Outline

1. Outline • 1. Spirit, soul, body, overview of deliverance • 2. Authority, deliverance, and purpose • 3. Wholeness in the mind, body, and emotions • 4. Forgiveness, relationships, guilt and shame • 5. Witchcraft & Idolatry • 6. Breaking curses • 7. Flesh and sexual sins • 8. Identity, worth, abuse, and trauma

2. FREEDOM TRAINING Witchcraft & Idolatry

3. Spiritual people • “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” I Corinthians 2:12-14 • “You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you... If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” Romans 8:9-10

4. Desire spiritual things • “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” I Cor 14:1 • “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” Rev 3:20 • “but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matt 6:20-21 • “And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.” Luke 12:29-31

5. Sinful spiritual pursuits • “And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God” II Chron 33:5-7 • Necromancer defined: wizard, sorcerer, inquirer of the dead

6. Inquiring of the dead and idols • ”There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcereror a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.” Deut 18:10-12

7. Consequences of sin • “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.” Lev 19:31 • “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.” Lev 20:6 • “A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death” Lev 20:27

8. NT: Sorcery and idolatry • The New Testament re-iterates this: • “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Rev 21:8 • ”Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Gal 5:19-21

9. Test spirits • “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God… By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” 1 John 4:1-6 • Always test the spirit behind any teaching or prophetic word or anything you personally hear, see, or dream

10. Idolatry and sexual immorality • Jerusalem Counsel: “but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.” Acts 15:20 • Church of Thyatira: “But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. ” Rev 2:20-23

11. Miracles versus magic (Exodus 7) • The manifestation look the same but the source of power is different • “So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.” • “Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts.”

12. Man of God or magician (Daniel 4) • “Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation. At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzarafter the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,’O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation.’” • Labels and titles: the king called Daniel after one of his gods, the king states the holy gods are in him, and calls him the chief magician (completely misunderstands who Daniel is and who God is)

13. Revelation versus superstition • Urim and Thummim are physical objects God gave the priests to be used to gain Godly revelation • “And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord regularly.” Ex 28:30 • “When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets” 1 Sam 28:6

14. Miracles versus magic (Acts 19) • God as the source: “And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.” • Human source: “Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus … But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them [7 men], mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded…” • Removing wrong source: “Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.”

15. Miracles versus magic (Acts 8) • “But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, ‘This man is the power of God that is called Great.’ And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miraclesperformed, he was amazed.” • “Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit” [And Peter rebukes him for trying to buy the Spirit]

16. Why witchcraft? • To control people or situations • To have powers • To exact revenge through curses • To know what is coming in the future • To feel special and different • Curious of the spiritual world

17. Obvious witchcraft • Black or white magic: joining a coven and casting spells • Joining a séance and contacting ghosts, demons, or the dead • Talking to the dead, ancestor worship, or Celebrating Day of the Dead • Praying to an idol or dedicating a child to it • Ouija boards, tarot cards, crystal balls, charms (rabbits feet, horse shoes, superstition with an unwashed jersey,…) • Visiting a psychic or palm reader for fortune telling, horoscopes • Energy healing or metaphysical healing or Reiki • Taking New Age classes about energies • Visiting a yogi to tap into the spiritual realm • Water witching to find buried items or wells

18. More… • Astral projection, automatic writing, channeling, psychic abilities, ESP, hypnosis, mind reading, psychometry, mind control, transcendental meditation, voodoo dolls • Reading palms, tea leaves, cards, horoscopes, numerology • Mormonism, Christian Science, Scientology, Islam, Freemasons, Jehovah Witness, Buddhism, New Age, Bahaism, Reincarnations, Rosicrucian, Unity church, Idolatry • Cursing people • Superstitions like black cats, mirrors, lucky numbers or dates, Friday the 13th, … • Any time you do something to control, an obviously uncontrollable situation by something you do

19. Grey area • These require a relationship and prayer with Jesus • Fortune cookies • Some wellness doctors (eastern or natural medicine) • Yoga • Cinderella, Harry Potter, Star Wars,… • Tattoos in remembrance of the dead • Celebrating Halloween or the dead • Computer games with magic potions or wizard help • Jesus please reveal to me anything in my life that is unholy… I repent of …

21. Repent • Repent: agree with God that these things are sin and that you no longer want any part in them • “God I repent of … “ (Go back and corporately repent of anything on the three slides of lists…) • “God I agree with you that witchcraft and everything else named is evil in your sight. My family has done many of these things through the ages and I choose not to follow in their ways of witchcraft or idolatry. Holy Spirit please clean out anything unholy and fill those places with Yourself.”

22. Homework Questions • Time for a bonfire… items we own (books, movies, art, games) • Ask: will this item attract evils attention and make it feel comfortable to stay in my home? • Do you have items with witchcraft, new age, demons, death, or spells in your home that God is bringing to mind? (crystals, magic 8 ball, crystal ball, movie, pentagrams, dream catchers,…) • Do you have any idols in your home or ancestor altars? • Do you have any items depicting demons in your home (ex. dragons, skulls,…) • Do you have any lucky charms? (lucky penny, rabbits feet,…) • How do we treat death and the deceased? • Does your family worship the dead? Talk or pray to the dead (even Mary or saints)? Do you believe the dead can bless you or do you favors?