 Open doors to the demons part one Many times Christians get attacked Tormented and oppressed by the devil because they have opened a door the Bible makes it very clear Do not give room to the devil do not give place to the devil I've had an incident one time where I stepped on the territory of a German Shepherd He was on the leash and he attacked me You know, he always barked at me and I knew how far his leash can get and so I would provoke him to anger But one day I wasn't very smart and so I thought that he was gone His family and owner removed him So I went that stuck my head into his little house and I didn't know he was sleeping behind the little house So he attacked me and he no longer barked at me He bit piece of flesh off of my flesh the doctor the owner of that German Shepherd had to stitch me up because she was a Doctor and so I learned that they were important, you know dogs mean dogs bark at everyone But they can only bite those who step on their territory. So is the devil, you know, he can torment He can excuse me tempt every any person, but he torments those Who come on his territory and his territory is sin his territory is and I'm gonna mention Those things that I believe are the territory that give room to the enemy to not just tempt you But to torment you as God does nothing without faith Satan does nothing without sin Please understand that God does nothing without faith Satan does nothing without sin It's usually some kind of a disobedience that opens the door to Demonic activity, you know your disobedience and maybe you falling into sin might not cost you salvation But it can't open the door to a demonic influence in your life So the first open door the first common open door to demonic influence in the person's life is occult Occult literally means hidden from you. It's something hidden secret and mysterious It could be astrology witchcraft black arts fortune telling black magic white magic a widget board Spiritism horoscopes or talking to the dead. It can also include partaking in false religions Directly or indirectly Worshiping Satan in the Old Testament God made it very clear He said when you come into the land, which the Lord your God is giving you You should not you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations There shall not be found anyone among you who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire or the one who practices Witchcraft soothsayer or the one who interprets omens or a sorcerer or one who conjures conjures spells or Medium or a spirit is or the one who calls on the dead for all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord and Because of these abominations that the Lord your God drives them out before you pretty much God just told them why these people are being removed from their land Because of practice of these things. These are not just Injustice those bad. These are not just stealing bad lying really bad adultery really bad when people go on to the other side of the spiritual realm by seeking help from the dark side or In ignorance which many of us do Not just because we're hungry for the supernatural, but because we're just ignorant Satan does not care if you're ignorant or if you do it willfully he will attack you Some people go to look for help from which doctors and other things and they may even experience healing Because Satan will give you with right hand But with the left hand he will take what your life depends on if you practice a cold you need to repent If you dumbled into that stuff if you have things like that in your house You need to throw them away. Why you don't need demon stuff in your life. That's the first open door second open door is Demonic objects The power whether it's God's power or demonic power flows through four things It flows through people it flows through places it can flow through animals and it can flow through objects For example, God used Moses is rod the water of Jordan the saliva of Jesus Hankership of Paul to bring supernatural miracles When Israel entered the promised land achon was destroyed because he took what was accursed Demonic objects are books on magic Charms dreamcatchers a Ouija boards Terror cards horoscopes and etc. They can bring demonic influence into your personal into your personal life That's why Paul went to went to Ephesus in Acts chapter 19 and verse 19 He says the following also many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and Burned them in the side of all they counted up the value of them and it was totaled 50,000 pieces of silver books on magic Dreamcatchers horoscopes are a wide open door to a demonic torment in your life Also on the side note if you have had a relationship with someone and it ended badly But you're keeping articles gifts jewelry Love notes from them Sometimes they could be an open door to a soul tied to that person and it could keep you from getting married in The future and the best way is to take all of that stuff from that person and to get rid of it So that you can be free from that person and move forward in your God given Destiny some of you you need to take an inventory of your house. What is on your bookshelf? What kind of stuff is hanging on your walls? What kind of things is hanging over your ceiling when you're sleeping supposed to catch bad spirits nonsense? That stuff is demonic throw that away. There's only one protection and that is the blood of Jesus not a dreamcatcher Number three third way that the demons that opens the door for demons is bitterness Demons entered through rejection abuse trauma a rape and molestation Bob Larsen said the following he says a cult is the main door for demons in other countries But in a Western world that door is abused so many people are abused at the young age But so many more are rejected in their mother's womb Some are born as bastard children meaning they are not born to Father and to a mother, but they were born out of infidelity and that could put a seed of rejection in the child I've dealt with people who were being delivered from a rebellion but in reality they had to remove the root of bitterness because of the root of Rejection that they got in their womb because their parents did not want them Nobody wanted them in fact some wanted to be some parents tried to abort them And it planted the seed of rejection that they battled with all their life until that spirit was totally Removed by God the scripture says Repent therefore of your wickedness and pray to God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven to you Or I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity ax chapter 8 verse 22 and 23 Apostle Peter looks at Simon the sorcerer who just got baptized and confessed the name of Jesus But came and asked Peter so he can pay for the gift of the Holy Spirit and Peter Prophetically looks at him and says I see you poisoned with bitterness and bound by iniquity See the connection he was bound by iniquity because he was poisoned by bitterness Bitterness is a root. It's a poisonous root. See betrayal is what people do to you bitterness is what you do to you Betrayal is what happens outside of you bitterness is what happens inside of you and That say that the devil uses as a door To enter into person's life and torment. I know people may say well, I have a reason to be bitter You don't know what they did if you say that Satan will say back to you and say well, I have a reason to hold on to you Because you gave me a door if you want to remove your reason for staying bitter God will remove the enemy of bitterness and torment over your life in Matthew 18 verse 34 it says the following and his master was angry and delivered him to the torturers Until he should pay all that was due to him. It speaks of a man who was forgiven over an enormous debt He refused to forgive someone who owed him very little. He was thrown where? Torturers now he was a forgiven man. So people say sometimes. Oh, you got forgiveness from God You can never have you know torment demonic torment Yeah, you can have a demonic torment if you choose to live in unforgiveness Even if they didn't deserve forgiveness is a gift. You never deserve nobody ever deserves forgiveness and people who Hold on to their bitterness. I want to remind you It's like drinking poison hoping somebody else to die from it It's like setting yourself on fire hoping somebody else gets burned by it my friend Bitterness hurt and that is hurting nobody but you in the worst part The enemy has an axis and he can torment your life because of that I've seen and heard people who have been delivered when they forgave Who were healed after that of chronic back pains chronic arthritis after they were Delivered from the spirit of bitterness. Maybe you were abused God forbid molested They can advantage aunts taken advantage by sexually And you probably have every reason to be mad and angry But look to Jesus and he was being hurt physically abused and killed He didn't revile. He didn't curse and he didn't threaten He forgave the people he forgave didn't even know they were wrong because when he forgave He says they don't know what they're doing. Maybe the people who you need to forgive will never ask you for apology You don't need to wait for apology for you to be free because forgiveness is setting a prisoner free and then finding out that prisoner Was you so release that person and God can release you The fourth open door to demons is sex outside of marriage Sex is not just a physical act. It's also a spiritual matter as well We must understand is that Condoms can protect people from sexual transmitted diseases. They cannot protect people from sexually transmitted demons Demons are transferred through sex The Bible says do you not know he who is joined to a harlot is one body With her for the two he says shall become one flesh Corinthians 1 Corinthians 6 16 that tells me through sex There is a transference that happens of spirits. You can pick up somebody's demon through sex in fact many Testimonies of people who are in the demonic realm tell you that they would go to nightclubs to initiate other people into the kingdom of darkness Through their sperm and through a sexual relationship Which is one of the many reasons you should not have sex outside of marriage Because they will not only protect you from sexual diseases It'll protect you from sexual demons that you end up living with being tormented by for the rest of your life I remember praying in fact not very far from what I'm standing for a young man Who slept with the witch and the demon entered him Violent demon eventually was cast out and so it's true. You can get a demon through sex and And the last one in this lesson that we're going to share that opens the door to a demonic influence and torment is abortion When we commit injustice against others it brings a curse in Deuteronomy chapter 27 verse 18 and 19 Gain was under a curse when he murdered his brother Abortion is a murder and it brings a curse I've seen people who after committing abortion no longer live the same on particular person remember praying for deliverance She committed abortion and then she of course vows She'll never do that again and then try to pay God back For that sin, but she was plagued with the literally a demon of heaviness for the rest of her life the next five years She was doing things that were so horrible. I can't even mention here And after she was delivered it's like it's like something was lifted Because abortion can open doors for demonic torment and demonic influence abortion is not unpardonable sin You can receive forgiveness and you can close the door to a demonic influence and experience life and eventually even meet that baby in heaven But until then you must experience deliverance in the next lesson. We will look at the next Open doors to a demonic influence