DIRTINESS IS LINKED TO demonic INFLUENCE – GOD CALLED demons, ‘UNCLEAN SPIRITS’
IF YOU ARE BACKSLIDDEN, YOU ARE KEEPING COMPANY WITH THE DEAD
IF YOUR FRIENDS ARE FOOLS AND YOU KEEP ON ASSOCIATING WITH THEM, DESTRUCTION IS WAITING FOR YOU
DELIVERANCE CAN GIVE YOU FREEDOM FROM WRONG ASSOCIATION AND RESTORATION OF DESTINY
DELIVERANCE OFFERS YOU FREEDOM FROM HARMFUL HABITS AND CAN TAKE YOU OUT OF ANY FAMILY CURSE
THE PROSPERITY OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT CHRISTIANS WILL DESTROY THEM. IT IS THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD THAT MAKES RICH AND ADDS NO SORROW
IF THERE IS ANY ONE WHO SHOULD BE DOING VERY WELL, IT IS SOMEONE WHOSE SOUL IS PROSPERING – A TRUE CHILD OF GOD
IT IS TO SINNERS THAT GOD HAS ORDAINED TRAVAIL, STRUGGLE AND HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.
POVERTY IS A CURSE. PROSPERITY IS A BLESSING.
DELIVERANCE CAN TURN YOU TO BECOME A TERROR TO THE devil AND MOVE YOU TO A LEVEL WHERE YOU BECOME A ONE MAN ARMY FOR THE LORD
DELIVERANCE GIVES YOU THE ABILITY AND THE MEANS TO SERVE GOD AS YOU WISH
I COULD NOT CAST OUT THE TERRIBLE AFFLICTION OF SMALL POX OVER MY SISTER WITH MY BELLY FULL OF POUNDED YAM
YOU CAN’T BE OVERLOADED WITH POUNDED YAM EVERY TIME AND EXPECT THE devil TO TAKE YOU SERIOUS. YOUR LIFE MUST BECOME A LIFE OF FASTING AND PRAYER
THE HEAD CHIEF OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST ORIMOLUSI AND THE THEN LEADER OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SECRET SOCIETY GAVE HIS LIFE TO CHRIST AFTER MY BOLD CHALLENGE
SUBMIT TO GOD ABSOLUTELY, RESIST THE devil AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU
YOU MUST BE WILLING TO LIVE A DISCIPLINED LIFE; YOU DON’T FACE THE devil UNLESS YOU ARE FULL OF THE SPIRIT
YOU CANNOT BECOME A TERROR TO THE devil EXCEPT YOU ARE BORN AGAIN
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on BEYOND DELIVERANCE at RCCG Online Sunday Service || 24th September 2023
Tonight we are talking on ‘BEYOND DELIVERANCE.’ Acts 8:5-8.
-There is going to be great joy here tonight!
Now, when we talk of deliverance we are basically talking about freedom from demons and demonic forces, freedom from anything that has to do with the devil. The demonic forces could be just one like in Mark 1:23-27 and it’s interesting that God called demons, ‘Unclean spirits’. So there is a link between dirtiness and demons. Church Gist. The demons could be more than one like in Luke 8:1-3, it talks about Mary Magdalene who had 7 demons only or the demons could be thousands like in Mark 5:2-13 talking about the mad man of Gadarenes; in his own case he had a legion of demons.
– But whether the demons are one, 7 or thousands there is someone who is called ‘The Deliverer’ and I’m sure you know His name! Jesus!
So when we talk about deliverance, basically, we are talking about deliverance from unclean spirits, from demonic forces. But deliverance offers you much more than just freedom from demons, harmful habits. For example in Mark 5:5, talking about the mad man of Gadarenes, the Bible says he was always cutting himself stones – He was doing something that was destroying him. Church Gist. That’s why you find people who have found out that without any doubt, smoking is dangerous – it can kill you, but they keep on smoking. You find a doctor smoking. I think on one occasion they asked a doctor: ‘You know this thing can kill and you are still doing it?’ He said: ‘Yes, man is going to die by something anyway.’ So he said: ‘If he is going to die by ‘enjoyment’ – he called smoking enjoyment – he said what’s the problem? Believe me honestly, deliverance can deliver you from adultery and fornication – Destructive habits. 1 Corinthians 3:17. Deliverance can give you freedom from wrong association and company. The mad man of Gadarenes was living in the grave yard – keeping company with the dead. It will interest you to know that in Proverbs 21:16, if you are backslidden, you are remaining in the congregation of the dead which is why when it is altar call time tonight if you know you are backslidden run away from the company of the dead, come back to God. 1 Corinthians 15:33. Church Gist. That means you are fellowshipping with the wrong kind of people, you will soon become like them. The Elders have a saying, the sheep that is fellowshipping with dogs will eat faeces. Proverbs 13:20. If your friends are fools and you keep on associating with them, the Bible says destruction is waiting. But deliverance offers you more than that, it offers you a restoration of your destiny. Before you were born, God had a plan for your life – Jeremiah 1:5 – but then many people come into the world and they deviate and their destiny becomes truncated but deliverance can restore your destiny. Church Gist. For example, in the case of the mad man of Gadarenes we were talking about, nobody would have thought that the mad man was born to be an Evangelist but when deliverance came and he said: ‘Lord, I will go with you wherever you go’. The Lord said: ‘No, Go and fulfill your purpose, your purpose is to be an Evangelist.’
-I have good news for somebody here tonight, your destiny that is being truncated shall be fully restored.
Some of you have heard the story before of a young man, brilliant young man a student of Medicine at the University of Ibadan. His father fought with another man. He wasn’t there when they were doing their fighting and the other man placed a curse on the father and said, ‘By the time I finish with you, nobody will remember you ever came to this world.’ Incidentally, deliverance can take you out of any family curse.
-So let me use the opportunity of tonight to say that if there are any generational curses in your family by the authority of the One who is called the All-Sufficient God, I destroy it!
As soon as that man pronounced the curse, less than 2 weeks later, the man he fought with die. So all the children came home to bury their dad and the eldest of the children had just returned from Germany and bought a new car. On the way after the burial of the father, the car had an accident and the boy died. They brought the news back home, the mother heard the news, collapsed and died. The children came to bury their mother, on their way back, another accident and the eldest sister in the family died and on and on. Until one day the man who placed the curse saw this young man, the last one left, student at the University of Ibadan, College of Medicine and said, ‘Ah! There remains one, this one is still living. Before I kill this one I will torture him a bit.’
-I decree today, that that sworn enemy of your family by the time you get back home, he would be gone!
So he did something and the boy became crazy, got back to the campus, gathered all his books together and all his clothes and set them on fire. Of course, they took him to Psychiatric hospital, loaded him with drugs and they said he can now go back to school. But he had burnt all his properties so he went home to see if he could get some money from his father’s farm and that man saw him again, “Oh you are still around?” He added petrol to the fire. The boy returned to the Campus and things got worse. To cut the long story short, after a long while something told that boy, “Your case is not natural, it’s not for drugs. You need to come in contact with the Lord of Hosts.” So they brought him to this Camp. By the time we saw him, his eyes were crimson red because he had not been able to sleep for days. By the special grace of God he gave his life to Jesus; the Almighty God intervened and somehow we were able to support him and he finished his doctorate degree. Today, he is an Evangelist.
– I decree to someone here listening to me: As a result of what God will do in your life tonight, you will fulfill destiny!
But deliverance offers you more. Exodus 12:30-32. Deliverance gives you the ability and the means to serve God as you wish. For example, deliverance makes available to you the wealth that you need to serve God. Church Gist. I know there are some people here who would love to build a Church for God once every year. It’s only they don’t have the means.
– I am decreeing tonight that the power to do whatever you want to do for God easily you receive it tonight!
It was deliverance that turned Mary Magdalene to a divine treasurer. Poverty is a curse. Prosperity is a blessing. That’s one of the reasons why the devil does not like anything that will cause you to prosper. Church Gist. I am telling you, poverty is not good. If you agree with me say, Amen. I have been poor. By the grace of God I am not that poor any more. I have known what it is to walk barefooted till you reach the age of 18. That’s not good. Poverty is a curse.
– In the name of the One who called me, I decree, poverty will become a stranger to you!
The Almighty God said it is to sinners that God has ordained travail, to struggle and have nothing to show for it. You’re working hard, working like an elephant and eating like an ant. That is not God. Church Gist. What your God says is: I wish above all things that you will prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. If there is any one who should be doing very well, it is someone whose soul is prospering. If you’re a true child of God, doing the will of God, you shouldn’t lack. Poverty is a curse and poverty will become a stranger to your family!
I am sure some of you will say, “but what about those people who are not Christians and they have a lot of money?” Oh sure; study the Bible very well. Church Gist. The Word of God says clearly: the prosperity of fools will destroy them. It is the blessings of the Lord that maketh rich and adds no sorrow. You will prosper and you won’t know sorrow!
However, prosperity can take you much much deeper. I have already talked about restoration of destiny as one of the things that you get when you are delivered. But some of the things that I really like is that deliverance can turn you to becoming a terror to the devil. You used to run from witches and wizards; deliverance can turn the tide so that they will now become those who will be running away from you! Church Gist. You can become someone who will be moving mountains. Acts 13:6-12. I know sometimes when we pray and make some decrees, some people feel, “are you not being too violent?” But if somebody says I will not reach my goal should I allow him to stay? So I decree:
– Anyone who will not allow you to reach your goal shall be uprooted!
One of my sons – great child of God, doing mighty things for God, was living in the same house in Ikeja. He was living in a flat upstairs and there was this witch living in the flat below – very famous one. Big big officers of law were coming to her for power. My son came and told me. I said, what are you doing? You’re upstairs, the devil is downstairs – Move the devil. Church Gist. He said, “Sir, aren’t you forgetting that the Bible says we must be gentle as a dove?” I said I see. So if I get to my bedroom at night and I open the bedsheet and one way or the other I found that a poisonous snake had found its way under the bed sheet. What you’re asking me to say is: Oh thou creature of God, you’re welcome. Sleep on, don’t worry I will be sleeping somewhere near you. Is that what you will do? So after sometime I didn’t see my boy. When I saw him, there were rashes all over his body. “What happened?” He said the witch reported him to one of the police officers that she is convinced that the bit upstairs must be a highway robber that people are always coming to his place at night to discuss. People were coming to pray, she said they were coming to plan how they will rob. So the policemen arrested my boy, threw him into detention. Church Gist. It took a while before they said, this fellow is always praying, he can’t be an armed robber. When my son came to me I said, “serves you right. Harmless as dove, go back, continue to be harmless as a dove with the witch underground. The next time she is going to report you, you won’t come out.” He got home and commanded mountain to move and mountain moved.
Say: In the mighty name of Jesus, every mountain blocking my way, move tonight!
There is something I like much more than moving occasional mountains. It is that deliverance can move you to a level where you become a one man army for the Lord. As we found in text, Acts 8:5-8, only one boy – Philip, went to a city. When he arrived there every demon started running away. Single boy became an army of God, flushed out all evil forces in the town. Church Gist. The result? There was great joy in the City.
– I am believing God for you, that you will visit your village, towns and drive out all the demons there!
Let me tell you a story and I will mention names because it’s a true story anyway. The Late Orimolusi, the one before the present one happens to be not just my son in the Lord but my friend and his Salvation was solid, I mean solid! Saved, sanctified, delivered and baptized in the Holy Spirit. So he told the people in his town and this is a true story you can check to be sure I’m telling you the truth. He said: ‘Now, I’m a child of God so I’m not just ordinary Oba, an ordinary Traditional Ruler, no more idol worshipping in my town,’ and the people laughed at him. At the time he was saying that, the Egungun Festival was just some weeks away. They told him, “we have been doing this before your father not to talk of you, we will celebrate our Egungun Festival.” He said, ‘Fine, we shall see’. Church Gist. I think about 3 three weeks to the date when the Festival was to be celebrated, the High Priest who will lead the celebration died and so the people said: ‘No problem, there is a successor’. So, another fellow became high priest. But 10 days or so to the celebration, the new high priest died. The people said: ‘No problem there is somebody who can succeed that one’ and so they told him: ‘It’s your turn’! He said I refuse. They said: ‘Why not?’ He said: ‘The God of Orimolusi will kill me’.
– I hereby decree anybody who raises any hand or foot against your God shall die!
What are the requirements for you to be a one man army for God, a terror to the devil?
James 4:7. Let your submission to God be total. You must be able to say like Jesus said in John 14:30, ‘The Prince of this world has come and hath nothing in me’. I am a Christian, a child of God, 100 per cent, nothing added. Submit like that to God, you will resist the devil, the devil will flee. I’m a small boy and if I’m a small boy now you can imagine how small I was some 40 years ago. You’ve heard the story! About 40 years ago, the same Orimolusi of blessed memory invited me to Ijebu-Igbo for a Thanksgiving Service because some of his children had returned from abroad and he wanted to celebrate and I went. Just as the Service was about to begin, a lot of his Chiefs of those days came and they came in the regalia of their various cults. The ushers saw them coming and they came to me and said: ‘Sir, are we going to allow these people into the Church?’ I said of course, put them in the front row where it will be easy for my God to reach them quickly and I changed my Sermon. I was going to preach on: ‘Oh, that man should praise the Lord.’ I changed my Sermon to: ‘What happened on Mount Carmel’. You know what happened on Mount Carmel. I rounded up the Sermon by saying: ‘Brethren, I came here with my wife and my son, in this particular car number so and so’, I said, ‘I give you a challenge – if you can make one of my tyres go flat I will serve your god. If you can’t do that, you must serve my God’. Then I made the altar call and the Head Chief who incidentally happened to be the leader of all the members of the secret society was the first to come forward. He came and of course, when they saw the leader going, others followed. At the end of the Service, Orimolusi said to me, ‘E. A.’ I said, ‘Kabiyesi,’ (because we were close, you know, he called me E. A. that’s my initial.) ‘You saw my Chief Assistant, the highest man next to me coming forward when you made the altar call?’ I said, ‘Kabiyesi, I saw him’. He said, ‘Maybe he didn’t understand what you said oo, maybe he thought you were asking for somebody who needs prayers for healing. Let’s follow him up.’ I said, ‘Good, let’s go.’ So we got to him and Kabiyesi said, ‘Did you know what you have just done?’ He said, ‘I do. Why?’ He said, ‘Ha! You see a small boy like this challenging all of us, who does not know there must be somebody behind him?’
– When you leave here, the Lord of Host will be behind you!
He said, it is the One behind him that I surrendered to. Submit to God absolutely and then you resist the devil and he will flee from you! That’s what the Bible says.
Then if you are to be a one man army for God, you must be ready for a life of self discipline. A life that you will keep yourself under perfect control. Matthew 17:14-21. You are my children so I can tell you the truth: your life must become a life of fasting and prayer. Church Gist. You can’t be overloaded with pounded yam everytime and expect the devil to take you serious. You must learn to say “no” to the flesh from time to time. 1 Corinthians 9:25-27.
That’s why you find that the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the things we are noted for is fasting. From time to time I call you to fast. Church Gist. Some of you of course obey, I don’t know about the rest. But in the name that is above every other name, as you follow my foot steps you will be greater than I!
I went home to my village in Ifewara several years ago. I was on holidays and when I am on holidays I don’t think of fasting. Holidays means you do what you don’t normally do – you rest, you eat. I went home, my home and they prepared me pounded yam – my favourite food with bush meat and combination Okro soup. As usual, I pray before I eat and God said clearly, “Son, don’t eat.” Ah ah, this is my home. Church Gist. Nobody is going to poison me here. My people love me, my family loves me and I am not fasting today, I am on holidays. God said again, son, don’t eat. I am confessing to you: I said ehn, “this pounded yam ehn, I am going to eat this one.” So I ate. Ah ah, I am a human being like you now, pray that God will help me. I have just finished eating when a messenger came and said one of my elder sisters living not too far away had been struck from head to toe with small pox. Thank God small pox is forgotten now but in those days it was terrible disease. It can kill you, if it doesn’t kill you it will deform you.
I ran to where my sister was. When I saw her I was shaking. I heard God say, I told you not to eat yet. I ran into the back of the house, put my hand deep into my throat and vomitted the meal. You don’t cast out small pox with your belly full of pounded yam. Church Gist. I apologized to God and then came back and dealt with small pox. Before the following morning my sister was completely whole again. You must be willing to live a disciplined life and of course, you don’t face the devil unless you are full of the Spirit. One of your prayers tonight is that God will fill you to overflowing with the Holy Spirit.
How can you become a terror to the devil if you are not born again? 1 John 3:8. You are committing sin? It said the devil is your owner and so how are you going to be commanding your owner to move? He will just slap you on the head. Acts 19:13-17. If your salvation is not genuine, I beg you to come and give your life to Jesus because very soon we are going to be praying and one of our prayers will be a prayer in agreement. Church Gist. Those of us who are full of the Holy Spirit, true children of God, we are going to command every demon here to get out. Believe me honestly, they are going to obey. When the demons begin to fly out, if they find someone who has not been washed in the blood of the Lamb they will say, ah, no problem we are just exchanging houses.
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