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Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 1)

October 10, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 1)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 1) | October 10, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Our culture tends to treat the subject of spiritual warfare as
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  • Either complete nonsense or sensational entertainment, but
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  • The bible reveals a sobering truth.
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  • You have a real enemy with a deliberate strategy to destroy
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  • Everything meaningful in your life.
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  • Satan commands legions of fallen angels called demons, and they
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  • Work relentlessly to derail your relationship with god.
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  • Today, i'm going to show you the five specific channels demons
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  • Use to influence christians.
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  • Jeffress: i don't know what you do to celebrate or acknowledge
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  • Halloween, but it's usually a time people dress up, children
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  • Dress up as their favorite disney character perhaps.
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  • Adults put on mask portraying their least favorite politician.
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  • In the last church i served in before coming here, every
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  • Halloween at our church festival, a little boy dressed
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  • In a blue suit, a white shirt, a red tie with an accordion
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  • Strapped to his chest.
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  • Nobody had to wonder who he was portraying, but inevitably every
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  • Year, you'll see some people who choose to dress up in a red suit
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  • With the horns, the tail, the pitchfork, impersonating our
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  • Adversary, satan, or one of his legion of demon helpers that he
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  • Has with them.
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  • Sometimes i wonder, "what does satan think about that?
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  • Is he insulted?"
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  • I don't think so.
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  • I think he welcomes those kind of caricatures because the truth
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  • Is, as long as we're laughing at satan, we don't fear satan and
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  • We're certainly not motivated to protect ourselves against
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  • His attacks.
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  • But as a friend of mine says, demons are neither phony
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  • Nor funny.
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  • They are very real beings, fallen angels who have joined to
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  • Assist satan, a fallen angel himself, in his mission of
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  • Building a rival kingdom that will one day topple the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • What is his plan for doing it?
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  • Well, when it goes to non-christians, his goal with
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  • Non-christians is to blind them where they cannot see the truth
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  • Of the gospel so that they remain captives of satan, that
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  • They spend eternity in hell with them.
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  • But satan isn't the only one who's aiming at non-christians.
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  • Satan is also aiming at christians.
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  • He has a plan for them, for you, for me.
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  • And remember, we looked at his threefold strategy for dealing
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  • With christians.
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  • Number one, discourage them from worshiping god.
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  • Number two, to distract them from serving god, and finally to
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  • Deceive them into disobeying god.
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  • He wants to discourage, distract, and deceive.
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  • Well, remember, satan can't be more than one place at a time.
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  • So, how does he practically do this in our lives?
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  • Well, he does it through millions of demons that he has
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  • Available to him.
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  • Well, that raises a question.
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  • Question number one, how does demonic activity impact
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  • A christian?
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  • Exactly how do demons accomplish their purpose in our life?
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  • And question number two, is it possible for a christian to be
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  • Demon possessed?
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  • We're gonna answer all those questions today as we talk about
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  • What the demons want to do to you.
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  • How do demons influence our lives, impact our lives?
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  • The bible teaches there are five channels through which demons
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  • Can impact our life.
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  • Number one, through nature.
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  • Turn over to ephesians chapter 2, verse 2; many people don't
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  • Understand the control that demons have over nature, like
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  • The weather, for example.
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  • Look at ephesians 2:2.
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  • Paul is contrasting our life before we came to christ with
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  • Our life now that we are christians.
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  • He said, "you formerly walked according to the course of this
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  • World, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the
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  • Spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience."
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  • Underline that phrase in your bible, "according to the prince
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  • Of the power of the air."
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  • Who is the prince of the power of the air?
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  • Satan.
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  • He is in temporary control of this world, specifically the
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  • Weather, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis--i had a little
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  • Experience with that this week--floods.
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  • None of those things were part of god's original plan for
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  • The world.
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  • They are directly attributable to demonic activity.
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  • If you don't believe that, consider the story of job.
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  • Remember satan asked permission to break job through a series of
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  • Adversities, and god gave satan temporary permission to use the
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  • Weather to try to discourage job?
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  • Job 1:19 says, "behold, a great wind came from across the
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  • Wilderness and struck the four corners of the house," where his
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  • Ten children were, "and it fell on the young people and
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  • They died."
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  • A freak windstorm killed job's children, but it was
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  • Attributable to satan.
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  • Remember, satan uses difficulties to tempt us to
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  • Renouncing our faith.
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  • God can use the same trials to test us to strengthen our faith.
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  • But the point is, demons have temporary control over
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  • The weather.
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  • Secondly, they sometimes impact our lives through illness,
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  • Through physical illness.
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  • Now, to blame every sickness on satan is neither logical
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  • Nor biblical.
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  • You know, some of the illness we experience is because we've
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  • Inherited and we're now inhabiting a body that is
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  • Infected with sin.
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  • We all are born with defective bodies.
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  • Disease and death were never a part of god's original plan
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  • Until adam and eve disobeyed god and that had a physical impact
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  • On our lives as well.
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  • So, some of it, we can blame on adam and eve.
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  • We inherited defective bodies.
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  • Other times, illness are the result of poor choices that
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  • We make.
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  • Too many trips to mcdonald's, not enough trips to the gym,
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  • Addictions that are harmful like nicotine, alcohol, medication,
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  • Haagen-dazs vanilla ice cream, all those kind of things can
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  • Cause illness, but there are some illnesses that are
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  • Attributable to satan.
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  • Not all, but some.
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  • Turn over to mark chapter 1, verse 32.
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  • It's interesting that the gospel writers when recounting the
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  • Ministry of jesus talk about and separate his healing of diseases
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  • That are caused by demonic power and those illnesses that are not
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  • Attributable to satan and demons.
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  • Look at mark 1:32, "when evening came, after the sun had set,
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  • They began bringing to jesus all who were ill and those who
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  • Were demon-possessed."
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  • Verse 34, "and he healed many who were ill with various
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  • Diseases, and he cast out many demons."
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  • Now, here's the simple point.
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  • If all illnesses are the result of demon possession, then mark
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  • Is repeating himself.
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  • He could have simply said jesus healed everybody who was
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  • Demon possessed.
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  • That would have taken care of all illnesses, but he didn't.
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  • He made a distinction between healing those who had various
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  • Diseases and healing those who were demon possessed.
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  • Again, not all, perhaps not even most illnesses can be
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  • Attributable to demonic activity, but some of it can.
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  • A third way satan influences our life is through
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  • Mental disorders.
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  • Now, again, it's a mistake to say all mental illness is the
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  • Result of demonic activity.
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  • I asked a friend of mine who is a devout christian and
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  • A psychiatrist.
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  • I said, "what do you think the relationship is between mental
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  • Illness that you see every day and demonic activity?"
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  • And she returned with a very good question for me.
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  • She said, "robert, if all mental illness is the result of demonic
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  • Activity, why is it that the symptoms of these mental
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  • Illnesses disappear almost immediately with the
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  • Right medication?
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  • And it doesn't matter whether the person's a christian or
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  • A non-christian.
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  • If they take the right medication, these
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  • Symptoms disappear."
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  • The fact is, our thoughts and emotions can be directly
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  • Attributed to chemicals and electrical impulses in
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  • The brain.
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  • And when those get out of whack, and they do sometimes, god can
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  • Use medication to restore those balances to what he
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  • Originally designed.
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  • Thoughts and emotions are the result of chemical and
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  • Electrical impulses, but they're also more than that.
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  • Our thoughts, our emotions are more than simple chemical and
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  • Electrical impressions on the brain.
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  • There is a supernatural element.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Turn over to philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7; paul is
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  • Talking about anxiety.
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  • Any of you suffer from anxiety?
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  • It's one of the leading disorders people suffer
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  • From today.
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  • And people many times get chemical treatment for that.
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  • That's fine, but there's something beyond that.
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  • Look at philippians 4, verses 6 and 7; paul says, "be anxious
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  • For nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
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  • Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god.
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  • And the peace of god, which surpasses all comprehension,
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  • Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
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  • What i want you to see here is emotional disorder, anxiety, can
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  • Be affected by spiritual influences.
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  • In this case, if you engage in a positive spiritual exercise such
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  • As prayer and giving of thanks, that invisible and measurable
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  • Spiritual activity can have an impact on your thoughts
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  • And emotions.
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  • Now, follow my logic here.
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  • If positive spiritual forces can affect your thoughts and
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  • Emotions, isn't it logical to think that there are negative
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  • Spiritual forces that can also impact your thoughts
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  • And emotions?
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  • Of course there are.
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  • And that's where some mental illness can be attributed.
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  • Demonic activity, satanic activity can at least be a part
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  • Of the reason that people find themselves filled with anxiety
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  • Or other disorders.
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  • Not always, perhaps not even most of the time, but some of
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  • The time.
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  • Consider the story in luke chapter 8 of the
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  • Gathering demoniac.
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  • Remember jesus met this guy who was possessed by many demons?
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  • He wouldn't wear clothes, he hid among the rocks, he secluded
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  • Himself from other people, he spoke in strange voices that
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  • People didn't recognize.
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  • Anybody exhibiting those symptoms, they would land
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  • Themselves right in a mental hospital.
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  • Well, what did jesus do?
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  • He exorcised the demons from this person.
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  • And what happened?
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  • Look at luke 8:35-36, "the people went out to see what had
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  • Happened; and they came to jesus, and found the man from
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  • Whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of
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  • Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they
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  • Became frightened.
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  • Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was
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  • Demon-possessed had been made well."
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  • For this man, the restoration of his mental and emotional
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  • Well-being didn't take years of therapy and drugs.
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  • It happened instantaneously.
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  • Now, please hear me, that doesn't happen every time.
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  • Not every, not even most mental disorders can be attributed to
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  • Demons, but some of them can, and we should not ignore the
  • 00:14:04.867 --> 00:14:09.071
  • Spiritual element in mental disorders.
  • 00:14:09.071 --> 00:14:12.107
  • A fourth way that satan and demons impact our life is
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  • Through suicide.
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  • This is one mental disorder that almost always has a spiritual
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  • Element to it.
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  • You know, in mark chapter 9, we find the story of a young boy
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  • Who continually tried to take his life by throwing himself
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  • Into the fire or into the water.
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  • Verse 22 of mark 9, the father of the boy pleads with jesus,
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  • Saying, "this demonic spirit has often thrown him both into the
  • 00:14:41.603 --> 00:14:46.241
  • Fire, into the water to destroy him.
  • 00:14:46.241 --> 00:14:48.744
  • But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us!"
  • 00:14:48.744 --> 00:14:54.149
  • Now, hear me on this.
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  • God has made us in such a way that our natural instinct is to
  • 00:14:57.319 --> 00:15:00.956
  • Preserve and protect our life.
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  • That's the natural thing.
  • 00:15:03.058 --> 00:15:05.094
  • It is abnormal, it is beyond the natural, it is supernatural for
  • 00:15:05.094 --> 00:15:11.400
  • Us to want to kill ourselves.
  • 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:13.268
  • That is not natural.
  • 00:15:13.268 --> 00:15:16.372
  • Where does this supernatural tendency come from?
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  • Certainly, again, it can be a part of a chemical imbalance, an
  • 00:15:20.142 --> 00:15:23.612
  • Electrical malfunction in the brain, but it is also can be
  • 00:15:23.612 --> 00:15:28.550
  • Attributed to more than that.
  • 00:15:28.550 --> 00:15:30.452
  • Remember what jesus said about satan?
  • 00:15:30.452 --> 00:15:33.188
  • He said he is a liar, he is a murderer, he is the thief who
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  • Has come to kill, steal, and destroy.
  • 00:15:37.826 --> 00:15:41.130
  • Satan is the one or one of his demons who whispers in people's
  • 00:15:41.130 --> 00:15:45.401
  • Ear, "your situation is hopeless.
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  • You are beyond help."
  • 00:15:48.971 --> 00:15:51.273
  • Or whispers things like, "you're no good, you're worthless,
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  • You're of value to no one."
  • 00:15:55.711 --> 00:15:57.846
  • Or, "you're becoming a burden to people.
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  • It would be better to take your own life than to keep living."
  • 00:16:00.282 --> 00:16:04.820
  • That never comes from god.
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  • That is a lie from the pit of hell.
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  • And i would say to everyone here in our worship center, everyone
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  • Watching or listening to this broadcast, if you have regular
  • 00:16:12.828 --> 00:16:16.932
  • Thoughts of taking your own life, understand that is
  • 00:16:16.932 --> 00:16:20.436
  • Not normal.
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  • God did not intend that for you.
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  • And i would encourage you to go as quickly as you can to a
  • 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:28.310
  • Doctor, preferably a christian doctor, a christian
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  • Psychiatrist, and get the help you need, whether it's medicine
  • 00:16:31.847 --> 00:16:36.452
  • Treatment, biblical counsel, whatever you need, seek that
  • 00:16:36.452 --> 00:16:40.189
  • Help now.
  • 00:16:40.189 --> 00:16:41.723
  • I've been a pastor long enough to say i have witnessed the
  • 00:16:41.723 --> 00:16:45.661
  • Effects of suicide more times than i would care to remember.
  • 00:16:45.661 --> 00:16:50.165
  • The effects of suicide on victims is obvious, but what's
  • 00:16:50.165 --> 00:16:54.336
  • Not always obvious is the effect it has on those who are
  • 00:16:54.336 --> 00:16:57.940
  • Left behind.
  • 00:16:57.940 --> 00:16:59.608
  • Those who are left behind in the aftermath of a person taking his
  • 00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:03.312
  • Own life have unending and unbearable burdens.
  • 00:17:03.312 --> 00:17:07.950
  • The cruelest thing you can do to anybody is for you to take your
  • 00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:12.321
  • Own life.
  • 00:17:12.321 --> 00:17:13.655
  • Don't do it.
  • 00:17:13.655 --> 00:17:15.023
  • Don't listen to the lies of the evil one.
  • 00:17:15.023 --> 00:17:17.893
  • There's a fifth way that demons influence our life, and that is
  • 00:17:17.893 --> 00:17:22.531
  • Through other people.
  • 00:17:22.531 --> 00:17:24.733
  • Satan can many times use other people to accomplish
  • 00:17:24.733 --> 00:17:29.171
  • His purpose.
  • 00:17:29.171 --> 00:17:30.506
  • Now, let me give you an extreme example of that.
  • 00:17:30.506 --> 00:17:32.975
  • It's found in revelation 18, verses 2 and 24.
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  • John is describing how many christians will be slaughtered
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  • During the great tribulation.
  • 00:17:40.682 --> 00:17:43.051
  • Verse 2 says, "and he cried out with a mighty voice, saying,
  • 00:17:43.051 --> 00:17:46.922
  • 'fallen, fallen is babylon the great!
  • 00:17:46.922 --> 00:17:49.625
  • She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every
  • 00:17:49.625 --> 00:17:53.061
  • Unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.'
  • 00:17:53.061 --> 00:17:57.432
  • There are going to be many demons in this rebuilt city
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  • Of babylon.
  • 00:18:00.269 --> 00:18:01.603
  • "and in her," verse 24, "was found the blood of the prophets
  • 00:18:01.603 --> 00:18:05.541
  • And of saints of all who have been slain on the earth."
  • 00:18:05.541 --> 00:18:10.846
  • Demons will inspire human beings to take the lives of
  • 00:18:10.846 --> 00:18:14.883
  • Christians during the great tribulation.
  • 00:18:14.883 --> 00:18:18.820
  • We've seen that happen before.
  • 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:21.023
  • If you've ever gone to jerusalem and visited the holocaust
  • 00:18:21.023 --> 00:18:24.193
  • Museum, you see the atrocities, the unspeakable atrocities
  • 00:18:24.193 --> 00:18:29.231
  • Committed against the jewish people.
  • 00:18:29.231 --> 00:18:31.900
  • Every time i take a group there, it's the same reaction.
  • 00:18:31.900 --> 00:18:35.571
  • People are so stunned and sickened by what they've seen.
  • 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:40.342
  • They walk out and they can't speak.
  • 00:18:40.342 --> 00:18:43.145
  • Everybody just gathers outside in silence.
  • 00:18:43.145 --> 00:18:46.548
  • It is such a horrible sight.
  • 00:18:46.548 --> 00:18:49.384
  • We saw that recently, a couple of years ago in israel, when
  • 00:18:49.384 --> 00:18:53.355
  • Hamas invaded israel.
  • 00:18:53.355 --> 00:18:56.191
  • What did they do?
  • 00:18:56.191 --> 00:18:57.960
  • They committed atrocities against men, women, children,
  • 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.730
  • Little babies that i couldn't speak of from the pulpit.
  • 00:19:01.730 --> 00:19:06.335
  • Where does that come from--
  • 00:19:06.335 --> 00:19:08.370
  • Things too horrible to even describe?
  • 00:19:08.370 --> 00:19:10.906
  • That's not natural, that's supernatural, beyond
  • 00:19:10.906 --> 00:19:13.875
  • The natural.
  • 00:19:13.875 --> 00:19:15.210
  • It's demonic.
  • 00:19:15.210 --> 00:19:16.578
  • I remember speaking at a breakfast in denver, colorado,
  • 00:19:16.578 --> 00:19:19.915
  • Some years ago.
  • 00:19:19.915 --> 00:19:21.250
  • And afterwards, an fbi agent talked to me.
  • 00:19:21.250 --> 00:19:24.820
  • They were having a string of murders in denver, and he told
  • 00:19:24.820 --> 00:19:29.391
  • Me, "pastor, i've been involved in investigating these murders
  • 00:19:29.391 --> 00:19:32.761
  • And they all have ties to witchcraft and sorcery.
  • 00:19:32.761 --> 00:19:37.633
  • There's a demonic element involved in it."
  • 00:19:37.633 --> 00:19:40.035
  • Of course, nobody wants you to know that and hear that, but the
  • 00:19:40.035 --> 00:19:44.106
  • Dark world, the demonic world is real.
  • 00:19:44.106 --> 00:19:47.776
  • And many times, satan uses other people to accomplish his
  • 00:19:47.776 --> 00:19:52.014
  • Purpose, but it's not always in that dramatic of a fashion.
  • 00:19:52.014 --> 00:19:56.518
  • Demons can use other people in more subtle ways to deceive us
  • 00:19:56.518 --> 00:20:00.289
  • Into disobedience.
  • 00:20:00.289 --> 00:20:02.791
  • I've heard this story so many times.
  • 00:20:02.791 --> 00:20:04.693
  • I imagine you have too.
  • 00:20:04.693 --> 00:20:06.628
  • Here's a husband or wife in an unfulfilling relationship.
  • 00:20:06.628 --> 00:20:10.032
  • They feel lonely and they just "accidentally" happen to run
  • 00:20:10.032 --> 00:20:13.835
  • Into a high school or college flame from the past, or they
  • 00:20:13.835 --> 00:20:17.906
  • Just happen, by accident, to connect with them on social
  • 00:20:17.906 --> 00:20:21.810
  • Media and they begin an affair that
  • 00:20:21.810 --> 00:20:23.945
  • Destroys their relationship.
  • 00:20:23.945 --> 00:20:26.081
  • That's not circumstantial, that's not coincidental, that's
  • 00:20:26.081 --> 00:20:30.452
  • Part of the demons' plan to deceive christians
  • 00:20:30.452 --> 00:20:34.189
  • Into disobedience.
  • 00:20:34.189 --> 00:20:36.058
  • Sometimes satan will use other people to bring discouragement
  • 00:20:36.058 --> 00:20:39.661
  • Into our life.
  • 00:20:39.661 --> 00:20:41.463
  • It can be well-meaning christians who bring
  • 00:20:41.463 --> 00:20:44.166
  • Discouragement into our life, and satan will use that.
  • 00:20:44.166 --> 00:20:48.236
  • I remember in my previous church after a deacon's meeting, one of
  • 00:20:48.236 --> 00:20:51.406
  • The deacons asked if he could visit with me in my office.
  • 00:20:51.406 --> 00:20:54.109
  • I said, "well, certainly."
  • 00:20:54.109 --> 00:20:55.544
  • And so, we visited and for the next hour, he spewed out every
  • 00:20:55.544 --> 00:21:00.816
  • Accusation you could imagine.
  • 00:21:00.816 --> 00:21:02.918
  • He told me everything that was wrong with my preaching,
  • 00:21:02.918 --> 00:21:05.987
  • Everything that was wrong with my theology, everything that was
  • 00:21:05.987 --> 00:21:08.890
  • Wrong with my leadership in the church, and on and on and on
  • 00:21:08.890 --> 00:21:13.061
  • He went.
  • 00:21:13.061 --> 00:21:14.396
  • You know the effect that had on me?
  • 00:21:14.396 --> 00:21:16.431
  • It absolutely paralyzed me for about 24 hours.
  • 00:21:16.431 --> 00:21:20.736
  • I mean, i couldn't think anything else about anything
  • 00:21:20.736 --> 00:21:24.406
  • Else other than, "is this man telling the truth here?
  • 00:21:24.406 --> 00:21:28.243
  • Does he have a point to make?
  • 00:21:28.243 --> 00:21:30.045
  • Does he represent other people?
  • 00:21:30.045 --> 00:21:31.947
  • Do the leaders of the church feel the way this man does?"
  • 00:21:31.947 --> 00:21:35.350
  • But as i listened and thought more about what he said, i
  • 00:21:35.350 --> 00:21:38.987
  • Realized this wasn't legitimate.
  • 00:21:38.987 --> 00:21:42.023
  • Now, i'm not saying no criticism is legitimate.
  • 00:21:42.023 --> 00:21:45.494
  • We ought to listen to people's criticism and suggestions.
  • 00:21:45.494 --> 00:21:48.997
  • In fact, proverbs 13:18 says, "poverty and shame will come to
  • 00:21:48.997 --> 00:21:53.335
  • Him who neglects discipline, but he who regards reproof,"
  • 00:21:53.335 --> 00:21:58.974
  • Correction, "will be honored."
  • 00:21:58.974 --> 00:22:00.675
  • Anytime somebody has a criticism, listen to it,
  • 00:22:00.675 --> 00:22:03.378
  • Evaluate it.
  • 00:22:03.378 --> 00:22:04.913
  • But as i evaluated this man's criticism, i realized it
  • 00:22:04.913 --> 00:22:09.284
  • Wasn't legitimate.
  • 00:22:09.284 --> 00:22:10.619
  • When somebody comes spewing out accusations against you that are
  • 00:22:10.619 --> 00:22:14.956
  • Not based on truth, but are bathed in bitterness, you can
  • 00:22:14.956 --> 00:22:19.361
  • Know for sure that doesn't come from god.
  • 00:22:19.361 --> 00:22:22.164
  • God's correction leads to healing and restoration.
  • 00:22:22.164 --> 00:22:26.234
  • Satan's condemnation leads to paralysis.
  • 00:22:26.234 --> 00:22:29.771
  • Well, that begs the question, "well, pastor, is it possible
  • 00:22:29.771 --> 00:22:33.909
  • For a christian not only to be demon influenced, but to
  • 00:22:33.909 --> 00:22:38.713
  • Actually be demon-possessed?
  • 00:22:38.713 --> 00:22:41.416
  • That's an important question.
  • 00:22:41.416 --> 00:22:43.285
  • Let's look at that term, demon-possessed.
  • 00:22:43.285 --> 00:22:46.721
  • Did you know the words demon-possessed never appears in
  • 00:22:46.721 --> 00:22:51.393
  • The bible anywhere?
  • 00:22:51.393 --> 00:22:53.395
  • Never.
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  • Opposition, it's whether you'll be prepared for it.
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  • Today, i hope you take an honest inventory of your life and ask
  • 00:23:06.141 --> 00:23:10.045
  • God to fill every corner with his spirit.
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