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BIND THE STRONG MAN
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by Pastor Kevin Badgley
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BIND THE STRONG MAN
Avenue of Faith #4
Preface
(cast out devils, God
is stronger)
This book is about casting out the devil.
Mark 3:27 says, “No man can enter into a strong man’s
house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the
strong man; and then
he will spoil his house.”
Spoil the goods means to eliminate activity.
Spoil the house means to cleanse the lifestyle.
You cast the devil out and the Lord takes over the
person.
God saves us by the blood of Jesus.
Then He fills us with the Holy Ghost that we might
receive the things of God.
We have to pray through and get into the deeper things
of God.
We are in spiritual warfare, and we must
be saved, and strengthened in God, before we begin deliverance
ministry.
Romans 12:21 says, “Be not overcome of
evil, but overcome evil with good.”
BIND THE STRONG MAN
Avenue of Faith #4
by Pastor Kevin Badgley
Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible
to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he
is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.” We desire
to serve the Lord, and we want to be all that He has called us
to be. However,
sometimes the road gets bumpy and things seem impossible.
Some things are impossible because they are not in the
will of God, or they are not orchestrated by God.
All of God’s promises are yea and amen to them that
believe. Jesus
said in Matthew 8:13, “. . . Go thy way; and as thou hast
believed, so be it done unto
thee. . . .”
There are more promises than there are warnings in the
Word of God. The
warnings are definitive and they must be observed.
You will not see God’s miracles by any other
means than God.
The devil will share his house and his goods with
anybody, but God is far more particular.
God won’t share His house, or His goods, or His glory,
with anybody. God
is undefiled, and He is holy.
Whatever He is in, He makes holy.
He sanctifies us and sets us apart for His purpose.
God created us in His image, and the devil’s favorite
pastime is destroying us.
Many have labored, and strained, and worried when life
seems impossible while trying to serve the Lord. All the while
the problem is that there is a devil in the way.
Mark 3:25 says, “And if a house be divided against
itself, that house cannot stand.”
Verse 27 says, “No man can enter into a strong man's
house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the
strong man; and then
he will spoil his house.”
Spoil the goods means to eliminate activity.
Spoil the house means to cleanse the lifestyle.
You get rid of one type of life and beget a brand new
life. You cast
the devil out and the Lord is ushered in.
He takes over the person.
The church world is struggling with her faith.
There is plenty of Biblical sound teaching, but it
won’t work if there is a devil present.
I am not excusing the flesh.
We preach against carnal activity and fleshly living
that thwarts and hinders the promises of God.
However, there needs to be preaching that there could
be an entity there - an intellectual, powerful, seductive
spirit that can hinder.
Everything else can be in place - the knowledge of the
mind and the position of good sound teaching, but it doesn’t
work.
Consider this scenario.
Two men were going to San Francisco, and the first man said to the other, “By the
way, I am driving my car to
San Francisco in the next few days.”
The second man said, “Well, could I ride with you?”
The first man said, “Are you going to
San Francisco?”
The second man said “Yes.”
The first man said “Are you going the route I am
taking?” The
second man said “I would be more than happy to ride with you
on the route you are taking. I will stay where you stay, and
go where you go.
My goal is to get to
San Francisco
just like you.” The first man said, “Well then, hop on in, and
we will car pool.
It will save us some gas.”
When they arrived in
San Francisco
some time later, the first man visited a sick friend and gave
money to their family that they might do better.
It was a God sent mission on his part.
The other man said he would catch up with him later and
he went on down the street and murdered a man.
He came back and didn’t tell the first man.
He said, “I did my mission. Did you do yours?”
“Most certainly,” replied the first man.
“Well, are you returning to Grand Chain?
If so, do you mind if I ride along with you?” The first
man agreed that he could go.
They arrived home, and the first man later read in the
paper about the murder.
The first man was a benevolent soul, the second man was
a murderer. They
rode in the same automobile.
Their purpose to get to the destination was for
entirely different reasons.
Knowing this, we say that we would not have given the
murderer a ride.
We would not have stayed in the same places or have anything
to do with him, because his mission was entirely different
from our own.
However, if you don’t know the intent, the mission, the man,
or the spirit, it could ride with you all the way to and from.
It would give you no problem.
Thousands of times in history this has happened in
similar situations.
Whole towns can be destroyed.
That murder spirit has always been there, waiting his
time. Satan has
assignments sent out and he will ride with anybody.
Equate it with this now.
Is it possible that what you desire may be Biblical,
but maybe something is wrong with the journey?
I tell you of a truth that devils can make it happen
also. God said in
a prophecy once, “Never mistake my tolerance for my approval.”
God tolerates a lot, but He approves of very little.
It is a straight way. Why
is God so particular about doing it His way?
Constantly we try to tweak God’s commands.
The Word of God says something and we wrestle with it.
2 Peter 3:16 says, “As also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things; in which are some things
hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto
their own destruction.”
God is particular about you obeying just the way He
tells you, because He knows that the devil, if you deviate a
little, has been given place, and he will ride with you all
the way to San Francisco.
Many times God will let your miracles die, because He
doesn’t want you to bring forth something of the devil.
God has done this many times to protect man. God does
not want the devil mixed in it.
However, when a person consistently and hardheadedly
has said no to the Spirit of God, He will hand them over to a
reprobate mind that does the thinking for you (see Romans 1).
Jesus turned and rebuked Peter and said, “Get thee
behind me, Satan.”
(See Matthew 16:23.)
He looked at Peter and spoke to Satan.
Peter was forbidding Jesus to be crucified, humiliated,
and to go through all of that trouble.
The man Peter had compassion on what he saw.
He didn’t think it was a good witness for God, as it
would mess up all the things He taught, and preached, and the
miracles would suddenly be negated.
Peter wanted this to be far from the Lord.
Jesus told Satan to shut up.
It doesn’t say how Peter reacted to that, but I am sure
it shook him up, and the devil left him.
If he had argued with Him, the devil would have stayed.
The devil can get in the smallest details of your
doctrine, or your life, and the way you think.
It is all important that we know that we
must first bind the strong man.
Before you are going to get somebody saved, the devil
must be bound in prayer.
How do you
have the strength to do that?
Change cannot come unless the house is clean and ready,
pure, and ready for the infilling of the Holy Ghost, ready for
sanctification, instruction, revelation, and manifestation.
Simply put – prayed through.
You must be fully and continually yielded to God.
Luke 11:21 says, “When a strong man armed
keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:”
His goods are secure.
Verse 22 says, “But when a stronger than he shall
come upon him, and
overcome him. . . .”
1 John 4:4 says, “. . . greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
That is for a child of God, but you must have
overcoming power.
If you don’t, you will never cast out devils, and for the most
part, you won’t be able to discern one until the deed is done,
and you are in clean up operations.
God never ordained that.
Luke 11:22 says, “But when a stronger
than he shall come upon him, and overcome him,
he taketh from him
all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.”
He, Jesus,
the stronger man, taketh from the devil all his armor!
The devil trusts that you won’t take this message
personally. Satan
works in darkness. He grandstands his activities, but he never
grandstands himself.
He is flashy in activity, but never himself, so as not
to reveal himself.
To the general public he doesn’t want to be exposed,
because then people would start believing that there could
possibly be a devil.
Jesus preached more on devils and hell
than He ever did on heaven and angels.
He wants you to have revelation of the Word and the
Spirit of God so you can work unhindered.
For instance, some religions are not
understood as the devil’s tool.
It is thought of as a bunch of people who have a
different tweak on
how people ought to be converted. One religion says, “Convert
or die.” This is
a peon devil. He
is not a major prince, but princes work with him through men.
He is a murder spirit.
He has to have something to
justify murder, so
he formed a religion around it.
The goal is not religion, the goal is murder to
take a man out before he gets saved by the blood of Jesus.
They are kept in bondage by fear of death.
You must address the thing at its root.
You must get in its face. It is an entity, seeking whom
he may devour. It
has legs and eyes and ears and intellect.
If you have a problem with something you can’t get rid
of for years, if it is chronic and you can’t get over it, it
is a devil. It is
not a chemical imbalance or a gene you picked up from great
granddaddy.
Now, the curse causeless doesn’t come.
There is always a reason for the curse, but granddaddy
may have had the same problem.
When you get born again, the curse is broken.
If you are born again, the devil is gone, and Jesus is
in, and you are not subject to the curse any more.
John 8:36 says, “If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.”
Either you are saved or you are not
saved. Luke 11:23
says, “He that is not with me is against me: and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth.”
God does not take a neutral position.
Satan will take almost any position he can get to
survive. When
Jesus rebuked Peter, He said in Matthew 16:23, “. . . thou art
an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be
of God, but those that be of men.”
Fallen man, whether he understands it or
not, savors the things of Satan, because we live in a fallen
world and we have a fallen nature.
God saves us by the blood of Jesus.
Then He fills us with the Holy Ghost that we might
receive the things of God.
We start out as children and we grow up into sons of
God, no matter what your gender is.
The whole creation groans and desires for God’s people
to get real and pray through so they can get some relief.
The avenue of faith must first have the
way cleared.
There are devil possessed people praying to God trying to get
God’s Spirit, when they have not even been delivered yet.
Luke was a physician, a medical doctor, not trained in
spiritual matters.
Even he testified that a woman had a spirit of
infirmity who was bowed over and could in no way straighten
up. The woman
with the issue of blood also had a spirit of infirmity.
A spirit of infirmity is a devil.
Jesus said in Luke 13:16, “And ought not
this woman, being a
daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these
eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”
It is possible for Christians to be bound
– not in their soul, but in their body.
Some people have cancer, which is a spirit of
infirmity.
Chronic oppression and melancholy can bring a spirit of
infirmity to you.
Melancholy comes when you love yourself more than anybody
else. It can come
as a child through abuse or spiritual neglect.
All sinners’ children are subject to devil possession.
Deuteronomy 28 says that.
I will not cease to preach the truth.
Some say I scare people to death, but I am just telling
the truth! I am
not saying that you are going to slip on a banana peel any
second and go to hell.
When you get saved, God turns you around.
However, there are hindrances to your faith.
There are devil powers that want to stop you, and turn
you around, and send you back to the pit.
A stronger one must come and overcome Satan!
Many times I have seen the congregation,
not only in my church, but those on TV.
The preaching was excellent, and devil possessed people
were amening and saying hallelujah.
The man is trying to get to God, but the devil is along
for the ride.
You can’t minister the graces of God by devil power.
You can quote scripture, but you have to be saved.
You can lay hands on somebody, but YOU have to be
saved. Jesus said
the TRUTH will make you free.
Some in the Bible responded to Jesus that they had
never been in bondage to any man.
However, they were ignorant of the devil’s devices.
They had place
for the devil (see Ephesians 4:27).
As we follow Christ
and abide in Him, God will save us to the uttermost
(see Hebrews 7:25).
If a Christian dies, he goes to heaven.
When the trumpet sounds, he goes to heaven.
If there is an infirm spirit locked on him, does he
lose his salvation?
No.
James 5:15 says, “And
the prayer of faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and
if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
Was he talking about praying for lost people who were
sick or was he talking about Christians who lost the victory
through their sickness?
It is hard to shout hallelujah when you are sick, when
your head is splitting, when you are grieved in your body or
soul. There is a
purpose in these things.
Revelation 16:13 says, “And
I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,
and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophet.”
These are unclean spirits that look like frogs.
Verse 14 says, “For
they are the spirits
of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto
the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty.”
These devils are still working miracles
today. The people
don’t know that they are going to the battle.
They think they are going to revival meeting and on to
heaven. They
think the miracle coming is of God.
It might be, but if it isn’t, they will take it anyway.
Unclean spirits can perform miracles, but the thing
birthed out of it is of the devil.
Don’t you know why God killed David and
Bathsheba’s boy baby that was only seven days old?
That boy would have had a murder spirit, an adulterous
spirit, an unclean spirit, a priesthood, and a prophet spirit.
He would have been the biggest antichrist you ever saw.
David’s prayer and fasting was of no avail, because
that boy was going to die.
Do you understand how many people he would have taken
to hell with him?
He would have been the next king of
Israel.
Why do people have horrible things happen
to them? God may
be saving someone else’s life that isn’t related to them.
Everything has a reason.
God will do what is right; we have to get right with
God. I want to know
why people aren’t healed or delivered or filled with the Holy
Ghost. I want to
see it done.
Some make excuses, and say that it wasn’t
the will of God.
Some say, Maybe it
wasn’t God’s will at this time.
That stinks, and it draws flies.
Beelzebub is called
the lord of the flies.
He is an unclean spirit, second in command to Satan
himself. A devil
is not offensive to fallen man.
He is accepted and sometimes adorable to man.
In religion,
which has some discernment, he appears as an angel of light.
No problem, he covers his activity.
Jesus said you will know them by their fruit.
Unclean spirits like frogs come out of
the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
They were able to work miracles and deceive the kings
and the rest of the world.
Presidents, congress, prime ministers, all can be
easily fooled by unclean spirits.
Christians inadvertently come in agreement with the
devil when they pray sometimes.
Don’t agree with someone in their sin.
Get out of that and get in the Spirit.
God is going to start using His ministers
to expose sin.
Get it under the blood now, and it will save a whole lot of
embarrassment and confusion.
Jesus was crucified after 3 ½ years.
They wanted to kill Him at the beginning of His
ministry at His home church, because He identified the
problem within the church.
Matthew 15:22 says, “. . . a woman of
Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him,
saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my
daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.”
Verse 24 says, “But he answered and said, I am not sent
but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
He was saying He was sent to deliver the church so it
could deliver her.
You can be a Christian and miss the
Rapture, because you are scarcely saved.
God wants you and me to walk with Him and not be
ignorant of the devil’s devices.
Jesus sent the Holy Ghost, and it has never been
optional. For a
church member to fight him borders on blasphemy.
They killed Steven, and the last thing out of his mouth
was him telling them they resisted the Holy Ghost.
In Acts 7:51 he said, “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised
in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. . . .”
It is the Holy Ghost that casts out the
devil. The blood
of Jesus covers saved people.
Then God fills you with the power of the Holy Ghost
because you are worthy to walk in it.
The Holy Ghost will glorify Jesus, and this is how he
will do it. He
will bring you gifts, one of which is the discerning of
spirits. Another
is the working of miracles.
Mark 16:17-18 says, “And these signs
shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up
serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover.”
If you twist the gospel of Christ, the
devil is in it.
You may have seen what you thought was Christian people do
things, yet all you saw was the devil operating, because it
was contrary to scripture.
Can children be devil possessed?
Can they be born that way?
If a kid acts up and doesn’t heed your warning, meaning
he has no respect for you, whip his or her butt lest they get
devil possessed. There
are some kids in our church that have passed a threshold, and
in due season, if the parents do not get control of them, by
the grace of God I will be casting the devil out of them, or
they will go to hell.
Not everything a child does is cute.
Some of it is of the devil, and it is rebellion.
He is tapping them to see if he can get in.
He doesn’t fight fairly.
He can’t be saved, and he wants us where we can’t be
saved. The devil
is a liar and a loser.
Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but
for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Romans 6:16 says, “Know ye not, that
to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye
are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?”
It may not be immediately, but it will happen in due
season. The devil
can be very patient.
We are in spiritual warfare.
2 Corinthians 10:4 says, “(For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strong holds;)”
A surgeon cannot cut out an infirm
spirit. Luke, the
physician, was used to cutting on people and giving
medication.
He was a godly man, and he said that Jesus cast out devils.
Look at Luke 11:21-22 again:
“When a strong man
armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and
overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he
trusted, and divideth his spoils.”
Every Christian is stronger than the
devil, but not every Christian is overcoming him.
Why? We
are yet too carnal.
We can not do spiritual things in a fleshly way.
You can’t cut out a devil of infirmity.
You can’t counsel out a melancholy spirit.
They love counseling.
They eat it up with a spoon!
That keeps them
current, causing you to do what they want you to do.
They are the masters of men that perish.
If it is in the woman, she will
manipulate her husband.
If it is in the man, he will manipulate his wife.
Jezebel manipulated Ahab, the most powerful man in Israel.
She was from Zidon.
She manipulated the power of the kingdom and changed
the religion of
Israel.
She took God Jehovah out and put Baal, the unclean
devil, in His place.
She had a lying spirit and an unclean spirit and
hundreds of the false prophets of Baal.
It is possible for you to believe for a
miracle that is totally orchestrated by Satan.
You can take the Word of God, yet miss out on God
entirely. When
the apostles returned from a ministry trip, they told the Lord
that devils were subject to them in His name, but in Luke
10:20 Jesus said, “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that
the spirits are subject unto you; but
rather rejoice,
because your names are written in heaven.”
He wanted them to make sure of their salvation.
Why?
Because everything they cast out followed them home.
You pray for somebody with an infirm
spirit, and the devil will be after you.
You pray for somebody to have a sound mind or to get
saved, and confusion will come at you.
It is a devil.
When you pray and stand in the gap for someone else,
you had better be prayed up.
You have to have enough for yourself and them!
That is why I pray and plead the blood of Jesus over
the one standing in the gap for others, should the enemy try
to retaliate.
Sometimes God will just let you have your
own way, because you haven’t been listening to Him.
That is why the devil can stay right where he is.
It is a form of unbelief.
In the parable of the unjust steward the
Lord told the devil he was out of there.
Luke 16:4 says, “I am resolved what to do, that, when I
am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into
their houses.”
Luke 11:24 says, “When the unclean spirit
is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house
whence I came out.”
When the devil doesn’t find rest, he finds help (there
is strength in numbers) to return to that house.
Jesus gave us this detailed information
about the spirit realm for a reason.
Luke 11:25-26 says, “And when he cometh, he findeth it
swept and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and
dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than
the first.”
The seven other spirits were not more
powerful, but MORE WICKED than himself.
If the person is not Holy Ghost filled, and paying mind
to the things of God, the devil will come back in, but now
there are eight of them instead of one.
The unjust steward said, “I am resolved
what to do.” He
had a plan that they would receive them into their houses.
He called every one of his lord’s debtors to him.
That is somebody not prayed through.
It could be a lukewarm Christian.
Unconfessed sin is a debt.
The Lord told us to pray that God would
forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
Mark 11:26 says, “But if ye do not forgive, neither
will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
He really wasn’t talking about money.
The Lord’s debtor is one who has sin in the camp.
It could be also a Christian who has not prayed through
on certain matters.
There is place for the devil.
I have seen this so many times it is
unbelievable.
Someone gets all bound up.
You pray for them, and they get free, but they won’t
press on in. They
will just stand there, and they won’t even show up for the
next service. The
enemy will be back for them.
In Luke 16:5 he said to the first of his
lord’s debtors, “How much owest thou unto my lord?”
He told him to write down one half of the amount owed.
To another that owed 100 measures of wheat, he told to
write fourscore.
The devil tweaks the scriptures for them.
He is a liar and a deceiver.
A steward is indicative of a manager.
A manager is a manipulator - he uses others to get the
job done. The
devil excuses away your sin, your carnality.
Remember that nothing can talk smoother than an unclean
spirit.
Romans 12:21 says, “Be not overcome of
evil, but overcome evil with good.”
CONTACT INFORMATION:
PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY
LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O.
BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL 62941
CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541
E-mail
livinghopefellowship@lazernetwireless.net
These condensed Bible
studies have been published to help new Christians in their
new walk with the Lord. Kevin Badgley, the author, is the
pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.
This is a Living Hope
Fellowship publication.
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