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8. Steps to Deliverance
Satan’s defeat gives you a potential of victory, but it does not make you an automatic overcomer.
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CAN
CHRISTIANS
HAVE
DEMONS?
Demon possession
is about ownership.
Demon oppression
is about control.
There is no basis for this in Greek word daimonizo, This verse does not say light and darkness cannot
which conveys no suggestion of ownership but coexist. It says they should not exist together. If
means merely “to subject to demonic influence” darkness and light cannot coexist, then Christians
Derek Prince (They Shall Expel Demons). cannot date unbelievers.
“The conquest of the land of Canaan under Joshua Jesus’ first deliverance happened in the Synagogue
illustrates some of these principles; though given by (Mar 1:23-26).
God to Israel, the land initially remained in Canaanite
possession. Only gradually were the Canaanites Satan bound a daughter of Abraham for 18 years
conquered and expelled; thus for a time they still with the spirit of infirmity (Luk 13:16).
dwelt in the land and possessed it, though they no
longer owned it.” Rodger K. Bufford (Demonic Deliverance is a children’s bread (Mt 15:26).
Influence and the Christian, George Fox University)
Children in the Lord’s prayer ask to deliver us from
Born again believers can have a demon but a demon the evil one (Mt 6:13).
can’t have a believer.
Jesus said to His disciples who believed in Him, you
Argument #1 - Deliverance is only for shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
unbelievers. (Jn 8:31-36).
Demons have legal rights to the unbeliever.
Christians are exhorted to not give place to the devil.
Argument #2 - The Holy Spirit and demon can’t (Eph 4:27) and do not be entangled again with a yoke
live in the same person of bondage. (Gal 5:1).
The Holy Spirit lives in our spirit but demons can live
in our soul. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer
(2Sa 22:2).
Argument #3 - Light and darkness can’t live
together. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. delivers him out of them all (Psa 34:19).
For what fellowship has righteousness with
lawlessness? And what communion has light with
darkness?” (2Co 6:14).
SIX DEMONS
MENTIONED
IN THE BIBLE
Names of demons reveal
the nature of demons.
Demons are called evil spirits, unclean spirits,
familiar spirits, lying spirits, and angels of Satan.
Their goal is to entice, harass, torment, enslave, cause addictions, defile, deceive, and attack the
physical body.
Achan was destroyed for taking the accursed things into Condoms can protect from sexual disease, but not from
his tent (Josh. 7:11-25). sexual demons.
Demonic objects as books on magic, charms, dream Demons can be transferred from one person to another
catchers, ouija boards, tarot cards, horoscopes and etc. through a sexual act.
bring about demonic influence into the person’s life.
7. SPOKEN CURSES The word for sorceries here is pharmakeia, which is the
God pronounced a curse on the serpent and on the source of our English word pharmacy. This word primarily
ground (Gen 3:14, 17; 5:29). meant “dealing in poison” or “drug use” and was applied
to divination and spell-casting because sorcerers often
God promised to curse those who cursed Abraham (Gen used drugs along with their incantations and amulets to
12:3) conjure occult power.
Joshua cursed Jericho (Jos 6:26) “In Hinduism, marijuana (ganga) has been used to worship
the demon of death and destruction, for thousands of
King David cursed the Mountain of Gilboa (2Sa 2:21) years. Chinese Taoism has long believed that inhaling
Prophet Elisha cursed his servant (2Ki 5:26-27) marijuana is a way to communicate with spirits and tell
Jesus cursed the fig tree (Mt 11:14) fortunes. In pagan, Norse Odinism, pot has been used to
invoke Freya (another form of Jezebel), a demon I often
Those in authority can speak curses over people. deal with when ministering to those of Scandinavian
Witch doctors can cast spells on those they want to harm. descent. The pot was important to Celtic Druids when
practicing witchcraft. Tantric Buddhism employs pot as
well as some Sikhism. And the pot today is roughly six
8. STEALING times stronger than that smoked by the hippies on Haight
‘I will send out the curse,’ says the Lord of hosts; ‘It shall street. I have confronted possessed people who’ve never
enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who practiced eastern religions but got Shiva and other Hindu
swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst demons, like Kali/Jezebel, by taking a joint.” Bob Larson
of his house and consume it, with its timber and stones,’
Zechariah 5:4
2. MENTAL ILLNESS CAN BE AS A 2. Demons want nothing to do with Christ. People with
mental illness are often devoutly religious.
RESULT OF SIN
That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning 3. Demons give supernatural knowledge to their host.
Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass People with mental illness only know facts acquired by
like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his normal learning.
hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’
claws. Daniel 4:33 4. Demons want to be secretive. People with mental
illness claim to be demon-possessed.
Due to sin of pride, Nebuchadnezzar lost his mind
5. Demonic phenomena are at times scary and
But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a spooky. A person doesn’t exhibit supernatural behavior.
distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him. 1 Samuel 16:14
6. Demons can’t be cured with medicine. Mental illness
King Saul had manic episodes after the Spirit of God can’t be fixed with exorcism.
departed him.
If prayer solves the problem, then it was probably not
3. MENTAL ILLNESS CAN BE A schizophrenia. If medicine helps alleviate the problem, it
was not demon possession.
PHYSICAL ILLNESS
So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil
and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to
an inn, and took care of him. Luke 10:34
God uses elements from the earth such as leaves and figs
to assist in the healing process from physical problems
(Ezk 47:12; 1Ti 5:23; Isa 38:21).
“He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
They also who had seen it told them by what means he who
had been demon-possessed was healed. Luke 8:36
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and
took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and
when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion
and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the
living God.” Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw
of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” 1 Samuel 17:34-37
1. DESPERATION 4. DISCIPLINE
“Holy Spirit belongs to the thirsty, deliverance belongs to If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it
the desperate” Derek Prince from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your
members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into
hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and
cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of
2. DELIVERANCE your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast
into hell. Matthew 5:29-30
Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you,
whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. John 8:34
5. DOMINION
3. DEVOTION For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but
the wicked shall fall by calamity. Proverbs 24:16
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear,
because fear involves torment. 1 John 4:18
We must understand that we are fighting three enemies simultaneously, the Devil (invisible enemy),
flesh (inward enemy), and the world (visible enemy).
The inward enemy, our flesh, is overcome by crucifixion, self-denial, or in other words discipline.
The outward enemy, the world is overcome by fleeing and removing ourselves from the places and
people that cause us sin.
OVERCOMING
NIGHT
TERRORS
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.”
Matthew 13:25
The enemy loves to attack us when we sleep, through nightmares, horror dreams, or snakes and
spiders appearing in dreams, it’s the work of Satan – his goal is to cut away our peace & power.
Vlad was born in Ukraine and raised in a Christian home. He immigrated to the U.S.
at the age of 13 and became a youth pastor at the age of 16. Recently, he became
the lead pastor of the HungryGen Church.
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