Unclean Spirits — David Wilkerson

The Word of God as the Source of Cleansing

Pretty much alarmed by what I see happening to many in the church who call themselves Christians. It's becoming very alarming to me. It's not so much what they're doing that bothers me, it's what they're becoming.

It's what some Christians are becoming that's a matter of great concern, not only me, but I believe the Holy Spirit. It's what they're becoming that's very frightening, in fact. They saw them, if ever open this book, then come on Sunday mornings, we've heard a strong word from this pamphlet here if you attend these meetings, a very strong word about this book, that we're cleansed.

The only cleansing you get is from the book. The blood is the finished work of Jesus Christ, but the cleansing is the word. By reading this you are bathed. How do you stay clean? How do you stay clean if you will not read this word?

We have Christians who will come Sunday morning and really get into the service and will work all week long for Jesus, will not do anything wrong, will not live in open flooded sin, but they will never open this book.

And the preacher can scream and yell and quote scripture and try to bring condemnation and guilt and everything else and steal God's people. They're not determined and make a commitment to get into this word and be bathed and cleansed.

It becomes a burden to them and it becomes rather boring. I'm shocked at the number of Christians and even preachers who don't pray. I don't care where you go, what kind of preaching you hear, who teaches you, you can't get away from two simple things that your growth depends on your love for the word of God and your prayer time with Jesus.

It's that simple. You go round and round in theology and you always come back to those two simple points that a man who walks with God, a woman who walks with God is a man or woman of the word and secret prayer.

We have Christians who sit for hours and talk to each other about everything. They have friends that they can discuss anything in the world with. But they don't even notice like to discipline themselves to spend even one hour alone with him.

Except there's a tendency in all Christians that when we get sick or in a crisis and there's something moving in the future or there's a lack of guidance and we need some clear word from the Lord, we do better remember to go, don't we?

Just nod your head if that sounds like you and me. Most of these people that I'm speaking of are loving and kind. They'll go anywhere to do anything for anybody. They don't live in open front and sin.

They're mostly good moral people. In fact, we would call them nice people. They're nice people. I know nice people don't smoke, don't use drugs, don't drink, they don't fornicate, that they don't read the Bible, they don't pray, they don't seek God, they're not totally given and committed in their hearts to Him.

Because if you were, you would be drawn. And the very test of whether or not you're walking with Him is this drawing of the Holy Spirit to His Word. The Holy Spirit will draw you to this book. He will draw you to a place of being alone with the Lord.

Until finally you will honestly, I don't want anything, you'll almost resent anything that comes between you and your time with the Lord. You'll resent an interruption between you and walking with the Lord.

You remember the young man who came to one of our meetings and we were preaching like this. He said, but what about all those drug addicts come for counseling? Would all the people around me have need?

What about all these coming and my time is taken up, my need and human need? And he was praying and he said, Lord, what about all these needs around here? And the Lord said, what about my need? What about me?

Sometimes we forget that. And occasionally these people get a revival. They'll go to Red Heart Meeting and the Holy Ghost outpouring and they'll cry and they'll weep and you say finally, you know, boy, they're going to make progress now.

Repeated Revival Without a Steady Walk With God

I've been in crusades in churches where a pastor tells me he's prayed for his son for five or six years, his son's on drugs and gets saved and resaved, baptized, re-baptized. There may be people like that.

Saved and resaved, baptized, re-baptized, filled and refilled. Never have a steady, solid walk with the Lord. And I'll pray for him. That boy will get down and cry and weep and his daughter will cry and weep and they'll hug and the church will rejoice.

I'll get back two months later to visit and that boy's back where he was before. No hunger for the Word, no hunger for God. There's always something that cools him off. There's a lust somewhere that'll last for a while, but then this spiritual boredom, this restlessness comes and leaves him empty.

And then you look at him and you say, what's he going to take? And I look at the church today and say, what is he going to take to wake up God's people? AIDS doesn't even bother us anymore. When it first came out, everybody was scared now.

Not even the homosexuals are afraid of it. You know what the attitude now in all the homosexual communities? Well, so what? First of all, they don't believe it's ever going to hit them. They believe they're different.

They're somehow immune to it. And if it does, what a way to go. That's the attitude. You say, what's it going to take? What is God going to have to do to wake up God's people? What's he going to take to wake up America?

And I look at the backsliding people, and I look at the Christians now who hear such strong preaching, and there's never been a time that there's been such strong preaching going forth. There's some strong preaching going forth, not just from this pulpit, from other pulpits.

Most of you sitting here have heard some very strong preaching that should have gotten such a hold on your heart that you would be motivated to seek God. And then I say, Lord, is it something in their personality?

Is it a weakness of their character? You know, there are some Christians out there, well, they're wishy-washy on their job. They're wishy-washy on their marriage. Maybe they're just wishy-washy toward the Lord.

It's a part of their character quirk in them, a personality quirk. But I can't believe that either. I wish it was simple as that. I wish that I see Christians that are just getting cold, or Christians who are lukewarm.

I wish I could just say that's their personality. They'll never be on fire for God. They'll never give God their whole heart. I wish I could just say, I wish it was that simple. It's not that simple. There's something behind it.

Backsliding and the Influence of Unclean Spirits

There's something behind the coldness. There's something behind the lukewarmness. There's something about leaning toward the world. There's something behind it. When they begin to talk like the world, look like the world, and speak like the world, there's a spirit behind it.

It's not just a part of the personality. It's not just being wishy-washy toward the Lord. I want to make it as bold as I can this morning that the lukewarm, the half-hearted, the backslidden, and all those who are going back to their old ways are being driven by a spirit.

They're being ruled by a spirit, in fact. And I'll tell you something, there has to be a deliverance or there'll be damnation. Now I've never preached in my lifetime that Christians who are spirit-filled, who have any idol pulverized in their life, and they're walking in righteousness, I've never believed they could be demon-possessed.

I've never believed an unclean spirit could touch the mind or the body, and I'll stand in that till I die. There's a bloodline that the devil cannot and will not cross. Do you remember when the bread was applied to the doorpost that the angel of death would not pass that doorpost?

And if the angel of God won't pass it, how's he going to let a demon pass it? Get that in your mind now. If God won't pass the bloodline with the death angel, neither can the devil pass the bloodline.

If you're walking uprightly before the Lord, you're not before idols, you're seeking God with your heart, and you're loving Him with all your heart, giving Him your whole heart, you're safe, you never have to worry that the devil, you can say with Jesus, the wicked one cometh and hath nothing in me.

But you see there are some that are under a spirit's dominion, they don't know it, they're ignorant about it, they don't know what's driving them. I've never, I've watched, this has come, what I'm going to tell you this morning, what I'm preaching this morning has come through some hard, hard thinking, a lot of observation in the lives of Christians.

Remember God says to the lukewarm Christians, I'm going to spew you out of my mouth? Why would God spew a whole church age out of His mouth if they weren't driven by spirits? Why would God say if these were those who once walked in the Spirit, and the message the laity see in church is hearing what the Spirit says to the church, He's speaking to the church.

And this church is so blind, it's boasting that it's rich and increased with goods and need of nothing, but it's totally blind and naked and corrupt and wretched and poor, totally blind that they're being driven by the spirit of materialism, driven by the spirit of this age.

They don't even know here in the laity see in church that they're being driven and occupied by spirits. I want you to turn with me to 1 Timothy, the first chapter, 1 Timothy. I'm going to take you through the scripture this morning and show you how Christians who are not living an overcoming life are in danger of being ruled and even possessed by unclean spirits.

Falling Away From the Faith in the Last Days

Now I want to put this amount of backsliding in perspective. I want it to be as serious as God makes it in His Word. 1 Timothy, 4th chapter, I want to read just the first two verses. 4th chapter, 1 Timothy, 4th chapter, verses 1 and 2.

But the Spirit explicitly says that in latter times, some will fall away from the faith, pay attention to what? Deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own consciences with the branding iron.

Alright, look at me please. There are unclean spirits that are in this world, but in the atmosphere. You understand that? There are unclean spirits loose in this world. Paul called them seducing spirits.

The Greek word for the seducing spirit is pornos, which means a roving spirit, roving as a tramp. The very word tramp is used. Roving about as a tramp. An imposter, a misleader, a deceiver. These tramp like spirits, there are masses of them, tramp like spirits loose in the atmosphere, running around seeking to lie, to deceive, to move into a person's life, to create in them an attitude of an imposter, to make them a deceiver, to give them a roving tramp like spirit.

And listen, when I see people tramping all over the country from church to church and seminar to seminar, I know they are being driven by a spirit. Every man will never come into the knowledge of the truth.

There is nothing wrong with going to a few of these meetings, but I know people that have a full time job of nothing but tramping about. They are driven by a spirit. They are never at rest. They don't even know what it is to settle down in a body of believers and dig into the Word and be taught.

They are driven. They will go to California, they will go to Australia, they will go all over the world. I don't know how they afford it. I don't know how they afford it. Some people are running all the time.

And all they talk about are their teachers. They are never learning, never coming into the knowledge of truth. This chap, look at that first verse again. That the spirit explicitly, what does King James says, I believe clearly says, what's that?

Explicitly says. Now who says it? Who is speaking here? The Holy Spirit explicitly, clearly says that in the latter times, what days do you think we are living in right now? At least a lot of times are there not?

In the latter times, he is pinpointing our day and age. In the latter times, some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful and seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. They will give heed, that word heed in Greek means to pay attention to, to learn, to lean toward it, to give your mind over to it.

There are going to be Christians that are going to give their minds to seducing deceitful spirits. He is talking about the church. He is not talking about drug addicts and alcoholics and street people.

He is talking about the church. Together it reads, in the last days some believers will give their minds over to tramp-like, roving, deceiving, unclean spirits. Now I am going to tell you something. The Bible says they are going to fall away and you can't fall away unless you have already been there, can you?

You can't fall away unless you have been there. And they are going to fall away. Now I take this serious when the Holy Ghost is speaking. When the Holy Ghost is looking at the church and He says, some of you are going to fall away.

And some of you are going to start listening to deceitful, unclean spirits and they are going to rule your life. And He said it is because of a form of hypocrisy. It is because you are going to believe a lie because in the real meaning of that, because you have lived a lie.

You have not been living the truth. You have been sitting in church, living a lie. You have been saying, I follow Jesus, but you follow with a half a heart. How could such a thing happen in this verse?

Speaking lies and hypocrisy, seared in their own conscience. That means to be rendered insensitive, without feeling, dead. Somehow the Holy Spirit talked and spoke and spoke to the conscience and it just overruled the conscience.

Silencing the Holy Spirit Through Repeated Disobedience

You know something, I find that true. The Lord will speak to me, the Holy Spirit will speak in a still, small voice and say, David, it is time to get alone. It is time to get alone. Then there will be an interruption.

The Holy Ghost will come and say, David, get alone. But after about the fourth or fifth admonition, the voice is gone. Isn't that true? He will come and He will speak and then you just override that voice and finally that is how you become dead and insensitive.

The Holy Spirit expects us to listen when He speaks. And I am learning that. When I am gossiping about somebody or something, I will hear the Holy Spirit thunder in my mind, stop. And if I keep going, it will be a whisper, stop.

I do it again and it is gone. I have grieved the Holy Spirit's voice. He said He will not break in on you. He will not force Himself on you. These evil spirits will convince them of doctrines of demons.

They will drop their way of holiness. They will turn away from holiness. They will become advocates of the devil's tactics in his own ways. Listen to me now. Let me share with you the doctrine of demons and how it comes out.

How Doctrines of Demons Affect Christian Conduct?

Now, I am not going to get to the theology side. I am going to get on the outcome side. In other words, when this theology works itself into your body and the devil has deceived you, and there is a way to know whether there is a lying, deceiving spirit that has come to your mind.

Now, first of all, these spirits, these lying, unclean spirits in the end will whisper to you. If you give them a place, and Bob Phillips made it clear, if you give them a place in your heart and you will not listen to the Holy Spirit, you give them room and you will occupy it.

You will occupy that place and move into the mind and begin to drive it. At the end of it, you can end up in possession. And I will prove to you that it can be eight times as bad, not seven, but eight times as bad as it was before you were saved.

I will get to that scripture in just a bit. Let me give you the outcome, the way a person talks after it happens. It goes something like this. I really don't see anything wrong in it. Nobody can live that holy.

They are just too strict. Have you ever heard that kind of talking? I had somebody see me the other day and talk about their pastor. He has been preaching such a strong word of holiness. And some of the deacons have had a petition and they are talking to him.

They have come to him and said, preacher, we can't live like that. Nobody can live like that. Nobody can live like that. And I am hearing that from pastors all over the country who have begun to preach holiness.

There are congregations that have been living in idolatry and sin. They are coming up and rebelling against it. We just can't live that strict. God doesn't expect that out of us. That's too legalistic.

That's the sound of a doctrine of demons. That's too strict. It's too hard. You expect too much. That's too confining. I need more space. I need more liberty. I need a little more freedom. I can't live that way.

I think there is a time I said things like that. Who do you think is really saying that? Who speaks like that? These unclean spirits are demonic. They come out of the very realm of Satan. Go to Mark with me, the 5th chapter and I will show it to you.

5th chapter of Mark. Please follow me because it's important that we see this. 5th chapter of Mark. I would like to start at verse 1 and just go right down to verse 13. It's a very familiar story but I think we need to follow it through.

The Gerasene Demoniac and the Power of Christ Over Unclean Spirits

Mark 5 .1. And they came to the other side of the sea and to the country. It should be arranged that this is Jerusalem. And when he had come out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him.

And he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore even with a chain. Because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been torn apart by him. And the shackles broken in pieces and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

And constantly night and day among the tombs and in the mountains he was crying out and gashing himself with stones. And seeing Jesus from a distance he ran up and bowed down before him. Crying with a loud voice he said, What do I have to do with you Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

I implore you by God, do not torment me. Now you know that wasn't him. You know that. Those were the spirits in him crying. For he had been saying to him, Come out of the man you unclean spirit. And he was asking him, What is your name?

And he said to him, My name is Legion, for we are many. And it began to entreat him earnestly not to send him out of the country. Now there was a big herd of swine feeding there in the mountain and the demons entreated him saying, Send us into the swine so that we may enter them.

And he gave them permission in coming out. The unclean spirits entered the swine and the herd rushed down the steep bank of the sea 2 ,000 drowning. You see that the unclean spirit is tied into demonic activity.

Unclean spirits are tied to demonic activity. If you just go over to Mark 7. Just turn the page to Mark 7. And another very familiar passage there. Verse 25. Mark 7, 25. And after hearing of him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at his feet.

Now the woman was a Gentile of the Syrophoenician race and she kept asking him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

Look at verse 29. He said to her, Because of this answer, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter. Look at verse 25. Little daughter had what? An unclean spirit. Look at verse 30 now. And going back to her home she found the child male in the bed.

The what? The demon having departed. You see how Christ himself and in this passage the unclean spirit and demon are synonymous here. Now not always do the scriptures and unclean spirits synonymous with the demons.

And I'm not preaching about demons this morning. I just want to show you that this is demonic activity and we're talking about something very serious this morning. We're not just talking about backsliding.

The Bent Woman and Spiritual Bondage

We're not just talking about cold heart. We're not talking about lukewarmness. We're talking about Christians who open themselves to be driven and even occupied by unclean spirits. I'm going to have you look at something that really impressed upon me in Luke, the 13th chapter.

I was preaching this on the street the other day and what an impact it had. As many people were giving their heart to Christ when they heard the story. I wonder what kind of impact it's going to have on you this morning.

Very familiar also. The story of the woman who'd been infirm for 18 years. 13th chapter of Luke, verse 11. Let's start verse 10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold there was a woman who for 18 years had had a sickness caused by what?

Look at me. Can there be sicknesses caused by spirits? I will prove to you that all sicknesses are not caused by spirits, but it's possible for a sickness to be caused by a spirit. There it is. That's about as clear as it can be, isn't it?

A sickness caused by a spirit and she was bent double and could not straighten up at all. How many years did that spirit occupy her? Isn't it amazing? She could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, woman, you are freed from your sickness.

He lays his hands upon her and immediately she was made erect again and began to glorify God. Alright, look at me please. Here's the point right now. A sickness caused by a spirit that had bent her over for 18 years and he calls it a sickness.

The Bible says she couldn't straighten up at all. Why is it that many Christians can't straighten up their lives? Couldn't straighten up at all. I look at some people and when I was on the streets of New York, there'd be kids I'd meet in the park year after year after year, backsliders, Pentecostal preacher's sons.

I said, Lord, what does it take? They're bound by years. Is it just their nature? Is there something in them that just doesn't want God? Yes, there is something that doesn't want God. Unclean spirits.

They can't straighten up at all. And I'll tell you what, you can't straighten up at all by just saying, well, I'll make up my mind to go to Jesus or I'll do this, I'll do that. You've got to have a deliverance.

There has to be a deliverance in your heart. And if you know someone in your family or friend who can't seem to straighten up spiritually at all, they can't stand erect for Christ because when the Lord cast that unclean spirit out of her, she stood erect, didn't she?

How do we get these people to erect for God? How do we get them to stand up with a heart totally committed to the Lord? I don't think we've been telling our backsliding friends the truth. I don't know if we've understood it.

And it's taken me some 30 years to come to this place. I don't think I could have preached it even five years ago or four years ago that I'd preach it now. That I'd be the majority of the backsliders, the majority of those who are lukewarm and cold in the church are being ruled and brained by unclean spirits that are loose in the land.

And I know we don't like this kind of preaching. It repels the flesh, repels the flesh. And I'll tell you something else. If you're sitting here this morning and you are listening to the whispering, something whispering to your heart, and that whispering is against everything you know to be of the gospel truth, that whispering that comes to you, that keeps you, conspires against you to seek God, to pray, to come in His presence, you'd better take it seriously because that's not just your voice.

That's the enemy. That is absolutely satanic coming to destroy your very spiritual experience. I'm going to make it that strong. I don't believe it to be that strong anymore. I've had lying spirits try to find a place just to plant a lie in my mind.

And if you abide that one lie, you've given him a foothold. And the first lie that he comes to you and tries to... First of all, he'll lie to you and say you'll never make it. He'll lie to you and say you'll never be what God wants you to be.

He'll lie to you about your relationship with Jesus, tell you that you're unclean, that you're filthy. And all you have to do is stand up and say in the name of Jesus Christ, I bind this lying spirit, I cast it out in Jesus' name and they have to flee.

At the name of Jesus, He sent His Word and healed them. All you need is His Word and His name. Cast that off so that there's not a room, He does not find a place in your heart. He can plant a seed. This woman, for 18 years.

Now, you say the man that was in the tombs, he must have been an awful filthy sinner. A whole legion of unclean spirits to possess him. I don't know the history of the man. The Bible doesn't tell us. We do know that this woman was a child of Abraham.

She was a child of Abraham. Which means she was a part of the body at that time. This woman, it doesn't talk about some sin being in her life or anything else. All we know is that for some reason or another, 18 years, she's doubled over.

She can't walk. I see Christians just like they're doubled over with doubt. They're doubled over with fear. They're doubled over all the time. There's never victory. Never standing erect for Christ. I think we better look a little more seriously and soberly at what's causing it.

Distinguishing Spiritual Affliction From Ordinary Sickness

Now, I want to show you that not all sickness is a result of an unclean spirit. If you go to Luke 7. Luke 7, I want you to go to verse 21, please. At that very time, He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits and granted sight to many who were blind.

Now, I want you to look at the distinction. And in every occasion, every time He cured many people, you have diseases, you have afflictions, and then you have evil spirits. At this place, He draws a line.

Now, look at me, please. You can go out and you can eat junk food full of all kinds of carcinogenics that cause cancer, cancer-causing foods. I don't think you can blame that on a demon. It's carelessness.

You can go out here and just get careless and stick your finger in one of these sockets, and that's not a demon going to send a jolt through you. It has a lot to do with carelessness and everything else.

He does divide. You know, there was a time people thought that epileptics were demonic. It's been proven that this is a nervous condition. And yet, I've met, there are times that I've known that it was demonic.

But not on every case. And I can't, I don't think any of us have a right to go to anybody that's sick and say, you've got a demon in you, you're unclean, there's an unclean spirit in you that's causing that.

Not at all. Because some of you know what it's like to be living in absolute, total victory before the Lord and have all kinds of pain in your body. You know that you're walking before the Lord in total righteousness and that there's pain.

And you've suffered. You may have had a righteous mother, father, grandmother, who died, cancer, anything else. Don't dare say they were demon-possessed. That they were unclean spirits that were driving them.

That is not always the case. That is not always the case. And there are three other references, I don't want to get into it, but there are three other references where these lines are clearly drawn. They were drawn by Paul also.

Jesus makes a difference here. Many are the afflictions of the right. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. First the Lord delivers them from the mall, but then he's got to endure them too. David said, if I had endured affliction, I wouldn't have sought the Lord.

I believe in afflictions and I believe in healing afflictions. And I believe that there are demonic afflictions. But you see, we like to say it's either or all the time. So we've got people going around My wife, when she was six, she had the president's, Carter's sister here, Ruth Carter Stapleton, and tried to tell her that she had to go back in the quarters of mine and dig out those unclean spirits.

And I asked her never to come back again if she was going to do that. I'm sorry to, you know, the Lord took her, not for that reason, but the Lord took her and probably she knew what it was like to have an awful lot of pain because she had pain when she died and we regret that terribly.

It's not a curse or anything else. It's just that it rains on the just and the unjust, doesn't it? That's what the Bible says. I know it's like I'm in pain right now. I'm in pain most of the time. Some of you are in pain a lot of times.

And yet I know the Lord delivers and I pray for the sick and God heals. And I won't let anybody, I can stand here and tell you I have pain and I do not have a lying spirit on me. I have the spirit of the living God in me.

And I'll give you a test for that in just a moment to prove that in yourself or any of us. But you see, Acts, I'll tell you what, let's go to Acts 5. Let's make it clear. Don't listen just to me. Acts, 5th chapter of Acts, 16th verse.

And also the people from the cities of the vicinity of Jerusalem are coming together. They were people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits and they were all being healed. Now you see, in this case, the affliction is tied in again to the unclean spirit.

I'm just trying to show both sides of it now. Later on we'll tell you how to see the line of demarcation. The multitudes brought the sick and those who were vexed with unclean spirits in King James. King James makes it a little different.

The multitudes brought the sick, them that were vexed with unclean spirits. How many have looked at that word vexed in the Bible? Remember when God said of Lot, he vexed his soul by the things he saw and heard?

Now you've heard of hex. You go down to Pennsylvania and all the Pennsylvania ducks talk about hexes and they have hex signs on their barns. Have you seen those hex signs? This is vex, V-E-X, and the word means harassed by a mob of unclean spirits, harassed by a mob.

Vexed means to be harassed by a mob of unclean spirits, a rabble, a rabble, a huge rabble pressing in on the mind. And Jesus, they brought many who were vexed by unclean spirits. Their minds were being tormented and they brought them to Jesus and the Scripture said he healed them all.

Unclean Spirits in the Synagogue

But if you go back to Mark, I'll show you how these spirits will go to church. And you say, well, but David, you mean these lying spirits will bring Christians right into church when they live in carnality?

Yes, I won't prove it to you right now. Mark, the first chapter of Mark, and I saw this yesterday and I thought, how brazen of unclean spirits. Mark, verse 21, begin to read with me. And they went into Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and began to teach.

And they were amazed at his teaching for he was teaching them as one having authority and not as a scribe. And just then there was in the synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. Now where was he? In church.

He'd been sitting there, they didn't even recognize it. But then when the truth came forth, look what happens, the unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying, what do we have to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?

Have you come to distress? I know who you are, the Holy One of God. Well, he acknowledged he knew God, didn't he? And Jesus rebuked him, saying, be quiet and come out of him. And throwing him into convulsion, the unclean spirit cried out, and the loud voice came out of him.

And they were all amazed and they debated among themselves, saying, what is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him. Well, what a sight. Here are all these people in the synagogue.

For weeks this man sits there as one of them, a holy, pious man, and they don't even know he's full of unclean spirits. He's going to church every Sunday, every Sabbath he sits there and he quotes the law.

And when God comes on the scene, he says, I know who you are, the Holy One of Israel. Unclean spirit will go to church. Acts 16. If I show it to you twice will you believe it? I'm going to show you how brazen these lying spirits are.

Acts 16, verse 16. And it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain slave girl, having a spirit of divination, met us who was bringing her master as much profit by fortune telling.

Following after Paul and us, and she kept crying out, saying, these men are bond servants of the Most High God. Now these are unclean spirits preaching this. These men are bond servants of the Most High God who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.