In the episode we give a brief overview of false systems of sanctification, including deliverance ministry, generational curses, soul ties, inner healing and Theophostic Prayer Ministry. Bob DeWaay refers to these practices as Christian shamanism. Bob shares about his time in deliverance ministr...

Many false spiritual warfare teachings are dependent on finding out secret things that are not revealed. We warn about false Christian psychology teachings and exhort Christians to believe the promises of God. We do not need to discover secrets from our past - we need the clear teaching of the re...

Deliverance is defined in Colossians 1:13, 14 as being delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred to the domain of Christ at conversion. Deliverance ministers seek to find the name and location of demons based on a misunderstanding of the wrestling metaphor in Ephesians 6. In that pass...

Bob DeWaay says, “Those in Christ need to stand in the gospel as they preach the gospel and pray for others who do. God commands us to stand, not to retreat to extra-biblical information, whatever it might be.”

We are Christ’s inheritance, and we are safe in Him. We can stand in the gospel becau...

In this episode we continue our discussion of the armor of God. Bible scholar Clinton Arnold says we need to “appropriate” the armor of God, but Paul says we must stand in it. Clinton’s teaching on this topic leads to false spiritual processes. We can stand in the armor of God because these are ...

In this episode we continue our discussion of Hellenistic magic in Ephesus. The early Christians were being tempted to return to magical Hellenistic practices to get relief from fear or to gain control over the demonic realm.
Christians today are tempted to turn to pagan practices to be free fr...

According to the warfare worldview, believers must gain secret knowledge and do battle with the spirit world to have victory over the powers of darkness in this life. One must learn the right affirmations and renunciations, cast out demons, break curses and many other things in order to have peac...

Jeremiah Johnson uses the Legion narrative in Luke 8 to claim that demons lose power when we call them out by name and that we need to know the names of demons to control the spirit world. This is false spiritual warfare based on pagan beliefs. In this program we refute his teaching by taking a c...

In this episode we discuss Paul’s authorial intent in Ephesians. Paul wrote to assure his readers that they were secure in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 tells us that we are “blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”
False spiritual warfare teachers point to our circumsta...

In this episode we discuss a translation issue in Ephesians 1:11, and go on to show from this and other passages that we are Christ’s inheritance, and He will not lose us to hostile spiritual powers. We are not cursed; we are blessed in Christ. We belong to Christ and we are safe.

The book of Job shows us that we cannot determine blessing or cursing by looking at our circumstances. Much like modern deliverance ministers, Job’s comforters believed Job was cursed based on his circumstances. Our trials do not show us that we need to rebuke Satan or break curses. 1Peter 1:3-9 ...

We discuss the implications of being God’s inheritance. James 1 tells us to “consider it all joy” when we fall into various trials. We can “consider it all joy” when we rest in the promises of God and stand firm in the gospel knowing that the testing of our faith truly does produce endurance. Pau...

In this episode we discuss the sons of God and the host of heaven from Deut 32:8,9 and Acts 7:42. All unbelievers are under the host of heaven, which includes Satan and his demons, while all believers are under Christ. Having been delivered from the host of heaven we need to stand in the gospel,...

We continue our discussion of the host of heaven, showing that though the Jews were keeping the Sabbaths and festivals that God prescribed they were far from God and they were under the host of heaven. Many people today think they are Christians because they keep religious traditions that God ha...

The armor of God mentioned in Ephesians 6 and the imperative to stand must be understood in the context of the change of dominion from the hostile powers of darkness to that of God. The implications for Christians include these Biblical facts:
(1) we are God's inheritance in Christ
(2) we have e...

In this episode we show that prayer is not a process for controlling demons. False spiritual warfare teachers claim that prayer is making verbal statements to deploy weapons. We show that in Ephesians 6:18-20 Paul’s prayer is for boldness to proclaim the gospel. Prayer is believers coming “…bol...

In this episode we show the problems with inner healing techniques that require us to process the past and gain secret information about our ancestors. There is a choice to make — we can believe the simple gospel and the promises of God, or we can go on an endless journey of renunciations and a...

In this episode we wrap up our discussion of processing the past and go on to discuss the Lord’s Prayer. The Lord’s Prayer is often turned into a repetitive, shamanistic prayer to ward off evil. It is also misused by the Roman Catholic church. We examine Matthew 6:7-13 to show that the Lord’s Pr...