[ LPM Sunday Service - 1th
July 2007]
How does
bondage start in a person?
Bondage begins
in people when the Word of God is absent in
their lives. Liberty begins when God’s word
is present in someone's life.
Can a
Christian be possessed by demons?
NO
Why then
do we see so many people who call themselves
Christian possessed by demons?
A backslidden
Christian who has opened a spiritual door
(this gives demons legal authority to enter
and stay in a person) gives demons these
privileges.
How does
one open a "spiritual door"?
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye
are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
(Rom 6:16)
Rom 6:16
tells us that people choose whether to be
free or to be bound by demons. If you watch
programs on TV where they speak to the dead
you open yourselves to the demon spirit of
death. If you read horoscopes, you open
yourselves to the occult (actually the demon
spirit of divination). Read pornography, you
open yourself to the demon spirit of lust,
etc.
Is there a
way of escape?
2 Tim 2:26 tells
us that those bound can deliver themselves
by getting back to the Word of God.
In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if
God peradventure will give them repentance
to the acknowledging of the truth; And
that
they may recover themselves out of the snare
of the devil, who are taken captive by him
at his will.
(2Ti 2:25-26)
What is
the process into bondage for a backslidden
Christian ?
Step
1 : Regression
[Defin]
Regression is related to moving backwards,
and the opposite of progression
[Defin]
Regression is a process claiming to
retrieve memories of previous lives
They go
back to old behaviors (the old man)
They do the
things they did before they were saved.
Step
2: Repression
[Defin]
the act of excluding desires and impulses
from one's consciousness
They no
longer thank God
They no
longer talk about God
They
continuously complain about their troubles
They blame
God for all their troubles
Step
3: Suppression
[Defin]
the process of deliberately trying to stop
thinking about certain thoughts
They
conceal past experiences with God
They will
not talk about their salvation anymore
They hide
their experience with God so that they
don't offend someone
Step
4: Depression
[Defin]
a common term for a sad or low mood or the
loss of pleasure; an emotion that does not
affect capacity to perform personal and
vocational obligations
[LPM
Defin] Loss of hope, a person living
without hope.
They never
talk about their salvation
They never
thank God
At this
stage the deliverance team needs to get
involved as the demons are well
established in the host
Step
5: Oppression
[Defin]
being kept down by unjust use of
force, authority or societal norms.
By this
time the person is overpowered by Satan
and his demons
Having no
fighting ability against the possessing
demons
Bondage has
set in.
Step
6: Obsession
[Defin]
a mental disorder
[Defin]
a type of disorder induced by the
influence of an evil spirit
At this
phase the person is total besieged by evil
spirits and surrounded on all sides
Step
7: Possession
[Defin]
occurs when a spirit (good – Holy Spirit,
bad – demonic spirit), or other
disincarnate entity takes control of a
body which is not its own
[Defin]
Actual holding or occupancy with or
without rightful ownership.
Satan and
demonic forces have TOTAL CONTROL of the
person
What is
the biblical process of deliverance?
In meekness
instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will
give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth; And
that they may recover themselves out
of the snare of the devil, who are taken
captive by him at his will. (2Ti 2:25-26)
- Don't
start to immediately cast out the devil
(they are possessed because the have a
"spiritual door" open -you need to close
that door first).
-
Reintroduce them to the Word of God (keep
saying the bibles says ....)
- Let the
Word of God be a hammer that breaks the
rocks (bondage) into pieces
Is not my
word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and
like a hammer that breaketh the rock
in pieces? (Jer 23:29)
-
Instruct them in the Word of God gently
- The Word
will bring repentance to their hearts
(they will renounce the sin/ curse)
- They are
thus acknowledging the truth of God's Word
and closing the door they opened
- Now cast
the devils out
7.
LET THE WORD OF GOD DO THE WORK !!!
Siva Moodley
www.sivamoodley.com