WEBVTT NOTE Automatic English captions made with Whisper (large-v3-turbo) on 2026-10-06. They may contain mistakes. Source: other/transcription (not uploaded); build: dlv.py subtitles --vtt-only 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.890 Christians are in a warfare. 2 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.170 The Bible says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 3 00:00:05.180 --> 00:00:07.650 but against principalities, against powers, 4 00:00:07.840 --> 00:00:10.150 against the rulers of darkness of this world, 5 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:12.670 against spiritual wickedness in high places. 6 00:00:15.290 --> 00:00:19.100 Civilization is fighting its final warfare in the spirit before the Battle of 7 00:00:19.110 --> 00:00:21.620 Armageddon. In Demons and Deliverance I, 8 00:00:21.670 --> 00:00:26.140 Dr. Lester Sumrall will expose the power of Satan and how to overcome it. 9 00:00:26.450 --> 00:00:30.520 Welcome students to one of the finest series of lessons. 10 00:00:30.950 --> 00:00:36.700 that we'll ever be giving and possibly one of the most exciting that we shall ever 11 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:42.320 have. We consider that these very particular lessons on 12 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:48.140 demons and deliverance, principalities and powers to be some of 13 00:00:48.150 --> 00:00:52.380 the most important lessons that we have ever given. 14 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:54.500 And because they are so important, 15 00:00:54.530 --> 00:00:59.580 you will be able to receive these in the audio form. 16 00:01:00.590 --> 00:01:05.920 this way and a beautiful book that you just put right in your library 17 00:01:05.930 --> 00:01:11.820 and you will be able to also receive these in the video one half inch form to look 18 00:01:11.830 --> 00:01:17.400 through your own television set with and then possibly the best of all teaching 19 00:01:17.410 --> 00:01:23.300 syllabus such as I hold here exactly the same as I hold here and so 20 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:28.960 we are going into this in the most thorough way possible and in all of the various 21 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:34.870 operations of learning, whether it is in the reading word or the hearing word or the 22 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:39.510 seeing word. And so we are going at this very thoroughly. 23 00:01:39.820 --> 00:01:42.490 In the world that we live in right now, 24 00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:48.130 there is no topic so important with the occult growing in 25 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:54.010 unprecedented ways in this country. It is most important. 26 00:01:54.170 --> 00:01:57.580 that we as spiritual guides, spiritual leaders, 27 00:01:57.730 --> 00:02:03.260 spiritual spokesmen for the Most High God, that we inform our people. 28 00:02:03.270 --> 00:02:07.580 We cannot make anybody do anything. We can only inform. 29 00:02:07.650 --> 00:02:11.980 We are informers for God. We are ambassadors. 30 00:02:12.010 --> 00:02:14.160 An ambassador comes to another nation, 31 00:02:14.170 --> 00:02:19.210 and he presents what his nation believes and expects them to do, 32 00:02:19.220 --> 00:02:22.050 and his responsibility terminates. 33 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:25.510 He cannot make that nation do what He wants them to do. 34 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.830 He can only say, this is what my nation would like for you to know. 35 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:33.550 We represent the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven, and we can only say, 36 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:37.330 this is what God wants us to know and what He wants us to be, 37 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:42.310 what He wants us to do. And it's very important that we teach these things, 38 00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:45.210 not that we just know them, but that we teach them. 39 00:02:45.220 --> 00:02:51.130 The Word of God very plainly says, that which ye have received freely, give freely. 40 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.230 We are not to be storage tanks. 41 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:58.910 I am not supposed to know a tremendous amount about this tremendous subject 42 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:02.790 from all over the world and keep it in my own bosom. 43 00:03:03.140 --> 00:03:09.130 You see, I am supposed to share it and that you shall understand by 44 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:11.600 it. That's what the Bible is. 45 00:03:11.610 --> 00:03:15.160 The Bible is a story of what God has done, what God is doing, 46 00:03:15.170 --> 00:03:19.360 and what God is going to do. And then you make the decision. 47 00:03:19.420 --> 00:03:23.450 If you wish to believe what he has done, if you wish to accept what he is doing, 48 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:26.410 if you wish to understand what is going to come to pass, 49 00:03:26.420 --> 00:03:30.790 then the Bible is the book of divine revelation. 50 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:35.090 These pertinent lessons, and I must say it very strong, 51 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:39.030 possibly the most pertinent that I have ever developed, 52 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:44.350 and that these studies have to do with the unnatural power 53 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:48.110 and dominion over intelligent beings. 54 00:03:48.310 --> 00:03:53.340 That is the forces of another world seeking to dominate 55 00:03:53.350 --> 00:03:58.820 spiritual life, unspiritual life in the human world. 56 00:03:58.830 --> 00:04:04.960 And so we must realize that. Now, we are not dealing with one part of the world. 57 00:04:05.170 --> 00:04:08.360 In my living in over 100 nations of the world, 58 00:04:08.370 --> 00:04:12.060 I came to understand that the devil... 59 00:04:12.070 --> 00:04:17.920 wants to hurt people in India and China and Indonesia and Malaysia and Australia, 60 00:04:17.950 --> 00:04:23.740 just as much as he does those in India or in Pakistan or in the Near East 61 00:04:23.750 --> 00:04:28.920 or in Europe or America, that the scope of these studies is universal. 62 00:04:29.290 --> 00:04:31.460 And you will see that it's universal. 63 00:04:31.530 --> 00:04:36.280 It not only has to do with this planet Earth, it has to do with heaven, 64 00:04:36.290 --> 00:04:40.480 it has to do with eternity in hell, you see. 65 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:43.440 And so we are not dealing with a small subject. 66 00:04:43.450 --> 00:04:46.200 We're dealing with a subject as big as the universe. 67 00:04:46.210 --> 00:04:51.300 When you go out and look up at the stars at night, that's how big this subject is. 68 00:04:51.310 --> 00:04:53.900 And no man has ever understood it completely. 69 00:04:53.910 --> 00:04:58.840 No man has a total of all the answers, but bless God, we together can have them. 70 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:03.860 And so let's go after them, unitedly, sincerely, in depth, 71 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:06.520 and God will certainly help us to know that. 72 00:05:06.530 --> 00:05:12.460 We had discovered that the devil has no relationship our respect for a 73 00:05:12.470 --> 00:05:17.060 race, for a nation, for a person, for a society, 74 00:05:17.090 --> 00:05:23.080 for a culture, that he wishes to hurt every human person on the face of 75 00:05:23.090 --> 00:05:26.900 this earth. Whether he be a primitive person in the jungles of New Guinea, 76 00:05:26.910 --> 00:05:32.000 whether he be a person walking the United Nations halls in New York City, 77 00:05:32.130 --> 00:05:34.540 the devil is a devil. 78 00:05:35.270 --> 00:05:38.340 He's not one thing in one part of the world and something else in another part of 79 00:05:38.350 --> 00:05:41.220 the world. That's exactly what he is. 80 00:05:41.230 --> 00:05:46.560 He may have a different approach between a person that lives in Afghanistan than 81 00:05:46.570 --> 00:05:48.240 that one that lives in Paris, France. 82 00:05:48.250 --> 00:05:53.640 But the end result is the same, to destroy that person's relationship with God, 83 00:05:53.770 --> 00:05:59.420 to destroy his faith, and to help him not to know the truth that sets 84 00:05:59.430 --> 00:06:02.520 him free. And these studies, 85 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:08.310 they're not only just imperative, but they are imperative in what I call a point in 86 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:14.080 time. I am very conscious that 30 years ago I was 87 00:06:14.090 --> 00:06:20.060 before my time. I exposed these truths and I made a film about the girl in 88 00:06:20.070 --> 00:06:24.180 the Philippines that was delivered from the power of the devil by Jesus. 89 00:06:24.250 --> 00:06:30.160 And in America, there were actually full gospel Christians that wouldn't even go and 90 00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:32.660 see the film that documented the story. 91 00:06:32.790 --> 00:06:37.500 I said, now that's interesting that you're even afraid of the victory. 92 00:06:37.710 --> 00:06:41.260 much less the battle. You wouldn't have shown up for the battle for sure. 93 00:06:41.670 --> 00:06:43.620 But you're even afraid of the victory. 94 00:06:43.630 --> 00:06:48.200 This is the victory film showing what God did, and you're even afraid of victory. 95 00:06:48.410 --> 00:06:51.680 Well, bless God, if you were afraid of victory, what would you do in a day of war? 96 00:06:52.540 --> 00:06:57.170 In point of time, I was before my time, and... 97 00:06:57.180 --> 00:07:01.870 in relating this, and it made me to be known in this country and around the world as 98 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:07.530 a pioneer in understanding the phenomena of demons and devils and netherworld 99 00:07:07.540 --> 00:07:13.330 persons, personalities. But now the time has come when everybody must know the 100 00:07:13.340 --> 00:07:15.910 truth. Millions are desirous of knowing the truth, 101 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.990 and this is the way to give it to them. 102 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:22.650 as we create this class here, and this class here goes out to millions of people 103 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:28.370 other than ourselves, then we are disseminating divine truth that must be given 104 00:07:28.380 --> 00:07:32.250 today. This is our day. This is the day. This is the good day. 105 00:07:32.260 --> 00:07:34.950 This is God's day. This is the spiritual day. 106 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:38.470 This is the prophetic day. So let it ring deep in your heart. 107 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.970 Let it ring deep in your souls. And let this be a day that you will never forget. 108 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:47.050 But more than that, it is time for us to understand. 109 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:51.230 that we are all deliverers, that God created us. 110 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.570 You have no right to sit in a comfortable situation and say, well, 111 00:07:55.580 --> 00:07:58.430 I'm free of the devil's power, and that's all right. 112 00:07:58.440 --> 00:07:59.590 How about your neighbors? 113 00:07:59.990 --> 00:08:04.180 with a boy that's been on drugs and has no more mind to function? 114 00:08:04.190 --> 00:08:07.540 How about the girl that has broken her life in sin, 115 00:08:07.550 --> 00:08:13.140 and the devil has possessed her with a spirit of 116 00:08:13.150 --> 00:08:16.280 craving for sex that she has no control of herself? 117 00:08:16.290 --> 00:08:19.180 These people need love. They need an understanding, 118 00:08:19.190 --> 00:08:23.000 and they need to know there's a big bad devil out there that's to blame for this 119 00:08:23.010 --> 00:08:26.020 problem, and that Jesus can set them free. 120 00:08:26.050 --> 00:08:29.440 There is nothing the devil's ever done that Jesus cannot undo. 121 00:08:29.660 --> 00:08:33.710 And there is no power that he has demonstrated that Christ cannot subdue. 122 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.030 He is the King of kings. He is the Lord of lords. 123 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:39.570 He is the mighty one. He is the deliverer. 124 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:41.330 Know it. Believe it. Accept it. 125 00:08:41.970 --> 00:08:44.560 You sure be glad that you did. 126 00:08:45.030 --> 00:08:48.200 Our world today, not just America, 127 00:08:48.550 --> 00:08:52.480 but Europe is in front of us and England is in front of us. 128 00:08:52.650 --> 00:08:58.800 Our world today is rapidly and drastically changing in its relationship. 129 00:08:58.970 --> 00:09:03.980 with that which is a power beyond human power, 130 00:09:03.990 --> 00:09:10.120 whether it's ESP or whether it's EP or whatever, 131 00:09:10.130 --> 00:09:12.500 or ET, or whatever it might be. 132 00:09:12.670 --> 00:09:17.980 Our world today is being attacked by occult forces. 133 00:09:18.230 --> 00:09:23.600 Magic is one of the greatest resurgence in the total of human history. 134 00:09:23.610 --> 00:09:25.380 It's enjoying it right now. 135 00:09:26.430 --> 00:09:31.000 Never has there been a time when the occult has sold as many books, 136 00:09:31.270 --> 00:09:35.100 has been accepted by so many people. 137 00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:38.380 It's riding high in the world today. 138 00:09:38.410 --> 00:09:41.400 Now, that would be distressing except for one thing. 139 00:09:41.510 --> 00:09:45.280 The Lord Jesus Christ predicted that in the last days. 140 00:09:45.290 --> 00:09:47.660 The Word of God teaches us very clearly. 141 00:09:48.300 --> 00:09:52.770 The Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4 and 1 says, 142 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:57.490 The Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the 143 00:09:57.500 --> 00:10:00.950 faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. 144 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:06.770 We will be studying that in this series of beautiful lessons that we have 145 00:10:06.780 --> 00:10:12.330 together that we shall discover and join together in our knowledge and will grow 146 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:17.330 in these things and come to know the truth that helps people to be set free. 147 00:10:17.740 --> 00:10:22.650 Neighbors, there are literally millions of people right now who need to be set free 148 00:10:22.660 --> 00:10:26.050 from forces and powers beyond and outside themselves. 149 00:10:26.060 --> 00:10:29.290 They cannot set themselves free. They need God. 150 00:10:29.300 --> 00:10:31.930 They need the Lord Jesus to come and set them free. 151 00:10:31.940 --> 00:10:35.610 I'm sure you are aware of this and that we're right on the ball, 152 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:37.610 and we're right on the time schedule. 153 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:42.310 At this point in time, it is the time to do this. 154 00:10:42.330 --> 00:10:45.840 And so with all kinds of magic and occultism, 155 00:10:45.850 --> 00:10:48.100 with its greatest resurgence in modern history, 156 00:10:48.350 --> 00:10:52.800 Satanism springing up in every city and every town throughout our land. 157 00:10:52.810 --> 00:10:56.320 It's not isolated in the big cities like New York and Chicago and Los Angeles. 158 00:10:56.330 --> 00:11:00.260 It's also in Timbuktu, you see. It's in all the villages. 159 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:03.620 And I can't go into that at this moment. 160 00:11:03.630 --> 00:11:09.140 And so these studies that we have especially prepared for our class and our 161 00:11:09.150 --> 00:11:12.400 Bible training center, here in South Bend, Indiana, 162 00:11:12.670 --> 00:11:17.240 and that we are now sharing through you from our World Harvest Bible College, 163 00:11:17.270 --> 00:11:19.860 sharing it with the whole of the world. 164 00:11:19.870 --> 00:11:24.040 We're delighted to share, and we can share it through the audio tape and through the 165 00:11:24.050 --> 00:11:29.260 video tape and through the printed page that they can know exactly as you and I know 166 00:11:29.270 --> 00:11:31.000 and understand these great truths. 167 00:11:31.030 --> 00:11:36.760 We thank God that there are many church leaders who are 168 00:11:36.770 --> 00:11:41.320 tremendously concerned about occultism. and demon power. 169 00:11:41.470 --> 00:11:46.040 It is not an isolated situation where Lester Sumrall is the only one concerned. 170 00:11:46.510 --> 00:11:52.500 Pope Paul said these words, whole societies have fallen under the domination of 171 00:11:52.510 --> 00:11:56.120 the devil. Now when a Pope in Rome makes such a statement, 172 00:11:56.130 --> 00:11:59.880 it reveals that he has been studying the needs of the world, 173 00:11:59.890 --> 00:12:03.220 the problems of the world, the sorrows of the world, 174 00:12:03.230 --> 00:12:07.500 and that he has made a declaration that whole societies. 175 00:12:08.030 --> 00:12:11.270 What a statement. It's further than I have made personally. 176 00:12:11.420 --> 00:12:14.310 Whole societies have fallen under the domination of the devil. 177 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:18.030 He says sex and narcotics provide openings. 178 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.050 You see, he has an understanding of this. 179 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.310 When you lose your normal thinking, 180 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.530 that is an open door for Satan to walk in and to do whatever he wishes and desires 181 00:12:28.540 --> 00:12:33.650 to do in your life. So he tells us here that sex and narcotics, 182 00:12:33.660 --> 00:12:35.550 he means perversion in sex. 183 00:12:36.100 --> 00:12:39.010 provide openings for Satan's infiltration of mankind. 184 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:44.290 He says, one of the great needs of our time is a defense against the evil which we 185 00:12:44.300 --> 00:12:46.050 call the devil. Isn't that amazing? 186 00:12:46.180 --> 00:12:49.370 Now, you wouldn't expect the Pope to be such a preacher, would you? 187 00:12:49.420 --> 00:12:52.890 You expect him to be an administrator of his church and all, 188 00:12:52.900 --> 00:12:57.830 but listen to what he's saying, that one of the great needs of our time is a defense 189 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:59.650 against evil which we call the devil. 190 00:12:59.660 --> 00:13:05.170 I'm going to teach you what those defenses are and how you can rise up, 191 00:13:05.180 --> 00:13:08.410 There is no infernal power that you cannot overcome. 192 00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:14.010 We're going to teach you that you have as much right as any other person living on 193 00:13:14.020 --> 00:13:16.250 the face of this earth to set others free, 194 00:13:16.260 --> 00:13:22.190 that no one has superior responsibility to you to set 195 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.650 these free. This is not for apostles and prophets and pastors. 196 00:13:25.660 --> 00:13:28.290 It's for everybody. You'll find that in the Great Commission, 197 00:13:28.300 --> 00:13:31.830 which we will very carefully, very carefully go through. 198 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:37.010 And so he says we are. The world is under an obscure domination. 199 00:13:37.260 --> 00:13:38.490 Isn't that amazing? 200 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:41.770 The United Nations under an obscure domination. 201 00:13:42.260 --> 00:13:46.010 The common market countries under obscure domination. 202 00:13:46.380 --> 00:13:50.210 The third world countries under very obscure domination. 203 00:13:50.300 --> 00:13:53.530 Isn't that amazing? Only the church can reveal this. 204 00:13:53.540 --> 00:13:56.010 Only the church can rise up and say, wait a minute here. 205 00:13:56.020 --> 00:13:59.050 We need something. We need God. We need help. 206 00:13:59.060 --> 00:14:02.320 We need blessing. Only God, only God can do that. 207 00:14:02.330 --> 00:14:06.600 And so in this introductory lesson that we are bringing you into, 208 00:14:06.610 --> 00:14:11.480 we're hoping to stir up your pure mind, to stir up your soul within you, 209 00:14:11.490 --> 00:14:14.960 to rise up stronger than ever before and say, hey, here, 210 00:14:15.150 --> 00:14:19.940 we want to know this and we want to understand this and we want to be able to do it. 211 00:14:20.030 --> 00:14:23.640 And the last statement that the Pope made, he said, it is by Satan, 212 00:14:23.650 --> 00:14:28.160 the prince of this world, the number one enemy that we must fight. 213 00:14:28.170 --> 00:14:30.720 Isn't that amazing? Isn't that something? 214 00:14:32.700 --> 00:14:37.630 stopping fighting denominations you know our doctrines to know who our true enemy is 215 00:14:37.640 --> 00:14:42.510 now that's on the side of the Roman Catholic friends on the Protestant side dr. 216 00:14:42.520 --> 00:14:47.820 Billy Graham said these words he says the devil is actively engaged in combating 217 00:14:47.830 --> 00:14:53.640 America's growing religious revival now now you have to pause for a moment 218 00:14:53.650 --> 00:14:58.320 there is a mighty revival in our land today It is being misunderstood. 219 00:14:58.330 --> 00:15:01.360 It is being ridiculed by the mass media. 220 00:15:01.370 --> 00:15:07.120 It is being spoken against the older faiths and 221 00:15:07.130 --> 00:15:09.320 denominations and so forth. 222 00:15:09.330 --> 00:15:14.320 And so he's saying something, that the devil is actively engaged in combating 223 00:15:14.330 --> 00:15:19.460 America's growing religious revival. Not denominationalism, but revival. 224 00:15:19.470 --> 00:15:21.520 There is a revival in this land. 225 00:15:21.580 --> 00:15:25.470 There is a revival in this land, and the devil don't like it. 226 00:15:25.660 --> 00:15:29.470 He wants to fight it. He wants to speak disrespectfully of it, 227 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:34.090 and he uses the mass media and anyone else in order to carry it on. 228 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:39.050 Now, he says the proof of the devil's work is the increasing interest in the occult. 229 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:44.590 This is Dr. Billy Graham, a Baptist minister and a minister for the whole world and 230 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:46.310 for all denominations, as you know. 231 00:15:46.820 --> 00:15:50.230 He says that the devil is doing this in an increased interest. 232 00:15:51.010 --> 00:15:52.120 in astrology, 233 00:15:52.990 --> 00:15:57.980 tarot card readings, Ouija boards, palmistry, 234 00:15:58.350 --> 00:16:01.460 fortune -telling, and particularly witchcraft. 235 00:16:01.530 --> 00:16:04.960 These are the words of Dr. Graham, and they're in this teaching syllabus here that 236 00:16:04.970 --> 00:16:05.970 you can obtain. 237 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:11.770 It is perfectly obvious to all of us in spiritual work that people can be possessed 238 00:16:11.780 --> 00:16:14.470 by demons. Now, you ought to underline that. 239 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.390 That's what Dr. Billy Graham says after his, you know, 240 00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:19.830 30 or 40 years of experience all over the world. 241 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.770 not just the reading of the Bible, but by living. 242 00:16:22.880 --> 00:16:28.390 He says it is perfectly obvious to all of us. 243 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:30.530 That's not leaving anybody out. 244 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.230 In spiritual work that people, human persons, 245 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:39.390 human beings can be possessed by evil spirits 246 00:16:39.400 --> 00:16:43.910 that don't belong to this earth. They belong to something else beside this earth. 247 00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:47.790 They can be harassed by them. They can even be controlled by them. 248 00:16:47.800 --> 00:16:52.550 And more and more ministers, Now, this is the challenge, the challenge, 249 00:16:52.560 --> 00:16:58.130 brother, this is the challenge that should reach every person in America today. 250 00:16:58.340 --> 00:17:02.690 More and more ministers will have to learn to use the power of God to release people 251 00:17:02.700 --> 00:17:05.310 from these terrible possessions by the devil. 252 00:17:05.540 --> 00:17:09.170 That's the words of Dr. Billy Graham. Isn't that exciting? 253 00:17:09.380 --> 00:17:13.950 Isn't that exciting that he warns you and he warns me that more and more of us, 254 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:18.130 but I believe he said ministers here. He did say it. 255 00:17:18.140 --> 00:17:22.110 And I want to take it a further step and say Christians, believers, 256 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.470 followers of Christ, that every lay person has the same right. 257 00:17:26.830 --> 00:17:30.180 You know, in the Great Commission, it does not say you have to be a minister or a 258 00:17:30.190 --> 00:17:33.240 missionary or a pastor or anything like that. 259 00:17:33.250 --> 00:17:38.040 It says, they that believe shall exercise demon spirits. 260 00:17:38.050 --> 00:17:40.040 That if you believe, you can do it. 261 00:17:40.050 --> 00:17:43.000 And so this lays it into the hands of every believer. 262 00:17:43.210 --> 00:17:46.200 And of course, the ministers do have to lead the way. 263 00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:49.300 If you don't get preachers leading the way, you won't get far. 264 00:17:49.350 --> 00:17:53.220 They control those congregations. They are the fathers of those congregations. 265 00:17:53.230 --> 00:17:56.140 They are the leaders of those congregations. 266 00:17:56.150 --> 00:18:01.980 And unless you can get it instilled deeply down inside of the 267 00:18:01.990 --> 00:18:05.880 spirit of a minister, then it won't get much further. 268 00:18:06.560 --> 00:18:08.890 The lay people can do their best on the perimeter, 269 00:18:08.900 --> 00:18:11.430 but if it's going to go right down the main street, 270 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:14.990 the minister must be the one that speaks it from the pulpit, 271 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.230 believes it with all of his heart, and pray over his people. 272 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.490 Now, it is very simple to set anyone free from demon power. 273 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:25.810 You can command that thing to come out, and as you believe, it will be so. 274 00:18:25.820 --> 00:18:30.850 It is not difficult. It is not a great deal that you're working with. 275 00:18:30.940 --> 00:18:35.110 Some mighty object, you know, some mountain, it is not. 276 00:18:36.020 --> 00:18:39.890 It's in just the pure way of living a spiritual life, 277 00:18:39.900 --> 00:18:43.330 that when you come up against evil, as the Bible says, you resist it, 278 00:18:43.340 --> 00:18:47.770 and it flees from you. You see? You have the power and the authority. 279 00:18:47.820 --> 00:18:50.490 He that is in us is greater than he that's in the world. 280 00:18:50.500 --> 00:18:53.970 And so we are not pushed back, and we're not pushed down, 281 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:57.530 and no one can say that we don't have the right to do it. 282 00:18:57.540 --> 00:19:00.520 We have been commissioned, commissioned to do it. 283 00:19:00.530 --> 00:19:04.600 under the general of the armies of heaven, whose name is Jesus. 284 00:19:04.750 --> 00:19:09.160 We have been commissioned to do it, so it's not a matter of we do it if we wish to 285 00:19:09.170 --> 00:19:13.940 or we don't do it if we don't want to. It is a matter that Jesus said, do it. 286 00:19:13.950 --> 00:19:19.900 And so we are divinely inspired to bless our neighbors and 287 00:19:19.910 --> 00:19:23.340 our friends. And if you had compassion in your heart, 288 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.030 if you could see the things that I've seen, 289 00:19:26.040 --> 00:19:29.110 and if you could have been with me in Brazil, 290 00:19:29.250 --> 00:19:33.340 when I was riding a bus and could have seen, 291 00:19:33.350 --> 00:19:38.160 we pulled up at a little village away back in the back lands in the Heitra land of 292 00:19:38.170 --> 00:19:43.900 Brazil. There they had a man tied to a post, tied to a post. 293 00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:48.960 He had no clothes on and his hair was down at his shoulders and was matted, 294 00:19:49.110 --> 00:19:51.960 hadn't been combed maybe in months, and he was crazy. 295 00:19:51.990 --> 00:19:56.020 He was screaming, yelling, jumping up and down like an animal, 296 00:19:56.030 --> 00:19:57.580 cursing the people there. 297 00:19:58.860 --> 00:20:01.610 The people were laughing. The people were laughing. 298 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:07.110 And he was just somebody in that area that nobody could control, 299 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:10.790 so they tied him up like an animal to a big round post, 300 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:14.790 just like you tie up a horse or something. 301 00:20:14.800 --> 00:20:18.650 And he would go around and around that post and screaming and yelling, 302 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:21.570 and they'd throw him little things, an orange or, you know, 303 00:20:21.580 --> 00:20:23.930 or a banana or something or another, and he'd eat it like an animal. 304 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:27.090 And I got back on that bus. 305 00:20:27.230 --> 00:20:32.700 I can't explain to you, you know, the depth of my feelings when I said, oh, 306 00:20:32.750 --> 00:20:37.480 God, he is an immortal soul too. He is an immortal soul. 307 00:20:37.910 --> 00:20:43.780 And inside of me, I said, if that man was born that way and he did not deliberately 308 00:20:43.790 --> 00:20:46.820 transgress against God, his hard times are here. 309 00:20:46.990 --> 00:20:51.740 God would not permit a person like that to go to hell because you can't go to hell 310 00:20:51.750 --> 00:20:54.960 unless you want to. There are no accidents in hell, you know. 311 00:20:55.210 --> 00:20:57.060 There are no people that slid in there sideways. 312 00:20:57.170 --> 00:21:01.280 You walk in straight forward. You walk in there in pure disobedience. 313 00:21:01.290 --> 00:21:04.620 You don't get there by accident. Never. Nobody does. 314 00:21:04.970 --> 00:21:08.460 But my feelings were so deep for this person. 315 00:21:08.650 --> 00:21:13.620 If you could have been with me in the Philippines when I prayed for Clarita 316 00:21:13.630 --> 00:21:19.200 Villanueva in the city jail in Bilibid Prison, 317 00:21:19.370 --> 00:21:22.400 downtown Manila. And if you could have seen those teeth. 318 00:21:22.410 --> 00:21:28.120 teeth marks that i saw that sunk into her body a quarter of an inch deep and blood 319 00:21:28.130 --> 00:21:33.680 run 12 10 9 to 10 to 12 inches across as that monster 320 00:21:33.690 --> 00:21:38.500 invisible monster bit her and that it had been in the local newspapers for three 321 00:21:38.510 --> 00:21:43.440 weeks the doctors had reported it every day they'd sent out for help for 322 00:21:43.450 --> 00:21:49.260 psychologists and psychiatrists and and anybody to come and help and nobody was 323 00:21:49.270 --> 00:21:54.030 coming to the rescue of this little girl If you could have seen her faint into a 324 00:21:54.040 --> 00:21:58.690 coma, bitten by this thing, and look with your own hand, with your own eyes, 325 00:21:58.700 --> 00:22:02.650 and see. You talk about getting angry at the devil. 326 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:07.970 Brother, I got angry at the devil, and that day we set her free, 327 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:12.250 and she is free until this day. But you've got to have compassion. 328 00:22:13.540 --> 00:22:18.090 The church doesn't have compassion. You know, Jesus. 329 00:22:19.110 --> 00:22:21.700 Jesus looked and saw the people hurt. 330 00:22:21.710 --> 00:22:26.480 When he found a person that was possessed of the devil, he had compassion. 331 00:22:26.490 --> 00:22:30.840 He had feeling for them. And most of the church today, including the preachers, 332 00:22:30.850 --> 00:22:33.200 they have a feeling. It's a feeling of fear. 333 00:22:33.270 --> 00:22:34.780 They want to run away. 334 00:22:34.810 --> 00:22:37.400 And in our own town, in our own city, 335 00:22:37.430 --> 00:22:41.380 a family went to a local full gospel pastor. 336 00:22:41.550 --> 00:22:44.400 and said, we have a problem in our home. 337 00:22:45.010 --> 00:22:50.820 Emotions have gone away, and my husband is talking about suicide. 338 00:22:51.150 --> 00:22:55.260 And the minister said, well, put him in the asylum then. 339 00:22:55.270 --> 00:22:56.270 Put him away. 340 00:22:56.850 --> 00:22:59.200 And she began to cry and says, he's my husband. 341 00:22:59.310 --> 00:23:03.220 Can't put him away. And though they didn't come to our church, they do now. 342 00:23:03.790 --> 00:23:09.420 They do now. She came to me with tears, and I went to see this man. 343 00:23:09.650 --> 00:23:11.860 Now you talk about the last rung of the ladder. 344 00:23:12.010 --> 00:23:15.200 He'd make new rungs on the bottom. He was way down there. 345 00:23:15.610 --> 00:23:19.180 And he wouldn't even look at me when I walked into the house, you see. 346 00:23:19.410 --> 00:23:23.600 And very slowly, I brought him up out of his despair. 347 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:25.820 I brought him up out of that. 348 00:23:26.490 --> 00:23:29.460 He was a good, fine Christian. And he said, I'm lost. 349 00:23:29.470 --> 00:23:32.040 He says, I've never been saved. I'll never go to heaven. 350 00:23:32.110 --> 00:23:36.160 And I had to bring him above that. And that thing of taking his own life. 351 00:23:36.170 --> 00:23:39.480 I'm worthless. I'm useless. I'll take my life. 352 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:44.090 And that man is completely, gloriously, wonderfully, 353 00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:47.890 joyfully restored as of this very moment, you see. 354 00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:50.790 And so we know the power of God. 355 00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:53.950 And in our introducing these studies to you, 356 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:56.170 we want you to come to know the power of God. 357 00:23:56.280 --> 00:23:59.970 And you know the power of God by deep compassion. 358 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:01.630 You've got to feel something. 359 00:24:02.500 --> 00:24:04.590 Yeah, you've got to feel something. 360 00:24:04.850 --> 00:24:08.580 If Jesus had not had compassion, He could not have set men free. 361 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:14.110 And unless the church today can go on their knees before the Almighty and 362 00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:18.830 search themselves out and have compassion, we cannot set this world free. 363 00:24:18.980 --> 00:24:23.350 There are literally millions of Americans right now who've lost their mental 364 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:27.630 equilibriums and their emotional balance, and they need love, 365 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:29.790 and they need compassion. 366 00:24:30.630 --> 00:24:33.520 They do not need sympathy. Oh, dear darling. 367 00:24:33.530 --> 00:24:36.820 Oh, dear. No, they don't need that. Love is deeper than that. 368 00:24:36.870 --> 00:24:40.270 Love will spank you. Mom and Daddy says, yeah. 369 00:24:40.580 --> 00:24:43.850 Pure love will spank you. Pure love will discipline you. 370 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.530 And so we're talking about something deeper than saying, oh, I'm sorry. 371 00:24:48.540 --> 00:24:53.290 No, no, no. We're talking about deliverance by the mighty power of the Most High God 372 00:24:53.300 --> 00:24:58.810 setting you free and commanding your mind to be stable and commanding any 373 00:24:58.820 --> 00:25:04.450 interference into your life from outside entities, 374 00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:08.860 disturbing you to say you go. And don't you come back. 375 00:25:08.870 --> 00:25:14.800 I set them free upon the authority of the one who died on Calvary to set the world 376 00:25:14.810 --> 00:25:16.660 free. And you better believe it. 377 00:25:17.580 --> 00:25:20.830 You know, it works. It just works. That's all. 378 00:25:20.860 --> 00:25:25.790 It just works. And so we want to wake the Christians up to see the world that we 379 00:25:25.800 --> 00:25:26.800 live in today. 380 00:25:27.510 --> 00:25:32.480 Now, I have been greatly criticized for what I have shared with you in this first 381 00:25:32.490 --> 00:25:33.490 lesson. 382 00:25:33.790 --> 00:25:37.060 You've got to be able to accept that. 383 00:25:37.100 --> 00:25:40.670 If you're not able to accept that, the devil will defeat you quite easily. 384 00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:43.130 You've got to be willing to be mocked, to be laughed at, 385 00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:47.310 to be misunderstood in order to do what God wants you to do.