Acts chapter 19 verse 13. See there are such thing as evil spirits. Go to
downtown Portland, lock your doors, drive through there with your windows rolled
up, and tell me that there's no such thing as evil spirits. And you know what,
stop, you know, you know what, there's gateways to being possessed. Okay, first
of all, if you're saved you can't be possessed. Okay, greater is he that is in
you than he is in the world. You can't be possessed by the devil if you're saved,
but if you're not saved and you allow yourself, you allow yourself to, the
devil can take you captive at his will the Bible says. So it's not something to
play around with. Look at this story in Acts chapter 19 verse 13. Before I do
that though I'm going to just tell you I got attacked by a possessed person in
downtown Portland last week. They tried to, they tried to break in my van. So how
do I know he was a possessed person? Well I've told you this before that possessed
people come up and reveal themselves to me all the time. They do. And I literally,
I pulled up to a job right in the epicenter of downtown Portland. What's
that, what's the epicenter of downtown Portland? Burnside and Broadway. Broad is
the way that leadeth under destruction and many there be that go in there at.
And Burnside and Broadway there's like, that's Demonville right there.
Literally. Go down there tonight if you don't believe me. I don't recommend it.
Just make sure you have a gun or something like that. But anyway I pulled
up there. I'm literally, I just got out of my van to do a job. And right as soon as
I get out I'm just looking at my paperwork to see what I got to do. And
this dude just walks up to me and goes, you, you're gonna watch me? I'm gonna
watch you. You're gonna watch me? I'm gonna watch you. And like yeah, you're
like, well he just had sight, you know, he has mental problems. Okay. Well he
definitely had mental problems. But he thought it was like surveillancing him
in a van. And he's like, I just got out of prison for measure 11. You think I'm
afraid to, you know, I'm just like great. So the guy's gonna attack. I knew he was
gonna try to do something to me. But when I pulled up I didn't realize that there
was like one of those little iPad like keyboards underneath my van. Like I don't
know, some somebody just left it there. But it was like broken or whatever. And
so the guy, you know, I lock, I always lock my passenger side van door so that
someone can't just walk up and just open up my door and grab something. Because,
you know, you have to be afraid of people doing that down there. And so he grabbed
the handle and tried to get into my van, my Sprinter van. And it was access denied.
And then he got really mad. He, I don't know how he even found it. It was just
sitting underneath the van. He grabbed it and I'm like standing at the back of
the van like this. And he's probably to where Alex is for me. He grabbed that
keyboard thing and he threw it at me like a ninja star. You know, well like
that. And I was like fat matrix. I went.
But he did, he didn't, he didn't want to fistfight with me apparently. I don't know
why. But he tried to throw something at me and then he was going bananas and
then people called the police on him and he walked off. But there are still
devils amongst us, okay. And, you know, whether he was or not, I mean, I feel
like he was. Why did he pick on me? There was all these people down there. Why did
he come right up to me and start messing with me right away? It was weird. So maybe
so I could tell this story in the sermon. But anyway, so look at Acts chapter 19
verse 13 says, Then certain of the vagabond Jews exorcists took upon them
to call over which they had evil spirits of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of
one Sceva, a Jew and chief of the priests which did so. And the evil spirit answered
and said, Jesus I know, Paul I know, but who are ye? Who are you? That's, that's
scary. If you're not saved, the devil's know who's saved and who isn't. The
devil's know, you know, whether you really are saved legitimately or not. And guess
what? If you're not saved, you don't have any power over these devils. And I'm not
saying that we even should go out and try to cast devils out or something. I'm
not, I wouldn't, I wouldn't try to do that if I was you. Why would you? Because I
just don't think that we have those, that power anymore. I mean obviously prayer
and fasting and things like that. And, you know, but I just, I've tried to, you
know, in my heart try to cast devils out of people. But guess what? They still
walked away possessed. You know, that might sound weird to you, but like I pray
for people when I see them like that. I just pray that God releases them from
their prison.