Entertaining Demons | Zach Neese | Joni Table Talk | Joni Lamb

[Music] well is your home spiritually secure many of us think that it is but according to today's guest we may be entertaining demons without even knowing it so today we'll take a look at what that means and how you can safeguard your family joining me around the table is John Paul Jackson hello great great to be here you know people get kind of scared when they hear the whole demons thing it's almost like people don't realize in this natural realm that demons do exist they don't realize that but one more thing is that not been taught how to handle them you know and who we are in crisis and so I'm looking forward to today because I think we'll get a lot of information about how can create an atmosphere of a holy atmosphere around us allows things to happen like God wants Rebecca Lam welcome I'm so excited to be here Cindy Murdoch don't you love learning and I just love there's so much more to learn about - I love learning and I love that we're having the opportunity to maybe help some out there that didn't have the early process we did of learning how to protect our home and the surroundings and our children our families absolutely and Zac nice how are you today I'm doing very welcome to Joanie Table Talk thank you you become a regular member here with us Wow well from music and media to art and more we know how entertainment can be influential in our lives but why is that why do they hold such prominence in our society and when we invite them into our home are we inviting more than just entertainment let's talk a little bit about the media and arts you're very passionate about this sure so are we entertaining demons are we letting them into our home and if so how are we doing it well first of all we have to understand there's a couple of basic principles that spiritual beings are just gonna play by it and gods the same way if I invite God God shows up if you invite a wicked spirit into your house that wicked spirit is gonna be hosted he's gonna show up like a Ouija board sure yeah if you're playing with if you're playing with the dark realm you're in their sandbox okay yeah you don't want those things in your home and and what we've done is is we've we've developed a culture where darkness hides itself is something beautiful and attractive and I like to use the example of Dracula when you see the old Dracula movies why is he wearing a tuxedo why does he speak with this exotic accent well he's got a he's got a rose in his lapel and he shows up at your door and and and he looks inviting well that all of those old old vampire movies the vampire wouldn't have come in your house unless you invite them and and we have a spirit that hates our guts this not allowed into our lives or into our homes unless we invite them but they also know that if they show up looking like their character in their nature of course you're not gonna live that into play with their kids so the world dresses it up and makes it attractive speaking of Dracula I mean you have to talk about that the Twilight movie yeah yeah it makes such a huge tractive hit what about I mean we're not gonna sit here and say you can't do this you can't do that but I mean oh and I hate I don't want to be that anybody's Holy Spirit I don't want to say you can or you can't but we do have to open our eyes to some of these things let's open our eyes what's the basic principle what's the spirit being entertained here are you are you being entertained by the Spirit of Christ or is there something else something darker that's being beautified by a covering of romance mm-hmm and that's what that's doing it is it is what did you want to interject here on the vampire side of things it really boils down to the drinking of blood and we're committed in Scripture not to drink blood for the life isn't it so what the enemy does again he dresses it up and so see antithesis of what the Bible is telling us do the blood of Christ versus the blood of demons and so what what we have to be careful is that when we watch these things we don't create an atmosphere where we welcome dark spirits to surround us or come near us yeah and the scripture talks about the I gate what we see and let go in how it affects our very soul yeah so how can we be more sensitive to the Holy Spirit on things that should and should not be allowed in our home well maybe this is this is maybe what you're asking and put another way how is it that I host something that I don't want to be hosting yeah right yeah so how do I host the Holy Spirit how do you invite the Holy Spirit into your life and and and the Bible tells us to meditate on the Word of God to speak to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs we interest gates with Thanksgiving his courts with praise he's enthroned on the praises of his people so the Bible teaches us there's a way that you make the Spirit of God at home and that's what I want I want my I want my father's Spirit at home in my house and in my life well the flipside of that if you're if you're praising and being entertained by and being and basically being grateful for sitting in front of a spirit other than the Holy Spirit if you're entertaining the spirit of darkness the spirit of lust the spirit of anger the spirit of violence the spirit of gluttony and greed those things are gonna feel at home just like if you're worshiping or praising the Spirit of the Living God so your journey really began as you looked at the fall of Rome so take us back and walk us through some of that it began with a curiosity because I I couldn't get my kid to sleep one night after I'd watched a movie and I was so frustrated I couldn't figure out what was the problem so I went to God and was praying how do I get this kid to be quiet and God said you you invited a demon into your house through the movie that I've been watching and so I went back and started studying how on earth could this movie that I was watching work as a gateway for a spirit how does that work so I started studying Greek and Roman mythology and it turns out that about 1500 BC about the same time that Moses is receiving the Commandments on Mount Sinai there's this Greek god called Dionysus and Dionysus was worshipped through all kinds of awful things he was through orgy istic worship and he's the god of wine and he's the god of music basically the god of homosexuality there's all kinds of problems with Dionysus but the way they praised him and they worshiped him was through poetry and through this thing called tragedy they began putting on plays and our entire entertainment industry is is born out of that ancient forefather the worship of this guy named Dionysus the word tragedy comes from these two Greek words trials and ona which means a goat song it was a song of sacrifice for this God the way that the Greek culture grew up and the way Roman culture grew up was around these gods requests a God would say this is how I want you to worship me so the temple wasn't the only place that these gods were worshipped the Romans were commanded by the gods to go to the stadium the Coliseum why are they killing people in the Coliseum why are babies being burned at stakes at the Coliseum why are wire virgins being sacrificed in the Coliseum was that a man's idea or was that in God's eyes yeah and to think that really went on when you go back to those Coliseum's and you see yeah it's hard to imagine that we're two human beings were doing this and if you read the if you read the Greek tragedies Euripides Sophocles those were all written in honor of a god Dionysus that's the guy so they're entertainment industry went hand-in-hand with their worship culture and they grew up together so both of them had an enormous influence on how that cultures morality was formed or in this case was deformed mm-hmm so those those things hand-in-hand entertainment and worship were always were always linked together with one another and media was always a doorway as it still is still a doorway you can use it for good or evil there's music that glorifies God and there's music that glorifies another spirit but TV programs that glorify God and their TV programs that glorify another spirit and so what we have to be careful of is what what am i housing what am i hosting what am i making feel at home in my own living room or in my own heart so what happened with your little boy after that I first of all I repented got it because because he was a baby yeah and he'd never felt something as dark as I had put him in front of and because my heart was jaded and I'd build up years of calluses I couldn't feel it but his little pure heart he'd just spent nine months in a womb with the Holy Spirit hovering over him was brought out into the world and I put him in front of a spirit of death is what and if we even allow the spirit of fear to come on a child like it might not make us afraid but if it puts that spirit of fear in them then well he freaked out he'd never he'd never experienced anything like that and so I went around the house praising God marched around the house and repenting and praising the Lord and when I came back and I had anointed all the doorways you know when I came back into the house and stepped into his room again he stopped and I thought something just happened what just happened right and what had happened is I'd opened the door I didn't mean to I don't invited a vampire into my house without even knowing I'd done it so in the in Scripture it says God inhabits the praise of his people do demons work in a similar way ok ok let's think about this for a second so there's this God named the goddess named Venus or Aphrodite Asherah if you're looking at the Canaanites is the same lady she's basically the goddess of muchness and specifically sexual muchness okay she's the goddess of a fertility goddess but she's also the guise of lust and all kinds of spiritual perversions so let's say in today's culture can we disagree that we have a sexual problem in our culture yes let's say that we have we know that pornography is a problem right yeah so let's say that we have one person who's on the internet and they're looking at they're looking at pornography okay we've got another person who's sitting there in their home and they're reading a romance novel the word pornography means the writings of a prostitute a lot of ladies don't know that they're actually entertaining a spirit of lust by reading that stuff so what they're doing is they're being entertained by the character of this other spirit they're being entertained by the character of a demon of lusts now I'm not thinking if I'm looking at that stuff I'm not thinking I'm gonna I'm gonna log on and worship Venus right they're probably thinking well they got all kinds of excuses but they're thinking I'm just gonna sit down and adore the beauty of God's creation I don't know but what's really happening is you've got a spirit in that room with you that Kant doesn't understand your motivations you can't read your thoughts all that spirit knows is that you're entertained by her character qualities and her character qualities are the qualities of of lust and fornication and adultery and she receives that as worship and you can see in the Bible the enemy of God has desired worship from the beginning yes demons don't care if you meant to worship them they just receive you're valuing of their character qualities Wow and you know what we don't see or realize probably is the word to entertain or entertainment means to host yeah we would never think of opening our front door and saying to those demons or spirits come on in and our hosts join me not with my family yeah yeah yeah I got to go cook dinner and I need a 20-minute break why don't you take care of my kids for me and that's what we do we sit our kids in front of the television and we say why don't you raise my kids for me and so in the bid death okay so raise up a child in the way should go and wheeze old he will not depart from it we were talking about this in the back the average kid by the time they're 18 sees 200,000 sexual acts who's educating your child Venus the spirit of lust yeah you know I know you and I talked about this Rebecca and you told me in the place that you are today you know there's some things you don't want to watch like because you're a very visual we're creative and there are certain things on television that you just you you don't want to go there you should say mom turned the TV the first time just like Zack said when you have been exposed to it for so long you don't notice it but I remember the first time the Lord really started working in my life and I was in my car and I was I love music I listened to all kinds of music that was listening to it in the car and then all of a sudden it was like the Holy Spirit showed me and the moment I realized what I was listening to my car I remember I by myself in my car go uh-huh and I turned it down and that was the beginning the journey of the Lord showing me that something more is going on here and you get to a point where I want you to talk about that if you continue to entertain this stuff how it's going to change you how you can either entertain God and change and become more like him or you can entertain a demon and become more like that right yeah and you know for people who are watching Sarah as you say we can't watch ever watch TV or watch a good movie or watch a show we're not saying that at all but we're saying that you need to wake up and pay attention to what you're allowing into your home and just ask the Holy Spirit he's the greatest teacher and he can he can just let you know and give you a piece about certain things or an unrest to know that you need to do something and talk a little bit about that if you would Zack oh sure this is actually pretty easy because God said in front of us I lay before you today blessings and curses choose blessings I hope a before you life and death choose life and so we've got a god who's graciously putting before us constantly choices what is gonna bless your relationship with me what is gonna bless bless your relationship with your wife your children your husband and our media choices make a difference in that as well because that spirit that we ingest is what's going to be manifested through our lives if I'm constantly if I'm constantly filling myself with anger lust greed whatever those are the things that are gonna drip out of me constantly onto my relationships and other people around me that's good John Paul just weigh in for 30 seconds on that and there you have some thoughts well everything that Satan wants to do is a counterfeit of what God originally planned to do so you have God who is to be worship you have Satan tries to overthrow him to be worshipped so everything on the demonic realm operates out of that worship category so you have the Greek mythology all those especially die Nasus he was he was like known as the twice-born God that's right even 1500 years before Christ who was the lamb slain before the foundation in the world Dionysus was also known as the twice-born God so that he died in his mother's womb but then Zeus his father implants him into his own thigh Andrey bursts him again and then he was the only one they could bring people out of the underground and why Jesus was the one who brought people out of she ol into paradise so there's amazing counterfeits there and everything that the the demonic world wants to do it will look like the real thing and it was and thus this it will make it seem innocuous or how could this be harmful or isn't this wonderful or beautiful and it's the lure to worship a false God it really is you've really captured some yeah what about horoscopes I mean I see Christians that play around with that all the time I don't play around with any spirit except the one that I want inside of me how's that well horoscopes are said in the Bible that if you follow horoscopes that you are under a curse because that which created that is cursed and if you follow that you're under the curse that they're under it's a false prophecy good well you don't want to go anywhere after the break we look at how to safeguard our home stay right there [Music] well today we've been looking at how we might be entertaining demons without even knowing it but with so many spiritual doorways bombarding us every day how can we safeguard our families and homes the answer lies in understanding our role of spiritual leadership let's talk about that all right God has given each one of us the great honor of being the guardian at the doorpost of our own home of our own culture of our family my marriage I'm the guardian who stands in cooperation with Christ of course at the doorpost of my own home and what I permit in will be permitted and what I refuse will be refused and so we have to begin to look at what do I want this to be what I want this Homewood over this marriage to be do I want it to be a sanctuary for Christ and for his spirit or do I want to host something that would be destructive to my relationship with my wife to my relationship with my children so there's a guy named st. Augustine 1,500 years ago he writes a book called the City of God and he's trying to explain to the Romans why their cultures falling apart and he's telling them your culture is falling apart because for the last 2,000 years you've been worshipping demons through your entertainment industry and one of the points that he makes to them is why on earth would you continue to submit yourself to any spirit that does anything that you've been saved from listen I was saved from lust I was saved from fornication I was saved from hell why would I go back there why would I go back there and submit my life to that by being entertained by that spirit I was saved from a life of violence why would I go back and submit myself to that when I've been set free from all their violent all their wicked and vile tendencies by the blood of Jesus Christ so st. Augustine is saying listen guys once you're set free from it guard the door so it doesn't come back again right oh yeah about when the Israelites were told put the blood over the doorpost and if you have the blood there the death angel will pass over yes when you were talking about joining your your doors and all that but if we keep the presence of God and the blessing of the Lord in the house it's like the death angel and the demon spirits can't you know Paul Paul talks about what serve you so as I show you be tells the church in Galatia this but we don't usually carry it we don't used to think of it in this respect I think it ties right into what you were saying Zack and that is that if we sow to the flesh we're going to reap fleshly issues we so the spiritual fleshly side we're gonna reap dark spiritual issues we're going to open our house to things we're gonna open our mind to things we're gonna open our lives to things that we we don't want to open in our lives to what we want is to open our lives to greater spiritual understanding and greater spiritual insight greater relationship with the father who is knows all things as all-powerful nothing is greater than he nothing knows more than he has never been a place that he's not been and we we want that we invite the uncreated into us versus inviting a created spirit or a created being into us the demonic forces a creative spirit being well it may not we may say well it's not going to go inside me it can walk into a house a household and so people can walk into your house and they can feel chaos or you or mentally or you can feel peace and tranquility you can literally feel maybe give an example for someone who's watching let's take a look at MMA there's a there's an issue of PEEP men beating and fighting each other and hurting and disfiguring each other and what they're finding out now is that the the preponderance have been who watch this after X amount of times I don't remember right now how many X amount of times is but I'll just say X amount of times you're starting to see a preponderance of outgrowth of violence from the people who watch those of events and that it permeates a mind creates an attitude and then you think nothing of doing the same thing an outgrowth of that you you manifest that Cagefighting mentality so you're talking about the cut what he's talking about is the colosseum of rome right coming through our television sets right this is the first time in history that you have a porn faucet in your house right Wow you can just turn it on and porn comes in your house you have a violence faucet in your house is the first time in history so what was that Colosseum all about st. Augustine says listen there are demonic forces that request those kinds of shows this gladiatorial events are in the Coliseum the requests those kind of shows and they and they were they also require that people show up and watch them why and cheer and applaud why because they want their tastes to become your taste right they want you they want our culture to imitate them they want to corrupt our kids they want to corrupt the moral majority the moral minority and cause the and prevent the immoral majority from repenting they want to corrupt our faith and if you're entertained by something it alters the way you believe about that thing right your entertainment affects your faith and your faith affects your morality it has to so what Augustine was saying in essence then is that because you have so long followed after the pagan issues that the gods the Greek mythological gods is that the spiritual water table is so low that you don't know how to make right decisions and you're still making wrong decisions and it's not an issue that you just became Christians it's because you you have sewed to the flesh so often you're reaping of the flesh still reaping of that but at the same time there's things that the enemy does that are simply because we sowed seeds that give him justification in a way to come against us he is justified legally because this seed we sowed he now has a right to come in and make this attack and so when we watch wrong things we have just said yes to that seed where it gives him the the opportunity to come in those gates ourselves the irrigate and our children Zack I mean you have six kids but they are really being targeted by this I know Rebecca will tell you they were they got so upset with me when they were little there were certain a book series that I would not let oh I thought you're going to talk about another thing that you made us stop watching well different things that their friends were watching and they and we wouldn't let them watch it and that she told me not long ago she's like now mom I understand why you why you were doing that and we don't always get it right in again I don't want to evoke fear but we really need to watch what the kids are watching the little ones like because some of the cartoons and if remember we did Pokemon couple years ago right that was one of the things I wouldn't do but I mean they're just we're being inundated Zack do you understand we're being inundated with this do I understand like you said I have six kids I watched Disney and I say why are every one of these families dysfunctional why are every one of these characters rebellious I don't want my child to be rebellious turn you off you're not teaching my child anymore commercials are not allowed to teach my children they're not allowed to watch that stuff I don't want my children emulating what they're seeing and I don't want them adopting those those heart sets those mindsets inside of them so it's better to start early don't you think to help understand it better better that better to train up than to try to train backwards on train backwards how can people that are watching today deal with certain things they've entertained and let in and they say I don't want I don't want this to go on any longer this it really doesn't have to be that difficult let's let her pin yes let's say I've entertained something other than the Holy Spirit that there's a spirit involved in that but it's not the Holy Spirit and I confess that that's not the whole Jesus is sitting right here beside me he's not laughing at what I'm laughing at and he's not he's not cheering for what I'm cheering for and so I repent just if there's if I've been entertaining a spirit other than the Holy Spirit I just remove permission you have to go in the name of Jesus Christ is my house this is this house is Christ's house and then this is what I would do refill your house so my wife and I go through our house and we say God what is a blessing to you what's a blessing to our marriage and what's a blessing to our kids and anything that's a blessing to my house I leave anything that's managed to warm its way in that's not a blessing I remove hmm that's it I'm just I'm I'm I'm I'm making sanctuary is what I'm doing I want this to be a holy place I want it to be a sanctuary where the Living God feels welcomed and honored and I want my children to grow up in that environment in order for that to happen I've got it sometimes you got to clean out the nest that's good that's so good well we're out of time and I know that you've enjoyed at this line of conversation I hope you've learned something I want to thank Zach nice for joining us at the table today along with John Paul Jackson and for more information about Zach you can visit him online at Zach nice dot-com some of your music on there as well Zach nice calm if you want to reclaim the atmosphere of your home we want to agree with you in prayer today again there's a number on the screen there our prayer partners that are standing by that want to pray with you and encourage you and remember you can always join the conversation online by sending us your comments on Facebook and Twitter thank you so much for watching wicked talk on and on the subject may be another day until next time bye bye for today [Music] this has been a day star television production you

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Published: Fri Oct 25 2019