SET FREE From Fear

MATTHEW 12:43-45

Tyndale Bible Dictionary

“Fear has a tendency to either immobilize people or seriously

affect their activity. This is especially true of the spiritually

uncommitted.”

Matthew 12:43-45 43 “When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it

goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the

house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there.

And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked

generation.”

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Matthew 12:43 43 “When an evil spirit comes out of a man,

it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.”

~~~~~~43 “When a defiling evil spirit is expelled

from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil.”

The Message

Demons areDisembodied

Spirits

What are Ghosts?

Harpers Bible Dictionary“A disembodied spirit.”

Dictionary.Com“A disembodied spirit that is the

soul of a dead person.”

Ghosts in Biblical TimesMatthew 14:26 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.

Luke 24:37–3937 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

FAMILIARspirit

“A demon who masquerades as the spirit of a person who is dead.”

2 Corinthians 11:14–15

14 … for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants

masquerade as servants of righteousness.

The Dead Remaining Behind??Ecclesiastes 12:7 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it .

Luke 16:2626 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.

the SAME!

Ghosts and Demons are…

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RELY on us

Matthew 12:44-45 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I

left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in

order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than

itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with

this wicked generation.”

our PERMISSION!

What do demons rely on us for?

Mark 5:9-139 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. 11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

Ephesians 4:27“And do not give the devil a

foothold.”

“mēde” “didōmi” (μηδέ δίδωμι)

“do not permit” or

“do not give permission”

1 Corinthians 10:19-20 19 Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or

that an idol is anything? 20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not

want you to be participants with demons.

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2. DemonsRELY on us

3.We can RESIST

We can RESISTJames 4:77 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

2 Timothy 1:77 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

James 2:19 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that and shudder.

Cycle of Fear

DEMONS (scare us by appearing as

ghosts with our permission)

FEAR (feel afraid or anxious and need to act)

ACT (find relief

through worshipping idols or bear

with fear)

Break OutGOD- James 4:7- 2Tim 2:7- James 2:19

Ephesians 1:18–21 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order

that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his

glorious inheritance in the saints, 19

and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Ephesians 1:18–21 That power is like the working of his

mighty strength, 20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the

dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all

rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but

also in the one to come.

Ephesians 2:6

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the

heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.