3/1/1970

Spiritualism Today

Part Two

Worship of spirits, in Brazil. The most important night of the week comes when the drums beat. That boogie beat. Devil spirit beat of Africa. Same damnable stuff you hear many times when they pick it up in the rock ‘n roll beat. The women chant and dance, the spirit descend, listen to this, to take possession of their bodies. A news writer most likely never cracked the book. He’s accurate. Saturday nights, festival time for the spirits. In the center of a hut is a pole supporting the roof around which women dance dressed in multicolored skirts, frilly blouses, turbans and they are urged on by the chants of the male priests standing by a group of three drummers. In one corner is a group of impassive silent men. In another, a group of excited women claps, swaying always with the chants of the priests encouraging the dancers. Within an hour of the start, usually between 10 PM and midnight, the hut is filled with people, the tensions rise, as the drummers increase their momentum and the dancers become possessed. Then some collapse on the ground, they’re slain by the spirit. That is slain by the spirit. That they want to tell us in the Christian church the true God does. That’s a lie from hell. The true God doesn’t go around slaying anybody in the spirit. This is slain in the spirit-- devil spirits. Some shriek, stagger, appear frozen by a magic spell. Others possessed by a child spirit suddenly start talking in squeaky voices like children. Sing children’s songs, giggle, hold hands, and so forth. The spirits descend discreetly and speak through followers who are affected by them. Isn’t that something? They speak through them, they possess them. Look at the accuracy with which that stuff is written. Then we talk in the Christian church about sister, let Jesus have his way in your life. Just give yourself to Jesus the spirit and let him possess you. Just become a channel for him. Be his instrument. Turned yourself over to Jesus and let Jesus use you. That’s all straight devil spirit talk. Because the true God never possesses. He never controls. We are never an instrument for him. We are never a tool. We are never a channel. Under the possession, they have great enthusiasm. They do great feats under possession. You and I have freedom of will, we can do great feats for the true God, but we got to have the will power and the courage to do it by the freedom of our will. They are possessed, they’re controlled, they can’t help themselves once those devils take over. But you can help yourself. You’ve got freedom of will. And you and I have to make up our mind, whether we, by the power of God who’s in us is greater than he that‘s in the world, talking about the devil spirits, or we by the freedom of will can’t stand more boldly than they do or whether they through possession have a better God than we’ve got.

I forget the name of the TV show that was on Monday or Tuesday night this week. They’re all lousy anyway. All just built around devil spirits and all that control. But in that film, people had been killed by devil spirits, possessed, murdered. Finally, this little chick says to her boyfriend, “Confess Satan as your God” -- Just those words. I thought my teaching of the foundational class on the two seeds just increased in value a million times when I saw that stupid stuff. This is what they’re doing. She just said to him, just confess him as your god, confess him, she used the words. And if you confess Satan as your god, you know who gets to be your god. Born of the seed of the serpent. Amen. Do I have to be hesitant about saying to a man or a woman, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior or go to hell? Not me. That’s right. Ah people, this is the day and hour, this is a time where those of us who had sat at the feet of the integrity and the accuracy of the Word, that we take a lousy stand for it and do something. The talkin’ days are over with kids. It’s finished. Because one of these mornings you’ll wake up, if you don’t you’ll find out it’s too late anyway. But if we still have life and breath, why don’t we say it now while we still got the freedom to say it?

Palm reading, sticks - two systems used in fortune-telling. Numerology, psychic readings, auras, all of this stuff. At dusk, be sure, clear your mind. Stare inside of a crystal ball. Crystal balls, diameters, 3, 4, 5 inches--prices, $18 to $50. And people buying them by the barrel full. Now they couldn’t buy them if they didn’t have money to buy them with. They may put them on Bank America, but sooner Bank America has got to be paid. They support that. You and I have to support what we know is God’s Word.

Cards. 200 decks of cards, she sold. Five bucks a deck. You know, I forget what they call them (tarot cards). Really something. Occultists don’t want publicity, now doesn’t that sound just lovely? That’s right.

There’s always a number of basic things you can watch for in spiritualism. They are the most humble people you’ve ever seen. They just ooze humility. The most sickening thing they ooze is counterfeit love. They are the most loving people you have ever seen. They’ll just squeeze your neck and they’ll just love ya and they’ll do anything for you. Thirdly. They’re always people basically with a deep religious faith about which they will talk to you. In the fourth place, they will always endeavor to produce an academic acceptability.

If we can get the right reverend to front for this, it’s got to be good. If we can get scientist so and so, to stand for it, it’s got to be right. And if we can get the head of the IBM outfit to say so, it’s got to be good. It has to have an academic acceptability. And of course, nothing gave it such acceptability as Dr. Ryan and Mrs. Ryan at Duke University, the past number of years. But there are others, across our country and foreign countries that have really given it an academic atmosphere and acceptability. And in the fifth place, you can always be sure that the approach they utilize and tell to people will be solid, it will be explicit, and they are producing conclusive evidence. And in the final place, they’ll always tell you before it’s all finished. Be sure to be very cautious about this. I call it cautious skepticism. Don’t swallow it, they tell you. Be sure to be very cautious if you’re going to explore the fields of the occult. If you’re going to go to a séance, be sure that it isn’t a counterfeit. Be very careful that you go to a séance where the medium is a genuine.

Isn’t this beautiful? Why hasn’t the church recognized this spirit growth in devil spirits? Because the church doesn’t know the Word. They just talk. No Word. Just talk about the Word – but no Word. And of course we don’t believe in devil spirits anymore. That’s exactly what the devil wants us to believe. That there aren’t any. And then he wants us to believe that there’s only one God, as long as we blame the true God for everything the devil does, he’s really got us hooked.

Well, this is some great editor Carl Weskey or something. Publishes the occult and he lives in a haunted house. Well, that’s a good place. The thing that struck me very much about some of this stuff was that for best results, use people between the ages of 18 and 25. For best results, use people, get the emphasis? Between 18 and 25. But in the article, it tells how you gotta’ start with your children.

Maybe that’s why I was so cranked up tonight when I came in about that first week of camp. We get the family together to teach our children and our families how to read the Bible as a family and how to get the gold out of the Bible and how to build this Word of God into the children.

They teach their families how to build receptivity to the spirit world in their children by meditation. By getting your children around you and start developing their potential by using a ouija board. By getting them a pendant at early age that they can ask questions of. That’s how they train the children.

Well, sorry I haven’t got time to read you all that stuff. But boy oh boy, this is just this week’s stuff. You can float this battleship on it, if it was water. Talks about a burst of devil spirit energy such as in suicide. I’ve taught for years, the Bible teaches that when a man commits suicide, it’s a devil spirit. Now here’s an article on devil spirits where the devil spirits come right out and say the very same thing. I think a year or two ago when the guy shot everybody off the tower in the southern states, I taught on that one night and brought up the subject that no man can do this unless he was devil possessed. Then the little devil spirit leaves that guy in Texas and jumps into some guy over here, same devil spirit, and jumps into some little fellow over here in Chicago and he kills six, seven, eight nurses. Then we put him in a psychiatric ward and can’t figure out what’s the matter with him. We’re looking in the wrong place. You got a flat tire in your automobile, you don’t look in your gas tank or the exhaust pipe, right? You know why they look in the gas tank or the exhaust pipes, they ain’t got any brains to look at the flat tire. They have no ability to look at God’s Word to find out where the problem is, so they look up in the gas tank or the exhaust pipes. The answer is in God’s Word, it’s in spirit power. Remember Ephesians:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness from on high. -- Ephesians 6: 12

We wrestle not against flesh and blood. When will we begin to believe it? Our fight is not a physical fight, it’s a spiritual one. It’s where devil spirits are wrestling against one spirit, the true spirit of God, but the true spirit of God can only operate in a born again believer. We are the vessel. We are the vessels. Without this body, God has no spirit available. He’s got to have a body and He doesn’t take the control, He doesn’t possess, He comes in when we invite Him as our personal Lord and Savior. Then He doesn’t control, we operate nine manifestations. Some people have sat through my foundational class 6, 7 times and they’re still scared to get up and speak in tongues in a believers meeting or interpret or bring a message in prophecy. People, there’s something wrong somewhere. Devils aren’t bashful, they aren’t afraid. Who’s the author of fear? That’s right. Come to a ministry of healing. Man, when you walk up to minister to someone, if you’re full of fear, don’t walk up, stay where you are. Because if your full of fear, it isn’t from the true God, it’s from Satan. You’ve got to get your mind built up that you are what the Word of God says you are, you have what the Word of God says you have, and when you walk up, you have no fear. No fear. Or you just haven’t understood even the first lesson of the foundational class. But you see if Satan can keep fear in God, the true God’s children, we never get the job done.

The Word of God still says, I would ye all speak in tongues, it’s a commandment of the Lord. It still says that you are to speak in tongues, interpret and prophesy in a believers meeting. It doesn’t even mention fear. Because by the time you’re born again of God’s spirit, knowing what you have in Christ, fear is to be gone. That was the history on the day of Pentecost. What changed those men? Who, 50 days before were behind closed doors full of fear. They ate onion soup for breakfast, most likely, or some time. They liked radishes, I suppose, potatoes, pie. They were just men like as we are. That says about the prophet: A man subject unto like passions as we are.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. -- James 5: 17

Yet he prayed to God for three years and six months and it was so dry, they didn’t even have any dew.

This one devil spirit he talks about is a dandy. It’s what they call regression hypnosis. I have taught people for years that all hypnosis was devil spirits. And, of course, we laugh about this because I’m just one little old teacher. All the books that you read and all the subjects you hear all promote hypnotic situations especially in the medical field. You can have a piece of dental surgery done today under hypnosis. You can give birth to a child under hypnosis. You can have pieces of major surgery performed under hypnosis. But all hypnotism is caused by a devil spirit. And this regression hypnosis is a real dandy. Because it takes them back beyond their childhood to previous existence which they refer to as incarnation. And then they finally get you told, on how in this incarnation who you are now is one thing, but in the previous incarnation you were so and so.

Of course, the classic of all classics is the great Arthur Ford, baby. This is the intellectual publication for the scientists, for the University graduates, for the brains of the country, and if you’re one of those brains in the community, they decide these things for you. It’s a Spiritual Frontiers fellowship. This is this week’s issue. Just came in. I can’t spend all night reading it to you. But it’s just unbelievable what they have in these magazines and what they’re propounding.

The most interesting one of many others of course is the one that I enjoyed about this fellow Johnson. He was on the ABC network a year ago in the television program “The Baffling World of ESP.” Some of you saw it. I didn’t. Where Mr. Johnson gets possessed by this Chinese spirit called Chiang. And when Chiang possesses Mr. Johnson, Johnson on the television show, while they were in a séance, took on the form that looked like a Chinese. And in here, they got the report of the meeting of Mr. Johnson with the leading psychologist, psychiatrist, and parapsychologist in an international meeting in Europe.

In 1967, listen to this. The scientists sat hushed around a conference table listening enrapt as Chiang spoke of the interest his world had in the work of these scientists. The article said that one of them said to Chiang, “ Then why did you chose this man as your instrument?” If you know the history of this man the devil spirit possesses, it’s rotten. His life is no deal -- nothing about him is any good. So the scientists said, why did you choose this man as your instrument? Now listen to this reply of the devil spirit. The reply came quickly. One does not question the morals of one’s telegraph boy. Isn’t that something? Well, he says in here that the medium inter - magnetic field or aura is directed by the spirits like a puppet. Isn’t that just admirably stated? You pull the string --- poof --- up goes the puppet. You pull the other string --- poof --- there goes the puppet. Because devil spirits always control, always possess. Then, I have told you that the counterfeit is so much like the genuine, you’ve got to be a specialist in the field or you get confused.

You know that the Bible teaches that when a child is born, God in His foreknowledge knows whether that child will some day, by the freedom of its will, confess with his mouth the Lord Jesus, believe God raised him from the dead, and get saved. God in His foreknowledge knowing that this child will get saved by the freedom of its will, it has a guardian angel. That’s what the angels are for, to take care of the kids.

Now listen to this paragraph. When a child is born,………… I’m reading you a quotation from Chiang, the devil spirit. “He is appointed a guardian angel or spirit helper who observes and helps with the child’s development. The helper stays with the child until he is about seven years old, when the personality begins to express itself more strongly and then very often, a new helper is appointed for the child until he reaches the age of puberty. At that time, comes yet a new guide who will walk hand in hand with him the rest of his life.” You talk about counterfeit like the genuine. How do you like that? The reason a child is born crippled or blind, he says, is that the crippled child may come to the parents so that they develop compassion and can give love to that which is different. Sounds like the church talking that I used to belong to anyway. This is the devil spirit talking. And this is a beauty too. I told you they smother you with love. The fundamental teaching of all great religious leaders has to be brotherhood and love.

The outward forms of religion are but elaborately carved banisters to help you tread up the staircase. It matters not what faith you hold as long as the expression of that faith enables you to live on earth in brotherhood. There are many roads just as long as you are sincere. As long as you got brotherhood.

You think there’s brotherhood here? They’d kill you tonight if they could and you know it. I said in California to a group of them, the white folks are scared to death. We don’t want to fight. We’re scared. We’re running scared. That’s right. Because we’d been sitting on our plush cushions on the rear and we think we’ve got it made. And we’re sure that the people who are 65 keep telling us, don’t upset the apple tree. The reason they don’t want to upset it is because they’re almost dead. But there are kids coming up like mine, like some of yours that aren’t dead. And you teach that kind of philosophy. Your teaching straight from the devil’s world again.

Where in the world do you ever read that a Christian can’t stand up and take a good fight? That’s right. But you know we’re scared. Afraid. Afraid we’re going to lose our economy or the social prestige we’ve got, or the money we make week after week. Boy oh boy. You ain’t got long to make much anymore unless we come to a great decision.

End of Part Two

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