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 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:12.610 Christendom and Western civilization are entering their final warfare before 2 00:00:12.620 --> 00:00:16.910 Armageddon. In these deliberate studies of principalities and powers, 3 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.530 we will be exposing the occult, revealing knowledge of the doctrines, words, 4 00:00:21.540 --> 00:00:25.630 rites, eulogies, phrases, and definitions that demon worshippers use. 5 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.990 The only intelligent way to interpret our times is to present a biblical 6 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.510 interpretation. Jesus prophesied that his church shall prevail. 7 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.650 In Matthew 16, verse 18, he said, 8 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:40.450 Upon this rock I will build my church, 9 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:43.730 and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 10 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:48.630 Today, the church must rise up to the greatest action of its entire history. 11 00:00:55.100 --> 00:01:01.030 We welcome you to this series of lectures related to principalities 12 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:02.040 and powers. 13 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:07.810 We have studied considerably on this in this class, 14 00:01:07.820 --> 00:01:11.730 and we are now at what we call Lesson 10. 15 00:01:12.530 --> 00:01:17.790 The name of the lesson is Haunted Houses and Ghosts. 16 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:20.950 May I bless you first, please. 17 00:01:21.420 --> 00:01:27.280 We thank you, Lord, that as we seek to know and to understand and to learn 18 00:01:27.290 --> 00:01:33.230 that the Holy Spirit opens our thinking and 19 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:39.310 our conceptions. And we thank you that at this time we ask you to bless us, 20 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:41.030 to help us to know the truth. 21 00:01:41.310 --> 00:01:47.280 And help us to set millions of people free from all kinds of aberrations that do not 22 00:01:47.290 --> 00:01:48.900 belong to the spiritual person. 23 00:01:49.130 --> 00:01:54.820 We thank you that this moment can be a moment of growth and of great blessing. 24 00:01:54.990 --> 00:01:58.320 And so bless these that study in Jesus' name. 25 00:01:58.800 --> 00:01:59.800 Amen. 26 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:03.770 America does not study history very much, it seems. 27 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:07.830 Or if there's anything that we learn from history is that we learn nothing at all 28 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:08.840 from it. 29 00:02:09.230 --> 00:02:12.200 If we were to study the decline of empires and nations, 30 00:02:12.210 --> 00:02:14.300 we'd understand what destroys nations. 31 00:02:14.310 --> 00:02:19.860 And we are at this moment using every facility for destruction of our nation. 32 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.310 And one of those, of course, is the occult. 33 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:29.470 I don't believe that in any modern nation has the occult grown so quickly 34 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:32.710 as it is growing in this nation at the present time. 35 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:36.950 Half of the Christian church wears blinders. 36 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:39.850 They just say, we don't want to accept it. 37 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:42.790 We don't want to get involved in it. We can't see it with our natural eye. 38 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.230 We can't hear it with our natural ear, and we would rather run from it. 39 00:02:47.820 --> 00:02:52.330 Another half of it is ready to do something about it if they had some teaching in 40 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:54.090 it. Some of them are fearful. 41 00:02:54.100 --> 00:02:58.290 They say, what can I do if I get into a problem I can't take care of? 42 00:02:59.660 --> 00:03:03.950 God does not want his people unlearned or ignorant. 43 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.370 God wants us to know the truth, and the Bible is loaded with it. 44 00:03:07.820 --> 00:03:11.450 You don't have to go to any other source. The Bible is loaded with truth. 45 00:03:12.190 --> 00:03:14.900 Then God wants us to know courage. 46 00:03:15.790 --> 00:03:18.580 Why should we run from any enemy of any kind? 47 00:03:19.250 --> 00:03:22.120 He that is in us is greater than he that's in the world. 48 00:03:23.610 --> 00:03:27.180 But the needs are so tremendous in the world that we live today. 49 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.930 This morning, a doctor called me from 50 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:33.930 Bloomington, Indiana. 51 00:03:34.310 --> 00:03:40.140 And a nephew of his, a businessman, very successful businessman. 52 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.710 And suddenly, in a moment of time, his total personality changed. 53 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:51.070 The psychiatrist, and he had those in the family also, members of his family, 54 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.970 did not know what in the world to do for him. 55 00:03:54.100 --> 00:03:56.830 And finally they called here to this place saying, 56 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:02.750 what can we do for this 43 -year -old man in our family that 57 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:06.210 has been normal until this moment and a very successful businessman, 58 00:04:06.220 --> 00:04:08.690 and this terrible thing has happened to him. 59 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:11.550 Can you say a prayer for him even over the phone? 60 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.330 We said, yeah, we can say a prayer anywhere, over the phone, over television, 61 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:18.570 or anything else. You can say a prayer anywhere, anytime. 62 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:23.530 If you know it, say amen. And you can deliver a person anywhere in the world. 63 00:04:23.540 --> 00:04:27.530 You don't have to be close to them. You speak the Word of God, and it'll work. 64 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:33.490 But we are dealing at this moment with a situation that we read about, 65 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:36.330 every one of us have. Some of us don't understand it, 66 00:04:36.340 --> 00:04:38.450 and some of us like to run away from it. 67 00:04:38.460 --> 00:04:42.270 And that is, you could say, houses in which there are demons, 68 00:04:42.380 --> 00:04:44.070 they call them haunted houses. 69 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:48.930 And things that appear and disappear, you call them ghosts, and they're spirits. 70 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.150 Shall we look into them together? 71 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.570 In Joshua chapter 6 and verse 18, God says to his people, 72 00:04:55.780 --> 00:05:00.550 And ye in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, 73 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.770 that is occultism, spiritism, demonism, lest ye make yourselves accursed. 74 00:05:06.780 --> 00:05:12.300 You see? God says if you play with it, you will make yourself to become accursed. 75 00:05:13.490 --> 00:05:18.240 When you take of the accursed thing and you make the camp of Israel a curse, 76 00:05:18.310 --> 00:05:20.700 not only can you cause yourself to be hurt, 77 00:05:20.710 --> 00:05:25.280 you can cause your whole nation to be hurt and you shall trouble it. 78 00:05:25.960 --> 00:05:31.290 We know and understand that houses are dwelling places where human families 79 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:35.790 grow up together, live together, enjoy living together. 80 00:05:35.880 --> 00:05:37.690 That's what houses are for. 81 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:42.050 Maybe we didn't know that just as a human person has a personality, 82 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:48.350 that a house, a dwelling place, or even a building like the one we're in now, 83 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:54.280 possesses a type of personality that belongs to whatever happens there. 84 00:05:54.470 --> 00:05:57.160 This personality is formed by what takes place, 85 00:05:57.420 --> 00:06:00.710 whether it's in a house or a building like this one. 86 00:06:01.340 --> 00:06:04.990 If you walked into a casino, you'd have altogether a different feeling than when you 87 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:11.090 walk into this room here. You see? Each building has its own respective personality. 88 00:06:11.780 --> 00:06:17.520 Houses do that. You feel when you walk into a house the people that live there. 89 00:06:17.610 --> 00:06:20.820 If they're gentle people, you will feel it as you walk through the door. 90 00:06:20.830 --> 00:06:24.320 If they're belligerent, you'll find that anger just pushing right straight out the 91 00:06:24.330 --> 00:06:30.020 front door. And so houses do possess the spirits of the people that live in those 92 00:06:30.030 --> 00:06:32.530 houses. First, God's house. 93 00:06:32.700 --> 00:06:38.240 In God's house, the temple in jerusalem the living spirit of the eternal 94 00:06:38.250 --> 00:06:44.110 elohim was manifested over the golden cherubim revealing 95 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:49.050 god's presence and the acceptance of their worship from 96 00:06:49.690 --> 00:06:55.160 the people of israel to god this dwelling place of the supreme deity was called the 97 00:06:55.170 --> 00:07:01.020 holy of holies and it was the true house of the true 98 00:07:01.030 --> 00:07:04.580 and living god And his presence was there. 99 00:07:04.590 --> 00:07:10.560 His spirit was there. And it was different from any other house in the realm. 100 00:07:10.610 --> 00:07:16.380 Because it was a dwelling place of God. His Shekinah glory was there. 101 00:07:16.470 --> 00:07:22.180 And anyone that went into that place became conscious that this was Jehovah's house. 102 00:07:22.460 --> 00:07:25.290 And Jehovah resided in that house. 103 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:31.210 A very beautiful place to go to and to feel the presence 104 00:07:31.220 --> 00:07:34.300 of a living God. In the negative event, 105 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:36.770 in heathen temples, 106 00:07:37.350 --> 00:07:42.880 just as there is the house of worship of the true God with a very particular spirit 107 00:07:42.890 --> 00:07:48.840 in it, so the houses that are used for demon worship become dwelling places of demon 108 00:07:48.850 --> 00:07:49.850 entities. 109 00:07:51.410 --> 00:07:55.880 Also houses where families reside can become inhabited by demons, 110 00:07:55.890 --> 00:08:00.340 just as these temples do. 111 00:08:01.470 --> 00:08:04.360 I have visited thousands of... 112 00:08:04.870 --> 00:08:09.980 heathen temples in the world and you 113 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.980 can feel the oppressive powers there especially if you see one fallen on the floor 114 00:08:15.990 --> 00:08:21.360 and frothing at the mouth you are very conscious that there is a spirit in that 115 00:08:21.370 --> 00:08:27.270 place now I've been in a lot of houses and I have 116 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:33.010 also felt that type of thing for example I was a guest at an ancient 117 00:08:33.020 --> 00:08:35.390 castle in Switzerland the 118 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:39.560 friends that live there now were were full gospel people. 119 00:08:40.170 --> 00:08:46.020 And the bedroom that I was allotted was upstairs in the turret of the 120 00:08:46.030 --> 00:08:47.460 tower of that castle. 121 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:53.910 I had to take a lighted lamp with me to find my way 122 00:08:53.920 --> 00:08:59.620 up into that garret because there were no electric lights on the 123 00:08:59.630 --> 00:09:01.020 stairs nor in the bedroom. 124 00:09:02.190 --> 00:09:04.360 And I must be honest with you, 125 00:09:05.130 --> 00:09:06.680 the stairs squeaked. 126 00:09:07.630 --> 00:09:11.310 He said, I thought they did. I remember I was a preacher. 127 00:09:11.630 --> 00:09:16.350 I wasn't just a novice. The doors screeched. 128 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:21.530 When they opened, the hinges were so old and rusty, it was an awful sound. 129 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.170 The windows were long and narrow and very strange. 130 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:31.010 The furniture was old and well -worn and it looked broken down. 131 00:09:31.430 --> 00:09:34.000 The pictures on the wall were almost frightening. 132 00:09:34.010 --> 00:09:37.260 They weren't those that had been painted in our time or by someone that really loved 133 00:09:37.270 --> 00:09:39.440 Jesus. There was a different tone to them. 134 00:09:40.620 --> 00:09:46.650 Now, our hostess was a lady in her late 70s or early 80s. 135 00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:52.480 And she'd already told me the story or the history of her family in the castle 136 00:09:52.490 --> 00:09:56.300 before we retired. And if she'd waited for breakfast, 137 00:09:56.310 --> 00:09:59.440 it would have been a lot nicer of her. But just 138 00:10:00.310 --> 00:10:02.300 before retiring, she told the stories. 139 00:10:03.770 --> 00:10:05.520 It took a lot of courage, 140 00:10:06.130 --> 00:10:07.540 number one, to go in that room. 141 00:10:08.460 --> 00:10:12.310 In that castle, they only had heat in the fireplaces. 142 00:10:12.650 --> 00:10:15.400 And I wanted just to curl up by the fireplace all night. 143 00:10:15.410 --> 00:10:18.540 I'd have been quite happy to have slept on the floor. 144 00:10:18.690 --> 00:10:20.820 But no, she sat upstairs in your room. 145 00:10:21.300 --> 00:10:25.130 And so it took a lot of courage, not only to go up there, 146 00:10:25.140 --> 00:10:27.370 it took a lot of courage to stay after I got there. 147 00:10:29.590 --> 00:10:33.420 My flesh seemed to move on my body, 148 00:10:33.540 --> 00:10:38.920 and my hair wouldn't lie down properly. 149 00:10:40.400 --> 00:10:45.250 And it was one of the... Most depressing nights I've ever known in my life. 150 00:10:45.260 --> 00:10:50.930 I had to rebuke powers of darkness for the total night. 151 00:10:50.940 --> 00:10:54.130 I rebuked the powers of the devil in that place. 152 00:10:54.880 --> 00:10:58.130 Now, you say, what had happened in that castle? 153 00:10:58.140 --> 00:11:01.590 No doubt, maybe hundreds of people had been killed there. 154 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:07.550 Two or three hundred more years of tragedy had taken place there. 155 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:10.590 And you don't know what all took place there. 156 00:11:10.660 --> 00:11:12.370 But I can tell you one thing. 157 00:11:12.420 --> 00:11:16.050 Wherever people are killed in great horror, 158 00:11:16.380 --> 00:11:18.790 spirits linger near those places. 159 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:23.810 And they have to be cleaned out of there before that is a normal place for human 160 00:11:23.820 --> 00:11:25.250 persons to live. 161 00:11:26.590 --> 00:11:31.120 We found a very remarkable example of this in Java, 162 00:11:31.150 --> 00:11:33.740 in what you call Indonesia today. 163 00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:39.030 Mr. Howard Carter and I were ministering in Java right straight through the whole of 164 00:11:39.040 --> 00:11:41.450 the island from one end of it to the other. 165 00:11:43.750 --> 00:11:46.340 We stayed in a family and a home. 166 00:11:46.530 --> 00:11:50.300 I haven't figured out yet why they put us in that home. 167 00:11:51.890 --> 00:11:55.660 Well, I think I maybe could figure it out. 168 00:11:55.670 --> 00:12:00.460 It was a magnificent home. It was like a plantation, a banana plantation. 169 00:12:00.550 --> 00:12:05.480 The house was big and airy, and the people were well off. 170 00:12:05.490 --> 00:12:10.460 If not rich, they were well off. He worked for the railroad, the gentleman did. 171 00:12:10.550 --> 00:12:14.380 And so we got to stay in their home. 172 00:12:14.890 --> 00:12:20.620 But in that home, this man had a manifestation of seven demons who 173 00:12:20.630 --> 00:12:26.660 resided in him. And these spirits had their own way in that house. 174 00:12:27.270 --> 00:12:32.900 For example, they would not permit the wife to sleep in the same bed 175 00:12:32.910 --> 00:12:34.320 with her husband. 176 00:12:35.450 --> 00:12:41.320 And when she persisted to do so, they would pinch her body with big black spots on 177 00:12:41.330 --> 00:12:47.100 it and throw her physically. in the air and onto the floor. 178 00:12:48.020 --> 00:12:52.510 And she just was not permitted to stay in the same room. 179 00:12:52.580 --> 00:12:55.770 And it was the spirits that said that she wasn't permitted to do so. 180 00:12:55.780 --> 00:12:57.850 Her husband says, yes, I want you to stay in here. 181 00:12:57.860 --> 00:12:59.630 The spirit says, no, you cannot stay. 182 00:13:00.380 --> 00:13:05.470 After he had gone to work, the wife showed Mr. Carter to myself what she called the 183 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:06.650 holy cabinet. 184 00:13:07.930 --> 00:13:12.060 It was the altar where he manifested himself with these spirits. 185 00:13:12.970 --> 00:13:18.150 Inside this cabinet, when she opened it, We saw a silver dagger, 186 00:13:18.160 --> 00:13:20.970 12 or 14 inches in length. 187 00:13:21.020 --> 00:13:26.890 It was hanging by a silver cord or silver thread coming down 188 00:13:26.900 --> 00:13:32.110 from the roof of the cabinet down, and it was hanging free in the middle like a 189 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:33.120 pendulum. 190 00:13:33.490 --> 00:13:37.360 And there was a candle holder before it, 191 00:13:37.370 --> 00:13:41.920 and there was an incense place where they could burn incense. 192 00:13:42.050 --> 00:13:45.380 So when the man knelt before the dagger in his room, 193 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:50.890 and prayed and burned incense there, the demons manifested themselves. 194 00:13:52.330 --> 00:13:57.360 Now, this man knew these spirits all by name, and he would give their names. 195 00:13:57.650 --> 00:14:01.540 He commanded the spirits to do various things for him, and they obeyed. 196 00:14:01.550 --> 00:14:05.920 He claims that his enemies died when he put a curse upon them. 197 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.070 Now, this man looked very normal at the dining table. 198 00:14:12.090 --> 00:14:15.940 He owned this banana plantation. He was an official on a railroad company there. 199 00:14:15.950 --> 00:14:20.620 And he certainly wasn't a foolish person. And he certainly wasn't a social misfit. 200 00:14:21.660 --> 00:14:26.950 But when this man began to worship these spirits, you had another world, you see. 201 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:31.850 You had another power. It was altogether a different thing. 202 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.850 Now, we stayed in that house. Mr. Carter and I slept in our bedroom. 203 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.870 And in the night, we were disturbed by spirits. 204 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:47.400 An entity. stood at the foot of our bed and said to mr carter in his 205 00:14:47.410 --> 00:14:53.230 given name says howard what are you doing in this house we were both startled 206 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:57.620 and awakened and shaking and 207 00:14:58.690 --> 00:15:02.940 began to plead the blood of the lord jesus christ and commanding the spirit that it 208 00:15:02.950 --> 00:15:06.060 go away commanding it to go it left the room 209 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.930 but until he passed on to heaven and until this moment we haven't forgotten the 210 00:15:11.940 --> 00:15:16.050 memory the memory of it it was Very, 211 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:19.970 it was very real that there was a spirit in that house. 212 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:20.970 You say, what did you see? 213 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:25.910 We couldn't, I couldn't see anything excepting I was conscious that the thing was at 214 00:15:25.920 --> 00:15:31.670 the foot of the bed and that it was so frightening that two men trembled all over in 215 00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:33.550 the presence of these evils. 216 00:15:33.560 --> 00:15:38.950 All we want you to realize and to know that there are places where 217 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.010 demons reside and houses. 218 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.310 In this case, they were very welcome there. 219 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:50.290 they possessed this man this man was the head of the house and therefore they lived 220 00:15:50.300 --> 00:15:55.390 they lived in that house and evidently they didn't like preachers and they certainly 221 00:15:55.400 --> 00:16:01.510 didn't like the man's wife because she was a was a person converted to god now 222 00:16:01.540 --> 00:16:06.550 this man went to church one time that we were told uh 223 00:16:06.560 --> 00:16:12.410 there was a powerful sermon given he responded he came up and knelt in the altar to 224 00:16:12.420 --> 00:16:17.990 be saved and while he was there He was almost choked to death with no one touching 225 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.770 him. He turned blue in the face and fell over to the side, 226 00:16:22.780 --> 00:16:27.770 and the spirits told him, if you ever come back to a place like this, 227 00:16:27.780 --> 00:16:30.170 we will kill you while you're in the place. 228 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.530 Of course, he never went back to church anymore. 229 00:16:33.250 --> 00:16:36.960 You said, did he want those spirits? Oh, yes, they were his pets. 230 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:43.070 He spent more time in front of that silver dagger than any other place. 231 00:16:43.560 --> 00:16:48.590 Now, he had a teenage son, 17 or 18 years old, and sitting at the dinner table, 232 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:54.130 the son spoke and said, the decease of my father, 233 00:16:54.140 --> 00:16:58.050 these spirits belong to me, and I am waiting for the moment when I shall have them 234 00:16:58.060 --> 00:16:59.190 as my own. 235 00:16:59.910 --> 00:17:02.980 And so they have a different feeling about them than you would have. 236 00:17:03.270 --> 00:17:05.880 He was waiting for the inheritance of these spirits, 237 00:17:05.890 --> 00:17:09.900 that they would live in him, that were now residing in his father. 238 00:17:09.910 --> 00:17:12.510 And the father claimed they did all kinds of things for him. 239 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:17.230 I only want you to know in this talk that there are places that the devil lives. 240 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.490 And they call them, you can call them haunted houses, 241 00:17:19.500 --> 00:17:22.630 whatever you want to call them. They're residents of evil. 242 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.370 And we'll be telling you what to do with them also. 243 00:17:26.860 --> 00:17:29.470 In our community, in the city of Mishawaka, 244 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.530 some of you may have noticed it in your newspapers a few years ago. 245 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.590 And this is to show you that a manifestation of evil is not a geographical 246 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:40.490 situation. It's certainly not a racial situation. 247 00:17:40.600 --> 00:17:43.150 It doesn't matter whether you're an Indonesian or a European. 248 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:45.870 That simply doesn't matter. 249 00:17:46.910 --> 00:17:52.760 Our local newspaper here in the city carried a bizarre story of a family living over 250 00:17:52.770 --> 00:17:58.620 in Mishawaka here. They were having stones and bricks thrown against their house. 251 00:17:59.050 --> 00:18:01.940 Anybody remember that thing in the newspaper? 252 00:18:02.470 --> 00:18:06.620 Against their house. Now, when I went over there to investigate, 253 00:18:06.630 --> 00:18:11.910 when I was invited to, we saw the stones on the ground and the concussions of the 254 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:17.390 marks on the wall and the man of the house would run outside when the when the 255 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.810 bricks and stones would hit his house and there they were but there wasn't a person 256 00:18:21.820 --> 00:18:27.120 anywhere around at all and then it didn't stay outside of the house inside of his 257 00:18:27.130 --> 00:18:31.740 house something would move his refrigerator across the room which is quite heavy 258 00:18:33.220 --> 00:18:38.130 and the television set would move around and 259 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:43.750 they would come home from work both of them work and found the whole of their house 260 00:18:43.760 --> 00:18:47.550 inside overturned with all their furniture. 261 00:18:48.620 --> 00:18:53.220 And I don't know whether you remember the story very well or not. 262 00:18:53.550 --> 00:18:57.680 A local policeman, the newspaper was there at the same time, 263 00:18:57.690 --> 00:19:02.040 and a local policeman saw all this mess, and he said, yes, 264 00:19:02.050 --> 00:19:03.840 I see it and all about it. 265 00:19:03.890 --> 00:19:09.120 And the police department almost fired him because he was saying that he believed in 266 00:19:09.130 --> 00:19:12.120 these ghosts or whatever they were in that house. 267 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:15.810 Through one of the factories here in town, this man heard of me, 268 00:19:15.820 --> 00:19:17.150 and I went over there. 269 00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:22.570 They were Roman Catholic people, and the place was all messed up. 270 00:19:22.580 --> 00:19:24.670 Everything was upside down, turned over, and they said, now, 271 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.750 we didn't touch a thing. It says, this is the way we found our house. 272 00:19:27.760 --> 00:19:32.350 We got home. It says, it all happened when we were not here, but it says, 273 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:35.270 at night, it all happens again at night while we're trying to sleep. 274 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:41.920 So I led them in a sinner's prayer first, and they were quite willing for it. 275 00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:46.030 And then I took authority over that spirit that was tormenting that house. 276 00:19:46.300 --> 00:19:49.590 And I began to name it. I said, you can throw no more stones at this place. 277 00:19:49.600 --> 00:19:52.630 And I commanded. And I said, don't you throw another one either. 278 00:19:52.860 --> 00:19:55.810 I said, you cannot remove the refrigerator from its spot. 279 00:19:55.820 --> 00:20:01.140 It has to stay where it is. And I forbid you to move the television set anywhere. 280 00:20:01.430 --> 00:20:03.500 And I command you to leave that table alone. 281 00:20:03.510 --> 00:20:04.740 You've been moving around here. 282 00:20:05.290 --> 00:20:08.120 And I went through the whole routine and I said, in fact, 283 00:20:08.220 --> 00:20:11.510 I'm commanding you to leave now and not come back, 284 00:20:11.520 --> 00:20:14.930 and I put the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, around this place. 285 00:20:16.340 --> 00:20:18.610 We contacted those folks weeks later, 286 00:20:18.620 --> 00:20:23.890 and they had not had a single manifestation of that thing again. 287 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.190 Now, we know that God's power is greater than the devil's power, 288 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.130 and this class has met here for one purpose, 289 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:35.810 and that is to get you to know the power of God. 290 00:20:36.700 --> 00:20:38.890 Otherwise, we're wasting our time here. 291 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.790 i am not here to tell you stories i'm here to tell you that there is a negative 292 00:20:42.800 --> 00:20:47.270 force in the world but there's a more powerful force and that we are not afraid of 293 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:49.090 the devil and 294 00:20:49.770 --> 00:20:55.200 that we can remove him jesus said that even the gates of hell cannot prevail against 295 00:20:55.210 --> 00:21:00.640 his church and that represents the strongest thing the devil has it don't matter how 296 00:21:00.650 --> 00:21:06.560 big he is jesus is a little bigger it doesn't matter what he does jesus can do 297 00:21:06.570 --> 00:21:08.220 more those 298 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:14.220 men in egypt that were sorcerers I threw down their rods and they became snakes. 299 00:21:14.230 --> 00:21:18.400 They thought they were big shots until Moses swallowed up theirs and they didn't 300 00:21:18.410 --> 00:21:21.340 even have a rod anymore. They had to go buy them another one. 301 00:21:21.930 --> 00:21:25.740 You see, God can do more than the devil every time. 302 00:21:26.090 --> 00:21:30.020 And I won't ever stop short of that. And God doesn't want his short. 303 00:21:30.030 --> 00:21:35.200 We're living in the most dramatic moment in the history of the world when God is 304 00:21:35.210 --> 00:21:38.420 going to reveal his power. That's the reason there's so many in this class. 305 00:21:38.840 --> 00:21:42.290 God is going to reveal His power as He never has before. 306 00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:46.930 And God's people are going to do more miracles than they have ever done before. 307 00:21:47.490 --> 00:21:51.840 We're not living in the dying embers of a dead church. 308 00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:56.940 But we're living in the glorious manifestation of the Son of Righteousness arising 309 00:21:56.950 --> 00:21:58.800 with healing in His wings. 310 00:21:59.450 --> 00:22:04.640 And we're ready to see the glory and the majesty of God destroy the works of the 311 00:22:04.650 --> 00:22:08.880 devil in Jesus' name. It don't matter what they are, He can destroy them. 312 00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:10.490 If you know it, say amen. 313 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:17.950 A very sad situation that I was rather closely associated with, I met the people, 314 00:22:18.730 --> 00:22:19.960 was in England. 315 00:22:20.760 --> 00:22:25.950 These people were very good friends of my friend, Reverend Howard Carter of London. 316 00:22:26.950 --> 00:22:32.580 And this gentleman moved into a house, an older house, with his family. 317 00:22:32.610 --> 00:22:35.680 He had three daughters, all of them teenagers. 318 00:22:37.340 --> 00:22:40.840 One of the daughters slept in a certain room, and after the first night, 319 00:22:40.850 --> 00:22:44.400 She complained to her father, says, Dad, I'm afraid of that room. 320 00:22:44.530 --> 00:22:47.880 Oh, he says, oh, daughter, come on now. There's nothing to be afraid of. 321 00:22:47.890 --> 00:22:49.020 After all, we're Christians. 322 00:22:49.830 --> 00:22:51.320 He meant they belong to church. 323 00:22:53.130 --> 00:22:56.560 The next night she was tormented again. She says, there's something in that room. 324 00:22:58.500 --> 00:23:02.370 And after a week or two, she said, if you don't take me out of that room, 325 00:23:02.380 --> 00:23:03.810 I don't think I'm going to live. 326 00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:06.690 And he says, oh, daughter, you're just exaggerating. 327 00:23:06.700 --> 00:23:07.830 You're going to be all right. 328 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.650 That daughter died without getting sick. 329 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:16.610 went to her door one morning and she was dead. 330 00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:22.510 You know, some fathers are quite unusual. 331 00:23:26.460 --> 00:23:31.670 He wouldn't accept it. And so he gave the room after they buried that daughter to 332 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:32.680 one of the sisters. 333 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:37.650 Now, it was a very strange thing that this thing did not manifest in other parts of 334 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:39.230 the house, in that room only. 335 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:43.510 And the sister after the first night says, I am terrified. 336 00:23:44.070 --> 00:23:46.500 I am terrified in this room. 337 00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:49.410 And the father says, oh, there's nothing wrong in that room. 338 00:23:49.420 --> 00:23:52.010 I've been in there many times. He hadn't slept in there yet. 339 00:23:56.260 --> 00:23:58.290 And she said, father, don't make me sleep in that room. 340 00:23:58.300 --> 00:24:01.350 Oh, he says, that room won't hurt you. Says, I know your sister passed away. 341 00:24:01.360 --> 00:24:03.590 It was her time to go to heaven. It's all right. 342 00:24:05.540 --> 00:24:09.110 But did you know that daughter mysteriously died in that room also? 343 00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:14.150 And then it's when he called for brother Carter and says, what can I do now? 344 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.530 He panicked. He says, what can I do now? 345 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:19.950 Says, I've only got one daughter left and I'm sure not going to put her in that 346 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:20.960 room. 347 00:24:21.190 --> 00:24:26.430 And Brother Carter advised him, says, if I were you, I'd just move out of the house. 348 00:24:28.100 --> 00:24:31.510 Now, as I'll be teaching you, there are actually two things that could have been 349 00:24:31.520 --> 00:24:32.520 done. 350 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.870 You can either move out of the house or you can burn the thing down or whatever you 351 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:37.880 like. 352 00:24:38.870 --> 00:24:41.600 And we'll be illustrating that later. 353 00:24:41.990 --> 00:24:47.600 Or you can command an exorcism and clean that house up and clean that house out 354 00:24:47.610 --> 00:24:50.220 and command that house to be free. 355 00:24:52.330 --> 00:24:57.300 And that's possible. You can remove a satanic force from a building, any building. 356 00:24:58.590 --> 00:25:04.140 He cannot stay longer than you desire for him to stay. 357 00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:09.320 And so these people, it's amazing how many Christians don't know how to fight the 358 00:25:09.330 --> 00:25:12.300 devil. And they go to pieces when he manifests himself. 359 00:25:12.410 --> 00:25:14.140 If they stood right up quickly, 360 00:25:14.870 --> 00:25:18.060 you know, there'd be nothing happening except he'd have to leave. 361 00:25:18.450 --> 00:25:20.780 How many understand this? How many believe this? 362 00:25:21.300 --> 00:25:27.070 We've got to get a world to believe this and to understand this because there are 363 00:25:27.080 --> 00:25:32.470 more satanic forces, you know, that are operating against human beings today than 364 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.970 there has ever operated before. And really, 365 00:25:37.580 --> 00:25:39.250 it's a joy to set people free. 366 00:25:40.790 --> 00:25:43.560 There's a great peace in your heart for setting people free. 367 00:25:44.390 --> 00:25:47.420 You don't have to even do it with a loud voice. 368 00:25:47.590 --> 00:25:50.260 You can just say, I command you to be free. 369 00:25:50.490 --> 00:25:53.920 By the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of the Greek commission. 370 00:25:54.110 --> 00:25:57.820 And I thank Jesus that you're free now. You better believe it. 371 00:25:58.350 --> 00:26:02.940 What's he going to do about it? You know, you have spoken the word. 372 00:26:02.990 --> 00:26:06.680 You have spoken it in power. You've spoken it in truth. 373 00:26:06.730 --> 00:26:10.760 It has to work. And it does work. God sets people free. 374 00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:16.470 And we believe that there will be more and more areas 375 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:19.890 in this country that will need to be set free. 376 00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:24.810 There's only one thing that grips me, 377 00:26:24.820 --> 00:26:30.530 and that's a novice seeking to work in a position that they're not ready for. 378 00:26:30.560 --> 00:26:35.810 That is the only thing. You have to be spiritually geared up inside. 379 00:26:36.340 --> 00:26:38.970 Jesus spoke to his own disciples and said, 380 00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:41.270 this kind cometh out only by prayer and fasting. 381 00:26:41.780 --> 00:26:44.210 This, he could have said, spiritual maturity. 382 00:26:44.790 --> 00:26:48.800 He could have said because you haven't cleansed your own person, you know. 383 00:26:48.970 --> 00:26:54.500 If you're going to enter into combat and spiritual forces, you need yourself right. 384 00:26:55.450 --> 00:27:00.400 And you need yourself clean. And you need yourself focused for it. 385 00:27:00.410 --> 00:27:04.060 Every great deliverance that I've had in my life, I fasted some. 386 00:27:04.390 --> 00:27:10.180 And I came into the battle with my whole being concentrated on nothing else but that 387 00:27:10.190 --> 00:27:13.040 battle. And I've never failed to win. Not one time. 388 00:27:13.050 --> 00:27:17.910 Have ever failed to win. There's victory in the Lord Jesus Christ. 389 00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:21.250 And we're God's clean up men and clean up women. 390 00:27:21.580 --> 00:27:25.710 Clean up men and clean up buildings by the mighty power of God.