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To: 3722535r

What does...’preaching by the power of an unclean spirit’, mean?


48 posted on 02/21/2010 7:42:10 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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Acts Chapter 16

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl
possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters
much profit by fortune-telling.

17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men
are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of
salvation."

18 And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned
and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to
come out of her." And he came out that very hour.

19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they
seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the
authorities.


Matthew Chapter 12

43 "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry
places, seeking rest, and finds none.

44 Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And
when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man
is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked
generation."

54 posted on 02/21/2010 7:49:43 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: stuartcr

In Biblical terms I meant she was possessed by a demonic spirit.....Christ cast out many unclean demonic spirits....And in the book of Acts the apostles did the same.......The Devil knows scripture, but he twists it into a mockery of God.....He tempted Christ in the wilderness and quoted scripture......Through the power of The Holy Ghost we have the power to do the same if we are believers....But we had better be fasting and prayed up before we attempt that....They will fight back, and that is in the book of Acts also.....Demon spirits know who we are in Christ.....


71 posted on 02/21/2010 9:56:23 AM PST by 3722535r
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