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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons (Part 2B)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons (Part 2B) | February 13, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jefress.
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Hi, i am robert jefress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Hollywood movies often display demon possession
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In a predictable manner.
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You know, the worried family calls in the priest
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For a desperate attempt to cast out a demon.
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To some, it's an entertaining plot,
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But to others it's a serious cause for concern.
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Could you or i be possessed by a demon?
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Are there times when we need to call on a priest or pastor
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To perform an exorcism?
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My message is titled,
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What every christian should know about angels and demons
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ so pour it out ♪
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♪ to cleanse my soul ♪
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♪ let his liquid glory flow ♪
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♪ to make me whole ♪
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-♪ to tell you that he saves ♪ -♪ to tell you that he saves ♪
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♪ that he's coming back for you ♪
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♪ nothing but his blood ♪
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♪ proclaim his love ♪
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♪ that gave me life ♪
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-♪ but in three days ♪ -♪ but in three days ♪
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-♪ he breathed again ♪ -♪ he breathed again ♪
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-♪ and rose to stand ♪ -♪ and rose to stand ♪
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-♪ to tell you he's alive ♪ -♪ jesus is alive ♪
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♪ there's no denying ♪
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♪ that he's coming back ♪
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-♪ for you ♪ -♪ for you ♪
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♪ music ♪
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Paul says, "in all things,
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Through prayer and supplication,
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Let your request be made known to god,
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And the peace of god shall guard your hearts and minds
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In christ jesus."
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If you have an emotional problem, like worry,
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Paul says it's possible
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For a positive spiritual practice, like prayer,
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To affect your physical emotions.
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If that's true, doesn't it stand to reason
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There are negative spiritual forces out there
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That can impact our emotions as well?
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We can't discount the world of demons and satanic attack
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In mental illness.
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And that leads to another way that demons work,
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And that is through suicide.
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You see that in mark 9.
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There was a boy who was afflicted.
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He kept throwing himself into the fire,
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He started to try to drown himself.
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He was trying to take his own life,
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And the bible says it was because of demonic influence.
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It is a natural impulse we have
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To take care of ourselves, to preserve our life.
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To want to take our life is a super, above-natural response,
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And in this case, it is a negative spiritual influence
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That causes us to want to take our lives.
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Is that a physical problem?
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Is it an emotional problem?
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Is it a spiritual problem?
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You know, somebody has said
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The body, soul, and spirit
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Are so closely related to one another
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That if one catches cold, the other sneezes.
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It's very difficult, sometimes, to know
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If it is a spiritual problem or a physical problem.
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But hear me,
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Anytime you begin thinking,
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"my life is hopeless,
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Nobody cares about me,
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I'd be better off dead than alive,
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I've become a burden to my family,"
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Those thoughts do not come from god.
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It comes from the evil one.
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John 8:44 says that satan is a liar and he is a murderer.
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It is satan and his forces
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Who are trying to take your life prematurely.
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And let me just encourage you,
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If you have thoughts of suicide
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Or you know somebody close to you is thinking about suicide,
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Run, don't walk
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To a christian psychiatrist,
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To a counselor, to your doctor,
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Who can help you discern what needs to be done.
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And again, i'm not a doctor,
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Most of you aren't doctors.
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We need to not just say it's either or.
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Treat both.
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Go to a godly doctor
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Who can help you sort out what needs to be done.
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But know this,
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It is never god's will for you to take your life.
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Fifth, demons can work through people,
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Demons can work their will in our life
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Through other people.
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If you've ever been
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To the world holocaust remembrance center in jerusalem,
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Like i have, like many of you have been,
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You walk through those displays,
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You look at these horrific pictures, and you say,
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"how could one human being ever do such a thing
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To another human being?
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It's not natural."
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That's right, it's not natural,
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It is supernatural, it is of the devil.
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And many times, demons work through other people
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To accomplish their will in our life,
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But it doesn't have to be something as extreme
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As the holocaust.
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Demons can use other people in more subtle ways.
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Perhaps you're going through
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A particularly difficult, challenging time in your marriage
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When all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
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A direct message appears on your social media feed
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From a high school or college flame
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You haven't heard from in years.
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Why did that message come right then?
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Or maybe you're discouraged
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And you receive a particularly discouraging email
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From somebody who decides to unload on you,
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Or they post a negative social media post.
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Those things are not accidents.
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Satan uses other people
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To accomplish his purpose in our life.
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Which raises an interesting question.
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"well, pastor, do you believe
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Christians, then, can be demon-possessed?"
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Have you ever wondered about that?
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Have you ever heard that question?
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Is it possible for christians to be demon-possessed?
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Now, we know that non-christians are demon-possessed,
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They are possessed by satan, to be more accurate.
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If you mean by possessed to mean owned,
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The bible teaches that when we are born into this world,
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We are born prisoners of satan,
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We are a part, naturally, of the kingdom of darkness.
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It is only when we're saved, colossians 1:13 says,
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That god rescues us from the kingdom of darkness
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And places us in the kingdom of his son,
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The lord jesus christ.
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But when we become a child of god,
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Remember ephesians 1:13,
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We are sealed with the holy spirit of god.
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God marks us as his own possession
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When we become a christian.
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We can't be owned by satan because we are owned by god.
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And guess what?
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God is very stingy when it comes to his possessions,
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He doesn't share them with anyone,
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And god's not about to share you with satan.
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So if by possessed you mean
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Can christians be owned by demons?
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Absolutely not! it's impossible.
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We are owned by god.
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But here's the interesting thing.
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The phrase demon-possessed
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Doesn't appear anywhere in the bible.
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Did you know that?
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It's not anywhere in the bible.
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Now, it's translated that way in the bible.
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In luke 8, the man, the gerasenes said, possessed
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By many demons,
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But the greek word doesn't mean possessed,
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It means to be influenced by.
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Literally, he was demonized.
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So if the question is
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Can christians be influenced by demons?
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You bet they can!
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Christians can be influenced by demons.
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Let me give you two examples in the scripture.
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One is in matthew 16.
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Jesus was outlining god's plan for him to his apostles.
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He said the son of man must go to jerusalem,
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Be crucified,
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And be raised up on the third day,
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And peter interrupted him, remember,
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And said, "no, lord, may it never be.
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You don't have to go to the cross at all.
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You're the son of god."
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And how did jesus respond?
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Fast and furiously.
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Matthew 16:23, "jesus turned to peter and said,
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'get behind me, satan.
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You are a stumbling block to me,
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For you are not setting your mind on god's interest,
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But on man's.'"
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That's pretty harsh, isn't it?
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"get thee behind me, satan."
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Wait a minute? satan?
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Peter was an apostle,
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He would be a leader of the apostles later on.
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Was he saying peter was satanically possessed?
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No, but he was being influenced by satan,
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He was being a mouthpiece for satan
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In trying to put his own interest
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Above the interest of god's.
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We see the same thing in acts 4 and 5.
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Remember ananias and sapphira,
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They held back a portion
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Of what they promised to give to the church,
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And peter said to ananias, in verse 3 of chapter 5,
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"'why has satan filled your heart
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To lie to the holy spirit
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And to keep back some of the price of the land?'"
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Satan filled your heart?
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Ananias and his wife were believers,
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They had received the baptism with the spirit in acts 2,
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They had been immersed with the spirit,
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But in that moment of weakness,
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They were not being controlled by the spirit of god,
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They were being controlled by satan.
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And that's why paul says in ephesians 5:18,
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"do not get drunk with wine, for that's dissipation.
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Instead, be filled with,"
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Literally be controlled by,
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"the spirit."
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If you're a christian, no, you cannot be owned by satan,
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But you can be influenced by him.
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Now get this.
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Any part of your life
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That's not being controlled by the spirit of god
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Is open to being controlled by satan.
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There's no such thing as a spiritual vacuum.
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Any part of your life
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You've not surrendered to god and his will
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Is up for grabs and can be demonically influenced.
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So now that we know something about demons,
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What they want to do,
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How they work their will in our lives,
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How can we have spiritual victory over demons?
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Let me give two suggestions straight out of the bible.
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Number one, be alert to satan's attack.
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Be alert to satan's attack.
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The great bible expositor, dear martyn lloyd-jones, said,
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"anyone who is not aware of a fight and a conflict
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In a spiritual sense
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Is in a drugged and hazardous condition."
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There are a lot of christians like that.
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They walk around in a spiritual stupor,
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Not aware that they are in satan's crosshairs,
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That he has a plan to destroy everything important to them,
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Their faith, their family, their future,
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And people who are not alert
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To satan's and his demons' attacks
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Become spiritual roadkill.
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That's why 1 peter 5:8 says,
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"be of sober spirit, be on the alert,
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For your adversary the devil prowls about
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Like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour."
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Be alert to satan's attacks.
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Secondly, be aware of god's provision.
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You don't have to feel paranoid about satan and his demons.
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Be aware of the provision god has made
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For you to have victory over satan.
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Now, you know, we christians,
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We like easy fixes to complex problems.
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We would love to think there's just one prayer we could pray
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That would remove satan's power over our life forever,
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Or we think there's one little ritual we could go through
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That would break demons' stranglehold on our life.
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That's why a lot of people are attracted
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To a practice that we call exorcism,
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Casting demons out of people.
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Is that a legitimate practice for today?
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could, you know,
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Just put a wreath of garlic around you,
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And have a priest or pastor wave a crucifix
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And speak a few latin phrases,
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And somehow,
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That would remove satan's impact on your life forever?
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A lot of people are being deluded
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By this false practice that is no longer relevant today.
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Are there cases of demonic influence that are so severe
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They demand something extreme, like exorcism?
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Let me real quickly show you three things the bible says
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About exorcism.
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Number one, the gift of exorcism is attached
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To specific individuals in the bible.
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It's not a blanket gift,
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It's specified to certain individuals.
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First of all, jesus had the ability to exorcize demons,
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We saw that in luke 8,
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But even jesus himself said
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It was limited in its effectiveness.
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He did it to show his authority over the demonic world.
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Matthew 10:1-4 says
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The apostles were given the gift of exorcism
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To demonstrate the validity of their message,
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But there's no other passage that indicates
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Christians, as a whole, are supposed to engage in exorcism
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Or have the ability to do that.
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Now, people say, "wait a minute, pastor,
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You're forgetting about a verse.
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Mark 16:9-20,
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Jesus said to all of his followers,
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"you're going to go out and cast out demons,
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You're going to speak in tongues,
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You're going to be able to grab hold of a snake
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And it won't harm you,
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And so forth.
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What about that passage of the bible?
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If you look carefully in your bible at those passages,
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That passage, it will be in brackets,
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Or it will be in italics,
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Or there'll be a note at the bottom of your bible
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Indicating that these verses are questionable
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Whether they belong in the bible or not.
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They don't appear in the earliest manuscripts.
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Don't let that shake you up.
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There are three passages in the new testament we know of
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That are questionable passages,
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None of them affects any major doctrine of the church:
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Writing in the sand with the woman of adultery,
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The pool of siloam,
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These are passages that we know are questionable.
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And here's the point.
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Dr. ryrie, our late member, said,
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"the doubtful genuineness of these verses make it unwise
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To build a doctrine or base an experience on them."
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Translation: before you go out and grab that snake,
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You better be sure those verses were really in the bible,
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-(pastor jefress chuckles) -(congregants laugh)
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Because they're very doubtful.
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But apart from these individuals, jesus and the apostles,
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There are no blanket verses that say
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Exorcism has been given to us as a power.
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Secondly, the gift of exorcism is rarely mentioned
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In scripture.
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After the gospels and the book of acts,
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You don't find it anywhere.
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The reason you don't find it after the book of acts is
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The book of acts records the acts of the apostles,
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But after that, nowhere in the epistles
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Do you find any reference to exorcism.
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It's not mentioned in 1 corinthians,
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Which is a manual on how the church should operate.
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Paul never mentioned it
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To his protege in the ministry, timothy,
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When he talked about how to run the church at ephesus.
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I mean, if exorcism were an important part of the church,
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Don't you think there'd be some instruction somewhere
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About how to do it?
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Even when we get to ephesians 6 on spiritual warfare,
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Talks about put on the full armor of god,
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Nothing is said about exorcism.
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And thirdly, the gift of exorcism has limited effectiveness
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Across time.
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Even if some priest, or pastor,
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Or group of christians friends
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Was able to exorcize demons from an individual,
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There's no guarantee
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That demon wouldn't return to that individual
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And bring several friends along with him.
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By the way, jesus is the one who said that in luke 11.
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He said, "'when the unclean spirit goes out of a man,
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It passes through waterless places
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Seeking rest and not finding any.
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It says, "i'll return from that person from which i came,"
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And when it comes,
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It brings seven other spirits more evil than itself.'"
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So how do we rid ourselves of demonic influence
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If it's not through exorcism?
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Author neil anderson, in his book, "the ******* breakers,"
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Wisely observes:
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"the responsibility for living free in christ has shifted
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From the specially endowed agent of authority
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To the individual believer."
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Do you hear that?
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He's saying it's no longer somebody else's responsibility
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To take demons out of me,
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It is my responsibility to live in a way
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To break demonic influence over my life.
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Nowhere in the bible are christians commanded
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To bind the power of satan.
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Have you ever heard that before?
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"i'm going to bind the power of satan."
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There's no reason to think you have the ability to do that.
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That's not the command.
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You've not been commanded to cast out demons.
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What we have been commanded to do
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Is to live in a way to resist satan and his demons.
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In other words, the responsibility we have
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Is not exorcizing demons from other people or ourselves,
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It's by exercising the spiritual power
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God has already given to us.
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That is our responsibility,
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And that's why we need to be aware of god's provision.
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What is his provision?
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Look at 1 peter 5:9.
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Peter said, "be alert.
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The devil's like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour."
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But notice what he says,
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"but resist him," verse 9, "firm in your faith,
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Knowing that the same experiences of suffering
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Are being accomplished
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By your brethren who are in the world."
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James said it even more succinctly.
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How do you break satan's power in your life?
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"submit therefore to god.
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Resist the devil and he will flee from you."
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Now, i've done a series in the past
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On the divine defense,
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The spiritual armor god has given us,
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And that's all relevant,
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But if i were going to boil it down into one suggestion
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To protect yourself against satan and his demons,
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It would be what james says,
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Submit your life to god
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And resist the devil.
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Those two are related.
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Any area of your life that has not been submitted to god
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Is open to satan's influence.
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The effective way to neutralize demonic forces,
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Listen to this,
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Is to diminish the staging area
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That demons have in your life,
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Diminish the real estate that they have control over.
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Submit to god
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In your moral life,
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In your family life,
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In your work life,
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In your finances.
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The more you submit to god,
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The less of a foothold satan has in your life.
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I was talking to one of our deacons this week, godly deacon,
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And he just shared this word of testimony.
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He said, "you know, for so many years of my christian life,
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I was trying to live according to my plan and my agenda,
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And it was like swimming upstream,
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Everything was so hard.
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But then i discovered the secret
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Of submitting to god and his will,
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And no, it hasn't eliminated my problems,
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But it sure has made life easier."
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And that's what james is saying.
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Submitting to god's will for your life,
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Not giving the devil an opportunity
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Is the way, the only way (chuckles), to emerge victorious
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In this cosmic battle we're all engaged in.
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♪ music ♪
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Maybe there's that one piece of internal real estate,
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That secret place in your heart,
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That you've never given to god.
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That's the point of entry satan uses to invade your life.
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Are you ready to submit to god and his desire for your life?
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God's plan for you is a good plan if you'll trust in him.
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Well, as we close today,
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When we allow satan to take up residence in our hearts,
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The end result is sin.
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Next time, i'm going to share
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What every christian needs to know
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About the power and consequence of sin.
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Used to mean the pinnacle of god's crowning achievement.
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To the charming frontier towns
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Imagine standing on deck,
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Surrounded by towering glaciers and snow-capped mountains
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons (Part 2B)

February 13, 2026 | 27:29

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