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58 The Believer's Authority<br />
could say anything, he spoke up. The demon spoke through him,<br />
whining in a high-pitched, nasal voice, "You can't cast me out!<br />
You can't cast me out! You can't cast me out!"<br />
I said, "Yes I can, in the Name of Jesus."<br />
He said, "No you can't. This man wants me to stay. And if he<br />
wants me to stay, I can."<br />
I said, "You're right," and passed him by.<br />
Religious Spirits<br />
Several days later I saw that man on the street, stopped him,<br />
and engaged him in conversation. He wasn't crazy; he had all his<br />
mental faculties. As I talked to him, I found out what kind of a<br />
spirit he had. It was a religious spirit. People need to know there<br />
are such spirits. They make people act very religious. Actually,<br />
this fellow had three evil spirits in him. The others were<br />
deceiving and lying spirits.<br />
He believed in a mixture of some Bible along with eastern<br />
religions. He leaned more toward the eastern religions. I talked<br />
to him about this. I said, "Those beliefs are not scriptural.<br />
They're not according to the New Testament."<br />
He replied, "Bible or no Bible, I like it this way, and I'm<br />
going to stay with it."<br />
I said, "Anytime you want to get rid of those devils, come to<br />
see me. But as long as you want it that way, that's the way it's<br />
going to be."<br />
He said, "Well, that's the way I want it."<br />
Free Will Prevails<br />
You've got to walk off and leave people when they want it<br />
that way. If people want to live in sin, they can. If they want to<br />
be free, they can be free. But as long as they don't want to be<br />
free, neither Jesus nor anybody else can set them free.<br />
You can't go around promiscuously exercising authority