You have no power by yourself.
Your goal is only to advance the kingdom of God
and to be led by the Holy Spirit.
It is spiritual warfare.
You fight the evil spirit with God's Spirit in you.
The person you're praying for might have one demon in her
or five or ten. You don't know.
You are the temple of God. You have the Holy Spirit in you.
Rebuke the demons in the name of Jesus until they leave.
Now, when it comes to deliverance, the idea here is not to have a
whole conversation with the demon or demons.
You need to use the example of scripture
and no one in the Bible did that. Not even the angels.
[Jude 1:9]
Your goal is only to free this person from the demons.
But the goal above that is to make sure that they know Jesus Christ.
That they have a relationship with Him. That is your main goal.
To advance the kingdom of God. You know, young Christians find this
demon possession so interesting, you know, and they say it's the supernatural, it's interesting,
wow... and it's... No.
That is your flesh talking. Your goal is only to advance the kingdom of God.
And to be led by the Holy Spirit. That means sharing the gospel
helping people let the Holy
Spirit lead you in everything that you do. Even in the way you eat and drink and talk
to people where you go. Everything.
Because if you have the Holy Spirit in you, the Holy Spirit now leads and guides your soul.
Your own emotions - your intellect - your will. And you just follow Him.
Some of that, for some people, might include deliverance.
[Luke 10:17-19]
But now, listen to his words carefully
[Luke 10:20]
So, now you can tell the demon, in the name of Jesus Christ,
to go out of the person. And they have to. You can say your legal right is gone.
You have no right to be here. This person accepted Jesus
Christ as Lord and Savior. Their body doesn't belong to you.
It doesn't even belong to them. Jesus Christ bought it with a price.
By his blood, on the cross. You have no right in the name of Jesus Christ.
Go out. Remember...
[1 Corinthians 6:19-20]
Now, I just need to make this clear for a lot of you who've watched too many videos, movies,
TV series, where people use strange things ... and usually for some reason always only
show the Catholic Church. You don't need a cross.
You don't need Holy water. A lot of people even here
in South Africa just use oil. You don't need any of that because
what Jesus did on the cross is enough. Complete, He said it is finished.
Tetelisti. Done.
You are the temple of God. You have the Holy Spirit in you.
So all you need to do now is - you can connect with
God directly because the Holy Spirit is in you. So you say, "In the name of Jesus Christ, go out!"
You don't need to add anything to scripture to try and make what you say more powerful.
No.
You don't need any material thing. It is spiritual warfare.
You fight the evil spirit with God's spirit in you.
And that's it. You have no power by yourself - in your flesh.
You do so by the power of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit who is in you.
It is He that gives you the authority. For example...
[Acts 16:16-18]
Now, as you saw, Paul did not use any strange material thing.
What Jesus did on the cross is enough. Now, you saw the example here of
the woman with divination, right? And what I mentioned about some people
receiving the "counterfeit" gifts of the Holy Spirit.... that's not really the Holy Spirit,
but a demon inside the church. Be very careful of that.
You need to test it. Let me read this verse to you.
[1 John 4:1]
Now, what this woman said wasn't actually wrong. She spoke the truth.
But remember, when it's coming from a demon, they have certain intentions to deceive people.
To lead people away. And they can do it by
using the truth of scripture. Look at what the devil did
with Jesus when he tested Him. Three times, he quoted scripture.
But then also three times again, Jesus quoted scripture.
And this is what can happen in the church as well.
Speaking the truth to deceive people in a direction
that God doesn't want the church to go into. Sometimes there will be some deceiving and
lies in there as well. But this woman said:
[Acts 16:17]
So even if someone says the right things, it doesn't mean that it's from God,
in the church even as well.
Now, why do demons do this? Why do they give certain people "spiritual gifts"?
Counterfeit gifts in the church, also sometimes outside, but in the church?
Because they want to deceive these people to focus more on the supernatural things
instead of on the Word of God. The Logos and the Rhema together.
They don't preach sound doctrine anymore, but they focus on all
these miracles and these great things. And these people usually also start to
just preach about prosperity. Only the grace of God and only
these kind of things. We focus a lot on prophecy instead of repentance.
Picking up your cross and following Jesus with your whole heart and soul, living holy.
Because you're set apart to grow in His word, not just read certain parts of the Bible that you want
to believe in, skipping the others. No.
But studying the word like the good Bereans to understand the Word of God as it is written.
To obey His word. Now please don't misunderstand me here.
I 100 percent believe in the power of the Holy Spirit.
And I think a lot of preachers today need to stop focusing on
the flesh and other things and systems that try to get more people or money
and focus on what the Holy Spirit wants them to preach in a church.
Not to preach for the flesh, but to preach the Word.
Sound doctrine. Through the power
of the Holy Spirit, to save souls. Because it is about souls, not about
making more money or getting more people in the church or focusing on the wrong things.
[1 Timothy 4:1]
Now, the person you're praying for might have one demon in her or five or ten.
You don't know. They might have a lot.
Millions, especially if they are a satanist. Mary, for example had seven demons.
[Luke 8:2]
If the person has many demons in them, think of it, of these demons, as an army.
You have a captain, you have a corporal, and you have a sergeant, and so on and so forth.
Do you remember the legion in the Bible?
[Mark 5:9]
Now, a legion is between three thousand - six thousand - soldiers in a Roman army.
So when you pray for these demons, you know,
sometimes demons can be in groups, right? So they have certain leaders and sometimes
you can ask a whole group to leave. Rebuke this whole group of demons,
to leave in the name of Jesus. But you are not Jesus.
So sometimes you will struggle with strong demons. And then you need to pray for help.
Do you remember how the disciples struggled to cast out a strong demon who made a boy mute?
[Mark 9:25,28-29]
Some of the manuscripts here add fasting as well.
I don't know why the ESV took it out but the King James version got it right.
Anyway, I would suggest that while you're busy with deliverance,
while you're rebuking the demon, that your team will keep on singing and
praying next to you while you are busy. When you struggle to cast out a powerful
demon what might happen when you praying fast is that God will send an angel to help you.
Take a look at this clip. In this footage my dad prayed.
God said he would send an angel and they don't need to do anything.
All they do is just wait on the angel to do its work.
To drive out the demon. Now you can either
drive out the weaker demons first to make the stronger one the one in the lead
to make him weaker or you can go directly
and ask the strongest demon who's leading this group of demons to reveal himself.
Now you need to understand that this type of deliverance might take some time if this person
has thousands of, or millions of demons in him or her, then it might take more than just a day.
You need to understand this to understand what you're getting yourself into.
If the demon goes out it usually goes out with foaming of the mouth.
When the demon goes out, then you rebuke the stronger one and stronger and stronger and
that's just the process you keep on doing that until all the demons are out of the person.
And when you come to that point, when that's done, when the person is free, what's next?
Number Nine: Help the person to grow spiritually, to become a disciple.
Now, you need to make sure that it is the last demon.
Usually the person will know. They'll say - yeah, that's everything.
I feel free. I feel rid of them.
But just to make sure, you can also just pray.
"God, if there's any demons here please reveal them now in the name of Jesus Christ."
If there are any demons, reveal yourself. You can do that as well.
And so now, they're all free. And now what you do is you need
to help the person to grow spiritually. Explain to them they need to join a church.
What type of church, why they need to join the church.
Connect them with the right people and help them to move forward, to grow with Jesus Christ.
You need to make them a disciple. If you have the time, it's better to
make them a disciple - making disciple. Do you understand what I mean?
That's what Jesus did with the disciples. He discipled them.
But He didn't just make them disciples who are now just sitting back and doing nothing.
They were disciple-making disciples. You only spent three years with them,
then He left. And look at what the disciples did.
It is God's will for all believers to grow in Him. And you need to help this person.
[2 Peter 3:18]
And then, the last step - Number 10. Pray for protection.
You need to pray for yourself. For the team who was there working with you.
And also for the person. That God will protect them and their family.
[2 Thessalonians 3:3]
Now, may God help you to use this information together with the Armor of God
to advance the Kingdom. If you want to know
more about the Armor of God, how it really works and how to put it on..
Because if you don't, how are you gonna fight?
This is spiritual warfare and you are in the battle whether you like it or not.
You might not be fighting the devil with his demons straight on or helping people
who are possessed but you are in a daily battle against your flesh.
And also against all spiritual forces in the air. Our fight is not against other people.
So if you want to know more about the Armor of God and how to put it on, then watch this
series here, and I'll see you there. And always remember, God loves you.
And I love you, too. Bye.