Can A Christian Be Demon Possessed？ — Keith Malcomson

Deliverance From the Power of Darkness

We're continuing on our series of spiritual warfare, and it's a very sombering, very serious message I come to this morning. Last week was very encouraging. I'm still feasting off last Sunday morning.

It's still warming my heart, encouraging me. But here this morning, I want you to turn in the New Testament to Colossians chapter one. We are gonna go to several different scriptures this morning. You can write them down, refer to them later.

But I wanna cover several scriptures, but I do wanna start in Colossians chapter one. This is part 10 of spiritual warfare. And my message this morning is, can a Christian be demon-possessed? Can a Christian be demon-possessed?

I wish I didn't have to preach on things like this or teach them, but you do in this generation, especially with young Christians, they're gonna face so much in the body of Christ that it's vital that I deal with such things and answer such questions.

This is a question that comes up, and we wanna look at the word of God this morning. Last week, as we dealt with angels sent from the presence of God to minister unto us, to help us in this warfare, but we are gonna look at something of the power of darkness this morning.

As I said, I wish I didn't need to deal with things like this, but the Bible teaches these things. The Bible reveals them. A preacher is to preach the full counsel of God. We don't only touch on angels, but we do speak of demons, but never forgetting that Christ is our subject.

He is triumphant, victorious. He has all power. But in the midst of presenting Christ, we preach all things that are written in the word of God. Go into Colossians 1, reading from verse 12 through to verse 14 here this morning.

Colossians 1, verse 12 to verse 14. And it says there, giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

Would you this morning just pray with me as we come to this message. Father, we bow the knee, Lord God, to the Lord Jesus Christ, and thank God this morning we can testify and say, if we are born again, hath delivered.

You already have delivered us. We have a testimony that you delivered us from the power of darkness. You turned us from Satan unto Jesus Christ, from darkness unto light, from sin unto holiness. Lord God, from our own ideologies unto the written scriptures.

And Lord God, I testify this morning that you delivered me from the power of Satan. We testify together as the saints of God. This is not something we're seeking for, but we are testifying of as a present powerful experience that we have experienced deliverance.

We have been rescued by Jesus Christ. We have been washed in the blood of the lamb. We have become partakers of the inheritance of the saints in life. Lord God, we have entered into salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have been translated into the kingdom of Christ. Lord God, thank you for the possession of such a salvation. Thank you we're not left in the dark or with doubts and fears, but oh God, the Holy Spirit who dwells in us gives us the full assurance of faith.

It is the spirit within us that witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God. And Father, I pray set people free in this message. Lord God, break fears and lies of hell. Lord God, set spirits free in the name of Jesus.

And Lord God, warn us, but oh God, show us the glory of this testimony in Jesus' mighty name, hallelujah. My message, can a Christian be demon-possessed? And our text is Colossians chapter one, and especially verse 13, who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the kingdom of his dear son.

Here this morning, as we look at this vital subject, can a Christian be demon-possessed? I've got five clear points for you that I want you to hear, and I want you to remember. I want you to look at the word of God this morning.

You see, most of those who believe that a Christian can be demon-possessed or be demonized, most of them build upon personal experience that testimonies of others, what they have seen or what they have felt.

But I'm taking you to the written scriptures this morning. It alone is authoritative. If the Bible says a Christian can be demon-possessed, then they can. If the Bible says it's impossible for a Christian to be demon-possessed, then it's impossible.

And so we want to say, first of all, setting aside all of our ideas, questions, personal experiences, all the remarkable and strange testimonies that we hear from preachers and Christians in this generation, we want to set them aside, but we want to hear what the word of God, what the Holy Spirit, the perfect Holy Spirit says through the infallible, the perfect word of God.

A Wonderful Deliverance Through Salvation

My first point here this morning, number one, is a wonderful deliverance. Isn't that a wonderful deliverance that we have experienced? If you're born again, it is a wonderful deliverance, finished, complete, remarkable.

Look again with me at Colossians 1, verse 13, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son. Notice these three verses that we read. Verse 12 speaks about us, our personal testimony in the church if we're born again.

Verse 12 says that we have become partakers. We have entered in to the inheritance of the saints in life. If you're born again, you have already become a partaker of the inheritance. It's not only for when we die.

We are experiencing the inheritance of a child of God. If you're born again, washed in the blood this morning, you are experiencing what it means to partake of that inheritance that only a Christian can enjoy.

It is actually yours. That's verse 12. Then look at verse 14. It says, in whom, speaking of Christ, we have redemption through his blood. Redemption only comes through his blood, not just through his death, not just through the cross, but his blood, redemption.

In other words, you've been bought with a price. You don't own yourselves. Nobody else owns you. You have been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. It says even the forgiveness of sins. So look at this wonderful testimony.

These three verses are speaking about someone washed in the blood. They've been forgiven of their sins. They're now found in Jesus Christ. They have actually entered into an inheritance, which is only for the saints who walk in light.

But look at the verse 13 here for a moment, and let's go deeper in this verse 13. It says, who hath delivered us? Who is the who? It is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ has delivered us, a real Christian who's been born again.

If you're forgiven of your sins, if you know that you've experienced the blood of Jesus, if you know that your sins are forgiven, that you've met the Lord Jesus Christ, do you know what the Bible says?

You have been delivered. Hath been delivered means it is an experience. You had in the past. It's not something you're trying to reach or grow into. It's not a thing of maturity. It's not a thing further down the road.

Who hath delivered you? Do you know hath is past tense? In other words, it's not something progressive happening. It is something that happened to you. This specific deliverance only happens once. It only happens when you're forgiven of your sins.

It only happens when you're born again. It is a past experience. It is a personal testimony. You can speak about it, remember it, look back to it. You can mark it in the calendar. Who hath delivered us?

What did Jesus do to you? Do you know what the word delivered there means? It means to drag or to snatch or to rescue from terrible danger. In other words, it is the Lord Jesus Christ at salvation has delivered you.

He rescued you once for all. There is a deliverance, saints, that Christ alone can bring to you. This is what real salvation is. And we've got to preach this to sinners. There is a rescuing. What is a rescuing from?

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness? That word power is the word exousia. We are looking at the power of Satan, the power of the devil, the power of the kingdom of Satan. This is the power of darkness.

And this word power is exousia. It means authority, rights, or the realm of responsibility. In other words, before you're born again, you are still in that realm of darkness. The devil has rights over you.

You know, people who talk about demon possession a lot and preach a lot on it, they're always talking about the rights, the opening of doors, what access, what legal access Satan has to you. I want to tell you there was a day when every sinner, every sinner, there are legal rights.

There is an exousia, an authority of darkness over that individual. Their minds are in darkness. Their heart is in darkness. Their will is in darkness. There's really no free will in that condition. A man is born by hell.

Unless the Holy Spirit draws him, he'll never desire Christ. He would never come of his own self. It takes the power of God to intervene. The power of Satan, of darkness, of hell is so strong. There has to be not just an intervention from a preacher or a Christian evangelizing.

Christ has got to be there. It's got to be him delivering you from the power of darkness. He's got to rescue you. He's got to grab you from terrible danger. And do you know what? That power of darkness, there are rights.

There is authority. There is a power there. But you know our testimony, and this is our first point, a wonderful deliverance. My testimony is I experienced a wonderful deliverance. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness?

Underline all those words. If I was writing in my Bible this morning, I'd underline the word who. I'd underline the word hath delivered us from the power of darkness. I wouldn't be able to help myself.

From the power of darkness. Do you know, do you believe? Are you settled on the word of God that this morning you have been delivered from the authority, the rights, the access, the legal arguments of the power of darkness?

Do you still think that the devil has access, has rights, has authority, has exousia over your life? Or can you say that Jesus Christ has delivered me and rescued me from that authority? Is it settled in your heart?

Do you understand it with your mind? Do you know what the Bible says? And not only that, notice this is the first thing, hath delivered. But then at the end of the verse, it says hath translated. Notice that for the Christian, both of these things are past tense.

In the Greek, it doesn't mean it's something that's happening or it happens again and again. It means it's happened one off. You're delivered once from the power of darkness. You're translated once. You're not keeping on being translated over and over and over and over again.

This translation happens once. You're in one of two kingdoms, either in the kingdom of Satan or the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. Either you're under the power of darkness or you have been delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ.

There can be no confusion when you come to the word of God. It says hath translated. So Jesus Christ does two things. He delivers you, he hath delivered you, and he hath translated you. Notice first he delivers you, then he translates you.

This is the work of Jesus in salvation. You don't understand this. You may not feel it. You only discover it as you walk with Jesus Christ. You go, on that day, he delivered me. He delivered me. He rescued me from the power of darkness.

And on that day, I'm not trying to enter into the kingdom of God. I was translated. Can I ask you, when were you translated into the kingdom of God? Do you know before you're translated into the kingdom of God, you have to be delivered.

And unless you're delivered, you're not translated. You see, both of these things happen at the same time, and one cannot happen without the other. This word translated means transferred. It actually in the Greek means a change of place, a change of condition.

It means to remove or transfer from one place to another place. It is a change of situation, a change of sides. Listen, a change of citizenship. Let me give you an example. I know there's people here in this church, and you came from other countries.

You, at some point, transferred from your own country. A few of you has met a young man in Limerick City, and you settled down here, and either you have changed your citizenship or you're hoping to very soon.

Now, this word translated is actually speaking about somebody who has changed their countries. They have moved out of one country and moved into another. You can't live in two countries at the same time.

You can't say you're living in England and living in Ireland at the same time. You may move back and forth, but you cannot be a resident in both countries at the same time. You're either in England or you're in Ireland, and it's the same with the kingdom of God.

You're either in Satan's kingdom or you're in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. There isn't any moving back and forth. You're a citizen of one or the other, and it says Jesus has translated us. Do you know you had your greatest translation on the day that you're born again?

You changed your spiritual address. You changed your citizenship, and you came under a whole new authority, legal ownership, laws and regulation, under a whole different system of government and of dominion and power.

Now, both of these words are in the past tense. You can't do anything about them. When we begin to look at this teaching, can a Christian be demon-possessed or be demon-ized? I want you to see from the Bible, all I'm dealing with is one verse here.

I could go through and expound another hundred in the New Testament, going all through the apostolic teaching, which say the same as this. We have been delivered from the power of Satan. If you don't understand this, if you don't settle it, and believe me, I could spend an hour just expounding this verse and a hundred others that settle this issue.

Saints, don't go by experiences. Don't listen to amazing testimonies. Don't get confused by mature Christians who talk about being delivered throughout their lifetime from many different demons. You don't find it in the Bible.

I have been delivered. Draw a red line under that. Draw a line by the blood of Jesus Christ. Know your authority in Christ. Know your position in Christ. Know your citizenship in Jesus Christ. And know you're under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Saints, this is a glorious deliverance. I have been delivered. It's a wonderful deliverance. Second of all, wonderful testimonies in the New Testament. Not only a wonderful deliverance in the doctrine of the apostles, but as I turned to the New Testament and especially the gospels, I find many, many wonderful testimonies.

Biblical Testimonies of Demonic Deliverance

Let me just give you two of them here. We read in three of the gospels about Jesus Christ and his disciples on a boat landing at Gadara. It's a wonderful testimony. And it says that when they got off the boat, a man met them there who was possessed of devils.

This man was a true example, a biblical example given by the apostles and by Jesus Christ. So we understand what it means to be possessed of devils. There is such a thing in our day. There is such a thing in this city as a person possessed of devils.

It is very real. It is not in the past. It's not just in Africa or India. I assure you, and I believe we're gonna face this more and more in this generation. Well, they're confronted with this man. And it said that when we read the text that he had lived among the tombs since being possessed a long time.

He now lived amidst the graveyard. He had lived there for a very long time. And it began when he become utterly possessed by devils. Do you realize the devil will destroy your life? He plays games with you.

This is what sinners don't realize. They play with drugs and with alcohol and with sex. They play with the occult and witchcraft and Ouija boards. Little do they realize they're playing with something they'll get out of hand.

They're playing with a fire that knows no end. Well, that's what happened with this man at an earlier stage in his life. Now his mind is gone. His life is utterly destroyed and ruined. The devil will always seek to destroy your life.

When I see a man or a woman and their life is being destroyed, their marriage, their mind, their work, their lifestyle, everything about them, I assure you, I see the devil working behind that. The devil is very real.

We're in a real spiritual warfare. We're not at home, saints. We're just a passing through. You better have your armor on because I assure you, you will face the devil in this journey. If you don't take this serious this morning, you're being very, very foolish.

You're talking about something so dangerous that when it gets a hold of a man, if he's ever gonna get free, he'll have to have someone come by the power of the Holy Spirit and set him free. At an earlier stage in this man's life, we're actually told in the gospels that this demon-induced affliction used to catch him.

It wasn't there permanently. It wasn't a permanent condition. He had times where he walked free of this and he could think for himself and make his decisions and make his choices. But do you know what?

He was playing with fire. This would grab him at certain times. It must have scared him, must have concerned him. Then he would wake up in the morning and go, I'm okay again. I'll be okay for a bit longer.

I can still play with sin. I can still walk in the way that I'm going. I'll be fine. Do you know there's a lot of people in Limerick played with the devil and they lost. Every sinner, apart from Christ, you will lose.

If you dare to play cards with the devil, you'll lose every single time. You're dealing with someone who's been here 6 ,000 years. You're talking about someone who is wiser than the most intelligent man on the face of the planet.

He has absolute intelligence. He's remarkable in his power, ingenuity, supernatural deception. Do you know this power of hell caught him at times, which meant that these demons seized him in order to dwell with him.

At these times, which became more and more frequent, people in his family and in his city would try to tie him. He becomes so reckless. They would tie him with chains and with fetters. And do you know what?

He would just break them. This was not normal power. This was a supernatural power. There was warnings. There was times where his mind would come back in, where he had freedom. You know, I get worried about Christians that play with sin and play with devil and neglect the word of God.

How shall you escape if you neglect so great a salvation? If Jesus delivered you from the power of demons and the power of hell, don't you dare play games with that. You will get burnt this morning. You may say, oh, I'm a respectable Christian.

You will burn yourself badly. How can you take fire in your bosom and not be burnt? Don't play with these things, saints. We have been delivered. We have been set free. Well, this man thought he could come and go as he pleased.

He was a sinner, a lost man. Now, I want you to see, in his city, there were many sinners. Many of these sinners tied him. There were sinners in his family. Most of this city knew nothing of walking with the Lord Jesus Christ.

But you know what? All sinners are not demon-possessed. They're not. They're not. Not only are all Christians not demon-possessed, all sinners are not demon-possessed. You don't confront this with every sinner.

Every sinner is in the kingdom of Satan, but he's not possessed by devils. He's not. But look at this man. He is an example. It says, finally, these demons drove him into the wilderness and the mountains where he lived amongst the tombs.

What a terrible condition. And it actually shows us there that he lived in a state of nakedness. That tells me that behind nakedness, and you know what I'm saying here, behind nakedness is demonic power.

Nakedness is not a harmless thing. There is shame. We ought to be ashamed. There's a natural shame, and there's a right thing surrounding this. But it said that he was naked, also crying and cutting himself day and night.

Do you realize behind cutting yourself, behind harming your physical body, that isn't natural. That isn't normal. Only the devil can drive a person to do that. It's not because you lack love or lack a good self-esteem or a right view of yourself.

You don't need to visit a psychologist. You know what? You need to experience the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will deliver you from that. This man cut himself night and day, lived in the tombs.

He cried constantly. He lived in nakedness. And the Bible says he was exceeding fierce so that the local people wouldn't even come near that area. But do you know what happened on this day when Jesus got off the boat?

It says, when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and he worshiped him. You realize Satan couldn't stop him running. He ran to Jesus. He saw Jesus. He worshiped Jesus. He's not saved. He's not in his right mind.

His life is an utter mess. And you know what Jesus said? Jesus said, what is your name? And out of him came a voice saying, my name is Legion for we are many. A legion was like the Roman legions. That means there was about 6 ,000 demons in this man.

This was a truly demon possessed man. This is what the Bible talks about demon possession. They then, these demons cry out and identify that they are legion and we are many. They then request of Jesus because they know he's got the power to cast them into hell.

He does have that authority. You don't have that authority. Never cast demons into hell. You don't have that power. You cannot do that. These Christians that do that, they're not walking in the light of God's word.

No Christian can do that. But it says they requested of him. They said unto him, why not cast us out of the man? Because they know they have to go. See, as soon as Christ turns up, the devil knows it's over.

6 ,000 demons in a man, it's not a fight. You know what? When the person of Jesus, the message of the gospel, the power of the Lord Jesus Christ comes, do you know the devil throws in the towel without a fight?

Do you know when he sees the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he sees the covering of the blood of Jesus, when he sees the authority of the name of Jesus, do you know what he throws in the towel and he looks for an escape?

Well, that's what he done here. He's seen 2 ,000, a herd of 2 ,000 pigs or swine. And the demons asked Jesus, said, cast us into those swine. Do you know why they asked that? Because no Jews are meant to have pigs, but these Jews in this city had pigs.

They shouldn't have had pigs. No good Jew, no law-abiding Jew is gonna have pigs, but these people had pigs. Well, those demons knew and said, those pigs ought not to be here. Will you cast us into them?

And when Jesus did, it says the whole herd ran down violently, down a steep embankment and into the sea and they're all drowned. That's what the devil will do. He would have finally done that with that man.

The devil wants to destroy. He wants to utterly confuse what a man is called. When I see the confusion of this generation, I know the powers of hell are being let go on this generation. I see it all around me.

Look at him. In one act, in one moment of time, I mean, in one second, all of the demons left. Jesus cast out the demons. He commanded them to leave. Immediately, he was set free from 6 ,000 demons, from the power, control and dominion.

He didn't get three of one and have to work through the rest over the next 20 years. When the people came to see this man, they were shocked that he was utterly free. How did they know he was free? He was clothed, he was in his right mind and he was sitting at the feet of Jesus Christ.

He actually begged Jesus and said, please let me go with you. And Jesus said, no, I want you to go back to your city, your family, your home and tell them what great things God has done for you. And so he returned home and the Bible says he immediately began to publish to the whole city what Jesus had done.

That means he went out preaching on the high street. He proclaimed like a town crier. Can you imagine keeping this man quiet? He must have shook the entire city. What a testimony, saints. He's only been saved for a moment in time and yet he's shaken a whole city with the reality.

Give us again men who have been possessed of the devil, set free and they'll shake our world for Jesus Christ. A low, just a new convert who had only just been set free from these 6 ,000 demons. There was nothing delicate, fragile or soft about his salvation.

He didn't need a halfway house. He didn't need years of counseling. He didn't need much protection from the local church. No, he was a free man. He was absolutely free. He didn't need years of further deliverance.

Saints, when Christians begin to play around with the doctrine of demonization and Christians having demons, they don't know what they're talking about. They really don't. It didn't take a week for him to get free or a month or years.

He was immediately set free. When Jesus Christ delivers a man, he is immediately translated into the kingdom of the glorious life of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is conversion. This is real salvation depicted in the New Testament.

I can give you hundreds of these testimonies for my lifetime, but there's a second one in the Bible in Luke 8, verse 2. We read of Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils. She wasn't a prostitute like the Catholic church tries to say.

She wasn't an immoral woman. She wasn't at all. She was a woman out of whom seven devils were cast. A little later in Mark chapter 16, verse 9, it says out of whom Christ cast seven devils. Do you know this woman had an encounter with Jesus Christ?

Do you know, it wasn't just one of the apostles. It was Jesus himself in a similar incident cast the demons out of this woman. When she first appears in the Bible, this is her testimony. When we first see her, she's testifying.

I got delivered from seven demons through the Lord Jesus Christ. That was her testimony. When she would stand up in a church gathering or be around the Lord's table, she would say, thank you for delivering me from those seven demons.

That's her testimony that we read of from the first time of her deliverance all the way through the next few years that we read of her in the Bible. Her testimony is exactly the same. She didn't say yesterday, I got delivered from five.

And then today I've been delivered from seven. Do you know what? That was her singular testimony that when she first met Christ, she was delivered of those seven demons. When did it happen at the point of salvation?

Was it complete? It was, it was absolute complete. We are not told of the events or the circumstance or the reasons that led to her being possessed by the seven demons. That doesn't matter. You don't need to know that to get someone free of demons.

But prior to her conversion, all who knew her in her small community actually knew she was affected by demon power. You can't have a demon in you and not know it. It was evident to herself. It was visible to her community.

It was known by all who met her. You couldn't meet this lady and not know there was a demonic influence. You see, when a demon indwells a person or they're possessed of a demon, it's impossible not to know it.

I can assure you, this is how real demon possession is. These seven demons were literally dwelling within her. Who can imagine the affliction and the torment these seven demons caused to this woman? The Bible actually says she was a woman of substance.

In other words, she had lots of property, possessions, and money. She had plenty of money, but she couldn't purchase her deliverance. She couldn't buy it. She couldn't earn it. There's no doctor to help her.

There's no psychologist that's gonna get her out of this condition. She's rich. She's got all the money she needs, but what she needs is deliverance. Lots of people in our world have money. They have good jobs, big houses.

They have all the possessions they need, but you know what? The devil is afflicting them. Her testimony was a well-known testimony in the early church in Judea and Galilee in those days. Please note that during the first years of her salvation, it does not change.

It's always seven demons that were cast out. She didn't have to, after her salvation, go through years of progressive ministry or self-deliverance or closing all of the doors to the devil. She was delivered.

She met the man of Calvary. She was forgiven of her sins. She was washed in the blood. She was saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and this was her mighty testimony. You know, after her salvation, she joined the apostolic band, those apostles that traveled with Christ.

There was also a group of ladies, and a few of those ladies were ladies of money and possession, and I'm sure those ladies were cooking for these men. Boy, did they need some ladies around them to look after them, to help them, to make sure that they were cared for amidst ministering to the crowds.

She joined this traveling band, and you know what? I believe every time they were in a meeting where Jesus is gonna preach, and there's demon possessed there, and there's those that are suffering terribly.

He said, Mary, would you testify in this gathering? I believe he done that. I believe that many of those poor women that were terrorized by the devil must have heard her testimony and go, praise God, there's hope for me.

You know, sitting in this church today, there's those that have been saved, have been saved from the power of Satan. Some of you in this church used to cut yourself, but Jesus Christ saved you. You thought you were saved and okay in that condition, but yet the devil was tormenting you.

We know that Hannah used to have that skull, that glass skull, and it used to guide her and give her power to heal people with. Well, she has been delivered. Thank God she doesn't know how to find her way about now.

That's just a sign. All that demonic power left, now she's got to trust SOFA, GPS, or something else. But since the Bible is filled with real powerful testimonies of lives that have been delivered from Satan, this is wonderful what we are dealing with this morning.

And I believe the devil has stolen this truth from the church. We are now running around, self-isolating in the church. I'm not talking about this crisis. I'm talking about Christians. They don't have the power to witness or evangelize or to walk with God.

They are victims of a theology of inner healing, blessing and curses, breaking curses, generational curses. You've got demons in you. It has destroyed the church of this generation. You know what? I need to know the power of the blood.

Confusing Terms for Demonic Influence

I need to know my position in Christ. I need to know what he'd done when he delivered me in salvation. Third of all, worrying words. I want to deal with some worrying words. We've looked at a wonderful deliverance.

We've looked at two wonderful testimonies, but let me point you before we finish here to worrying words this morning. I want to deal with two specific words or terms in the New Testament that are very confused, misused, abused in this generation.

I mean, they get lifted out of the context of the Bible. And if you don't know what they mean, you will get confused on this teaching. You won't know what the Bible says. You'll think about experiences you've had or someone you know has had or some preacher tells you, and they'll be so extraordinary.

You'll believe them rather than the Bible. That's why we need to come back to the word of God. Test everything by the word of God. I don't care if this Bible contradicts your personal experience. This Bible is true.

Your experience is wrong. When we begin to exalt testimonies and experiences above the word of God, there's problems. Why is it the testimony of those that were demonized or demon possessed in the Bible is different from the ones I hear most often in the church of this generation?

Why is it different? I assure you, I'm going to believe the testimonies of the Bible over what I hear in the contemporary church. I'm not going to mold my theology by what the church of this generation says.

These worrying words here for a moment, our point three worrying words, we read often in the gospels about those that have or had a demon. The actual Greek word, and this is the term, this one of two words I want to give you here this morning and explain briefly to you.

The Greek is echo, demonion, echo, demonion, echo, a demon. Now, I don't know if you know about the shoes that are called echo shoes. My wife got me, Candice got me to buy a pair of echo shoes some years ago because the reputation is they're so comfortable, they mold to your feet.