 Don't be fooled by those who say such things, for bad company corrupts good character. Make no mistake, the people you surround yourself with, the people you allow to have influence in your life can affect you spiritually, whether that be negatively or positively. And here the Scripture is talking about the fact that surrounding yourself with ungodly people and allowing them to have influence in your life can corrupt that character that Christ is trying to perfect in you. I'm talking now about the dangers of ungodly spiritual transport. Now please understand I'm going to come at this subject from a very biblically balanced way, so it might be a little bit different from what you've heard. We're going to ground this in the truth of God's word. We're going to glean from Scripture the truths that will help to protect us against this ungodly influence, especially now listen. If you're serious about serving the Lord, this is an important message. This is important for every true believer who wants to stand their ground, to hear, to know, to heed this word. So what is spiritual transfer? Well, to summarize it and put it simply, spiritual transfer is simply influence. Spiritual transfer is when those around us affect us according to what spirit they're walking in. So if someone is godly and they have influence in your life, well this is going to cause you to have an increased hunger for God. This is going to inspire you to read the word, to pray, to commit to ministry. But if you spend time with ungodly people who have influence over you, well that's going to do just the opposite. Now, transfer of deception takes place through shared actions and influence. This is about guarding your spiritual purity. I want you to write this in the comment section, whether you're watching live or on the replay. Keep me pure. I want you to write that right now and let that be a public prayer. Let that be something that you're genuinely asking the Lord, Lord, in this hour, Lord in these times, Lord in this corrupt world, keep me pure. Let the influence of the Holy Spirit within me guide my life as opposed to the influence of the world around me. Now as I said, we're going to address this subject from a very grounded, biblical, true perspective. And in order to do so, we of course have to look to the scriptures. So let me just right off the bat, speak to you about this balance that we need to strike when it comes to maintaining purity in our lives. Now, when somebody hears the word balance, sometimes they think compromise, but that's not at all what's taking place here. When I talk about balance, I'm talking about avoiding the extremes of apathy and paranoia. Some believers walk apathetically toward the matters of the spirit and in doing so, they open themselves to spiritual attack. They never talk about the supernatural. They mock those who talk about the supernatural and they're wide open to enemy attack because they're ignorant of his ways. And then there are believers who are so demon obsessed, so hyper focused on darkness that they forget the power of the light. So we want to avoid spiritual apathy and we want to avoid spiritual paranoia. Rather, I'm talking about vigilance. I'm talking about having a discerning, grounded mind, being rooted in the word, being rooted in the character of Christ and trusting in the power of the Holy Spirit to keep you. So let me say this right off the bat and some of you won't like this, but it's the truth and you need to hear this. And if it's different than what you've been taught, at least weigh what I'm saying against the Scripture and not just verses that you've heard quoted. Actually go and study the verses that are being quoted to you and see what they really mean. So let me start with this. No biblical example can be found of a demonic spirit being transferred to a believer through someone's touch or just being around someone who's demonically influenced. We don't see this in Scripture. In fact, the Bible tells us very plainly in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 19, don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself. Now listen, I got a couple more verses we'll read, but first I want to say this. I know that when we hear that because it might be a little bit different than what we've been taught, the initial reaction is to become defensive or to say something like, David, you're putting people in danger by telling them that the enemy can't attach to them or inhabit them. Look, the enemy, demonic beings, cannot attach to or inhabit the believer. That's as solid as any biblical doctrine as you can find. But this doesn't mean that we can therefore drop our guard and just walk apathetically toward the things of the spirit because the enemy can attack, the enemy can deceive, the enemy can torment, the enemy can distract, the enemy can confuse. There are all sorts of ways that the enemy can attack and affect the believer. So don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying just ignore him, nothing bad can happen, live however you want and nothing will ever affect you in the spiritual realm. No, that is true that the enemy can affect us, but what I'm saying specifically here, hear what I'm saying specifically. I'm saying that the enemy cannot physically attach to your being, to your body, your soul or your spirit, nor can he inhabit your body, your soul or your spirit. The Bible again clearly tells us, as I just read, that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Watch this first John 5.18, plain as day, plain as it can be in Scripture. We know that God's children do not make a practice of sinning. Here it's not saying that you live in sinless perfection on this side of eternity. Rather the Scripture is saying that you're not living a lifestyle, a practice of sinning, a willful intention of a lifestyle of sin. That's not what true believers live. True believers strive for holiness. They don't just accept sin and say, oh, well, I'm not perfect. So we know that God's children do not make a practice of sinning. For God's Son holds them securely, the evil one cannot touch them. What does that mean? I mean, from the Greek, the evil one cannot touch them. Well, it means the evil one cannot touch them. The enemy can't touch you. Demons can't touch you. The devil can't touch you. He can attack you, say, Brother David. That sounds like it's a contradiction. No, no, no. The Scripture very clearly warns us of the deception of the enemy, not the direct attachment of the enemy. And that's a very important distinction. Maybe we'll explore more of that a little bit later. But first, I wanna establish this point of avoiding paranoia. James 4-7, so humble yourselves before God. And what does the Bible say? Resist the devil and he will what? Flee from you. Well, just resisting him and he'll flee. This is not even going to the extremes of rebuking him, which we sometimes should do. This is just a matter of resisting him and he flees. And so that is what the Bible tells us concerning demonic influence in the life of the believer. We're protected by the Holy Spirit. The evil one cannot touch you. And if you resist the enemy, he ceases his attack and flees from you. And by the way, temptation is one of those main attacks that's being addressed there. So I'm not talking about a demon attaching itself to you or inhabiting you or linking to your being in any way. Let me say this one more time, just in case people try to say, I'm saying that demons can affect you. Demons can attack you, affect you, torment you, tempt you, confuse you, distract you, but they cannot inhabit you. That, as I said, is as biblically solid of a doctrine as you'll ever find. Now, I say this as someone, most of you know this, for those of you who are new to this channel, I say this as someone who practices deliverance. I say this as someone who regularly casts out demons. I say this as someone who believes in demonic possession, who believes demons are real, who believes we should be engaged in spiritual warfare, but we must base what we believe about the spiritual realm on the word. So, of course, demons can still attack you. Here's where some of the confusion may arise. If you have your Bibles, which you should, go to 1 Timothy, chapter five, I'm gonna read verse number 22. The Bible clearly says here, lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins, and keep thyself pure. Now, what specifically is this scripture talking about? Some imagine that this verse means that if you shake hands with an unbeliever, or if you're in the same room as an unbeliever and you're not aware of what they're imparting to you, that you can therefore receive a demonic spirit from them. Some believers are even afraid that if a minister who's demonically influenced lays hands on them, that a demon can be transferred to them. Well, the only way a demonic being can gain access to your life and to your life, I mean, in that they can influence you, the only way they can do this is if you allow them to do this through sinful living or falling for the lies and the deceptions of the enemy. But here the Bible is talking about something very specific. 1 Timothy 5.22 is a reference to commissioning people into ministry. You see, in the New Testament, what the apostles would do is they would test people, they would observe people, they would look and see if someone's life, it was lived, how shall I say, up to the standard of Scripture, they looked to see that the life of the individual was lived according to the Word of God and then they would say, there is a quality candidate for ministry and then after that person was known and tested and proved, then that person would be commissioned into ministry and part of the ceremony of commissioning that person into ministry was laying hands on them. So when this Scripture tells us lay hands on no man suddenly, what it's telling us is don't initiate someone's ministry. Don't ordain people without knowing them. Don't do it hastily. Don't just appoint any minister that you want. Make sure that the person that you're appointing into ministry actually meets the qualifications of Scripture. And then it says, neither be partakers of other men's sins. Keep thyself pure. Here the Scripture is clearly talking about doing what evil people do or partaking in their sin by endorsing them into ministry despite their wrongdoing. So if you appoint someone into ministry knowingly and you know that they have sin in their life, if you appoint someone into ministry knowing that they have areas that don't meet God's standard and you still put them in ministry, then by doing so, you're actually participating in their sin and God will hold you accountable for putting people into ministry who aren't qualified for leadership ministry. I mean, all believers do ministry but you get what I'm saying there. So that's where some of the confusion comes from. You know, people look at that Scripture, oh, lay hands on no man suddenly and they become paranoid. Well, if you shake hands with an unbeliever or if somebody who has sin in their life lays hands on you that for some reason or another, the Holy Spirit's gonna go, sorry, those are the rules. I gotta back off and let that demon take its place in your life now. No, that's not at all how it works. We are called to spiritual warfare, not superstitious warfare. So let's be very careful about the way we look at these things. Now, in a moment, I'm gonna talk to you about some of the dangers of actual spiritual transfer. So don't hear what I'm not saying. I don't mean to inspire no reverence whatsoever. I don't mean to inspire people to just be apathetic toward the supernatural realm but we do have to be balanced. We do have to ground ourself in the word and what it actually says if we're gonna walk in true power. Otherwise, we just get stuck in powerless religious man-made traditions that don't really produce anything but fear and paranoia in our lives. So that's one of the things that causes confusion. That's one of the misapplications I should say that has caused people to think that demons can attach themselves to you just by shaking someone's hand. Another thing, and again, this is gonna be a little different than probably what you've heard but another thing you should be aware of and this is very important. Another reason that confusion around this subject has become so, how shall I say, so intrusive. The reason it's so permeated the body of Christ is precisely because what's happening and what happens sometimes is that we take beliefs and doctrines from other systems, other belief systems and then we try to pull them and force them onto scripture. I'll tell you what I mean. People who are really susceptible to this are people who were saved from the occult, people who were saved from witchcraft, people who were saved from new age practice. So when someone who was in the new age gets saved or when someone who was into witchcraft gets saved or when someone who was into the occult gets saved, the problem is that when they come to the Lord, sometimes instead of leaving behind their old belief systems, what they do is they take from their former life and they call that intel or insight and they try to take from the beliefs of the old system and then force them onto scripture. Look, when we get saved, the Bible says all things become new. So we are not to take from old systems. Why would you believe anything that was taught to you under demonic doctrine? Why would you believe anything taught to you that came from a system that was founded by demons? Some may say, well, it gives a spiritual insight taking from those systems or learning from those systems. No, it doesn't. That would be to say that the scripture was insufficient. That would be to say that God didn't give us everything that we needed to fight spiritual warfare, that we actually need the teachings of the occult, that we actually need the teachings of new age practice, that we actually need those teachings of the world to supplement with the Bible mist. Think about the arrogance in that. Now, I'm not saying that people don't get saved from these systems. I'm not saying that these people who come to the Lord from these systems aren't genuinely saved. Of course, God can save anyone. And we celebrate when people are rescued from the new age. We celebrate when people are rescued from the occult. We celebrate when people are rescued from witchcraft. That's wonderful. It's wonderful that they've left the kingdom of darkness and now come into the kingdom of light. The problem comes when we say, well, tell us what they used to teach you and then we'll apply it to our spiritual warfare doctrines as if it's come from scripture. Dangerous, that's unholy mixture. And so that is part of where we get some of these teachings, these attachments, these soul ties, these things that we say are forming in the spiritual realm but they cannot be formed in the life of the believer who's walking in the Holy Spirit. Now, again, I have to say this repeatedly so that nobody misunderstands me. I am not saying that demons can't attack you or affect you or even torment you. Of course they can. We see examples of that in the New Testament. What I am saying is the influence they have over you is limited because you're a born-again believer now. So we can be rid of this fear, this superstition, this man-made teaching around the subject, the spiritual transfer. I mean, how would you evangelize? I mean, don't go in that area because if you go preaching in that area, you know, you could walk out with some attachments or don't shake the hand of that sinner because if you shake the hand of that sinner, you could walk out with some attachments and already the religious mind may be saying, well, David, you can't tell them that. That's breaking the rules. You're setting them up for failure or you're opening them up to attack but this is to forget. This is to forget the power of the Holy Ghost. Think about it. If I have the Holy Spirit in me and they have a demonic spirit in them and I shake their hand, who do you think wins? Greater is he who is in me and he who is in the world or greater is the spirit who is in you than the spirit that is in the world, the scripture says. In other words, one is in you, one is not. One has greater power, one has lesser power and by comparison, it's not even, why I couldn't even consider it a comparison because the Holy Spirit is that much more powerful. Now, as I said, this doesn't mean that we can just let ungodly influence into our lives and I'll tell you how that looks. I'll tell you how that works but right now I need us to be rid of certain superstitious mindsets. That's not how it works. It doesn't work by you walking into the supermarket. They're playing a song on the radio and you think, I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here. I don't want anything to attach to me. It doesn't work where if you're gonna go and evangelize in a really tough neighborhood and there's all sorts of violence and all sorts of witchcraft in the region that if you don't necessarily fast before you go that if you come out of there with having evangelized that you're gonna have all these attachments. That's not how it works at all. Or if you go and cast a demon out of someone that that demon will somehow jump on you. That's not how it works. If that was a problem, if that was an issue then Jesus would have told the disciples to cast out demons privately. Jesus did not cast demons out in back rooms in private sessions. The disciples did not cast out demons in back rooms in private sessions. It's almost like we try to hide what the Holy Spirit does. No, when Jesus drove out devils, he did it publicly and he did it in front of crowds and he made a display of just how weak the demonic beings were compared to his power. That's his power. And so this fear that we have that, oh, you're casting a demon out of someone it may jump onto someone else. Well, not in that setting, not when the Holy Spirit's power is present in that way. If you're there and you're driving a demon out, when that demon goes out, it's gonna get as far away from you as it possibly can. That's the power that rests in you. So again, yes, there is such a thing as ungodly spiritual transfer. But no, it does not work in the way that we most often think. And again, I just revealed to you why some people misunderstand the way it works because of a misapplication of 1st Timothy, chapter five verse 22, and because we tried to take from the occult and witchcraft. And again, it's wonderful that people are being saved from these things but then to take their teachings of their former selves and say, well, let's slap that onto the scripture because the scripture wasn't sufficient enough in preparing us for spiritual warfare. That's a mistake. And that's something that we ought not to do. Okay, having addressed the paranoia side. So don't worry, shaking the hand of an unbeliever's not gonna get a demon attached to you. You're walking in the mall, you hear an ungodly song. You're not gonna get a demon attached to you. You're evangelizing in a tough area. You're not gonna get a demon attached to you. Somebody gets angry with you, tries to put a curse on you. No way you're not gonna get a demon attached to you. Not if you're walking with the Holy Spirit as a born again believer. You're a new creation. There's no way. You're not a part of that kingdom anymore. You're not under that power. But the way it can affect you now. Let's look at this biblically. Go now to 2 Corinthians chapter six, verse 14. So this doesn't mean we're off the hook. This doesn't mean that, oh, okay, so I can just go be around anyone, do anything, think anything and I'll be okay. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. So again, we took care of the paranoia. Now let's take care of the apathy and look at how the enemy can affect you with ungodly spiritual transfer. 2 Corinthians 6, 14 says, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? Here, the scripture is describing more than a conversation. The scripture is describing more than a handshake. The scripture here is describing covenant. It's describing unity. It's describing influence. Now we as believers are not to come into covenant with unbelievers and this is more than just to do with marriage, by the way. This has to do with allowing an unbeliever to have influence in your life. You know, I have many friends who are not saved. They're not born again. They don't serve the Lord. They have questions. They're kind of searching right now. I don't say back away from me. I don't want your demons. They come to my house. I don't say get out. I don't need you here. You know, like some people are germaphobes. Some people are demon phobes. They think that if they don't spray holy oil of disinfectant that the demons are gonna remain. That's not how it works. I don't kick these people out of my house and say, I don't want you here. Your spirits are gonna attach to me. Get away from my daughter. I don't want her to have demonic attachments with you. No, no, no, no. Remember, even Jesus himself spent time with sinners. Now you might say, well, that's because that was Jesus. Well, he was our model and he was showing us how we ought to live our lives. He would spend time around sinners never doing what they did, but instead controlling the atmosphere and the influence. That's a key component by the way of connecting with the unbeliever. You control the atmosphere. When I'm around unbelievers, they come into my home. They'll meet me after a service. We'll go into a neutral place like a restaurant. But I'm not gonna go with them and go drinking and partying. I'm not gonna go with them and go smoke. I'm not gonna go with them to some wicked concert where they're playing ungodly demonic music. No, I'm gonna invite them to where I am. I'm gonna take the atmosphere and I'm gonna invite them to that atmosphere. Now, when we interact with the unbeliever, we have to watch conversation. We have to watch what we do. We have to watch what we think and we have to be careful of how they could influence us. So the scripture is describing influence, not attachment. Please understand, this is the primary difference. The Bible, when it talks about ungodly spiritual transfer as we like to put it, it's not talking about attachment. It's talking about influence. That is the primary difference and it'll keep you grounded when you understand that. Watch this, Psalm chapter one, verses one through three. All the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or stand around with sinners or join in with mockers, but they delight in the law of the Lord meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do. All the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked. It's one thing to have a conversation with an unbeliever. It's one thing to have a conversation with someone who is ungodly or living an ungodly lifestyle. It's another thing to allow the mindset that has deceived them to influence you. It's now when you start to follow the advice of the wicked. You start to take counsel from people who aren't living right. Well, you know what people who aren't living right will always inspire you to do? To compromise. They're gonna say things that put you further into compromise. This is talking about ungodly connections. Watch this now. First Timothy chapter four verse one. Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith. They will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. Listen to me now, please. Demons know the word too. Demons understand the scripture better than most Christians understand the scripture. Of course, they don't have the revelation of the Holy Spirit. But intellectually speaking, demons have a better grasp on the scripture than almost any one of us, probably all of us. They've been around long enough to understand it and they're intelligent enough to grasp some of the key concepts, not necessarily the revelation, but the information. And so the scripture describes here doctrines of demons. This is how ungodly spiritual transfer takes place through deception, through belief. It's quite simple. You get around ungodly people and you start to allow them to influence the way you think. You know what's gonna happen? They're gonna influence your thoughts. Your thoughts will influence the way you speak and the way you act. And the way you speak and the way you act will form your habits and your habits will repeat in cycles and that cycle is what we call spiritual bondage. So yeah, you may not have to worry about shaking their hand or being around them and a demon going, now I'll seize the opportunity and the Holy Spirit for some reason saying, well, you got me there, they just weren't aware of this so I guess I gotta back up and let you attach to them. That's just, it's nonsensical to believe that. If you believe that, you don't understand the power of the Holy Ghost, period. If you believe that, you do not understand the power of the Holy Ghost and you have not been exposed to true power yet. That is a religious, powerless, man-made way to see it. However, on the other side of this, this doesn't mean that we can just let our guards down for the enemy is very, very deceptive. And if you allow him to influence the way you think through ungodly influence, you're in trouble. By the way, doctrines of demons primarily come through false teachers. People we deem to be godly righteous and the way they're living their lives, hypocrisy, sin, all sorts of things hidden in the dark and it comes through in their teachings. Now this doesn't mean that every man or woman of God who has fallen, that we should therefore reject everything they've ever taught. No, this just means that we should be careful about developing the same mindset that caused them to fall. Watch this now. Things like legalism. You know most believers aren't even aware that they believe legalism. What is legalism? Legalism is simply the belief that you can earn your own salvation through your works and it seems so righteous. After all, every believer wants to overcome sin. After all, every true believer wants to live holy. But the moment you begin to think that you can earn your own salvation, you begin to walk around in fear constantly wondering if you've lost your salvation. Which by the way is a sign that you believe legalistically. Liberalism, and I don't mean that in the political sense. I mean that Christian liberalism says that you can just go on living whatever way you want and no consequences will ever come down on you. God absorbed all the wrath, just go on living however you choose and nothing bad will ever happen to you because of your disobedience. That's a lie. Universalism, universalism is the belief no matter how they try to say it it always comes down to this truth. Universalism teaches that ultimately everyone ends up in heaven whether or not they receive the free gift of salvation. That's heresy. But it's more than just these blatant false doctrines. It's also these subtle little straight subtle little strange doctrines. These subtle little shifts in our thinking that begin to change the way we think about everything. Now, we also see that this ungodly impartation can inspire fear, confusion, depression. Think about the fact that some people use their position to control others, to manipulate others, to intimidate others. I'll say this to you bluntly. If you have a leader who's told you that if you walk away from them that you will never fulfill God's will, that was manipulation. If you have a leader who seeks to control every aspect of your life and tells you that if you don't submit to everything they're telling you to do that you're disobeying God, that's manipulation. That's witchcraft. That's mixture. That's ungodly transfer. You share in conversations. You partake in these actions and you will begin to fall under the same deception. Watch this now. Paul addressed this directly. Go to Galatians chapter 3. Turn there for a second. Galatians chapter 3. I'll read verses 1 through 3. Received he the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Verse 3. Are ye so foolish or all foolish Galatians as we've read so many times before, having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Who hath bewitched you? He asks them. Interesting word here. Obviously this bewitching is more than just conversation. Now again, we're not talking about attachment or habitation. That doesn't apply to the believer. But here Paul clearly is talking about these Galatians having been bewitched. Now I looked at the word here for bewitched and the scripture is very clear on the fact that this is talking about being fascinated or being deceived. Paul equates deception with having been bewitched. That is ungodly spiritual transfer. Even a hint of deception can corrupt you. Even just a hint of deception can affect you in the long term. Or if you make a small shift now that's incorrect over the long journey that one small degree off will ultimately affect your destination. I'm not talking about heaven and hell here but I'm talking about who you become in Christ. The potential you have for ministry. The effectiveness you'll have in your calling. Who hath bewitched you? How does someone become bewitched? Somebody casting a spell on them? No, no, those people are powerless. They can do nothing to you because you have the Holy Spirit. The way you become bewitched according to the scripture here is if you believe according to a lie. Deception is witchcraft. To be deceived is to be bewitched. They're the one and the same. Now, when you begin to allow this influence to corrupt you it transforms everything about you. What you believe about yourself. What you believe about God. What you believe about ministry. What you believe about others. What you believe about salvation. Everything is effective. Now watch this. If we go down to Galatians chapter 5 verses 9 and 10 the scripture clearly, clearly gives us the solution. This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads to the whole batch of dough. A little leaven spoils the whole batch. Verse 10. I am trusting the Lord to keep you. Here's the solution now. I am trusting the Lord to keep you from believing false teachings. God will judge that person whoever he is who has been confusing you. Again, we're not talking about attachment. We're not talking about habitation. We are talking about deception. The enemy uses ungodly people around you to impact the way you think. This is why you have to do a very serious self-evaluation and only you can do this. Only you know. Have I been allowing others to influence the way I think? Have I been allowing others to control me through what they get me to believe? Have I been allowing demonic influence into my life through falling under the power of that deception? That is the enemy's power against the believer. It's deception. It's always been deception. And so long as we're looking for this superstitious sense, we'll never get to the root of the real problem and therefore we'll never be free of deception. Look, that's why the enemy lies to us like this. He keeps you distracted with all sorts of silly approaches and strange doctrines to where you never address his actual attack against you, which is always deception. Very sneaky indeed he is. Very deceptive indeed the enemy is. The father of all lies. There is no truth in him. And so, the friends we surround ourselves with, the ministers we allow to speak into our lives, the family members we allow to give us advice. Let's go even further. The social media that we consume that's of the world, the movies we watch of the world, the music we listen to of the world, what are these things doing? They're changing the way you think. They're changing your perspective negatively. And in transforming your perspective and changing the way you think, it's bringing you under the power of deception. That is the danger of ungodly spiritual transfer. Don't be distracted by the confusing nonsense the enemy throws at you. Look at where he's really attacking you. I don't remember which war this was, but an interesting story. I think it might have been World War II, on the Rhine River, if I'm not mistaken. You history buffs can correct me. But long story short, the army that was really losing the battle, so it seemed, created what was called the Ghost Army. And what they did is they hired like theater professionals, Broadway actors, movie professionals to create the illusion of an army. They created fake tanks. They created fake soldiers. They even had like buildings set up in a way with underground tunnels so that someone would go in one door, come out another door, so it looked like far more people were encamped there than actually were. And so the enemy sent all their forces to go and defend against this Ghost Army. Meanwhile, they discover, or meanwhile the other army went south of the river, I believe, and crossed over. Why? Because the army that was against them was so focused on this fake, this fake Ghost Army that was of no threat that they left themselves wide open where it really mattered. That's how the enemy gets us. I don't want to be, forgive me, but I don't want to be a cowardly Christian who's always afraid of demons and devils. I don't want to compromise. That is true compromise, by the way. To live a life as if the enemy has so much power over you that you can do nothing or that everything you do should be done with this paranoia. My goodness, that's a bondage all its own. And it's a reinforcing bondage because it keeps itself in your head by telling you that it's spiritual, when it's not. True freedom comes by walking in the spirit and walking in the truth that he ministers. So don't let the enemy distract you with the superstitious elements that surround the subject of spiritual transfer. Be grounded in the Word. Walk in true power. Understand the revelation God has given to you through the scripture. Let the Holy Spirit truly guide your life. That he may draw your attention to the places where it counts. That he may draw your attention to those people speaking into your life that are truly producing negative results. You know, be careful. I just sensed the spirit on this. Be careful who you allow to give you advice for your marriage. You don't know, but maybe some people give you bad advice because they're trying to break it up out of jealousy, out of spite. Be careful of your leaders. And I don't mean to make you paranoid, but let's just acknowledge that spiritual abuse is true. It's a real thing. Think about the fact that maybe some leaders might be speaking things because they are jealous of you too. Now again, we don't approach this with paranoia and suspicion. I'm not asking you to mark everyone and say, hi, you're all against me and now I have to be careful of all of you. No. I ask you to watch very carefully who you allow to influence what you think. Because in allowing who you and who you allow to influence what you think you discover the power that has control over your life. When you begin to see these influences for what they are and how they're actually affecting you, it's going to be the truth. Are they drawing you closer to God? If not, give them less influence and if you absolutely must cut them off. I believe in divine disconnection just as much as I believe in divine connection. I know this is tough to hear, but if there are relationships that are pulling you away from the Lord, truly pulling you away from the Lord, not just people who disagree with you from time to time on doctrine or schools. No. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who truly pull you from the Lord. Who truly are of the enemy bringing in negative demonic influence by way of deception. Evaluate your life. I'm going to pray the Lord gives you discernment. Come on, pray with me. Father in the name of Jesus, I pray you would begin to show your people these areas of ungodly spiritual transfer. And I pray, Father, that you would give them discernment. Give them discernment to know when to pull away and when to completely sever these connections. Holy Spirit, I pray you give them peace in the name of Jesus. I want you to receive that. Remember, the Holy Spirit gives peace, not paranoia. So, Father, I thank you for these lives receiving that touch of your power. Give them great discernment in this hour. Protect them from all ungodly influence. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. And I want you to say it because you believe it. Say, Amen. Well, listen. 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