Deliverance and Healing (3 of 5) - Gateways for Demonic Spirits

when I welcome you this morning again and we have at least one person new this morning and I wanted to couldn't make it this morning because you're working I will see them later on in the day so we're looking at the Ministry of deliverance and there are many approaches that people have to this whole area of deliverance and so this is one approach there are other ways that people approach it and other ways they look at and resolve some of the issues but what we want to do is to give you understanding of the Ministry of Jesus and deliverance and we want to give you understanding of what demons are how they operate how they access people's lives and some of the foundational keys to getting people free and and ministering to people we also want to give you an opportunity to just practice praying for and ministering to one another and I expect that God will do some great things today so yesterday we looked at Jesus ministry we look first of all at the apostolic ministry that we are all sent by God we all have a sphere of influence and God wants us to be used in this ministry not any of sharing the gospel but of healing the sick and delivering people from evil spirits and we looked at Jesus ministry of deliverance we saw an example of his ministry we saw how he worked and how he operated and then we looked at some of Jesus teaching as to what evil spirits are and how they operate and so today we're looking now in or on in your notes on page 4 section 2.4 we're looking at how demons into people and when they get into people what kinds of things would happen inside the person as a result of that and there are a number of ways of approaching this particular aspect and I've used a way which has been quite helpful for people to get an overview and so you know what to look for you know the places to look and then there are a number of ways that we can approach the actual ministry so first thing we need to realize is the demons cannot access a person's life unless they have a ground or an a reason to be able to do so we saw the demons will occupy buildings they'll occupy objects they can occupy animals and they definitely seek to occupy people but they need a way in they need a they can't autumn matically just get access into you so they need a way in and if we read Ephesians 4 verse 18 Paul is writing he's writing to believers and he's talking about not being a big Andrey but don't send I let the Sun go down to you on your anger then in verse 27 give no place to the devil give no place to the devil he's writing to believers and he's telling them do not give a place to the devil and the word places as a many times these words if you don't understand the original they lose their meaning in translation so the original word means say it's the word towpath so it means something like this it means a foothold don't let the devil get a foothold the foothold is where you put your foot in the door and you stop the door shutting seek and get your way in another translation of their word is a beachhead in the Second World War the Allies sought to establish a beachhead that's a small area that they occupy from which they can launch a greater result a beachhead but one of the most important meanings of the word means a legal right a legal right a lawful right to do something illegal right and we talked a little bit about that last night how legal rights are very very crucial in the operation of demonic spirits getting into people's lives if they can find a place where the law of God is broken they have a room to operate against people and so when we bring our life under the kingdom of God under the lordship of Jesus Christ and begin to flow in his principles then legal grounds and rights are diminished but when we violate the laws of God we come outside the kingdom of God then the grounds have been established for demonic spirits to enter so they can enter when you break the laws of God now you say well what if I didn't know well ignorance does not matter you know the fact you didn't know doesn't mean the demon can't use it they will use every ground possible and the nature of the demonic Kingdom is one of darkness and deception so you may be sitting here today and already there are areas of your life which are in bondage to evil spirits and you're not even aware of it except that's just me I've got the struggle 1/2 and it's just me I've always been like that so it can we can have areas of bondage and we're not even aware of it and we're going to just identify some of the doorways now that evil spirits use in our near mire to 9 verse 37 near Myers praying and what he does is he says you have set Kings over us because of our sins so from a spiritual perspective he's saying that we are under bondage because of sin and so let's have a look then at some of these doorways or gateways that demons use let me do one more verse before we go to look and identify the gateways and it's found it's not in your notes and 2 Timothy chapter 2 2 Timothy chapter 2 so if you've got a Bible you could look at a 2 Timothy chapter 2 and it's talking about the ministering to people and it says in verse 24 the servant of the Lord must not quarrel or argue or strive but must be gentle to all men able to teach and patient so saying if you're going to minister to people then don't argue with people it's not it's not going to work get any results but be gentle able to teach in patience in humility instructing those who oppose themselves and perhaps God will give them repentance that they may acknowledge the truth and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil who have been taken captive by him to do as well so in those three verses there it says there are some people and the devil takes them captive and anytime he wants to he can manipulate their life so that they end up doing what he wants rather than doing what God wants they are taken captive that word captive means of prisoner taken in a battle that says the devil takes people capital he captures people holds them in prison and then manipulates them so they do things they don't necessarily want to do or they do things which are destructive and it says that they captures them by getting them in a snare and that word snare is like a trap like a baited trap like a bird trap and you have the bait and the person goes in takes the bait and they're in the trap and then they're manipulated because they're now imprisoned and so it says that if we are to get people free we as the servants of God need to not quarrel with people who argue but we have a gentle humble attitude and it says we need to instruct people on some of the foundation reasons why they've got their life into bondage and it says perhaps God will give them repentance to acknowledge the truth and then they come to their senses and get out of the snare of the devil so there's a part we play we must instruct people work with people and help people see why they're in trouble secondly they have to make a response they need to actually acknowledge where they have opened their life to the demonic powers and come to a place of repentance and acknowledging the truth then they come to their senses or they stop being drunken under the influence of a spirit and we can set them free from the demonic bondages so there's a process of instructing the person helping them understand how their life got into bondage our working with the Holy Ghost to identify some of the areas of bondage and the roots of it then they must come to a place of cooperation so sometimes you'll have people come and they want help and want ministry but they wanted their way they want you to pray and fix them up you can't fix anyone up what you can do is work with the Holy Spirit to get them realigned with Jesus and then you can minister on his behalf and freedom comes so the process of deliverance is not all about casting out demons that's the actually the easy part the bigger part is actually discovering how they got established in the person's life and bringing the person to a place of cooperation with the Holy Spirit so that you can then minister and get them free so it really helps to understand because many people will come and they just want to be free or to feel better or to get over the problem whereas our role is to help them realign with God and take responsibility for their life so someone's blaming the demons for their problem help them understand that demon is not the problem the demon is the COTS quints of something the demon is not the problem the demon is the consequence of something else that happened deal with the root issue and the demons are quite easily to deal with that makes sense it's quite important to get that because otherwise you'll be you'll be looking to blame demons for all the problems that people have and of course demons do create huge problems and identify want some of them out shortly a demon can be at the root of the problem and creating all kinds of issues in the person's life but underneath that there's some legal ground some foothold it has remove the foothold and the demons got nothing to hold on to to let go so you can imagine a person coming to you and what you can't see but there's all these handles on them and demons have got ahold of the handles and unless you get the handles broken and off their life then the demons will just keep coming back and latch on to the person again that's perhaps a way of look in okay so what are some of the doorways or gateways of that evil spirits enter remember we are called to be a gateway for the Spirit of God to flow through demons want to come in and they come in because they've got a ground that has the first one I'm going to give you a list of a number of them they're not necessarily a lot of importance but they're common ones that I have come across and working with people number one generational iniquity generational iniquity the sins of family members of previous generations and the Bible as in practically say for a priest look at it first of all from a practical level when you go to the doctor they will ask your family medical history they know this connection in your medical history and your family background you go to the insurance company they'll also ask your medical history because they know there's a connection between medical history and your end and the current promise you or the problems you may have in the future so from a spiritual perspective the generations are connected by genetics we're also connected spiritually God sees generations as being a continual line interconnected with one another so God's plan is that if you walk with God that all the generations after you will be blessed they're all connected but if you walk against God then you open a gateway for evil spirits to come in and every one connected after you is subject to what you have done they come under they're not responsible for what you do but they are subject to the consequences of what you've done so if a person is involved for example let's just have a look at it in Exodus chapter 20 you'll see it very clearly laid out Exodus chapter 20 there are many other verses like this there are many other verses like this and verse in Exodus 20 you shall have no other gods before me you shall not make for yourself a carved image or the likeness of anything in heaven above or the earth beneath it's in the water and the earth you're not bowed down to them or serve them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God and I visit the iniquity of the father's upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me but showing us eat a thousands who love me and keep my Commandments as it says visiting the iniquity iniquity is the root of sin it's the tendency to go crooked it's the twisted nough sin a person's life and so when idolatry gets into a family or spiritism or sexual perversions or things like that a legal right is established for spirits to come in and the consequences go generationally from one generation to another and so are the sins of your parents and grandparents will create a legal ground for evil spirits to come into your own life when did the spirits transfer well they may transfer while the child is in the womb they may transfer at birth they may transfer sometimes during the early stage of their life or they may not even manifest till teenage years or a little later but they will always show up they always show up once a legal ground is established they then start to occupy generation after generation so we are not at all responsible for our parents dead we're responsible for our own actions but it may well be that already without us doing anything we are subject to demonic oppression and pressure remember we said demons hold people down and energize sin you could be born into this world already having demonic spirits that make you subject that you become subject to the pressure they bring I've had a whole heap of them had one couple I prayed for their child was coming it would wake up at two a in the morning child was two and would become very destructive and we couldn't work out one they couldn't do anything if they didn't wake up early the child would destroy things in the house and so we checked their background and he had a background of anger and violence and drugs and she had a background of the occult we prayed over the child stood with the parents and prayed of the child charged aside spirits left and then there was no behavior problem it just changes dramatically as that because the origins were demonic I had another lady I prayed for and she said I'm a Christian I've been a Christian almost all of my life I serve the Lord faithfully but I am tormented with unclean images in my mind they just are there all the time I come to worship they're there I don't understand why I have such a problem so I asked the obvious have you involved in sexual sin no I haven't I've kept my life all right ask the next obvious one did anyone ever sexually abuse you know I've never been sexually abused well okay asks another one have you ever had any bad sexual experience of any kind no I have not have kept myself and God so that left that back it could only have a generational origin so can you tell me about your family background and when she told me about the family background I was quite amazed because what happened was this she her grandparents were missionaries in China and they had two children a boy and a girl and they put the born a girl in a boarding school and the missionaries were in another area and the Japanese invaded China this was in the 30s they invaded China and they took over the province that the boarding school was in they took the young boy and girl and they sexually abused the girl that's and this is another generation vaccine ok so then eventually the children were rescued the place was set free the children restore to their parents but damage had been done and through the sexual abuse a demonic spirit and had been imparted so the young girl grew up and eventually married the marriage didn't last because of the trauma she had gone through she was unable to stay intimate in any relationship the marriage broke up but she had this daughter and this was the daughter that we were speaking with in talking with and so we realized then that even though she had done nothing herself the consequence of a an abuse two generations ago had opened the doorway for the demonic spirit to come in and she was now all her life under this demonic pressure in her mind and emotions that brought torment and guilt to her because as a Christian she wants to please the Lord she can't understand why she got the stuff in her head and we prayed for her and I got her to to acknowledge this generational iniquity to forgive the Japanese soldiers who'd abused the grandmother and the moment we did that the demonic spirits manifest since she was completely set free so it's a very very powerful story of of this generational issue now there are a whole number of areas from the generational background one of the common ones and the West is Freemasonry Freemasonry will always open the door for demonic spirits they're spirits of infirmity they usually produce coldness and the emotions of men lack of love and intimacy in the relationship in the family and they produce all kinds of spiritual blocks for people coming into the things of the spirit and going on with God so generational iniquity and the curses that this brings and the Bible's very clear in the days of Nehemiah he confessed not only his own sins but the sins of the parents which had bought them into this place of bondage so generational iniquity can open the doorway for spirits particularly around the area of the occult she finds sometimes children struggle from when they're very young with occult experiences there is a generational factor involved there the parents or grandparents or someone in the family line has made an agreement they've worshiped an idol obeyed offerings to an idol and come into agreement with it or perhaps they have opened their life to divination fortune-telling in spiritism or perhaps are they've engaged in some form of a cult practice or some sexual perversion they've broken laws of God and it's opened a door through which the demons now have legal access so it's like leaving the door open and there's wild wolves outside they just keep come while the door stays open the door has to be shut and so when you're in checking out or working with someone one of the questions I always ask because when did this problem first begin and many times you'll find well it's been there all my life it's been there since I was very very young and so you have good indication then that the likely cause or origin is a generational iniquity or son of some kind when people pray often gobble uncover things in the family and you become aware of issues that no one had talked about in our generation no one talked about anything but the stuff went on and so it was all secret and the Holy Ghost is able to bring it out by word of knowledge and by revelation that's why you can't do deliverance ministry without the Holy Ghost he's the only one who can help unlock the generational iniquities and the bondages and he'll do that by a picture of vision or something will come to the person though he'll just bring it to mind what is the problem when we ask them to help so the generational iniquity it is important that they be acknowledged and repented of and confessed and the the curses were announced so the person can be fair free second thing there is patterns of sin or habits of sin it's a sin always opens the doors for spirits so sin what we do not what someone else did there what we do and so a range of areas to look for that open doorways for spirits a hatred hatred spirit of hatred 1 John 2:11 the brother person who hates his brother is a murderer unforgiveness Matthew 18 35 jesus said if you have our unforgiveness in your heart you will be delivered to the tormentors so unforgiveness is a crucial one and you would be amazed how many people do not feel hate for someone and do not feel unforgiveness but it's they're sitting in their life and the Holy Spirit can bring it to the surface so unforgiveness is a huge issue it's a demand that someone pays me back it's a demand for justice and we need to let that go and release it to the cross and forgive and release others as we have been forgiven our bitterness is another major root of sin with Pearl Harbor resentment and anger and hostility against someone and eventually becomes a deep root of bitterness Hebrews 12:15 a root of bitterness will defile the business a big problem that was the door for demons anger is another one now remember behind all of these sins there's usually events there's something that's happened that caused the person to feel hurt and grief and pain and then they've chosen to react by holding unforgiveness rather than forgiving its own rebellion is another one in proverbs 17 11 the person who rebels a cruel messenger will be sent against them so rebellion often people rebel when they're rejected so a young person is rejected one may become compliant and another one may rebel and be the black sheep of the family because they just feel so rejected and they're saying I'm not going to tolerate that so they react in many kinds of different ways rebellion is a major one rebellion is seeking to impose your will over another so it says it's like witchcraft so many times when there's roots of rebellion in the person's life you'll have spirits of witchcraft operating as well so so rebellion is willful resistance and in New Zealand one of the most common forms of rebellion is what you call passive rebellion passive rebellion is not so easy to spot passive rebellion is the person resists but they're not showing it outwardly they show it in different other ways they show it by I'll do it my way I'll do it on my time I'll do it when I feel like it and so they may comply but actually there's no heart in it if there is a rebelling and imposing their own will around it and so you'll find you can't get things done you can't get them done on time there's actually a willful resisting of you and you can feel the lack of flow the the pressure that it seems to bring around so rebellion is they'll just nod and smile and say yes but then not do it and you see the pattern you know there's rebellion underneath in the heart but the person doesn't feel rebellious they just kept that's their behavior they've got used to another area is the area of lying lie Bing brings people directly into agreement with an evil spirit in Proverbs so no proverbs I think in Isaiah 28 around it tells us there that when we lie we come into agreement with demonic spirits the spirit of death we've made a covenant with death with hell we're in agreement because we made lies our refuge that amazing we're in a covenant with death and with hell we're in agreement because we made lies our refuge so lying opens the door immediately then for demonic spirits to come in and torment a person's life and so so those are some of the patterns of sin that you'll find there are others which I've mentioned here because I want to identify them specifically so remember patterns of sin usually there's a trigger cause it helps to find out when this thing started what lies behind it because often there's grief and pain or an injustice and when you talk that out then the person comes to a place of resting and releasing forgiveness and repenting of their sin so a third area which is a significant areas area of a cult involvement Deuteronomy 18 Deuteronomy 18 God wants us to be connected to him God as a spirit and we are made for spiritual experience we're made and designed to live and operate and move in the realm of the Spirit it's not to be a complicated thing it's actually a natural part of our life that we would engage with God who is a spirit and learn how to activate walk and operate in the flow of the spirit but people who do not know God get drawn into the demonic realm so when we talk about a cult the word occult means to be concealed or covered or hidden or to it or to be covered over so when we refer to the occult it's any practice where the source of the power is concealed so when you get involved in in the kingdom of God it's a kingdom of light everything is in the open what we see we see what we see is what we get there's no big surprises in that Jesus is the king of that Kingdom the kingdom has his nature the power behind anything that happens is the Holy Spirit and when we open our life to Jesus the king we open our life up to the Holy Spirit the source of power is always identifiable when you get in the kingdom of darkness you have no idea who the king is but the king is Satan himself he's a king over a kingdom and it takes on his nature cruel deceptive treacherous murderous and and and and dark the second thing is the source of power in the occult practices is concealed you don't know where the power comes from so you find in the occult realm that when people get involved and drawn into these things they have no idea what the power is they just know that there's power there and many times people are drawn to the occult because of deep rejection or rebellion in their heart and they look for power to try and compensate and they find they're drawn or one it's it's quite addictive it's like a drug that once people start down that track they get drawn further and further and further into it so when we talk about the our cult of course we're aware that recently there's been just a huge interest in these things like all the Harry Potter movies they're all about the occult there are about two kinds of occult about divination which is telling the future for various ways of finding the future of trying to find out what will happen ahead of us and the second is sorcery which is the dimension of power gaining power from hidden spirits and of course Hollywood dresses it all up so it all looks wonderful and the say it's good against evil but really in all of it the power is never identified and so a cult areas will always open the realm of the spirit people come into direct agreement with evil spirits so common ones are pendulum swinging a Ouija boards is putting the Ouija board out when a person puts the board out and puts the letters down there and starts to move the glass they actually connect with a spirit and it's the spirit gives the thing power and now they're communicating with an evil spirit God says this is detestable to him because he's made us for intimacy with himself it's like someone that you love going off on having another lover God grieves in his heart over this and there are very serious consequences for a cult involvement so let's read in Deuteronomy 18 verse 9 when you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you don't learn the abominations of the nations and then he lists them there'll be none found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through the fire the modern equivalent of that they're passing a child through the fire was offering your children up to Molech God of brass that was a fool they filled it up with fire and they put their children living children into this Idol to kill them the modern equivalent of that would be abortion they'll not be found any among you who makes a son or daughter pass certify anyone who practices witchcraft a soothsayer or one who interprets omens or sorcery a sorcerer one who conjures spells a medium of spiritus or one who calls up the dead holds the sounds calls up the spirits of the Dead acts as a medium or a channel for the dead we would call them today psychics and you find again very commonly psychic hotlines and so on and so all do these things are an abomination to the law nothing could be clearer this is evil to do these things and when you do it you end up engaging evil spirits now when you get into different nations you'll find the further you get away from civilization the more occultism becomes very powerful and so in the areas of Indonesia we've come across major stuff with people who practice this demonic realm and their power is very real for example in the Bible the sorcerers in Egypt could change us stick into a snake just like Moses did now that's scary have a think about that someone throws a stick down turns into a snake that's quite that's a major power dimension and one of the challenge the church is facing is the ability to arise without fear in the face of all of this and learn how to move in the spirit and bring heaven to earth and confront the demonic realm people are drawn there because they see the churches no power it's yeah maybe no matter how you dress it up no matter how well it looks or how well it's managed people need the substance of God they need to experience God's power in their life and then the absence of that they turn and turn it to all these kinds of things so there are a whole range of speaks to this of course fortunate all forms of fortune-telling bring people into connection with demons seeking divination is seeking for hidden knowledge hidden information secret information all forms of sorcery sorceries trying to gain power over people cursing them doing spells magic those kinds of things idolatry is a significant part of this idolatry is the bowing down and coming into yielding into spirits that lie behind the island 1 Corinthians it tells us the idol is nothing but when you bow down and make offerings to it you are coming into agreement to an evil spirit occupying the idol and so wherever there is idolatry openly practiced you'll notice 1 they bow down a sign of reverence and yielding to the demon that's in that place in that Idol secondly they make an offering which is a form of trading I give you this offering in return for protection or power or provision of some kind so always this a form of trading goes on I give you this you give me something back but when you deal with the devil you always end up the loser you always end up the loser I remember a person that we minister to up Malaysia and she had got involved with demonic spirits to bless her business and four-season her business prospered and she came immensely wealthy and then one day the demon manifested to her and said it's time for pay see what you want she don't want you oldest son and she could not believe it she was just just grief-stricken I've tried every way that she could bug me but she'd already received she traded she'd receive the benefits financially of trading with the demon and now she had to pay the price and so there was a tragic car accident as some was lost and this happened to both her sons and so she was devastated and you can imagine that all the financial gain through trading with the demon was overtaken completely by the the the shock and the grief that she had lost her children because she had given her life into trading with the spirit so there's always a price to pay always a price of a and it's more than you think always more than you yeah okay so so idolatry opens the door over demons and the west of course Freemasonry some big problem in that area so when you look in the New Testament you find there were encounters with people with sorcery and divination recorded in the Bible so in the area of a cult involvement the person has an agreement with an evil spirit when you talk with anyone who has an agreement with an evil spirit they must actually recognize what they've done and renounce the agreement to renounce means to speak words to cancel something so wherever there's been an agreement with an idol with an spirit of divination any kind of demonic spirit the person must renounce what they have done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I renounce every agreement I have made every word that I have entered into agreement I cancel it every covenant I've made through sacrifice I renounce and cancel it the person needs to cancel speak words to break what they have done and renounce and speak off their life what they've done sometimes children when the young are dedicated to idols and so the child had no choice in it they were dedicated to an idol or dedicated to a temple we would bring children and dedicate them to the Lord people dedicate them to the idol now when a parent dedicates their child to an idol or a temple it gives a legal ground for the spirit to enter the child's life because the parent is legal guardian so we have prayed for many people and they were demonized from childhood because they were dedicated to an idol a temple or some false God and in the same way then we should realize that infant dead occasionally dication and the church is a powerful spiritual transaction it's not just a little nice thing you do in church the reality is you are invoking someone to come upon your child you're calling for God to move as you dedicate your child to them and in the same way the demonic realm recognizes and seeks to gain the children so there's always a battle for the minds and hearts of the children just before we get off the occult involvement one this there there are some other areas that you need to be aware of one at one area that's becoming an increasing problem now is the area of role play fantasy games in the internet and this has become a huge issue as up and in up in Singapore and God spoke to me about this and I had a young man come up for prayer and he was uh he was addicted to playing a role playing game was called the world of warcraft and he played in that game a sorcerer and the deal was he would get on the internet and he would go and he begin to compete and he would take on and he would use his powers that he had on the internet to destroy his enemies and grow in power until he became bigger and more powerful and so this is the nature of that thing they all compete with one another now what happened was because of imagination he opened his life up to the demonic spirit and it now ended his life and he become addicted to the game and his whole identity started to change as he started to get more and more addicted to the game so we when we recognized that I said you will need to renounce the game and to renounce the identity that you took on in that game so he told me what the game was and the identity of the sorcerer and I let him in a prayer to acknowledge Christ as his Lord acknowledge ownership by Christ and then to renounce and Jesus name I renounce all playing of this game I renounce all escaping from real life into this fantasy world cuz that's the root of the problem was I renounced this identity which is a false identity which I took on and he named it and the moment he did the demon manifested on his face he fell on the ground and there was a full manifestation of that spirit now this shocked the students this is a student in the Bible College so while he's given his life and sacrificed to come and learn how to serve God in his private life he's engaging the occult realm but didn't know it now what happened then was we had more than 200 students come up and go and there was a massive flow of deliverance young Asian students addicted to these online games it's becoming a growing problem in the next generation and it's deceptive people don't understand what lies behind it they think it's just harmless game playing they don't go in a big reaction and then forbid all game playing there's a discernment needed as to what kinds of things would actually become a problem and I think that any game which is of a role-playing nature that also includes the occult will eventually lead to the person opening their life and being an agreement with a demonic power so rather than legalism some wisdom and some management and boundaries are needed around that area and and if and if you because what you find is often the behavior of the children start to change because of the occult in the violence and the games starts to affect them once happens have opened their life to a demon this one of the Scriptures the Lord spoke to me about was this as I was thinking about it and sharing it with the students I was just sharing what God was showing me about it he said there's a scripture there it says you know if you look on a woman with lust in your heart you've committed adultery with her now just think about that and if you look if you start to look or use your imagination and you look and begin to long after someone that's not your wife then you've already committed adultery so the sin of adultery is conceived in the heart when the imagination and the heart activated together so he said in the games in these games people enter in with their imagination of the fantasy world and then begin to long after the power and and what happens as they conceive in their heart the whole thing of sorcery and the demon then can get in and so these are areas to become very aware of there are other games that people get addicted to some and I don't even want to go there to all of them at this whole range of games and people who are in pain emotionally substitute real relationships for anime vast imaginary role-playing game world and often they can become addicted to that realm they can't do without it and so you know spirits are involved as well as soulless and addictive processes so I needed to spend a bit on that because that is quite an issue other is of the occult and vulvar martial arts and you and some some alternative medicine things we just need to be aware that you can open your life to the demonic realm through these things okay a third next one number four is sexual sin sexual sin we just look in there's a whole number of scriptures and this of course remember in Luke chapter four we saw the man who had an unclean spirit verse 43 44 we found that there was a man there who had an unclean spirit in Chapter four of Luke verse 33 to 36 he had an unclean demon which is almost certainly a sexual demon that had come into his life we discussed that last night so when God has said a law in place to people become intimate sexually the two become one flesh remember it's established in Genesis they joined together and sexual intimacy that you become one now get this if you become one with another person one flesh then whatever demons they've got they belong to you as well think about that like if a person has got a sexual disease and you have sexual relationship with them you are likely to receive what they have and the consequences will go on and possibly affect children charm maybe innocent no guilt yet affected and so in the realm of sexual sin God has created a law the two become one so when people are sexually involved with one another heavy petting right through to penetration and and sexual relationship then there is a soul tie formed between them the two become one that's the law that God set in place and the way the law works is there is a bonding forms between them now that's soul tie or that bonding between the two people form through sexual intimacy it can either be godly or ungodly a godly one is where it's within the boundaries of a healthy relationship and God's principles and ungodly one is the sexual intimacy without outside marriage where we are we we break God's laws violate God's work laws are involved sexually outside marriage then there's an ungodly soul tie or bonding now there are two impacts of that ungodly soul tie that I'm aware of one impact is this is that because it's an ungodly tie demonic spirits can use it as a gateway into your life spirits of lust and all kinds of other spirits can enter your life through a legal gateway adjoining to another person it's like you no matter how far you go through your life you're still joined to them and so if you have a number of sexual partners they've got all this baggage these cords of sin that you they go back to these relate it's like an invisible spiritual cord linking you to the person the demonic realm can see it and use it to gain access now so that's one area demonic spirits can enter the second is this I've observed in praying for people that particularly with men but also with woman that the mental and emotional impact of the sexual relationship remains with them the memories remain alive and it's like they cannot even years later get the memories to diminish they are energized and alive and so a couple can be having sexual intimacy as husband and wife and then these powerful images are there of previous encounters or the memories of previous encounters to rise up with a person tries to worship in other words this some defilement is taking place which seems to keep is an energizing when we talk to our demons are the whole people down or energized sin inside them then this is what happens around this area the person's got this energy around this that keeps tormenting and won't ever seem to go away they can't come to peace and I prayed for multitudes of people and when we broke the soul tie like it was an invisible cord when we just cut the soul tie in the spirit my picture taking the sword of the Spirit and just cutting that soul tie joining the person to someone else and almost immediately the there was a diminishing of the energy and power of these things in the person's soul and they just started to find it quite manageable after that so sexual intimacy was established by God as a way of two people being bonded together and getting to know one other becoming intimate with one another God's purpose and in forming the covenant of marriage is to protect your capacity to be intimate so when people are in without a commitment for life and then they break up there are all kinds of hurt steak places are ending a part of that soul time both men and women are affected no matter what people say it's like it isn't like that it always ends up with pain and grief and sorrow and so you find then there are reactions that people form I'll never let any man near me like that again or I wish I was dead death wishes and inner vows tight so sexual sin and sexual abuse create these huge problems inside people's lives of soul ties of inward reactions of inner vows that create an energy center for demonic spirits to torment the person's life so if a person has had a number of sexual relationships through their life what they need us to actually become cleansed by Jesus Christ we need to come to him he's willing to cleanse us but we need to just front up this what has been like that's what I've done it's what I've been involved in is what I've been exposed to and and then to just renounce all the agreements renounce all the relationships cut the soul ties renounce the soul ties and release forgiveness and let go where there's grief and pain and hurt many young men were aware of have attempted suicide of committed suicide because of a breakup and a relationship with a girl many young woman have been devastated because relationship turned sexual and they never really wanted to be they were looking for love and intimacy so this is a whole area of challenge today where people have lost God's boundaries and values God's principle related to marriage is to protect intimacy so you can become a whole person it's not to stop you enjoying life it's to protect you from destructive things so people need to be delivered and you'll find that many of the people that you will work with you'll find if you will check out where the problem is often it's in this area there's been sexual sin it could go back many many years could have been a teenage thing or even a younger thing than that and the trap that the the impact of it's so great that it just leaves this energy going on inside them so you're dealing then with old tires you're dealing with reactions inner vows and bitter judgments against men a woman and often you're dealing with quite emotional trauma of what they've gone through so we'll talk a little bit more about Miss ministering to that area it is a major one God wants people to be free and we saw Jesus set the man free had been bound in that kind of sin so I put a list in your notes of various things that the Bible speaks explicitly about fornication homosexuality pornography is not referred to directly but it is it comes under the issue of lusting in your heart habitual masturbation is not mentioned specifically in the Bible so it should not we should not place weight on it as a problem beyond what the Bible does and the Bible doesn't say much about it at all so one I things I have noticed and praying and ministering to people is that when people are involved in habitual masturbation usually there are deep roots of rejection and what they're doing is trying to comfort themselves but it becomes addictive and connected with fantasy and that's where the problems lie so I never try to bring anyone under the law in this area but we tree we talk to them about the impact it has on them and how do then get free and sometimes you just need to break the soul tie the person's got to themselves and they often need to be set free of roots of rejection inside them that are feeding and driving this area and then be taught how to actually stay clean stay pure another particular one that is referred to specifically the area of anal sex or sodomy that is specifically referred to as an abomination to the Lord and yet you'll find that they'll be tighter there'll be some couples will practice sodomy in their marriage you need to understand that god forbids this practice it's unclean it's a shameful practice associated with homosexuals and it's not part it's got no place in a Christian marriage none whatsoever and if any of you aware of it's happening in your life or happening in your situation will you come across it a woman needs to be free from any sense she needs to submit to a husband over the specific issue the orals not stated specifically in the Bible so therefore we have to be careful what we say about something the Bible doesn't say anything about the two general the principles you use a one that it's natural and doesn't violate natural law and two that it doesn't violate the conscience of the person so the area of prostitution isn't referred to in the Bible as being evil sexual molesting or rape fantasy incest bestiality and adultery all of these are referred to as creating major problems now here's an interesting thing that all of those sins carried a death penalty they get that capital punishment capital punishment we wrestle with capital punishment for murder or even multiple murder yet and but the capital punishment now I've looked at that and thought about it and I've come to the conclusion that since the law of God doesn't pass away that wherever people are involved with that they open the way for spirits of death to come around them that means they become isolated and disconnected and shut down or numbed out emotionally through these kinds of experiences in various degrees so let's just carry on and then we'll finish the list and then we'll take a break rejection is another area if you're looking and dealing with a person's life you'll find very often they have suffered deep rejection in 2 Samuel 6 verse 16 Michal Saul's daughter was deeply rejected by her father and she become very bitter and in the day that should have been a day of celebration for her she in fact was in great grief and really reactionary against her husband because there was bitterness against men in her heart so bitterness comes out of being deeply rejected you notice also that rejection let me just make this clear rejection is an experience people have where they're not wanted or they perceived in on it rejection is an emotional trauma or pain that people experience so it's an emotional trauma rejection is also a spirit that torments people and rejection is also a belief or a judgment falling in the hole that no one's going to want me so when you're dealing with rejection you have to be aware of each of those aspects is there a demonic spirit involved is there a judgment and a bitter expectancy that I'll be rejected is there some painful experience I need to face and forgive the people involved and of course there's a whole number of ways the spirit of rejection will come around people when people have got rejection in their life usually there's a deep mindset that they're unacceptable they fear rejection and they tend to reject themselves so where does it come very simply a rejection in the womb chance unwanted unwanted pregnancy or perhaps a child there was an attempted abortion and I've noticed this when there's been attempted abortion the child survives they will not bond with their mother they actually won't breastfeed they won't bond with their mother there they call problem children because in their heart they know already this woman tried to murder me that's why you get the lack of bonding now with the the the contemporary culture tends to pass off a lie this is not a person in the womb now if a woman believes this is not a person the next step is to be able to get rid of it quite easily the reality is it is a person and what we have found is that in ministering to people have had an abortion we have found one of the things that's very crucial is first to acknowledge that this is actually I've tried to or attempted or have successfully destroyed a life and eternal spirit being it's the first thing to acknowledge second thing is to forgive the people that have been involved including forgiving itself usually the man involved and the people who are involved as well the third thing is that we found it really helpful to ask the person to listen to their heart and let God show them whether their child was a boy or a girl now at that point it's like I've watched a person move from being almost unemotional and then suddenly when God showed them this was my but this was a boy it's now no longer a thing the revelation is there this is a real person and often they break and weep quite deeply you can cast out spirits of murder and abortion and death and so on so it's a very very powerful area and many times we've found that people have been deeply healed as they've seen the child in the Lord's hands and they've realized that God has forgiven them and they're free now to move on it's a very very powerful thing so attempted abortion and a child as non wanted female in many places our fathers expected the child would be a boy and it's a girl and the child feels rejected and they often strive to be they become male like and competitive early childhood experiences can lead to rejection child has got some learning difficulties child has got some physical coordination difficulties can be very very simple experiences they have our family breaks up that is a huge trauma for a child often that trauma leaves the cha Fenny deeply rejected and to blame family relational conflict or breakdown emotional coldness or hardness or or blocks in the family the child feels interprets it as being rejected unfavorable comparisons where one parents continue why don't you like your brother why don't you like your sister why can't you do the way care and the child feels rejected they are not like their brother and sister they are them and so many times parents can create huge problems of rejection and a child by comparison divorce or broken relationships this creates a problem child interpreted through a child's eyes and thinks that a blame and feels rejected school experiences can create huge rejection as well as another thing that creates deep rejection and people is the experiences of broken relationship where there was quite a deep intimacy and then it breaks up this is a huge issue that the first feels rejected and often struggles with spirits of rejection another one relate us that which you'll touch on next I'll win this controlling relationships from this controlling relationships the person or the one who's under control always carries a spirit of rejection always why because their needs their longings their desires their personhood was rejected by the controller who just wanted to impose their will on okay so there's this whole range of things their number the number six controlling relationships we just refer to those whenever there are controlling relationships one person is imposing their will on another and we're not talking about godly control or management of a child where you need to restrain them for their own safety we're talking now ungodly control where one imposes their will their wishes their desires and there's no hearing or there's no connection to the heart or the who the person is and what they want to do and the person is dominated it can be dominated by verbal violence by physical violence by sexual violence by emotional violence whatever it is the person's dominated or controlled by the other person there's a deep root of rejection takes place so control brings rejection and trauma and usually deep fear into the person's life so when you are working with people do look at the issue of trauma particularly those associated with a controlling relationship so when a person is under controlling relationship they lose all confidence they have no sense of identity established and demonic spirits come around and and continually work against them spirits of hate spirits of witchcraft spirits of rejection a seventh area that a gateway of demons is this is trauma and accidents trauma and accidents or sustained stress and these when a person goes through trauma if it's a physical trauma you hit a personal they can be cut and bleed but if it's an emotional trauma there's a bleeding within in the sense the soul is impacted and shattered we'll talk a bit more about dealing with that little later then what happens is evil spirits used trauma as a gateway in I was praying for a woman just a little while ago and she had pains right through her hand and her wrist and she couldn't move her hand progress and what's happened she said I was involved in a motor vehicle accident and I said what happened said well they did the best they could and but I'm left numbed out and I'm left and I can't move my hand properly and so what I did was pray and in Jesus name I break the sole tie or bonding and connection to the trauma and command the spirit of trauma and infirmity to go the moment I did that her hand freed up and she started to feel again and she started out for use of it so she was soul tied to the traumatic experience we broke that and then commanded the spirit that was in her through that effect to go out and immediately she was set free immediately she said free so just be aware that a person has a traumatic experience one that they are soul tied to it to that they have often extremely painful memories and pictures around it and three that there are spirits often have entered in to create a problem spirits of infirmity are the ones I found most commonly associated with a traumatic experience another woman had had a car accident she had pains right through her body and we just broke the spirit of trauma off a life cut the soul tied to the experience and she began to actually shake as she started to remember it and then the whole thing lift her and she her back was healed and she was completely free straight away another area of demonic oppression or doorways or gateways as ungodly beliefs Satan is the father of lies when you believe a lie whether you have good reason to or not you'll find that it'll open up and bring demonic spirits and ungodly beliefs always or almost inevitably associated with some painful experience so child growing up well we've never got enough money perhaps the parents were going through financial difficulty and the child livens we're poor and there's never enough for me and so childhood gets a belief in their heart there's not enough for me doesn't matter how much they have you know what they'll believe there's still not enough for me and they often then driven to work hard they can't find rest and they're so why because no matter how much they have there's not enough for me is the message that's played in the heart so an ungodly belief is a belief of the heart that's not true it's actually a lie but it operates and drives the person's life and ungodly beliefs when we can identify them usually you're attached to some painful experience we need to let Jesus come and bring healing to that experience and we need to break or renounce the agreement with the lie and start to meditate and build the truth and a lie curses are another source of demonic spirits coming in these are a consequence of breaking the laws of God they can be word curses or or curses by authority figures they could be self cursing where people speak words negative words over themselves sometimes even there's witchcraft cursing where particularly we found people going to foreign lands if they're not aware of the demonic realm they can become subject to witchcraft cursing and demonic spirits there so again if there is a curse there's always a reason for it and we need to track the reason renounce it cancel it release forgiveness and believe God for freedom then the last one I'll just mention to you here is transferred spirits can transfer there's a whole number of ways they can transfer they can transfer through soul ties I've even known one person to get demonized watching a movie and a woman ring me up one night she said I see what's the product was quite late see what's the policy said something has happened to me so what's happened said my husband made me look at a pornographic movie and I said what happened she said I suddenly felt someone something come into my eyes I said what what how did it affect you she said I feel numbed out and I feel like I'm a piece of meat and I said you you've opened watching this thing you've opened yourself to a demonic spirit said I think it's a spirit of death and so we broke the soul try attaching it to this experience we commanded the spirit of death to come out and immediately she felt something lever just over the phone so certain movies or things full of lusts and violence can open the door for spirits alcohol and drugs can do the same thing touching dead bodies have known people to actually get demonized by touching a dead body hoarding occult objects and sometimes there are some things associated with culture as well so these are some of the areas that that these are some of the doorways the demons use it helps if you are aware of them now some people group them into I've known some people group them into two groups some people group them into four groups there's a whole lot of ways of looking at it so some people deal with it as being either if you deal it with four there's a there's a Paul called his name is Chester cluster I think it is and they categorize all of these doorways and four groups one generational to send patterns three trauma and four ungodly beliefs and they found that's a helpful way of just thinking about the whole area of grouping these demonic doorways demonic doorways are open through generational through sin through trauma and through ungodly beliefs and so they deal with it like that ver clerk runs a course called prayers that heal the heart and they look at it and he handles a little bit differently he just looks at it straight from the heart condition starting off with the generational curses then the soul ties the bitter expectancies or judgments to form in the heart in a vows that form sin patterns and then the demonic spirits and Sergeant Jesse run a brilliant course on this and it's extremely helpful if you were thinking about going through course I'd recommend that course for you to do so that's that's another way of doing it other people deal with it just straight as legal rights and trauma and deal with it in two things what are all the legal rights and what are the trauma or painful experiences so the general agreement around almost everyone who's operating around the deliverance area is that the area of legal rights and painful experiences and the impacts they have in your heart with reactions and the heart these seem to be the things that create the doorways for demons to come in so different deliverance ministers have different ways of doing it there's no one right way there's lots of ways but if you can understand the basics and the principles and have a plan of how you would approach it then you can start to minister reasonably successfully to people I do not think that we can set people free without dealing with the heart my experience over years now is whatever's in the heart will show up in the life you can cast out the demons but if you don't shift the heart what people believe and how they function in their heart then they don't have lasting change and so all the materials that I have seen around probably the course Biver claw mark ver claw prayers that heal the heart would be the one that I would recommend as containing good insight and good process for the deliverance ministry so perhaps I'll just finished with one last thing and then we'll get on have a break how would you know what demon still how do demons oppress people let's just finish with that for the session how do demons oppress people Luke 13 verse 11 there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and could not raise herself up so here's a woman has a spirit and it's affecting her body a spirit of infirmity for example can the word infirmity means weakness without strength of spirit of infirmity when it comes into a body you have aches and pains you can't find they just move around or they're located in the back of the neck and shoulders and whatever you can't seem to get rid of them spirits of infirmity can create problems with deafness spirits of infirmity can be the cause of many sicknesses spirits of infirmity can also create learning difficulties as well so when demons come into people's lives I've listed some of the things they do number one they hinder the person coming to Christ they just create blocks around the thinking so the person doesn't understand - they afflict and torment people they remind them and bring them into torment and pain 3 they bring people into bondage particularly addictions 4 they bring drive into people's life and compel them to do things so they feel like they can't stop 6 they deceive or create a deception around a person's mind they don't realize what's really happening 7 they accuse and and and speak at condemning words and and next animate they obstruct us they create difficulties now for example when we try to do these seminars we often have trouble with mechanical gear issues and difficulties and problems it's always the week we do the seminar and so we just got used to it also when spirits come in they'll affect the person's body with sicknesses pains and unexpected pains when I went to for example went to Taiwan every day I had to have a new interpreter because they would get sick they just just got sick day after day after day of today the first three visits are made to Taiwan I got sick every time and then afterwards I broke through it and I've never been sick since it was just witchcraft spirits trying to impart this thing onto me and I had to learn how to step up and make sure I didn't come under it so demonic spirits can affect your body they can affect the soul by tormenting thoughts emotions and and desires they can afflict a person's will so they become very passive and they can create experiences in people's life that torment them so how are we going to find out well let's go look at the next session we'll talk about curses and what they are and how to deal with them then we're going to look at some aspects of how to minister to people so sever

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Keywords: Generational iniquity, soul tie, curses, renounce, foothold, doorways, occult, captive, sin patterns, sexual sin, ouija board, spirit of death, transference, ungodly beliefs, twistedness, crooked bent, sins of parents, negative family trait, pornography, addictions, aches and pains, tormenting thoughts, emotional trauma, rejection

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Length: 65min 23sec (3923 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2013