Dabbling in Witchcraft — Raymond Burkholder

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Well, praise the Lord. Glory to God. I greet you in Jesus' name. How many are glad to be back under the big white tent? Hallelujah. But you know, more than just the tent, but in the presence of the Lord.

Amen? Amen. My heart thrilled when the phone rang and Brother Emmanuel called and said, we're going to extend the meetings. My heart said, Amen. Amen. But I'd have been just content and well blessed to just stay sitting and hear your testimony.

So good. So good. God bless you. But I would have to share that, you know, all last week from the very beginning, there was a burden on my heart. To bring something here and each time that it was my turn to preach again, I would seek the Lord and I just didn't have a clearing.

It just was no clearing. And so I let it go again. Well, all four nights came and went and the burden was still there. So it was no surprise to me when Brother Emmanuel called and said, we're going to extend the meetings.

And I knew where God wanted me to go. So I covered your prayer. I don't feel in my heart that I said no to the spirit. I just felt the timing wasn't right. And now here we are tonight and I don't know what it means.

I don't know what it means. I really don't. But I just want to walk by faith here tonight, trusting the Lord Jesus. And you just open your heart. Just open your heart and myself included to what God would have for us here tonight.

Jesus’ Power Over the Storm and the Demoniac

Open your Bibles to Luke chapter eight. Thank you for your prayer, Kenny. Appreciate that. Keep praying. This is not a subject that I feel that I'm a scholar on, a student on. But God kept pressing it on my heart.

And I just want to release my burden tonight, OK? I just want to release my burden. I feel confident in my spirit that this is where the Lord Jesus would want me to go. Here in Luke chapter eight, we have the disciples in verse 22.

They are with him in a ship. And they are setting sail to go to the other side of the lake, probably the Lake Galilee. And they launch forth. And as they sail, the Lord Jesus, you know, he was weary and he was tired.

And he fell asleep inside the boat there. And while he was sleeping, there came down a storm, a wind on the lake. And the boat was filling with water and they were in jeopardy. And they came to him and they awoke him and said, Master, Master, we perish.

He arose and he rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased. And there was a calm. There was peace. Hallelujah. Or, blessed Lord Jesus, how that he has power over all power is given unto him.

And over the storm and the water, there's peace. Just a blessed peace. And then he says unto them, where is your faith? Where is your faith? A very pertinent question tonight. I'm not titling the message that.

But I want you to remember that. Where is your faith? And they were being afraid. They wondered, saying one to another, what manner of man is this? For he commandeth even the winds and the water and they obey him.

You know, it's easy, maybe, to have faith in Christ when it comes to those kinds of physical situations and calming the storm and calming the sea. But look what follows right after this portion of Scripture.

Can we stand to our feet and read our text beginning in the verses that follow? Verse 26. Can we do that? Verse 26 of Luke, chapter 8. And remember the context here. Where is your faith? I believe that that thought flows into the verses that follow.

And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and wear no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out. He fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, torment me not. For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for oft times he had caught him, and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and he broke the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.

And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion, because many devils were entered into him. And they besought him, the devils did, that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them, and he suffered them. And when the devils went out of the man, then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done, and came to Jesus, and found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, closed, and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

Glory! They also, which Saul had told them by what means he was possessed of the devils, was healed. Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them, for they were taken with great fear.

And he went up into the ship and returned back again. Verse 38,. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to thine own house.

Show how great things God has done unto thee. And he went his way and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him, for they were all waiting for him.

May God honor the reading of his holy writ, and may he have his way with us tonight. You may be seated. You know, it's maybe a bit stretching sometimes when we think, Where is your faith? When we look at a man in the situation that he is here in the text that we read.

Where is your faith? Do you and I really believe that the God of heaven, through the precious redeeming blood of Jesus Christ, can change a man as he did right here in this text? Do you really believe it?

Well, how many of you witness to a man like that today? You know, sometimes we struggle to believe it. And I know you believe it. I believe that. And I believe it too. And maybe you didn't encounter a man like that.

So I don't want to put you on a guilt trip, okay? But, you know, when it comes to being set free, freedom from the bondage of the devil. Freedom from the bondage of the devil. That is the title of the message here tonight.

It sometimes is a bit of a stretch of our faith. Amen? It's a bit of a stretch of our faith. Maybe a bit easy to have faith that, you know, Christ can take care of my situation. And he can meet my need.

And he can meet my physical need. And he can meet my spiritual need. Amen? We believe that. But what about a setting like this? Folks, the power of Christ. Sometimes we get the idea that the devil, you know, he's a counter power equal with Christ.

And we know he's not. We know that Christ is all powerful, almighty. And we know that the devil is not a match to him. And we see that right here in this text. All power is given unto me. What does Jesus say?

Heaven and earth. Am I right? Am I quoting that right? Yes. Heaven and earth. Amen. Amen. Thank you. But let's consider the condition of this man just for a moment. Do we have that kind of faith? And I'll elaborate on that as we go along here.

The Bible says here, and realizing here, that right after Jesus said that, said, Where is your faith? It was right after he said that. It appears to me like the boat arrived at the Gadarenes. He stepped off the boat.

And right away this man meets him. And the Bible says that he had many devils were entered into him. And the Bible also says that he was this way a long time. Let's consider his condition for a moment.

This certain man that met him. The gospel according to Mark says he had an unclean spirit. Now this is in some of the other gospels, and I'm going to pull that in. And Matthew says he was a man that had devils.

And it also tells us here in Luke that he was this way a long time. You'll see that in verse 27. It also tells us that he wore no clothes. I mean, this is a very sad, bondage situation that this man is in.

He wore no clothes. I mean, we know what that means. He was destitute physically, naked. But he's also destitute spiritually. He has not the garment of salvation. He has not the robe of righteousness that is in Jesus Christ.

He has not the rest that our brother Mel was reading about. Where Jesus said, you know, weary and heavy laden. Come unto me and I will give you rest. He didn't have that. He's under the control and the bondage of devils.

And it tells us here that he lived among the tombs. He lived among the tombs. He didn't have a home. He didn't live in a home. He was a vagrant and a wanderer in Grenada. We would say he was a Drake. But he lived amongst the tombs.

I don't know if it was caves or if it was tombstones. I don't know. I tried to study and find out. It doesn't really say. All it says is he lived among the dead. What a sad situation this man is in. As he lived in what we would call maybe a cemetery.

And some of the gospels tell us that he was cutting himself with sharp stones and he went about crying aloud with so many devils in him. You can imagine his language, how vulgar and how debauchery and such forth it was.

Can you not? This is a sad situation of a man that is in the bondage of the devil. And I would have to say, and I think you would agree with me, he was not only a nuisance to society, he was a nuisance to himself.

Jesus says, where's your faith? Where's your faith? It tells us here in verse 29 in this very text that he was kept in bonds and chains and fetters and they would try and, you know, put chains around him and hold him in bands.

But the Bible tells us that he would break them. He was kept in bonds and chains and in fetters. And actually in verse 29, he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oft times he had caught him.

He was kept bound with chains and in fetters. And he broke the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness. A sad situation. Mark chapter 5 tells us that this man, that no man could tame this man.

No man could tame him. Chains couldn't tame him. He was in the bonds and in the grips and in the shackles of the devil. Jesus says, where's your faith? Where's your faith? Nothing could hold him down.

Not even change. He had unhuman, unnatural strength and ability. And this man is running to and fro with no rest for his weary soul. This man is in the bondage of the devil. What a picture here this evening of a man in the vices and the bondage of the devil.

A man that is without peace and without rest in Jesus Christ. Now, I would quickly like to say that this is a vivid picture, if you would, of a man that is outside of the rest and the peace and the beautiful life that's in Jesus Christ.

And this is a picture of it. You know, as you think of that, you look at this and you say, you know what? This is what it looks like when a man is outside of... He's unconverted. He's not born again. He's not a new creature in Christ.

He's without Christ. He's without salvation. He's without the blood of Jesus applied to his life. And he's lost. It's a vivid picture. There's many pictures like that in the Scripture. Where men are in darkness and they're without the light of Christ.

And it's a vivid picture. But I'd also like to remind you that there's probably something deeper here. Something deeper. The Bible doesn't tell us how this man got to where he was. And you and I know that there's men that are not converted.

And they're not saved. And they're not right with God. And they may not be to this level. But yet, they are in need of salvation. They need Christ. They need forgiveness. They need repentance. And they need to be called upon the name of the Lord.

And be born again. And be converted. And be a new creature in Christ. Where old things pass away. And behold, all things become new. And they're maybe not quite in this kind of bundle. Do you know what I'm saying?

Do you know what I'm saying? But yet, it is a picture of a man outside of Christ. But there's more to it, I really believe here. And it revolves around that little statement where Jesus said, Where is your faith?

We'll get to it. Let's just think about it for a moment. Naked before God. Yeah. Maybe there's some clothes physically on the body. But spiritually, destitute and naked. In the absence of the robe of righteousness in Jesus Christ.

When He looks upon you. And when He looks upon me. Where His righteousness becomes our portion. Imputed righteousness. I think it's the word that I'm looking for. I'm not clear on that. But I think so.

His righteousness is our righteousness. Am I right on that? Yes. Okay. You know, I'm open there. It's ours. And God sees the righteousness of Christ through the death and the burial and the erection of Him.

And as we have called upon His name and we're saved. It's a garment of salvation. A robe of righteousness in Jesus Christ. This man was destitute and naked of that. Here's another one. Possessed with an unclean spirit.

This man is possessed and controlled by the spirit of a foul spirit. An evil spirit. The Bible says devils. Listen, either we're under the control of the spirit of the living God. Where He rules and reigns in my heart and life.

Because I give Him my allegiance to Jesus Christ. And the spirit of Christ rules and reigns in my life. And I hear His voice and I follow. Now, if that's not my portion, then what spirit are you under?

Another spirit. A foul spirit. Maybe an evil spirit. There's only two. Are there not? There's only two. This man was outside of the spirit of Christ. You're in one camp or the other here tonight. Either you're in the spirit of Christ.

Walking not after the flesh. But there's now, therefore, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit of Christ. This man wasn't there. He has another spirit.

It's an unclean spirit. He's living among the dead. Folks, today, many people. Many people. Though they live. Physically. They move and they breathe and they work. But their spirit is still dead in sin and trespasses.

This man is living amongst the dead. Jesus, there in Luke chapter 10, He told the man, He said, I'll follow you. What did Jesus tell him? He said, I'll follow you, but I've got to go back and bury my dead.

I think it was his father. I'm not sure. Luke chapter 10. Jesus said, let the dead bury the dead. You go and preach the gospel, He said. This man is living among the dead. His spirit is dead. He's not alive in Christ.

We're looking at just some pictures here. And then you have this idea that I'd like to elaborate a bit. No man could bind this man. No man could bind this man. No man can bind the sinner. They tried. Chains and fetters.

But he would break them as he had supernatural power by the spirit of the devil. And he would be driven into the wilderness. Listen, tonight, there's only one power that could set this man free. And that is Jesus Christ.

Christ alone. Folks, outside of the power of Christ, there is nothing that can bind and change the unconverted sinner. Nothing. You can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and try and do better, you know.

You need to be filled with the spirit of the living God. Spirit of Christ. This man is in the shackles and in the bondage of sin. And no man could change him. But when Jesus Christ came on the scene, hallelujah, it changed.

This man was a changed man. He was set free from the bondage of the shackles of the devil. Now, folks, the Bible tells us that this man was this way a long time. That the Bible tells us. He's in the bondage of devils.

It says legion here in verse 30, where Jesus asked him that word legion. Is a troop or a group of Roman soldiers? 6 ,000 of them, approximately. And this man has approximately 6 ,000 devils in him. And nothing could change him until Jesus Christ came on the scene.

And the question I'd like to ask you this evening, how did he get there? How did this man come to this place? Does the Bible tell us? No. The Bible doesn't tell us. And I don't proclaim to know. But I think we need to consider just a bit.

How potentially did this man get to where he was? So many devils inside of him, controlling him. And remember, this is in the context of where is your faith? And I think that gives us a little bit of a clue, maybe.

In opening some things up, maybe, in how this man got to where he was. Where is your faith? Could it be that somewhere in this man's past, he put his faith in the works of the devil? What do you think?

Am I taking that out of context? Could it be that somewhere, this man put his faith in the works of the devil? You see, the old devil, he's a thief, and he's a liar, and he's a destroyer, and he wants to destroy your soul.

And maybe somewhere, this man, I don't know for sure, I'm assuming a bit here, put his faith in the works of the devil, and that old devil got a hook in that man's life, and took that man deeper and deeper and deeper into the depths and dregs of sin and control of the devil, that eventually he was under the control of 6 ,000 devils.

Let it be a warning to us, dearly beloved, that when we play into and dabble in the things of the devil, he gets a hook in our lives, and he will take us to this place. But let's not stop there. This man got set free.

I don't want to spend all evening cursing the darkness. I mean, this man got set free by the light of Jesus Christ. But we need to consider this. Maybe this man did. You know, he's a destroyer. And this is a vivid picture where the old devil will take you if you dab into the works and the deeds of the devil.

And it doesn't matter even if you have your plain clothes on. He is no respecter of person. He has no partiality. You give him an inch and he's going to take a mile. I wonder if we believe that here this evening.

You dabble into his things. You give him the finger. He's going to take your whole life. He wants to destroy you. But oh, praise God for Jesus. Maybe somewhere, someplace, maybe he was innocent. Maybe he was innocent.

Maybe as a child, his parents took him to some bra suger. You know what a bra suger is? A pain drawer. A witch doctor. And he was innocent. But you know what? The old devil got a hook in his life and in his soul.

And began to just draw him away. And take him into the depths and the dregs of sin. And debauchery as you see it here. That he's living amongst the two. Maybe it was a pow-wow-er. Is that alright? Maybe it was a pow-wow-er.

Some witch doctor somewhere that had the craft of witches. The power of the witch of the devil. And somehow, and I'm assuming this. But stay with me. Where is your faith? Maybe this man put his faith.

Maybe he was legitimate. Maybe he was of age. Maybe it happened when he was a child. I don't know. I don't know. I'd just like to pull that in. And just stir your thinking. Where the old devil will take you.

You know what really burdened my heart last week? How many of you thought of it in the testimonies? How many people shared testimony? How their parents or they themselves went to some works of the devil witch doctor?

How many of you thought of that and caught that? Yes. Amen. Every time I heard that, God kept writing on my heart. Son, sometime this needs to be brought up. This needs to be spoke of. Maybe it was. I don't know.

I think I asked a brother and they said not. It wasn't really directly addressed. Now here we are. Here we are brothers and sisters. Maybe it was by innocence as a child. You know, where the Bible says in Matthew 24.

Why don't we? I'm sorry. Exodus 20. 20. Not 24. Exodus 20. Keep your finger here in Luke 8. We're going to be back. I want you to see this. Here in Exodus 20, as the Lord spake these words saying to the people of God, Israel, I am my Lord God, which has brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

You know what? These occultic practices, these demonic practices, the works of the devil. They came out of Egypt. The bondage of Egypt with our forefathers. And you know what? This county is just permeating with it.

Occultic powers and witchcraft. Demonic practices. The works of the devil. But hallelujah, the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John. I didn't even write it down.

Somebody quote it for me. What reference is it? It's 1 John 4. Somebody look it up and raise your hand when you have it. Well, you know what? I'll get you there real quick. I think I have it marked plainly.

It's 1 John 3, verse 8. For he that committed sin is of the devil. The devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil. That's what Luke 8, where we are, is all about.

Jesus Christ is destroying the works of the devil in this man. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Blessed be the name of the Lord. But let's go back to Exodus chapter 20. And here we have the Ten Commandments. The first and great commandment.

I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image or any likeness or anything that is heaven above or that is the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Here it is. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Notice there is a curse and a blessing attached with the first commandment. It's the first commandment. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength. And the second is like unto the first.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. As we would know it in the New Testament. Notice the curse. Let's get the blessing first. The blessing follows right after verse 5. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

We want to be on the blessing side. Where we don't put our faith in something that God hates. Deuteronomy 18 says that this craft of witches is an abomination to him. And that means the word abomination means it means his abdomen heaves with disgust where he's about to puke.

That's what the word abomination means. Deuteronomy 18 you can find that. But he gives mercy to thousands that love him and obey him and follow him. But look at the curse. Back up to verse 5. The curse.

That if we hate him. Put our faith in demonic practices. And I believe in the most part I'm speaking to a people that would agree with me. But you know there's people listening to the phone and the messages on tape and things.

We need to have our eyes open. The Bible says that when my papa, my mom, my grandpa, grandfather back there somewhere has dabbled into the occult. That sin is going to come down three and four generations.

Maybe that was this man's portion. Maybe it was his father. Maybe it was his mother. Back here in Luke chapter 8. Maybe it was his grandfather. Maybe it was his grandmother. But listen, hallelujah. We see here in Luke chapter 8 this man is delivered.

He's free. That chain can be broken tonight. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you're here and you have a brah-soo-hee grandma, a pow-ow-ee grandfather. Folks, the promise is that that thing can visit you three and four generations.

You need to come like this man did. Break your heart. Fall at the feet of Jesus. Renounce it. Repent of it. And that chain can be broken. Maybe it was willful. Maybe he understood. Maybe he understood and he put his faith in...

Maybe it was... Oh, there's many of them. And like I said, I don't profess to be a... Maybe it was a personal choice. Maybe he went to a foot doctor. You know them old witches? They say all the nerves end in the feet and such forth.

And there is absolutely no scientific proof of such nonsense. And then they put their faith in the foot. A foot doctor. Maybe it's erudology, iridology. Looking into the eye. Where they put the faith in the eye.

You see all of them. Where's your faith? Putting your faith in something other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Putting your trust in Him. And you know, these demonic things, they always have a crutch. You see, there's a crutch there.

The first one was the foot. The next one is the eye. Maybe it's a palm reader. You put your trust in that thing that this old witch doctor is going to tell your future. You see the crutch? The old devil always uses a crutch.

He hides behind that thing and he'll make you believe that it's, you know, just the eye. You can see what's wrong with your physical ailment in the eye. You know, the foot has all the answers. You see where you're putting your faith?

In the witch doctor and the foot. The witch doctor and the eye. The witch doctor and the palm. Where's your faith tonight? Is it in Jesus Christ? Is it in Jesus Christ? Maybe it's reflexology. Maybe it's supplied kinesiology.

Muscle testing. And I'm not going to name all of these. I mean, I don't know them all and I don't want to know them all. It's the occult and it's demonic practice and it's the works of the devil. But somehow this man got to the depths of depravity and debauchery he did.

And I wonder if he put his faith in that which the Lord hates. And each time he did it, another devil and another devil and another devil until he had 6 ,000 of them. Staggering. Staggering. Muscle testing.

You know, they put to certain medicine. And I don't know how all these things... I was never involved, praise God. I was never involved. Thank you, Lord. But I did find out that there was a... I'll be careful.

A man laid hands on me that was a water witcher. I did find that out. Someone I appreciated. But when I heard that, my heart broke. My heart broke. My wife and I, the moment I heard it, we got on our face and we got on our knees before the Lord God of Heaven and we said, Lord, that's transferred power.

When you've got a witch laying hands on you, however he does it, it's transferred power. And I repented of that. We bowed our hearts and we asked the Lord Jesus to wash us in the blood. We renounced that thing in the name and in the blood of Jesus Christ just to be sure there is no occultic hook.

When you dabble in this stuff and you can go on and I'm going to let the Spirit of the Lord make the application. When you dabble in these things, there's a hook comes into your life. And there's a darkness comes over you.

And whenever there's revival meetings, and whenever the Lord is wooing you to go deeper and the Lord is wooing you to the foot of the cross and He wants to deal with those things in your life that are maybe the fear and the doubt and the question and the unbelief.

I don't know about this. You know, the old devil is just pulling that old hook and just dragging you down. And he's just got you hooked right on your seat. And when you want to go deep with the Lord, He just draws you back.

When it's time to witness, He draws you back. When it's time to repent and get right with God and thoroughly get right with Him, He just draws you back. And He puts fear and doubt and question. What about my reputation?

I mean, He just pulls you back. It's like an occultic hook. Draws you down. Pulls you back. But, oh, I've got good news for you. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ can even set you free from that hook. He can set you free!

Freedom from the bondage of the devil. Let me just name a few more. Maybe it's acupuncture, acupressure, and on and on we could go. Chinese herbology, and homeopathy, and yoga, the crutch, water witching.

Water witching. I mean, the name itself gives it away, doesn't it? The water witching. The hickory stick. The pendulum. Put your faith in the stick. Put your faith in the pendulum. Put your faith in the watch on a string.

Where's your faith tonight? Where's your faith? Is it in demonic, devilish practices? In Grenada, they would put a ring. I mean, you go into any culture, they got it. They put a ring in a glass. They put a ring in a glass, and then they would ask the glass questions.

They put their faith in the ring, and they put their faith in the glass, and the old devil shows up, you know, and when they would say the right, whatever the question was, it was the right answer, that old ring would beep up around in the glass, and, oh, that's the answer.

Where's your faith tonight? Is it in Jesus Christ? Or is it in the devil's crutches? And on and on I go. And let me just remind you, one of the ways that you can clearly discern it is there's a crutch.

There's a medium. The old devil will work through water witching for drainage pipes, sewer pipes, a well. Oh, I've got to tell you this story. It came to my heart very clearly this afternoon. Two brothers that I know very dearly, newly converted, seeking the Lord, and these things troubled them.

Water witching. And it troubled them deeply. And they were newly converted. They were babes in Christ, and they were seeking the Lord on it. And they said, Lord, if this is of You, just give us clear direction and a clear witness.

And they were on a job site for an employer, and the employer had made arrangements for a water witcher to come in, and they heard about it. So they said, God, here's an opportunity for You to show us if this is of You or if this is of the devil.

And they prayed, both brothers independent of each other. They were praying that God would reveal it to them. And so they prayed. Well, the old water witcher came, you know, and he did what water witchers do, put their faith in the old hickory stick, and he's going across that old property.

And, of course, they're inside the house. They're working. I think they were drywalling, and, of course, they're about looking out the window, you know, about all the time, you know. As they're doing their work, they're wondering, you know, what's God going to do here?

And after a bit they heard the old water witcher tell the construction manager, the man that was in charge, he don't know what's going on, but this is the first time it ever happened. It don't work! It don't work!

And, of course, these brothers heard that, you know. And, whew, they had a little, you know, they got all excited, praised the Lord, glory, and they all looked towards the house, and they came out, and they testified for God, and they testified for Jesus Christ.

But they prayed. They prayed that God would reveal unto them if this is of Him or this is of the devil, and this is not of Him, and God's power stopped the power of the devil. Hallelujah! And so the landowner, the property owner, he looked to the man, and he said, alright, he said, I need a well.

I need a well. Where am I supposed to drill the well? Well, they weren't quite ready for that one, but they went back into the house, and they said, can we have five minutes? And they went back into the house, and they fell on their faces before the Lord, and they just had a praise and thanksgiving session with the Lord, giving Him glory that He revealed His truth.