Sermon Tone Analysis

*Can Christians Demonized Be?*

Can an evil spirit and the Holy Spirit occupy the same space in a human life?

I.

Consider God's provision and Promise:

 

  A.

John 10: 27 – 30

 

           

            Jesus is asked to give proof of who He is.

His response is that He has given proof

through the miracles but that the Jews did not believe.

~* My sheep listen to my voice

                        ~* I know them.

They follow me

                        ~* I give them eternal life, they shall never perish

                        ~* No one can snatch them out of my hand

                        ~* My Father has given them to me

                        ~* My Father is greater than all

                        ~* No one can snatch them out of My Father's hand

                        ~* I and the Father are one.

B.

Romans 8: 9 - 11

 

            We are controlled by the Spirit if the Spirit of God lives in us.

If we do not have   

            the Spirit we do not belong to Christ.

~* Or bodies are dead, our spirits are alive because of the gift of                                              righteousness

                        ~* The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead will give life                                                to our bodies

 

  C.

Romans 8: 12 - 14

 

We are obligated ( bound by moral duty, by our debt of gratitude) to live according to the Spirit and not according to the sinful nature

 

                        ~* Those led by the sinful nature will die

 

                        ~* Those led by the Spirit are sons of God

 

  D.

Romans 8: 28 - 39

 

            God planned our salvation, God does the work of our salvation, God guarantees that our salvation is completed!

~* God foreknew and predestined me to be conformed to the likeness of His Son.

 

                        ~* Who can come against me?

(Who can change God's plan for me?)

 

                        ~* No one can charge me with anything ... God has justified me.

~* No one can condemn me ... Jesus is interceding for me.

~* No one can separate me from the love of Christ.

~*  No one can separate me from the love of God.

E.

I John 3: 4 - 6

 

Sin is lawlessness, that is, sin is breaking the law, and Jesus came to take away our lawless deeds

 

                        ~* No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning!

 

                        ~* No one who continues to sin has either known Him or seen Him

 

  F.

I John 3: 8, 9

 

            He who does what is sinful is of the devil

 

                        ~* No one born of God will continue to sin ... God's seed is in  him!

 

                        ~* He cannot go on sinning!

G.

I John 3: 24

 

            How do we know that He lives in us?

 

                        ~* By the Spirit He gave us.

H.

I John 4: 4

 

            We have overcome the spirit of the anti-christ

 

                        ~* The One in us is greater than the one in the world

 

 

  I.

I John 5: 18

 

            Anyone born of God does not continue to sin.

 

                        ~* The One who was born of God (i.e., Jesus) keeps us safe

 

                        ~* The evil one cannot harm us

 

  J.

Collisions 1: 13

 

            God has rescued us from the dominion (i.e., authority) of darkness (evil).

~* He has brought us into the authority of the Son

 

  */K.

Conclusion:  Do the Scriptures lie to us? No!/*

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*/~* We can't be snatched out of the hand of God,  ~* we can't be separated from the   /*

*/    love of God  by demons or Satan(a fallen angel), /*

*/~* We are predestined to be conformed to Christ's likeness, ~* no one can change    /*

*/God's plan, ~* if we live in Christ or are born of God we can't keep on sinning or continue sinning, ~* we have been given the Spirit of God by God himself ~* and that Spirit in us is greater than the one in the world, ~* we have been rescued from the authority of Satan and brought into the authority of Jesus./*

/ /

*II.

The scriptural view of evil:  *

 

*  A.

The scriptures show us two types of evil, the sin we do (moral sin ) and   *

*       the consequences of our sinning (suffering)  *

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*    1.

Moral evil has to do with our obedience or our disobedience to God.*

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*            ~* Satan provokes and arouses the sin we do (morally)*

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*            ~* The scriptures do not show demons that corrupt us morally.

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*    2.

The consequences of sin or suffering is used by both God and Satan.*

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*            ~* Satan uses it to harm us and bring death*

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*            ~* The scriptures show demons who hurt and abuse us*

 

 

 

 

 

 

  B.

/Jesus cast out demons to get rid of suffering/; treating them like part of

        the curse brought on by Adam's sin.

Luke 13: 10 - 17

 

 

"... a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.

She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, 'Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.'...immediately she straightened up ...'the Lord answered him, ' Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years..."

 

    1.

His approach to them is the same as with others who needed relief

         from their suffering:

 

John 9: 1 - 7

 

"As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.

His disciples asked him, ' Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'  'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life...Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes....So the man went and washed, and came home seeing."

Compare the attitude of the Pharisees John 9: 24 -34

 

".....To this they replied, ' You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!'

And they through him out."

2.

Notice the paralytics: