Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
HOW MUCH AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL DO WE HAVE WHEN WE ARE IN HIS TERRITORY?
Answer: The devil has no right to trespass on God's property.
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But if you trespass on the devil's property, he's got a right to jump on you. God can't keep him from it, and you can't keep him from it, because you're on his property.
It's like this: I don't have authority in your house or apartment. I can't go there and say, "We're going to move everything out of this room and sell all of it." In the house of God, if the devil comes around, we've got authority. But if we go to the devil's house and try to exercise authority, he may throw us out.
In the summer of 1954 I was preaching in Oregon and had my family with me. We took a short vacation while traveling to meetings I was holding. On the way home, we stopped in Salt Lake City, Utah, to see the Mormon Temple. (I had studied the history of Mormonism and the Book of Mormon. I didn't agree with it because it's unscriptural. It doesn't agree with Paul's revelation.)
A guide was showing us around, explaining how the temple had been built. I was
listening intently when I heard somebody hit the ground. I didn't turn around because I was listening to the guide. But somebody said, "That man fell." About that time my wife looked around and said, "Daddy, our baby!" (It was Ken, and actually, he was 15 at the time.) He had hit the ground so hard that his shoes flew off.
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He was lying on his back with his knees drawn up to his stomach and his face working in some kind of seizure. If you had any spiritual sense at all, you could sense evil spirits when you stepped on the grounds. These were religious demons. They're the worst kind to get rid of.
They're the most difficult to cast out of a person. You can get rid of an adulterous or a lustful demon a hundred times faster than you can a religious demon.
So there Ken lay. Instantly the devil gave me all kinds of mental pictures of my preaching deliverance and Ken being in some kind of institution. The guide said, "That happens very often when I get to the part in my lecture about Moroni" (the angel who supposedly appeared to Joseph Smith). The guide thought it was a supernatural manifestation to corroborate what he had told about. He said, "Just pull that boy back under a tree. He'll soon come out of it."
I turned around, grabbed hold of Ken's arm and said, "Come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ!" I literally lifted him by his arms, looked him right in the eye and said again, "Come out of him!" I shouted the third time, "Come out of him!" When I said it the third time, the demon came out. It hadn't been in his spirit, but had attacked his body. Ken straightened up, blinked his eyes and said, "Daddy, Daddy, where am I?"
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I said out loud, "Well, we got on the devil's territory and he jumped on you. But the Name of Jesus delivered you. Now let's get off the devil's territory before he jumps on some of the rest of us." We drove down the highway rejoicing over our victory.
Ken began telling his side of the story. He said the last thing he remembered was the guide talking about Moroni. He explained, "I felt something come out of the ground. It got into my feet and then into my knees. When it got up to about my stomach I don't remember anything else."The power of God does not come up out of the ground.That wasn't the Holy Spirit. And besides, we got rid of it in the Name of Jesus!
Ken said, "Daddy, what if that had happened at school?" I answered, "Don't ever be afraid it will happen again. If you are afraid, you'll open the door to the devil." You've got authority over Satan, but know this: Don't get on his territory.
Literally speaking, if you go to places controlled by Satan, you can get attacked.
Spiritually speaking, if you get into disobedience, you get spiritually over into the devil's territory.
You can claim protection, however, and go wherever you have to go.
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William James Roop
