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Let's

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not be done when they hang in the oven.

2:03

It's not a military suicide. It's not a

2:06

destructive suicide. It's

2:08

not

2:08

a pain for this. It brought it upon us. You're

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an occult. I love you and I want

2:17

you out of it and with Christ. But

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you're...

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We should never enter the world of the cult or the occult

2:30

without prayer because the Scripture

2:33

tells us that we are in the

2:35

domain of darkness and we

2:37

are facing the adversary,

2:40

the prince of the powers of the air, who

2:42

is that spirit that controls

2:45

this domain. So let us bow before

2:47

the Lord in prayer. We worship

2:49

thee and praise thee our Father because

2:52

thou hath given us victory in Jesus

2:54

Christ. Thou hath promised us

2:56

that we will conquer and that greater

2:58

is he that is in us than he that is in the world.

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Now we beseech thee by the power of thy

3:03

Holy Spirit to speak to our hearts.

3:06

Open the eyes and the ears of our souls

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and spirits and teach us of thyself.

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Teach us of thy glorious love and

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of thy great and unfailing salvation.

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Teach us of thy power to keep as

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well as to redeem and of the victory

3:21

which is ours because Jesus Christ

3:24

is Lord of all. These things we

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beseech thee in the name of our Savior

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and for his sake. Amen.

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Our subject is one which

3:35

is well known in the contemporary world.

3:38

It is the exorcists

3:40

and exorcism. Or if we

3:43

want to put it in terms that everybody can understand,

3:46

the best-selling novel of

3:48

demonic possession as the front

3:51

cover of the book maintains and

3:54

that the motion picture today exploits.

3:57

We ought to say something about the historical

3:59

as well. the contemporary background solve

4:02

the exorcists and exorcism

4:04

particularly since there seems to be such

4:06

a tremendous preoccupation with

4:09

today first let's understand

4:11

why we are concerned with the subject

4:14

of the exorcists we are concerned

4:16

with the exorcist and exorcisms

4:18

because any book that in gone through

4:20

thirteen printings in hardcover

4:23

since may of nineteen seventy one and

4:25

through twenty seven friendings

4:28

in paperback as of this day and

4:31

which has sold in excess of five million

4:33

copies in the united states and abroad

4:36

and will outsell all other books

4:39

of this type or for that matter

4:41

any other type in the united states

4:43

or for a number of years to come side

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believe certainly ought to invite

4:48

the attention of the christian church

4:50

it should invite the attention of the church because

4:53

there is something in the exorcists

4:57

that is of great spiritual

4:59

values and it should not in any

5:01

way be played down on

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i mean by this is that the

5:06

exorcists to get presenting

5:08

season on varnished

5:11

it is presenting the real

5:13

truth about demonic possession

5:16

in terms that everybody can understand

5:19

other reviewers of call that everything from

5:21

revolving so fascinating and

5:23

the film which will outgrows

5:26

the sound of music gone with

5:28

the whims and around the world

5:30

and eighty days and which has

5:32

lines of people hundreds of yards

5:34

long in our major population

5:37

centers as attracted the attention

5:39

of people who weren't even mildly concerns

5:42

before it's release about the existence

5:44

of the devil or of demons

5:47

and so we have to understand

5:50

that there is an historical background

5:52

and that historical background is season

5:55

he has always been everything

5:57

from fascinating to revolting

8:00

and whether it was Adam and Eve or Charlie

8:02

and Mabel, suddenly disappears

8:05

from significance. He is here,

8:07

alive, well, thriving

8:09

and powerful on planet earth. And

8:12

he must be confronted in

8:14

the light of scripture and by the power

8:16

which God has given the church of

8:18

Jesus Christ. Historically,

8:21

he conquered our first parents and

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penetrated and corrupted earth as he

8:26

did the entire cosmic structure.

8:28

In Exodus chapter seven, he has the

8:31

power to work miracles. And

8:33

in Job chapters one and two, he

8:35

obviously has the authority to

8:37

reach out and manipulate the elements,

8:40

whirlwind and lightning and

8:43

to influence nations so

8:45

that they rise up and do battle against

8:47

those that he desires. He

8:50

is not a caricature in

8:52

history, dressed in a red union

8:54

suit. He does not have a goatee,

8:57

horns or appointed tail

8:59

nor a cloven hoof. These

9:02

are figures assigned to him and

9:05

they always caricature him as

9:07

smelling of sulfur and reeking

9:10

with flames. Let me assure

9:12

you from biblical theology, he has

9:14

never been near any flames of that

9:16

nature and he does not desire ever

9:19

to be such. I also want

9:21

to point out that Satan is not a he, as

9:24

we understand he or a she. Satan

9:27

is, according to biblical theology, an

9:30

I, that is personality. We

9:32

don't want to think of it in terms of sex because

9:35

we'll stir up the male chauvinist

9:37

and the female chauvinist. We

9:39

want to remember the devil is sexless

9:42

and Satan is a spirit, described

9:45

in the Bible as a proud spirit, an

9:47

entity created in another dimension

9:50

by an all powerful being, the God

9:52

of the Bible, the God and Father of

9:54

the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the prophets

9:57

and of Moses, the God of biblical

9:59

revelation. He was created to

10:02

serve the Lord, but he was given free will. He

10:04

exercised that will by his own choice

10:07

against the sovereignty of God. And because

10:09

of that, he fell from his first estate

10:12

or position of glory, and

10:14

he uttered the

10:16

terrible pronouncement, I

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will be like God. I

10:21

will ascend. I, I, I,

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his constant affirmation. Now,

10:26

Milton made him in paradise lost

10:28

and regained somewhat of

10:31

a hero. And many magazines

10:33

in reviewing the exorcist and discussing

10:35

the subject of exorcism have portrayed

10:38

the power of Satan in such a way

10:41

that it makes it appear as if, in

10:43

the words of one magazine, Jesus Christ

10:45

is pallid by comparison.

10:48

Nothing could be further from the truth. And

10:51

though his power is enormous, and

10:53

though he exercised that power, he

10:55

was encountered by

10:57

the last Adam, Jesus Christ,

11:00

and he was defeated. The

11:03

scripture tells us that Christ encountered

11:05

him in the garden in

11:08

the glory of the resurrection, and death

11:10

was swallowed up in victory. In

11:13

John chapter 14, the Lord Jesus said,

11:15

though he is defeated, never

11:17

forget that actually he is

11:20

powerful and he is capable

11:22

of great authority. He

11:24

said, the prince of this world, or literally in the

11:26

Greek, the ruler of this world

11:29

is coming and finds nothing

11:31

in me. Now, you and I can't say

11:33

that. What we have to say is the ruler

11:36

of this world has come and he has found

11:38

plenty in us, and

11:40

he has exploited it. His activity

11:42

is well known throughout the world. If one

11:44

can recall Dachau, Auschwitz, Bückenwald,

11:48

or the Gulag Archipelago of

11:51

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, then

11:53

we are aware that his activity is not

11:55

corporate evil, but personal, violent,

11:59

subtle, decent. Because

14:00

there is a revolt against science and technology.

14:03

Because people are saying, if science

14:06

and technology are supposed to produce all

14:08

of these things, how come they haven't

14:10

accomplished it? They've been at it long enough.

14:13

Instead, all there seems to be is

14:15

a continuous denigrating of personality.

14:18

People are depersonalized. They are not human

14:21

beings anymore. They are computer cards. They

14:23

are numbers assigned at birth. Some

14:26

womb to tomb computerization has

14:28

taken over the cultures of the world. And

14:31

then there's a terrible spiritual vacuum

14:34

in which people are forced to live. This

14:36

vacuum of the soul is an emptiness

14:39

because man has turned from the living

14:41

God, who is the savior of all men,

14:44

especially those that believe, and

14:46

instead tried to fill the

14:48

vacuum with pleasure, tried to fill

14:50

the vacuum with the circumstances of life,

14:53

tried to crowd into the vacuum all of the material

14:56

and ethical values attached to

14:58

the material world. And what has

15:00

happened? People have turned around

15:02

eventually and said, there's got to

15:04

be something more than this because

15:08

we are not satisfied. So

15:10

satisfaction has not come through the dollar sign. Satisfaction

15:13

has not come through the pill. Satisfaction

15:16

has not come through economic

15:18

aggrandizement or political conquest

15:21

or military supremacy. Now

15:23

we live in a nuclear balance

15:26

of terror. All our technology

15:28

has led us to fear the shape of

15:30

a mushroom. And so people in

15:33

this spiritual vacuum are looking for

15:35

some kind of reality. And

15:38

into this vacuum, there does

15:40

come reality, occultic reality

15:43

from another dimension. As

15:45

we have a dimension on earth, the Bible

15:47

says there is a dimension of darkness controlled

15:50

by Satan and by his hosts. There

15:52

is also the dimension of heaven where

15:54

God reigns as sovereign and

15:57

the dimension of hell, whatever

15:59

it may be. and the Bible describes it in

16:01

many ways, it costs the life

16:03

of Jesus Christ to redeem men from

16:06

it. It is therefore to be avoided by

16:08

everybody at all costs. And

16:11

then there is a tremendous fascination

16:14

with the mysterious and the unknown. C.S.

16:17

Lewis once said, the devils applaud two things

16:19

equally. One, that

16:21

their existence is denied, and

16:24

two, that people become fascinated

16:26

with their existence. This age

16:28

in which we live and the exorcist itself is

16:31

proof of this fascination. People

16:34

are fascinated with evil. I

16:36

attended the exorcist not too long ago,

16:39

and as I sat in the theater and

16:42

as the lights dimmed, everybody

16:44

seemed to be anticipating something

16:48

of an unusual nature. What

16:50

was so fascinating about it was that

16:52

every time any little thing happened on

16:54

the screen, no matter whether it was supernatural

16:57

or natural, there would be screams and

17:00

people jumping. And one

17:02

fellow in the height of one of the exorcism

17:04

scenes stepped out into the aisle,

17:07

walked about ten feet and fell flat on his face.

17:09

And he had to be picked up and carried out. Now

17:12

I don't know if he was stoned on drugs or

17:15

on alcohol, but one thing I know, he

17:17

didn't look too brisk. And

17:20

there's a lot of people that go there and they don't

17:22

look too brisk when they're there or when

17:24

they come out. What fascinated me

17:26

was a friend of mine who's an

17:29

editor on a paper doing

17:31

a feature article on the subject in which I gave

17:33

technical assistance. And we

17:36

were chatting about this and he said, you know, I found exactly

17:38

the same thing. There was an awe,

17:40

a fear almost of people. He

17:42

said one fellow walked in, great big strapping

17:44

fellow, sat down in front of me, took

17:47

off his coats, braced

17:49

his legs against the seat, and as the lights

17:51

went out, he said, okay, I'm here now. Scare

17:53

the hell out of me. Now,

17:56

obviously, there are people who are looking

17:58

for some. something that's real

18:01

and they do not stop at going to look at

18:04

satanic reality. We must avoid

18:07

the idea that if an experience is real,

18:09

it's right. You can

18:11

have real experiences with Satan

18:14

and with evil spirits and

18:17

they are wrong and deadly

18:19

to the soul. The people are fascinated

18:21

with the mysterious and the unknown. And

18:24

then the influence of contemporary

18:26

Eastern religions and cults and

18:29

parapsychology which has given

18:31

a type of pseudo scientific

18:34

stamp of approval to the world

18:36

of the occult has penetrated the minds

18:38

of a great many individuals. Stanford

18:40

University's experiments with Uri Geller, the

18:43

young Israeli who is capable of predicting

18:46

infallibly the number of

18:48

dice in a box. When the box

18:50

is sealed and the number is not known to anybody

18:53

who can move solid objects from place to

18:55

place, who can cause a solid object to dematerialize

18:58

and who can stop a watch at will

19:00

or bend steel objects simply

19:03

by looking at them. This type

19:05

of pseudo scientific parapsychological

19:08

research has gotten people

19:10

interested in the world of the occult and all

19:13

of this has paved the way

19:16

for the development of interest

19:18

in exorcism and the exorcist.

19:21

And finally, the Bible has been

19:23

replaced largely as authority.

19:26

That's one of the things that we're going to be noting

19:28

as we study the exorcist. The

19:31

Bible returns to a place of authority

19:34

when one is threatened by other

19:37

dimensional forces that one cannot

19:39

touch, one cannot smell,

19:41

one cannot see. One

19:43

is frightened by these things and

19:46

so one automatically looks around

19:48

for some panacea. When

19:51

you have abandoned the Bible as authority,

19:53

when you have pushed aside what

19:55

God has said, not only on the subject

19:58

of life and morality and ethics. and

20:00

salvation, but also the world

20:02

of darkness and demons, then

20:04

you become prey to these things

20:07

because you have no defense, you

20:09

have no authority to resist

20:11

either. Now, let's

20:14

look for a moment at the methodology

20:16

of presentation in William Blatty's The

20:19

Exorcist. What did Blatty

20:21

do? Did he take a case

20:23

of exorcism and expound it faithfully?

20:26

The answer to that is no. What

20:29

then did he do? He took a

20:31

case of exorcism, which was valid,

20:34

and then changed some

20:36

of the material in the case and

20:39

brought together a composite

20:41

of all of the types of exorcisms

20:44

and evils that are available for

20:47

any student of the occult. The

20:49

central character, a boy

20:51

in real life, became a young

20:54

girl, and various

20:56

things were added to the script as well as

20:58

to the book, which gave it

21:01

its aura of authenticity. I'd

21:04

like to point this out because I think it's only fair

21:06

to do so. The methodology

21:08

of presentation is pseudo-historical,

21:11

pseudo-theological, sensational,

21:15

and pornographic. Everything

21:18

that could possibly be connected with evil

21:21

and demons of lust, which are well known

21:24

in the Bible as well as in human experience,

21:27

is wrapped around the

21:29

central character, a young girl called

21:32

Regan. Now, I think it's

21:34

important that when you read

21:37

and see The Exorcist, if you do, and

21:40

I don't recommend that it be

21:42

a study for those who are Christian

21:44

or religiously oriented because you

21:47

don't quite know most of the time what is believable

21:49

and what is unbelievable, what is credible,

21:52

and what is incredible, notice

21:54

that it ends up in the end, demon

21:56

three, Christians nothing. what

22:00

happens is that three people

22:02

get killed in the

22:04

demonic encounter and the

22:07

demon gets off scot-free. And

22:09

not only that, but the demon ends

22:11

up destroying one of the exorcists.

22:14

In the motion picture, graphically portrays

22:17

this. One gets the feeling as

22:19

one is viewing the film and reading

22:22

the book that Christ,

22:26

who is the source of exorcism

22:29

and the power of it, does not

22:31

receive the attention of authority

22:34

that biblical theology gives

22:36

him.

22:37

And

22:39

I have to agree with Time Magazine, the

22:42

portrayal of Blackie's Christ

22:44

in the exorcism is pallid

22:47

by comparison with the Prince of Darkness.

22:50

This ought never to be because the power

22:52

to exorcise in the motion

22:54

picture in the book is a power

22:56

that comes through Jesus Christ.

22:59

The demons are subject to

23:01

him. Now there are many true things

23:04

in the film, The Exorcist. And I'm going to deal

23:06

primarily now with the film because the screenplay

23:09

was written by Blackie, the author of

23:11

the book. Therefore, he is following his

23:13

own scenario. I'd like to

23:15

point out that abnormal sounds

23:17

from a person, growls and animal-like

23:20

sounds are perfectly normal. In

23:23

The Exorcist, the young girl, Regan,

23:25

emits these sounds and the demon emits

23:28

these sounds before the actual possession

23:30

takes place. She is in

23:32

the film, a young girl, roughly 14

23:35

years of age, who

23:37

suddenly changes her normal pattern

23:39

of life. She has been playing

23:42

with a Ouija board and

23:44

talking to a spirit called Captain

23:47

Howdy. Captain Howdy

23:49

is very unfriendly in the end.

23:52

But playing with the Ouija board seems

23:55

to be something perfectly normal. It's

23:58

treated in the film as just a long- or

24:00

a light thing. And when the young

24:02

girl tries to show it to her mother and have

24:05

the board work, the spirit will

24:07

not answer. But it is the

24:09

spirit of the board that

24:11

invades the house and invades

24:14

the girl. And it comes

24:16

about because she is trying to penetrate

24:19

the dimension of darkness by

24:22

using a simple object such as

24:24

the Ouija board. The

24:27

changes of facial expression that occur in

24:29

the film, in which as the

24:31

girl passes into deeper areas

24:33

of possession, her face changes expressions,

24:36

is perfectly consistent with biblical

24:38

demonology. And the sour language

24:41

in the film, which is thrown in pornographicly

24:44

for shock effect, is

24:47

used primarily perfectly consistent

24:50

with demonic powers that

24:52

have exercised their authority over

24:55

people from Australia to

24:57

Tibet to the United States in

24:59

the 20th century. The blasphemy

25:02

of God and of Jesus Christ is

25:04

well known in demonic study. Abnormal

25:08

violent strength. In the

25:10

film, the young girl attacks

25:14

one of the brain surgeons who is trying to

25:16

prove that she actually has

25:19

some type of affectation

25:22

in the temporal lobe of the brain. When

25:24

it all turns out negative, he

25:26

comes to the house because of her violent

25:29

seizures and her terrible language. And

25:32

when he comes to give her a hypodermic needle,

25:34

this 14-year-old girl with a flip

25:37

of the hand smashes him across the face

25:39

and lifts him about 10 feet across the room.

25:42

And he lies on the floor bleeding from

25:45

his mouth. Somebody says, it cannot

25:47

really happen. Yes, it can

25:50

really happen. Right in the San Fernando

25:52

Valley in California, one and

25:54

a half years ago, a prominent

25:56

clergyman, who is a big

25:58

man as I am, and two other

26:01

clergymen tried to

26:03

hold a girl weighing 120 pounds

26:06

who was possessed with multiple devils. She

26:09

successfully resisted them for

26:11

a number of minutes, all three of

26:14

them. One of them, she

26:16

kicked his shins until they were bloody

26:19

through his pants. Finally, she

26:21

was physically subdued. In

26:24

Newport Beach, California, I

26:26

encountered a case of demonic possession in

26:29

which myself and four

26:32

other witnesses were involved. In

26:34

this particular case, the girl, I

26:36

would say about five feet four inches tall

26:38

and weighing about 118 or 25 pounds in that bracket, took

26:43

a man weighing at least 180 pounds

26:46

and with one arm just flipped him

26:48

about five or six feet away so that

26:50

he reeled off the side

26:53

of a wall. And it took four

26:56

of us to hold her body to

26:58

a bed while we exorcise

27:01

the demons within her in the name of

27:03

Jesus Christ. During the course of that,

27:05

we found out that she was possessed

27:08

because she worshipped Satan. And

27:10

at that moment, he came with

27:13

his forces and took control

27:15

of her. But she was a perfect tear

27:17

in the wheat field, as Jesus said. She

27:20

married a Christian. She was the daughter

27:22

of a Christian minister. She taught Sunday

27:25

school in the Christian church. And

27:27

she appeared on the surface to

27:29

be perfectly consistent with Christian

27:32

theology. But she laughed the

27:34

whole time inwardly at the church and

27:36

at Christ and worshipped Satan.

27:38

It was not until her exorcism that

27:41

she was delivered and received Jesus

27:43

Christ as her Lord and Savior. She and

27:45

her husband today are on the mission field

27:48

serving the Lord Jesus Christ. She

27:50

has testified to this deliverance

27:53

and it is real. So we ought not

27:55

to think when seeing

27:57

the exorcist or reading it that such

27:59

a... things as abnormal violent strength aren't

28:02

there because there are. There's one scene

28:04

in the picture which is particularly excellent

28:08

because I think it does Christian theology

28:10

a great service. That scene

28:13

is where the mother enters the room and

28:16

as she enters the room her

28:18

child smashes her in

28:20

the face, sends her across the

28:22

room and the whole room is

28:25

transformed into flying objects,

28:27

records flying around, bed clothes

28:30

flying around, fantastic

28:32

effects created by the

28:35

presence of demonic forces. Now

28:37

somebody says well this doesn't

28:39

actually happen does it? Yes it does happen.

28:42

Objects do fly, things fly

28:45

off the walls, books come

28:47

flying off shelves and in one

28:49

case of demonic activity in Hawaii

28:52

I know of two young missionaries, both young women

28:55

who actually had cans and

28:57

bottles and jars fly at them

29:00

out of a closet until they invoke

29:02

the name of Jesus Christ and cause

29:05

the demonic activity to cease.

29:08

So in the film that's not something

29:11

that you look at and say it can't happen.

29:14

These are things which do happen and perfectly

29:16

consistent with biblical theology. Then

29:19

there is foul smelling excretions

29:21

from the body and in the atmosphere. We

29:23

have classic histories of this in demonic

29:26

possession. Desecration of sacred

29:28

objects such as statues with sexual

29:31

symbols and then of course levitation.

29:34

Some people say well that's something you play

29:36

with and kids play with that but you don't

29:38

really believe that solid objects defy

29:41

the law of gravity and rise. Oh

29:43

yes indeed they do. They've

29:46

been photographed under infrared

29:48

light and in broad daylight in

29:51

the presence of mediums, spiritistic mediums

29:53

controlled by the forces of darkness

29:56

and in the film there is a graphic presentation

29:59

of levitation. in which the young

30:01

girl's body is raised by the power

30:03

of Satan from the bed and only

30:05

returns to normal at the

30:08

use of the name of the Lord Jesus. Material

30:10

objects are shaken, wind-like

30:13

force throws the priests who are called

30:15

as exorcists about the room. The

30:18

child attempts to destroy herself, this figure

30:21

herself, scarring in destruction,

30:24

are the aim of demonic forces quite often.

30:26

And then multiple voices emit from

30:29

an individual. You say, well, that's

30:32

clearly a case of

30:34

schizophrenia.

30:35

That's what the psychiatrist in the

30:38

film and in the book thinks

30:40

too. And in real life, that's what the psychiatrist

30:43

thought until the power

30:45

in the girl convinced them that

30:48

the mother could not rely upon

30:50

psychiatry but instead

30:52

should turn to a very

30:55

ancient ritual. And

30:58

that ancient ritual was exorcism.

31:01

Blatty puts it very knowledgeably

31:04

in the book, and it's worth quoting simply

31:06

because he has done such a fine

31:08

job of presenting the medical

31:10

profession's attitude toward

31:13

exorcism.

31:14

Quote,

31:15

have you ever heard of exorcism, Mrs. MacNeil?

31:19

The books in the study were part of the furnishings

31:21

and Chris was unfamiliar with them. Now

31:23

she was scanning the title, Searching, Searching.

31:26

Stylized ritual, now out of date

31:28

in which rabbis and priests tried

31:31

to drive out the spirit. It's only the

31:33

Catholics who haven't discarded it yet,

31:35

but they keep it pretty much in the closet as

31:38

sort of an embarrassment, I think. But

31:40

to someone who thinks that he's really possessed,

31:42

I would say that the ritual's rather impressive.

31:45

It used to work, in fact, although not for the

31:47

reasons they thought, of course. It was

31:50

purely the force of suggestion. The

31:52

victim's belief in possession helped cause

31:54

it, or at least the appearance of the syndrome,

31:57

and in just the same way his belief in the

31:59

past. of the exorcism can make

32:02

it disappear. It's, well,

32:05

perhaps I should tell you about the Australian

32:07

aborigines, and then he goes on. Now, this

32:09

is a doctor's approach, a psychiatrist's approach

32:12

to the subject of exorcism. I

32:14

have a friend who's a deaf psychologist who lives in

32:16

Southern California. He was present

32:19

with me at the exorcism in Newport

32:21

Beach. Before we entered the room,

32:23

he said, I want you to know

32:25

I do not believe in demonic possession.

32:28

This girl is mentally disturbed. I

32:31

said, that may well be, but we'll find

32:33

out. And when we went in the room and

32:35

closed the door and the supernatural strength

32:37

was revealed, and suddenly

32:41

from the girl's body, a totally

32:43

different voice came and said

32:45

very quietly with a smirk on the

32:47

face, and she was unconscious. He

32:49

testified to that, quote, we

32:52

will outlast you, and

32:55

then silence. The psychologist looked

32:57

at me and said, what was that? I

33:00

said, that is what you don't believe in. And

33:04

we spent, I would say, three and one-half hours exorcizing

33:06

what he didn't believe in. At

33:09

the end of the exorcism, he was a devout believer, not

33:13

only in the personality of the devil, but

33:16

a devout believer in demonic possession, that

33:18

there are other dimensional

33:21

beings, entities,

33:25

egos, capable of penetrating

33:27

this dimension and of controlling

33:30

human beings. I want you to notice

33:33

that the knob on the door

33:36

to the kingdom of the occult is

33:38

on our side. Reagan

33:41

turned the knob with the Ouija board, and

33:43

the forces of darkness flooded into

33:46

her life. So multiple

33:48

voices in different languages are

33:51

not unknown in demonic possession. In

33:54

fact, it is one of the marks of

33:56

demonic possession. Also,

33:58

the fact that demons fear prayer. They

34:01

fear a crucifix or a cross

34:04

and they fear the name of Jesus Christ. These

34:07

three things they fear more than anything

34:09

else. I want you to notice also

34:12

that they are capable, as the film

34:15

points out, of imitating known or

34:17

familiar voices. There's a young priest

34:19

involved in the exorcism named Father

34:22

Carus. And Father

34:24

Carus has a problem because

34:26

he had to leave his elderly mother alone

34:28

and he feels guilty about

34:31

this and wants to leave the profession of psychiatry

34:33

at the university and spend time taking

34:36

care of his mother. His mother suddenly

34:38

dies after having been confined

34:40

to a mental institution and he has a terrible

34:43

guilt complex. When he

34:45

is in the midst of the exorcism, suddenly

34:49

the face of the girl

34:51

changes and out of

34:53

the mouth of the girl comes

34:55

the voice of Carus'

34:58

mother. Why

35:00

did you leave me, dimme? Why

35:03

did you leave me alone? Now

35:06

some people might say, oh well that can't happen.

35:09

Oh indeed it does. The

35:11

American Psychical Society and the British Psychical

35:13

Society have taste histories

35:16

ad infinitum and ad nauseum of

35:19

people who have materialized

35:23

faces and bodies, photographed

35:26

them under infrared light and

35:28

the faces resemble the so-called

35:30

departed spirit. The voices

35:32

on tape recordings imitate

35:35

the voice of the departed. But

35:37

the scripture says there is a great gulf fixed

35:39

between us and those that

35:42

have departed. We cannot cross

35:44

and they cannot cross. And

35:46

who is doing the imitating? The

35:49

Bible says demonic

35:51

beings who use

35:53

the voice and the knowledge and

35:55

the memory of departed loved ones

35:58

to draw people close to their own. influence

36:01

and control them. Now the film is

36:03

quite correct in showing that

36:05

the demons fear prayer. They

36:08

fear the crucifix or

36:10

the cross and they are terrified

36:13

and respond violently to the name

36:15

of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now

36:19

I want to add just a couple of other footnotes

36:21

to this before we deal with the biblical

36:23

analysis of it and what is wrong

36:25

with the exorcist and how we may approach

36:28

it and deal effectively with it. First

36:31

of all, demons do reveal

36:34

facts unknown to the person who's

36:36

possessed. A person

36:38

who is truly possessed may know things about

36:40

you or somebody else that

36:42

only you or that person knows. Some

36:45

parapsychologists say well that's not really the demon

36:47

that's just ESP. No,

36:50

it goes deeper than that because

36:53

in the different voices you

36:55

have a proclamation of information

36:58

that is diverse and manifold

37:01

and you simply can't say well that's ESP.

37:04

ESP becomes a very convenient

37:07

garbage tale into which to

37:09

throw all of the discarded thoughts

37:12

and fears that you may have. There

37:14

is such a thing as natural ESP which

37:17

has nothing to do with the occult. We are

37:19

speaking here about occultic

37:22

knowledge. Demons have that kind

37:24

of knowledge and they

37:27

can possess unbelievers

37:31

and they are liars. Those

37:33

things must never be forgotten. The possession

37:35

of a non-believer by demonic forces

37:38

can happen at any time. I

37:40

have an article coming out in the National Enquirer

37:43

of a young boy, 12 years of age, possessed

37:46

by 10 demons. He

37:49

himself never knew about what happened

37:51

to him until they invaded his

37:53

body. How did they get there? His

37:55

mother was involved in the cult and the

37:58

occult and she took him to a certain place. spiritistic

38:00

seance. And at that seance,

38:03

the child who wasn't even participating

38:06

was indwelt with multiple demons.

38:09

They were exercised after more than two and

38:11

one half hours by myself,

38:15

a Lutheran minister, a Pentecostal

38:17

minister, and a divinity student,

38:20

all of whom had to pray and literally

38:22

wrestle with forces that filled that

38:24

boy, distorted his face,

38:27

threw his body around, tried to choke him with

38:29

his own hands and tear at his face

38:31

and his eyes. And it took three

38:34

grown men to hold a twelve-year-old body

38:36

to the floor. Now, some

38:39

doctors say and some psychiatrists, well,

38:41

you know, people have fantastic strength

38:43

under unusual circumstances. You

38:45

know the story about the

38:48

car that dropped off the jack

38:51

on top of the husband underneath

38:53

and suddenly the wife grabbed a hold of

38:55

a bumper and pulled. And lo

38:58

and behold, the axle came up and the husband got

39:00

out from under. Well, for that moment, she

39:02

had super, super

39:05

strength. Well, that's not demonic

39:07

strength. Demonic strength

39:09

is not something that just comes at the moment.

39:11

It is consistent with the manifestation

39:14

and it remains until the demonic forces

39:17

have been exercised. Now,

39:19

we have to notice another thing. The

39:22

exorcist appeals to

39:24

people because they are fascinated with

39:26

evil and evil is a fascinating

39:28

thing. Being able to talk to

39:31

a spirit intrigues people.

39:33

That's why séances are in vogue

39:35

today as never before. That's

39:37

why the Spiritist Church in America has

39:39

tripled its membership in the last

39:42

twenty years. And since

39:44

the rise of occultism in the United States dating

39:46

from about 1966, we have seen tremendous interest

39:51

in the subject of Spiritism, clairvoyance,

39:54

telekinesis, which is the moving of solid objects

39:57

by spiritual or psychic force. All

40:00

of these things are very big today

40:03

and people are going towards them. The

40:06

exorcist is dangerous because

40:09

there are things in it which have

40:11

nothing whatsoever to do with biblical

40:13

demonology. And there are things which

40:15

can mislead. Let me cite some

40:18

of these. In the end

40:20

of the film, the young

40:22

girl has appeared

40:24

to be totally dominated

40:26

by Satan. And

40:29

in the film, there is this

40:31

terrible scene where

40:33

the elderly priest, Meryn, who

40:36

really knows about exorcism and really

40:38

knows that this is demonic force,

40:40

not psychiatric twaddle. And

40:43

he takes his crucifix out and

40:46

his Bible and the

40:48

Roman ritual as it is called, ritualo-romanum,

40:53

and begins to pray and

40:55

to exorcise the demon from the girl.

40:59

And the demon spews out of the mouth

41:01

of the girl this vile smelling

41:04

excretion and curses

41:07

the priest and his family. And

41:09

he proceeds to take

41:11

the crucifix and lay it

41:14

beside the bed and the girl sees

41:16

it, recoils

41:19

from it. And then

41:23

the exorcism continues. And

41:26

each time the name of Christ is mentioned and

41:28

the compulsion to obey

41:30

him, the demon screams on

41:32

some of these and shakes the bed and levitates

41:35

the child's body. This terrible scene

41:37

goes on and on and on as objects

41:40

fly about the room and as this terrible

41:43

manifestation of demonic force is seen.

41:45

It's all a composite. It

41:48

did not occur in the actual case. But

41:50

all of these things taken from case histories

41:52

of demonic possession are made to appear

41:55

that every time demonic possession occurs,

41:58

this will happen. That's not true. Most

42:01

of the things that happen happen in singular

42:03

cases. They are not

42:05

multiple in manifestation. But

42:08

towards the end, the old

42:10

priest has a heart

42:12

condition which he pushes too far.

42:16

He has a coronary and

42:18

collapses. And the

42:20

demon speaking through the

42:22

girl mocks the young priest

42:24

and says, Too bad he died

42:26

that way. He should have stayed alive

42:29

and we would have destroyed him. And

42:33

the young priest, as

42:35

we might put it, loses his cool.

42:39

And he screeches an

42:43

epitaph at the demon

42:46

and grabs the girl and

42:49

begins to beat and choke her. And

42:52

he says, You are pretty good

42:54

with children. Why don't you try

42:57

it with somebody that can handle you? Somebody

42:59

that is bigger. Try

43:02

me. Take me. Take... And

43:06

that is as far as he gets because the demon does.

43:10

And his face changes and his voice

43:12

and the demons begin to mingle together. And

43:16

as he looks up, he recognizes the fact of what

43:18

happened. And

43:21

he dives through the window down a fifty

43:23

foot staircase to his death.

43:27

Removing the demon from the premises, allegedly.

43:31

This is a very dangerous scene because

43:34

it is so dramatic. And

43:36

because Blatty has written it up in such a way

43:39

that it quits you. It

43:42

is dangerous because it is not biblical. The

43:45

Bible nowhere teaches that

43:47

a person may be possessed by

43:50

demons who is truly the servant

43:52

of Jesus Christ. And this

43:54

priest, and

43:57

from the diaries of the priest that was actually

43:59

involved in this, than the exorcism, we know this, this

44:02

treats the Christian and was

44:04

exercising in the name of the Lord

44:06

Jesus. Therefore, to be

44:08

possessed by the demonic horse, even

44:11

to be able to say come into me, would

44:14

be the antithesis of

44:17

biblical theology. Therefore,

44:20

this one scene is very dangerous because

44:22

it climaxes the picture and

44:24

it throws chills into

44:26

the souls of people who

44:29

think that they themselves, even

44:31

as Christians, may become

44:33

possessed by demonic forces. In fact, newspapers

44:36

have been bugged by people calling

44:39

in and writing about demonic

44:41

possession taking over their lives. Why?

44:44

Because they trace it to that last scene,

44:47

that graphic analysis. That could

44:49

never happen in biblical demonology.

44:52

And there are many reasons for it, which we will see

44:55

in just a moment. Secondly, there's

44:58

something else that ought to be noted. A

45:01

scene is introduced for shock therapy. A

45:03

masturbation scene with a crucifix by the young

45:06

girl, which is a horror

45:08

to behold. But the worst part about

45:10

it is, this can never

45:12

occur in demonic possession because

45:15

they will not touch the cross.

45:18

They will not touch the crucifix. They recoil

45:21

from this. And therefore, Blatty

45:23

introduced pure pornography into

45:25

the film in order

45:28

to convey shock therapy. This

45:31

is dangerous because people may come to think that

45:34

demonic forces have no respect

45:37

for the cross of Christ. In fact, they fear it. But

45:40

that is introduced and it is a dangerous scene

45:42

because people may and certainly

45:44

will be misled in many instances. And

45:47

a third important factor, the

45:50

demons refuse to be silent at

45:52

the name of Christ. I have engaged

45:55

demons in conversation. Now I don't

45:57

look for exorcism and I am not a professional

46:00

exorcist. It seems to hunt me up

46:02

on various occasions. All

46:04

I can say is I have addressed

46:06

them and little as I know about it, I

46:10

know that when you invoke the name

46:12

of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and say,

46:14

be silent, they are silent

46:17

and remain so. In the

46:19

film, the name of Christ does

46:22

not carry the impact that it does in reality.

46:26

And that is very dangerous because it makes Christ

46:28

look as if He just manages

46:31

barely to overcome the devil. Whereas

46:33

in reality, Satan has been overcome

46:36

by the cross and the glory of

46:38

the resurrection. And lastly, the priests

46:43

use holy water. This

46:45

is in the ritual Romanum and

46:48

as the priest throws holy water

46:50

in the sign of the cross on the young girl, she

46:53

goes into howling and screeching and screaming

46:55

because the holy water is

46:57

supposed to have some special significance

46:59

by its blessing. Except

47:02

in Roman Catholic exorcisms,

47:05

this is unknown. And

47:07

the idea that water, blessed

47:10

or unblest, is going to have any

47:12

effect on demonic forces is

47:15

an exercise in

47:18

the credulity of

47:20

people who are willing to accept anything

47:22

they hear about demonism rather than

47:25

weigh it in the light of Scripture. Now

47:27

let me point out that this is not a biblical

47:29

thing and no one should give it any credence.

47:32

The last thing of import is both

47:35

priests die. This

47:38

could not be if it is based completely

47:41

on the diaries of the priest and it's a distortion

47:43

because one of the priests is now 70 years of

47:45

age and his

47:48

diaries were used by Blatty as

47:50

the basis for the exorcist and for the Phil.

47:53

Therefore, to kill both the priests at the

47:55

end leaves us demons

47:57

to Christians nothing. because

48:00

the final resolution

48:03

of the problem takes place when the young

48:05

girl is free. But what is not

48:07

recognized is that Jesus

48:10

said when the unclean spirit is gone

48:12

from a man, and that's what this is a story about,

48:15

then it roams about

48:19

and it comes back to the house

48:21

it left, the body, and

48:24

brings seven more spirits and

48:28

enters in. So that the last

48:30

state of the person is worse than the first. In

48:33

other words, unless demons are

48:35

exercised in the power of God, the

48:38

person is capable of repossession, particularly

48:41

if the person does not receive Christ's

48:44

spirit to live within their body

48:46

so that they may overcome the forces

48:48

of darkness. Now,

48:51

a believer can never be demon-possessed.

48:54

There are multiple references for this, and I'd just like

48:57

to note some of them, because this

48:59

is one of the great things that comes out

49:01

of the exorcist. In 2 Corinthians 6,

49:04

verse 20, we are told that our

49:07

bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

49:10

Verse 29 brings together the thought

49:12

that whatever will attempt to defile

49:15

the temple of God, it, God will

49:17

destroy. So look carefully at 1 Corinthians 6,

49:20

and if you have a Bible with

49:22

you, or listening to the tape,

49:24

look carefully at it, and I think you'll see

49:26

something of great interest. God has given

49:28

us protection. 1 Corinthians 6, verse 29,

49:31

and also verse 20. Quite

49:35

graphic. For

49:38

you are bought with a price, therefore

49:41

glorified God in your body

49:43

and in your spirit, which are

49:46

gods. Verse 19

49:49

says, what do

49:51

you not know that your body is the temple of

49:53

the Holy Spirit, which

49:55

is in you, which you have

49:58

from God? You are not. your

50:00

own. You see, the Christian is

50:02

possessed by the Holy Spirit. And

50:05

verse 20 says, you are not

50:07

your own anymore. You belong

50:09

to God. If you are God's

50:12

property, you cannot be

50:14

invaded by demons because

50:16

the Lord is the tenant and

50:18

he is not going to let the apartment

50:21

become a duplex. He

50:23

is on the top floor and the devils are on

50:25

the bottom. That is non-biblical

50:28

theology. And so you must understand

50:30

this when you read it. The 2nd Corinthians chapter 6

50:33

gives us more insight into the subject.

50:36

2nd Corinthians chapter 6 is

50:40

very clear, spelling

50:42

out for us what God has done in Jesus

50:44

Christ. Verse 14

50:47

says, do not be unequally yoked

50:49

together with unbelievers, for

50:51

what fellowship has righteousness

50:54

with unrighteousness and what communion has

50:56

light with darkness. What

50:58

agreement does Christ have with

51:00

Satan or what part

51:03

he that believes with an

51:05

infidel? What agreement

51:07

has the temple of God with idols? For

51:11

you are the temple of the living God. As

51:14

God has said, I will

51:16

dwell in them and walk

51:18

in them. I will be their

51:20

God and they shall be

51:23

my people. The scripture is quite

51:25

clear. Christ has no concord

51:27

with Satan. The temple of God has

51:29

no concord with the temple of idols.

51:32

And we are commanded by

51:34

scripture to remember that the

51:37

believer has no fellowship with the unbeliever

51:40

nor righteousness with unrighteousness.

51:43

It is transparently obvious

51:46

in reading the word of God that

51:48

we learn the fact that

51:51

if we are God's temple and

51:54

that temple has no accord

51:56

in any way with idols, then

51:59

God's word must be accepted

52:01

as meaningful when it says that

52:04

what the Gentiles sacrificed

52:06

to, 1 Corinthians 10, 20, they

52:10

sacrifice to devils. So

52:14

the unbelievers' prayers, the

52:16

unbelievers' sacrifices are

52:19

directed to devils, not

52:21

to God because God

52:23

must be worshiped in spirit and in

52:26

truth, through the Holy Spirit and

52:28

in truth, and a person must be reborn

52:31

spiritually before one can worship

52:33

God in spirit and in truth. Please

52:36

notice that whatever

52:39

the Gentiles sacrificed to, the unbelievers'

52:41

sacrifices to is really devilish,

52:45

and we know that an idol is

52:48

nothing in this world. There

52:50

is no other God but one, 1

52:52

Corinthians 8. Now put this

52:55

all together. You are the temple of God.

52:58

God's spirit dwells in you. You

53:00

are possessed by the Holy Spirit, and

53:02

because of this, you can never become

53:05

the temple of idols or

53:07

the temple of demons. 1 John 4,

53:10

4 reminds us, greater is

53:12

he that is in you than he

53:14

that is in the world. You have

53:17

overcome them, little children.

53:20

Overcome who? The forces of Satan

53:22

in the world through the sacrifice

53:24

of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

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I'd also like you to look at 1 John 5 in

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your Bible. Many people are unaware of this

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passage, but they ought to know it, and it's an

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excellent passage for pointing

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out the authority of Jesus

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Christ in the life of the believer. We

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know that whosoever is born of

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God does not practice

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sin, but he

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that is begotten of God keeps

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him, and that wicked one

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touches him not. The King James says, keeps himself,

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but actually it's Christ who is keeping according

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to the It is the Lord Jesus who

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keeps you and that

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wicked one touches him

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not. Jesus

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Christ said he would keep you. He

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said, I will never fail you. I will

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never forsake you. He promised that

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he would be with us to the consummation of

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the ages. And he told the

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church that the gates of hell would

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not prevail against us. The

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Lord Jesus Christ has given his word

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and we know that the Son

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of God is come. Verse 20, he

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has given us understanding that we may know

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him that is true. We are in him that is

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true, even in his Son, Jesus Christ. This

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is the true God. This is eternal

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life. Little children, keep yourselves from

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devils. King James

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says idols. It's devils. Why? Because an

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idol is a representation of

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a demon. Children, guard

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yourself. The word keep means guard. Guard

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yourself against what? The devils. How

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do you do this? By knowing the

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place that you have in Jesus Christ and

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by putting on the whole armor of God. Ephesians

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chapter 6 says, put on the

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whole armor of God to withstand the

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methods of the devil. For we are not

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at war with flesh and blood, but against

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the spiritual rulers of the darkness

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of this age, against wickedness which is

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enthroned in the heavenly places. Jesus

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prayed for the church in John chapter 17.

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He said, I pray not for these

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only, the disciples and the apostles, but

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I pray for all those that shall believe

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on me through their word. He

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asked the Father to keep us from

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the wicked one. There's a lot of people today

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who are always talking about Jesus coming

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so they can get out of the world. Do

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you know what Jesus prayed? I pray

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not that you take them out of the world,

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but that you guard them from the wicked

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one. When the time comes to take out the

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church, God will do it. For

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the Father has placed these things in his own

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time. and under his own authority.

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Our task is to resist the

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forces of darkness through the power of

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the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let us draw

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all this together and come to the conclusion

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which is given to us in the scripture so

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that we not only understand it, but we're able

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to effectively do something about it. The

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Bible tells us that the devils

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believe and tremble. Don't just

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say I believe in God and expect deliverance from

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Satan, because that will not come.

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The demons believe and tremble.

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They believe in his existence, but when they encountered

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the Lord Jesus Christ, what happened?

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They said, we know who you are. You

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are the Holy One of God, Matthew 8, 29.

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We know also when Christ encountered Satan,

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Luke 4. Satan believed

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who he was. Satan encountered

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him with authority and said, I will

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give you everything because the world belongs

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to me. The whole world lies

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in the lap of the evil one, 1 John

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chapter 5. What did Christ say? Get

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thee hence Satan, it is written,

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you shall worship only the Lord your God

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and him only shall you serve. Christ

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rebuked him, but they knew who

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he was. And biblical demonology

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gives the Christian a very strong

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position. The scripture tells us

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that when the disciples of our Lord encountered

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demonic forces, that

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they had authority over them and

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cast them out. But

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Christ said, Luke 10 verse 20, do

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not rejoice that the demons are subject

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to you. You should rejoice rather

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that your names have been recorded

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in heaven. And there are some demonic forces

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that do not respond to normal exorcism.

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The Bible tells us these kinds,

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Matthew 17, 16, come out only by prayer and by fasting.

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When the disciples encountered demons, when

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Paul encountered demons, Christ's

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authority conquered. Acts 16, 16. Paul

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turned to a demon-possessed girl and said,

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come out of her in the name of Jesus

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Christ, and the demon obeyed

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immediately. The demons are present

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in the Old Testament, not just the New Testament. There's

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a seance recorded in 1 Samuel 28, verses 1

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to 6, in

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which Saul attempts to get information,

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and God interrupts the seance

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and executes Saul and

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brings judgment on the Jews. Manasseh

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was condemned and Israel driven into exile

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because they disobeyed Deuteronomy chapter 18.

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When you come into the land, God said, which

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I give you, Israel, do

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not do after the sins of

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the pagans. And so the demonic

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forces are well known in the Old Testament

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and the New Testament. In fact, God tells us Leviticus 20,

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verses 6 and 27, that

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the penalty for trafficking

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with demons was execution. We

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do not do that in our day, but it gives us some

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knowledge of God's attitude toward

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demonic forces. Now,

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what is the Christian supposed to do? In

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the face of demonic possession and

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in the face of films like The Exorcisms and

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exorcisms on the landscape. This

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is what the Christian is supposed to do. Put

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on the whole armor of God and stand

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against the methods of the devil. James 4,

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7, resist him, submitting

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yourselves to the mighty hand of God. 1 Peter

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chapter 5 says, your adversary the devil

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stalks about like a roaring lion, seeking

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whom he may devour. Resist him. James

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says he will flee from you. In

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Luke chapter 4, Jesus Christ

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encountered him and vanquished him by

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using the word of God. It is written,

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it is written, it is written.

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And then finally, Hebrews chapter 2, verse 4,

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a marvelous passage and 14, that

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tells us that it is the power of God's

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Holy Spirit that conquers Satan.

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that it is God's power manifested with great

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authority, for Jesus Christ, 1

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John 3, 8, was manifested

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to ruin the works of the devil.

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And Jesus, when he entered the world,

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died for our sins and rose from the dead,

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became victor over Satan. The

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Scripture says, He took from

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Satan the power of death, and

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He liberated all those who

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all their lives were in fear

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of death. How did He do it? By

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swallowing up death in

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resurrection life, and by conquering

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fear with eternal

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love. Fear has

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torment, but perfect love

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casts out fear. Do not

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be afraid of demonic oppression. Jesus

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Christ is the great deliverer. Call

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on Him. Do not be afraid of demonic

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possession. If you know Jesus Christ

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as your Savior, you are the temple

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of God. And if you are

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not a believer in the Lord Jesus, and do

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not rest in the authority of God's Word,

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then hear the Word of the Lord. And

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that Word is, whosoever

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will call on the name of the Lord, will

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be saved. It is by grace we have been

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saved through faith, and not ourselves.

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It is the gift of God, not by works,

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lest any man should boast. Victory

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over exorcism, and

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the forces of darkness. Victory

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over Satan and all his activities. Victory

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that lasts is

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victory sustained by God's Holy

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Spirit. For it is not by might,

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nor by power, but by my spirit,

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Seth the Lord of hosts. The

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exorcist has done many things, but

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the thing that I think it has done on the positive

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side is make people aware of

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the presence of Satan, of

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the reality of possession, and

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of the fact that Jesus Christ's name

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is capable of victory. Certainly

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there are exorcisms in... pagan religions. But

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the demons return and the

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forces of darkness still oppress the people. When

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Christ exorcizes, they leave

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because He is Lord

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of all. It is not for nothing that they cried

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out to Him. We know who You

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are, Holy One of God. Have

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You come to torture us before

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the day? The danger of the exorcist,

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the people may believe the untrue

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things in it. And believing

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those things may not see

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Christ as victor and

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conqueror, but instead be

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awed, fascinated and frightened by

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evil. We need not do this and

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we need not undergo this. All

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we need do is remember, greater

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is He that is in us than

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He that is in the world. You

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have overcome them. That

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is God's victory. Therefore,

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my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable,

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always abounding in the work of the Lord. For

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as much as you know that your labor is

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not in vain in the Lord.

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Our Father bless Thy mighty word

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that it may touch the hearts of people that

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they may see the dangers of

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the occult, the dangers of possession,

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the dangers of playing with the tools

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of the occult, with wages and tarot

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cards and fortune tellers and crystal

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balls and astrology, the danger

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of trying to penetrate a dimension that

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Thou, O Lord, has forbidden us to

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enter. And help us to see that Jesus

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Christ is victor over Satan.

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He bruised Christ's heel on

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Calvary, but Jesus Christ has

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bruised His head for all eternity.

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He is cursed by God and

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under divine judgment and

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victory is ours. O God,

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our Father, tell us with Thy Holy

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Spirit that we may encounter the forces

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of darkness and be more

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than conquerors through Him that loved us.

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In Jesus' name. Amen.