SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE, PART II.

McNutt in his book “Deliverance from Evil Spirits” 1 says that believers cannot be
possessed,and even it is very rare amongst unbelievers. But that people, whether believers or unbelievers, can become demonized or infested from the outside and inside their beings, where they get attached from a person’s past wounds and traumas into their souls or bodies. McNutt mentions such cases in the Bible, where Ananias, who was a believer, had lied to the Holy Spirit and an evil spirit takes over his heart! This would be called demonization of the soul. Another case in the Bible is Judas, Jesus’ disciple, whom probably could be considered a believer since he had been walking with Jesus, who was under power of Holy Spirit; it is said in John 13:27, that the devil entered him: so was this possession or just demonization? McNutt is not clear on this but this could show a case where a believer becomes demon-possessed, where there is dissipation or removal of the Spirit from him for a while! He does make the point that people like Charles Manson are really possessed even though he says present day cases are rare. I myself don’t think I agree with him on this!

The Holy Spirit comes to abide in a person’s spirit when they first have a born-again experience. A person’s spirit’s lifeline with God is severed by sin which they are all subject to , since they live in a fallen world due to Adam and Eve’s disobedience! But when they have a born-again experience , the Spirit invades their spirit and they are freed or liberated. Of course with sanctification, where they have the Spirit continually refilling their spirits there is the renewing of a person’s minds by the Word which is brought alive by the Spirit in them; so it is a continuous process where there are special encounters which keep liberating them from demonic bondages due to memories of the past, specially where they have been sinned -against. This process grows people from glory to glory. Deliverance events free a person as needed by confession, repentance, renunciation, restitution! ( Coulter’s Lecture 4).2

Pastor Jack Hayford in “Finger of God”3 states that where the Spirit dwells there can abide no evil spirits. I don’t know if I still agree, due to past experience and Scripture: of course, I know that even as believers there can come dissipation of the Spirit such as when a person is continually getting drunk , doing drugs, or there is habitual sinning, and so maybe at this times evil spirits can come and take possession of their spirits. At the same time, it could be as McNutt says, they can come from within a person, and he really does not know how they came to enter, but they are not really possessing a person’s spirit!

NOTES

1 Francis McNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1995), 72-78.
2 Leah Coulter, Lecture 4: Setting the Captives Free(Van Nuys: King’s, 2013), 3-4.
3 Jack Hayford, The Finger of God, ( Van Nuys: Living Way Ministries, 1993).4.

LOMOOR IKIN JISOS KRAIST!

Ke bwebwenato in Christian ej eddeklok, etan ‘Jisōs’ kar jelā kake einwot ‘Yahweh ej Lomor’. Jen melele ko ilo Kallimur Mokta kin Iroij, Ri Pinmuur, Ri Lomor, Anij, melele kein rar bōklok ñan Jisōs im ewi wawein an Ri Christian ro tõmak ilo E. 1 Emool, tokelik, jej lo kiõ Jisōs einwõt Ri Lomor im Ri Pinmuur jen jerawiwi im marok ilo jitõb, eo ear lutõk bõtõktõk ilo debwããl eo ñan an maroñ kõllã kin jerawiwi ko ad, elañe jej tõmak! Im bwe E ej ial eo wot ñan Anij! Innem E ej ad Rilo̧mo̧o̧r!

Kiiō jej aikuj in bōk juon en̄jake in bar ļotak n̄an maron̄ bōk juon jem̧jerā ippān! Ilo Jon 3:3,16 ej ba: “ ‘Jisōs ear uwaak im ba ñan e, ‘Em̧ool, Ij ba n̄an eok, eļan̄n̄e juon armej ejjab bar ļotak, e jab maron̄ lo aelōn̄ in Anij’….’Bwe jon̄an an Anij yokwe laļ, Ear letok juon wōt Nejin, bwe jabdewōt eo ej tōmak ilo E en jab jako, a en mour indeeo ilo e. ej ba: “ Jisōs e ba ñan lio, ‘Ña jerkakpeje eo im mour eo. Eo ej tõmak ilo Ña, meñe ej mej, enaaj mour. Im jabdewōt eo ej mour im tõmak ilo ña e jãmin mej indeeo. Kwõj ke tõmak men in?’ “

Innem jej aikuj tõmak im ukwelok jen jerawiwi ko ad bwe jen maroñ kiõ bõk juõn kõtan ibben Anij eo ej itok wõt ikijen juõn eñjake in bar lotak ibben Jisōs ad Ri Lomor im Iroij! “Jinoin mour in Christian ej aikuj juon kile kin jerawiwi eo an make im juon bebe ñan jolok wāween mour eo ej lemnok wōt kin e make.”2

NOTES

1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright im J.I. Packer, eds., New Dictionary of Theology, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.

KWŌN BA JAR KEIN BWE KWON EROM BAR LOTAK:
“Jisōs Ij tōmak Kwaar mej ioon debwāāl eo,
katorlok bōtōktōkōm kin jeorlok bwir ko ao ;
Im bar jerkakpeje ilo raan eo kein kajilu!
Ijelā bwe ij juon ri jerawiwi. Jouj im jeorlok bwid ko ao;
Jouj im itok ilo buruō!
Itok im erom aō Rilo̧mo̧o̧r im Irooj in mour eo aō!
Komolol Jisōs”