Deliverance Demands A Transformation
Pastor Erickson preaches from Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 10 that deliverance must lead to a renewed mind, and that hidden strongholds such as fear, bitterness and offense must be pulled down rather than managed. He calls people to submit to the Lord, let the Holy Ghost fill the place of what is cast out, and give an eviction notice to everything that has them bound.
The message in 6 points
Everyone needs deliverance
After a week of preaching that healing is for us, he says his task is to convince people that they need deliverance. He reads Romans 12:2, where we are not to be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of the mind.
1:00:16Strongholds that are hard to see
Deliverance is not only for drug addicts and alcoholics. He names strongholds that hide more easily, like fear, distress, insecurity, bitterness and offense. A washer that drained into his wall for months pictures how the enemy's lies fill a life when no one deals with them.
1:04:11Pull it down, do not compact it
Reading 2 Corinthians 10, he defines a stronghold as the spiritual core behind an addiction. Many people only manage the symptoms or press their problems down like a trash compactor, but the Bible says to pull down every stronghold.
1:16:06Tear down the partition against truth
Verse 5 tells us to cast down every high thing raised against the knowledge of God. He says the enemy raises a partition in the mind between what we know is right and the cost of doing wrong, but Jesus is the truth and the truth makes us free.
1:21:00Liberty comes when the Spirit is Lord
From 2 Corinthians 3:17 he teaches that liberty comes when we submit to the Spirit as Lord, not only when we receive it. People who receive the Holy Ghost but never submit stay bound, so James 4:7 says to submit to God and resist the devil.
1:26:45Deliverance demands transformation
Every spirit cast out leaves a void that must be filled, and the Holy Ghost wants to fill a cleaned temple. Without transformation people fall into a cycle of sin, so he calls for eviction notices on drugs, fear, offense, bitterness and old family patterns.
1:33:13
In his words
“It's not good enough just to be delivered, we got to be transformed. There's got to be a renewing, there there's going to be a change over in the mind, a recreation of the way we think.”
“Every spirit that is cast out must be replaced with something to fill the void that the unclean Spirit vacated.”
“I refuse to be controlled by anything other than God. He is my controller, he is my Lord, he's my master. Nothing else can be my master.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Romans 12:2
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
King James Version.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
King James Version.
John 8:32
32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
King James Version.
2 Corinthians 3:17
17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
King James Version.
James 4:7
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
King James Version.
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