10/01/2024
Culled: Charles Awuzie
Exocism (Casting Out Devils) Is Not The Same As Deliverance...
Calm down. Take off the hat of what you used to know about deliverance, let's study the Bible in love and humility.
When Yeshua talked about about casting out devils, He used the Greek word ἐκβάλλω - Ekballo which literally means to banish an unwanted thing or person from a place. And that's not what deliverance is. Let's paint a picture.
Let's assume you were kidnapped by 'Evans' and taken to an evil forest. In the forest, you were tied to a tree awaiting death. To further torment you, the kidnappers positioned a monster with a whip next to you. Every hour, that monster would flog you until you bled. Then someone shows up, fights the monster with a sophisticated weapon and banished the monster from you. You are relieved but you have not been delivered. If that person's help to you was only to banish the monster, would you say that you have been delivered while you were still tied in the forest? A capital NO. So then what is deliverance?
Banishing the monster that tormented you is what EXORCISM means.
Deliverance focuses on the victim and not the demon tormenting him or her. The word Deliverance is the Hebrew word Teshua or Yesha from which the name Yeshua was derived for Jesus. In Greek, it is soteria. Yesha and Soteria both means to save or rescue a victim from danger. So deliverance actually means rescue or freedom.
Back to the picture we painted, if your helper only drove away the monster that tormented you without relocating you from that forest to a safe place, you were not helped at all. That's why scripture says that "when the demons come back, they will come in seven fold" and meet you where they were banished from. So the help you need to escape from your kidnappers would actually be to completely Relocate You from that evil forest to a better place of rest and comfort. That's exactly what Deliverance, Freedom or Salvation means. That's what the gospel is all about. The Bible captures it this way "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son..."~Colossians 1:13
Notice that the Bible mentioned the words 'domain' and 'transfer'...that's what defines deliverance - to be moved from a dangerous domain and transferred to a comfortable domain. Just that in this case, the domains are MENTAL REALMS or ways of thinking. Freedom happens in the Mind. When you are delivered, you will stop fearing witchdoctors, superstutions and start living Freely and boldly.
So to be delivered actually means to be relocated from that evil forest and transferred to a realm where 'Evans' and his gang can not reach or access - "far above powers and principalities".
Beloved, when we cast out devils, we are not conducting deliverance, we are just driving away tormentors. Deliverance only comes through the knowledge of the truth... "for the truth you know shall set you free". That's deliverance. So we don't pray deliverance upon people, we teach people into deliverance. We deliver people by exposing them to the truth that can set them free from Superstitions and fear of Witches. Once they are successfully delivered, that is saved, they are eternally safe from every demonic torment. This occurs in the mind by the renewing of the mind. You must intentionally throw away the old mind and let this mastermind be in you. It's spelt the Master's Mind.
Maranatha!
(I've reposted this for those who are new here to understand what I preached as a preacher.... I still believe that Deliverance Ministries should rather be called Exocism Centres while Platforms where Truth is taught should be called Deliverance Temples).
