Author Dr. James. A McBean. D.Th., MCC

Copyright © 2012 Library of Congress Washington.D.C.20559

Publisher: Revival Tract Ministries, Inc

I Have met so many godly people, people that could have been a trailblazer for God, who could have; turn the tide and cause great revival, but have been side trapped by demonic spirits. I meet one devoted Christians who got married and divorced about some seven times. The things which they say the Holy Spirit told them to do. One man told me that the Holy Spirit told him to leave his $40000 job per years and go preach, he left his job, and never preach a sermon since. Then he sounds so spiritual, so sure of himself, for God has spoken to him. They tested the spirit which spoken to them and know it was the Holy Spirit that spoken to them because “Demons cannot say Jesus is Lord, ” What do Christians think that demons cannot verbally say Jesus is Lord; do you think the cat get their tongue? Demons are deceiving spirits, they are liars, and will say anything if it will further their agenda upon the human race. Demonic spirits have learned a new trick since 1 John 4:2 was written. If you do not understand the connotation of words, the King James Version is not for you.

The Scriptures Never Told Us That Demons Cannot Say Jesus Is Lord:

Philip. 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 John 4:1-2 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. [2] Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: ((Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God))”, “What does come in the flesh mean?”

If you talk to a Jewish Rabi and he verbally agrees that Jesus Christ, the anointed one, the promised Messiah has come and live among us as a human being in the flesh, then that Rabi is a Christian. The same Rabi we just talk about will say it, to save his life, or to further his financial cause, but from his soul, he does not believe that. Go to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem today and any of those people you saw on the wall praying and asking the Messiah to come, the moment any of them believe that the Jesus, which was crucified, is the Son of God that Jews will never go back to that wall.

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Look At This Spirit Of Divination At Work:

Act 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: Act 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. Act 16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the (((same hour.))) Pay attention: The demon came out the same hour, not the same minutes. Also, it was one demon. Note the scriptures say: (he) not them.

Act 16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, Act 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, Act 16:21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. Act 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates ((rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.))

We need to pay attention to this: The apostles clothing was torn from their bodies and they were beaten. What does this prove, believing in Jesus does not prevent you and me from being disgraced and get a beating. Do not put yourself in danger! "Be wise like a serpent"

Acts 19:13-16 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them, which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. [14] And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. [15] And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? [16] And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Getting To Know Deceiving Spirits:

There is the spirit of divination that fakes the Holy Spirit. In addition, there is the familiar spirit. Familiar spirit is a friendly demon, you would think, the way this person is nice he or she is filled with the Holy Spirit, then when you saw how they back stab and dig pits, you faint at the wickedness.

Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turned after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

These two spirits take possession of many Church people, infect the church is a breeding ground for these two spirits. Some of them break fight right there in church. Behind all that, niceness there will be a hate undreamt of. These also do not have any stomach for the written word of God. They prefer somebody gave them a word Many Church people do not know genuine Christians, and do not know the spirit of God. Nor know demonic spirit. You and I will never live a triumphant Christian’s life if we do not know deceiving spirits.

Fooled By Evil Spirits:

Supposed conviction of sin by deceiving spirits. By Jesse Pen- Lewis, in the book title” War On The Saints” " I united with a number of brethren and sisters, one whole week every month, in prayer to God to pour out more of His Spirit, gifts, and power. After having done this for some time with great earnestness, such powerful and wonderful manifestations of God and His Holy Spirit (apparently) took place that we no longer doubted God had heard our prayer, and His Spirit had descended into our midst, and on our gathering. Amongst other things, this spirit, which we thought to be the Holy Spirit, used a fifteen-year-old girl as his instrument, though whom everyone belonging to our gathering, and having any sin or burden of conscience, had it revealed in the gathering. Nobody could remain in the meeting with any burden of conscience without it being revealed to the meeting by this spirit. For example: a man of esteem and respect from the neighborhood came to the meeting, and the fifteen-year-old girl exposed all his sins in the presence of the gathering. Thereupon he took me into an adjoining room, so broken down, and admitted to me, with tears, that he had committed all these sins, which the girl had exposed. He confessed this and all other sin known to him. Then he came again into the meeting, but hardly had he entered when the same voice said to him" Ha! you have not confessed all yet, you have stolen ten gulden, that you have not confessed" in consequence, he took me again into the adjoining room and said" It is true, I have also done this" This man had never seen this fifteen-year-old girl in his life, neither she him.---We had to unmask this spirit which had brought about these things-which we took to be the Holy Ghost as a terrible power of darkness.-- As we came downstairs the voice of this power said, using the fifteen-year old girl as his instrument" What is this rebellion in your midst? You will be sorely punished for your unbelief" I told this voice that it was true we did not know with whom we had dealing. But we wanted to be in that attitude, that if it was an angel of God, or the Spirit of God, we would not sin against Him, but if it was a devil we would not be deceived by him'' if you are the power of God, you will be in accord as we handle the Word of God.-- Then the power had to reveal itself of its own accord. Through the person which he had been using as his instrument he made such abominable and terrible grimaces, and shrieked in such a piercing tone'' Now I am found out, now I am found out"

How Demons Attacked Advance Believers:

In The book “War On The Saints, by Jessie Penn-Lewis. Page 149-150. 1-3 The agency of demons is always brought more conspicuously into notice, in proportion to the manifestation and the power of God’s work among souls. When the son of God was manifest in the flesh, called forth the activity and outspoken agency of demons more than ever before.

Various Kind Of Demons:

Demons are of a multiplied variety. They are of various types, greater in diversity than human beings, and these demons always seek to possess a person congenial to them in some characteristic. The bible tells us of unclean demons, with craft and fortune-telling demons, of insanity, of drunkenness, of gluttony, of idleness, of wonder or miracle working, of despotic demons, theological demons, screeching and yelling demons. There are demons that act more particularly on the body, or some organ or appetite of the body. There are others that act more directly upon the intellect, or the sensibilities, and emotions, and affections.

There are others of a higher order that act directly on man’s spiritual nature, upon the conscience, or the spiritual perceptions. These are the ones that act as angels of light, and sidetrack and delude many who are real Christians.

How Demons Fasten On Human Beings:

They seek out those whose make-up and temperament is most congenial to themselves, and then seek to fasten themselves to some part of the body, or brain, or some appetites, Or some faculty of the mind, either the reason, or imagination, or perception; and when they get access, they bury themselves into the very structure of the person, so as to identify themselves with the personality of the one they possess.

Wild Abnormal Impulsive Behaviors:

“A very holy and useful woman says, that soon after receiving the baptism of the Spirit, there came to her one night in the church, a wild abnormal impulse to throw the hymn-book at the preacher, and run over the church screaming; and it took all her will power to keep her hand from throwing that book, but she had the common sense to know that the Holy Spirit was not the author of such a suggestion. If she had yielded to those sudden feelings, it would have likely given that fanatical demon admission to her emotional nature and ruined her life work.

Another person said he felt like rolling on the floor, and groaning and pulling the chairs around, but he distinctly perceived that the impulse to do so had some things wild in it; and a touch of self-display contrary to the gentleness and sweetness of Jesus; and, as quickly as he saw it was an attack of a false spirit, he was delivered. But another man had the same impulse, and fell down groaning and roaring, beating the floor with his hands and feet, and the demon entered into him as the angel of light, and got him to think that his conduct was of the Holy Ghost, and it became a regular habit in the meetings he attended, until he would ruin every religious meeting he was in.

The Holy Spirit Does Not Engineered Wild Impulsive behaviors:

1 Cor. 14:40 (KJV) Let all things be done decently and in order.

Wild impulsive behaviors in the church are not of God; it is just self-displaying and self-lifting up. 1 Cor. 14:33 (KJV) For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

When you enter a church in which the Holy Spirit is not in control, you will sense it. You will feel, and notice, an atmosphere where there are hypocrisy, hate, resentment, gossiping and backstabbing. In most cases, this negative energy will only be directed against one person, one family, or one group of people. Amidst all that shouting, screaming, and speaking-in-tongues, you will know that there is a closet where the bones of dead men lay; (figure of speech). These demonic churches can put on a show. They will welcome the wife and children while showing the husband a bad face.

2 Cor. 13:5; Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Matthew 7:22-23; Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity

Luke 13:28; There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

Ten Facts about Demons (Luke 11:24-26):

1. They are unclean (Luke 11:24). 2. They can go out and come into the bodies of men (Luke 11:24-26). 3. They can walk (Luke 11:24). 4. They seek comfort (Luke 11:24). 5. They can talk (Luke 11:24). 6. They make decisions (Luke 11:24). 7. They distinguish between different places (Luke 11:24-26). 8. They seek fellowship and company with each other (Luke 11:26). 9. They are wicked (Luke 11:26). 10. They seek control of men (Luke 11:24-26).

Six Earmarks of a Manifestation of the Holy Spirit:

(1) A Christ-like spirit of love, patience, and faith in God (2) Soberness and keenness of spirit vision (3) Deep humility of heart and meekness of spirit, with a lion-like courage against sin, sickness, poverty, disease, discouragement, failure, and everything else causing defeat in the Christian life (4) Absolute clearness of the mental faculties and intelligent action in carrying out Biblical instructions concerning known duty and personal life as a Christian (5) Freedom from faultfinding, surmising, whispering, and slander; and freedom from all the works of the flesh listed in Mark 7:19-21; Romans 1:24-32; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Galatians 5:19-21; Col. 3:5-10 (6) Freedom from any ignorance concerning the divine will. When one is moved upon to act quickly and urgently without knowing whether the act will glorify God or not, it is better to wait and pray until it is clear, beyond all doubt that God approves such action. Always remember that 1 John 4:1 commands: "Try the spirits whether they are of God