the theme of this and the following

session will be basics of deliverance

that subtitle is all you ever wanted to

know about demons but were afraid to ask

in these two sessions I’m going to seek

to achieve a well nigh impossible task

to cover in two hours every main aspect

of this ministry of course not in detail

but in outline I believe it’s

appropriate that we begin by considering

this aspect of the Ministry of Jesus and

I’d like to turn to mark chapter 1 I

have said many times as far as I’m

concerned I have no ambition to improve

on the Ministry of Jesus some people I

think feel that it could be done better

today

that’s not my attitude when he began his

public ministry the thing that struck

people the most was his way of dealing

with evil spirits and it’s worthy of

note that this was one miracle of Jesus

which had never previously been recorded

in the Old Testament almost all his

other miracles healing provision of food

control of nature had already been

recorded in the Old Testament but

there’s no Old Testament record of

driving out evil spirits and the people

who witnessed it were immediately

gripped by it and became excited about

it here’s the first account in a

synagogue in Capernaum and says in verse

23 of Mark 1 now there was a man in

their synagogue with an unclean spirit

the Greek says in an unclean spirit

which is not translatable into English I

think perhaps the best contemporary

English would be under the influence of

an unclean spirit there are three

phrases that are used more or less

interchangeably we might as well mention

them now demons

evil spirits and unclean spirits it also

talks about specific types of spirits

such as a spirit of infirmity or a

spirit of fear all right there was a man

in their synagogue under the influence

of an unclean spirit and he cried out

notice that he is not the man it’s the

spirit saying let us alone what have we

to do with you Jesus of Nazareth did you

come to destroy us I know who you are

the Holy One of God

notice that the evil spirits instantly

identified who Jesus was it took his

disciples maybe more than a year to

begin to realize who he really was

they knew instantly they feared him

also notice the combination of we and I

which is very typical when Jesus spoke

to the man in Ghidorah he said what is

your name singular and he said my name

is legion for we are many

this combination of I and we is very

characteristic of demons verse 25 but

Jesus rebuked him saying be quiet and

come out of him the Greek says literally

be muzzled come out of him and when the

unclean spirit had convulsed him and

cried out with a loud voice he came out

of him notice there were very dramatic

physical manifestations it was not the

kind of behavior that was normal in the

synagogue somebody once said to me in

most churches what they would have done

was put the man out of the church but

Jesus put the demon out of the man he

understand and he left the man in the

synagogue then we read the next verse

then they were all amazed so that they

questioned among themselves saying what

is this what new doctrine is this or

what is this a new doctrine with

authority he commands even the unclean

spirits and they obey Him and

immediately his fame or his reputation

spread throughout all the region around

gali that is so true the situation

hasn’t changed if you begin to get

manifestations of evil spirits and deal

with them the reputation will go

all-round immediately it’s a thing that

still tremendously impresses people when

they witness it ah the thing that I want

to emphasize there is Jesus did not deal

with the man he dealt with the spirit in

the man another person in that man and

there’s no indication that the man had

behaved abnormally before understand it

was the presence of Jesus with the

anointing of the Holy Spirit upon him

that brought out the unseen presence of

the demon in the man now the same day

later on in this chapter in verse 32

through 34 we read a further development

of his ministry now at evening when the

son had said they brought to him all it

was sick and those who were

demon-possessed let me say once and for

all I do not like the translation

demon-possessed the Greek word is

diamond midsomer if I were to write it

in English letters it would be something

like this where diamond is the root and

comes from the noun demon you understand

so it’s a my is the passive to be

demonized that would be the best

translation to be demonized this

translation demon-possessed has

unfortunately obscured the issue for

millions of people because they say how

can a Christian be possessed by the

devil my answer is a true Christian

cannot be possessed by the devil a true

Christian is possessed by Jesus however

in many true Christians there are some

areas where they are demonized where

they are Flik ‘td and affected by demons

areas in their lives and carry

where they are not themselves fully in

control and they are demonized but not

possessed by Satan if we could just

clear away that one obstacle of

translation we would be a lot further to

seeing reality all right now at evening

when the Sun had said they brought him

all who were sick and those who were

demonized and really the New Testament

hardly makes any distinction and I Jesus

did not honor that almost invariably he

dealt with the sick and with the

demonized in one overall operation and

the whole city was gathered together at

the door then he healed many who were

sick with various diseases and cast out

many demons and he did not allow the

demons to speak because they knew him

the King James and this version and

various others used the word cast out

demons the translation I prefer is that

a Phillips where he uses the word expel

because that doesn’t have a lot of

religious connotations it’s simple

practical down-to-earth if you inhale

smoke into your lungs what do you do to

get rid of it you expel it

it’s an action of the will but it’s also

there’s also a physical aspect to it and

I that’s what I like to use I don’t

always use it but that in my opinion

best represents he expelled many demons

he did not allow the demons to speak

because they knew him and then I’d like

to read one more verse in that chapter

verse 39 he was preaching in their

synagogues throughout all Galilee and

casting out demons Phillips translation

says he continued throughout the whole

of Galilee preaching in their synagogues

and expelling demons I particularly like

the fact that he uses the word continued

which represents a certain tense in

Greek he brings out the fact that this

was not an isolated dramatic in

instance that just took place in one

synagogue but that it was his regular

practice in every synagogue to do two

things

preach and expel demons and he did it

through the whole of Galilee there must

have been hundreds of synagogues in

Galilee you see a lot of people have got

the attitude well perhaps every now and

then there is a case where it’s

necessary to expelled him as but they’re

very rare and they’re exceptional and

usually the attitude is and if there are

such people there either in jails or

mental institutions well I simply have

to point out to you that that was not

the kind of person Jesus was dealing

with he was dealing with Orthodox Jews

who met every Sunday in the synagogue

and spent the rest of the week caring

for their families tilling their fields

fishing the sea keeping their stores and

so on they were basically normal

respectable religious people but they

had what we could say certain hangups

certain areas as I say where they were

not in control of themselves so do not

and get the impression that a person who

needs deliverance must be either a

criminal or a maniac it’s just the same

kind of people that we deal mainly with

today not exclusively good respectable

religious people who attend church and

say the right things but in their lives

somewhere there’s an area that’s

demonized when they’re not in control it

may be in their physical desires may be

in their motions it may be in their mind

I’m going to deal with the various areas

later but if you can accept what I’ve

said it will get away it will clear away

a whole lot of prejudices which will

keep you from being able to see this

subject objectively it’s a funny thing

but people in one nation can easily

accept that people in another nation

could need deliverance I’ve dealt with

this subject in Denmark the Danes have

no problems in believing that Americans

need deliverance

see and the Americans have no problem

believing Africans need deliverance well

I spent eight years of my life in Africa

but I have to tell you I never met so

many demons in Africa as I’ve met in

America they’re just cultural

differences they adapt themselves to

their environment all right let’s look

at one other picture of the Ministry of

Jesus which is parallel in fact it

describes the same incidence in Luke 4

verses 40 and 41 that’s the same past

same part of Jesus ministry that

described in mark 1 Luke 4 40 and 41 now

when the Sun was setting all those who

had anyone sick with various diseases

brought them to him he laid his hands on

every one of them and healed them and

demons also came out of many crying out

we don’t need to read more see the

ministries of healing and deliverance

were interwoven they came because they

were sick but in many cases their their

cure demanded the expelling of evil

spirits and noticed Jesus laid his hands

on every one of them they used to be I

don’t know whether there still is today

a Pentecostal tradition that it’s

unscriptural to lay your hands on

somebody has an evil spirit if that is

so then Jesus was unscriptural and I’d

rather follow his pattern than a

tradition no let’s look on in Luke just

to one other chapter Luke 13 we find the

woman who was bent double in Luke 13

verses 11 through 16 another incident in

another synagogue later on behold there

was a woman who had a spirit of

infirmity 18 years and was bent over and

could in no way raise herself up now

notice this was caused by a spirit of

infirmity an evil spirit that had

doubled her body over so that she

couldn’t straighten herself up when

Jesus saw her he called her to himself

to him and said to her woman you are

loosed from

no infirmity notice the word loosed

indicates binding he said that in faith

nothing had changed notice then and he

laid his hands on her notice she had a

spirit of infirmity but he laid his

hands on her and immediately she was

made straight and glorified God but the

ruler of the synagogue answered with

indignation because Jesus had healed on

the Sabbath and he said to the crowd

there are six days on which men ought to

work therefore come and be healed on

them and not on the Sabbath day the Lord

then answered him and said hypocrite

does not each one of you on the Sabbath

loose his ox or his donkey from the

stall and lead it away to water it so

ought not this woman being a daughter of

Abraham whom Satan has bound think of it

for eighteen years be loosed from this

bond on the Sabbath

she was a believing woman she was a

Jewish she was a member of the synagogue

she had this terrible physical problem

her back was bent over it was not

primarily a physical problem it was

caused by spirit of infirmity and the

moment the spirit of infirmity left her

she straightened up now that is demons

discernment but I’m simply pointing out

that some problems we would classify as

physical are actually caused by evil

spirits Jesus also dealt with dumbness

deafness and blindness has been caused

by evil spirits and in many cases his

ministry to heal the people was to

deliver them from the spirits that

caused their dumbness their deafness and

their blindness now without going into

details I have to say I have seen

parallel instances in my own ministry in

each of those areas then we read on just

a little further in Luke 13 verses 31

and 32 this is the last of our glimpses

of the Ministry of Jesus on that very

same day some Pharisees came saying to

him get out and depart from here for

Herod wants to kill you and he said to

them go tell that Fox

that’s Herod behold

I cast out demons and perform cures

today and tomorrow the third day I shall

be perfected that’s a hebron ism today

tomorrow and the third day means from

now on until the job is finished

so he said i’m going to be doing two

things casting out demons and performing

kills that’s how he started that’s how

he continued and that’s how he ended his

whole ministry from beginning to end

included in it as a major part probably

one third of his time in healing the

sick and casting out demons and the two

were so intertwined that it was really

impossible to distinguish between them

now the next thing i want to say which i

will illustrate very briefly is in the

New Testament no one was ever sent out

to evangelize without first being

commissioned to deal with evil spirits

there isn’t an example in the New

Testament it is unscriptural to do that

let’s look at the first twelve disciples

who were sent out Matthew chapter 10

thus 1 when he had called his twelve

disciples to him he gave them power over

unclean spirits to cast them out and to

heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds

of disease notice the first thing he did

was to give them authority to deal with

evil spirits and then it says missing

out the list of the names in verse five

these twelve Jesus sent out and then it

says we’re missing out the irrelevant

parts verse six and seven but go rather

to the lost sheep of the house of Israel

and as you go preach saying the kingdom

of heaven is at hand but don’t merely

preach do something what heal the sick

cleanse the lepers raise the dead

stout demons it was included in their

equipment and it was included in their

commission in Luke chapter 10 we read

about a further 17 who was sent out Luke

chapter 10 verse 1 after these things

the Lord appointed seventy others also

and sent them two by two before his face

into every city and place where he

himself was about to go now we’ll only

turn on to chapter 2 verse 17 the report

that the 70 brought Bank and it says in

verse 17 then the seventy returned with

joy saying Lord even the demons are

subject to us in your name what was what

impressed them most they had authority

over demons they were not the twelve

they were the seventeen and then we look

at the final Commission at the end of

the Gospels

first of all in mark 16 verse 15 and

following mark 16:15 he said to them go

into all the world and preach the gospel

to every creature you believes is

baptized is saved he believes not is

condemned verse 17 and these signs will

follow those who believe what’s the

first sign in my name they will cast out

demons he did not send them out without

first making sure that they knew how to

deal with demons and in Matthew 28 the

other version of the Great Commission

verses 19 and 20 he says go therefore

and make disciples of all the nations

baptizing them in the name of the Father

and of the Son and the Holy Spirit

teaching them to observe all things that

I have commanded you and lo I am with

you always even to the end of the age

he’s told them to teach their disciples

everything he taught them and one of the

main things he taught them

was how to deal with evil spirits and he

said when you make disciples you teach

them what I’ve told you and when they

make disciples they’re to teach those

disciples what they had been taught and

he says I’m with you to the end of the

age he made no provision for that

process to change he envisaged the same

thing going on from the time he left to

the time he came back that’s his program

the tragedy is the church has departed

from it they have not improved upon it

they can’t they’ve simply made a

disaster out of it now there’s only one

person in the New Testament other than

Jesus who is called an evangelist only

one I’ve counted 28 persons called

apostles but only one person called an

evangelist isn’t that remarkable

we don’t hesitate to dub the title on

Avengers anybody is into a pastor in the

contemporary church has to be an

evangelist there are only two options

basically who was the Evangelist who can

tell me Philip now his ministry is

described in Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter

8 verse 5 then Philip went down to the

city of Samaria and preached Christ to

them till it’s message was very simple

it was a one word message in Samaria he

preached Christ on the road to Gaza he

preached Jesus all right and the

multitudes with one Accord he did the

things spoken by Philip because he had a

well organized committee and a choir

no hearing and seeing the miracles which

he did for what was the first thing

unclean spirits crying with a loud voice

came out of many who were demonized and

many who were paralyzed and lamed were

healed notice the first thing in his

ministry as an evangelist was driving

out evil spirits so I’m I’m suggesting

to you that both the pattern and the

Commission of Jesus leave no room for

the servants of God today to go out in

evangelism without first being equipped

to deal with evil spirits I don’t

believe you can find an example there

now I’m going to give you some general

teaching on the nature of demons I will

stick with the word demons and ways in

which you can know if they’re at work in

you or in others of course there’s

always the two gifts of discerning of

spirits and the word of knowledge but

apart from that in the supernatural

realm there are many many other combined

indications which should alert us to the

presence of demons either in ourselves

or in others you need to know first of

all as I’ve said they are persons

without bodies you’re dealing with

persons disembodied persons who have a

passionate craving to get into a body

you need to understand them they are

totally discontented outside of a body

the kind of body they want is a human

body but rather than be disembodied

they’ll settle for a pig or a dog or

other animal they do not want to be

disembodied that is torment for them

they have two main objectives assigned

to them by Satan number one to keep you

from knowing Christ as Savior but if

they fail in that they’re number two

objective is to keep you from serving

Christ effectively you see that if they

fail

number one they don’t give up they

simply switch to number two now we need

to distinguish between the flesh and

demons the flesh being the old carnal

nature the old man demons being persons

that move in and occupy areas of your

personality I compare them this way the

flesh is the carcass the demons are the

vultures that settle on the carcass you

understand if there were no flesh

there’d be no vultures it’s a very vivid

picture if you’ve lived in a country

where there are vultures you know when

something is about to die a little speck

appears up in the sky and hovers there

and you look up a little while later the

three or four more and the nearer the

animal on the earth gets to death the

lower down the vultures come Jesus said

where the carcass is the vultures will

be gathered together where the

unregenerate flesh of man is exposed in

its carnality and its sinfulness you can

be sure the vultures will be gathering

now the remedies are totally different

what’s the remedy for the flesh the

cross that’s wrong Galatians 5:24 they

that are Christ’s have crucified the

flesh with the affections and lusts

what’s the remedy for demons to expel

them that’s right now you cannot switch

the remedies you cannot expel the flesh

and you cannot crucify a demon so in

order to know which remedy to apply you

have to know what you’re dealing with

okay now I would say in general if you

are a committed sincere Christian who

reads your Bible prays has regular

fellowship and desires to serve the Lord

and you have a special kind of problem

something tormenting something

aggravating something humiliating

something binding and enslaving and

you’ve tried every remedy you’ve prayed

you fasted you’ve reckoned yourself dead

and you still haven’t resolved it you

can be Alma

sure you’re dealing with the Dean I can

say this out of experience which is too

long for me to relate this morning now

what I want to do in the next part of

this session is give you some

characteristic activities of demons I’m

going to list about nine verbs which

describe characteristic activities of

demons if these are present in your life

more than one or if they’re very intense

you should begin to check you probably

need deliverance and bear in mind all

these are activities of persons because

we’re dealing with persons without

bodies first verb entice demons entice

they tempt people to do evil and if you

analyze your experience you’ll find that

enticement often comes in a verbal form

a beautiful goal pencil has been dropped

on the floor and you stand looking at it

and something says to you take it nobody

will know other people would do the same

if it was your pencil they’d take it you

know what that is anything that has a

voice is a person behind that voice is a

demon enticing you none of you they’re

experienced then it’s just me demons

harass or Harris depends what part of

the world you come from they study you

they follow your movements they know

your weak moments they know your weak

places they know just how and when they

can get in the example I usually give us

the businessman who’s had a terrible day

in the office everything went wrong his

secretary was inefficient the air

conditioning failed and then on the way

home there was a traffic jam and he was

an hour on the freeway and then when he

gets back home believe it on aren’t his

wife as late with a supper

and the kids are running around

screaming and as he gets in through the

door he does what we say he blows his

stack okay you know what happens that

demon of anger that’s been on his tail

all day jumps in and after that his wife

notices a certain change in him he’s

still a loving father and husband but

there are certain times when something

else takes over she notices a kind of

different look in his eyes and although

he loves his wife and his children he

makes life miserable for them when that

comes upon him and then he’s so ashamed

and remorseful afterwards he said I

don’t know what made me do it well we do

know it’s the demon of anger number

three they torment

now the Bible speaks about the

tormentors in Matthew 18 I believe the

demons of the tormentas in Matthew 18 in

the parable of the unforgiving servant

the servant who wouldn’t forgive his

fellow servant a petty debt was

delivered by God to the Tormentor I have

met hundreds of Christians in the hands

of the tormentors you know why

unforgiveness if you have any

unforgiveness in your heart against

anybody you are a legitimate target for

the tormentas and Satan is a legal

expert he knows when he’s entitled to

move in there are various forms of

torment there’s physical torment the

example I would choose his arthritis

when you look at arthritis you’ve seen

the devil in action twisting torturing

crippling binding mental torment one

that’s unusually common is the fear of

going insane you’d be surprised how many

Christians are inwardly fighting this

battle goes like this well you aren’t

died in a mental institution and your

grandfather went the same way and you’re

going to be the next and you can hardly

imagine that

holman that there is in such a mind then

there’s spiritual torment and the

example I would give is the accusation

that you’ve committed the unforgivable

sin now if you are concerned about

having committed the unforgivable sin

you haven’t committed it you understand

because the people who have committed it

or not the least bit concerned so that’s

not your problem your problem is a lying

accusing spirit which is taking away

your peace and the assurance of your

salvation all right number four they

ends wait a minute

they compound I think there is no more

distinctive word than the word

compulsive almost anything compulsive is

liable to be demonic compulsive smoking

compulsive consumption of alcohol but

let’s not stop there compulsive eating

is just as demonic gluttony is just as

much of a problem as alcohol but it’s a

respectable one since you can’t be an

alcoholic in church but you can be a

glutton there are other forms of

compulsion compulsive talking gorilla

tea people who can’t stop talking have

got a problem and they are a problem too

number five demon Zen slave that’s very

close you see let’s say you’ve committed

a sin in the area of sex you repent you

go to Jesus you receive forgiveness and

cleansing you’re justified just as if

you’d never sinned that’s all finished

with but if after all that you still

have this intense drive to commit the

same sin again even though you hate it

you’re enslaved one very common example

is masturbation now some psychologists

and people say masturbating is alright

it’s healthy I just don’t even argue

about that but I know there are

thousands of people who do it and hate

themselves for doing it and every time

they say never again but it never works

they are enslaved and there is a demon

of masturbation

it’s very common let me tell you now

before we get to found the meeting it

has certain specific manifestations what

will happen is the person’s fingers will

begin for tingle I’ve had so many people

rather Prince what’s the matter with me

my fingers are tingling and sometimes

they go stiff and they Bend right

backwards and I just whisper in the ear

your problem is masturbation renounce it

claim the cleansing blood of Jesus and

get rid of it but it’s very stubborn

many times people have to actually shake

it out of their fingers in the name of

Jesus to get rid of it now you put four

and five together four plus five equals

addiction

okay compulsive and slaving you put them

together their addictions we are

familiar with many forms of addictions

some are very unusual my first wife and

I dealt with a young woman a Pentecostal

church member who was addicted to nail

varnish she just wanted to smell nail

varnish

she told us when I walk into the

cosmetics department of a store I’ve got

two options I can either by name

Varna shall run out of the store but I

got to do one or the other when she was

delivered at that thing it came out

screaming and it tore her there are

other dictions you know the Communists

and latest is TV TV is just as much an

addiction as alcohol with many people

they cannot walk into the room with a

television set without switching it on

they don’t even think they don’t know

what they’re going to see but they just

have to reach for the television set

just like an alcoholic reaches for a

drink and I think probably it does more

harm in the long run than alcohol number

six they defile they make you feel dirty

and unclean especially when you’re

worshipping God you’re just about to get

into the presence of God in this dirty

image or this filthy word is projected

into your mind anything that rises up

when you’re about to worship God and

opposes you is almost certainly demonic

or when you want to read your Bible

one common example is the demon asleep

you know this Bible speaks about a

spirit of slumber have you ever noticed

people if they want to read their Bible

at 10:00 p.m. they’re asleep by 10:15

that they want to watch television they

could stay awake till after midnight now

that’s not natural there’s a

supernatural force that there that

enjoys them watching television hates

them reading their Bibles you understand

alright number seven they deceive they

are the deceivers I believe basically

all forms a spiritual deception are

demonic and you know what opens the door

to deception pride I don’t whether

there’s ever any deception that doesn’t

come in through the doorway of pride

pride inevitably leads to deception

number eight they weaken make sick

or tired there’s a demon of tiredness

remember dealing with a woman once she

said I can’t stand this session any

longer I’m too tired I was about to get

sorry for and I realized it was a demon

I challenged it and said that’s right

she’s always tired she’s tired when she

gets up she’s tired when she’s goes to

bed she’s too tired to pray she’s too

tired to read her Bible that’s one of

the ones that the others hide behind or

they kill remember Satan is a murderer

he kills people physically and there’s a

spirit of death that he sends out to

kill people all right now if we’re going

to take one word to sum up it would be

the word Restless demonized people are

usually Restless in some area the person

who can truly relax and be at peace

probably doesn’t need deliverance all

right now I’d appreciate a ministry from

some active person who would clean off

the board so that I don’t have to spend

time doing that do we have a volunteer

somewhere near the front thank you very

much okay now the next thing we’re going

to deal with and I think this will be

the the last although I wish I could go

further because we haven’t much time is

there areas of residence proverbs 25 28

says thank you very much proverbs 25 28

says this whoever has no rule over his

own spirit it’s like a city broken down

without wall so that compares the inner

nature of human personality to a city

and when the person has no spiritual

defenses that city is open to almost any

evil spirit that wants to come in you

take a drug addict that’s his

description anything

get into him because his walls are

broken down about inner city there are a

lot of different areas there’s the area

where the wealthy live there’s the slum

areas there’s the banking and commerce

areas that the sports areas there’s the

various ethnic areas I used to live in

Chicago and this was you know there was

the areas where it was all poles all

Swedes all Jews and so on and so inside

you and me there is a city with various

areas with characteristic residence in

each area

you understand I’m going to give you a

little list of the areas I’m not a

professional psychologist this is simply

based on years of experience the first

area number one the main one is emotions

and attitudes and I put in parenthesis

gangs cause there are gangs of demons

and each one opens the way for the next

and if you meet one you should start

searching for the others now my personal

opinion is behind every negative emotion

and attitude there is an evil spirit

anger fear loneliness misery self-pity

pride jealousy there’s a tremendous list

now the fact that you experience anger

doesn’t necessarily mean you have a

demon of anger but if your anger falls

into the category of those verbs that

we’ve discussed then you probably have a

demon of anger there are certain route a

problems which out of which the rest

grow I think the greatest single root

problem is rejection and rejection leads

to a whole series loneliness misery

self-pity display depression despair and

when you got that far you’re headed one

or other of two ways death if it’s

passive suicide if it’s active I don’t

believe anybody ever committed suicide

except under the

pants of an evil spirit that’s my

personal opinion I can’t prove it

another very typical problem is

rebellion which leads to resentment to

hatred to to anger to violence and you

know produces the typical gang leader

and so on number two is the mind in a

way our mind is the battlefield

characteristic spirits that affect the

mind are doubt unbelief confusion

indecision insanity and I’ve discovered

that people have been in the occult

almost always have a problem with

confusion depression you can call it

either emotional or mental doesn’t

matter but it’s there the next area is

where are we the tongue there are a lot

of characteristic demons at the tongue

the main one is lying the Bible speaks

about a lying spirit there are people

who are compulsive liars they don’t even

know when they’re lying I had a friend

like that he was the president of a Full

Gospel businessman in a certain city he

was also characteristically a salesman

it was a fine Christian a wonderful

talker and he’d sit in our living room

and start the talk and if his talk would

get more and more interesting but

improbable and

my head would begin to swim and I think

does he believe what he’s saying do I

believe what I’m saying what he’s saying

but it just kind of flowed out of the

natural into the supernatural now you

know the reason I discovered how that

spirit came in he was an adopted son of

wealthy parents they had no other

children all the eggs were in that one

basket they wanted him to be everything

and he discovered that when he came home

with his grades from school they were

disappointed because they weren’t good

enough and when they registered this

appointment he decided that wasn’t worth

it so he just lied about his school

grades and sin and that started him into

the whole field of lying I believe

ultimately he was delivered but it was

such a revelation to me see compulsive

liars

are very deceptive because they don’t

even know they’re lying they can pass a

lie-detector test what else that the two

church-going demons criticism and gossip

I was in a church meeting once and lady

came up with that demon I said your

problem is criticism I said you spirit

of criticism come out of her and about

four people around started to get

delivered at the same time exaggeration

the evangelistic demon blasphemy I was a

slave of blasphemy when the Lord saved

me absolutely incapable of speaking

without blaspheming unclean speech and

so on negative talking number four the

thing that nobody talks about in church

sex because it’s not discussed in church

the pre-prom people with problems in the

area of sex go to a psychiatrist and he

says madam you have a guilt problem and

your problems sent us in your religion

give up your religion and you won’t feel

guilty no they don’t all say that I

would say if you sat in church for 10

years and still feel guilty your problem

is your religion really I would change

to another religion

that’s all it can do is leave you

feeling guilty now we have to say

certain things about sex

first of all sex is not evil it’s good

we have to clear away that

misunderstanding God created man and

woman’s sexual beings and after he’d

checked on everything he created he said

it was all very good including sex one

of the big problems in churches we just

not honest about sex were ashamed about

it we’re prudish and we encourage

problems by their attitude I would say

every form of compulsive sex aberration

is demonic

without exception masturbation

adultery fornication homosexuality

lesbianism a feminist see and all sorts

of horrid perversions that we won’t talk

about I would say every one of those is

demonic now you don’t have to feel

ashamed but you do need to resolve your

problem number five lusts now we could

have included sex under that heading but

it’s such a distinctive area I kept it

separate perverted desires and appetites

all right

I believe all appetites initially were

healthy but by same and demonic power

they’ve been perverted to become

unhealthy and destructive 1 John 2:16

speaks about the lust of the flesh lust

of the eye there is demonic power that

controls eyes some men have to look at

women in a special way they’re

absolutely incapable of not doing them

that’s a demon that’s focused in their

eyes as I’ve said already gluttony is a

very clear example

of a perverted aboutin I had a woman

once who travel 70 miles in a snowstorm

to Chicago to be delivered she was the

daughter of a Pentecostal pastor like

many people in that situation she’d

rebelled against her parents and their

religion married an unsaved man and

ended up miserable she had three

children she came and got delivered from

this demon of gluttony and she said to

me afterwards mr. Prince no one can tell

me this isn’t real it’s just as real as

having a baby and rather like it and

I’ve had three and then she told me she

was so compulsive in her gluttony that

she would take food off her children’s

plate and eat it even though she knew

they needed it more than she did you see

let’s talk about addictions from

addictions of grow on frustrations their

branches on a trunk and if you merely

deal with the addiction you haven’t

solved the problem take alcohol and

gluttony one woman is a piss Cup alien

her husband runs around with other women

doesn’t care for her doesn’t give her

enough money so on all right she gets

frustrated she’s got to get some release

she walks across the living room to the

cocktail cabinet that comes out the

Holly the other woman is Church of God

okay her husband does exactly the same

but for that woman to get to the

cocktail cabinet would be a lengthy

journey so where does she go to the

kitchen and opens the refrigerator but

she becomes a food to Holly but the

difference is minimal really and in

either case to help them you’ve got the

deal with the basic frustration which is

their attitude toward their husband all

right we have to go on with the list

number six the whole realm of the occult

I’m just going to write account but that

is a vast realm and every part of it is

demonic even the respectable parts and I

would not involve you to be involved in

yoga exercises let me say that I was in

yoga I was a practicing yogi and I would

tell you and there’s nothing in that I

would touch

a ten-foot pole you don’t have to depend

on yoga for physical help the Lord will

give you physical health I’m just saying

though the our cult is a deep dark pit

it’s one of those caves where all the

steps foot marks lead in words and none

ever Lee don’t all right number seven

all false religions Islam Mormonism

jehovah’s witnesses buddhism hinduism

and in some respects judaism okay there

isn’t a false religion that doesn’t have

a demon upon it satan is an expert in

the field of a religion it’s the main

area in which he operates number eight

all heresies

and by heresies I mean departures from

the Christian faith let’s turn to first

Timothy chapter four for a moment first

Timothy chapter four now the spirit

expressly states the spirit capital S

the Holy Spirit now the spirit expressly

states that in latter times that’s the

times in which we are living some will

depart from the faith what faith

Christian faith why giving heed to

deceiving spirits and doctrines of

demons this is happening on a wide scale

today and then it goes on to say you get

some examples of their errors speaking

lies in hypocrisy having their own

conscience seared with a howl and

forbidding to marry commanding to

abstain from foods which God created to

be received with Thanksgiving etc

particularly on the west coast

to the United States you fund hundreds

of thousands of people to whom that

applies they’re becoming super spiritual

they decide not to marry or if they’re

married they don’t cohabit with their

spouse and they’re going to be super

spiritual by what they eat now I believe

in eating wisely but I don’t make a

religion out of it you understand the

moment it becomes a religious issue

you’re on the verge of the demonic and

you’ll notice that people who get into

food fads can talk about anything else

that’s another mark of the demonic no

matter where you start you always end up

with food don’t eat this and don’t need

that the lots of things I don’t eat but

I do not make a religion out of it you

understand all right

number nine the area of our physical

bodies and we’ve dealt with many

examples in the Gospels certain things I

think are normally demonic I would never

say always the first one I’d put on the

list is epilepsy and I have seen many

many people delivered we Ruth and I were

in Lexington Kentucky about two years

ago now and I had a blessing a woman

came to me she was probably about 40

with her daughter about 18 and she said

mr. Prince ten years ago you prayed for

me and I was delivered from the spirit

of epilepsy here’s my daughter she has

the problem pray for her I was happy for

that Testament we prayed for the

daughter I have no doubt that she was

delivered I have seen scores of people

delivered from epilepsy when it’s

treated as an evil spirit if a person

comes to me in a meeting I’ll say no I

believe that’s an evil spirit I’m

prepared to command it to go on do you

want me to are you prepared because

there may be a fight there may be a

struggle if you don’t want to I won’t do

it some people say yes some say no all

right that is as far as we can go we’ve

dealt with the primary activities of

demons that list I think of nine verbs

and here’s the primary areas in which I

have observed them operating you see a

person may be completely clear in the

area of sex but maybe in a false

religion or a person may have no spirits

in the mind but may be bogged down in

the emotions or a person ah let’s say

maybe in a heresy but be perfectly

healthy you understand

so there’s a whole choice of areas all

right that’s the end of the first

session God helping us will complete

this in the second session