(Demonology) the Demons Against the Evangelicals — Willie Mullan

Demonology and the Evangelical Battle Against Darkness

Subject of demonology, which actually is the doctrine of the devil and his angels. And we're at the tenth evening with this mighty subject. And for the past two weeks we've been looking at the rulers of the darkness of this world coming against the evangelical message.

We looked at the principalities, which are really princes, demon princes, working in the political realm. And then we looked at demon powers working against the physical frame. And we looked at the same demon powers working in the mental realm, oppressing the minds of some, because our Lord Jesus went about healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

And then we moved on and we looked at the rulers of the darkness coming against the evangelical message. We have learned this so far. We have learned that the God of this world, and that's old Lucifer himself, that he burns the minds of them that believe not lest the light of the glory of gospel should shine in.

Satan's Opposition to the Gospel Seed

Now, we have learned from this book that Satan is not omnipresent. I think sometimes some of the believers are not too sure of this. He can't be everywhere at once, but God can. But while he is not omnipresent, he's got a vast army of fallen angels who are working full-time for him, and they're endeavoring to blind the minds of every one that believes not.

You see, the devil tries to stop the light of the gospel from getting in. We was on last week, and we found this out, that even if the evangelist, or the equipped preacher of the gospel, a gifted preacher, even if he gets the light of the gospel in through the darkness, into the heart, then immediately come as the devil and take it away the word out of his heart, lest he should believe and be saved.

So, the devil tries to stop the seed from getting in, and then he dares to steal the seed after it's in. And if he can't stop it, and he can't steal it, then he goes a step further, and he dares to swallow it, because he cooks the seeds by the cares and the riches of this world.

And we looked at the rulers of the darkness, trying to stop, and steal, and swallow the seed. And we went on a step further last week. Not only did we look at demons blinding the minds, and stealing the seed, but we looked at demons working through men, and opposing the cross.

Paul talked about them, who are the enemies of the cross of Christ. You see, the devil doesn't want the light to get in, lest, lest man will come to a knowledge of the truth. He wants to steal the seed, lest they should believe and be saved.

He wants to oppose the cross, for if Christ be lifted up, he will draw. And Satan's afraid of the drawing power of the man of Calvary. Then we went on just a little bit further last week, and we looked at these same demon powers in this age, corrupting the truth.

You can see the battlefield that lies before the evangelist. The devil will try to keep the seed from getting in. He will dare to steal it when it's sent in. He will dare to smother it if he can't steal it.

He opposes the preaching of the cross. He's an enemy of the cross. But in these last, of the last days in which we're living, you know, he dares to corrupt the truth. That's where we're starting this evening.

Doctrines of Demons in the Last Days

Let's go to 1 Timothy, chapter 4, please. Paul's first letter to Timothy, and we're at the fourth chapter, and this is a very wonderful piece of writing that Paul wrote to Timothy. 1 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 1.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, or as old Knox, the Roman Catholic scholar, translated it, now the Spirit speaketh in inspiration. I think that's a great translation. The Spirit speaketh in inspiration.

And this is what he's saying, that in the latter times, and I'm very sure that we're in the last of the last days of this dispensation, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith. Mind you, when we talk about the faith, we're talking about the whole body of truth, the faith that has once for all been delivered unto the saints, the whole fundamental truth that belongs to the church of Jesus Christ.

And there are people who are propoing the Bible, and turning from the fundamentals, and questioning some of the old-fashioned truths, so that we're really in the last of the last days. And the reason that some shall depart from the whole body of truth in these last days is this reason, because they'll give heed to seducing spirits.

I think that's something we want to underline, because these seductive spirits are at work in some of the pulpits that I know, walking through the old dead minister that's there. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

And the reader's translation is, the doctrines of demons, because demons begin to work through unsaved men, and they bring teachings. And if you're not guarded, you'll be inoculated, you know. It's just the phrase, it's in the Bible, the doctrines of demons.

It's there all right. And I assure you it's all round us tonight, because we're in the last days. And when men are energized by these rulers of the darkness of this world who are coming against the evangelical message, they'll be speaking lies in hypocrisy.

Oh yes, you know, we don't find demons just up in the pulpit. The people wouldn't sit there, they'd run. But they'd get into some old fellow with a car on, and they'll be speaking lies, hypocrisy. Williams, the old Quaker translator, translated that phrase like this, speaking lies with a straight face.

I can get you thousands of them. This book's timely. I didn't print that, you know. I would nearly get blamed for printing that. But I didn't print it. Well, these are the last days, and these doctrines of demons are with us, and these who are seduced by these devils, they speak lies with a straight face, having their conscience saved.

They haven't any conscience about anything, just getting the hour punched in. Here are some of the doctrines of demons, forbidding humility. I know that the Roman Catholic Church has been guilty of that from almost the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church, because they don't forbid everybody to marry.

They only forbid the priests. I think, of course, they forget that Bob Peter, they say he was the first Pope, well, he had a wife, mother, who was lying sick of the fever. He hadn't only a wife, he had his mother-in-law living with him, too.

I think they forget about that. But it's not so much the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that's on the mind here, because we're talking about these last days, and we're into what is called a permissive society now.

And there's a lady who comes on the TV now and again with her plunging hemline and all the rest of the equipment, and she advocates that marriage is no use, put it out of the window, grab the hold of a man and live with him.

I'll tell you what it is. It's a demon working through her. She doesn't bluff me, you know. I just look at her and say, the devil's in that woman. Because it's the doctrine of battles. That's what it is.

It's marriage with guidance that's there. But we don't want to linger with that this evening, because in these last days the demons will energize people just like that, forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meat.

You know there's a great lot of talk about meat now. In fact, you know, it's getting into evangelical circles. I heard about a man talking about that you couldn't be spiritual if you were over 15 stone weight.

So some of you are not spiritual looking from here. That's the greatest lot of bologna I've ever listened to. You see, I can take them back to Spurgeon's day. And without any doubts at all, Spurgeon was the preacher.

And I think still is. And he was over 19 stone weight. My dear old D .L. Moody that moved the world. He had a big belly that came over the platform. Just leaned on there, you know. Let me tell you, he won thousands and thousands and thousands for Christ.

How do we need to waste time with this bologna? I wonder if it's allowed in some of the Baptist churches. I don't need to go on with it, sure I don't. It's so daft. Yes, but these are the latter days and these doctrines of demons who talk about you can't marry and you can only eat certain foods.

Well, before long, if the government goes on the way it's doing, there'll be no second choice. Well, there will be back to bread and water, I think. But Paul puts a bit to this. He said that in these last days, these seducing spirits bringing these doctrines of demons and commanding to abstain from meat.

He put this to it, which God hath created. Don't forget that God created the food to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving.

That's just exactly what I believe. I don't think I ever told you that Mr. Orr and I went out evangelizing oh many years ago and we did all country to Rome. Coming along one of those old dusty roads down in the heart of country to Rome one day, I spied a little house in the middle of a barn.

I said, Hugh, there must be somebody living. He says, there's nobody living, no. He never known. So we went across the dog and an old fella came to the door. I don't think he'd ever been washed from the midwife wash to me with his blackest eye.

I said, hello, what's your name? John Mulally said, oh dear me. I didn't think John was a friend of mine at all. So I told him who we were and he said, come on in. And when I went in he had a fire in the middle of the floor and a hole in the roof and the smoke sometimes went through the hole but mostly it missed it.

And now you should see the sight of this place. There were cobwebs and thick on the cobwebs it was actually bowing them down. If you really touched them you were as black as the old fella himself. But Mr. Orr, you know, I can say this about him, he's a friend of mine, he was a wee bit squeamish about all this.

And the old fella, I chatted him up, you know, and he said to me, would you like a drop of tea? He didn't say it like that, he said, would you like a drop of tea? I said, of course we would like a drop of tea.

So he got an old black can, an old lid on it, just a can, put water in it, just lifted a handful of tea and dropped it in, put it on the fire and it began to boil. Oh, you should see the sight of this.

He said, would you like an egg? I said, of course we would like an egg. So he went out to the nest outside, I don't know how long this egg had been in the nest, but it was clobbered all round. He says, I just boil my eggs in the tea.

And I could see Mr. Orr getting whiter and whiter. And I'm a sort of cast-iron character, when he put this egg up and all, I took the tea and sucked it up and smiled away and talked away and old Orr was dying in the corner.

Orr was a very clever fellow, remember, he said to the old man, is it somebody went out? And the old fellow went out to the door and he lost tea and egg and all into the fire. Only knows you're ever in a tight spot like this, remember everything is to be received with thanksgiving.

For don't be getting ratty at the table, you know. If she dishes something up and it doesn't just appeal to you, you thank the Lord and go on with it. You'll be all right, I'm living yet. And so we're living in these last days and you know these demons are talking about marriage or against it and against meets of all kinds.

Meditation, Scientology, and False Peace

And then of course we have this meditation masquerade that goes on when the Beatles and some of the other entertainers of the entertainment world go to meditation. And they're paying deeply for this. We looked at this last week and we went on from marriage and meets and meditation to Scientology as they call it.

It's just mind bending, that's what it is. And if you get into the clutches of Scientologists, you'll get your mind bent in a way that you'll never get it back again. It's bent for good. See we're living in the last days and seducing spirits are around us and they tackle marriage and meets and pretend to bring you meditation of mind.

Remember the only peace that you can ever get for your mind was wrought by the blood of the cross. Jesus made peace by the blood of his cross. And this Scientology mind bending is from the devil itself.

Miracles and the Gifts of the Spirit

Now we're going to move on to something else tonight. It's another aim. We've looked at marriage and meets and meditation and mind bending. We want to look at miracles tonight because I think that there's a lot of talk just now about miracles.

And we've got to find out. Is it demons talking or is it the Lord? And we've got to be very careful with it, haven't we? Because I dare not say one word against God's truth. Now we'll find out. We'll go back and look at these gifts when they were here and how they worked.

Let's go back to 1 Corinthians and we're at chapter 12 please. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians chapter 12. Just to save time we'll start down the chapter a little bit. When I was doing 1 Corinthians we did every word in chapter 12.

But we're just looking for the miracles just now. Verse 7 we'll begin with. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. I want you to get hold of that. You know when you're born again you're indwelt by the Spirit of God.

And of course being indwelt by the Spirit of God you're placed at that moment into the body of Christ. And the Holy Ghost has given you something to do in the body. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man.

That means to you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. And there's no man or woman or boy or girl that's saved in this building who's left up to every man. Now it is the sum of the gifts he gives.

It's not a full catalog. Verse 8. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. You see in the early New Testament church when the saints gathered on the first day of the week, remember this, there was no New Testament in the meeting.

It was formed and people were getting saved and the Spirit was putting them into the body and they were meeting to remember the Lord. But there was no New Testament to read out of. It wasn't written yet.

It was quite a year or two before even Paul was saved. And quite many years before he wrote all his letters for the next. But you know in those mornings there was somebody there with the word of wisdom.

There the Holy Ghost had him there. He was able to talk to the crowd without a New Testament. You see for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. To another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit.

A whole lot of things that were in the Old Testament that had a New Testament application and he was quite capable of standing up to what he knew. It wasn't that he was more bright than any of the others.

It was just that he had a gift from the Spirit which was called the word of knowledge. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. To another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. To another faith by the same Spirit.

Now that's not just the faith that you believe with. That's the gift of faith. I don't know many people with the gift of faith. I know that Hudson Taylor had the gift of faith because this man founded the China Inland Mission and he founded it with faith involved.

He learned a lesson one day. He was in a poor woman's house in the old days when we had two shilling pieces. And he just had a two bob piece in his pocket and he ran his fingers around the mix you know in his pocket and he said Lord to himself he said if this had been two single shillings I would have given her a shilling.

And the Lord said yes you could trust me and a bob. But he couldn't trust me without the bob and he learned so he gave the woman the two bob. This man had the gift of faith. It was being developed now.

Old George Miller had the gift of faith. He founded these great orphan homes and he traded in over six million pounds and he never asked anybody for a penny. I couldn't do that because I haven't got that gift.

And if some of you try to act like Hudson Taylor or George Miller you're going to find yourself in a fix because you haven't got that gift of faith to begin with. So don't be swinging it around now. You'll only get caught on.

You see the spirit is giving something to everyone. To one who's given by the spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another the gifts of healing.

I hope you notice Paul I try to emphasize this. I hear the boys that's got the healing you know talking about the gift of healing. It's not here. They don't even know what's in the book you know to begin with.

I just wonder how much else they know. I'm telling you you're looking with two eyes the eyes of the Lord and I'll tell you why in a minute of course. The gift of healing and if you haven't got the gift it will not work.

Verse 10, to another the working of miracles. That's the bit we're at. It was a gift from the early church you know. We don't need to go on with the cuss words. I just want to get down to this the working of miracles.

Look down the chapter till you see how he sums this all up. We're at 28. And God has set some in the church. This is how he put them in the church. First apostles. You see there are some of my millennialist friends and it's only some of them and they tell me that the church was in the old testament and I always want to know where it began in the old testament.

Did it begin in the garden of Eden? Because if you had a church in the garden of Eden you'd have to have Adam deacon and elder and everything else. Because the new testament church is composed of saints and elders and deacons.

Now God set some in the church first apostles. You see that ought to tell anybody who wants to know that the church began a Pentecost. And the apostles were the foundation. Of course God gave new testament prophets too.

When they had no new testament the prophets stood up on Sunday morning and took one or two or sometimes three. But they were gifts for the church you know. Some of my brethren friends and there are many of them here they talk about we all have a go at it in our place.

I said I can tell you that I don't believe that's true. You don't try to teach me that the sheep feed the shepherds do you? What do you think God sends shepherds for? There are shepherds in this place there's a whole crowd of them here that go equal with me.

I'm just the one that labors in wood and opera. Oh but they're all here and they're out to teach too. You see the apostles were first because the church was founded on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

This is God has taken the church first. I asked a fellow who argued with me just the other day if the church began in the old testament how did the apostles get first? Surely the patriarchs or the prophets would have been first.

I mean old testament prophets. And answer, first apostles, secondly prophets. Because before we got this completed new testament we needed the apostles and prophets. Now when the new testament has come the apostles and prophets are gone.

They were in the foundation. The church is built upon the foundation you don't carry the foundation up to the original. Oh no we left them there. Yes totally you get that pictures. That's what I happen to be you know whether you like it or not and I can tell you that the picture is more important just now than anything else you're going to hear about.

But the boys who talk about healing and nature they want to put me into the back room you know so that they would tell me something. I say you we happen to be first. In case you're so dopey you don't know.

Have you got this? God has set some in the church first apostles, second only prophets, thirdly teachers. And I'm persuaded of course and have been for a long time that the great need of this country and every other country in the world are teachers.

See this thing tonight see this place tonight crowded. What do you think they come to see? My tie. I mean they'll buy a lot of ties wouldn't they? Not the weeds in my hair it's going blank up there. The barber says it's looking after itself on the top.

Friend this class has been going for 21 years. Made a film in Hollywood not even gone with the wind that can hold an audience for 21 years. We try it out and see. It just doesn't work that long. No sir.

It's the teaching of the word of God that's the important thing here not me. It's our channel. But let's get this. We're going full tonight. We're in first year yet. Verse 28. And God has set some in the church first apostles, second only prophets, thirdly teachers.

Now watch this now. After that many goes. Oh boy you would have thought they were in front of me. Oh no sir. After that many goes. Then gifts of healing. Yes it's still there. Because this book's inspired you see.

Health, government, diversities of tongues. Now Paul asks questions. You answer them quickly now. Are all the members of the body of Christ are all apostles? There's nobody in here would answer yes. There's a lot of books like me in here but they all won't answer no.

Are all apostles? No. What's the question? Are all prophets? No. Are all teachers? No. Are all workers of miracles? No. Have all the gifts of healing? No. Do I speak with patterns? Answer it now. Don't blush.

No sir. If some of the wee lads would come around and tell me you know that unless you get the gift of tongues you're no use. Oh I'll blast you when we come to it. You don't even know the book that we're reading out of.

You want everybody in the world to speak with tongues. I can tell you it's set here. Do all people count? No. But we'll come to the tongues bit. Don't you worry yourself. And we'll have a whole night on it.

I was going to publish it in the paper but if we do they ring my phone every day to see if it's tonight or next Tuesday or what Tuesday you're not knowing. Because if I did we'd get a cloud from everywhere and our own class will be clouded up.

You'll never know. You'll just need to be here won't you? Yes that's right. That's the way we're selling the goods these days. Oh I'm not publishing it. But I assure you I will do it and do it fully and completely and I trust plainly for you to all speak with tongues.

No they don't sir. You see the Spirit has given something to everyone. He gives one this and one that and he sent some in the church. You see if we were going down the whole chapter go back again to where we began verse 8 for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit to another faith.

And then he said in verse 13 for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body. Talk to me about the baptism of the Spirit dear because if you're in the body of Christ you're only there by the baptism of the Spirit and if you're not in the body of Christ you're not saved.

Yes we're all baptized by one Spirit into one body. Are you in the body or are you not? Oh we'll come to all the questions about it afterwards but we're just dealing with the gift now. The gift of the working of medicals and the crap crap that's talked about it which I'm asked for more than anything else which is the doctrine of demons of course and I will deal with the gift of him while we're at it.

Miraculous Healings in Acts

Let's go back to the Acts of the Apostles and we're at the third chapter. The Acts of the Apostles and we're at chapter three. First one now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried whom they led daily up the gate of the temple which is called beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple. Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple ask alms.

He was begging. He was a poor cripple. He was lame from his mother's womb and now they carried him up each morning and laid him up the beautiful gate of the temple just to beg all day from those who were going into the temple.

Now seeing Peter and John it didn't know maybe who they were. He just asked them for alms. He's just begging. He's holding out his hand begging. And Peter fastening his eyes upon them with John said look on us.

Now he must have looked up and you could see the expectation and the static. If he'd gone to them expecting to receive something of this he thought he would get a coin or something. I want you to get the scene properly because I want you to see that in his heart he had neither faith nor notion that he would get healed.

He didn't expect that at all. He wasn't looking for that either. And Peter said there's six silver and gold have I none. Funny Pope wasn't he? Oh I think the Pope tonight can't say that. He can't say silver nor gold have I none.

He's got a good bit of it. And I'll tell you this he can't say the other bit either. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. Yes he is Peter you know and he had this gift of the working of miracles.

Because in the working of miracles the whole gift is in the person. You see it doesn't make a matter where that man is faithful or not or whether he expects anything or not or whether he's worked up or not or whether there's a lot of people shouting hallelujah or not.

If I've got the gift of the working of miracles I can just say rise up and walk. And there's never a miss in it. If there's a miss you can't have this gift of working of miracles. See some of the boys that talk to me about working of miracles when they go somewhere and they listen they blame it on the man on the bed.

See he hadn't faith. This boy had none. Let's get the hold of this because this was a miracle. We're at chapter four now go over quickly. Peter and John were arrested by the Sanhedrin because of this and they were threatened by the Jewish council because this man had stood up and walked.

Verse 21 will do us. We're at chapter 4, 21. So when they had further threatened them, that's the council threatening them, they let them go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the people.

For all men glorified God for that which was done. For the this is the man that was lying at the gate was above 40 years old on whom this quick now miracle of healing was told. So this is one of the miracles.

He was over 40. That's very interesting to me you know because I can tell you that this is just 50 days after Pentecost, 50 days, this is just Pentecost, 50 days after the resurrection is what I was wondering about for.

You know this is very near to Calvary and you know our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified when he was about 33 and a half and if this man is 40, he's a bit older than Christ wasn't he? So that in the last days of Christ's ministry he was at the gate of the temple.

Yes. They brought him out supposing they started to bring him out when he was 20. Oh he was at the gate of the temple when Christ walked in. Many a time he held out his hand Christ passed him by. I'm sure when he heard about the wonderful things that Jesus did he wondered why Christ passed him by.

Christ was leaving him for Peter. I wonder has he left somebody for you? But you're too busy. You'll never hear the cry of the perishing. You don't even see the soul that's left for you. The job for you to do you know friend.

Maybe it's your mother. Maybe she's sitting at the old silly television tonight. Of course you pass her by don't you? Never mind. This is a miracle feeling. That's all we need to get about it isn't it?

Let's go over to chapter 9 for a moment. The Acts of the Apostles chapter 9 verse 36 just to get the story properly. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Thaddeus which by interpretation is called Dorcas.

This woman was full of good works and which she did and it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died whom when they had washed they laid her in an upper chamber. And for as much as Lydie was now to Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there they sent on to him two men desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come they brought him into the upper chamber and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with him.

But Peter put them all forth and kneeled down. Remember he's a fisherman from Galilee but he's on his knees and prayed. And turning to the body, dead body, said, Thabita arise! And she opened her eyes.

When she saw Peter she sat up and he gave her his hand and lifted her up and when he had called the saints and widows presented her alive to medical. You see when this clinic that argued with me the other day about the man that he went into and hands on and nothing happened he said it was his fault he had no faith.

This is where this old lady says, see this body here is dead and cold and sick. It can't have faith. There was no faith in Lazarus. He was thinking of what the book says. Now if you have the gift of the working of medicals you don't need the faith from the other person.

You're supposed to be able to do the thing. Peter just said to the man and wouldn't expect him to rise up and walk. He cut down on his knees you know he was a big fisherman from Galilee down on his knees.

His eyes closed and then he looked at the body, dead body. There was not a one of them around here would tackle it. Now some old lady with a headache they put their hand on her and say she's okay. We're getting terrible near the bluff aren't we?

But this was no bluff. This woman of ours was a medical. Look this I forget about this. Let's go on to chapter 14 and this is Paul now and he's over in Asia Minor, verse 8. And there's such a certain man at Lystra, a little town in Asia Minor, impotent in his faith, being a cripple from his mother's womb who never had walked.

He's like the other fellow isn't he? He's just in the same state, he's not in the same street but he's over in Asia Minor. He's at the gates at Lystra. Does he have heard Paul speak? Who steadfastly beholding him, that's Paul beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, stand up right on my feet and he leaped and walked.

Ah that's the gift of healing at work now. See there is an answer. You see if you talk to me about having the gift of healing, it's quite different from the working of medicals. God gave to one the working of medicals.

God gave to another the gifts of healing. They're two different things. But in the gifts of healing you have to have two things. You have to have what's called the descending of spirits. Paul could look at the man and he perceived that he had faith.

That's one bit of a gift. Now that he perceives that he has faith, he can say rise up and walk. It's a different thing. It's the gifts of healing that work at this one. It's the working of medicals that work in the other.

So much as anybody around Potsdam or Bergen or Lithuania or Vanbridge or wherever you come from, if they say they've got the gift of working of medicals they can never make a mess. Oh they're bluffers.

If they even say they have the gifts of healing, they can never make a mess either. Oh I know that in the gifts of healing the man on the bed or wherever he is must have faith. Ah but the fellow with the gifts can perceive it.

We get a great lot of claptrap you know. And I'll tell you if we're going to get it worse you know in days to come. You see we're at the end of the age here almost and the day of grace is far spent. In one of these nights the Lord will come and he'll take the church of Jesus Christ home to a place he has prepared for them.