You notice the opening hymn and the opening
song were on the theme of spiritual warfare.
And that's where the Lord taught me some
lessons in there in the jungles of Erie
and Jaya, Dutch New Guinea.
And I want you to turn your Bible
to Ephesians 6, that's the warfare chapter.
That's where you read about the parts of
the armor that you're supposed to put on
so that you can stand against the powers
of darkness.
And the verses just come prior to those
verses of the armor in Ephesians 6.
The verses that I'd like to read for
you this morning, Ephesians 6, chapter 6, verses
10 through 13.
It says, Finally, my brethren, be strong in
the Lord and in the power of his
might.
Put on the whole armor of God that
you may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil.
And then at verse 12.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of
God, that ye may be able to stand,
to withstand an evil day, and having done
all to stand.
We live in an evil day, you know
that.
It must be possible for us to stand
in an evil day.
You notice verse 11 and verse 13 repeat
itself, that ye may be able to stand.
That you might be able to make it
in a day, wherever you are.
But that verse 12, as a missionary there
in the jungle of New Guinea, with these
headhunters, cannibals around, and all that occult, all
that demonism, and all those things, I wasn't
so sure.
This verse, in a sense, scared me more
than it helped me.
The verse ever done that to you?
We wrestle not against.
I think Satan reminded me of this verse.
Says, Otto, you haven't got a chance.
Look at it.
Look at the power here.
Satan knows scripture.
He quoted it at Jesus, and Jesus quoted
it back at him.
He knows the Bible better than we do,
I believe.
And he says, we wrestle not against flesh
and blood.
If we did, we could all go out,
and we ought to have a course in
the school for karate, right?
So that we could all make it.
But it's not flesh and blood, but against
principalities.
Whatever that means, powers.
And it gets worse as you go along.
The rulers of the darkness of this world.
How would you like to meet that?
And then the spiritual wickedness in high places.
And that's what Satan had me focusing my
attention on.
And I tell you, it gets you down.
And I'm here this week to encourage you
that we are able to stand.
And that we can make it no matter
what the odds are against us.
I never forget that first day when we
came into that village.
There were Jufo on the south coast of
Erie and Jaya, which used to be called
Dutch New Guinea.
And one of the older missionaries of the
mission had brought the mission boat up the
river with all our stuff, all our gear,
our supplies.
Incidentally, the man who brought it was Mr.
Preston.
I think some of you know Curtis and
Brent and Tosha who are here.
Um, and, uh, he brought the boat up
and we flew in as new missionaries with
a brand new baby, which we just had
on the coast and, uh, three weeks old.
And there stood all those dirty, smelly savages.
I mean, they, they never bathed.
They had sores.
They have flies all over.
And there they stood.
None of them, nobody had any clothes.
They all stood there.
They all looked alike to us.
And my wife being a nurse held that
baby tight in her arm, covered it with
a blanket.
And these women started pulling at the blanket.
They'd never seen a white baby before.
So they, they, they wanted to see the
baby.
My wife started slapping their hands.
I said, Carol, go easy now.
I mean, this is our first day.
I mean, boy, she turned them out right
there, you know.
But she wasn't going to let those people
look at the baby.
Well, we got them.
There was a house there that had been
built by a missionary who'd been there, uh,
nine months.
And his wife had to leave the field
because of illness.
And so the place had been empty and
he asked us to go to take that
station.
Uh, telling us that other missionaries would join
us when new missionaries arrived.
This never happened in visa problems.
And, and the other missionaries never did arrive.
And there we were all those years and,
uh, without anybody else.
Uh, never was intended that way.
But I remember going up to that house
and, and, and it was dark.
The natives carried all the, uh, goods up
to the house.
They unloaded that whole boat, you know, and
very quick time.
Everybody seemed to pitch in and, uh, I
couldn't understand a word of what they were
saying.
Neither could the other missionary.
He was with another tribe, Mr. Preston.
And so we, uh, we got it all
up there and got some food and got
some rest.
We were all tired.
Next morning there, they stood with their hands
out waiting to be paid.
And the whole village was there, men, women,
children.
Now I knew they hadn't all worked.
I didn't even have 300 pieces to carry.
Uh, and so I said to, uh, Mr.
Preston, I said, uh, do you remember who
worked?
They're all dark complexion, all curly black hair.
They all short, you know, nobody, if you
have a red shirt on blue shirt, you
can tell people, but they all wore the
same thing, you know?
And man, they were, they were grouchy people.
They, they yell at, they yelled at us
from the bottom of their throat.
A grouchy gurgling sound.
It was sounded like they were terribly angry.
That was their normal talk.
I didn't know this.
If I had, it wouldn't help me a
whole lot.
But I thought they were raving mad.
I thought, why are they angry at me?
And there they stood.
And, uh, I tried to find out who
you guys work.
See, I'm Dutch by birth.
I was born in Holland.
We Dutch people never pay somebody for not
doing anything.
We're, we're just that way.
And, uh, and so I, I thought now,
who of you guys worked?
You know, I tried, but they all hollering
at once.
And, uh, they're getting angrier by the minute
when they thought, as I hesitated, they thought
I wasn't going to pay him.
And I asked, uh, Mr. Preston, I said,
do you remember who worked?
He says, no.
I said, what do I do?
He says, pay him, you know, pay him
quick.
And I said, well, I don't know who
to pay.
He says, pay him all.
Well, he'd had experience.
Well, I didn't want to pay him all,
but I did.
And, oh, then as they went home laughing,
that dumb white man, you know, we got
a vengeance first day.
Wait till we come back, get the rest
of it, which they later did.
And if we do tell the pineapple story,
you'll, you'll know that they helped themselves to
the rest of it.
But, uh, they, they were looking at all
our things and, oh brother, I prayed them
all.
But then after the rest went home laughing
at me, the others, about 10, 12 men
stood there.
Now I knew who had carried the heavy
stuff.
They were mad.
Now I knew what it was to be
angry.
I tell you, they stood there and foamed
at the mouth and yelled.
And, oh, I thought, what do I do?
I pointed to the village, you know, go
away.
You know, I didn't know that they pointed
with their chin.
I was pointing with my finger.
They look at my finger, wondering what I
was doing.
But finally I just shut the door and
locked it as if that was going to
help.
Hey, they could get under the house that's
on post and burn the place down.
No time for that.
The windows were no windows, just mosquito screens.
I mean, I said something to my wife.
I should never have said.
I said, honey, I think we're going to
set a record.
She says, what?
Martyred the first day in.
Now I should never have said that to
my wife.
I mean, that didn't help her any.
You don't, now you marriage, you don't say
that to your wife.
I learned the hard way.
I never told her that again.
I never told her that I was afraid,
although I was afraid about every day.
She would tell me she was afraid.
Honey, you're just going to have to commit
it to the Lord.
Because I knew from experience that was what
I was doing every day.
But oh, I finally, the mission, the other
missionary left.
We had another missionary came in for a
couple of weeks.
Help us get started on language.
He was in another station and there we
were left on our own.
Oh, I learned to pray those days.
You better believe I did.
People say, were you afraid?
Oh, sure.
We'd be lying if we said we weren't.
You don't know that language.
And there are, of course, people like that.
And then my wife gets sick with hepatitis.
She was down on her back for nine
months that first year.
And I had never cooked in my life.
You're going to be missionary.
Hey, learn to cook.
It's hard enough with those foreign foods and
so on.
But that old kerosene stove would not burn.
I was inherited from the other missionary.
And I took the thing apart and I
fussed with it.
It was a complicated thing, rusted.
And the kerosene was dirty anyway.
And I couldn't get that thing together again.
I passed it.
I set it on fire a couple of
times.
And, oh, friends, I couldn't get it going.
I had my devotions beside that stove so
it would heal.
Maybe it'd get healed.
I let my tears run on that stove
just to see if it would have pity
on me.
There was nobody that could fix it, you
know.
And I laid my hands on the stove,
you know.
I didn't have to anoint it with oil.
There was oil all over the place anyway.
But, you know, I tried to, man.
Here I was outside with that big black
pot cooking my rice.
You know, a couple of sticks in a
wood fire.
And those natives stand around coughing and spitting.
And I said, get away from my rice.
You know, I almost getting to be like
a nurse.
I was starting to see germs too.
And, you know, oh, friends, have you ever
been frustrated?
You know, the worst thing about that stove
was dumb.
It was a Phillips.
It was a Dutch stove at that.
It made it even worse.
But, you know, when my wife got sick,
I had to wean that baby and put
him on the bottle.
Now, my wife had these fancy bottles.
You ever seen those plastic sacks in those
white containers?
Men, don't allow them in your house.
They're no good.
They did this.
They leak.
Oh, terrible.
And I had this pot of milk trying
to get through that thing.
And then you're supposed to warm up the
milk.
Hey, my stove wouldn't burn.
Friends, let me tell you mothers something here.
This is a good way.
Don't let those babies push you around.
They, hey, mine is six foot three now
and plays basketball.
And he's as strong as any of them.
And he made it on cold milk.
So don't, if they, if they get hungry
enough, they'll take it.
Well, you know, but that radio wouldn't work
neither.
I had a little two-way radio and
the coach would call us, say, Jufo, is
everything all right there?
And I'd say, everything's fine.
Thank you.
And why did I say that?
Everything wasn't all right.
Now, I told him my wife had hepatitis.
But brother, why do you cover up the
fact that you're a failure?
You know, well, I was only at this
three months and I was a Dutchman.
Dutchman never confessed that they can't make it.
We'd rather die than fail or admit that
we fail.
And so I wasn't going to give up
that quick.
And so everything was fine every day on
the radio.
But that radio voice got weaker and weaker.
You know, you're supposed to charge a battery.
But my battery charger wouldn't work.
It was a Briggs and Stratton.
Don't get one of those.
That thing I pulled the natives.
I, I got a little bit of language
by now.
And I said, missionary, you're so dumb.
You've been, you've been pulling that thing all
morning.
The other missionary just pulled it one time.
Man, I felt like telling them they weren't
so smart themselves.
I mean, when I started to write, they
said, wow, he carves fast.
You know, it must have been a fast
carving.
So they weren't.
At least I had, I tried to tell
them I had a BA, you know, from
college.
I've been to college.
They didn't believe it.
But, you know, they called me dumb every
day for 14 years.
I started to believe it.
After a while, you, you catch on, I
suppose.
But, you know, finally, they, when we were
out, it's an, it's an excellent opportunity to
worry when the voice gets slower every day.
And one of these days you're going to
be off the air, you know, you, you
start worry.
One of these slow things.
Finally, the plane came and brought us a
new battery charger and so on, whatever.
They, they seek for you after about three
days and you're off the air.
But I try to get that outboard motor
going on the river.
That was my little boat, little fiberglass boat
to be used on those rivers.
There are no roads and no swamplands and
used for evangelism.
I couldn't get that boat motor going either.
I'd never had any training on small motors.
I came back on furlough.
I'd had, I've been to the, you know,
I've been to Bible school, you know, and
learned theology.
But, uh, I didn't know how to run
these motors.
I did that first furlough.
You better believe it.
I learned how to operate some of those
things, but I couldn't get it going.
And I said, oh, that's great.
I hope it never goes, you know, because
I didn't like those crocodiles in that river.
And, and, uh, I wasn't, I wasn't concerned
with evangelism.
I was concerned with survival somehow, somehow to
make it, I was getting letters from home
once in three weeks, a plane come out
of how many churches are you starting?
You know, you know, I, I, I hadn't
even thought of that yet.
Um, I was a soul winner back home
in Ontario, Canada, where I, we were immigrants
to Canada.
Uh, and, uh, I, I knew the right
verses to use to win people to Christ.
You know, you can get it, you could
get to, you can get good at it.
So they can't say no.
I don't know how many people I won.
I, I was a personality winner, I guess
more than a soul winner.
Uh, but they thought that if I got
out there in the jungle, I'd convert that
whole island in no time flat.
That's where these letters were coming.
How many Christians you got and all that?
Well, man, I didn't even know how to
speak the language yet.
Uh, all these problems came up.
Now, then the medical work, I remember my
wife having started the clinic and now that
she's sick, they came to me, said, Turan,
give us medicine.
I said, I don't know how to do
that.
You just go home.
Oh, Turan, you're too stingy.
You're eating all the pills yourself.
Uh, they, well, they were looking through our
windows and we were taking vitamins and they
thought we were eating.
They said, Turan, just open the door in
that building back there.
And right around the corner is where your
wife keeps the box.
And they'd say, I want the red ones
and I want the white ones.
And they all had their favorite color pills.
And, um, I don't know, every day they
called me Stinzy.
And, uh, finally I said to my wife,
what do I do?
Well, I brought the box in the whole
house and she took out the potent drugs
that I could kill people with, uh, codeine,
what have you.
Sent me out there with the malaria and
the aspirin, what have you.
Taught me how to give shots on a
lemon.
And I got good at that.
I'd really be able to shoot them up.
And I was out there in a full
-fledged medical worker.
Can you imagine that?
Uh, I'd say, here they stood around, the
flocks of them, their flies and their sores
and tropical ulcers.
And I'd pull their teeth with my pliers
and I'd sew up their wounds when they'd
cut each open.
And I'd help deliver their babies to problem
cases.
And, uh, brother, but there they stood all
yelling at once.
You know, you, you, you don't know how
to, this diagnosing is a problem.
Uh, they'd have these internal diseases.
What are you going to do with them?
Uh, they would say the evil spirits shot
me right here.
Show me the scar.
I say, you gotta be kidding.
I mean, evil spirits are spirits.
They got, they don't go around shooting people.
They showed me the bruises and, uh, on
their backs where they'd been beaten.
And I couldn't believe it.
After 14 years in that jail, I do
believe these things happen.
Uh, but at that time I thought, no,
no, they, people are all deceived.
And, uh, I, I didn't know what to
do at all.
How do you treat a, uh, a shot
that, uh, that the evil spirits give a
guy?
I mean, even doctors here would be, uh,
stunned at this, uh, wonder what to do.
I, I didn't know.
Finally, I hit a system.
I, I asked him, I said, where do
you hurt, man?
And if it was from their belt up,
I'd give him aspirin.
And from the belt down, I'd give him
sulfa.
And I just shot him right through that
clinic, you know, just got him.
My wife was always amazed how I got
them all treated so quick.
And, uh, I, I, I believe, I believe
one time a guy, he'd been shot by
the evil spirit here and went down below
the belt.
So I gave him both.
Um, I think I saved some lives.
I really hope so.
I, I know I lost some, but of
course, doctors here at home do the same
thing.
They save some, lose some.
So what's the difference really?
Um, but you know, one thing they said,
he loves us.
He loves us.
He's sharing his medicine.
Oh, I'd give him all kinds of things.
If I didn't think they, they wanted attention,
well, I'd give him something else.
Uh, I give him shots of water.
If I felt they didn't need penicillin, uh,
I made that, I used those big needles
that left, you know, an extra big hole.
So that discourage them from coming back too
quick.
I sewed him up without anesthesia.
Um, and later I found out that the
more it hurt, the more it's going to
help.
Oh man.
Then I sharpened my needles again.
Have you ever been frustrated?
I mean, really?
Have you ever been called to do something
that you weren't ready to do?
It sounds funny now, but oh, the frustration,
the day by day, all these people hollering
at me.
Then in the morning, think of it in
the morning, I'd get up or I'd wake
up.
There's the people outside the door.
Give us medicine to him.
Yelling at me.
Here was that baby yelling, screaming at me
for his milk.
You know, he was one of those that
first thing in the morning screamed, you know,
first thing he did.
And he, when he started to eat solids,
he'd scream between every bite, you know, you
shovel it in as fast as you can.
He'd let out a scream between, that's the
kind.
So I, I said, Lord, who am I
going to shut up first?
You know, here's that baby, you know, here's
that, this frustrated just about that time.
I didn't feel called to be a missionary
anymore.
I, I really prayed, Lord, make my wife
sick enough so we can go home.
Uh, people say, well, you must not love
your wife.
I do love my wife.
She was praying the same thing, but we
had to give, have a good legitimate excuse
to go home.
You know what I mean?
So you can tell your home churches, Hey,
my wife got sick, you know, nothing else
is wrong with us.
Oh, friends.
And that's pride, isn't it?
And, but there was other problems, the, these
demon possessed people.
I was praying a very sincere prayer.
I said, Lord, don't let me ever meet
a demon possessed person.
I really prayed that sincerely because I wouldn't
know what to do with them.
And I didn't want to meet any.
What foolishness was this prayer of mine when
all these people were, there was a blanket
control of Satan over these people.
They'd all given place to the devil as
they met their enemy fighting.
Uh, they would invite the evil spirits to
come into them so that they could fight
the enemy.
Well, there, you got a whole gang of
them just going wild.
People ask me about the bloodshed and the
head hunting.
Is it still happening?
Oh, yes.
And many of, many of these tribes were
missionaries and government hasn't gone.
And there's approximately 150 of these tribes today
that haven't been touched.
Some of the most never seen a white
man.
And they're there today carrying on in total
control by Satan.
What they eat that, uh, is, is controlled
by Satan and what they, uh, whatever they
do.
I later friends, I later found out what
some, what their culture was by taking a
Bible principle, something that Jesus very clearly tells
us to do and doing and, and taking
the opposite of that.
And I said to them, do you do
that?
And they said, yeah.
How'd you know?
Well, it was contrary, the opposite to what
the Bible teaches.
And you could go right through scripture, all
the commands of all, all the teachings of
Jesus Christ and the commands of God and
take the opposite.
And that's Satan's way.
And he was controlling him just from A
to Z.
They, they ate stuff that wasn't good for
them.
That's why their teeth rotted out.
Uh, baby teeth of children before they got
their new set in would rot out.
Uh, they would die by 45.
Most of them were dead.
Satan destroying them, whole tribes of them.
And, uh, the only thing that was good
for them that they, that they, that was
good for him that Satan had them a
eat was, what do you think?
Well, that was my pineapple.
The only thing that was good for him,
Satan was willing to make an exception to
ruin me, to ruin my victory, keep me
angry.
You see, but he, he was destroying that
way.
They believed all Satan's lies, blanket control.
And they were, and here I was praying,
Lord, help me never to meet one of
them.
Little did I know that on this side
of me, uh, was a close by the
first house lived CB, about a 16 year
old boy who was always falling into the
water and always falling into the fire and
I'd bind up his wounds and burns and
terrible, finally get them all healed up and
he'd fall in the fire again.
And so frustrating.
We called him an epileptic.
Later we found out he was a possessed
boy.
I asked another missionary, do you have any
epileptics or do you have any demon possessed
people in your tribe?
And they said, no, and don't know of
any.
I said, do you have any epileptics?
Oh, you have lots of them around.
We were totally unaware of these things and,
and not ready for this.
Uh, this CB would do everything he could
to ruin my life.
I mean, he'd get in there.
We had a barrel of water, caught the
rainwater out in front there for the kitchen
use.
And he would get the only piece of
soap in the village and start taking his
bath in my drum of water with his
dirty wounds and bandages.
And, oh, I was so mad.
He did this over and over again.
Just ruined my day.
I'd get so angry.
I hit him once.
I shouldn't have.
He'd crawl under the floor, look up through
the cracks in the wrong rooms.
He would just get on the, on the
window in the middle of the night and
screen the window and let out a big
howl in the middle of the night.
I'd go clean off the bed.
Didn't slumber.
Miserable.
That kid, that fellow was wearing me out.
And I didn't know it was a demon
controlled.
Taken away to victory and a missionary and
to help because my nerves were going down
real fast and I was heading for a
nervous breakdown and my wife was not well
physically next door was on the other side
lived Watsy.
Watsy's wife had twins.
One is a demon.
One's a human.
So they want to kill one.
Well, we saved both and she died in
Chalbert and we pulled both of those kids
through.
They had a big fight over her belongings
and over who was going to get those
children.
And he got shot through the arm and
we got him over that.
But he was crying at night, wailing right
next door to us.
Uh, the house was, well, about as far
away from me as that pillar was the
corner of his house.
Too close.
But you know, Watsy would scream, yell, beat
his drum every night.
Just make a big, and I, we couldn't
sleep.
It was so close.
He let out a big yell.
I came to him one morning and said,
Watsy, why don't you do your crying and
yelling in the daytime so we can all
sleep at night?
And he says, ah, Tuan, I don't have
to worry about daytime.
The ho-hoi doesn't bother me.
The evil spirits won't bother me in the
daytime.
I said, well, why should they bother you?
Ah, Tuan, she died before I did.
That's the problem.
She's an evil spirit now.
She's going to get back.
I said, why should she want to get
back?
Ah, Tuan, you know, I used to beat
her all the time.
Now he's going to beat me.
That evil spirit, she was the lucky one.
She died before I did.
She's going to get back at me.
I've got to stay awake, Tuan.
When I feel myself going to sleep, the
evil spirits come in the dark.
When I feel myself going to sleep, then
I, I beat my drum and I jump
up and down.
I said, I know you do it.
Wakes all the rest of us up.
He says, well, that's what I'm trying to
do.
Wake me up.
Oh, I said, man, wearing me out.
We needed to sleep so desperately because the
hot humid weather and all the things going
on.
So Satan was using us, breaking us down.
If you were Satan and you saw a
couple of missionaries coming into your territory, what
would you do?
Try to get rid of them, right?
Somehow, listen to this one, somehow make them
want to go home.
How's that?
That's exactly what I was asking the Lord.
Lord, make her sick enough so we can
go home.
I was wanting what Satan wanted.
Who wanted me there?
Of course, God did.
You see, here I, as a Christian missionary,
am siding with Satan's wishes.
And I'm unconscious of it.
Made a study of this, how often we
as Christians in America and missionaries know, side
with Satan against God.
Every time we worry, we do it.
Satan says, worry about this one.
See, the radio is going to be off.
Jesus says, Philippians 4, 6, be anxious for
nothing.
By everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
and so on, trusting in God.
And what do we do?
We say, yes, Satan, you're right.
You're worried.
Satan says, here comes those headhunters.
They're going to get your head this time.
Fear comes at me.
Jesus says what?
Fear not.
I'm with you.
Be nothing that's made.
I'm thy God.
I will strengthen thee.
Yea, I will help.
You know, all the verses on fear.
Jesus says, fear not.
Satan says, fear, what do I do?
I'm scared to death.
And many, many times I find, I found
that I'm agreeing with Satan against God.
And right now I'm finding ways it's happening
here in the States where we're doing the
very, very same thing.
Always siding with Satan against God.
And when you think of God in heaven
looking down on us, oh, what must he
think?
Oh, the sad shape of my people who
are siding more with my enemy than with
me, even though we're in Bible college and
what have you.
And friends, we were going downhill fast.
There was, there was a personal problems, the
things inside.
I get to the mission.
I got to the mission field and I
was a warrior.
Always had been.
I got it from my father.
It's really his fault.
Nor is it a fearful person.
Almost died in the war in Europe and
Holland there.
Almost drowned in the Atlantic on that crossing
in 1948 on that boat.
And I was afraid and I had that
all the way through.
I got born again there in Canada, but
friends, I still had that fear.
Fear of sin.
You know that chronic fear is sin, but
you can get by a mission board, put
your tie on just right, comb your hair
nice, look good, talk good, have all the
verses memorized and they can, and have all
the good references.
And nobody will never know that inside of
you, you're not ready.
You go to mission field.
We're trying to catch this now and admission
in our mission board.
We're trying to screen that out.
And we come out right point blank.
Hey, do you have victory over fear and
worry?
How about it?
I'll be honest, you see.
And because how Satan will hold that against
you.
He got me out of auto.
God can't use you.
That's right.
You haven't got victory over fear.
You haven't got victory over worry.
I was saved at a later age.
You haven't got victory over impure thoughts.
The old filthy story that you hear back
in the locker room days and whatever you've
read and heard and seen lodged in the
back of my mind.
And here you get these impure thought problems
that you ask God forgiveness for.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
You can ask forgiveness and God always forgives,
doesn't he?
How many times has God forgive?
Do you ever confess the same sin over
and over again?
Anybody here does that?
Same one every day?
God forgives you every day.
Oh, that's grace, isn't it?
The grace of God, people.
He would forgive us.
And I thought now, how long?
Two years of it.
Every day these sins.
Will God forgive me?
God does.
His grace is sufficient for all our sin.
That's grace of God.
We ought to thank him from the bottom
of our hearts for that very fact.
Otherwise, none of us could be here.
Otherwise, from president down, the fact that none
of us would have a chance if God
didn't forgive over and over again.
But that's not victory, is it?
That's leaning on the grace of God.
But God wants far more than living that
way.
It's a miserable life confessing the same sins
over again.
I got to the place where I'd confess
ahead of time sometimes.
I knew I'd do it again.
Have you ever told your little brother or
your child, Johnny, now say, Jesus, help me
never to do it again.
I quit that after a couple of years.
I knew I'd do it again.
I knew payday was next day.
Wouldn't have a chance to pray early in
the morning.
I said, Lord, this is what I would
pray in the morning.
So why not do it ahead of time
instead of behind time?
I'm not trying to be funny.
But that's how sure I was that I
was weak in these areas.
And Satan would remind me of Ephesians six.
Hey, we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
You haven't got a chance out.
Look, these people are demon possessed and you
have no victory.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
You haven't got a chance out.
Look, these people are demon possessed and you
have no victory.
And you're worrying God can't use you.
You might as well go home.
Now, friends, you've all heard of the martyrs.
And I remember people laid down their lives
for the gospel when Satan stirred up people
against him and killed him.
Like the Akka's in Ecuador.
If you read that story, what happens to
these tribes?
They're usually converted.
Everybody gets to praying for the Akka's or
for later on.
We had two of the RBMU, Stan Dale
and Phil Masters were killed there.
And everybody started praying for the Singh Valley.
Whenever Satan killed the missionaries or had people
destroy him, ah, he lost out big, didn't
he?
So I think Satan caught on to that.
He could have wiped us out, but he
didn't.
He wants us to just quietly leave.
Make him want to go home.
And you wonder why so many missionaries fail.
You wonder why so many missionaries come home
with sickness.
And when they get home, they can't find
a whole lot wrong with him.
And what is that crave?
I've asked missionaries on furlough.
I said, hey, now, if you really had
a good way to get out of this
whole thing, wouldn't you get out of it?
And the guy says, yes, but I can't.
And because he makes us want to go
home, unless we understand what the victory is,
the victory in Jesus Christ.
And I'm so glad to come here this
week to share with you what happened.
What happened?
You know, that boy finally drove me to
a nervous breakdown.
Well, I had not a full-fledged nervous
breakdown close to it.
I had to make a choice.
I was so tempted to just let him
die, not treat him anymore.
I wouldn't have to do anything.
My wife would never know.
Nobody would ever know.
Just God and me.
And I'm so glad I let him live
and treated the fellow.
And it meant that I was a nervous
wreck by the end of my first term.
Fire-arm tranquilizers and so on.
And friends, I'm thrilled today that I let
him live because I wouldn't.
I'd have to live with my conscience the
rest of my day.
You know, when we moved to that other
village, Satan just knocked him off just like
that.
He was through with that boy and ruining
the missionary's life.
And so Satan said, well, I'm not going
to let him live any.
He drowned in the river.
Just very soon after we moved to another
village.
And we had no way to help him.
We had no victory over this thing.
We look for answers.
And I searched the scripture.
That's the way to start.
What am I doing wrong?
Where do I get answers?
Where do I get victory?
And I was still focused on Ephesians 6.
So that's the first place I went to.
There's the enemy in verse 12 with all
those principalities and powers.
And now how am I going to get
victory?
But it says, stand therefore.
Now put on the armor.
And I started looking at this.
Lawrence, gird about with truth.
You got to have on your girdle of
truth.
Well, I had been searching and I found
Ephesians 5.18, be filled with the spirit
and I didn't know what to do with
it.
Somehow I, it was never emphasized in the
Baptist circles in which I was, I grew
up in and I didn't know what to
do.
And I didn't know anything about the spirit
filled life.
Can you imagine a missionary in a country
like here in Java, all this demonism, not
being prepared to, to not, not knowing anything
about being filled with the spirit.
It was, it was unreal.
And yet I didn't know the truth of
these things.
I'd read in James 4.7, resist the
devil and he will flee from you.
Oh, wouldn't that be nice if that verse
was true?
I'd been running from him.
I remember how they chased me out of
their villages.
The apostle Paul seemed to do everything right.
Remember there in one of those villages in
Asia minor, how the, he was stoned.
And what was it?
Lystra, Derby, one of those places.
He was stoned.
And the next morning, what does he do?
Would you have done what he did?
No, you'd been smarter than that, wouldn't you?
He went right back into the same village
for more, not me.
I mean, if I was chased out of
a village by those tribesmen, I, I wouldn't
go back.
I was scriptural grounds.
I shook off the dust from off my
feet and I never went back.
And there's more villages in that jungle where
I'd never went more than once.
And Paul did everything right.
And I did everything wrong.
It makes you feel sick.
You know, it makes you dislike the apostle
Paul's writing.
Have you ever read a part of scripture
and the more you read it, the more
divorce you felt?
He sings in jail.
Would you have sang in that prison with
a bleeding back in that dungeon?
Whenever I got hurt, man, I'd be full
of self-pity and, you know, complain.
He did everything right.
And I did it all wrong.
One time, this demon-possessed lady goes screaming
behind him on the road there and yell
at him.
And finally, he got tired of it.
And he cast out the demon, makes a
Christian out of her.
Not me.
I'd run.
Hey, Paul had something I didn't have.
And I started to have my devotion back
here in scripture.
There's a good portion back here in Exodus,
the wilderness wanderings.
They did everything wrong back there and made
me feel good.
I wasn't the only one.
Do you ever feel that way?
Ever feel in Romans 7, oh, the things
that I wish I did, those I don't
do.
And the things that I wish I didn't
do, those I do.
I identified with that.
Oh, wretched man that I am.
Hey, that's not victory at all, is it?
And I was searching.
If only James 4, 7 was true, wouldn't
that be terrific?
We had a quarter mile track around our
mission station.
We used to jog.
I wanted to keep in good shape so
I could run when I need to.
And here he says, resist the devil and
he will flee from you.
Wouldn't that be neat?
I thought, oh, God, if only that verse
was true.
Hey, I got good news for you.
They're all true.
Do you believe that?
They're all true.
But I didn't know.
I didn't have truth.
Here he says, put on the girdle of
truth.
But I said, Lord, I thought I knew
the book, but I guess I don't.
Can't put that on when you haven't got
it.
Put on the breastplate of righteousness.
I showed you yesterday how I was the
problem, impure thoughts and no righteousness.
Satan would remind me of it.
God can't use you.
If you haven't got righteousness, how can you
put it on?
So here I'm going to battle without a
breastplate.
The more I read into this passage, the
worse it got.
Put on the sandals of peace.
Have your sandals on.
How much peace do you think I had?
Boy, I had more worry than I had
peace.
More anxiety.
Here I am.
So you're going to battle without any sandals
on.
Shield of faith.
How much faith do you think I had?
I had doubt.
Lord can't use me.
Believe Satan's lies.
Didn't know it was him.
No shield.
How can you put it on if you
haven't got it?
Sword of the Spirit.
I didn't know.
I have the truth on the Holy Spirit.
The Sword of the Spirit is the Word
of God.
And yet I shied away from any teaching
on the Holy Spirit because I didn't want
to go off to deep end on it.
I sure didn't go off to deep end
on it.
But I didn't know what it meant.
But the only part of the armor was
the helmet.
The helmet of salvation.
Can you imagine me now?
Picture me going to battle against all this
demon possession.
All I got is a helmet.
No sword.
No shield.
No breastplate.
Hey man, it gets pretty desperate.
Satan points this out to me.
Hey, you'll never make it.
I knew I wouldn't.
How Satan gets us focused in on the
wrong scripture.
Those of us that have done counseling know
that so many come to us and they
think they've committed the unpardonable sin and they
zero in on scriptures that don't apply.
And we have to turn and get them
away from that and say, now look at
these here.
Satan knows the book and he defeated me.
And I didn't realize what was happening.
And I'll share with you tomorrow how other
passages of scripture, God help me out to
show that this Ephesians 6 is a good
chapter if you get it in the right
place, if you see where you're standing is
in the gospel.
But here he had me so defeated.
I remember the end of that first term,
second child was born.
I used to rock that little baby girl
when she was very young.
My wife would never really recovered from having
the child and never got strong.
Unless you fix some food by the end
of the day, my nerves are so gone
emotionally.
So shot that I couldn't, I couldn't even
concentrate on reading the word of God.
I don't know if you've ever been there.
If you have, you know, you can't, it
didn't speak to me anymore.
And no, no strength from there.
Prayer didn't seem to go any further than
the ceiling.
We were proving one thing.
We're going to make it through one term.
Hey man, how stubborn can you get?
Make it through one term if that's got
any, any value to it.
But that's one thing we were going to
prove.
We said we'd never quit.
We'd rather die than quit.
We almost did.
But you know, as I rocked a little
girl, I had the one straw, the one
thing between God and me that I hung
on to was the song.
No, no, any special song, but somehow that
song, what a friend we have in Jesus.
As I sang that rocking a little girl,
the little baby, it somehow gave me the
last bit of strength that I needed to
make it through.
Have we trials or temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
Man, the whole thing was a mess.
We should never be discouraged.
Man, I was suffering from depression.
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
The other day I came home from a
meeting and that little girl, now 14 years
old, I had been away and I hadn't
heard what she'd been practicing, but she played
it beautifully come ringing.
I was upstairs and there the piano sounded.
What a friend we have in Jesus.
And in my office, I just knelt down.
I said, God, this is more than I
can take.
You've been so good to me.
I was down there when I sang that
song, but look where I am now, teaching
the victory to people all over the country.
And there's that little girl now playing for
you and playing the thing.
God's good.
God is merciful and gracious.
He won't leave you down there.
If you're down there this morning, hey, God's
big enough.
He'll pick you back up and he'll use
your very weaknesses to become your strongest teaching
points.
And your greatest strengths will be learned out
of your greatest weaknesses.
And don't you complain, hey, God may be
taking you through deep water sometime, but oh,
he's right there to lift you up when
you've learned your lesson.
The quicker you learn, the faster he'll lift
you.
And that's encouraging.
Well, I remember going home on furlough and
we didn't want to go back.
And we hoped that the churches wouldn't come
up with enough support money so that we'd
have a good way to cop out of
it.
And they came up with all of it.
See, we still weren't ready to confess that
we were failures.
And on this reputation thing, we hadn't put
our reputation on the altar.
And so we were still very much, you
know, we still were missionaries.
You know, missionaries have furloughs and halos.
And we were trying to keep that halo
in place.
And we blamed it all on the heathens
and on the devil.
And, you know, and they say they pray
harder for us, right?
I thought, man, they better pray real hard.
You know, if we're going to make it
again.
We had to be back into Nanisha in
one year.
We hoped that visa would run out so
we'd have a good, a solid excuse, cop
out of the whole thing.
And my wife got well again.
We had tranquilizers and vitamins and a whole
bit.
And we got well again.
And then there was no excuse.
I said, Carol, don't get well so fast.
You know, I mean, just hang in there,
you know, sick.
I mean, then it's all over.
We didn't want to go back because we
knew we were going, what we were going
in.
We still didn't have the answers.
And then they came up with all the
new washing machine, new generators, all the motors
that I said wouldn't work, stoves and everything.
They came up with all this gear.
And I had more stuff that they could
steal and more stuff to rust.
And all the missionaries said, man, you must
have rich supporters.
I said, yeah, they sure are.
I wish they weren't, I would say under
my breath, you know.
But we got back there.
Oh, I was searching now.
God, where is the answer?
Writing down all the New Testament commandments somehow.
Lord, you must show me answer.
Came across these verses on resisting Satan, didn't
know what to do with him.
Ephesians 5, 18, be filled with the spirit,
didn't know what to do with him.
Searched and prayed and fasted and said, Lord,
you've got to show me answer.
My nerves were going downhill again two more
years.
So that was a total of seven years
out there.
And I quit my ministry and said to
my wife, I said, I'm just going to
find what God is trying to say.
There must be.
She said to me one day, if if
what we have is all there is to
Christianity, it isn't much.
If what you have is all there is
to Christianity, how much is Christianity?
You know, because we see we're suffering from
besetting sins and war and fear and problems.
And man, Paul had all the victory and
I had all the problems and I didn't
even like Paul anymore.
And, you know, then you read the books,
how to be filled with the spirit.
I read book after book and tried it
all.
I did what they said.
Number one, two, three, right down the line.
You know, I tried it three days later.
I'd fall flat on my face in my
old besetting sin.
I thought I must not have it yet.
I didn't know what I was thinking.
Going to be perfect when I get spirit
filled, I guess.
Hey, and it worked for Torrey and didn't
work for Coning, you know, and I thought,
man, all these guys, I'm hopeless.
You ever found that way?
Man, there's just I just haven't got it.
Must not be for Dutch people.
Hey, I didn't know what to do.
Finally, an MAF pilot brought me a book
by Tim LaHaye, Spirit Controlled Temperament.
Tim LaHaye has an unusual way of putting
a handle on truth.
He can get it so plain that you
can understand it, or some of us can't
understand it unless it's real, real plain.
It says be being filled with the spirit.
That's what it means.
Continuously, every day, every time you sin, you
confess it.
You ask the Holy Spirit to fill you
again.
I thought it was some big second blessing
that they talked about as being filled with
baptism spirit and all that.
It's every time you sin, you get cleansing.
You surrender to God again.
He asked him to fill you.
I thought it looked so simple, but I
ran to my office, got on my knees,
and for the first time in my life,
I realized that I was a spirit filled
Christian because I confessed my sin, asked the
Holy Spirit to fill me.
He wants to do that to every one
of us.
And then when you sin again, get forgiveness
and you can be filled again.
The spirit-filled life is not like salvation.
Salvation is once, but the spirit-filled life
is daily, hourly.
Whenever we sin, we lose it.
And whenever we write with God, we ask
him to fill us again.
And when he's in control, then we're spirit
-filled.
I, amazing.
I started to live a spirit-filled life
in a demon-possessed jungle.
Now that, you know what that produced?
Spiritual warfare.
Spiritual warfare doesn't go on in the heavenlies
with angels fighting against demons.
It's down here where spirit-filled people try
to reach people who are controlled by Satan.
Remember I said yesterday, we can't be spiritual
neutral.
We're either deceived by Satan or we're filled
with the spirit.
You say, what about a carnal Christian?
Why isn't he spirit-filled?
Because he's deceived.
Satan thinks that it has shown him that
it's better not to be spirit-filled.
Otherwise, we all would be.
We're either filled with the spirit or we're
deceived in our minds and our thinking is
controlled by Satan, to at least a certain
extent.
Friends, I found out what it was to
be spiritual warfare.
In my pineapple garden, there stood the chief
that always read the garden, foaming at the
mouth, screaming and yelling at me.
The natives came running to the garden.
They always want to see a good fight.
To him, what did you do to him?
Did you hit him?
I just stood here.
And then I sensed it.
Now that I had learned what it was
to walk a spirit-filled walk and live
a spirit-filled life, hey, there was conflict
between the demon-possessed man.
He'd always been a very odd character, a
very strange fellow, but he'd never had any
problem with me until I changed.
And when you are a spirit-filled person,
they will be very, very ugly.
The demon-possessed people will be angry.
They will either run from you or they
will challenge you or something.
It'll be spiritual warfare.
And I sensed that everywhere I go.
I went to another village and they drew
a line, these hardcore demon-possessed people.
If you look at my display on the
far, when you face the display on your
left-hand side, the bottom picture, you'll see
some of that glaring in the eyes of
those tribesmen.
And you'll see some of that demonic look
that you see in their eyes, especially.
And there they stood and they drew a
line on the path with the back of
their spear.
And they said, John, we don't want you
to come any further.
We have no use for you in our
village.
If you step over this line, this spear
will go through you.
And I stood there, looked at that line
and looked at the glare in those eyes
of those men.
And you say, well, now that our missionary
was a spirit-filled Christian, he boldly leaped
over.
Oh, no, he didn't.
Oh, no.
He ran home, didn't preach that day.
And I was convicted.
I said, Lord, here, I'm a spirit-filled
Christian.
And I finally got with it.
And I finally had now believed that you
could use me.
And look, it was a shame the way
I ran.
I still had that fear.
And I sought for answers.
I came after three weeks when that pilot
had given me that book.
He came back and I gave him back
the book.
And I said, brother, it's been a first
time in my life that I realized what
being filled with the spirit is.
I can see it now.
I can see my answer.
You don't know how I've broked around here
without knowing that.
But I said, it's getting hot.
The warfare is getting hot.
I don't know if I can handle this.
I mean, I had almost had a nervous
breakdown there once.
I mean, I came to the place where
I said, Lord, maybe it's better not to
be spirit-filled.
And I think this is exactly where a
lot of Christians in America back down.
They've tried drawing closer to Christ at times.
And it got too hot for them.
And they've lapsed back into Sunday morning Christianity.
They're going to get to heaven by the
skin of their teeth.
You know, they're saved.
And that's just about all.
But they can't afford to go further.
They've tried it once.
We've got to supply answers, folks, for these
people.
There are answers in Scripture.
And I lived six weeks in that jungle,
knowing what it was to live a spirit
-filled life and not knowing what it was
to resist Satan.
And the pilot, when I gave him back
the book, he was coming back in three
weeks after that.
And I said, this book has been such
a blessing.
He said, I've got another one.
I said, well, bring it.
I need everything I can get my hands
on back here.
And this is the book he brought, the
book Dealing with the Devil by Dr. C
.S. Lovett.
Exactly on resisting Satan and he will flee
from you.
Puts it in such a way that you
can get hold of it and you can
apply it.
And I just almost memorized that book and
re-learned the verses that I needed to
learn to deal with my fear and so
on.
Went on my way to a village that
asked me to preach one day.
Through the swamp we went.
A young man, Nimrod, was with me, carried
my pack.
And as we went through this jungle, I
tell you, that's something else.
Swamp, the leeches get on your legs.
The spiders are huge.
I've seen spiders with their legs extended big
as your face.
The webs completely covering the path.
Snakes on the ground.
You have to watch down here for them.
Snakes hanging on trees, dropping out of trees.
I can't watch both places.
It's impossible.
There's some gnats that get around your eyes
all the time.
The pig flies bite you.
The rodents, all kinds of smelly, soggy swamps,
completely covered.
Usually dark because the foliage is so thick.
They cut through that.
You fall off these slippery logs and you
try to reach for something and you get
a handful of thorns.
So you learn not to do that pretty
quick.
You fall down in the mud.
I had a big stick.
Sometimes I carried two of them.
They called me the old lady.
They said, your feet are so dumb you
can't even walk.
I'm glad they called my feet dumb.
That wasn't so bad.
You know, but they said, you're so slow.
You walk first.
So they made me walk first.
I should never have walked first.
That's where I got in trouble.
So he lets out a yell behind me.
You dumb missionary.
He called me everything.
You know, they have a great, great vocabulary
on the negative side.
Oh, they don't.
Very few words like love and faith.
They have nothing on the positive side, but
all these negative words.
And he says, you're blind too.
Look at the snake you've stepped over.
You never saw him, did you?
I didn't see him.
I was struggling my way over roots and
branches.
And there was this big yellow snake.
His head was in the swamp on one
side, his head on the other, his tail
on the other.
I didn't know which end was which.
There he lay.
Big yellow snake, about this big around.
One of them stricter types.
He says, you dumb Tuan.
Oh, you're so dumb.
You did it now.
I said, what?
You crossed Ho Hoi's snake.
Ho Hoi was a demon of the jungle,
the evil spirits.
He says, when you cross that snake, you
will meet the evil spirits.
You're so dumb.
You shouldn't have done it.
You're on the wrong side.
I thought, man, I better kill this snake
because I got to get him.
He says, I'm going home.
He says, I'm not going.
And that's as far as I go.
And he said, you want me to leave
the pack here or carry it back home?
I said, hey, you're not going.
You can't leave me in this jungle.
And I proceeded with my hardwood stick, just
beat that snake.
The snake was just moving around.
If I'd only shown his belly, I could
have killed him, maybe.
But he's, they're tough on their back.
I worked.
And finally, he laid still after I'd.
And I said, hey, he's dead.
Come on, let's go.
He says, it's even worse crossing a dead
one.
Oh, good night.
I remembered now how they had always said
to on when I boldly, I stood in
their churches and preached and held my Bible
up in the air like a real preacher
does.
And, you know, I said, look, Jesus is
stronger than Satan.
Jesus is stronger than, oh, you get Jesus
in your heart.
You won't have to be afraid of evil
spirits.
And they used to talk back at me
and say, come on hunting with us sometime
to on.
Prove it to us.
I wasn't excited to prove the scripture.
I mean, I'd learned that in Bible school.
That was theology.
I wasn't going to stake my life on
it.
Now, would you stake?
Hey, would you stake your life on the
thing that you believe is true?
Would you stake your life on everything God
says in his book?
You'd think twice, wouldn't you?
I'd stand there and they used to talk
back all the time.
They say to on that's impossible.
You know, and then women sit on one
side and men on the other side.
And they yell across the aisle.
Preach at her to on.
That's what she's been doing all week.
You know, they go back.
See, my husband does that to him.
He does that.
Oh, it was back and forth across the
island to me.
Constant communication in the services.
But the women said, come and get saga
with us.
Come and gather food with us.
Well, wait till those boys start beating you
on the back.
And you won't say your Jesus is stronger.
And I'd always boldly say, oh, Jesus, you
would have preached the same way, wouldn't you?
Jesus is stronger than Satan.
Now I had crossed the snake.
You better believe it.
I quick got caught up on my devotions.
Then sometimes you really want to pray, don't
you?
You know, you ever been in a place
where you really wanted to pray?
Nothing could stop you from prayer, right?
Most of the time, we're not that way.
But sometimes we want to pray.
Well, I wanted to pray bad.
I'd crossed the snake.
I thought I hope it isn't true.
But, you know, Satan can make it happen.
I've seen his open and overgiven.
The things that Satan has them believing usually
happen.
He can make it happen.
Oh, brother, I'd crossed that snake.
I said, Nimrod, you got to go with
me.
And finally, I talked to make it making
a detour and around you.
And I'm sure that snake wasn't that long.
He went away and they come out in
front of me.
He says, John, you, how can it be?
We're going together and you crossed the snake
and I didn't.
I said, Nimrod, Jesus is stronger.
And the more I tried to encourage him
that Jesus is strong.
He says, I hope what you're saying is
true.
Well, I hope the same thing, you know.
And we went on and I pray and
we went on and struggled through the swamp.
And there was no canoe at the river.
They said they'd put one there.
We're going to this village.
Never heard the gospel before.
That's why the opposition.
And finally, he said, oh, an hour down.
I forgot now about the snake.
My heart had quit pounding.
And he said, I've got to relieve myself.
I got to go to the bathroom.
He says, you keep right on going.
I'll catch up with you.
Your feet are so slow.
Always put on there that your feet are
so slow.
They never forget that.
So he disappears in the jungle and I'm
on.
And here is Satan's perfect opportunity to get
at me.
I was alone as I walked there.
All of a sudden, the screaming, blood curdling,
screaming could only have come from people that
were absolutely choking and dying.
I mean, that kind of thing you hear
on horror movies.
Now, don't go and listen to them.
Just listen to what I'm telling you.
Believe me, it was that kind of just
terrible screaming.
I just froze.
It was so near.
The wall of the jungle was about that
close and the thorns there.
I couldn't see a thing.
Never did see where it came from.
I don't care to find out, really.
But the noise was it just took me
completely off my feet.
My knees were shaking.
I couldn't stand up.
I leaned on my stick, which planted there
in the muck.
There was a log I was on was
slowly sinking into the swamp.
My heart was pounding.
I couldn't last more than a few more
seconds.
I said, Lord, this is it.
I thought I was going to die.
I couldn't hardly breathe.
That just overwhelmed the screaming sound.
And what would you done?
You pray, right?
No time for long prayers in a situation
like that.
Like Peter, when he's sinking between the boat
and Jesus walking on the water, he couldn't
swim.
Lord, save me.
That's about all you got time for.
Friends, I'm so thrilled that the Lord never
leaves us, nor forsakes us.
It's true.
I think when Jesus went back to heaven
and God sent the Holy Spirit in his
place, it was a move that no man
could have thought of.
We can all go to a different jungle
today.
And the Holy Spirit can be in every
one of us and will be in every
one of us.
And he'll always be there.
That's fantastic.
Who could have designed such a plan?
It's a master plan.
We're never alone, no matter what swamp or
jungle we're in.
And he was right in me, filling me.
Power of the darkness, screaming.
So I cry out, Lord, help me.
And you know what the Lord says?
Resist him, he'll flee from you.
That's what I'd learned in this, you know,
what the Bible had taught, and what Lovett
had explained in this book.
Resist him.
And you know what I said?
Lord, you do it for me.
I have no experience.
What do you think he did?
He said, get at it.
That's right.
I'm trying to give you some experience.
Now, you're not going to argue with God
when you're sinking into a swamp with the
demons screaming at you.
I mean, you forget about whether you're Baptist
or Methodist or Presbyterian or what.
You don't argue.
You throw all your theology out the window.
You're trying to survive.
You say, God, whatever you say, I'll do
it.
Sometimes we really want to obey, don't we?
And I'm supposed to resist him.
So I said, what language am I supposed
to use?
I didn't know.
What language does Satan and his demons speak?
You ever thought of that?
I said, ho hoi, Satan.
Should I use Dutch?
They probably wouldn't know Dutch.
Should I use English?
Should I use, how are you, Indonesian?
But I said, ho hoi, Satan, whoever you
are in Jesus' name.
Oh, that name.
In Jesus' name, leave me alone.
I command you.
And then I'm supposed to quote scripture, you
know.
Jesus quoted scripture when he resisted Satan.
I can hardly get the right verse in
front of you guys, let alone.
But God helped me there.
He gave me that verse, for greater is
he that is in you than he that
is in the world.
And I shouted that at the noise.
And as I shouted that verse, the noise
stops.
Never heard it again.
Usually when I'm scared, I shake 10 minutes
later, but not that time.
The joy of the Lord overwhelmed me on
that trail.
I got on another log.
And, and I, I couldn't believe it.
And I, it works, friends, the power of
Jesus' name.
But I thought I couldn't make it work.
See, I was still a victim to Satan,
victim of worrying and victim of fear and
impure thoughts.
And I was so weak a Christian.
Certainly I couldn't resist the devil.
Oh, but it isn't the strength of the
Christian that wins the victory.
Otherwise, none of us would have a chance.
It's the power of Jesus' name.
That's it.
It's what he accomplished on that cross.
What that name stands for as he lifted
up King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
seated at the right hand of God, far
above all the principalities and powers.
That's the name.
And I don't care how long you've been
a Christian or how strong you are, how
weak you are.
You can use that name too.
And it's always good.
And I composed this song on the way
in that jungle.
It was a song about resisting Satan.
We won't go your way anymore.
We won't listen to your voice anymore.
We won't sit by your fire.
We won't go to your rails.
I'm going Jesus' way.
I'll listen to his voice.
And now those natives in the tribes there
and those churches singing that song.
And sometimes when I hear them afar off,
I hear them singing.
Can you imagine them?
They're singing it boldly.
We resist you, Satan.
We don't listen to you anymore.
We used to listen to you, but no
more.
We're going Jesus' way.
They're singing that song.
Can you imagine the demons in the jungle?
You know, near the church.
Can you imagine them listening to the people
that they so control totally?
It must make them sick.
I hope it does.
But you know, it sure must make Jesus
glad.
No, it makes the missionary glad to hear
that kind of thing.