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In Mark 16:17 it says "these signs shall follow them that believe..."
How many of us are believers? Well most of us are...
He says "these signs shall follow them that believe" If you are a believer,
then there should be certain supernatural signs that should follow
in your life;
there should be the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit
in your life. These signs should follow, and
the first sign that Jesus mentioned, was "in My Name
you shall cast out demons." I meet a lot of Christians who have never cast out a demon.
If I ask for
a show of hands here this morning I would imagine it would be much in the minority
of how many of you have actually cast out a demon. But I'm not throwing stones,
I didn't for twenty years of my ministry. I never cast out a demon. But you say, "well why
didn't you brother Frank?" I didn't know they were any to cast out!
I was ignorant. I didn't know I was supposed to...
I had to learn about these things; I had to learn that I was in warfare
and how the warfare was to be conducted. So I'm not condemning anybody, after what
I went through,
but I know the reason primarily was ignorance, and I want to dispel all the
ignorance I can.
Some people do not get involved in it because of fear.
We've asked people sometimes when we got into this "are you afraid to the devil?"
"Are you afraid of demons?" And a lot of people are. You know why they are?
Because they don't know who they are. They don't know who they are in Christ
Jesus!
They do not know the authority and the power that has been given unto them.
Glory to God!
The first time I tried to cast out a demon I went home and I was scared!
Something was sitting on my shoulder just talking away at me.
It said "You are an idiot. You are stupid!
Do you know what you've done? You had the audacity
to come directly against Satan's kingdom! Now if you had been smart,
you would have kept a low profile.
You would not have attacked the enemy, Satan's kingdom.
"But now that you have, you've made a spectacle of yourself. The devil has taken special notice of you
now,
"because of what you done, and he's gonna get you!
"He's going to destroy you!"
And I thought "Oh my, what have I done?" And I began to think what could I do to undo
what I had done,
and I didn't know anything I could do to make it undone. Then the Lord led me
to Luke Chapter 10, verse 19 where He says "I give you power over all the power of the
enemy...
"You shall tread on serpents and scorpions -
that terminology refers to demons or evil spirits - "You shall tread upon evil
spirits
and they shall in no wise
hurt you." Glory to God!
I said "I can attack the enemy without any fear of reprisal,
without any fear of his retaliation, without any fear
his attacking me!" because of my involvement in warfare with him.
You have to know that! If you don't know that,
if you don't believe that deep down in your heart, you will never become a
spiritual warrior.
You will never become effective in coming against the power of the enemy.
Because you have to know that you
are a soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He has called, that He has equipped
and that you're ready and that the enemy has much less power and authority than
you do
as a believer in Jesus Christ.