Under Demonic Bondage

I have a few things from the scriptures to point out here, along with some personal observations that concur with these scriptural truths, about demonic bondage. Maybe you think I’m going to talk about people foaming at the mouth, or crying out among the tombs like a wild animal, or maybe being thrown by a spirit into the water and fire. Well, yes but those kinds of things are not really the point here. The point is this: Jesus told the upstanding religious leaders, who as he stated, “appeared righteous outwardly unto men,” that the despised publicans and harlots would go into the kingdom of God before them (Mat. 23:28; 21:31,32). The reason that Jesus said this was because these ‘church going,’ upstanding leaders of the religious community of God’s people, looked down on the publicans and harlots; comparing themselves with them to assure themselves of their own perceived righteousness (Lk. 18:11; Lk. 7:37-39). Now when Jesus said that the publicans and harlots would go into the kingdom of God before the Pharisees, etc., what he was saying is that they would accept deliverance and receive God’s Spirit, which is the kingdom of God; and that the Pharisees would not (Rom. 14:17; II Cor. 3:17). So who was under more demonic bondage, the publicans and harlots, whom everyone KNEW were in sin; or the fine, upstanding Pharisees, who “appeared righteous outwardly unto men?” If your answer is the Pharisees, you are correct and you are seeing the point here. Things aren’t necessarily what they appear to be. Not only so, but the people who were being thrown into the water and fire, and were howling in the tombs and cutting themselves, received deliverance from demonic bondage from Jesus; while the religious leaders who appeared to be the pillars of faith and righteousness in the community were the ones who had Jesus put to death (Mat. 17:15,18; Mk. 5:2-13; Mat. 26:63-66). So again, who was under more bondage to demonic forces, those who were obviously under that bondage; or those who everyone THOUGHT to be righteous men? A no-brainer, as it is said. Things are usually not what they appear to be. Often times, neither are people, and that works in both directions, as we have seen here from the Bible.

Upon visiting mental hospitals at different times to see various people, the holy Ghost pointed out to me that the people who were in charge of these places, and running the system that is set up to supposedly help the patients, were under more demonic bondage than the patients, who were obviously vexed. How so? Because they were so intellectually carnally minded, which along with being religiously carnally minded, is the most dangerous condition of all. Satan and his horde play chess with such people because in their vain ‘knowledge’ and pride they are so easily and eagerly “taken captive by the devil at his will” (II Tim. 2:26). They are oblivious to this taking place of course. And that brings us to this: It comes down to what Jesus told the Pharisees, and what they said back to him: “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which SEE NOT might see; and that they which see might be made BLIND. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth” (Jn. 9:39-41). Someone who thinks they know what they are talking about and doing, but does not, is simply under more bondage to Satan than someone whoKNOWS that they don’t know what they’re doing or talking about. The one can be delivered and the other cannot, or at least not until they come down from that imaginary high perch that they have put themselves on. Who is under more bondage, the obviously oppressed homeless people in the streets, or those who continually pass them by who have it all together; seeking first the things of this life, and ignoring the kingdom of God and his righteousness? (Mat. 6:31-33) The homeless KNOW that they are destitute, but those who think that they themselves have a ‘good’ life, who are actually chasing the wind in their vain pursuit of the false security of this world; are also destitute, but do not know it. So who will sooner get deliverance from their destitution? Jesus told one pastor in Asia that he knew about his worldly poverty, but that he was truly rich. And he told another pastor in Asia that because he thought himself to be rich and in need of nothing, being full of this world’s good; that he was actually “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” He also informed this man that he was not aware of his own spiritual condition. (Rev. 2:8,9; Rev. 3:14-17).I wonder what the carnally minded people who knew either of these men thought about their respective states? Things are not always what they appear to be. Amen.