Back to our subject again this evening, and
this is our fourth evening now on this
great subject of demonology.
And in dealing with demonology, on the first
week we looked at Lucifer, the leader of
the demons.
And yesterday we looked up the devil and
his angels.
And then on the second week, we found
out that we wrestle not with flesh and
blood but against principalities.
And we took this word, principality, that week,
and found out that it's a Greek word
called archi, and it's translated by the word
prince, because these principalities are princes, demon princes.
And then we went through the book and
we found a lot of demon princes.
You remember the Pharisees insulted Christ by saying
that he cast out demons by the prince
of the demons, Beelzebub, and we got one
of the names.
And so we went into this very closely
and found these demon princes, oh, they're quite
an army, and they're organized, and Satan hasped
them for a very particular job.
You see, they come against the governments and
the parliaments of this world.
This force moves against the political realm in
our world.
Now, I don't know the name of the
demon prince that's over this province, but he
has done a mighty job for the devil,
there's no doubt about it.
And then last week we moved on to
see these powers that we wrestled against.
There's a vast difference between principalities and powers.
And we saw these demon powers coming against
the physical last week.
You remember the woman that was bound for
18 years.
You remember how Satan was able to touch
Job's body, and with one touch, Job was
covered from the soles of the feet to
the crown of the head with four boys.
We saw the man that was blinded.
We saw the man that was dumb.
We saw the man that was deaf.
And we saw these demon powers coming against
the physical.
So, that's the battle as it goes.
We're commencing again in Ephesians, chapter 6, please.
Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
And we're at the sixth chapter, and Paul
is saying, verse 10, Finally, my brethren, be
strong in the Lord and in the power
of his might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that
ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Now, here's the mighty demon army that we
go against, but against principalities.
And they're moving chiefly in the political realm.
Against powers, and we have seen these demon
powers move in the physical realm.
And now, tonight, we're going to watch them
moving in the mental realm.
Now, this is a very important part of
our study this evening, and we've taken great
time with it.
Of course, we'll go on when we're finished
looking at these powers.
We'll have to see them in the spiritual
realm, moving against God's children.
And we'll be taking that up very carefully
next week.
Of course, we'll have to see the rulers
of the darkness of this world.
And they move in the evangelical realm, just
to blind the minds of them that believe
not.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel should
shine in.
That's their task, to keep people in the
dark.
But tonight, we're looking at these demon powers
moving in the mental realm, against the mind.
Let's go over to where Peter's preaching, in
the house of Cornelius, at the Acts of
the Apostles, chapter 10, please.
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10.
And you remember that Peter was very reluctant
to come down to this Gentile house to
preach the gospel.
But eventually, God brought him, and he came
into the house of Cornelius.
Verse 34, we'll start up.
Acts 10, 34.
Then, Peter opened his mouth and said, Of
the truth I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons, but in every nation, he
that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted
with him.
The word which God sent on to the
children of Israel, speaking peace by Jesus Christ,
he is Lord of all.
That word, I say ye know, which was
published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee
after the baptism which John preached, how God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power, who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil.
Now, that's the word we want to look
very carefully at, this word oppressed.
Because I think that you can see immediately
that we're in the mental realm just now.
But this is a very thrilling and exciting
and wonderful word that you hear in the
Greek.
Oppressed of the devil.
Let me take you over to James, the
epistle of James, and we're up a second
chapter.
James, chapter 2, and you remember that James
was a very practical preacher.
James, chapter 2, and we need to read
you a little bit to get the connection
properly.
My brethren, so that he's speaking to the
believers, and he's encouraging them, My brethren, have
not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
For if they come into your assembly, a
man with a gold ring and goodly apparel,
and they come in also a poor man
and vile demons, and ye have respect to
him that weareth the gay clothing, and say
unto him, Sit thou here in a good
place, and say to the poor, Stand thou
there, or sit here under my footstool.
Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and
thou become judges of evil thoughts?
Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen
the poor of this world rich in faith,
and heirs of the kingdom which he hath
promised to them that love him?
But ye have despised the poor.
I hope it will never be said of
this assembly.
I hope this charge cannot be laid to
us.
I trust there will always be a ministry
in this place that will go out towards
the poor at all times.
And at this moment, there's a great ministry.
Just to get at home to those whom
he was writing to, he says, Do not
rich men oppress you.
That's the same word.
But being in a different setting, I think
you can see this.
You know, there was a lady who came
in to me just a few weeks ago,
of very decent, upright, out-and-out belief.
And she said, Mr. Mullen, I'm being haunted,
oppressed, by a man for a bill that
I cannot pay.
There was a rich man, hard on her
heels.
You know what we say sometimes, she was
being pushed.
Well, that's the idea that we're at when
we're over little press with the devil.
Sometimes the devil gets something on you.
Something that you've been giving off.
Something that you are standing condemned off.
And he haunts you with it.
And he oppresses you.
And there are people whom he has overcome
and knocked down because of this mental oppression.
I think that you'll see it again.
Let's go to Mark's Gospel.
And it's the first chapter.
Mark's Gospel.
Chapter one, verse thirty-five.
I'm trying to save time by cutting out
a verse or two, but you'll get it
all right.
Mark one, verse thirty-five.
And in the morning, rising a great while
before day.
You know, we do read in another case
that the Lord left us an example that
we should follow in His steps.
And I could pitch the sermon on that
this evening.
An example in temptation, He left us that
example from Matthew chapter four.
An example in supplication.
A great while before day.
Some of the believers can't get up from
their work.
I don't think it's a testimony to the
Lord if you're running for the bus every
morning.
You haven't even got your breakfast, let alone
pray.
Well, if you were getting the example, He
was off a great while before day.
But that's not the subject, is it?
And in the morning, rising up a great
while before day, He went out and departed
into a solitary place and there prayed.
And surely if my master needed to do
this, how much more I?
And Simon and Bathob were with Him, followed
after Him.
See the word followed?
It's the exact same Greek word, word for
word, letter for letter, I mean.
Letter for letter.
It's the same word.
Actually, one of the translators has translated this.
And Simon and Bathob were with Him, hunted
hard after Him.
They were hunting for Him.
Where had He gone?
Ah, that's the word oppression, isn't it?
And the devil hunts after you, doesn't he?
Let me show you the word again.
2 Corinthians chapter 11.
And we'll come to this portion, one of
these evenings, when we're dealing with the evangelical,
the rulers of the darkness of this world.
Paul talks about false apostles here.
Verse 13.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel.
For Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness, whose end shall be according to the
works.
And then he lets these Corinthians see what
these false teachers would do.
He says in verse 19.
For you suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves
alive.
For you suffer if a man bring you
into bondage.
You see the word bondage?
It's the same Greek word.
Sometimes it's translated oppressed by the devil.
Sometimes it's translated followed after, or hunted after.
Sometimes it's translated by the word bondage.
You see the whole idea is before you
know.
The old devil gets something on you.
And then he hunts after you.
And then he oppresses you.
And then he bends you.
And he puts you to the floor.
And he holds you down.
We're talking about wrestling.
We wrestle not.
He'll hold you down in bondage.
It is oppression of the mind.
This is oppressed by the devil.
You know one morning, and it's just about
six months ago, in the bunch of letters
I got, I received one that I looked
at very, very carefully.
It was written on beautiful paper, and it
was written with a beautiful hand.
And I thought, I wasn't sure, but I
thought I'd detected a sheer stain or two
at the end of it.
Turned it over, and over and looked at
it.
It was a lady from, I won't tell
you the place, but away in the heart
of the country, somewhere between a hothole and
Lost Sharkin.
And I looked at this, and then I
took it up to the room, and then
I put it down before the Lord and
prayed about it.
This woman was in deep, dire distress of
mind.
She'd actually stated three or four times that
she was going off her head.
That she felt she was going to lose
her reason.
And she would need to talk to somebody
that would probably understand her.
I get a lot of letters, I assure
you, that I just throw down, and I
don't bother my head with it.
You can blame me, or excuse me, or
do whatever you like, but that's exactly what
I do.
But this one I felt, I can't do
that with this.
So I got the car out, and I
drove from here to Antrim, and then on
down into Randallstown, and then on down into
Port Blenheim, and then on down to Dunlinning,
and away down into the heart of the
country there between Lost Sharkin and a hothole.
And I began to look for this lady.
I called at the garage or two, and
these men had never heard of her.
So I went on.
I stopped with an old road man on
the road, and I asked him, he said,
I don't think there's anybody above here like
that.
So I went on another mile or two
and went to a little garage.
He said, hi, you're not far away.
He said, if you go right along this
road, that narrow one up there, the biggest
and the best looking house that's there, that's
where she lived.
She was a very well-to-do lady.
So I went on, and I opened the
gates into the drive and took the car
in.
And when I got off the drive, there
was a lady standing on the doorstep, the
door open, which I could describe her to
you.
She was long and thin, white-haired, well
-dressed, well-spoken.
She said, you're Mr. Mullin.
I said, that's right.
I said, Madam, are you the lady that
wrote the letter?
She said, you've come at a good time.
They're all out.
So I went in and sat down beside
her.
Talked gently, and found out she'd been saved
about 25 years ago, saved at an old
brethren mission.
I said again.
But the thing that was troubling her was
something that had gone on a long time
before that.
When she was a young girl going to
school, just 15 years of age, ready to
stop the big school and go into the
college, the road man along the road had
cornered her one day, and knocked her down,
and had sexual intercourse with her, and she
never told anyone.
And now when she's almost 70, or whatever
age she was, she says, I lie at
night and I stare into the ceiling, and
I cry and cry and cry, and something
haunts me.
So I said, the devil haunts you.
What am I going to do?
I said, you know, there's a way to
defeat this, dear, that you can step out
absolutely free.
And I assure you whom the Son sets
free is me.
So I took it away over to the
prophecy of Isaiah, and I read that our
Lord Jesus was stricken and smitten of God
and afflicted, but He was wounded for our
transgressions.
And I took up this phrase, our transgressions.
I said, do you really believe that when
He hung on the cross that He was
wounded for our transgressions?
She said, of course I do.
I said, do you think that He bore
our sins in His own body on the
tree?
Of course I do.
I said, see what that has to do
with it.
I said, dear, I want you to answer
this question.
Did He bear all your sins, all your
transgressions, but this one with the robe on?
I'll tell you this before you answer me.
If He didn't bear that one, you're damned.
If you count that as sin on your
part, I'm not so sure, but even if
it is, if Jesus Christ didn't bear it,
you're damned, because He's not coming back to
do anything more about it at all.
I can see her sitting, frightened up.
Then she just fell on the knees.
She put her arms round me, squeezed me.
She says, my God, it was settled and
calmed.
Ah, yet it was.
But the devil was haunting her.
He hung her bent, he hung her down,
he rented his trial.
He was oppressing her.
There's somebody in here with a secret.
Somebody in here, as you say.
You know what fills me more than anything?
My sins, oh, the bliss of this glorious
thought.
My sins, not in part, but the whole.
He nailed to the cross.
I bear it.
You know, they're gone, aren't they?
And you can beat the devil if you
grasp the magnet.
But you know, when you take up demonology,
it's just like last week, you know.
We took up sickness, sickness that came from
Satan, and sickness that came from demons.
And you know, you must not get the
idea that every time somebody is sick, that
it's the devil.
You see, Epaphroditus was sick nigh unto death
for the work of Christ.
Wasn't anything about demons about it.
And we went into all kinds of sickness.
There was a doctor here last week, and
he said to me on the phone the
next day, my, you know more about sickness
than I do.
Well, I said, this book knows more than
you.
And you only need to find out the
book.
Now, it's the same with oppression.
Don't be getting the idea that every time
that you have some sort of oppression, that
it's the devil.
You'll have to learn to diagnose this, you
know.
Let me take you way back to 2
Samuel, chapter 19.
Second book of Samuel, and it's the 19th
chapter.
I think you know something of the story,
and that will make it easier for us.
It's the story of Absalom, David's son who
rebelled against him, and Absalom was killed.
You remember, a man came out of the
bottle with the tidings.
2 Samuel, just read a couple of verses
in 18.
Chapter 18, verse 31, And behold, Cushi came,
and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king,
for the Lord hath avenged thee this day
of all them that rose up against thee.
And the king said unto Cushi, Is the
young man Absalom safe?
Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the
king and all that rise against thee to
do thee hurt, be as that young man
is.
And the king was much moved, get the
word, went up to the chamber over the
gate and wept.
And as he went, thus he said, O
my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom,
would God I had died for thee, Absalom,
my son, my son.
And it was told Joab, who was the
captain of David's folks, Behold, the king weepeth
and mourneth for Absalom.
And the victory that day was turned into
mourning unto all the people, for the people
heard say that day how the king was
grieved for his son.
And the people got them by stealth that
day into the city, as people being ashamed
feel away when they flee in the battle.
But the king covered his face and the
king cried with a loud voice, O my
son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.
It went on for long enough and Joab
came into the house to the king and
said, Thou hast shamed this day the fates
of all thy servants, which this day have
saved thy life and the lives of thy
sons and thy daughters and the lives of
thy wives and the lives of thine concubines,
in that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest
thy friends.
For thou hast declared this day that thou
regardest me the prince of my servants.
For this day I perceive that if Absalom
had lived and all we had died this
day, then it had pleased thee well.
Therefore arise and go forth and speak comfortably
unto thy servants, for I swear by the
Lord, if thou go not out forth, they
will not carry one with thee this night.
And that would be worse unto thee than
all the evil that befell thee from the
youth until now and the king of Rome.
You see, he was oppressed.
Oh, he had lost a loved one and
we all know all about it.
Of course, he's getting down on the earth.
It's not the devil, you know.
Some of you sit and weep far too
long.
You need to get up, you know.
You mourn for the rest of your life.
You think the Lord wasn't guiding things at
all.
So don't let's get this thing off the
bones.
There are people oppressed by this and that
and the other.
And you have to learn to differentiate between
that and demon oppression.
And I've put in a lot of time
at it and sort of understand.
Do you remember this?
Let's go back to Romans and we're at
the ninth chapter.
Romans chapter nine.
Paul writing said, verse one, I say the
truth in Christ, I lie not.
My conscience also bearing me witness in the
Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and
continuous sorrow in my heart for I could
wish that myself were accursed from Christ for
my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh.
You know, that's a different sort of burden
altogether, isn't it?
Can I say to you this evening that
that swat killed Mori Machin and just in
case we get too swanky in here let
me tell you he was a Presbyterian minister.
Even from his youthful days when he was
sixteen years of age standing at a shop
window at Christmas time with his mother looking
at the presents she was jazzing over the
window she heard them sobbing.
She said, what's wrong with you?
He said, mummy, mummy can't you hear?
She says, I hear nothing, what's wrong with
you?
And the people were going past with their
presents.
He says, mummy, can't you hear the thump,
thump, thump of Christless feet on the road
to hell.
There's not too many of us oppressed like
this.
Not too many of the servants of God
have died with broken hearts over sinners.
Not too many of us have great heaviness
and continual sorrow.
The less yelping out of you if you
had wouldn't be any trouble in the assembly,
you know.
May God get us there.
I'm just trying to show you the different
kinds of oppression that can come.
But there is such a thing of being
oppressed of being hunted of being brought into
bondage by the devil or bringing something and
keeping it before your mind.
Now, let's move on in this subject because
we're moving from mental distraction is what I
call that.
And there's people who have had distraction about
this and that and the other and we'll
come to that in a moment.
But let's move from mental distraction to mental
possession.
So, when the devil comes to possess you.
Let's go to Matthew's Gospel, chapter fifteen, please.
Matthew's Gospel, chapter fifteen, verse twenty-one.
Then Jesus went hence and departed into the
coast of Tyre and Sidon.
And behold, a woman of Canaan came out
of the same coast.
That is, from Cana of Galilee from Tyre
and Sidon.
And cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on
me, O God, thou Son of David.
My daughter is grievously vexed with the devil.
Now, I want you to get the word
grievously vexed because that's a very important word,
that word vexed.
Because you can see that this girl, she
was possessed of the devil, you know.
Let's go back to Matthew twelve for the
moment until I show you this.
Matthew twelve, verse twenty-two.
Then was brought unto him one possessed with
the devil.
Now, there are Greek scholars on the right
and left of me here.
And you can go home and look your
Greek book or your lexicon and you'll find
the word vexed and the word possessed is
the same Greek word.
For that this girl that was grievously vexed,
for mine was grievously vexed because for mine
I've been taken possession of by a demon.
It's a terrible thing, isn't it?
You know, there's another word for this and
it's a really distressing word.
It's the word tormented.
Because vexed and possessed and tormented is the
same Greek word.
Let's go way back to Matthew chapter four,
I think it is.
It's Matthew chapter four, verse twenty-three.
And Jesus went about all Galilee keeping in
their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and
all manner of disease among the people.
And his fame went throughout all Syria way
up over the border there.
And they brought unto him all sick people
that were taken with divers diseases and torments
and those which were possessed with devils and
those which were lunatic and those which had
the palsy and he healed them.
I'm just taking out the word torment.
You know the difference between torment and torture,
don't you?
Well, if it's torture it must be something
you're doing on my body.
We hear of some of the rebels taking
men away and torturing them and we hear
of some of the protestant organizations doing the
same.
You know that torment belongs to the mind
not the body, don't you?
I hope you do.
You know, there's a day coming in this
old world of ours.
This is something I don't want to go
into tonight because it belongs to another night
altogether but just show you for a moment.
It's Revelation chapter nine.
The book of Revelation and it's chapter nine
and I'm not wanting to expand it because
we will take a whole night to hear.
Chapter nine, it belongs to the very heart
of the great tribulation that's coming on to
this old world of ours.
This one, and the fifth angel sounded and
I saw a star fall from heaven onto
the earth and don't think it's one of
the stellar sparkling stars that we see, twinkling
ones.
No, this was an angel unto him.
The word him will direct you.
It was a person and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit.
And if we were going into the exposition
of this the bottomless pit is where a
great many demons are held captive this evening.
Oh yes, there's quite a crowd held in
chains but there's quite a crowd in the
heavenlies with the devil, principalities and powers and
the rulers of the darkness.
But these other ones are going to be
let loose.
And when they're let loose, this is what
God is going to say to them.
Verse four, And it was commanded them that
they should not haunt the grass of the
earth, and that should make you think, neither
any green thing, neither any tree, but only
those men which have not the feel of
God in the forehead.
You know they're intelligent enough to differentiate between
the 144,000 that are field and the
followers of the beast who are not field.
Verse five, And it was given that they
should not kill them.
God put this limitation on and they can
only go as far as God will allow
them.
But that they should be tormented five months
or the day it will be when the
whole world, all that follow the beast will
be tormented by demons.
Five months.
Did you see what it says?
It says in verse six, And in those
days shall men seek death, shall not find
it, and shall desire to die.
Death shall flee from them.
All the demons will keep them from dying
no matter what they do.
An old fellow came to argue with me
about that.
He says, you know, that must be wrong.
If you want to die you can shoot
yourself, you can take poison.
Not on this occasion you can't.
When demons in dwelt people on this earth,
you remember we're going to look at it
in a moment, the lard fell into the
water.
Oh, he wasn't burned.
He fell into the fire after.
Oh, he wasn't burned.
The man in the tomb cuts himself with
stones, puts big gashes across his breast and
across his face and lies out all night
and nothing happens to him.
He's okay.
He's got more than tublets inside.
He's got a demon that looks after him.
We've got a lot to learn about this
shit.
Yes, I want you to get this, you
know, the devil can come and take possession
and torment you and you can be egregiously
vexed, or at least a person can be
egregiously vexed.
That's what I call mental possession.
I want to try to draw the difference
between mental destruction and mental possession.
And then let's go to Matthew chapter 17
just to see this other scene before we
put them together.
Matthew chapter 17.
The Lord Jesus has been up on the
Mount of Transfiguration here and he's coming down
with Peter and James and John.
Verse 14.
And when they were come to the multitude,
there came to him a certain man kneeling
down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy
on my son, for he is lunatic and
so vexed, for oft times he falleth into
the fire and oft into the water.
And I brought him to my disciples and
they could not cure him.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and
perverse generation, how long shall I be with
thee?
How long shall I suffer you?
Bring him hither to me.
And Jesus rebuked the demon that was in
the boy and he departed out of him.
And the child was cured from that very
hour.
It was the demon that made him lunatic.
Now that word lunatic is a very interesting
one.
One of our great translators, Old Williams, who
was a Quaker and who has a translation,
I think, second to none.
He has this word here, Lord, have mercy
on my son, for he is mentally deranged.
What is mentally deranged?
And lunatic is the same thing anyway.
Now the word lunatic that's here, it's actually
the word lunar.
And the word lunar in English means moon.
Now that's very interesting, isn't it?
Because, you know, if you have been to
some of these films in your long-saved
days, I don't expect you to be there
now and I hope you're not.
Belongs to the world, let them keep it.
You may have seen some of these vampire,
blood-sucking, demon-possessed characters and they always
come abroad like a fool of the moon.
Of course, you know, even science, even medical
science will tell you that if a man
is mentally deranged or there's lunacy or madness
about him or he's a dangerous character because
of his mental unskillfulness, he's always worse at
the fool of the moon.
So some of you watch yourself, the moon
is full tonight.
You know, the moon plays a tremendous part
and I don't think we know this.
You see, the moon plays a tremendous part
on agriculture.
That's a fact, you know.
See, I was before man at one of
the largest nurseries in the land for some
time.
I had 70 men under me, addictions of
hallmark.
And I remember one lady came, she was
a sighted lady.
She said that she had always come to
buy stuff there and she always talked to
me and said, well, you know this, this
cress?
We love mustard and cress when my mother
-in-law comes.
We can grow the mustard but we can't
grow the cress.
She said, our gardener has tried it every
way and they've told him everything.
I said, I'll do it for you and
it'll have to be tonight.
She said, well, we'll give hope, and that'll
be quite enough.
She said, the moon is at full.
She thought I was banning, you know.
So I went up to see them and
got into this great mansion and they took
me out to the greenhouse.
She said, we'll put the lights on.
I said, you'll not, you know.
Just leave it as it is.
And if you've ever had any trouble sowing
cress for sandwiches, if you fill a little
fish box at the full of the moon
and put the feet on and cover it
with a little sand, in two days you
will have 100% yield.
And I'll tell you, we think try it
at any other time and it'll not, you'll
not get the quarter.
Now, there's a farmer in the meeting tonight.
He and I are as thick as can
be.
It's good to keep in with the farmers.
You could get a cast for nothing now,
only I don't want it.
But just for the fun of the thing,
sowing the barley in the last season, he
sowed it in the moonlight.
He's here now.
And the yield was absolutely perfect.
Over two tons per acre.
He's there, I could make him stand up,
only he'll die if I make him stand.
And I don't want him to die.
Yes, you know that the moon has an
effect on agriculture.
Yes, you know the moon has an effect
on some people too, don't you?
Yeah, I see you smiling.
They know something about this, don't you?
When Mr. Ervin, I wish he were here
tonight, I think he dodged this, you know.
When he and I were in Athens, we
went out at about 12 o'clock midnight
and the moon was half full.
And we went into some great park or
other, I don't know where it was, but
the scent, it was either an orange grove
or a lemon grove, but the scent, it
was absolutely marvelous.
I think I would say this honestly, that
it was the nicest night I've ever seen
in my life.
And there was two Greek girls came past
about 18 years of age.
They were like Greek goddesses.
And in classic English we said, Good night,
boys.
Oh, you see.
And we walked on, thank God we walked
on.
And Ervin said to me, Isn't it romantic?
I went to have a mission once and
I was staying with a couple.
Oh, they were a long time wed.
And I enjoyed my days with them ever
so much.
I just called the girl Nora and the
man Eric.
You'll never know where it was or anything
about it.
But one night we'd come home from a
meeting.
There was a lot of people saved and
I dealt with them.
It was late and we sat around the
fire.
It was cozy.
I said, Long, are you two married?
Oh, she says, you know, we're about 12
years married now.
You know, we nearly busted up the first
month.
And he said, You're not going to start
this again, are you?
I said, Mr. Mulwick, I'll tell you, you
know.
You see, when I married him, he was
the manager of the big firm here where
we lived.
And just after we were home from our
honeymoon, he was shifted to another branch about
50 miles away.
And I was sorry to see him go,
but it was a step up.
He was getting up in the business.
And she said, you know, I was sitting
here last night and I was so broken
hearted that one night I got on the
bus and I took the bus to where
he was.
He was actually in Port Stewart.
Now, he lived 50 miles from Port Stewart,
which meant she had to get one or
two buses.
I'm not telling you where she came from.
And she said, you know, I was very
excited to see him coming out of the
office.
It was a beautiful moonlight night, beautiful moon.
And she said, look, don't let's go for
any supper.
Let's go down the strand.
And she said, we went down the strand
and oh, it was lovely.
She said, I was glad to see him.
She said, I just wanted to cuddle him.
That's just the truth of it.
And she says, when we got onto the
strand, he took my hand and that was
lovely.
And he says, Nora, I must see you
now.
She says, do you like gas?
He says, every morning I just get toast
and beans.
I wish you were there to make my
breakfast.
She said, I could have murdered you.
She said, I pulled my hand away and
away I went.
I said, go and stay in your digs
and keep your toast and beans.
She says, I sent them a letter the
next day not to come back.
It was nearly gone.
So for any sakes, watch the moonlight now.
But I think you know this, you know.
This moon has a tremendous effect on our
world.
But somehow the devil uses this moon and
I don't know how but I can tell
you that he uses moon and stars.
I suppose you do see the horoscope, do
you?
I hope you're passing by when you see
it.
There's a girl in the meeting now.
Now sit still and they'll never know who
you are.
Don't blush.
I'm not looking at her.
She said to me, oh, some time ago
she said, you know this was my birthday.
I said, is that right?
She said, I'm Aquarius.
She hadn't said querious, it would be nearer.
She said, you know what it said this
morning, Mr. Moore?
She said, it said that in a month's
time you'll meet a dark-haired man, a
lovely man, with plenty of money and she
was all sailing away into the sky, you
know, she was all worked up and I
said, do you see that feeling that's within
you just now?
She said, yes.
I said, there's a word for that.
She said, what is it?
I said, daft.
I said to her, I said, you know,
if you would only take time to think
out of the millions and millions and millions
of folk in this world, think about the
Chinese, think about the Japanese, think about the
Russians, think about the Americans, think about the
people in the jungle, think about the people
on the desert, think about the people in
all the cities, millions and millions and millions.
How many have the same birthday as you?
I said, you know, there must be a
million girls with a birthday today.
Is there a dark-haired man with money
for every woman?
She said to me, I'll never read the
old thing again.
I'll just pass it by, just forget about
it.
You see, I think that the moon and
the stars and the sun, they were put
there for signs, for seasons.
There's coming a time when the great tribulation
will come, when the sun will be darkened
and the moon will refuse to give its
light and the stars of the heavens will
fall.
And somehow, just because the Lord is going
to use these heavenly bodies in a certain
way in a day to come, and in
a day that's further than that, to block
them out so that the glory of the
Son of God will be seen.
I believe the devil takes them not.
He uses the moon and sun, and our
sun worshipers all over the world.
I think you can see this.
You know, the devil can come against the
mind and you can have this mental distraction.
Then the devil can come against others and
there can be this mental possession.
And then the devil can take complete control
and there can be this mental possession.
Because this boy went into the water often
and into the fire.
And you know, I was reading one of
the stories from the Voodoo Temple, where when
one of these priests in the temple got
totally possessed with the devil, he could put
his head and his hands into boiling oil
and he never was blessed.
A missionary that I love, a sensible, sane
character, a man of God, not a fool
by any means.
He said, Willie, I saw a man possessed
with a demon jump from the ground to
sixty feet high onto the top of a
tree and down again.
And as often as he liked.
You see, the devil can pervert your mind.
You know, when you begin to see mental
distraction and mental possession and mental possession, the
question comes, can demons touch the body of
the believer?
Can demons possess the mind?
Last week we saw them coming against the
bodies of certain people.
We found this out that in Job's day,
the devil, even the devil himself, the leader
of the demons, he could only touch Job's
body when God allowed him.
I think it spans the common logic tonight
that if the devil or demons could touch
us without the permission of God, he would
make a mess of us.
So many people ask me, can the devil
possess the mind of the believer?
Never!
Absolutely never.
That's one thing the believer has above all
the folks in this world.
You see, this body of mine, at this
very moment, it is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in me.
You don't think that the Holy Ghost will
dwell in here and let a demon in,
do you?
Only he who now hinders will hinder, and
he will hinder this.
But you know, there's a far greater answer
to this.
You see, this body is not only the
temple, but when a man or woman comes
to the Lord Jesus, Jesus said this, Whom
the Son sets free, is free indeed.
Now that word, free indeed, is a tremendous
word.
You see, as a believer in this dispensation
tonight, I'm free from the law.
I'm not a seventh-day Adventist.
I don't need to fiddle about with the
law to be saved.
Jesus Christ is the end of the law
for me, for righteousness.
I happen to be justified without the deeds
of the law.
See, I'm free from the law.
You know, I'm free from the fear of
the tomb tonight, because Jesus met the devil
at Calvary and destroyed him who kept so
many people in fear of the tomb forever
so long.
Oh, I'm free.
I can tell you this.
Dr. Ironside wrote this, Judgment fears no more
around me.
The great Christ's throne holds no terrors for
me.
I'm free from the judgment.
There's no condemnation for me.
I want you to get the hold of
this.
I'm free from the devil.
He can't come in here and possess me,
neither can he take possession of my mind.
Let me just go over to 1 Peter
for a moment, and at the second chapter,
1 Peter, and at the second chapter, let's
do this quickly.
He's talking to these saints, and he's saying
in verse 3, If so be ye have
tasted that the Lord is gracious, let's hold
the word gracious, for whom coming is unto
a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God.
Let's hold on to the chosen.
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up
of spiritual house and holy priesthood.
It's what he's done for us, you know.
It's not the old Aaronic priesthood anymore, and
it's certainly not the Levitical priesthood.
You know, all the believers have been brought
into this holy priesthood.
And I don't only mean men.
I mean men and women.
You don't think the sisters are outside of
this, do you?
I hope you don't, because Jesus meant all
the believers.
Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture,
Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corn
of stone, elect precious.
Now, here's the bit.
He that believeth on him shall not be
confounded.
Unto you therefore which believe.
You know, he's very precious.
Very precious because he'll keep me from being
confounded.
He's very precious because he's the chief corn
of stone.
He's very precious because he has brought me
into this holy priesthood.
He's very precious because he was chosen of
God.
He's very precious because he is gracious.
You know, I want you to get the
hold of this.
It's perfectly true that the demons can only
touch the body of the believer when God
permits it, such as he did in the
case of Job.
It's very true that the mind of the
believer can never be possessed or perverted.
We shall not be confounded.
But it is true that the devil can
oppress the believer.
I believe the lady I told you about
was a believer.
I believe she was distrusted.
You see, I've seen people distracted because of
sin, a sin.
Somehow their mind was always on it.
And you need to get them to rest
on the cross.
I've seen women distracted about security.
Oh yes, I have.
They get to a certain age.
Now just don't let me lean into any
of you because I don't mean one of
you.
But a girl gets so far along when
she's not married and she has a look
at the end of the day and she
has no security.
And sometimes the devil picks her up and
haunts her.
And she needs to be brought to the
place where she sees Christ will never leave
her nor forsake her.
Where God will supply all her needs.
Come what may or what must.
I've seen people distracted not only about sin
and security.
I've seen people distracted about candles.
I know of Manjuba Devils or First God
Hanaret.
Scandal.
I think that some of you know that
Richard Dexter was one of the greatest evangelists
that Britain ever had.
A man who preached God for God.
And in the little town where he lived,
you know, the folks would take off their
hats as they passed them by.
And the man of God was so taken
up with God that there were times he
could hardly see the people.
His heart was breaking like with shame.
And there was a girl in the back
street found to be with child.
So the Roman Catholic priest and the Roman
Catholic priest said to her, You'll have to
blame it on Richard Dexter.
A big man, and a holy man, and
a godly man, and just as man as
he was.
The scandal.
Brutal.
And he died.
Don't let the devil scare you.
There's folks who will say things about you,
you know.
I don't give too much for them.
See this glass tonight.
I'll look at it now.
In Ulster, 1974, with the rebels on the
streets.
Don't you let anybody scare you.
The devil would take it upside down.
I've seen lives broken by destruction about sin.
I've seen women broken by destruction about security.
What will I do at the end of
the day?
The Lord will be with you.
I've seen lives broken by scandal or some
stigma.
Happened long ago.
Friends, we've been going slowly through this.
Now we're just about to step into the
most difficult bit of it.
We've seen these principalities in the political realm.
We've seen these demons in the physical.
We've seen them in the mental.
Now we're going to see them in the
spiritual.
Oh, how the devil comes against believers.
In a thousand ways.
The page won't hold it next week.
But we're going to take time to do
it.
So make a date with us and be
here on that very moment.
669, please.
669.
We'll take time to sing it all.
Oh, my comrades, see the signal waving in
the sky.
Reinforcements now appealing.
Victory is mine.
669, please.
Help us to hide it in our hearts
that we might overcome the devil by the
word of our testimony and the blood of
the Lamb.
Bless all the policemen in the building this
evening.
Take us to our homes in safety.
They, Lord, preserve our going out and our
coming in.