WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.380 It was overseas that I first encountered the demonic 2 00:00:04.380 --> 00:00:07.340 and the satanic world of the occult 3 00:00:07.340 --> 00:00:10.080 and different religions and the effect 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:11.620 and impact it had on people. 5 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.840 So when I was growing up in my Christian life, 6 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:23.800 I had all these opportunities to go on the mission field. 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:27.460 So I'd been all over Asia, smuggled Bibles in Europe 8 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:32.020 when it was a closed country under the old Soviet Union, 9 00:00:32.020 --> 00:00:35.460 then smuggling Bibles in China and then landed in Japan 10 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:37.780 and spent about 10 years a missionary in Japan. 11 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:42.300 But it was overseas that I first encountered the demonic 12 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:45.260 and the satanic world of the occult 13 00:00:45.260 --> 00:00:47.980 and different religions and the effect 14 00:00:47.980 --> 00:00:49.820 and impact it had on people. 15 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:54.820 So I had this experience one time in my apartment in Tokyo 16 00:00:55.820 --> 00:01:00.180 where this guy that I'd been kind of working with 17 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:04.819 in a Bible study was having these suicidal thoughts. 18 00:01:04.819 --> 00:01:07.500 So he was considering committing suicide 19 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.220 and he kept talking about how these voices 20 00:01:10.220 --> 00:01:11.500 were talking to him. 21 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:13.460 Well, I didn't know hardly anything. 22 00:01:13.460 --> 00:01:15.700 I'd maybe read a little bit about the satanic, 23 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.900 demonic world in the Bible. 24 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:22.140 I'd read, I think, one book on spiritual warfare 25 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:25.620 and I made the mistake of asking this demon 26 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:28.540 to manifest itself not even knowing it was a demon. 27 00:01:28.540 --> 00:01:31.300 I thought it was just this guy's got psychological problems. 28 00:01:31.300 --> 00:01:34.020 And then suddenly this demon just starts speaking to me 29 00:01:34.020 --> 00:01:37.220 with a different voice and in perfect English. 30 00:01:37.220 --> 00:01:38.740 And this guy did not have perfect English. 31 00:01:38.740 --> 00:01:39.580 Let me just say that. 32 00:01:39.580 --> 00:01:40.660 He didn't speak to me in Japanese, 33 00:01:40.660 --> 00:01:41.820 he spoke to me in English. 34 00:01:41.820 --> 00:01:44.540 And I was like, hello, this is a different world. 35 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:46.980 I don't know what I'm getting myself into. 36 00:01:46.980 --> 00:01:50.860 And so over the next three hours, 37 00:01:51.740 --> 00:01:52.860 I didn't know what I was doing, 38 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:57.500 but this guy, he was a fourth degree black belt in karate. 39 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:00.780 In English, in America, we say karate, 40 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:03.380 but in Japan, it's called karate. 41 00:02:04.380 --> 00:02:09.380 And so it was quite a pitched battle in more ways than one. 42 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:13.580 But eventually I cast out these three demons 43 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:14.820 and he was set free. 44 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:18.860 That was my introduction to the world 45 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:21.100 of Satan and demons on the earth. 46 00:02:21.100 --> 00:02:22.740 And they are definitely on the earth. 47 00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:25.180 And so here today, I wanna talk about 48 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:29.940 how the demonic world intersects with our world. 49 00:02:29.940 --> 00:02:32.740 And what I'm trying to do with all of these messages 50 00:02:32.740 --> 00:02:37.740 is really solidly build a foundation that's from the Bible. 51 00:02:37.980 --> 00:02:41.580 Because it's easy to get emotional. 52 00:02:41.580 --> 00:02:46.580 It's easy to start taking all kinds of crazy theories 53 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:49.500 that are out there about the demonic and satanic. 54 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:50.460 And I don't wanna do that. 55 00:02:50.460 --> 00:02:52.180 I wanna ground it in the word. 56 00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:57.180 So if you have your Bibles, look at Revelation 12, seven, 57 00:02:57.540 --> 00:02:59.020 and I wanna just read this 58 00:02:59.020 --> 00:03:01.740 because this is one of the key passages 59 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:06.740 that opens up to us what happened in a time immemorial. 60 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:08.920 We don't know when this occurred, 61 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:12.580 where there was a battle in the heavenlies with Michael, 62 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:16.700 one of the archangels of God and Satan and his angels. 63 00:03:18.260 --> 00:03:20.020 So let me just read this. 64 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:22.660 This is Revelation 12, seven through nine. 65 00:03:22.660 --> 00:03:24.740 And war broke out in heaven. 66 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:28.780 Michael and his angels fought with the dragon 67 00:03:28.780 --> 00:03:33.100 and the dragon and his angels, that's important, 68 00:03:33.100 --> 00:03:36.580 fought but they did not prevail 69 00:03:36.580 --> 00:03:39.840 nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 70 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.360 So the great dragon was cast out, 71 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.680 that serpent of old called the devil and Satan 72 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:47.400 who deceives the whole world. 73 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.240 He was cast down to the earth 74 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.160 and his angels were cast out with him. 75 00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:57.120 So Satan was, there was some kind of a battle 76 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:57.960 in the heavenlies. 77 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.080 We talked about the origins of sin 78 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.200 and the origins of Satan in an earlier talk 79 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:07.440 but there was this battle between the archangel Michael 80 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:12.440 and his angels where Satan and his angels, 81 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:15.360 which we're gonna learn about are demons, 82 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.240 were cast down to the earth. 83 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:21.839 So the angelic world has intersected our world 84 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.600 and Satan and demons are now upon the earth. 85 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.160 Paul in 2 Corinthians 4 writes, 86 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.560 but even if our gospel is veiled, 87 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.900 it is veiled to those who are perishing, 88 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:37.540 whose minds the God of this age has blinded, 89 00:04:37.540 --> 00:04:39.820 that's the key operable word, 90 00:04:39.820 --> 00:04:42.660 the God of this age, speaking of Satan, 91 00:04:42.660 --> 00:04:45.860 has blinded who do not believe 92 00:04:45.860 --> 00:04:48.260 lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ 93 00:04:48.260 --> 00:04:49.980 who is the image of God should shine on them. 94 00:04:49.980 --> 00:04:54.980 Now this is important as 2 Corinthians 4, 3 and 4 95 00:04:55.940 --> 00:05:00.940 because in my conservative evangelical background, 96 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.680 I just felt like people needed to hear the gospel clearly spoken and that's what they needed and then they would receive Christ 97 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:11.060 I didn't think in terms of there actually being a conflict 98 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:19.420 Within the spiritual rim where demons are actually blinding their eyes and that was revolutionary for me 99 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:25.240 Because then it changed how I prayed it changed how I presented the gospel 100 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:31.100 But the scriptures are clear that the God of this age has blinded people from hearing 101 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.560 listening and understanding the gospel of Christ 102 00:05:36.440 --> 00:05:38.760 Ephesians 2 1 & 2 we read and 103 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:46.440 You he made alive who are dead in trespasses and sins in which you also walked according to the course of this world 104 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:50.120 According to the Prince of the power of the air 105 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.520 The Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience 106 00:05:54.320 --> 00:05:56.600 So there is this Prince of the power of the air 107 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:03.160 There's this God of this age that is blinding and hindering people from hearing the gospel 108 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:08.920 And this is actually why I believe prayer so important why we when we pray we should pray 109 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:16.200 God's kingdom come God's will be done on people because we are actually praying 110 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:22.280 By praying to God we're praying against demonic powers that are 111 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:29.080 Powers working in those who are disobedient to the gospel. They don't even know anything 112 00:06:29.080 --> 00:06:34.040 I'm not saying people are everybody out there that doesn't have the gospel and hasn't received Christ 113 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.200 Is somehow demon-possessed not saying that at all 114 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:42.760 What I am saying though is that the God of this age the God of the power of this air is 115 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:45.320 hindering them from believing 116 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:47.400 Revelation 12 117 00:06:47.400 --> 00:06:52.720 Tells us that Satan is the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12 118 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.640 we read then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now salvation and 119 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.840 strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the 120 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:08.680 Accuser of the brethren or our brethren who accuses them before God day and night has been cast down 121 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.000 So a couple thoughts on that is it? 122 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:18.640 You know, I think as you're as you struggle in your own life with shame and with issues of 123 00:07:20.320 --> 00:07:22.320 Personal 124 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.000 Feelings of inadequacy 125 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.080 Maybe being reminded of mistakes you've made sins you've committed 126 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.480 Wrongs that you've done. That's Satan. That's that's demonic powers 127 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.760 Accusing you to create within you a lack of confidence 128 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:44.240 But the the operable word here is they're cast down to the earth. So here's some of the names of Satan these names 129 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.080 describe the character of Satan Satan means 130 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:50.840 adversary 131 00:07:50.840 --> 00:07:55.000 Lucifer is a word used for Satan to day star son of the morning 132 00:07:55.760 --> 00:07:57.520 accuser a 133 00:07:57.520 --> 00:08:01.480 Polly on he's called a Polly on which means the destroyer murderer 134 00:08:02.760 --> 00:08:06.160 Beelzebub Lord of the house of bondage 135 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:08.480 Belial 136 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:12.120 worthless one old serpent father of lies 137 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:14.040 tempter 138 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:15.840 roaring lion 139 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:19.200 dragon destroyer devourer of men and 140 00:08:19.960 --> 00:08:28.160 Deceiver so these this is the character that we're dealing with with Satan and that same character is the character of the demonic 141 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:32.120 World these this one-third of the angels of heaven that were cast down to the earth 142 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:39.960 What is Satan's destiny revelation 2010 the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone 143 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.920 Where the beast and the false prophet are and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever 144 00:08:45.160 --> 00:08:50.320 So Satan is doomed to hell. He's doomed to eternal bondage and I think 145 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:59.040 Satan seems to know this and we'll look at that in another message about these demons and satanic powers seem to know 146 00:08:59.560 --> 00:09:01.560 about their 147 00:09:01.800 --> 00:09:03.040 Destiny 148 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:07.720 So I want to talk about 13 characteristics 13 characteristics of demons 149 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.720 Let me go back to Revelation 12 again 150 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:17.480 The war broke out in heaven Michael and his angels fought with the dragon the dragons and his angels fault 151 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:22.580 But they did not prevail nor was a place found for them in in heaven any longer 152 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:24.760 So the great dragon was cast out 153 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:31.880 That serpent of that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives all world and he was cast to the earth and his 154 00:09:31.880 --> 00:09:34.640 Angels were cast out with them. So here's 13 155 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:40.160 Characteristics that we see in the Bible about demons number one. They are fallen 156 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:45.460 Unconfined angels, so they're spiritual beings. They're not like us 157 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.960 Okay, so so I think it's possible 158 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.920 And the reason I'm going to say this is because I think it's possible for angels 159 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.600 to impersonate people to look like a person and I have 160 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.000 A few, I believe, angelic encounters in my life 161 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.480 that there's no explanation for, but that they were angels, 162 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.120 but they looked like regular people. 163 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.200 Well, I think demons possibly, 164 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.760 say possibly because no way to prove this, 165 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:17.080 it's kind of a mystery, 166 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:22.080 but it seems as though that ability that angels have 167 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.280 as unconfined spiritual beings 168 00:10:27.280 --> 00:10:29.000 is also still true with demons 169 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.320 as they rebelled against God. 170 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.120 Number two, they always, 171 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:36.920 they always, literally always oppose God's work. 172 00:10:36.920 --> 00:10:39.360 Number three, they've been kicked out of heaven. 173 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.640 Number four, they deceive the whole world. 174 00:10:41.640 --> 00:10:43.600 They are Satan's workers. 175 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.960 They are Satan's foot soldiers. 176 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.560 Number five, their habitation now is not in heaven. 177 00:10:49.560 --> 00:10:52.380 Their habitation is here on the earth 178 00:10:52.380 --> 00:10:54.560 in the fourth dimension. 179 00:10:54.560 --> 00:10:57.660 Number six, they accuse, they tempt, 180 00:10:57.660 --> 00:11:00.020 they say lies about us. 181 00:11:00.020 --> 00:11:04.100 They are a part of the character of the father of lies. 182 00:11:04.100 --> 00:11:06.300 They lie constantly. 183 00:11:06.300 --> 00:11:07.860 So when I've cast out demons, 184 00:11:07.860 --> 00:11:10.580 I have at times asked for their name 185 00:11:11.460 --> 00:11:14.860 and I have forced them to tell me their name. 186 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:19.860 I have heard from other men and women 187 00:11:19.900 --> 00:11:22.980 who deal in the demonic that they never ask for their name 188 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:25.500 because they're, they lie. 189 00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:26.920 And I think that's true. 190 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:31.100 But I have at times felt the authority and power 191 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:33.540 to command them to tell me the truth. 192 00:11:33.540 --> 00:11:35.060 And they've done that. 193 00:11:35.060 --> 00:11:37.660 Number seven, and this is a really, 194 00:11:37.660 --> 00:11:38.760 this is kind of a weird one, 195 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:41.140 but this is Genesis 6, 4. 196 00:11:41.140 --> 00:11:43.740 And to quote part of this says, 197 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:46.720 "'The sons of God came into the daughters of men.'" 198 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.380 So it seems as though demons 199 00:11:49.380 --> 00:11:52.620 can actually have sexual relations with people. 200 00:11:52.620 --> 00:11:56.660 And there is evidence in the Old Testament 201 00:11:56.660 --> 00:11:59.020 of the descendants of Anak 202 00:11:59.020 --> 00:12:01.340 or the descendants of the Nephilim 203 00:12:01.340 --> 00:12:05.100 that they actually had offspring. 204 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:08.200 And there are these demonic giants in the land. 205 00:12:09.260 --> 00:12:11.500 I'm not gonna do much more on that 206 00:12:11.500 --> 00:12:14.620 except to say that's probably another message 207 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:17.060 that we could break down on the Nephilim. 208 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:19.500 Luke 11 says, 209 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:23.660 "'When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, 210 00:12:23.700 --> 00:12:27.260 he goes through dry places seeking rest and finding none. 211 00:12:27.260 --> 00:12:30.660 He says, I'll return to my house from which I came. 212 00:12:30.660 --> 00:12:34.220 And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. 213 00:12:34.220 --> 00:12:37.900 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits 214 00:12:37.900 --> 00:12:40.740 more wicked than himself. 215 00:12:40.740 --> 00:12:42.860 And they enter and dwell there. 216 00:12:42.860 --> 00:12:45.140 And the last state of the man is worse than the first.'" 217 00:12:45.140 --> 00:12:49.260 So number eight, they have degrees of power. 218 00:12:49.260 --> 00:12:52.860 So there are demonic spirits of power. 219 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:56.940 That we don't completely understand, 220 00:12:56.940 --> 00:12:58.220 but they have degrees of power. 221 00:12:58.220 --> 00:13:00.220 Daniel 10 is a great example of that 222 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:05.220 where there's this communication with God 223 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:11.060 through an angel in which an angel comes to Daniel 224 00:13:11.060 --> 00:13:12.580 and says, I couldn't get to you 225 00:13:12.580 --> 00:13:16.460 because the Prince of Persia hindered me. 226 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:20.520 And he also talks about the Prince of Greece there. 227 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:24.200 So it seems as though there's principalities and powers 228 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.180 which are covered in Ephesians 6, 10 through 18 229 00:13:28.180 --> 00:13:30.240 over nations. 230 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.380 And then there's levels of gradations underneath them. 231 00:13:33.380 --> 00:13:35.100 So I'll give you an experience I had. 232 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:37.880 I was in Okinawa, Japan. 233 00:13:37.880 --> 00:13:39.300 I was a missionary there. 234 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:42.060 And I was asked to come into a situation 235 00:13:42.060 --> 00:13:46.980 with a captain in the military. 236 00:13:46.980 --> 00:13:50.200 And he had tried to commit suicide twice. 237 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.520 He had already killed a couple people. 238 00:13:52.520 --> 00:13:57.520 And he was into a high level of spirit mediums 239 00:13:57.760 --> 00:14:00.600 that he would use, especially among temples. 240 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.480 And I won't go into the whole detail of it, 241 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:03.900 but he would go into these temples. 242 00:14:03.900 --> 00:14:06.580 He would get filled with these demonic spirits 243 00:14:06.580 --> 00:14:07.720 and he would take photographs. 244 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.840 And he became an award-winning photographer 245 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.400 in Okinawa, Japan. 246 00:14:12.400 --> 00:14:14.720 And he didn't know the first thing about photography, 247 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:16.360 but the spirit spoke to him. 248 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:17.920 He did what they told him to do. 249 00:14:17.920 --> 00:14:20.180 And what was interesting is he didn't take pictures 250 00:14:21.020 --> 00:14:21.860 of landscapes. 251 00:14:21.860 --> 00:14:22.780 He didn't take pictures of the beautiful ocean. 252 00:14:22.780 --> 00:14:25.660 He didn't take pictures of the beautiful islands 253 00:14:25.660 --> 00:14:27.500 or sunsets and all the things that would be a part of it. 254 00:14:27.500 --> 00:14:31.940 He always took pictures only of temples, 255 00:14:31.940 --> 00:14:34.340 Shinto temples, Buddhist temples, 256 00:14:34.340 --> 00:14:36.520 or Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples. 257 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:37.660 And that's all he did. 258 00:14:37.660 --> 00:14:39.780 And he won these awards. 259 00:14:39.780 --> 00:14:43.580 But when I began to minister to him 260 00:14:43.580 --> 00:14:46.540 in the power of the spirit, I realized very quickly, 261 00:14:46.540 --> 00:14:50.820 this guy has super high-level spirit. 262 00:14:50.820 --> 00:14:53.940 And I could not get the demons to come out. 263 00:14:53.940 --> 00:14:57.800 This was another category that I wasn't prepared for. 264 00:14:58.940 --> 00:14:59.780 At one point. 265 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.640 He told me later, he actually levitated off the ground, 266 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:06.720 about three feet off of the ground, 267 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.040 and was slammed up against the wall 268 00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:11.960 by this demonic spirit that he was casting out. 269 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.400 I told him, look man, I don't think you're ready 270 00:15:15.400 --> 00:15:17.060 to be set free from these demons, 271 00:15:17.060 --> 00:15:19.800 and I certainly can't work against your will. 272 00:15:19.800 --> 00:15:21.680 And so I backed off at that point. 273 00:15:21.680 --> 00:15:24.640 But later, he was personally ready, 274 00:15:24.640 --> 00:15:26.320 his faith was built up, 275 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.080 and he cast several demons out of himself. 276 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.720 But that was a level, a demonic level 277 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.580 that I wasn't used to at that time. 278 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:41.200 Number nine, demons can produce heresies, 279 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.340 deception, and false teaching. 280 00:15:44.340 --> 00:15:47.740 It says in 1 Timothy 4.1, latter times, 281 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:49.520 some will depart from the faith, 282 00:15:49.520 --> 00:15:52.360 giving heed to deceiving spirits 283 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.560 and the doctrine of demons. 284 00:15:54.560 --> 00:15:59.560 So there are religions, there are false teaching, 285 00:15:59.760 --> 00:16:04.120 there's even Christian, quote unquote, Christian cults 286 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:08.520 that are led by and are inspired by demons. 287 00:16:08.520 --> 00:16:12.080 James 3.15, this wisdom does not come, 288 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.480 does not descend from above, from God, 289 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.780 but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 290 00:16:17.780 --> 00:16:20.760 So heresies and deception and false teaching 291 00:16:20.760 --> 00:16:21.760 come from demons. 292 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:25.280 Number 10, demons are strong, 293 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:28.620 physically strong and powerful, 294 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:31.200 even stronger than men. 295 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:34.200 In Mark 5, it says, 296 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.040 when they came to the other side of the sea 297 00:16:36.040 --> 00:16:37.720 to the country of the Gadarenes, 298 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.520 when he had come out of the boat, 299 00:16:39.520 --> 00:16:40.680 speaking of Jesus, 300 00:16:40.680 --> 00:16:43.080 immediately there met him out of the tombs, 301 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.720 a man with an unclean spirit 302 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:47.760 who had his dwelling among the tombs 303 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:51.000 and no one could bind him, 304 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.120 not even with chains. 305 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.200 So there is a strength in certain cases 306 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.440 where someone has given themselves over to such a degree. 307 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:04.260 I would say this is demon possession. 308 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:06.760 This is not just demon influence, 309 00:17:06.760 --> 00:17:08.119 it's demon possession, 310 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.540 where demons can be very, very strong. 311 00:17:11.540 --> 00:17:15.640 Number 11, they can cause disabilities. 312 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.720 Matthew 9.33, and when the demon was cast out, 313 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.640 the mute man spoke. 314 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.599 So it can cause people to not hear. 315 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.280 Matthew 12, then one was brought to him 316 00:17:26.280 --> 00:17:29.280 who was demon possessed, blind and mute, 317 00:17:29.280 --> 00:17:31.840 and he healed him so that the blind and mute man 318 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:34.580 both spoke and saw. 319 00:17:34.580 --> 00:17:36.240 So it came from demons. 320 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.240 Matthew 12.22, then one was brought to him 321 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.000 who was demon possessed, a blind and mute man, 322 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.680 and he healed him so that the blind and mute man 323 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:46.800 both spoke and saw. 324 00:17:46.800 --> 00:17:49.080 So demons can cause physical maladies 325 00:17:49.080 --> 00:17:51.200 like blindness and muteness. 326 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.120 They evidently can cause deaf and dumb spirits also. 327 00:17:55.120 --> 00:17:59.440 Number 12, demons can cause sickness and disease. 328 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.960 And I'm not gonna go through all the verses, 329 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.800 but that was really a mainstay of Jesus' ministry 330 00:18:05.800 --> 00:18:09.360 was casting out demons that cause sickness and disease. 331 00:18:09.360 --> 00:18:13.680 And then 13, and lastly, they're doomed to the pit 332 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.060 and they even know it. 333 00:18:16.060 --> 00:18:19.840 So Matthew 28 and 29 is very interesting. 334 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:21.520 When Jesus had come to the other side 335 00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:23.320 of the country of the Gergesenes, 336 00:18:23.320 --> 00:18:26.500 there met him two demon possessed men 337 00:18:26.500 --> 00:18:29.380 coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, 338 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:32.000 so that no one could pass that way. 339 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.600 And suddenly they cried out saying, 340 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:36.720 what have we to do with you, Jesus, the son of God? 341 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:40.940 Have you come here to torment us before the time? 342 00:18:40.940 --> 00:18:45.560 So demons seem to know that there's gonna be a day 343 00:18:45.560 --> 00:18:48.720 where they're cast into the pit and tormented. 344 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.440 So Satan and demons are on the earth. 345 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:54.500 And as we move along in this study, 346 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:55.920 we're gonna start talking about 347 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:58.920 how they work individually in our lives. 348 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.160 But I hope this challenges you, 349 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.480 helps you understand biblically 350 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:05.560 what we're dealing with with Satan and demons.