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art-article"> <h2 class="art-postheader">Authority Over Demons by Corrie Ten Boom (sermon transcript)</h2><div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><img src="https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/themes/WomenOfChristianity_modmenu/images/postdateicon.png" width="20" height="20" alt="" /><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date" title="12:18 PM">August 17, 2021</span> | <img src="https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/themes/WomenOfChristianity_modmenu/images/postauthoricon.png" width="14" height="14" alt="" /><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://womenofchristianity.com/author/womenofchristianity/" title="View all posts by womenofchristianity">womenofchristianity</a></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent">  <p><a href="https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15386" src="https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic-234x300.jpg" alt="" width="234" height="300" srcset="https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic-234x300.jpg 234w, https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic-798x1024.jpg 798w, https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic-768x985.jpg 768w, https://womenofchristianity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corrie-Ten-Boom-pic.jpg 904w" sizes="(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px" /></a></p> <p>I have here a very clear glove.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A glove cannot do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It cannot write.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It cannot cut bread.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It cannot do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But now it can even play piano…I know that it’s not the glove that can play piano, but the hand in the glove.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we cannot do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without Jesus we can do nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But with Him we can do everything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now you see that when my hand is only in the midst of this glove, the glove cannot do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I believe that’s why the Bible says, one of the best and the most sweetest commandments of the Bible, “Be filled with the Spirit”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And don’t forget that the Bible has no suggestions, but commandments.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>We cannot do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without Jesus we can do nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But with Him we can do everything.</p></blockquote> <p>And first I will read for you first Ephesians 6:10-20, in the translation of Phillips:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“In conclusion be strong – not in yourselves but in the Lord, in the power of His boundless resource.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Put on God’s complete armor so that you can successfully resist all the devil’s methods of attack.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For our fight is not against any physical enemy:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>it is against organizations and powers that are spiritual.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I read somewhere, this time it’s unparalleled in demon population on this planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world, and spiritual agents from the very headquarters of evil.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore, you must wear the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist evil in its day of power and that even when you have fought to a standstill you may still stand your ground.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Take your stand then with truth as your belt (‘Who is our truth?… Jesus’), righteousness your breastplate (‘Jesus is our righteousness’), the gospel of peace firmly on your feet (‘Jesus is our peace’), salvation as our helmet (‘Jesus is our salvation…He in us, we in Him’), and in your hand the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Above all be sure you take faith as your shield, for it can quench every burden missile the enemy hurls at you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pray at all times with every kind of spiritual prayer, keeping alert and persistent as you pray for all Christ’s men and women.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And pray for me, too, that I may be able to speak freely here to make known the secret of that Gospel for which I am, so to speak, an ambassador in chains.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pray that I may speak out about it as is my plain and obvious duty.”</p> <p>We have a tremendous task in this world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And it is good that we realize that we are standing in the midst of a terrific battle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some time ago, I had a talk for men in Germany.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We had a good hour.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We listened together to what the Holy Spirit had to tell us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now I know that half of these men were Baptist and half were Lutheran.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After, when I was through, we had some conversation, and one of them asked me, “Tell me, uh what is, uh, what do you think about the right way of baptism?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought, ‘I don’t know where that question comes from.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I fear that it comes from the corner of the enemy.’<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You know, I knew that when I would say one thing, that half of the people should throw away my whole talk because I did not agree about their doctrine of baptism.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Should I say the other thing, then the other half was against me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>So, I prayed for wisdom, and I’m so glad for a check written in my name and signed by Jesus Christ.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In James 1:5 he wrote a check that I always should cash it in, “If, in the process, any of you does not know how to meet any particular problem he has only to ask God – who gives generously to all men without making them feel foolish or guilty – and he may be quite sure that the necessary wisdom will be given him.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Isn’t that good?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Boy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“But he must ask in sincere faith without secret doubts as to whether he really wants God’s help or not.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I never know who has a sense of humor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If this Phillips, or James or the Holy Spirit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think all three.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m sure all three have it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“The man who trusts God, but with inward reservation, is like a wave of the sea, carried forward by the wind one moment and driven back to the next.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I say ‘Father, you have said.’<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has given me now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I know that God likes it when we pray with boldness and say ‘Father, you have said’.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>God has meant business with His promises and He likes it when we mean business with His promises.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Lord gave me wisdom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I said ‘Well, will you open your Bible at Mark 16, verse 15 where the Lord Jesus said, “You must go out to the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who disbelieves it will be condemned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These signs will follow those who do believe:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>they will drive out evil spirits in my name; they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up snakes, and if they drink anything poisonous it will do them no harm; they will lay their hands upon the sick and they will recover.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After these words to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into Heaven and was enthroned at the right hand of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They went out and preached everywhere.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Lord worked with them, confirming their message by the signs that followed.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Now, three things here that the Lord tells us and the first is go to bring the gospel, then baptize, and then the power over demons and sicknesses. I said, “May I ask you, how far are you with the first of the three?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Did you do your utmost to bring the gospel over the world with your prayer, your purse, your testimony?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Are you not yet ready with that?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What about this third thing?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Did you cast out demons, did you lay your hands on the sick?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Did you do all these three things, are you not yet ready with that or is there still something left?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now will you first do one and three and do everything you can for to bring the gospel over the world and then to lay hands on the sick and cast out demons, and if you are through with these then come to me and I will tell you what I think about number two.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And yet I can only tell you one thing about that system and that is that Jesus has not given us this great privilege and blessing to quarrel about, but to enjoy it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now, they smiled and the both halves were still with me.</p> <p>Now, in this time it is very important that we understand that there is a terrific fight against the very representatives of the headquarters of evil, and you and I are standing in the front line, and you and I are the only people in the world who can cast out demons in the name of Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do you realize that?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Communists can’t do that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Beelzebub is not willing to do it, so you and I must do it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>Now, in this time it is very important that we understand that there is a terrific fight against the very representatives of the headquarters of evil, and you and I are standing in the front line, and you and I are the only people in the world who can cast out demons in the name of Jesus.</p></blockquote> <p>I have written a little booklet, “Defeated Enemies”, where I tell about what I have experienced of a follower of demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is not demonology, this is not theory, it’s just what I experienced when I went over the world and I had to speak and to preach and to, to lay hands on sick and to bring the gospel and go over the world as a tramp for the Lord.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I didn’t realize at all that we have the task of casting out demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh yes, I had experienced it when I was in the concentration camp, where we were together in a terrible place where people had had training in cruelties, where the demon of hatred was in the hearts of many people, and Betsie and I were there together with 700 prisoners in a very small room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And these poor prisoners were often so nervous and too afraid.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We had to sleep on very small cots with two or three.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And sometimes it was as if there came a wave of hatred and darkness over that room, and the people started to fight and it was a very great danger in such a small place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I will never forget how my sister behaved.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>One day she heard that they were fighting together and one said “I kick you out of bed and I won’t help you any longer lay so against me,” and then Betsie said, “Let’s pray”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Betsie started to pray, and when she was praying it was as if a storm lay down and was all quiet and then she stopped.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We knew that there were demons around us, and we had never thought about casting out demons, but we read in the little forbidden booklet that we had, the Bible, we read that we may and must cast out demons and then there were demons who do not go without fasting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Betsie said, “What about when we just give our fast and that the enemy gets us, that we give that back to the Lord and say ‘Lord, it’s not our will, but we fast, but may You use it Lord.’ ”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m so glad that God never takes a theological examine from you before He helps you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s just understood, and He did it, and we got power over demons.</p> <blockquote><p>I had spoken about we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ, and God’s promises are the greatest realities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And our problems are the material for God to build His miracles.</p></blockquote> <p>And then after that period of my life that I was a prisoner there, then I had to go over the world, and in my book, “Amazing Love” you can read how for the first time I came face to face with demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had spoken about we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ, and God’s promises are the greatest realities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And our problems are the material for God to build His miracles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And if we need a great miracle we must hand God our impossibilities. ‘Twas a very nice sermon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>And the next day there came a woman to me with her daughter who was demon-possessed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And she said, “Did you believe what you said yesterday?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “I told you, I believed every word.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said, “Alright, here is my daughter, she is possessed by a demon of fear.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The moment that they heard a noise, even when someone opened the tap in the house, then that girl shrank down of fear, and hid her face on her mother’s lap.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was a girl 15 years old.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said, “Can you cast out the demon?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “No.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s not my work.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Oh yes,” she said, “I thought it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You were very beautiful what you said in your talk, but you don’t believe it yourself.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “I believe it.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then I said, “Oh, Lord, I believe it, I believe it, but what must I do?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lord, I must not cast out demons…that‘s not my work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or, is it Your will?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then the Lord said, “Yes.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I said to the mother, “Do you believe?” and she said, “Yes, I believe the Bible and I believe Mark 16.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then I spoke to that demon in that poor girl.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I asked that girl, “Do you love the Lord Jesus?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said, “Yes, but He must make me free.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Yes, He will make you free.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I said to the demons, “In the name of Jesus, leave that girl.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the mother and the girl left, and that girl was just as demon-possessed as before, and I was disappointed and frustrated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I went in the house of the minister.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So I went to his study.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Pastor, I have experienced this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am so sorry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I believe in the Bible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I believe that the promises of the Lord are the greatest reality, but I think my faith was not strong enough.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will you do it?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This dear breath of the girl?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He said, “What do you mean?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “You must cast out this demon.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He said, “I, I don’t think about it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I never did that before.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “But, but Pastor, you must do it then.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Pastor, open, open your Bible and read Mark 16.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Read it aloud.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he read it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he read, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And these signs shall follow them that believe:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in My name shall they cast out the devil.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he said, “Oh, Lord, I have never known that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Forgive me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Forgive me, Lord.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This girl is not the only one in my church, in my congregation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are more, Lord, I have never seen that I have a duty here.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>And I had joy in my heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought, “Now I know why I had to have that, that defeat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had to go to that minister.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I understood a little bit of God’s side of the embroidery. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And that next day, the woman came with her daughter and she said, “The moment that I recrossed the threshold of our house, the demon was gone from my daughter.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And she was absolutely free.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Why did God wait with liberating that girl?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because I had to go to that minister to have that talk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That was an encouraging beginning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And don’t I strive to study the Bible in this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I read in 1 John 5:18, “The true child of God…is in the charge of God’s own Son and the evil one must keep his distance.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He still has a big thorn in his side, after all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Napoleon said to this gentleman, “When they follow me, and when you are my soldiers, I must tell you that also when you are hungry there will be no food.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When there is bad weather, you will not have shelter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is awaiting you is blood and sweat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But I can promise you one thing:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when you follow Napoleon, you fight for a general who never lost a battle.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But he lost the last battle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>When we are in the army of the King of Kings, we fight for a King who never lost a battle and who will never lose a battle, and every knee will bow before Him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And at our side is a Mighty High Priest and legions of angels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we have a Book almost bursting by good news.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we stand in the power of the blood of Jesus.</p></blockquote> <p>And when we are in the army of the King of Kings, we fight for a King who never lost a battle and who will never lose a battle, and every knee will bow before Him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And at our side is a Mighty High Priest and legions of angels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we have a Book almost bursting by good news.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we stand in the power of the blood of Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What this Book tells us that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we have the authority of Name of Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And like a traffic officer has authority over the law behind him, and if you don’t obey him you get a ticket, you and I have the authority of Jesus’ Name.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And if the devil does not obey you, then you give him a ticket.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He is a defeated enemy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We have to extend the victorious side.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I know that part of Mark, there is a question mark behind that last part of Mark 16.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In Germany there was a girl who was rather ill, and a brother came to her and said, “Do you believe in the Bible?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said, “I believe the Bible from cover to cover.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“When we read Mark 16 that Jesus says ‘In My name thou shalt lay hands on the sick and they will recover,’ do you believe that?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Oh, yes,” she said, “I never heard that before, but I didn’t know that that was in the Bible, but I believe it because it is in the Bible.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he laid hands on her and she was healed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And she was so happy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She ran to her pastor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said “Pastor, did you know that, that it was in the Bible?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And brother so-and-so has done it, what you can read in Mark 16, that Jesus said ‘In My name you will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.’ “<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the pastor said, “My dear lady, I’m so sorry that I must tell you that Mark 16 is added to the Bible long, long after original was written.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She was very disappointed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But suddenly she said, “Oh my, what a book is the Bible that even an added promise has so much power that I am healed!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>My friends, when we act on the words of God there happen miracles in us and God watches over His work to perform it.</p></blockquote> <p>My friends, when we act on the words of God there happen miracles in us and God watches over His work to perform it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I wrote once in my little paper, it’s hard this time, that someone said, was asked, “Do you believe that Jonah was in the stomach of the whale?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he said, “Yes, I believe that, and if the Bible has told that the whale had been in the stomach of Jonah I should also have believed it if it was in the Bible.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yes, it is good to act on the Word of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But, it is also very necessary that we obey the Word of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Cast out demons in My Name,” said Jesus.</p> <p>I’m so glad that in the armor of God is also prayer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I believe it is in my book “Not Good If Detached,” but I tell that I was in a group of…a small conference in Germany, of what you call here in the front the Christian fellowship.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ten students, Christians, had brought ten non-Christians.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I had to speak Saturday evening and 3 times on Sunday.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On Saturday after I had spoken, every student took one of the non-Christians and made a walk and walked with them, and they said “Corrie, not one of them has accepted your message.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But we will pray.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We will pray this night and we will pray tomorrow and we will stand behind you with our prayers.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Now, God did miracles that Sunday, when people prayed and the devil had not much power to come in between.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And in the evening, 8 out of 10 had made a decision for the Lord Jesus, that made the angels in heaven rejoice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I went to my bedroom very happy and thankful and exhausted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Germans have very thoroughly thought much, and between the 3 meetings I had many, many talks, but I was so happy with what the Lord had done.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>But when I came in my room, Trudy followed me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Trudy said “Oh, Corrie, I must thank you, what you have done for my Otto.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was so dark.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was a medical student, and her fiancé also was a medical student, and she said “Oh, he was so dark and unhappy, and now he has accepted the Lord Jesus and is so glad and so full of joy.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Now let me just praise and thank the Lord.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But what about you, Trudy?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She said, “I don’t come to speak about myself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I will speak about Otto.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought, “OK,” and I talked about Otto.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>But suddenly, in the midst of our talk, I turned to her, or rather to demons in her, and I said, “In the name of Jesus I command you demons go out of this girl.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She is not bought by your blood, but by the blood of Jesus Christ, who has paid everything for her at the cross of Golgotha.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I command you to leave her and I forbid you to come back or to come in anyone else.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Go to the place where Jesus tells you to go.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ve never seen such a change on the face of a human being.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>From the darkness she came into light and she shouted, “I’m free, I’m free, is there hope for me?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t know it!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then she told me that she had intended to commit suicide the next day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I could hardly, I stood trembling on my feet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did not know anything of her, and I even had not discerned that she was demon-possessed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I, after she had left, I thought “I must have a prayer, I must talk it over with someone.”</p> <blockquote><p>I’ve never seen such a change on the face of a human being.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>From the darkness she came into light and she shouted, “I’m free, I’m free, is there hope for me?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn’t know it!”</p></blockquote> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I ran downstairs and in the hall where we had our meeting I saw all these same students on their knees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I said “I’ve come to tell you that Trudy is liberated.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They said, “We knew.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “What did you know?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They said, “We knew that she was demon-possessed and when she went to your room we went in prayer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we prayed “God, use Corrie Ten Boom to liberate that girl.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And after some time, suddenly our prayer went over in praise and thanks and we knew that she was free.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Now do you see what prayer means?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did not know anything about that girl.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But, there were these students who were praying.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I was very happy about this experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have found over the whole world a lack of knowledge among theologians, among Bible students in the seminaries, in the Bible schools, the people do not teach to cast out demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I must say here, that Pentecostal church is here much more advanced than the other churches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But more so, now here comes a difference also in the other churches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But, my friends, don’t forget that you have to cast out demons in this time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you can do it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not because of your faith, for that is very small, perhaps no bigger than a coconut, even perhaps not bigger than a mustard seed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But that doesn’t matter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It can remove mountains.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have the authority of the name of Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have the legal juice of the name of Jesus and you stand in the power of His blood.</p> <p>Perhaps you will say that, “Listen, I can understand when you go over the mission field that you find many people that are demon-possessed, but you are here in America.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Have you never had someone in your counseling room who said, “Oh, I wanted so much to accept the Lord Jesus, but I cannot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m not able.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The moment that I will ask Lord Jesus, ‘come into my heart,’ it is as if there comes something between Him and me.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the people say that I always ask, I always ask with them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When I counsel and even when I preach I have always the worry somewhere in the critical connection in the same moment, and I can tell my dear Lord quite difference sermons than I tell the people in front of me, then I ask, “Lord, what is wrong?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is there in the life of this person who is wanting and longing to be saved, but she cannot?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>When you are on the territory of the enemy you are in their power.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now when you go for fun to a fortune teller, or you are asked to believe the lines in your hand…then I can tell you, you are in the territory of the enemy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you are in great danger.</p></blockquote> <p>And then the Lord tells me which question I ask. Then I say, “When did you go to spiritist meeting?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or I ask, “When did you go to a fortune teller?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I never ask, when they have been to a fortune teller, if they have come to a spiritualist meeting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Holy Spirit teach the discernment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The answer is almost always the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Oh, yes, it was then and done, but I did it just for fun.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then I tell them about East Germany.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In East Germany, the border between west and east is sometimes in the midst of the wood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now, when you are walking in that forest, in that wood, and you should not be alert, it is possible to come very easily into the eastern part of that wood in Germany.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And especially when you had a game and then you are playing, and suddenly you are on the wrong side of the border, and then the police come and catch, “Just come with me to the Police Station.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do you think it helps you when you say, “Oh, excuse me, but we were just playing?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>No.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you are on the territory of the enemy you are in their power.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now when you go for fun to a fortune teller, or you are asked to believe the lines in your hand… this nonsense, and that it’s very often here in America, then I can tell you, you are in the territory of the enemy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you are in great danger.</p> <p>Now, the people don’t always believe that, so it is the best that we make the Bible speak.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then I always immediately ask them to open their Bible to read Deuteronomy 18:10-13, “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Though shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.” [KJV]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Why is it an abomination in the eyes of God?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because instead of asking God for help they have asked the enemy for help.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s why you must be perfect with the LORD thy God.</p> <p>Now if people really are serious they are very soon frustrated that they have been an abomination.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And that’s all right…when they are so far, then I open the Bible and give them Word, for instance, 1 John 1:7 and 9, “When we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all the sins we confess.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s not a cleanse and excuse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then they are free, and they do it, and then they can accept the Lord.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>And, oh how we must warn these decent sinners here in America that they mustn’t go to fortune tellers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I found also, you will see that in my little booklet, that my people are in great danger because they do not know about these things.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Twas a great evangelist in Germany, a man of God, mightily used for thousands and thousands of sinners who were saved and thousands and ten thousand Christians who came by his preaching into the victorious life. . . He came once to me and he said, “Oh, Corrie, I have had such a terrible experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There came a lady to me and she said, ‘Oh, make me free, make me free.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am under the power of the devil.’ “<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he said, “I saw in her eyes that she was demon-possessed, and I laid my hands on her and the same moment I fell on my back and I was out of consciousness for half an hour.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And when I came back to consciousness she was gone and she had committed suicide.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I said, “Pastor, will you show me in the Bible where it is written that we must lay hands on the demon-possessed?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lay hands on the sick, and cast out the demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We must be very careful with our obedience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now here is a man who was beloved of the Lord, who was often burdened for souls, and only by lack of knowledge this man did such a dangerous thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is time to wake up to a reality.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Now in this booklet also, I tell that there is a danger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know if you have ever read the book of Mrs. Penn-Lewis, “War on the Saints,” and you read that book without first asking the Lord to protect you with the blood of Jesus, you come in great darkness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Tis a positive book, but there’s a danger in it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And is one-sided.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She, uh, there is everything under the category of demon possession.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I found a mission recently, the mission field, who did the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And they always talk about demons, and about demon-possession.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not only in the mission fields, so often when a mother-in-law is difficult, then they said “My mother-in-law is demon possessed!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Be careful.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jesus speaks about saying to someone “Raca!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ve never studied demonology, but in this little booklet I try to make the difference between demon obsession and demon-possession.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Demon-possession you can see.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But demon obsession you cannot always see.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s a gradual difference.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The answer is the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cast out the demons in the name of Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we overcome by the blood of the Lamb.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But be careful that you do not make advertisement for the enemies by always talking about them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I will never forget when Dr. Torrey Johnson came to Holland to start a Youth For Christ movement there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’ve never seen such mean articles in the newspaper when they wrote about Torrey Johnson.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Terrible things.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So mean, so dirty, and when he came there were no halls big enough to contain the mass of people.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I can tell you when I should come back here to America and I should like to have very big meetings I should ask some of you, you be so kind to write against me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you cannot be too mean!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These people have made the best advertisement for Torrey Johnson, and now the Youth For Christ movement is in the hands of young people who were saved in the first meetings of Torrey Johnson.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> . . </span>But don’t talk too much about demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>It is in “The Screwtape Letters” that this man with his mighty sense of humor says, “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devil:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one is to disbelieve in their existence.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And that’s very much many people do not believe that demons exist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And devils and pastors, people who stand in the midst of the whole army of demons, and they do not believe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You see that they exist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What a terrific victory for the devil.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One is to disbelieve in their existence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The other is to believe and to feel an unhealthy interest in them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I can tell you that what I tell you today I cannot give everywhere.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I can tell you when I have given this talk, then people come to me and thrust out the most thrilling book stories.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But it’s an unhealthy curiosity, and their life is tell about demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then they go and they tell what has happened with that and that woman, what they have seen about, ah it’s hysterical.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>They themselves are equally pleased by both errors.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And they hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Demons exist. And demons are in the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I believe there are more now than in every time before.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have a tremendous task.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have nothing to fear.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <blockquote><p>Demons exist. And demons are in the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I believe there are more now than in every time before.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have a tremendous task.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you have nothing to fear.</p></blockquote> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space">But</span>, be sure, that you do not give the devil a foothold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What do I mean?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was in South Africa, and I got a telephone from a girl, a lady who said, “Corrie, can you come here, here is a girl, demon-possessed and we don’t know what to do.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now, my first reaction is always to say “No.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you ask me to go to a sick and lay hands on the sick, then I say with great joy, “Oh yes, I do it.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And it gives me a great joy to lay hands on the sick.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But when you ask me, “Come and cast out the demons” then I say, “Can’t he do it?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is it?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Am I afraid for demons?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The fear for demons comes from the demons themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we have nothing to fear from demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We stand there victorious beside legions of angels, and a mighty high Priest is at our side.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is it because it is so terrible to see the demonstration of the power of the enemy in the life of a human being?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perhaps it is that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know what you have for experience, but after I have been used to cast out demons I am physically so tired.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I have not that when I lay hands on the sick.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know what it is, but I don’t like it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And if I can avoid it, I do it.</p> <p>But I know that if I do not do it, and if you do not do it, who are in the world must cast out demons, tell me?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s no other in the whole world who can do it!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But a Christian.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Spirit-filled Christians.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And you can’t do it and I can’t do it, we are nobody…..gloves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You see how very important it is to be filled with Holy Spirit in this time?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>So, I said, “Yes, I come.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I took this woman after that and I said to my friend, “Say, listen, will you please come with your car and bring me back to that address?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There’s a woman demon-possessed, and they have asked me if I would come to cast out the demon.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And my friend said, “Corrie, you know that I’m always available for you with my car, but today I cannot do it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is impossible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The whole day I must bake pies and cakes and for the church meeting tomorrow.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I laid down the receiver of that telephone and there were 3 ministers in that room where the telephone was, and I turned to the ministers and I said, “There are too many pies and too many demons in your churches.”</p> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What did I mean?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And this was in South Africa, in all these British countries, these ladies’ meetings are just demonstrations of how they can bake pies and almost a danger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After I had been some weeks there, they’re fattening Ms. Corrie ten Boom, and I must go on a diet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But I have nothing against it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I like them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But there is a time that we must not bake pies, but cast out demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And if all the ladies used time that they use in their teaching just to go to that neighbor that has an eternity to lost or to gain, and bring the gospel, then I think that it should be good. Now there’s a time, perhaps, for baking pies, and I know in America it doesn’t take much time, for you have all in one can.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are too many demons in our churches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What do you do with a demon-possessed or obsessed person?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now, be honest!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You send him to a psychiatrist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And he can give shock, and demons are not at all shocked.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There is a danger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s time to wake up to a reality.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>One of the ministers said, “I will bring you to that lady.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I was there and there was absolute defeat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I couldn’t do anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And at last, the demons attacked me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A demon said, “You are possessed by the idiotic idea that Jesus is fixer.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I had to leave absolutely defeated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I went on my knees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Lord, what is happened?”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And the Lord showed me there was in my being a foothold for the devil.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t go to bed angry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t give the devil that kind of foothold.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That is somewhere in the translation of Phillips.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You know, when there is a foothold for the devil, you are in a strategic, very weak moment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>What was the foothold?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My attitude was ‘holier than thou.’<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had told these ministers in a very witty and straight way what I thought about the demons and pies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do you see?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Holier than thou’ is a smoke in God’s nose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I die at this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a terrible thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was pride.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Spiritual pride.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t fight with demons when there is pride in your heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don’t give the enemy that kind of foothold.</p> <blockquote><p>What was the foothold?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My attitude was ‘holier than thou.’<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had told these ministers in a very witty and straight way what I thought about the demons and pies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do you see?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Holier than thou’ is a smoke in God’s nose.</p></blockquote> <p>Now, if you’ll know more about my experiences, read that little booklet, “Defeated Enemies.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I will not stop here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But I will tell you that there are more angels in the world than demons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And often we speak far more about demons than about angels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I’m so glad for the angels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Boy, they are great friends of mine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And how they have helped me, and they help me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>In my book, “A Prisoner And Yet” you can read that I came in the prison and we all had to be searched.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we stood on a line and everyone was searched and they took away everything that we have hidden.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And scared I was.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had a little Bible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was special printed for the underground workers in Holland.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Had the whole Old and New Testament, was very small.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I had it under my dress on my back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And other things that I needed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I saw that they did not believe anything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They took away everything that was hidden.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I was so scared that I said, “Oh, God, send now your angels, and that they surround me.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Again, I thought, “Yes, angels.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But after all, angels are spirits.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And spirits are transparent, you can look through them, and these people may not see me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “God let your angels not be transparent today.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>You can pray very unorthodox when you are in great need.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But God did it!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How I don’t know.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But the woman who was standing before me was searched.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And then my sister stood behind me and they did not see me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And there was joy in my heart!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Oh God, if you are such a hearer of prayers I believe I can even stand a concentration camp.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was an hour later I was called again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All of us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And we had to stand in the street, and everywhere was searched for a second time by different women.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But I was not afraid.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I said, “Father, use your untransparent angels just some moments around me,” and He did.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And so I came with my Bible in that prison.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Strange story?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>No.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s written in the Bible angels are ministering spirits sent to this planet for your and my help!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Oh my.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sometimes, we must pray for open eyes.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><div name="#" class="buttons_share" style="text-align:right; 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