Mass Deliverance Manual

talking about evil spirits and not the spirits of God, although there were spirits of God. And for some reason when I read it that day, that rang a bell in my mind. That’s the only thing I remember about the book. The rest of it was really off the wall, but at any rate that particular statement rang a bell in my mind, spirits of God . I remember that when I was in seminary we asked the professor about the spirits of God. Because they are mentioned -- seven spirits of God are mentioned twice in Revelation around the throne. Then in Isaiah 11:2 , it names seven spirits of God. They go to and fro through the earth, and I began to wonder about these seven spirits of God again. Now when we were in seminary, we asked the professor, and so he gave us a nice theological explanation that seven was the number of God and completeness, and so of course everything was in sevens, and the seven represented the completeness of the Holy Spirit. Well that sounded pretty good. I didn’t know any reason why it wasn’t all right. It just didn’t thrill me that much, but I put it away and never thought too much more about it. By the way, back to this verse 18 [Matthew], when we found this “ whatever you bind on earth ,” we found that worked, and that “ whatever you loose on earth ,” I didn’t know what it meant, so I did what I learned many years ago as a baby Christian. Some older, wiser Christian told me, “When you run across a scripture and you don’t know what it means, don’t throw it away, don’t deny it, and don’t worry yourself to death about it. Just tell the Lord, “I believe this scripture. I have no idea what it means. I don’t know, and because I don’t know what it means, I can’t apply it to my life, but I believe it because You said it, Father, and You’ve never said anything that wasn’t right; and when I understand it as you want me to, I’ll know how to apply it in my life and where it fits. In the meanwhile, I’m going to put it in this cubby hole right here. I’m not going to throw it away. I’m just going to store it, and if You want me to use that scripture, You’re going to have to show me what it means and how to use it and then I’ll do it.” That’s what I did to the last half of that eighteenth verse. That way I didn’t have to sit around every day and wonder and go, “oh I can’t go any further in my Bible study until I know what the last half of that verse is!” I find people stalled out all over the country, “well I was studying the Bible you know, and then I struck this verse and I couldn’t understand it so I just quit.“ The devil would like nothing better than for you to stall out. Listen, there are things in this book that you and I will never understand until we get to heaven, but there

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