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Hello, my name is Dr. Don Ibbitson of Above & Beyond Counseling Ministries. In the short
video I like to give you an overview of the nature of man what happens at salvation and
also the basis for deliverance ministry. Based upon the nature of man the Bible says about
salvation we are a triune being, body soul and spirit. Our physical body or physical
container is our hair, skin and teeth bones flesh and whatnot. Our soul is where our minded
will memory and emotions reside. Iin our spirit man is that part of it in us that drives us
if you like that we are compelled to do when and leads us if you like. It is very clear
that our spirit man is born dead to God because of the sin of Adam and that's why Jesus said
in Scripture that in order to enter the kingdom of heaven you must be born again. Here’s
what happens a born-again believer gets a new spirit and the Holy Spirit comes and lives
inside of them. 2Corinthians 517 says that he who is in Christ is a new creation the
old has gone the new has come. Flesh gives birth to flesh and Spirit gives birth to spirit
and that's what significant we need to see and understand that when a person get born
again only part of us with gets made new. Now the Holy Spirit comes lives inside us
we do not have a get a new body and we certainly do not get a new soul. We get a born again
spirit and what happens is that it we see in counseling sessions and in and ministry
at our situations that people can may have we call strongholds in their life; areas of
their life they can I get the victory, such as depression anger fear addictions perversions
and more. In this ministry now we use this definition for stronghold we say a person
has a stronghold for some person part of a person's soul ( their mind every or emotions)
that part of the that's not born again that they cannot get the victory if you like, to
refuse to submit to the ruling authority of Jesus in their life. What we help people understand
is that putting that graphic back up you can see again that been a Christian and I can
it has is the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit in them, and they can also have areas of darkness
in their soul and that's we call strongholds of darkness and they can be anyone of the
issues I talked about in them. And what we do teach help people understand and I know
this is a problem for some Christians but behind these strongholds can in fact be demonic
spirits. And yet you see in Scripture deliverance ministry of Jesus called spirits out of people
the disciples did in the spirits can be inside of the soul and that is the essence of deliverance
ministry is getting the spirits to come out. Jesus in Mark 16:17 said we are to drive out
demons of things out we do are done to us are open doors if you like your entry points
for spirits to enter into us what happens is a person's believer can be trying to walk
with the Lord trying to bear the good fruit of the Holy Spirit if you like love and joy
peace patience kindness goodness gentlest faithfulness and self-control but these of
the demonic spirits can't enter into us in and in part of us. We teaches about entry
points. The spirits can grow more powerful just like the spirit man in us grows as we
feed him word worship and fellowship become more mature in Christ our spirit man matures.
Also, demonic spirits could become more powerful and an what we see is a picture of what we
call demonic oppression. I don't want to get into into a discussion possession and oppression
here but were very clear we do not believe Christians could be demon possessed because
we are God possessed. They can certainly can be tormented and oppressed by these demonic
spirits and the essence of deliverance ministry is calling the spirits out sending them to
drying uninhabited places we believe that's the biblical thing to do and then a person
can see fresh fruit in their life begin quickly. it's important to know we teach that there
are not demons behind everything in our life and are not responsible for every wrong thing
and everything we do. Bu that deliverance from these demonic spirits can make a huge
change in a person's life begin to see new things in the fruits of the Holy Spirit in
their life. So there is a very brief overview of the nature of man how that relate their
salvation in the born again experience and also the aspect in the basis for the deliverance
ministry that we are involved in. Thank you for listening