past still clinging to him a lot of people are like this a lot of Christians are like this they've been born again they've been raised from death to life through faith in Jesus it's real they've really been saved they still got a lot of their past that still has them in bondage and it's demonic bondage and we are supposed to loose them and let him go and we do that by binding the demons and commanding them to loose them and leave them binding and loosing talk about that a few weeks ago all right then I've talked about the two cleansing remember we have the picture the brazen altar was the blood sacrifice the brazen lover was the water where you had to wash and then you could go there's two cleansings for the Christian and they're written right here one of sin and the other of demons first John 1 7 through 9 if we walk in the light as he is in the light you fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness so Jesus cleanses us from sin but then in second Corinthians 7 1 Paul speaking to Christians he says having therefore these promises nearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God so deliverance casting out binding and casting out demons cleaning out our temple cleaning out our land cleaning out our bodies our souls our spirits of the past is part of the Christian law it is an important part is imperative and we need to do this we need to do this ourselves if we've never done it and we need them to help others let me show you something say well who needs deliverance let's go to I think that's my last slide in it yeah let's let's go to Isaiah 42 and see Isaiah 42 is actually quoted by Matthew in Matthew chapter 12 when Jesus is the whole
deliverance confrontation is going on but Isaiah 42 let's go there I'm gonna read something to you here verse 1 is where we'll start this is a prophecy in Isaiah about Jesus and his ministry here he says behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect and whom my soul delight if I have put my spirit upon him and he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles who did he just help we just read the Canaanite woman a Gentile he shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street a bruised reed shall he not break and a smoking flag shall he not quench and he shall bring forth judgment unto truth he should not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth and the eyes shall wait for his law and so this is all about Jesus here right and talks about go down to verse 6 says I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people and for light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and then that sit in darkness out of the prison house so here you have him talking about that all right so this whole chapter is about Jesus right about his ministry but let's go down to verse 18 and this verse again this is quoted in Matthew 12 about Jesus ministry when he just cast the deaf and dumb spirit out of a boy and healed him this is the verse that this is the passage quoted in Matthew so again the context is about deliverance in Matthew and here in verse 18 he says here you deaf and look you blind that you may see who is blind but my servant or deaf is my messenger that I sent who is blind to see that is perfect and blind as the Lord's servant seeing many things but thou observest not opening the ears but he that here is not now listen this verse 21 this is a clear reference to Jesus says this the Lord is well pleased for his righteousness say he will magnify the law and make it honorable Jesus came and fulfilled the law he lived it perfectly fulfilled it and then instituted the new covenant he says though but this is a people he's talking about the people period just people but this is a people robbed and spoiled look at this they are all of them snared in holes and they are hid in prison houses they are for a pray and none deliver for a spoil and none sayeth restore who among you will give ear to this who will hearken in here for the time to come so here he says that this people the Lord is well pleased for his righteous so Jesus lived a sinless life he gave his life so that we could have his righteousness he fulfilled the law he
made it honorable no man could fulfill the law Jesus fulfilled it he says but then this is a people and really is is in italics mean it's not in the original it was there just to help so basically same boat he says but this people but this people robbed and spoiled they are are all of them snared in holes and hid in prison houses all of them so what he's saying here real clearly is that either through generational sins of our fathers and of course our own sins where we've opened doors and broken the hedge in our path all of us have done this so when you ask who needs deliverance I'll tell you right now according to the Bible what I believe the Bible says here is everybody to some degree not all at the same degree up but we all need it some of them all right um just as a testimony I mean when I came back to the Lord in June of 1987 it was real real repentance real cleansing of my sins shortly thereafter within about three weeks I finally got to reading the book of Acts and cried out and asked God for the baptism Holy Spirit I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and the evidence of speaking to other tongues just like the Bible says happened to me of course I was rebaptized in water because I was baptized when I was young and really didn't fully understand it so I decided to get rebaptized in water um but I was living for the Lord I was leading people to Jesus and you know then my first convert came out of Satanism and witchcraft and of course after that individual came to know Jesus was born again then the demons manifested and had to cast them out and then of course just just a long story I'm not trying to get into all that but then I came back to Alabama and got a hold of a book I started reading about spiritual warfare and deliverance and realized that you know what I hadn't prayed over myself about some things and I just remembered you know my especially me playing with the Ouija board I did that several times when I was a teenager and it worked I also played with divining rods and pendulums and divination tools and stuff and we had a certain individual introduce us to that and I mean my brother could take like I had a gold ring he could take it and he could go hide it in the front yard down in the grass right the whole yard was just grass so he could hide it down in the grass and I could take divining rods to swiveling divining rods and I could walk and they would lead me and leave me back this way and then when the when I got right over where the ring was they would
cross and I look down and I'd find that I'd pull that ring out of the grass so I could do some divination man divination and using pendulums we used to use pendulums and we somebody mix up some cards and be like you know five or six cards and one would be an ace and we take a pendulum and come across it and then when the pendulum started moving over that car with the ace and it'd be the ace every time it's divination all right it's witchcraft well I remembered started remembering and I knew it was a witch it taught me that stuff because I figured that out later on but I remember when I was sitting and I was reading that book on spiritual warfare and deliverance and realized that I hadn't prayed over that so I said I just said I'm sitting in the chair I just put the book just kind of laid down said the name of Jesus I bind the demons of divination and witchcraft that came into me familiar spirits that came into me through the Ouija board and I bind you I break your power off me and I command you to go from me now and I'm not joking you I felt this tightening in here and I felt it come up and out of me like somebody turned on a you know a leaf blower in me and it came out my mouth and I mean and then I felt like this weird it was like a heaviness that lifted off I felt freer and lighter I was like whoa those boys were there and that was the beginning of me realizing because I was living the Christian life as I mean there was I wouldn't even go on dates because you know with any any I would I wouldn't get in any relationships because I had issues with sexual sin and drugs and alcohol and everything else I was living for Jesus man all I was doing was getting up and going to prayer in the mornings and study my Bible and I mean there was no goofing around I'm leaving people to the Lord leading people the baptism the Holy Spirit and going out on the street and preaching and witnessing the people that's all I did so I didn't even watch TV or go to movies cuz I just didn't have time actually and I didn't want to see the crap so you know I mean it was just I wasn't trying to be you know legalistic I just I just would rather read my Bible and pray so that was kind of the beginning and then I then of course later on I started struggling some more and again still living for the Lord no compromise in my life and man I start to feel like I'm crumbling on the inside I start to feel like that that if especially lusts begin to overwhelm me and so I remember calling the author of the book that I was reading before because that's the only person I knew that even even believed in deliverance for Christians at the time you're talking about we're talking about 1988 guy you know you know 1988 1989 that first instant was in 87 you know late 87 and then on into 88 and 89 I knew I
needed to get more thorough about my own and that's when that sister told me real plainly you got to make a very thorough list of all your your old grade pros you need to you need to define every shred of it and that's when I went and started making a very thorough list of all my sexual sins and sexual you know people that I was involved with sexually all the drugs I took all the occult things that I did you know because again my first one was very superficial in the sense of I just thought about almost like you know oh this witchcraft stuff's bad right you know but you just kind of we kind of blow over things you know make light of them but over the years and I just want to share some of this before we leave how important this stuff is because you know I think about you know Josiah I mean your mom how different her life is now after deliverance you know his mom's been a Christian since she was what teenager something like that she was saved and then of course went to church came out of Roman Catholicism and became you know true Protestant Christian she was truly born again came out of the Roman Catholic Church married a Christian man your dad you know has been nothing but about trying to live a godly Christian life for years not perfect by any means but when we met them which is now goodness how many years ago was that with 2011 so eight years ago your mom was a mess I mean she was having constant migraine headaches I mean serious migraines that make her throw up and sick and have to you know just vision issues and she was having partial paralysis on one side of her body I think it was the left side of her body and and she would have these frequent nosebleeds that were like somebody turned a faucet on in there you know just crazy stuff right and so they started coming to our church and I we started finding out about what was going on in her life and so I taught on deliverance and and you know your mom and dad they got a hold of it they understood it and they're like you know we need to do this and so we sit down and prayed with Marlene and it was powerful let me tell you she made her list of all her sins and particularly it was her involvement in Roman Catholicism because that's idolatry praying to Mary and the wafer and all that stuff and and then her sister had also gotten into Santa Ria so there was a little bit of that Santa Ria voodoo witchcraft and she went I think Marlene went to like one Santa Ria ceremony or something like that but then we started
praying for her we start we started binding the demons spirits of idolatry from worshiping Mary the Mary demons I call them and man I'm gonna tell you what she started throwing up and that nose started bleeding like somebody turned on a faucet it was intense man it was a good thing we had the trash can and multiple trash bags available and she doesn't mind me telling this story because it was powerful but we went through that whole process we prayed over the Santa Ria ritual she'd been through we prayed over you know just went down her list and she would fill them sometimes she would fill them trying to tear and cause her pain before they came out and it was intense we had to sometimes stop and let her rest because and here she is she's been a born-again Christian at that point you know she's well in her 30s so for 20 years she'd been a Christian and I'm not talking about a fake Christian or not born again or I mean a real Christian and here's the testimony I mean the testimony is after we did this and she learned to stand her ground and resist the devil in Jesus name she didn't have the migraines anymore the paralysis left the crazy constant nosebleed stopped happening and and now if anything like that starts to happen she knows that either somehow a doorway's got open I mean she's had some battles with some people praying for it shouldn't pray for and you know she got involved in essential oils at one point for a little bit so that opened the door again and so we had to deal with that bind the demons and cast them out but it changed her what I'm saying it changed her life and I thought I was just thinking about that for and I know it's not just the frick family but also Kevin's family had they not learned this and put this into practice how different your lives would have been I mean there was some bad stuff before we met you guys there were some really bad health things coming up that I just look back on it you know it could have been really really bad but they learned how to fight the devil bind the devil resist the demons go through deliverance make sure they're and clean out the land I mean it's just again is it everything in Christianity is it no is it important yes and just you know for our students you know if you're going to be an effective minister of the gospel and helping people overcome Satan's power and Satan's devices then this is part of it you're gonna have to be equipped to deal with this especially if you're going to be a pastor you know you don't counsel out a demon you know you don't salvation out a demon you don't bat water baptized out a demon you bind and command and cast out demons in Jesus name it has to be very specific and very
focused and you got to call them by name by what they're doing or by how they got in and that's how you do it and you got to be thorough about it and so anyway I'm going to close on this today we're going to take up next class of spiritual warfare is going to be on a cursed objects or what we call familiar objects cursed objects and how important it is to not allow those in your life anyway let's pray and then we'll dismiss class this morning father we thank you Lord for this time together I thank you for these students God what you're doing in their lives truly help them see the importance of thorough deliverance for themselves and that so they can do it and then they can help others get free from every shred of their demonic grave clothes from the past and every demon that's been in their land and squatters in their temple Lord that we have power and authority to drive them out that you don't want us trying to hold these demonic beach balls in the water but you want us to get rid of them and so Lord I ask you to equip your Saints these students to do this to understand this and do this thoroughly and methodically in great detail no matter how long it takes that this needs to get done and they need to be able to help others as well so Lord I pray this over all of them and those who might watch and hear this teaching this message this class bless them and help them and guide them also into full deliverance and I pray this all in Jesus name alright then class dismissed