When demons are on the inside of a person, they can control a person. When demons are
on the outside they can seek to influence a person. For example, when you have alcohol,
alcohol doesn't possess a person when it comes inside of a person but it influences you and
it makes you act out of character. That's how demons are. When you get Demons inside,
It's like getting an alcohol. Alcohol doesn't own you yet it can control you. Same thing
with the thief, when the thief comes inside of your house, the thief is inside of the house
but it doesn't own the house. So when a Christian has a demon on the inside, it doesn't mean that
the demon owns a Christian. It simply means that a demon is inside of a Christian and that demon
needs to be driven out of a Christian, it needs to come out. Christian needs to be delivered from
that demon and the Bible uses words like possessed but the original language really
means demonized meaning being under control of a demon. So Christians can have demons.
People can have demons on the inside of them and one of the signs is control or one of the marks of
demons on the inside of you is control. Demons on the outside, they influence. Demons on the inside,
they control. Now some of you may be asking, well what about the Bible says the light and
darkness cannot coexist together. Well, first of all the Bible doesn't say that
the Bible says that light and darkness doesn't have fellowship, righteousness and lawlessness
doesn't have communion and that is used in the reference to support that Christians should not
be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Now do you know a Christian who is unequally yoked with
an unbeliever? I do. So it's not something that Christians are not capable of doing,
it's something that Christians are encouraged not to do. So it's not something that you can't, it's
something that you shouldn't and then Paul uses a confirmation for that and says light and darkness,
don't have communion. Righteousness and lawlessness doesn't have fellowship. So
Paul is not saying righteousness and lawlessness doesn't co-habitate. It says that they cannot
coexist but it says that they cannot have a covenant because if a Christian and non-Christian
don't coexist then how can we evangelize. We co-exist with unbelievers but we don't go into
covenant with them. Light and darkness can coexist but they do not have communion. Righteousness and
lawlessness can coexist but they don't have fellowship. So what does that mean? Darkness
cannot drive out light but light can drive out darkness and lawlessness cannot overcome
righteousness but righteousness can overcome lawlessness and so demons cannot overcome Christ
but Christ in a Christian can drive out demons. So with that squared away. So first thing that I
wanted to highlight is this is that you can have demons on the inside and they can control you,
okay to what degree they control you, it will depend on the kind of demons,
the kind of legal right, generational curses, soul ties and the kind of access that you give them.
There could be extreme levels of control that the person has but we don't see a clear distinction in
the New Testament. Now I understand I'm going to open a can of worms right now. I don't see a clear
distinction in the New Testament between oppressed and possessed. In the New Testament, it uses one
common language demonized, meaning controlled by a demon and people who have more degrees than me who
have studied Greek, one of them is Derek Prince whom I respect and in his book and he said that,
that word has nothing to do with ownership. It has to do with control. So when a Christian or
a non-Christian has a demon, it's about control not ownership. Now a non-Christian is owned by the
devil because they don't belong to Jesus Christ but a Christian is owned by Jesus and even if a
demon gets inside whether through an open door or through generational curses or other things
these demons can be cast out and the person can be free. I had one time where my house was broken
into. We had a girl that lived with us with me and my wife. She was helping us to pay rent and then a
few other things and she left the window open and we had this service in the park and while we had
a service in the park, we come back and I hear the wind in the house and lo and behold, I look at the
room that she stayed in, the window is wide open. Somebody went through all of our stuff, stuff got
turned over but nothing was taken except the car. The car in the driveway was not our car but the
thief stole the car okay, now when the thief got inside, he didn't become the owner of my house
but he was still on the inside. So a Christian can have demons if they lived their life continuously
in sin, if they open doors to demons, demons will and they can get in and you speaking in tongues,
going to Pentecostal church and your dad being a pastor is going to do nothing to stop that if you
don't live holy, if you don't live righteous you expose your life to demonic influence, the same
way as if you don't live holy and righteous you potentially can you will grieve the Holy Spirit
and you can open the door to demons and so but it doesn't mean that those demons will own you,
it's just simply means that they will torment you and harass you. But today there's hope and
there's freedom and there's Deliverance Amen. Come on somebody!! If this is helping somebody,
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re-watching let us know in the comments below. I am re-watching. Now, so the first thing that I
mentioned is that what we call demon possession is really being demonized, controlled by a demon and
if we are very honest in the Scripture, it does not puts these people who are demon-possessed
in this very bad category and then there's the rest of the people who have demons are in like
a lighter category. It's just people can have different measures or levels of control that
a demon has over them and so that's what we see in the New Testament, at least. The second thing
I want to highlight and this is the most common questions that people ask and that is how do I
know I have a demon. So when I look at the story of a stubborn demon situation and this is the
story of this two men who had a legion of demons, who were called demon-possessed in one reference.
In the other gospels, synoptic gospels, they were called men with the demon, with an unclean spirit
and someone who had an unclean spirit, how would you know somebody has a demon? I give three simple
ways to know. The first one is through the gift of discernment. So how would you know somebody
has a demon? Through the gift of discernment. God uses the gifts of the Holy Spirit and one of those
gifts is Discerning of spirits. Now this gift doesn't just discern spirits, it also discerns
God's Spirit or angels and human spirit but it does discern demons. The second way you would know
if somebody has a demon or if you have a demon is if you manifest when prayer is offered now
Jesus comes on the scene, He arrives on the shore and this man who was bound with chains,
who was living among the tombs, who was naked, who was hurting himself
somebody can look at him and say, he is schizophrenic
and diagnose him with schizophrenia but the moment Jesus comes, he starts to manifest demons. So
that's another way to know that somebody has a demon, when they manifest, when prayer is being
offered. There are many people that have demons but because nobody ever addressed it or nobody
ever taught them that and offered them solution, what happens is that they go all their life either
on medication or they're going all their life trying to control a particular urge or trying
to control these compulsive thoughts and then they come in the presence of God's anointing,
the presence of powerful ministers and men and women of God who know that Authority in Christ
and these people start to manifest and then finally everything makes sense,
oh I've been going through all this stuff and all of these things are not normal,
they are demonic. But they didn't know that because they were never in the presence where
prayer, I call them confrontational prayers was offered. I've seen it happen in our services.
I've seen it happen in our conferences where prayer is being offered, sometimes, the very
presence of the Holy Spirit during a sermon and the person starts feeling extremely uncomfortable,
they want to run, they want to yell and they hold back and they can't hold back anymore
and they just scream out. Some people from a Baptist background, Catholic background
whichever background and they say, I don't know what's happening. Some of them are very like
dignified you know, very calm reserved people and that would happen. Why? Because demons can't hide
when you turn up the heat, when the fire is increased, they become uncomfortable and they
become tormented and they are exposed. Now some people are against this idea of demons manifesting
in the service but I think it's very important that we allow that for a few reasons, demons
actually do not want to manifest, they don't want to manifest, they want to stay hidden as long as
they are hidden, they can continue to do their dubious things. They don't want to manifest.
When demons manifest the person battling with those demons honestly finds us a moment of relief
to know that some of these problems they've been having are not due to their own problems
but actually there's somebody else causing these problems, that's huge and you must understand it's
the fire of God that causes them to manifest and so and most people then figure out okay,
now I have a demon because I am manifesting all right. Sometimes you don't know that you have a
demon because it's not manifesting but when it's manifesting it's very clear, you gotta deal it and
you got to be set free. It's very clear, plain and very simple. The third way to know that you have a
demon, it's not only the demons manifesting so like Jesus shows up these two demons possessed
guys with demons manifest. So it's very clear you don't have to even have a gift of discernment,
you're just looking they're manifesting that's obvious. Now sometimes in our churches there are
demons manifesting but we call that the Holy Spirit, when somebody's hissing like a snake,
barking like a dog on the floor you know or trying to expose themselves
or saliva coming out or coughing non-stop or screaming like this person is in pain,
you can be pretty much certain, that's not the Holy Spirit
overflowing, it's an evil spirit that's manifesting and I've been to meetings in
my younger days where people would come even to our services and somebody is manifesting
and and they would come and they would say people who don't do deliverance and
who don't understand Deliverance, they will say things like more Lord, more more
not more we need less of that. We need Deliverance not more and so or sometimes a person starts
hysterically laughing at you like just like, it's not normal and so and that's when you know I mean,
I believe that sometimes people even left under being influence of the Holy Spirit
but this is different, it's mocking laughter and so and you have to go and cast out demons.
So how do we know somebody has a demon? Well we look at these demon possessed two guys,
Jesus shows up, they manifest. We said that through the gift of discernment
but the last one is through the activities of demons. Now these two demon-possessed guys had
they were naked, lived among tombs, they were seized many times, they were bound with physical
chains and they broke them. They needed somebody to be a guard for them. They self-harmed. They cut
themselves and they were driven by demons into the desert and night and day, they were crying out,
that's pretty much a portfolio right there, that's pretty much a resume, that's pretty much you
know this is pretty much enough symptoms or signs that you have company, you have an unclean spirit
when you have intrusive thoughts, when you are demonically, you have this third voice speaking,
when you have these things happening around you and in you that are just out of this world
Paranormal Activity, when you have all of these things happening in your life, you most likely
have a demon even if you don't manifest. You still need to be delivered. So stubborn demons,
first thing that we highlighted right now, the most important one is that you can have a demon
and having a demon does not mean you're owned by one any more than if a person has an alcohol
in them doesn't mean that alcohol owns them. A thief breaking into your house doesn't mean the
thief now is on the title deed of your house. So we should not be worried about that. The second
thing is we mentioned is that demons manifest when a prayer is offered and a lot of times, when they
don't manifest you can still know if they are there or if you have them based on the symptoms
or through the gift of discernment. In the case of these two demon-possessed men, it was Jesus's
presence caused them to manifest and the signs in their life indicated that they had demons.