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This week we have Lester Sumrall with his
message, Demonology and Deliverance, Parts 3 and 4,
Christian Authority, and How I Learned Exorcism.
Lord Jesus, it's a great joy to see
you and to minister you words of eternal
life by the power of the living God.
We are involved in a group of studies
that are truly exciting.
We are involved in a victory series, showing
you how the church of the Lord Jesus
Christ has victory over its greatest enemy, who
happens to be the devil and Satan.
We are teaching you out of a large
teaching syllabus called Demons and Deliverance, Principalities and
Powers.
And these are available to everyone that desires
them.
This is Volume 1.
Volume 2 deals with the cults and how
you can destroy them with God's power.
We are dealing directly with the problem of
who is the devil, how can he hurt
human beings, and how we can overcome him
by the power of the Lord.
Now it is true that Satan is a
dignitary.
In the little epistle of Jude, it says
that Satan quarreled with Michael, the archangel of
God, over the body of Moses, and that
Michael dare not bring railing accusation against him,
but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
And so if an archangel dare not bring
railing accusations against him, he is still a
dignitary.
And we must come to understand this in
order to know how we can deal with
the powers of the devil.
I have discovered that you can only deal
with the devil in truth.
That if you say, You go back to
hell where you came from.
Well, honey, he hasn't been incarcerated yet.
He is the prince and the power of
the air.
And when you say that, you immediately cancel
out any effect that you might have, because
you're dealing in ignorance, you see.
And he doesn't have to move in ignorance.
And also, we have discovered through many years
of studying this subject that when you speak
disrespectfully, Oh, yeah, you see, you're the devil
with two horns and a forked tail, and
off the red devil I can.
Well, no, he isn't.
He is an angel of light.
He is a deceiver.
He doesn't come like that.
And so when you, even when you mock
him, he doesn't have to obey you.
He doesn't have to move for you.
You must come under the anointing of the
Holy Spirit, under the mighty power of God,
and say, The Lord rebuke thee.
By the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
I resist thee.
And when you come in God's way, God's
manner, it works.
It works.
It really works.
It gloriously works.
You are not to be defeated.
The great men of the world have known
this.
The great missionary Judson, he knew it.
And what a mighty person he was.
Hudson Taylor, they said that they nicknamed him
in China the devil caster-outer.
You know, Martin Luther became so angry at
sin and Satan that he took his inkwell
and threw it in his own office.
At him, you see.
And Billy Graham said recently that, I was
writing this sermon against the devil and everything
went lost.
The typewriter wouldn't work.
And he said, Finally, I just resisted the
devil.
And so it is not, you know, a
matter of, this thing was one time a
long time ago.
This is the battle for today.
But the happy thing about it is, you're
a winner and not a loser.
And how glad we are for that.
We are at lesson 14 in our teaching
of this lesson here.
In your syllabus, it will be called lesson
9, because in some of the lessons, it
took us two sessions in order to cover
it adequately.
But we are, we have, this is our
14th lesson.
And the title of it is, The Christian's
Authority Over Demons.
I particularly want this to get right down
deep inside of you.
I don't know who caused it and who's
to blame for it.
But millions of Americans are afraid of the
devil.
I mean, Christian Americans are afraid of the
devil.
And you talk about him and they tremble.
I made a film about a girl in
the Philippines that disappeared.
And there were people that were fine Christians
that wouldn't even go and see it.
And I said, that's, I mean, they told
me they wouldn't go see it.
I said, that's strange.
You won't even join the victor parade.
The battle's already won, completed, finished.
And here's just showing you what God did.
And you're afraid of the victor parade.
I said, you're mighty brave.
Even afraid of a victor parade.
After enemy is defeated, you're still afraid.
I tell you, the devil's a mean devil.
And he's a lying devil.
If you don't learn that pretty early, he'll
gain victories that he should never gain in
your life.
You are a conqueror.
You have the victory.
Get on with the job.
Let's get it done.
In Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 and 27,
you discover that humanity, through Adam, was created
to have dominion.
That you were not created to be a
servant.
To be a slave.
To be under anyone else.
You are the apex of all the magnificent
creation of God.
It says, and God said, let us make
man in our image.
Isn't that amazing?
Yeah, he had made the mountains, and he
had made the angels, and he had made
the stars, and he had made the sea.
And oh, the creation was so tremendous.
And now he says, let's do something after
our own selves.
Isn't that wonderful?
In our own image.
And then he didn't want you to miss
it, so he says, after our likeness.
Now, there's a lot of theology in there.
An image is a thing of like size,
you know.
An image is something like something else.
And so, an image and likeness meant the
features were the same and the size and
all were the same in our image and
in our likeness.
So, if you want to see how big
God is, look at a man, and you
will see.
And then God says further here, and let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle
over all the earth, and every creature that
creepeth upon the earth.
Let them have dominion.
So, God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, created he him.
Male and female, created he them.
You see, God was so afraid that you
may not quite understand it, that he said
it twice.
He said it twice in these two verses,
that God created man and woman in his
own image.
And then he says, in the image of
God, so you know what he was talking
about.
And he said, in our image and after
our likeness.
And he said, they have dominion over everything
that creepeth, everything that moves.
A man has dominion over it.
Now, we ought to say dominion.
Glory be to God, dominion.
God created man to be a king and
a woman to be a queen.
You were not created to be slaves.
And when you're a slave to nicotine, when
you're a slave to alcohol, when you're a
slave to drugs, when you're a slave to
sex, when you're a slave to any of
these things, you are not what God created
you to be.
He created you to be a master and
not a slave.
Yeah.
And these enslaving things do not come from
God.
They come from the other source.
So man, after God had made him to
have such strength and dominion and power, we
discover in the word of the Lord that
he lost this dominion.
Not only do you discover that in Genesis,
you discover it in Psalm.
One of the greatest Psalms is Psalm 8.
You ought to read Psalm 8, especially verses
5 to 8.
And in Hebrews 2, verses 6 and 8,
man yielded his position.
Man yielded his power.
Man yielded his authority.
Man yielded his dominion to Satan.
He gave it to him.
God had nothing to do with it.
God gave him dominion over everything that moves.
Satan took it away from him.
And he says, I have the dominion.
I am the king of this world now.
I am the rule of this world now.
And you look through the Bible and see
where he makes claims for those things.
It's because he stole it off of Adam,
who did not cling to the word.
Better say the word.
He didn't cling to the word.
God had spoken the word.
Don't do it.
And he did it.
And when he did not cling to the
word, he became a fallen creature.
Now, the Christians' authority over demons means this.
That the Lord Jesus Christ has redeemed man
from the bondage of sin.
In John 8 and 32 to 36, you
discover whom the Son sets free is free
indeed, you see.
And so God and Christ have redeemed humanity
from this bondage of evil and from this
slavery that they degenerated into because they had
lost their dominion that they had in their
creation time.
Christ redeems man from this bondage and sets
him free.
And then he speaks to his church.
Christians are related to the church.
He speaks to his glorious church.
In the last words he ever spoke in
the great commission of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the last words he ever spoke, he said,
go into all the world.
Talking to small people like us.
Go into all the world.
Preach the gospel to every creature.
Imagine that.
They that believe and are baptized shall be
saved.
When are you saved?
When you believe.
You're not saved later.
So many people that claim to be Christians,
they don't even know whether they're saved or
not.
When you believe, you're saved.
They that believe are saved.
And they that believe not, what does it
say?
They're damned.
They are damned.
And then he said, they that have faith
shall cast out devils.
You have authority.
You have power.
You have that pristine authority that went back
to the garden of God, to the garden
of Eden when God gave man his primal
authority, that you are the king of the
earth, that you are the leader of the
creation, and that you are the boss down
here.
Get on with the job.
And he lost that position through rebellion, through
transgression, through listening to the wrong voice and
listening to the devil and not to God.
But Jesus reinstates man and gives the royal
command, the royal command.
And this was the last command he ever
gave on the face of this earth.
Immediately he was taken up into heaven when
he had given this command.
And so it still stands right now that
the Christian has authority over demons because Jesus
said so.
In the next book of the Bible, in
Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, the Lord
Jesus speaks to his disciples and says, you
shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has
come upon you.
And you shall be witnesses unto me, both.
You better put a circle there.
Both in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and
unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Ah, that means man was to get back
the whole world again.
The Christians were to get the whole world
back, that the whole world belonged to you.
You got it?
He didn't say stay in Jerusalem until everybody
there is a believer.
He said both.
We don't stay in one city until everybody
believes or you'll die there.
There are people that are determined to go
to hell.
They don't want to see it any other
way.
And so you just give them the good
news and if they refuse it, then they're
responsible.
They're totally responsible for it.
And so he said to his disciples, now
listen, ye are my witnesses when I give
you my power.
And so he gave them back the dominion
that they lost in the garden of Eden
and said, now go to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
and to the uttermost parts of this earth.
And he told them what would happen.
When they preached the gospel, some would be
saved, some would refuse it, and they would
be lost.
And they would cast out devils and they
would heal the sick.
Oh, thank God.
He gave strength and glory to his triumphant
church.
In the gospel of Matthew chapter 16, he
said, and the gates of hell cannot prevail
against you.
Hey, that's getting back there, isn't it?
Getting back to the authority that was lost,
getting back to the freedom that they once
had before they became encumbered with the lies
and the deceits of Satan.
Can you see our picture today?
So many people are so in bondage and
even church people, some of them are in
bondage to fear, some are in bondage to
unbelief, some in bondage to dreadful sicknesses, in
bondage.
And the Lord Jesus is speaking to His
church and saying, it's now time for you
to be free.
Christ has a message of authority over demons
and disease or anything else.
His glorious church has been given this, and
He urges you to accept it and to
walk in it and to enjoy it in
Jesus' name.
And in 1 Peter chapter 4 and verse
10, it says, as you have received the
gift, so give it.
You know, I don't understand why you can
be so wonderfully saved and you don't ever
tell your neighbor about it.
You're saved from hell, and you don't tell
your neighbor about it.
I don't understand it.
How you can work with a person in
the office, and they don't know you're saved.
How you can work with a person in
the shop, and they don't know you're saved.
I met a revolutionary down in Venezuela, South
America a few years ago.
And he had been up to New York
City.
He had to run for his life out
of Venezuela because of revolution.
And one day, sad and dejected and broke,
he dropped into a New York gospel preaching
station that was for the down and outers,
a rescue mission.
And there, before feeding him, they gave him
the word of God.
And they gave him a Bible.
And he began to read it.
And he gave his heart to Jesus.
When he came back to Venezuela, he discovered
that for a number of years, he had
lived next door to a missionary.
Now, he told me this in front of
the missionary.
And then he looked up at him and
said, why didn't you evangelize me?
That's the way he said it.
Why didn't you evangelize me?
Why would I have to go all the
way to New York and go through all
the suffering that I went through, and you
didn't evangelize me?
He says, you lived next door to me,
and you never told me about the experience
that I found in New York City in
a rescue mission.
He says, why didn't you evangelize me?
Friends, the Christian has authority, has authority, has
authority to speak the word of God and
to cause men to submit to the word
of God.
If you don't use it, then you'll have
to one day give an account to God.
Every generation, including us today, have a divine
command to give and to give and to
give and to give, not to keep and
to keep and to keep.
No, no.
But to give and to give.
First Peter 4 and 10, and God is
expecting you and God is expecting me that
we shall return the gift, tell everybody about
it, and let them know the power of
God as we have done it.
Now, the Christian authority will be challenged.
I mean, we still have a devil.
And in this moment that we live now,
which is the most dramatic moment since the
Lord Jesus went back to heaven, this is
the most exciting time the world has ever
known up until this moment.
And you want to know something?
You may think everything's bad.
Did you know God is doing more right
now than I've ever known even doing in
my lifetime?
God is saving more people right now.
Did you know that in South Korea they
have one church with 250,000 members?
Did you know that in South Africa they
have just built the largest tent in the
history of the world seating 34,000 human
beings?
Did you know that right now there's revival
in certain areas of the world where tens
of thousands are receiving Christ as their Savior?
You better look up.
You better get out of the ditch where
you can look up a little higher and
discover God is real.
God is doing things.
God is moving.
This is the day of God's blessing.
But the church will be challenged.
The devil wishes to challenge the church.
If he can find your weak spot, he'll
move in on your weakness.
But you must remain in the strength.
In 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 1,
it says the Spirit, if you will notice,
it is with a capital S, which means
the Holy Spirit, that he speaks expressly, expressly,
you know, with emphasis, with strength, with power,
you know.
He speaks expressly.
What about in the latter times?
Now, if there's ever going to be any
there right now, in the latter times, he
says some shall depart.
Some shall depart from what?
The faith.
Now, the faith is all wrapped up in
the Bible.
Believe in the Word of God is your
faith.
Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word
of the Lord.
And so this is an attack upon God's
eternal truth, upon God's Word.
That was a problem in the Garden of
Eden.
Eve did not believe God's Word.
Adam did not believe, oh, God won't do
that.
That's what Satan told him.
You won't surely die.
When you don't believe God's Word, you're in
for trouble.
The world is in for trouble when it
won't believe the Word of God.
And you better understand it.
You better understand it.
He said, they shall depart from the faith.
What is that?
Believing God, trusting God, loving God, serving God.
They shall depart from it.
They're not going to just be backsliders.
No.
We're going to be challenged.
You say by what?
By the cults?
They shall be, they should depart from the
faith, giving heed, listening to, believing in, accepting.
What?
Seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Now, I don't want you to get afraid
and run off somewhere.
The battle of the future is not over
doctrines.
Not over doctrines.
The battle of the future is doctrines of
devils in relationship to the Word of God.
Is the Bible true or not true?
We're going to have to stop fighting one
another and start fighting the devil.
We're going to have to get our aim
right and aim at the right one.
He said that in these last days, there
would be the authority of the Christian challenged.
I want to tell you right now, there
are just millions of Christians that won't even
answer the devil back.
They won't even fight back.
They won't do anything.
Something can happen to one of their members
in their church and they'll send him off
to the insane asylum.
Send him into the devil's pit rather than
setting him free by God's mighty power.
I was speaking in Wisconsin at a men's
meeting.
When I was through, a Lutheran pastor walked
right straight down the middle aisle crying.
He said, I put two of my members
in the insane asylum and said, from what
you've said this morning, I'm going to go
get them out.
I prayed over him.
I said, just let me know about it,
please.
A couple of weeks later, got a telephone
call.
He said, Brother Sumrall, they're both out and
they're both home.
Says, I went up there, cast the devil
out of them and brought them home.
And says, they're both all right.
If there's a battle, what are you going
to do?
Are you going to be like that Lutheran
pastor and say, hey, hey, hey, I'm on
God's side and I'm a winner.
I'm not a loser.
And then you're going to win the battle.
But if you're going to take the negative
side and the side of unbelief and the
side of fear, then you will be destroyed.
He says, the Spirit speaketh that in the
land of times some shall depart from the
faith.
They will give heed to seducing spirits, lying
spirits.
And doctrines of devil, saying God isn't right,
God isn't true.
Morals are no good, you know.
And say that the whole thing of God
is not true.
I want to assure you one thing, that
those things aren't from hell and that you
must believe the truth in order to be
set free.
So the Christian authority is that we resist.
You say, now how do we resist?
We discover in 1 Peter chapter 5, verses
8 and 9, where God speaks to us,
the Holy Spirit speaks to us and says,
now be sober.
And as I've told you before, this is
not speaking of alcoholic beverage.
No, it is not.
It is speaking of a stupid, giddy world.
We are living in the world of amusement.
And you know what the word means from
the Greek, don't you?
The A means no or not.
Muse means to think.
And amusement means not to think, you see.
And that's the world that we live in
today.
Be sober, be vigilant.
Your adversary, we have an adversary.
It's not your neighbor, it's not your wife,
it's not your husband.
The Bible says it is the devil.
That he will go about as a roaring
lion.
It means he'll come screaming and yelling and
overpowering and, you know, acting as if he's
big, seeking whom he may devour.
It says, resist steadfast in the faith.
Now, you can't resist any other way.
Resist steadfast in the faith, knowing the same
affliction are accompanied in your brethren or in
the world.
That we've always had the same battle.
From Daniel, the same battle.
From Joseph, the same battle.
Peter and John, the same battle.
And so we must do that.
James says it in a very strong way.
He says, submit yourselves, therefore.
This is in James 4 and 7.
Submit yourselves to God and resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
How we are glad that we know that
and how we can do it.
And we must do it in Jesus' name
and by his power.
I want to tell you something that you
must know.
And that is that sinners cannot exercise demon
spirits.
Now, they absolutely cannot.
You read in God's Word in Acts chapter
19, beginning in verse 11.
And you'll discover there that there were certain
men who were seven sons of a Jew
named Sceva.
And was one of the chief priests.
And they came to exercise a spirit and
say, come out of him.
And the spirit said, now we know Jesus
and we know you, and we know Paul,
but we don't know you.
And those evil spirits jumped upon those men,
beat them almost to death.
They fled out of the house naked, the
Bible says, and wounded by demon spirits.
Now, you have to be a born-again
person.
You have to know what God is doing
in order to be part of it.
So I urge you to realize that if
we're sinners, that we cannot exercise evil spirits
from anybody.
That we have to have a direct and
strong relationship with God in order that we
can set multitudes free.
So we are studying in this lesson in
relation to the church of Jesus Christ, dominant
and powerful, with authority and with strength and
with victory until the Lord Jesus returns back
again.
Be part of that victorious and triumphant church
in Jesus' name.
And one of the pertinent truths for this
moment, for this time in history, the time
has now come for this truth to be
fully exposed and brought into pure focus that
we can see clearly that our battle is
not with flesh and blood.
It is with principalities and powers of darkness
that we might overcome them.
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Yeah, we are in the greatest victory march
the world has ever known right now.
Get in it.
But you have to go into it intelligent.
You have to understand the Word of God.
You have to understand the battle that we're
in today and how to defeat our enemies.
Lord, bless my neighbor right now.
And let the Spirit of the Lord rest
upon my friend.
We believe you now to break every force
and every power that Satan has put over
the people and set them free by the
mighty power of the living God.
I believe you to set them free.
I believe you to bless them.
In Jesus' name, whatever your need is, may
the Lord Jesus set you free by His
mighty power.
Right now, be free by His power.
Christ loves you, and He wishes right now
to give you strength over all the powers
that be.
He created you for dominion, and so receive
it and accept it and walk in His
power and His strength and His victory.
We believe God for it, in Jesus' name.
Look forward to the other studies in this
series, that we might study together the great
truths of God and that you might be
one of the deliverers.
Thank you.
David said that he was glad when I
said unto him, let us go into the
house of the Lord.
I'm glad to say it's time to teach
now.
It's a joy to come to you and
to speak of the eternal verities, truths that
are immortal, truths that will never die.
In this special series of lessons, and I'm
so glad to have you, bless you.
In this special series of lessons, we are
dealing with what we call demons and deliverance.
The ministry of principalities and powers.
This is a very large group of cassettes,
audio cassettes that are possible to get, that
covers this whole massive subject.
And it's volume one, so be sure to
ask for it by volume one.
We have the video cassette and a half
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might have, that you can see it in
your own home.
Possibly above all, we have the teaching syllabus
that you can follow me page by page.
Today's lesson is on page 63, and we
are dealing with a very intimate lesson, how
I learned exorcism, how I learned to cast
out devils.
And it wasn't easy, and I didn't ask
for it, and I didn't look for it.
It was something that was thrust upon me.
God solemnly warns all of mankind, you and
me.
First Corinthians 10 and 20 says, but I
say that the things which nations sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils and not to God.
I would not that you should have fellowship
with devils.
God refuses to permit His worshipers to have
any fellowship of any kind whatsoever with the
devil or with his angels or any of
his works.
And you must stand right in there.
You must believe it, and you must accept
it.
I would not that you have fellowship with
devils.
There is a pertinent truth in 2 Timothy
chapter 2 and verse 26, and they, that
they may recover themselves out of the snare
of the devil, who are taken captive by
him at his will.
Now this possibly refers to heathen nations, that
he may recover themselves out of the snare
of the devil.
Through the preaching of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, we recover people, cities, nations, from the
snare of the devil.
As you know, a snare is a trap.
It's a contraption that you set for a
rabbit, or a squirrel, in order to catch
them.
The animal thinks it is finding good food
to eat, and so going into the trap,
or the snare, it's caught.
And so it is a deception.
This is the manner in which the devil
deceives the whole world, the heathen nations, and
even some people in Christian lands.
It's a snare.
They think it's one thing, and they get
themselves involved in another.
The devil fools people into believing that they
will have pleasure in serving him and doing
his things, but they do not get the
pleasure.
They are deceived.
He fools them into believing that if they
follow him, that everything will be all right.
And then when nothing is right, and they
have heaps of problems, just like most heathen
nations do, then they don't know what to
do.
The scripture says that he takes them captive
at his own will.
Would you like to read that again?
In 2 Timothy 2 and 26, it says,
it says, But I say that the things
which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils,
and not to God.
And I would not that ye have fellowship
with devils.
Then he says in 2 Timothy 2 and
26, And that ye may recover themselves from
the snare of the devil, who are taken
captive by him at his will.
That is mighty strong.
Been taken captive by him at his own
will.
Can you imagine that?
That he does as he pleases.
That that statement indicates that the devil willfully
and deliberately sets snares in order that he
might capture human persons, in order that he
might enslave them.
Now, though I was reared in a Christian
environment, and in a Christian, in an evangelical
church, and grew up from a baby in
that church, I can never remember in my
total youth of ever hearing a whole entire
sermon relative to what I'm going to teach
you right today on demon power.
He was mentioned.
He was normally called Slewfoot, you know, or
something like that.
And that everybody laughed.
And then they would say, Now you devil,
you go back to hell where you came
from.
And he hasn't been there yet.
That is his final destination.
He is today the prince and the power
of the air.
And so I never got in on this
at all.
I just grew up.
We heard beautiful gospel, wonderful gospel, but we
knew nothing about the battle.
I look back now and see churches split.
I look back now and see some of
our members that went to insane asylums.
I look back and I say, Whoa, think
of the ignorance that I grew up in
and didn't know I was ignorant, you know.
I thought I was fully informed.
I thought that I was getting a tremendous
education from the whole of the Bible.
But then I found out there's an area
of the Word that I actually knew nothing
about and neither did my peers because they
taught me nothing.
I never read a book that was done
by a pastor right in our congregation.
And I never heard a sermon on how
you can defend yourself from the devil, how
you can curse the devil, how you can
cast him out, how you have priorities over
him that he will flee when you say
go and you resist him.
I did not know about this.
When I went into the ministry, we have
stories in the Bible of Jesus casting out
the devil.
I followed the pastors that I'd heard and
I spiritualized.
I said, now, in this great realm of
sin, you know, leprosy is a type of
sin in general and palsy is a type
of the helplessness of sin.
You just shake and you shake.
And demon possession, it's a type of the
fury of sin.
Oh, fury of sin, it's a bad.
And that's all I, that's what I preached,
you know.
It was a type.
Demon possession is no type of anything.
It's the real thing.
It's being possessed of a real personality called
the devil and with some of his demons
that work with him and for him.
Well, I got along all right.
I preached for three years here in the
United States and then I began my missionary
work.
Now, I got along all right in New
Zealand, Australia, you know.
But then I got to Indonesia.
Now, I didn't ask for anything.
I just wanted to keep it this pleasing,
happy little way.
Get up and give a nice little talk
on the prodigal son, Daniel and the lions,
then give an invitation, get people saved and
go home happy.
That's all I expected.
In a meeting there in Indonesia, it was
a large building, similar to this building here.
Had a large altar, just about like the
one here.
And on the front seat was a girl.
In the beginning of the service, she got
off the seat and it was a wide
place, just very similar to this one here.
And she began to gyrate like a serpent
and go from one side over to the
other side.
I mean a long way, 50 or 60
feet, you know.
And did you know nobody noticed it?
The song leaders sung and looking up, you
know.
And when they prayed, they looked up.
But no, and I couldn't get my eyes
off this little girl.
Green foam was coming out of her mouth,
clear out here to look like six or
eight inches, covering her all through this part
of her body.
Her eyes dancing, serpent eyes, terrible.
I just, you know, cringed sitting on the
platform.
Inside I said, now, the pastor will take
care of this in a hurry.
I'm waiting for one of the ushers to
walk down and pick her up.
Did you know this went on for 50
or 55 minutes and nobody did anything?
And she just went from one side to
the other, just like a snake.
And then she'd turn over the other way.
She kept her head toward the platform, grinning
at the people, mocking the people on the
platform.
And here she came back.
Now Java, Indonesia, is a place where there
is, of a truth, a lot of demon
power.
But now this was my first time, my
first time.
Now, brother, the first time can be the
hard time, you know.
And I said, oh God, save souls.
And the Lord spoke back to me and
said, I can't save souls until you move
this down here.
I said, oh Lord, move that girl.
The Lord said, no, that's your job.
Oh, I said, no, no.
Oh Lord, move that girl.
The Lord said, no, that's your job.
Whew.
I didn't know what to do.
I'm glad they had a long song service
and a long prayer time and a long
Bible reading and so forth because I was
sitting back there battling.
Here was, say, 1,500 people present and
here was a little girl under the power
of the devil.
The pastor did nothing.
The ushers did nothing.
And here she was going up and down
with green mist coming out of her mouth.
And nobody watching her, even the people she
passed by, didn't even look down.
So I guess she had done it before.
But they didn't take her out.
And this was a beautiful church.
I mean, this wasn't a poor place.
This was a magnificent place of worship.
Well, I didn't know what to do.
So I got up from my chair away
in the back and I start toward the
platform, toward the pulpit.
And my interpreter was right there by me.
I'd never been in this place before.
It was my first night.
And I'd been in the country over a
week.
And I, for my insides, I didn't think
it out with my head.
For my insides, I said, get up from
there.
It's so astounding, my interpreter, he didn't say
a word.
He just closed up, never said a word.
And that little thing there blinked an eye,
reached and took her arm, wiped that green
mess off her face, stood up, backed up,
and sat down in the seat.
And like a mummy, not like a human,
but like a mummy, glared at me, glared
at me for the next 50 or 60
minutes as I preached.
And you could feel a stillness all over
that place.
Nobody had ever rebuked like that.
Of course, most of the people didn't understand
English, but that devil did.
That girl didn't speak one word of English,
but that devil knew that I meant get
up from there.
And it wasn't premeditated, and I didn't know
I could do it.
I just knew that to save that meeting,
and I wanted to see a few hundred
people saved, that I had to get that
thing off the floor.
So when I got through preaching, my interpreter
went ahead and interpreted for me.
I got to the end of my sermon.
Rather than giving my altar call, I leaned
over and I said, come out of her.
You'd think it was an earthquake that shook
the building.
The power of God hit that girl.
She was sitting there like a mummy, you
know, and not an eye moving, not a
muscle moving for all that time that I
spoke as if she was hypnotized.
And when I said, come out of her,
suddenly she became normal, her eyes, her face,
her body.
And she looked around, and she was smiling,
and she spoke to the one next to
her.
And I said to the interpreter, I said,
what did she say?
And the interpreter said, what did she say?
And he says, she said, where am I?
She didn't even know where she was.
She was so under the power of the
devil, she didn't know she was in church.
But I want to tell you one thing.
I did not have to give an altar
call.
The glory of God came down on that
place.
The spirit of the Lord hit that place,
and hundreds from all over came rushing to
that altar and gave their hearts to Jesus.
Now, I didn't know what it was.
So I went home.
I was traveling with a man named Howard
Carter from London, England.
He's a theologian and the president of a
Bible college.
And I explained it to him, and I
said, hey, you may not want to travel
with me anymore.
I tell you.
And I told him what happened.
I said, it's pretty bloody.
And I said, to tell you the truth,
the pastor didn't speak to me after church.
It might have been one of his kids
or his friend's kids.
I don't know.
But I said, I'll tell you one thing.
People got saved.
So he sat there.
He was a thinking type.
And he sat there and wiped his face
a little while holding his hand like this.
And he said, it sounds all right to
me.
Well, I said, well, thank you.
He says, it may never happen again, or
it may happen some more.
But he said, it's all right with me.
He says, I don't see anything wrong with
it.
Maybe it'll happen when I'm around sometime.
He was a teacher, not an evangelist.
And at that night, he was teaching in
another place.
The need was so great until we were
not in the same meetings very often.
And so I said, well, that's an oriental
disease that I'm glad I'm taking care of,
that there won't ever be anymore, and I
won't ever see it anymore.
But I began to look into the Bible
and to read the incidents where Jesus cast
out devils.
And I said, ah, ah, maybe something like
this is in the Bible.
I didn't know.
I didn't know the Bible was full of
it all the way through it.
I didn't realize that.
And so about the next week, we were
in another city.
We only spent a night or two in
each city because we were only three months
in Indonesia, and we had to cover a
lot of territory.
And we were in another city.
And again, he was in one church, and
I was in another, at least in auditoriums,
in order to take care of the ministry
that was before us.
And I had an interpreter again.
And we got to this church late, and
it was a big place, packed full of
people.
Even the aisle had folding chairs down the
aisle and people sitting in them.
And we had to walk kind of sideways
down the aisle.
You know, there were so many people, you
couldn't walk straight because they had these extra
chairs in the aisle.
I got about a third of the way
down.
My interpreter was in front, and a woman
grabbed me by my coat like a vice.
I went to shake free, but she wouldn't
turn loose.
She just looked up at me and grinned,
and she wouldn't turn loose.
And my interpreter walked right off and left
me, went clear to the platform all by
himself.
I looked back and said, come on, well,
how could I come?
Couldn't go anywhere.
You know, they were holding my coat.
And I leaned over to see what the
woman wanted, and she spoke to me in
English.
She said, you have a black angel in
you, and I have a white angel in
me.
Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.
Now, I didn't know exactly what to do.
I could have slapped her side of the
head.
But, you know, being a guest and a
visitor, that wouldn't be too nice.
I could have rebuked her and said, turn
me loose.
And I could have, like Joseph, given her
my coat and walked on up there without
a coat.
But when I leaned over and I saw
the devil in her, I just dropped my
briefcase that had my Bible in it.
I put my hands on both sides of
her head, and I said, you lying spirit
who says that I have a black spirit
in me and that this woman has an
evil spirit, a white spirit in her.
You're a liar.
I said, come out of her.
And you know, instantly, God set her free.
You can tell when people are free.
Their eyes clear up.
Their face clears up.
Their tensions go.
Their wildness leaves their body, you know.
The church stopped singing.
You know, they were singing.
When they heard this American roaring away, come
out of her, they stopped to see what
the American was doing that was supposed to
be a guest that night.
Just a one-night service.
And I spoke to her, and I said,
when did you get like this?
She said, 15 years ago, I went to
a witch doctor.
And I've had this.
It says it's never done what it did
tonight before.
This was new.
But says it's doing something or other all
the time.
And I'm so weary of it.
And so she says, I'm free.
And I know I'm free.
And I am free.
And she was wonderfully set free from that
night.
Well, when we got back to the room
where we were staying, I told Mr. Howard
Carter from London, England.
I said, sir, another one happened, and it's
worse than the first one.
I told him how before I got into
the platform, when I was only a third
of the way down the aisle, I was
accosted by this woman.
And how I cast that thing out of
her, and she was set free.
He said, well, what happened?
He said, well, they gave me the pulpit
early.
I preached, and many, many, many people came
and found Jesus as their Savior.
Well, he said, now, when people are finding
Jesus, it touches me very, very.
And it says it shows me there's something
right going on.
He says, I haven't seen anybody act like
this, but sometimes it'll happen when I'm around,
and I'll test the spirits.
But he says, it sounds all right to
me.
I didn't know what it was.
I was a young man learning how.
Isn't it something that a young man has
to learn by experience?
There's nobody to teach him.
Aren't you glad you have a teacher that
can tell you these things, and take the
Word of God, and open these things up
to you, so that you will know the
truth, and the truth will set you free?
Ah, if I were to tell you all
the instances, just in this one area, in
the island of Java, it would take two
or three lessons to go through them, because
there are many of them.
And God did, we never failed.
God set them free every time.
And it rejoiced our hearts to see the
power of God liberate people and set them
free, and make them to be happy in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
So it was a joy to learn in
this way.
And now God says, not only to learn,
He tells me to share.
And my job is to share with you
these things of the Lord.
And maybe I should tell you a few
more of them there, but some of the
things that I learned from this was that
as we ministered through this island of Java,
I discovered that through the numerous encounters we
had with the devil, that the things we
learned were also most interesting and exciting.
But the greatest thing that I learned was
that there was a conflict, that if I
went into a heathen place to bring out
a lot of souls, I had a conflict
with the devil, and I better know it.
I better find it out, or I couldn't
win all these souls to the Lord Jesus.
So I learned personally that there was a
conflict.
And then something within me said that Christ
was stronger and greater than any of these
forces, and that I had complete power to
set those people free.
I hadn't been taught this.
This had to come out of my own
spirit, that it was not a person that
I met who caused the battle.
It was a spirit that caused the battle.
It was something within that person that caused
them to want to fight me and to
come against me.
It wasn't me personally.
It wasn't because I was an American.
It wasn't because I was a white person.
It was because the devil immediately thrust himself
against me, and so he opened up the
battle.
Maybe I shouldn't have waited for him to
open the battle.
I should have opened the battle on him.
I discovered that there was no reason for
me to fear.
Now see, early discoveries are interesting.
Nobody taught me this.
I learned it this way, that I could
not lose a battle, that it was not
possible to lose a battle.
I found that though they would scream and
tear themselves, and they could not hardly touch
me, and they could not harm me.
I never did get harmed.
I never got beaten or hit.
I've had them to double up their fist
or something other than I just say, in
Jesus' name, stop, and took control of it,
and that I was perfectly safe in exercising
evil spirits out of other people.
I found that in most cases that the
demons wanted to run away when they discovered
my presence was there, and they did not
want to confront me, and so it was
not that they were belligerent and wanted to
fight me.
They did not.
They wanted to run away from me.
So as I sought to confirm this new
activity with the Word of God, then one
of the first things that came to me
was the great commission that Jesus gave, and
this became the Gibraltar of my faith then
in Mark chapter 16, verses 15 through 17.
This became a Gibraltar of my faith.
It became the anchor.
I said, say here, hey, look here.
This is what God can do, and I
know, and I know that He can do
it.
You see, we went on through the Orient,
and we discovered many things.
In China, we had these conditions where we
had to cast out spirits out of people
that would tear them, and they couldn't sit
anywhere and couldn't go anywhere.
In Japan, we had the same thing happen,
and brother, I was 20 and 21 years
old.
I said, this is an organ disease, and
I'd be glad to get out of it.
So when we crossed Siberia and Russia into
Poland and into Europe, I said, I'm glad
to get away from that nagging thing that
almost every meeting I have, somebody snails up,
and I have to cast the devil out
of them.
I'd be glad to get away from it.
We hadn't been in Poland a week, I
don't believe.
The most could have been 10 days.
Before, we were speaking in a large church,
and I don't know whether Reverend Carter was
there or not.
It seems to me that he wasn't in
that meeting because we had so many separate
meetings, just two men traveling together, and the
needs were so great, we could have used
40 men in some of them rather than
just two.
But in the meeting that I had, I
think it was in the great city of
Lodz in Poland, that the meeting opened, and
I was sitting on the platform, and a
woman in the front seat began to say,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
And I said, boy, that's terrible.
That's cutting, destroying, you know.
And I said, ah, you got to get
rid of that.
Did you know, for the whole preliminaries, 30,
40, 50, 60 minutes, however long the thing
was, she sat there, and about every minute
said, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
And her face didn't even look right.
Did you know the pastor did nothing?
That's what amazes me in religious leaders.
The ushers did nothing.
The deacons did nothing.
She sat there and disturbed that meeting for
almost an hour before I got up to
speak with a little Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Now, all I did is pray for souls.
I am a soul winner.
I said, oh, God, save souls.
The Lord says, I can't, because of that
annoyance in the front seat, getting all the
attention.
I said, oh, Lord, help that woman.
God says, I can't help her.
He says, you won't?
Let me help her.
I said, Lord, you do something.
The Lord said, you're going to have to
do it.
Oh, oh, oh.
Are you sure?
When I got up to speak, I didn't
know what I was going to do.
I never pre-thought these things out.
I walked up to that pulpit, and rather
than just saying good evening, it's a great
joy to be here.
Glad to see you.
Glad to be in your city.
I just said, you shut up!
And a strong, loud voice.
You say, did she shut up?
No.
She began to bark like a dog.
She barked like a dog.
A beautiful woman.
And then here came the ushers, you know?
Goodness gracious.
I said, go back and sit down.
And told my interpreter to start talking.
And so I leaned over and I said,
you come out of her!
And I never did get close to the
woman.
She was healed by God's power.
That barking stopped.
The hallelujah stopped.
And she was completely free, healed by God's
mighty power.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon that
mighty audience, and hundreds of people found Jesus
that night.
Now, that's my education.
My education, you see.
But I got startled.
I said, say, they got this in Europe,
hadn't they?
It's not only in China, Indonesia, and Japan.
In Europe!
Did you know in England we had many
cases of people that were possessed to be
set free?
But in my foolishness, I said, I want
to get back to America.
You Europeans, you got it, and you Asians,
you have it, but I'm going back to
America where we don't have it.
And you know, when I got back to
America, within the first two weeks that I
was here, I had a tremendous confrontation that
I'm going to tell you about in our
next lesson.
We will continue part two in how I
learned to cast out evil spirits.
I had to learn it.
Nobody taught me.
Nobody helped me.
I had no books on the subject.
And God helped me to learn, to teach
you how you can exercise evil.
God can help you to do it.
God bless my neighbors and friends and give
them strength and power to resist the devil
and to cast him out upon the authority
of the Word of God and the power
of the blood that was shed on Calvary.
I believe you for it, and I thank
you for it.
Amen.
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