Well, Lord, we're going to step in whatever you want, whatever you want done.
Get that across to us. Help us see it and understand it in Jesus' name.
All right. Well, he's not telling me right now what this is all about.
So, let's move forward and maybe he'll... maybe he'll enlighten us.
I'm sure he will. It's just a matter of we got to hear.
Thank you for those of you that are joining us live stream.
We have a real heavy presence of the Holy Spirit here.
And that doesn't happen just because there's always a reason.
And I'm hesitant to move forward because I can't figure out the reason.
I'm not hearing anything, but maybe it'll show up later.
So, we're going to start in and see what he shows us.
We're on page 37. I want to finish.
My plan was to finish this booklet tonight. We'll see where that goes.
If the Holy Spirit's got something different for us to do or handle, then we will do that.
For those that were waiting for the Q&A session from last week, I apologize.
It took us till yesterday to get it up.
We were debating on editing it and pulling some stuff out because we got into some heavier stuff
that I didn't know for sure if we wanted to leave on the video or not.
It ended up we left it on there, but we ended up talking about Nephilim and the last days
and what that could look like and so forth.
So, sometimes people are not interested in that.
And I guess if that's you, then that's okay. Just bear with us because some of us are interested in that.
Jesus pointed it out specifically.
He said as it was a Noah's time, it'll be in the last days.
Noah's time, their biggest problem was the hybrid issue that had taken place between fallen angels and human beings.
And yes, they were marrying and giving in marriage, but the interesting part was
if you go back and study it, they were marrying and giving in marriage with hybrids.
So, as it was, it will be, so we got on that subject.
So that got kind of heavy. We might return to it again at some point.
But tonight, I don't think we will.
Page 37. We're talking about being empty, swept and garnished.
Let me ask this question. How many of you have read the remainder of the booklet?
You've already gone through it. Okay, that won't help me.
So we'll have to go a little slower.
A stern warning God Jesus gave us is once someone is set free, they cannot be left empty, swept and garnished
because it will cause it to get worse in the end.
So we started on the Scripture and then we got off into what our demons, what our fallen angels,
and we spent the time there. I just felt that was supposed to go in here.
It will be laid out in the beginning of the next booklet.
It's not in this one. I was expecting to wait, but we didn't wait. We talked about it last week.
What is, what are demons and so forth.
But we started here. So let's go to that Scripture, Matthew chapter 12 verse 43 through 45.
And when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none.
Now we explained a little bit of that last week talking about demons being spirit beings who are without a body.
Where fallen angels, angels have a body.
The thought is demonic spirit beings are spirits without a body.
So they're always searching for something they can dwell in. They prefer human bodies.
We talked about the dry places and human beings being 75% water seeking rest outside of a house.
They cannot find rest.
So verse 44, then he saith, I will return to the house from once I came out.
And when he come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished.
Then goeth he and takeeth with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself.
And they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of the man is worse than the first.
Even so shall it also be also unto this wicked generation.
I'm not used to talking King James. I got to slow down and get the words in the right order.
So when a demon is cast out, they're going to return to see if they can get back in and they're going to look for three things.
Empty, swept and garnished. Go to page 38.
He's looking for rest. He went out of the person top of page 38.
He left the person. He's looking for rest.
And he's coming back because he's not finding rest.
And the place he's living in is dry compared to what he was in when he was in the human being.
So he's referred to as an unclean spirit, which is a lewd, impure or demonic spirit.
Sometimes King James calls them devils.
There's different words, but here it's referred to as an unclean spirit.
Unclean, sometimes when a spirit manifests, you can smell them. Not always.
Now what's interesting, when a presence comes, whether it's God's presence or demonic presence.
See, who's around? Molly, can you grab a mic in the back there?
And I know it's early, but I want to do something here to make a point because we say,
well, why does God call him unclean or why did Jesus call him unclean?
Because that's not just a spiritual description. They're not a clean spirit. They're an unclean spirit.
They stink. You could use the word they don't shower, they don't bathe, they don't whatever.
I don't know how it works in the spirit realm, but demonic spirits stink.
And the word unclean or impure, not cleansed, lewd, foul, it's like a foul odor.
The most accurately it represents or smells like sulfur.
That's usually the thing that smells the most like sulfur.
If you've ever been to Yellowstone with the boiling pots and the wind comes,
it's like, I'll take your breath away, the sulfur smell. That's close. It resembles it.
It's really foul. It's really rude. You don't always smell them, but sometimes you do.
But bring the mic up if you would. I'm going to have you guys share what happened the other Sunday
because when God's presence shows up, sometimes you can smell it.
How many of you have ever smelled God's presence?
Oh, cool. So we had these three girls were sitting over.
Well, you're not a girl, as far as I know.
So we'll say these two girls and this handsome young man were sitting over there.
Was it last Sunday or Sunday before? Two Sundays ago.
Tell me what you smelled during and when, when did you smell it?
So I think it was when Heidi was like prophetically singing over the north.
So what was it happen?
Yeah, it was over. It was over that and like it kind of drifted in, you know, really.
For me, it was kind of like really light at first and then it was like boom.
It felt like I was trapped in the middle of a field of just beautiful smelling flowers.
It was like so strong to the point where I turned the Katie.
I'm like, do you smell this? I asked Caitlin, do you smell this?
They're both like, yeah. And I'm like, what is that smell?
I look behind us. There's like, no, I don't think there's anyone behind us or anything.
So I'm like, this is weird. It was like just such a beautiful sweet.
I can't even describe it. It's just...
Cool. Pass it on. See if she can describe it.
I would describe it closely to like, it smelled like lilacs or roses to me, like fresh cut flowers.
That aroma and it would come in like waves when Heidi would get going.
It would get really strong and then it would get less and then it would come stronger again.
Kind of came in waves.
Yeah.
So for me, it was more so like, like they said it would go come in waves, but it smelled like...
Fresh cut flowers, but like someone's perfume.
I thought it was like, just someone's perfume and I was like, wait, there's nobody around me.
Like, what's going on? I've never had that, but it was, it was different.
So now when she was done singing and doing her thing, did the smell go away?
It faded.
So it wasn't somebody's perfume?
No.
Because somebody's perfume wouldn't have faded.
No, I sat and I was like...
Yeah.
I thought it was dieta at first.
Yeah.
If dieta is watching, we could give you credit.
They thought you smelled that good.
But it was when the presence of God got really heavy, sometimes you can smell it.
Different things will happen when God's presence gets really heavy.
At the modular, it was during those early years when we were having a move of the spirit while we were in the modular.
People would show up and it's 15, 20 below.
And as they come across the parking lot, they'd smell the same thing.
And they'd come in just dumbfounded, confused.
It's 15 below. I know there's no flowers out there.
Are you spraying something?
No, it's the presence of God.
Unclean spirits are just the opposite.
They are foul smelling.
They are rank. They're yuck.
This spirit went out of a man.
Notice the definition of man here.
I want you, because this is going to be interesting.
The word man and the word house.
Man here refers to anthropos.
It's a human being, whether male or female.
So it's not just talking about a male.
So it could be the one.
Generically?
Generically, okay.
To include all human individuals, okay.
The countenance man face that is human being.
So, literally one of the definitions of the word man there
is to have a man face.
Rather than a dog face or a cow face.
Or it's a man faced being.
I just find it interesting how they describe that.
The spirit is seeking rest.
It's wanting intermission. It's wanting rest.
The therapist says to cause or permit one to cease
from movement or labor in order to recover
and collect his strength.
So when a demon spirit, a disembodied spirit
is out of a body, they can't find rest.
They are continually in movement or labor
trying to recover because they were never meant...
Remember in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says
that we were never meant to be unclothed.
Speaking of the body.
We've got this body here, but it's fallen.
So when we go to heaven, we're going to have a new body
and we're going to be clothed with a new body
because we're not to be unclothed.
Well these, you know, in some ways it's like
you feel sorry for them.
They're unclothed spirits.
They're trying to get into a body
or something that resembles it
because it gives them the ability to rest.
It gives them strength.
Number two there in the bottom, page 39,
to give rest, refresh, to take rest,
to keep quiet of calm.
If you go up top page 40,
rest means intermission or cessation
from any motion, business or labor.
So obviously when they're out of a body
they are continually in motion.
They're continually going.
There's no rest for them.
They don't like it.
Let's just say it that way.
They don't like to be out of a body.
So verse 44,
he says, I'm going to go back to the house
from where I came out.
When he has come back to that house
he finds it empty, swept and garnished.
Because it's so miserable
for him out there outside of body
he goes back to see if he can get back in.
Why would he go back
to that person?
And here's a thought.
Just take it for what it's worth.
These things are at war
and fighting all the time
because they're opposite of God's kingdom.
God's kingdom is peace and unity
and it all works together.
That kingdom is the opposite.
So they're at war and striving
and struggling at all times.
If he
goes to a different human being
that human being may already
have some spirits.
You think they're going to let him in?
Or it in, whatever it is?
I'm calling it him, but it in?
No, they've already
claimed their ground.
It's going to go where it thinks
it's easiest to reestablish
which is back to the original house.
It knows it can get back in.
Now,
let's go off into a little bit of
side thought here, because I haven't
talked about it much, but this is a good place
to bring it up.
There are
some, I'll use the word famous
ministers
who absolutely, and they know the word
and they're big in the word
and this, that and the other.
A couple of them are faith ministers
and so forth, but absolutely
do not believe once you're saved
you can have a demonic spirit.
One very influential one.
I've never heard him say it, but I don't
listen to him too much. He's good, far
as I know, but there's a few things
I disagree with.
He's out of Colorado.
From my understanding
he is dead set against humans
ever being able to have a
demonic spirit. Once you're saved
it's no longer possible.
Pardon me?
Humans or Christians?
Once you're saved.
And the direction
they usually come from is
everything in the gospels is still
Old Testament, so everything Jesus was dealing
with was before the cross and the resurrection
and the power that was given to us
by the Holy Spirit and so forth.
You got me? Okay, I'll just keep talking.
It got me online. We lost my sound
in here. It might be the board, so
they'll figure it out.
When they look at this, like
from Jesus' perspective and what he's
saying here, they say he's
describing an Old Testament
issue.
Okay, so here is where I come
and this is why I come from this direction.
Because in the cross,
in the resurrection, everything
in salvation has been bought
and paid for for us.
I mean, that's a done deal.
So I'm going to give you two, three reasons
why I disagree. Number one,
by his stripes, we were healed.
He carried away every
sickness and every disease.
Why do Christians get sick and get diseases?
It's over. It's done. Jesus
bought and paid for it completely.
But yet we all know
people get sick
and die. People get sick and struggle
with diseases. People have heart
conditions and they live that way for 20 years
and they're Christians. They're serving God.
I thought it was a done
deal.
Well, it is a done deal by
faith.
We have to appropriate it
by faith.
And we could just list here for
the next hour, peace,
financial prosperity,
the promise of success
in everything
we touch. That's what word blessing means
to have success down the road of life.
Everything you do, everything
you touch, you are
by God, he already
bought and paid for all of us
to be successful in it.
Freedom from
every form of bondage.
No depression, no
discouragement.
This has all been bought
and paid for on the cross.
Well, why aren't we just
automatically living in it?
Because we're not.
It comes by faith.
So why would
freedom from
genealogical things,
ancestral things,
the curse,
it specifically lists the curse.
Paul talks about it specifically
saying Jesus became a curse
for us.
So the curse
would go away and the blessing
of Abraham would come on us.
Well, why do some Christians just
seem like they live cursed lives?
No matter what they try
to do, it never works for
them.
Well, I thought we're free of the curse.
Well, we are.
God bought and paid for
that. But like everything
else, we have to learn
to apply that by faith.
The same way we have to learn to
apply being free of demonic stuff
by faith. Okay, that's one
reason I say, nah, I ain't buying it.
Second reason is
it's
it's the old argument of
well, healing isn't for today.
Well, I'm sorry I've already been healed.
You're too late in giving me that information.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit
we're speaking in tongues is not for today.
It passed away with the apostle.
I'm sorry you got to me too late.
I'm there.
I got it. I know how it works.
I know what it's all about.
God doesn't speak to us.
The Holy Spirit doesn't speak to us.
God doesn't speak to people anymore.
Again, I'm sorry.
You got to me too late.
It's like I think
it was Jerry Savelle. He went into
a bookstore to buy a Bible and he wanted
a specific kind. There's different kinds
of amplifiers and he was looking for a specific
kind is what my memory says.
And so there was a young man who was going through
college
and it was Christian college. I think he was going
to be a minister. So he asked him where the
Bibles were and so he took him over to the Bibles
and he pulled the one out and he started
reading Mark 16, the last
verses of it. These signs
will follow them that believe and started
listing it off. And
that wasn't the one he was looking for. Grabbed a different one.
And the young guy was standing there
watching them and watching what he was reading.
And he told them
you know that
those scriptures you're looking at there
weren't in the original. They were
added later. And that is one
of the theories that they were added later.
So they're not even in the Word of God. They don't
work.
And his answer was marvelous.
He looked at him and he said
really
did anybody tell God because
they've been working for me all this time.
So in other words someone should clue God
in that these don't work anymore.
You got to us
too late. Well Mark 16
they that believe will lay their hands on the sick.
They'll recover the cast out demons. They'll speak with
new tongues. Well none of that's for today.
I'm sorry you got to me too late.
I've seen it all happen.
So it's
the same way we look at that
it's like
well Christians can't have demons.
Here is the problem.
That's what I was taught
all my life growing up. I was
taught that in Bible college.
And that was one of the reasons I had so much
difficulty when I went into
the ministry and got in that situation.
Because I knew
nothing
about deliverance.
Because my denomination
never touched it.
Because there was no reason to.
Christians can't have
demons.
And if someone's got demons if you just get
them saved all the demons have to leave. Because the Holy Spirit comes
and when the Holy Spirit comes all
demons have to leave.
That was the teaching.
Can't find it in Scripture.
But that was the teaching.
So I rested very
confidently in the fact you get
somebody saved. You never have to deal with deliverance.
That's why we don't dwell on it. You don't
learn anything about it.
That's why that first
person that I talked about the first
night.
That just blew me away.
Blew the head pastor
away. I was assistant pastor.
I blew the head pastor away.
Because we were of the same denomination
when I was raised in.
And here you've got a demon.
Obviously a demon talking
through a young lady who
we know was born again.
So
we stopped the
whole thing and got her saved
all over again just in case she messed
something up. Didn't do it
right.
And got her baptized in the Holy Spirit again
and we had her speaking in tongues.
Now she's clean.
And here came that
spirit.
Just laughed at us
like a bunch of idiots.
Which totally
messed up our theology. We're
lost now. Because we're in
uncharted water. Why?
Because Christians can't have
demons. Well
what's this?
It's a mess.
And we got to deal with it.
So I remember in fact I went back
and looked at some of the notes
after we couldn't get it out.
And then we went into that three day prayer
and fasting. During that period of time
the head pastor called
the district office
and said here's our problem.
Is there anybody
in the district who can help us? Well
we're in a denomination that doesn't believe
Christians can have demons. So how many
people you think there can help us?
Zipple.
Because they're in the same boat we are.
Just get them saved. They'll be fine.
We did that.
Are you sure? Yes
we did that.
Well get them baptized in the Holy Spirit
then. We did that.
And this thing
is just ripping us apart.
We need help.
And I looked up the
notes. I had written some notes and I wanted to be sure.
I looked up the notes and I remember
that morning he came into my office
looking kind of dumbfounded.
And he said
well I called the headquarters
and looking for help
and here was
their answer.
We don't know what you have going on
but if this girl is saved
she can't have a demon.
That's not possible.
So we recommend
you get her to such XYZ
psychiatric hospital.
She has
mental problems.
Well that's why we didn't
have any clue what we were doing
because
the denomination never taught
us what to do.
So
well Christians can't have demons.
I'm sorry you got to me too late.
I've cast out hundreds of them
out of Christians.
We've had some in the last few weeks.
Since the beginning of the year.
Well it can't be.
Well I'm sorry you got to me too late.
It is.
So let's quit arguing whether it can be
or can't be and let's find out
what the truth is here.
And I could give you some other reasons
but
let me hit
one more argument.
The stuff that Jesus taught on
applied to the Old Testament
once he rose from the dead and we got
the baptism of the Holy Spirit
a lot of what Jesus taught
on no longer applies to us.
That's one of the arguments.
I don't buy that for a single second.
Because
much of what Jesus taught
on was different than what
they thought it meant in the Old Covenant
the Old Testament
law and he was preparing
us for where it was going.
If all he was
doing was talking
his time backward
he was doing the disciples
a huge injustice because he wasn't
getting them ready for forward.
Stop and think about that.
He was getting them ready
to start the church.
The whole future of Christianity
hung on 12 men.
If all he
was doing was looking now
and past.
Not getting them ready for the future.
He wasn't saying anything to get them ready for the future.
This whole thing of
when the Spirit leaves it goes looking and then it comes back.
That's all past. That's nothing for the future.
If all Jesus did
was deal with present and past
he was really
misleading those 12 guys.
But when you read their writings
all they have to say is
this is what Jesus did. This is what Jesus said.
This is how it worked for Jesus. It's got to work that way for us.
This is the way it works for us.
Because Jesus, because Jesus.
So I totally
disagree with that theology too of
well Jesus didn't get them ready for the future.
No, he did.
And this is one of the things he got them ready for.
You're going to have people
you get set free and they're going to get
re-inhabited and he explained to them
why and what was going on.
So I wanted to put that
out there because I know
that there's famous people
well-known people who say
Christians can't have demons. I was raising
an entire denomination. Who taught that?
And they might still believe that. I haven't checked.
But they might still believe that.
The problem is
it kind of goes
like where the faith movement hit the ditch.
You have to acknowledge
what's real and then
apply faith to it.
This thing of
Are you sick?
Oh no. I'm not sick.
No.
Calling it by faith.
Not sick.
How dumb does that look?
Of course you're sick.
You can own the fact
you're sick.
And by faith
claim the truth
by his stripes you're healed
and this thing will leave
my body.
Is your back hurt?
No. No.
I ain't going to confess anything negative.
You don't have to.
It hurts.
And see that whole thing
of the faith movement made us look like idiots.
Receive your healing.
Call your healing.
But if your eyes bulged out
and hanging on your cheek you might want to say
I'm believing for healing
on that but I do have a problem.
Just stop and think about it.
How can you believe for healing if you don't have a problem?
So.
Now you got my point, hopefully.
I believe
this scripture is as true today
as it was in Jesus' time
as as true as it was in the Old Testament.
The only thing there is they couldn't get him out very well.
That was the problem.
So let's go back into this.
I've made him a point there I think.
I will return to the house
finding an empty swept and garnished house.
Now this is interesting.
He's calling the man
a house.
It expands
the definition of it.
A house is a dwelling
by implication
a family
a home, a house, a temple.
Of course our body is a temple.
That's strong.
Go to the fairs on the bottom of page 40.
It can mean a house
physical house
an inhabited house
or a home
any building
whatsoever.
Can buildings be haunted?
Absolutely.
If they can't find
access to a human being
somehow a building
gives them some rest.
I don't know how
or why I don't know.
But right there in the definition
we see it.
A house, the house of God
the tabernacle.
Oh my goodness.
You mean churches can have demons?
Remember that?
I shared the story of the first church I was in
and had a demon right up above the pulpit
it was like a high ceiling 15, 18 feet
perched right up at the top
right above the pulpit there was a demon.
And that was his place
and he wasn't going to leave.
You say that's not scriptural.
Oh look, it is.
Demons can actually inhabit
churches
physical
buildings.
They prefer people.
But right there in the definition.
Flip over to page 41.
A human body
as the abode that demons possess
it
tents, hunt, a huts
nests, stalls
lairs of animals.
Isn't that interesting?
A place where one has fixed
his residence
inmates of a house
all the persons forming
one family
or a household. Now remember
house can mean
a man
the family of a man
a physical building
including a church
a human body
top page 41
tents, huts
nests, stalls, lairs
of animals.
Now that's interesting.
You say well that can't be scriptural.
Well, I think it is because when Jesus cast out the legion
he threw them into pigs
animals.
So demons are
interested in animal
bodies also.
The place where one has fixed
his residence, his settled abode
to be
the...
Skip the word. I'm not doing well with those tonight.
Number two, the inmates of a house
all the persons forming
one family or a household.
Okay, so now according to
Ther's definition
there is a generational
sins of the fathers
familiar spirit being described.
It
not only it cannot be
in a human being or one man
it can be in the family.
Read it again.
Inmates of a house
all or in other words
all the persons forming
one family
or a household.
You can have
family demons
or demons that run in the generations
of a family.
And here again, he says it again
the family of God
the Christian church, the church of the
old and new testaments can have
demons.
Probably the most
prevalent demon in a church
is the spirits of religion.
They just
you know I have to laugh a little bit
I told Mary so I'm going to
point
something out that happened.
Oh, I don't remember
service back. I don't think it was one
of these nights. I think it was a service.
Whatever.
Traditions of men
get in
and they get in when we're not even
expecting it. And when these traditions
are considered
once they're made
holy
so to speak
now you have a religious
approach
and since it's not God
a demonic spirit will just suck to that
and they
will help empower
that religious approach.
And it happens here. It tries
to happen in every church. So I'm
going to have a little bit of fun now.
The other night I prayed
and I wasn't done
talking yet. See now
typically when I pray
we're done.
This time I
prayed before I was done
and as soon as I was done praying some people
got up and put their coats on. They were ready to leave.
You know what that is? It's religion.
It's tradition.
It's how we do it here.
Well, so I'm thinking
I need to start doing it differently just
to break that whole thing up or it's going to become
a tradition
and now we're
now we're headed down the wrong road
and it's not
anybody's fault. It's just
it's the way we normally do it.
Well, here is where the problem comes in.
If the way we normally do it starts
being looked at as holy
for instance
the way we dress when we go
to church.
There are certain ways to dress and there are
certain ways not to dress.
If the congregation
actually starts
looking at
a certain type of attire
is holy and the
other is unholy
what do you have?
You got religion.
A spirit will grab that
because it's not God.
The only thing I can find is scriptures
we're supposed to dress modestly.
So
and that can be open
to interpretation according to the culture
but there are certain ways
that people probably
shouldn't dress when they come to church.
However
God has more grace than we do.
But there is a goal
I mean put enough clothes on
so we don't see everything.
I would consider that
a good thing to do.
I think it's scriptural.
Do you have to wear a dress?
Do you have to wear a nice pantsuit?
Do you have to wear a suit and tie?
Do you have to wear
dress pants and a dress shirt?
See a lot of these things
the culture now has
shifted some but when I started
in the ministry I wore suits
all the time.
Because that's what was
expected and if I didn't
wear one I heard about it.
You know what that is?
That's religion.
But they called it, you know, well you're not wearing
a suit. Disrespect.
Respect is of the heart.
It's not what we
hang on the outside.
It's of the heart. We got to go
back to the heart again.
So in
reality in my early years
of ministry I was functioning
in a spirit of
religion.
I was raised in it.
I don't remember ever seeing
my dad go to church on Sunday
or maybe on a Wednesday night
he did. But a Sunday or a
special meeting or we had revival meetings
or anything like that he always
wore a suit.
Always. The preacher
always wore a suit.
I went into the ministry in that
denomination. We always
wore a suit to a service.
And when the day came
I'll never forget it.
It was a Sunday night
early years in Colorado
Sunday night the Lord said
I'm telling you to wear a t-shirt
and jeans tonight.
And I'm going I can't do that.
T-shirt and jeans.
Yep, just a plain old white
t-shirt and jeans.
You wouldn't believe
how hard it was for me
to do that.
I did it.
And I thought
they're going to throw me out.
That was my beginning
of going oh
so I'm caught
in religion too.
You know we all think we're
so free.
So here you've got
there can be
all kinds of spirits.
There's some churches that
just plain have a spirit of adultery in them.
And there's
too many couples in the church who get caught
in it.
It's a problem.
This church don't have it so you don't have to
look around at each other and see if there's one here. There's none here.
But I've been
in them. And
literally you walk into the place, you sit down
the praise team starts singing
and you start noticing
the opposite sex
who isn't your wife or
the opposite sex notices other men.
It's just like it just starts happening.
It's like, what in
the world is that?
And then
I watched a couple of times
where
I knew they weren't married.
They're kind of smirking
at each other, winking at each other.
And I'm going, something's wrong here.
This ain't right.
Something's wrong.
Any kind of
spirit. Now typically it's a religious spirit.
But any kind of spirit
can inhabit a church.
Old or New Testament
is the definition.
The family of God.
And then number three there on
page 41, your stock.
That's another way of saying your family
or the descendants of a person.
So there again, he's referring
to generational spirits.
So notice the definitions
of the word house. It can mean a person.
A person's home. Haunted houses.
Personal demon problems, things like that.
A person's family.
A person's descendants. It can be
a corporate setting.
It can be a building
beyond the person's home.
It can be referring to the family of God.
It can be referring to a church.
So when
the spirit in this
case left
it left a man-faced
person, Jesus said. It left
a human body. It went roaming.
And then Jesus gave us a whole bunch
of insight by choosing the word he
chose for house.
He said, however, when they go back
which means
that whole broad thing
that they could look for to get back in
they could have left.
Can you cast the spirit out of a house?
Yes, you can.
But it's going to try to come back
and the ones who own it are going to decide
whether it gets in or not.
Are certain houses haunted?
Absolutely.
Can you get them out?
Absolutely.
Do they need to be guarded
once the spirit's out?
Absolutely because it's going to try to loop back
and try to figure it out.
The scripture doesn't say this.
This is just by personal
experience.
Anywhere from two to four weeks
it's going to come back around.
Some are quicker. Some are like even
seven to ten days.
Most of the time it's like 14 days,
28 days.
They're going to come back around
and try to get back in.
That's not scripture.
That's just personal experience.
So it says, verse
page 41.
They will come
speaking of. They're absolutely moving.
Page 42.
The spirit will literally show up
to look inside the person.
They've been out wandering. They come back.
They're looking to see what's going on.
It's empty swept. It's garnished.
The word empty
means to take a holiday or be at
leisure
to be vacant.
Now take that picture, that word picture
and plug it into the picture we've been seeing
in the Old Testament of the land
of Israel. The promised land.
And how that they
needed to go in and not only
take the land, but then
inhabit. Fill the land.
Don't leave it empty.
That picture
applies to us in that empty
means, okay, you had
spirits cast out. This is
not the time to go
on a spiritual vacation.
That's right.
To take a spiritual
holiday. That's been so hard.
I mean, this thing, it's been
tormenting me and I feel so free now.
I'm just going to relax and enjoy
this and do nothing. Do not do that.
It's looking for
you to do that. Because you are
not spiritually
remember in the Old Testament, they kick enemies out
and then they had to fill that land. The same
is true here.
You kick something out. You have
to spiritually expand and
fill your territory.
Whatever they were in,
let's say there, just as an example,
let's say they were a spirit of lying.
You're going to have to
fill that whole realm
of the temptation to lie, the habit
to lie,
lying,
you're going to have to fill that realm
with what? Truth.
If you leave it alone,
well, I had a bad spirit of lying.
And
what are you doing about it?
Are you making yourself
live in truth?
Are you filling yourself with
the word of truth?
Are you letting the Holy Spirit
who's called the spirit of truth
come in and inhabit and fill
that?
If you don't make a special emphasis
on truth,
if you had a problem with the spirit of lying,
a special emphasis on truth,
you're going to leave
that area empty. Well, I'm just going to try not
to lie as much. I just feel so free.
It's so freeing
just this. It's going to be so good.
I'll just try not to lie. No, no, no.
You have to fill that area
and you fill it with the opposite
of whatever the spirit was.
If the spirit
was a spirit of
religion, tradition,
you're going to have to fill it
with the opposite.
Say, how would you do that?
Whatever you were holding
as a tradition, you got to knock it off
and do something different. The Holy Spirit will lead you.
You might have to wear a different kind
of clothes at church.
You might have to change your
hairdo.
You know certain denominations have certain
hairdos. Have you ever noticed that?
I think
it's funny.
Mary and I had a game
in Colorado.
We try to guess what church they went
to by how they dressed in the hairdos.
And
sometimes we
kick up a conversation. It like Sunday
night after service, we go to McDonald's,
get the kids something to eat this, that, and the other.
And other people were coming out of churches, so they'd sit there.
So sometimes
we kick up a conversation with them.
Hey, you're all dressed up.
We just came from church. You guys come from church too.
Oh, yeah, we do. What church you come from?
We were
seeing who was right.
Maybe it wasn't the purest motives.
But I said, they're Baptist.
She said, oh no, they're not Baptist.
They're such and such. Well, it's fine
out.
So we had this ongoing game going
on. But it's
funny. They
will dress a certain way. They will walk
a certain way.
They will handle themselves
a certain way.
You say, well, if you get set free of that,
what do you do? You got to knock
that off. Whatever
those things are.
For instance,
some denominations, churches,
women can't wear pants at all. They got to
wear long dresses.
Well, if you get delivered from
a spirit of religion,
you're going to have to do something
about that. Because if you keep up the same
old habit pattern,
your house is going to be empty.
You didn't fill that with
truth, with the opposite,
the freedom.
I'm not saying go out and buy
miniskirts and start flaunting. I'm not saying
that. But you're going to have to break
out of the tradition somehow
because the tradition
which became holy
when I was growing up,
women couldn't cut their hair.
When my mother
cut her hair the first time, my
grandfather, her father
thought she might have been going to
hell.
Because 1 Corinthians 11 and the tradition
they had, and so forth in the Jewish
culture.
See, once
something like that
that tradition becomes
holy, now it's religion.
And
since it's false, a spirit
will grab that and try
to keep you in bondage to it.
If
you get set free from a spirit of religion
you're going to have to break
your religion mindset and
fill your land
with freedom.
Does that make any sense? Did I explain
that good enough so you get that?
Whatever it is.
It's empty.
Therese lexicon calls empty
cease from labor, free
from labor, leisure
to have leisure for a
thing or give oneself a
thing has to do with leisure.
It all goes back to taking
a spiritual holiday.
Page 43, how does
that apply to a Christian? When a demon
was driven out, a huge spiritual work was
accomplished and new territory in the person
and their temple and their land
opened up.
This person is taking a spiritual break from
any work they could be doing on
themselves.
They are taking it easy.
They are taking the posture
of spiritual leisure.
They're not growing.
They're not doing any spiritual
work of any kind.
In other words, they're not working.
In other words, they're not working on much
of anything to mature, grow and develop
their spiritual life in their
newfound freedom. They're just kind of
sitting back lazy complacent or
still just submitting. They could be just submitting
to the religion or whatever it is.
They're on a spiritual holiday
vacation. You can't do that.
If you get a spirit cast
out, it was holding you
bondage in some area. You have
to change that area.
You can't leave it the same.
If you leave it the same, you're
inviting them back in. It's like putting the welcome
that up.
Because they come back and it's
not inhabited. It's empty. This person's on spiritual
vacation. They haven't changed in anything.
Number two, swept.
To brush off meaning
to broom, to sweep.
Bottom of the page
swept. What does it mean? They've cleaned
some things up.
Maybe they've gotten some things out
of their life that helped cause the
problem in the first place. They've cleaned
some things up.
But did they fill it
with something else?
Or is it still empty?
It's empty, but cleaned
up. See now, if that doesn't describe
religion.
Outside
their whitewashed sepulchres, inside
their stinking of dead men's
bones.
See, we're cleaned up.
We present well.
In fact, look at the next one. It goes
along with that thought. To put
in proper order, that is to decorate,
to adorn, to garnish.
There's lexicon there. It says to put
an order, to arrange, to make ready,
to prepare, to ornament,
to adore. Metaphorically
to embellish with honor, gain
honor. How do you...
Let's go to a church setting.
Or let's go to relatives
who are safe setting, who've been
wanting you to get saved for years.
And finally now you've gotten
saved.
How
can you gain
honor from them?
Decorate yourself
to be like
them.
This is in the physical,
in the mental, in how
we live.
If they come
you know,
they say, hey, you're saved now, come
to church with us. Okay, go and church
with you. So you're watching them.
And they come to church holding their
Bible like this.
And you look around and all the
guys coming in hold their Bible like that.
We'll decorate.
And you start holding
your Bible like that.
And you will do exactly
what it says there. You'll gain
honor, you'll be embellished
with honor. They're going to look at you and say,
see, look at how fast they're
changing.
Isn't that awesome?
Do you know one of the reasons
when I
came out of Bible college I
refused to hold my Bible like
this. I always carried it like this.
That was the reason.
I had recognized
a spirit of religion
and anybody
with any
how would you say, spiritual clout
any pastor
or
official or whatever
when they showed up
carried the Bible
like this.
And something
inside of me said something's wrong with that.
Why are we copying
each other?
So I carried it like this.
And I had people
pointed out.
That's an odd way to carry
your Bible. See, now that's
when you know you're really caught in religion.
It
actually makes a difference
how I carry my Bible.
This is more holy
than this.
Really?
But see if
we will conform
and get our hair cut the right way
where the right dress is
where the right dress suits
start
doing what everybody's doing.
Garnish.
Ornament up a little bit.
Put things in proper order
decorate yourself a little bit.
It will bring you honor
and acceptance.
That's what the demons
are looking for.
They want it empty.
You're on a spiritual holiday.
It's clean.
Some things have changed in your life.
But you haven't filled
that area with the spirit of God
or the opposite necessarily.
But
you're picking up
ways to get
at a boys.
That's what they're looking for.
Your prime candidate, they're going right
back in.
That's why I am and just
it's just a small thing, but that's why I'm encouraged
that we have people that wear
all kinds of things to this church.
We have some ladies
who sit in church with stocking caps on.
I think it's
awesome, Molly.
I think it's awesome.
Sometimes during hunting season
it hasn't happened in this building, but in the other one
we had guys come in
full orange.
They were out hunting and they came in
full orange and I pointed it out
and I said, that's awesome.
That's awesome.
We're not
so
tied to a certain
way we have to be
to be accepted.
That's one of the things demons
look for.
Because it falls into
tradition and Jesus said, by your traditions
you make the word of God
of no value.
We should be as different
from each other as day as night.
Why?
Because that's how God created us.
There's no two people
the same. Do you ever look at anybody
and see yourself in their face?
Sometimes there's some resemblance, but nobody
has your face.
Nobody has your fingerprint.
Nobody has your eye scan.
We're all custom built.
So why
does the church think we all have to conform
down and be a certain way?
Because they got a spirit of religion.
That's what it is.
Garnish.
This is referring to have prepared or made their house
ready by decorating.
It's like decorating for a guest
or a party.
Main problem, letter G
at the bottom with this person after receiving
deliverance. The main issue is they're not
engaged spiritually. They're on vacation taking
a spiritual holiday. They're not
giving themselves to any form or
effort to fill the spiritual emptiness that
was left by the
human leaving.
They're not growing. They're not changing
to become what God wants them to be.
There's not
spiritual movement.
It's this attitude, page
45, number one that causes the problems.
And then it lists some things
that they should be doing.
The scary part is verse
45, then go with
he and take it with himself.
Seven other spirits, more wicked, they enter
and dwell there. And the last state is
worse than the first.
So shall it be unto this wicked generation.
And it just takes
those words apart in page 45
and 46.
Dwell on page 47
means to house permanently or to reside.
When they go back
in and take up dwelling, the second time around
was seven spirits worse.
And now you got eight of them.
If you had one, now you got eight.
If you had ten, now you got
80.
If you had
100, now you got 800.
Because each one
is going to try to do that.
And their
mindset
is this time it's permanent.
Remember I said last week,
why would they go get seven
more wicked than themself?
Because they're trying to set it up.
They never get cast out again.
They have ownership.
Their mindset is to dwell.
Which the word Jesus
used there means to house
permanently.
And the end result for that person
is more evil or aggravated. It's worse
than it was before.
So while we're going through that
I'm still looking for why the anointing
was so strong to begin with.
While we're going through that
something stood out to me.
Our
feeling
the need
to conform
not to God
but to human standards
to human traditions.
The first Sunday
I showed up
for a we called it Easter service
at that point. Resurrection Sunday.
What's the tradition?
Women get new dresses
women get all dressed up
guys get all spiffed up
they wear their suits this that and the other.
The first
Sunday I told Mary said we're not doing it.
This is wrong.
And I don't I didn't wear a suit
I don't remember what I wore but I didn't wear a
I didn't wear a t-shirt but
I didn't I wasn't that brave yet.
But I didn't wear a suit
I dressed down.
It was
it almost through the service
in a ditch.
Because people were
so used to
the tradition.
It's wrong pastor
do we need to give you a raise you don't have
enough money to buy your wife a new dress.
What's wrong
pastor your children
your daughters not wearing a new dress
your sons are not in suits
you know little guys
when we conform
to a human standard
it's one of the three things
it fits kind of two of them but the
it's one of the three things that opens
us up to demonic stuff
now here
is what was going through me
and I'm sure we've all made that
mistake and I'm sure we could all
ask forgiveness and repent for it
and say yeah
Yeah, we might be living right now, certain ways, not because God's asked us to, but because
of people around us, because of the church we go to, but whatever. We need to stop that.
That's not God. But here's what was going through me. Not that. As much as, and I've
said it two, three times, the rejection that happens when you don't measure up to the expected
tradition or standard, it could be going to your in-laws for Thanksgiving. There's all
kinds of traditions around the holidays. What if you don't conform? What happens? Some families
may be nothing. Most families, especially if it's strong patriarchal or matriarchal, more
matriarchal. In other words, it's strong mother or grandmother dominated. You show up breaking
the traditions. They're going to let you know it. Right? Patriarchal does it sometimes,
but mostly it's the old grandmas who've done it this way for 50, 60, 70 years and hell will
freeze over if we're changing it now. Everybody has always brought a dish to add to the
meal. You went to Walmart and just bought something? You didn't make it yourself? What kind of
gatherings do you think this is? Is that all we mean to you? And you've heard some of
this stuff. You came without a certain kind of gift. You came without being dressed
a certain way. And here is what happens. We get our feelings hurt. Sometimes we nurse
that wound. And we hang on to it. And then times we will start skipping certain events,
whether it be church or family or whatever. Because somebody said something, somebody
did something, we didn't measure up somehow. You know what is starting to take place? Unforgiveness
is starting to build. Bitterness is starting to build. Could even be a smack of rebellion.
I'll show you. I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it that way anymore. You go ahead
and blow your little hissy. It's fine with me. I just won't show up. And then we'll lie.
Are you coming? Oh no, I got my, my, my, my. Truth is, your feelings are hurt. You're
angry. The last time you showed up, not conforming to everything, you heard about
it. And you made up your mind, but you'll never tell them that. You'll lie to them. Well,
you know, we, we thought we're going to go out of town this time. We got some friends
who invited us and blah, blah, blah. Is that the real reason? No. You might be
doing that, but it, you know, the Lord pointed something out to me a few years back that
is, it's this right here. He asked me this question. Can you say something that's true
without saying the truth? That was the question he asked me. I really had to
ponder that because like, is this a trick question? What, what is this? I really had
to ponder that. And I started running scenarios and then he started pointing it
out to me. It's when we will say something that might be true, but it's not the real
reason we're making the decision the way we're making it. The real reason might
cause an explosion, might cause us to have to, let me give you an example. I say
something that'll offend somebody in the church. Okay? They're going to leave the
church over that rather than dealing with it and communicating about it and
fixing this. No, they're just going to leave the church. So I ask them, are we
okay? Is everything okay? Why are you leaving the church? Well, so-and-so goes
there and they're part of the family. And you know, we've thought for a long
time it might be, and that could all be true. It might be nice to be closer to
family when we go to church and this, that and the other. So we decided to just
do that and, you know, hope you're good with that. You know, it's more of a
personal decision as why. That might be true and they might have been
thinking about that for years. But the truth is, they're offended with me. And
they're not going to say it. So now the big question is that I'm not going to
answer is this. Does that, does God consider what they said a lie even
though it's true? Does he consider that a lie or not? Because folks, we do it
all the time. Rather than cause a bigger problem, rather than cause more
waves, we will say something that's true. But we won't say the truth. Hey, you
coming over to the house this afternoon, we're in and done a Super Bowl.
Super Bowl's coming and we're going to have people over. Why don't you come
on? Well, then the day comes. They didn't want to come. There could be
any reason they didn't want to come. Well, I don't think we're going to be able to
make it. You know, the kids didn't sleep well last night. Could be true. And I
don't know. We don't want to put them through that. So we're just going to
stay home. Could all be true. The kids didn't sleep well last night. But
the truth is what? What is the real reason? Hey, maybe didn't want to go.
Could be anything. But we will give something that's palatable. Now, we
did that because we've already been hurt. And we don't want to get hurt
more or again. And we know good and well. If we tell grandma, what you said to
me last Thanksgiving, hurt my feelings, embarrassed me, made me feel like a
fool in front of the whole family. I am not interested in your
Thanksgiving. Grandma's going to tell the whole family. And now the whole
family is going to be all over us for how wrong we are. We don't want to go
through it. So we'll make up something or plan something. That's true. But
it's not the truth. It's not the real reason. So at the base of that is a
wound, is hurt. At the base of that is fear. You're absolutely right. At the
base of that is fear. Because we're afraid it's going to happen again or
something worse is going to happen if we actually say the truth. At the base
of that could be from God's perspective, even though what we're saying is
true could be lying. He could consider that a lie. Because the real reason
you're not going to Thanksgiving is not because your friends across town
invited you. Even though they did invite you and you might even be going
to their house for Thanksgiving. The real reason you took them up on
that is not because they invited you. It's because of what happened. You're
in the middle of this. We have a person who's hurt, who could be
unforgiving, could be getting better. Unforgiveness could be growing,
could be lying. And then we wonder why we're not living in freedom. And
we've all experienced that. We've all experienced that. One way or
another, I could give you all kinds of examples from my personal life. All
experienced it. Rather than filling that part of us with truth, with
transparency, we dress it up. We garnish it. We're trying to make
ourselves palatable to the person, to the church, to the in-laws, to
whatever, without really saying the truth. So we dress it up. We make
it look good. Since we're harboring an offense, since we're harboring a
wound, that part of us is not spiritually full of God. Can't be,
because we're not living in truth. So I can't say what's true. It
totally. There'd be a blow up in the church like you wouldn't believe, or in
the family, or in the marriage. It's just better if she doesn't know. And
what I told her was true. I did have to stop and fill gas, and I got
talking to a guy at the gas station on the way home. That was true. But
the other couple of things that took a little longer, she doesn't need to
know that, because if I tell her that, this isn't going to go well. We've
all been on the receiving end of that, and we've all been on the giving end
of that. And that sets us up for spiritual trouble. And I think
that's what God wanted pointed out. So we can pray about it and deal
with it. Right now. For those of you online, right now. Confess your sins,
confess your faults, so you may be healed. And we don't have to remember
at all. But we can confess it and say, Holy Spirit, show me whatever I
need to deal with, at least from here forward. If there are some heavy
wounds from things past, then we need to get healing. And God will heal us.
He's not going to beat us over the head and say, Well, you did it wrong. So now
you can suffer. No, he'll heal us. And he'll fix that. He'll bind up that
broken heart or that wound. And he'll fix it so we can go on doing it
the right way. So if this identifies, there's always some kind of action
that's good. Even for those of you who are online. There's some kind of
action that's good. I'm going to ask the people here who identify with
this to stand. And we're going to pray together. You can do the same
thing. Get off the couch, stand up. We're going to pray together. We're
going to ask God to forgive us for anything we did wrong in that whole
scenario. We're going to forgive whoever the other people are, whether it's a
church we've been at, whether it's other Christians, whether it's a family
situation, whatever it is, we're going to forgive them. In other words, we're
going to turn them over to God. He's going to deal with it. It's not
letting them off the hook. It's getting it off of us. We're not
wanting to punish them anymore. We're not wanting them to get
theirs. We're setting them free. It's between them and God. And
whatever God decides with them is good with us. We're going to
forgive them. We're going to send it away. So, we're going to
ask forgiveness. We're going to give forgiveness. And then
we're going to ask the Lord to help us be more aware of
this in the future. Okay? So, repeat after me. Dear
Jesus, I love you. I love you and I want to obey you. You are
truth. Your holy spirit is the spirit of truth. And I want to
conform to truth tonight. I ask forgiveness for the times I
was not truthful with how I felt or how I perceived
something that happened to me or that I was a part of. I ask
you to forgive me for giving false reasons for what was
going on inside of me. And I forgive them for what was
said and what was done. I turn that over to you, Lord. However,
you want to handle that. That's up to you. I forgive them.
And I'm asking that as I now submit myself to you,
Father, to you, Jesus, to you, Holy Spirit, and as I resist
and want nothing of the kingdom of darkness active in me
because of these things that have happened
and what I've done. I command any demonic thing that has
access to me in any way. Leave me now. And Holy Spirit,
you're the teacher, the counselor now. Fill this realm of my life
with truth, with wisdom, and insight to know how to be honest,
to be truthful, without attacking someone else,
just expressing my perspective, but saying what the real truth is.
Cleanse me. Change the way I think. Change my habit patterns.
I am determined to be more like you and to change in this area.
In Jesus' name, amen. You can be seated. Just wait a minute or two.
That was really big. If you could feel that in the spirit, that was really big. So just wait a bit.