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You’d better watch out, you’d better not pout . . . or the Christmas demon may get you. Better known in European (especially Austrian/German) folklore as Krampus, this hideous creature is the anti-St. Nicholas. Just as the fat jolly guy in fiction bestows gifts, Krampus punishes the children who’ve been naughty. Even today he’s still celebrated in some alpine towns just as he was hundreds of years ago. At times this Christmas demon has been denounced, but this horned deity of destruction is apparently having a resurgence. With long hair, cloven hooves, and a pointed tongue he is depicted on the night before the Feast of St. Nicholas. He has historically also been shown sexually pursuing women. Legend says he is the son of Hel who rules the realm of the dead in Greek mythology.

According to National Geographic, whose interest is anthropological and not spiritual, the “half-goat, half-demon horrific beast literally beats people into being nice and not naughty.” Worse than that. The most rebellious children get taken straight to hell, in folklore. Even today, drunken men in Slovenia and the Czech Republic roam the streets dressed as devils. In Austria they now sell collectable, satanic Krampus demon horns.  And in America, it has become trendy to have Krampus parties as a kind of anti-Christmas celebration. This week, the TV show “American Dad” (which lampoons conservative GOP types) featured a Krampus festival. An annual Krampusnacht (Krampus night) is held in Washington DC each year.

 The Geographic suggests it’s just a psychological attempt for individuals to “get in touch with their animalistic side.” But those who dress as this creature, or celebrate his presence during the Christmas season, might get more than a few risque laughs. Donning the personae of a demon is to invite him into one’s soul. Celebrating his evil with merriment will bring a night of torment, not one which is “calm and bright.”

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An encouraging word:   DON’T BE ANXIOUS

I was riding in the car with my daughter a few days ago when she said, “Let’s listen to the Bible.” She plugged in her smartphone and began at Philippians chapter four. Verse six hit me: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything . . . present your requests to God.” Like you, I’ve heard this verse hundreds of times, but I needed it that day. To be honest, I was feeling anxious about some things I was facing. It’s wonderful how a simple word from God can change everything. But if we are not reading and hearing His Word, there is no way we can be inspired by Scripture. Whatever you face today, perhaps your own anxiousness, take time for some small nugget of truth from the Bible to impact your heart, like it did mine.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

Ho, ho, ho. It’s getting a little harder to be jolly this Christmas season. First it was the release last week of Ridley Scott’s extraordinarily offensive and unbiblical film “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” Now, just as you are getting ready to sing “Away in a Manger” comes a new book, Atheist Heart, Humanist Mind. Written by an executive at the home/apartment booking site AirBnB, Lex Bayer, in collaboration with a humanist chaplain at Stanford University (Didn’t know they had such a thing, did you? Why not?), John Figdor. Having no divine source to ask, Bayer and Figdor surveyed fellow non-believers for their ideas of what non-Pentateuch edicts would best convey their values. As might be expected, no “shalt nots” turned up in the survey. No commands to avoid stealing and adultery. Just bromide platitudes, including:

• Be open minded.
• Strive to understand what is most likely to be true.
• God is not necessary to be a good person.
• Leave the world a better place.
• Treat others as you want them to treat you. (Hmmm. Sounds familiar.)

I’m not sure such syrupy sentiments would have had much of an effect on Hitler or Stalin. And I’m certain that if read by pedophiles and drug dealers today these “suggestions” would not strike much fear into their hearts to change their ways. But ideas like this go down well in our compromised culture. Bayer, Figdor and their accomplices, didn’t invent these ideas. Demons did. They are “doctrines of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1). Demons inspired such noble ideas? Other than the borrowed concept of treating others the way you wish them to treat you (Matthew 5:44), the drivel of the atheists’ “ten commandments” are an excuse for feeling good while being blasphemous. As an exorcist, I’ve never met a demon who doubted the Bible, disbelieved the deity of Christ, or denied the existence of the Pit. I invite Bayer and Figdor on a weekend with me to observe the casting out of demons. They might come away with 10 better ideas about how to get to heaven and avoid hell.

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An encouraging word:   BORN OF A VIRGIN

A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE (Isaiah 7:14). I capitalized the words because they are so astounding. Such a thing was impossible and had never happened. A woman would give birth without a human father. Why would Isaiah write this hundreds of years before Christ? Moreover, the Lord who inspired the prophet to pen these words added to the mystery. The child born of this astounding event would be named in advance: Immanuel, “God with us.” We take this for granted. We often sing “O Holy Night” and recite the Christmas story without a thought regarding its amazing circumstances. Never forget the miracle that is the birth of Christ. Billions have been born since then, but never has God come in human flesh as a baby BORN OF A VIRGIN since that night in Bethlehem.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

Did her or didn’t he? That’s the question. Michael D Williams was arraigned this week on murder charges and is being held on $1 million bond in a Michigan jail. While riding an Amtrak train, Williams pulled a knife and stabbed a conductor and three passengers. He later told detectives that the “guy he was talking to on the train turned into a demon and he had to fight him,” according to court documents. A sister told reporters that Williams had been hallucinating and feared for his life. Said the sister, “Whatever he believed in his head was real to him. Nothing I could have said could make him think any different.”

What really happened? Let’s break this down logically. First, Williams was certainly mentally ill and suffering from delusions. How long these psychotic episodes had been going on we may never know. Second, what of the attempted murderer’s claims that he saw a demon? There are a lot of crazy things he might have said, but saying he saw an evil spirit is bit out of the box. The possibilities? It may have been strictly psychosis. Or the man he saw might have really had a demon that manifested and triggered this tragedy. Or the demon may have been in the mind of Williams. That’s at least part of what I’d conclude.

Mental health experts would likely argue that the claim of seeing a demons is due to the cultural construct that envisions demons as the ultimate evil. Maybe. Or perhaps we as a society are so naturalistic in our thinking we’re ready to explain away every supernatural reality. Look at those eyes in the photo above. Unless Williams was deliberately acting out a demonic demeanor, those eyes certainly convey the gaze of the kind of murderous crime that demons would have inspired him to commit.

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An encouraging word:  DELIVERED FROM DARKNESS

Paul told the Colossians that Christians have been “delivered from power of darkness” (Colossians 1:13). Most Bible readers pass over that with casual recognition, but ponder those words. We are DELIVERED! Satan was once our spiritual ruler because of sin, and now, if we walk by faith in obedience to His word, the mastery of the devil has ended. We now may walk in light. But it’s important to know that, like all promises in the Word of God, we must confess and possess this truth. Too many Christians have permitted Satan to continue an illegitimate control over their lives by faithlessness and spiritual rebellion. Remember, because of the Cross, you are delivered. Take possession of that promise.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

You may have missed it a couple of weeks ago: the shooting on the campus of Florida State University. A gunman opened fire on students, injuring three of them. A student, Jason Derfuss, inside the library where the gunfire took place was grateful that he escaped being killed. It wasn’t until hours later that Derfuss discovered that there were bullet holes in his backpack and a slug in a book he was carrying:  Great Medieval Thinkers – John Wyclif. He had actually been targeted by the shooter, who aimed from about five feet away. In a text, Derfuss wrote, “I was almost killed tonight, and God intervened.”

We have all heard both true and likely apocryphal stories about soldiers’ lives being saved by a Bible stopping a bullet in time of war. But this is for real, and the bullet-riddled backpack is proof. The round embedded in the book testifies that only a miraculous circumstance kept this student from certain death. And not only was the student a Christian, but the book was about a Christian, one of the greatest of all time, John Wyclif.

Wyclif (also spelled Wycliffe) was a 14th century churchman whose leadership led, in part, to the Protestant Reformation. In contrast to the stifling effect of the papacy, he emphasized that the Bible should be every individual’s guide to spirituality and salvation. He opposed the extravagance of church ceremonies and was instrumental in the Bible being translated into common language. In fact Wycliffe’s Bible, completed in 1384, was the beginning of a movement to get the Word of God to the masses in printed text, available to all. Many today have been saved because of Wyclif’s life. Jason Derfuss is most certainly alive because Wyclif’s deeds were heralded in the book in as backpack.  I wonder how many others, like you and me, have dodged a spiritual bullet from the devil because of the heritage of this great man of God. As Derfuss also said of his near-death encounter, “I know conceptually He can do all things but to physically witness the impossible and to be surrounded by such grace is indescribable. To God be the glory forever and ever, Amen.”

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An encouraging word:  REJOICE WHEN CHRIST IS PREACHED

Want a remedy for a hypercritical attitude or an unreasonably judgmental spirit? Philippians 1:18 has the antidote: The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached…I rejoice. That’s hard to do sometimes, especially when you may know what’s going on behind the scenes. You might be tempted to rebuke or point your finger in condemnation. I’m not suggesting that we should overlook immoral or unethical behavior, but don’t dismiss the communication of spiritual truth because you don’t like the preacher or his motives. Take constructive actions to remedy any egregious wrongs, but be thankful that God’s Word is going forth. 

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

What if a convicted killer on death row wanted to defend himself and called as witnesses the pope and Jesus Christ? What if that same convict, during his trial for murder, put himself on the stand and questioned himself by adopting a series of different personalities and voices to match? This scenario isn’t only highly unusual, it’s reality. Yesterday the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the state of Texas granted a last minute stay of execution to death row inmate Scott Panetti. On Sept. 8, 1992, Panetti shaved his head, dressed in military fatigues, armed himself with a sawed-off shotgun and hunting rifle and shot his in-laws, Joe and Amanda Alvarado, at close range in front of his wife and young daughter. Critics of this instance of capital punishment argued that Panetti, who dressed as a cowboy during his trial, was schizophrenic and suffered from psychotic delusions; thus, his severe mental illness was a mitigating factor in his violent acts. But what if there is another explanation?  DID and demons.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), known in popular parlance as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is a fracturing of the mind, a fragmentation most often resulting from acute trauma. The afflicted individual has a need to survive by compartmentalizing horrific memories into categorical personality identities. For example, a person sexually abused when very young, may develop a child alter-ego state (“alter”) to encapsulate the memory of the violation, keeping all of its pain and shame in a separate mental space. If subsequent additional abuses occur, other “alters” contain those memories and feelings. Thus, an individual may assume any number of alternate personalities, some acting out violent and even murderous behavior.

Does this explain why Panetti acted so bizarrely? Was the killer in camouflage a dissociated identity in Panetti’s mind who expressed his violent rage in ways he wasn’t completely aware of? Did he suffer some unspeakable horror as a child that led him to develop a murderous personality who could exact delusional revenge on scapegoated in-laws? We’ll never know because he was labeled a “mentally ill” killer. I’m not suggesting he should have gotten off on such a presupposition, but it would have been helpful for future cases like this to investigate further his mental processes instead of writing him off as crazy.

Simply put, here’s how this process works. An emotionally tortured individual develops an alter to hold the pain. Demons enter that vulnerable mental compartment and hide behind the alter. These evil spirits manipulate the dysfunctional alter to believe in evil and to commit evil acts. The real culprit here is the dissociation and the demonization. I am not excusing criminal acts with spiritual and psychological mumbo-jumbo. I am saying that the devil is cleverer than most courts and many mental health experts.  Everyone loses in a case like Panetti: the killer, his victims, and due process of justice.

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An encouraging word:  NONE DOES GOOD

“There is no one who does good, not even one,” says Romans 3:12. The apostle Paul echoes the sentiment of Psalm 14:3 in the exact, same wording. Those are strong conclusions for the humanists and educated sophisticates who believe that mankind is on an ascent to greater good. The Bible teaches that since the fall of Adam and Eve, human beings have been on a path of moral decline away from the splendor of Eden. We are sinners, born and bent toward evil as our most natural inclination. We may dress up this negative human impulse with good intentions and noble virtues, but the decline of civilization is always, eventually marching toward destruction. The answer to this dilemma is individual reconciliation with God through faith in Christ. Only then may we act in ways that are in accord with true virtue and godliness.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

As I prepared today’s blog, I was adding a notice about our upcoming Personal One-On-One Encounter sessions in New York City. I wanted to include a picture of New York to draw attention to my being there. I simply googled “New York at Christmas.” The results? More than half the photos, like those above, included depictions of angels. Ill-defined angels at that. This made me stop and think of all the ways that popular culture has messed up the spiritual reality of angels. Unfortunately, most Christians have unwittingly bought into these errors. That’s one reason our International School of Exorcism (To enroll CLICK HERE.) includes two out of the 30 Courses dedicated to studying the proper biblical view of angels.

Angels are important in spiritual warfare. That’s obvious from Scripture from the heralding of Christ’s birth (Luke chapter 2) to the final demise of the devil (Revelation 20:1-3). A few other topics covered in the exorcism school are: Angelic Armies, Angelic Activity, Angelic Order, Angelic Intelligence, and Angelic Emotions. I also explain in detail the hierarchy of angels, which includes: cherubim, seraphim, hosts, principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, might, and dominions. Even more importantly, I explain the things that angels may do when fighting the devil, including striking demons with torment and judgment, as well as being spiritual enforcers and “bodyguards.” The School of Exorcism section on angels is an important education in equipping Christians to do battle against the devil.

The Courses on angels also dispel misconceptions. For example, angels do blow trumpets (Rev. 8:13, 1 Corinthians 15:52, Matt 6:2) but there’s no reason to think that Gabriel is the one with this sole assignment. Most important, every appearance of angels in scripture is in masculine gender. There are no instances of female angels. Yet some Christians insist they have seen or talked with female angels, a phenomenon that is clearly associated with the occult and New Age. (Check out New Age web sites about angels and you’ll see what I mean.) Some false, female angels look downright sexy, slightly sanitized versions of succubi (demons that have sex with male humans). Clearly, a lot of solid Christian teaching is needed on the subject of angels, and the International School of Exorcism is great place to start. ENROLL NOW BY CLICKING HERE.

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An encouraging word:  FEELING FORGOTTEN BY GOD

“Will you forget me forever?” These words of David in Psalm 13:1 may be seen a bit pathetic or ill-advised. David is talking to God and wonders why the Almighty doesn’t seem to answers his prayers and seems far away. You can probably remember a time in your own life when you’ve “been there, done that,” just like David. On those occasions we must always remember than any sense of estrangement from God is due to feelings, not fact. When you want to tell God, “Hey, it’s me, down here. Do you remember me?” it’s probably because you’ve somehow moved away from the Lord, not vice versa. In a way, that’s not a bad cry of David. At least he wanted to be close to God and was bothered that he no longer had that same sense of nearness. The real problem is when you and I draw away from the Lord and no longer recognize that it has happened.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

By now you’ve likely heard the bizarre news that Charley Manson is getting married. He has been convicted of the 1969 mass killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, 26, wife of director Roman Polanski; celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, 35; screenwriter Voytek Frykowski, 32; and Folger’s-coffee-fortune heiress Abigail Folger, 25. On November 7, Kings County issued a marriage license for Manson, 80, to marry 26-year-old Afton Elaine “Star” Burton. Burton left her home nine years ago and has been living near where Manson is incarcerated so she could get to know him better. The wedding invitation above lists the sadistic, demon-possessed Manson as “Charles ‘Cuddle Bunny’ Manson.” Manson is pictured with his fingers up his nose, a tribute to his current contention that, “Air is god, because without air, we do not exist.”

As crazy as this all sounds, be prepared. It gets even crazier. Burton, almost 60 years younger than the man with whom she will never conjugate (death row inmates get no “private” visits), was raised in a strict, Baptist Christian home. As a child she gave her heart to Jesus. As a rebellious teen, Burton smoked pot and got high on mushrooms. At age 16 she started writing to Manson and eventually, at 19, hopped a train to California to be near the love of her life. Burton incredulously believes that Manson is innocent and says she thinks that being married to the killer will give her access to otherwise unobtainable documents so that she can prove his innocence.

I have several observations about this. First, in a delusional YouTube posted video, entitled “Daddy, I’m getting married to Charles Manson!” Burton clearly exhibits the personality of a child in an adult body. She obviously has a daddy-fixation with Manson. One has to wonder what father-figure bonding she missed at home. I’m not judging, just speculating. Her defense of Manson, in this video, is both psychotic as well as puerile. Burton dismisses the trial and conviction of Manson, based on massive evidence and the testimony of his own cult-following killers, as a “myth” generated by the media. Such conclusions speak of more than brainwashing. In my opinion, Burton is dissociated and some childlike alter personality inside has found the daddy she never had. (She has assumed the middle name “Star” which may be the name of her child alter-ego.) That mentally challenged part of her has a childish innocence that can’t cognitively comprehend the measure of Manson’s murders.

Second, do we need more proof that a Christian can have a demon? Of course, Burton is demonized. How else can this travesty be explained? She knew Jesus and was “saved.” Now demons of murder, confusion, and delusion have taken over her mind. Manson has demons and his demons have bonded with Burton’s demons. I know Manson has demons. Though I haven’t met him personally, I have talked privately with prominent Satanist who have been to prison and met with him personally. One of them even showed me the actual Bible that Manson reads, briefly loaned to this Satanist. The margins of the Bible were annotated with hideous, irrational comments, coded in colors, detailing his blasphemous, anti-Christ thinking. It’s no wonder that Manson and his demons would gain enormous satisfaction from spiritually and psychologically seducing a young woman, just as in his heyday he seduced the likes of Susan Atkins. Atkins, who died of cancer in 2009, murdered for Manson but found the Lord behind bars. Knowing that, there is still hope for “Star” Burton.

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An encouraging word:  DON’T EXALT VILE MEN

A scripture I’ve often thought of, when reading the news headlines, is this (Psalm 12:8): The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. I like the bluntness of the old King James Version. The NIV is a bit more polite: The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. Either way, the point is that a failure in moral leadership leads to all kinds of lawlessness in the general population. In a nation, a state, a city, when righteousness decreases, wickedness increase. Our culture has made sin politically correct. But no matter how evil may be dressed in the finery of approbation, sin still takes a toll. Pain, suffering, heartache, and misery of all kinds accompanies evil. To heal who we are as a people, we need to start at the top down. We must stop exalting vile men and elect godly politicians, promote moral public figures, and restore the respect of clergy. As long as immoral men are leaders, those who are wicked will feel free rein to do their dirty deeds.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did(Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

To be honest I seldom watch religious TV. Too boring. Too predictable. Too digestible. But Sunday I was working out in a hotel fitness room on a stationary bike.  I was reading the news on my iPad while the TV screen attached to the bike was still on. A television preacher came on the screen, one I’d never seen before. The screen had been tuned to subtitle mode so I could see what he was saying without hearing him. Reading his body language he seemed like a nice enough guy. He actually had his shirt tucked in and was wearing a suit, an oddity in today’s supercool style of evangelical communication.  His message was about the Holy Spirit. He had Calvinist theology, but he did push the theological envelope.

His message built to the punch line: “The Holy Spirit still prophesies, still gives words of knowledge, still does miracles, still heals, still . . .”

I waited. Would he go on to say the “D” word? No. What he couldn’t bring himself to say were these six words: THE HOLY SPIRIT STILL CASTS OUT DEMONS. This good man of God and excellent preacher, whom I’m sure is dedicated to his calling, either couldn’t or wouldn’t say it. Was it off his spiritual radar? Outside his theological purview? Too uncomfortable for his affluent congregation? Too unsettling to his constituency to mention what Christ commanded His followers to do?

That same workout I read the review of a new book by another major Christian TV preacher whose name you’d know. The book’s theme is prophecy and the End Times. The reviewer touted it as the “Number one book in America about spiritual warfare.” I’m sure it’s a great book, but has evangelical political correctness really gone so far as to create new definitions so that a book about the rapture (though much-needed) is in the same category as dealing with demons? Is the church today just confused or willingly ignorant of Satan and what he does? Is eschatology really spiritual warfare?

Wake up Christians! Demonic possession is an epidemic.  It’s not spiritual Ebola we can quarantine with an exegetical hazmat suit.  We can’t verbalized it away. These ARE the End Times and demons aren’t benign (Revelation 12:12).  Spiritual warfare is REAL and real demons must be confronted by the Holy Spirit, not leap-frogged over by artful avoidance. Every person reading this blog has a close friend or family member who is demonized. What will you do about it? I suggest that you immediately enroll in our International School of Exorcism. Or, you can arrange for them to have a personal encounter session with me. You can also support our efforts to declare boldly that deliverance is available here and now. Encourage your pastor/priest to speak out on the wave of witchcraft and the occult that overwhelms our culture. Putting one’s spiritual head in the sand isn’t artful avoidance — its spiritual suffocation.

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An encouraging word:  GOD’S PURE WORDS

Those who follow our ministry know that we place strong emphasis on renouncing the evil that has been passed from generation to generation. But just as curses have perpetuity until they are broken, the blessings of God’s Word continue forever. Psalms 12:6-7 reminds us that, “The words of the Lord are pure words . . . you shall preserve them from this generation forever.” When you choose to believe and hide God’s Word in your heart, the promise is that your children and their children shall always have that blessing of God’s pure Word. Begin today by putting your full faith in Christ and passing on the heritage of belief to all who shall come after you.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

In case you  missed it (Don’t expect the mainstream media to think it’s newsworthy.), this week

the Vatican held a special conference concerning the family, sponsored in part by the Catholic

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Pope warned about the current marriage crisis

facing the West by decrying the breakup of the family and children who are being raised without a

father/mother family. The Pope called it the “culture of the temporary,” a moral climate where many

have given up on marriage altogether. Now comes a report of yet another assault on the family: the

acceptance of incest.

The German Ethics Council (There’s a misnomer.) has recommended accepting incestuous marriages.

The Council, comprised of doctors and scientists, argues that the genetic risks to a child are no longer

so scary to justify keeping people from the loves and relationships that they choose. At this point the Council’s

viewpoint is only a recommendation but it does carry weight. Said the Council, “The fundamental right of adult

siblings to sexual self-determination has more weight in such cases than the abstract protection of

the family.” Whoa. What twisted logic from the nation of the Reformation!

What stirred this controversy in part is the marriage of Patrick Stuebing and his wife, Susan, who also happens to be his sister.

Patrick married Susan when he was 23 and she was 16. In America we not only call that incest, but

statutory rape. Said Susan in an interview with Vocativ media, “We fell in love as adults and our

love is real. There is nothing we could do about it. We were both attracted to each other and then

nature took over from us. We followed our instincts and our hearts.”

Will Germany upset the taboo and moral code of thousands of years? What about the damaging effects of inbreeding?

Of the four children of Patrick and Susan, two are disabled and a third needs a heart transplant. Yes, in the

past, such unions were sometimes used, as in ancient Egypt, to perpetuate the royal lineage of

dynasties; but the word itself comes from Latin meaning “impure.” Even the old myth of “Oedipus”

warned of dire consequences. The Jewish Torah condemned it in the moral codes of Leviticus and

Deuteronomy. The offspring are considered illegitimate, “bastards.” Islam likewise abhors

incest.

In a sex-obsessed culture where traditional moral distinctions of fornication are widely disregarded where might we go next in

America? The way the Germans are seemingly headed? The western world sorely needs to rediscover the

Christian teaching of sex as a spiritual mystery that reflects marriage as a union mirroring Christ

and the Church (Ephesians 5:32). By no stretch of logic can Christian redemption typify incest.

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An encouraging

word:  OBEY GOD’S DECREES

“Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying

your decrees.” So said the Psalmist (Psalm 119:5). The Living Bible speaks of wanting to follow

the laws of God “consistently” to avoid “being disgraced.” What has been lost on our world is the

steadfastness of fidelity to the ancient moral codes of Moses and the higher moral law of Jesus.

Humanism, relativism, Darwinism, behaviorism and other substitutes of God-inspired, revealed truth

have taken over where once religion gave direction. The result is a culture of shame and disgrace

that is without an ethical compass. Think of your own life. Do you with purpose and resolution do

all you can to walk in obedience to God’s Word? Beware the temper of the times and remember to

always obey the decrees of the Lord.

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Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives

free and Do What Jesus Did (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and

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Monday, Nov 17, 2014 Here’s a scary thought for those who are sexually promiscuous. I’ve long observed, from doing deliverance, that STDs (“spiritually transmitted demons”) are the result of immoral behavior that isn’t dealt with by the breaking of past soul-bonds. Many evil spirits have told me that they entered the person receiving ministry by a past sexual encounter when, by intercourse, the two became one flesh. (See 1 Corinthians 6:15.) It’s important that once an individual makes a confession of Christ as Savior that they pray to spiritually break all soul bonds with their past sexual partners. Now comes a new study that scientifically backs this up. Research into something called “telegonoy” reveals that at a microbiological level every sexual encounter leaves a permanent connection to that lover. A study at the University of South Wales found that the process of “telegony,” where traits of past lovers are passed onto future children, holds in fruit flies.  In case you want to know why geneticists love to study fruit flies, it’s because the genetic structure of these little creatures is highly comparable to humans.  In fact, fruit flies contain 75% of the genes that lead to disease within human beings. The conclusion of the study is that molecules of the seed of previous sexual encounters leaves part of the seed absorbed by the mother’s eggs and never leaves. When these eggs are fertilized by a later lover, the first man’s effect is still felt inside the mother’s body. It still is left to be proven that what is true for fruit flies holds for humans, but I can affirm that it is true from a spiritual standpoint. Why not a physical one? This interesting speculation might not matter so much if all we’re talking about is the color of your future child’s eyes or the shape of his or her nose. But what if you ex-lover practiced the occult, or came from a bloodline of ancestors who did? In deliverance, we know how this operates. Everyone who has read my book CURSE BREAKING (To order CLICK HERE.) understands how the STDs of curses are transmitted by the bloodline. And what if that bloodline is not from a current spouse but an ex-spouse or sexual partner? Suggesting this possibility isn’t intended to make anyone feel guilty or paranoid, especially if you’ve since repented of those sins and walk in the grace of God. It does emphasize how important it is to cut off the soul-ties of old cohabitants and walk in new freedom through Christ. It also underscores how important it is to cleanse your soul and body of those old influence. Please read by book CURSE BREAKING and then pray this simple prayer. Lord Jesus, I repent of my past sins of sexual immorality and place those sins under your blood. I break every soul-bond with every individual with whom I’ve been involved sexually. Cleanse my soul and body, spiritually and physically, of every remnant they have left behind. Give me a new spiritual heritage based upon my relationship to you Lord, and my relationship to my currently lawfully wedded spouse. Sanctify my children from any evil, soul-tie influences in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.  An encouraging word:  BE SOBER AND VIGILANT One of the most important scriptures in the Bible warning us about the devil is First Peter 5:8. You may know it by heart. It tells us that the devil, like a “roaring lion,” stalks our steps. But notice the way Peter introduces this description of the Evil one: Be sober, be vigilant. Be on the watch-out. Take him seriously and be ever on-guard. Sadly, some Christians act like Lucifer is on vacation somewhere, caring less about believers. The Living Bible adds the description of the devil as an Enemy who wants to “tear apart” his victims.  Have no doubt, Satan is real and he stalks from every angle to take advantage of our carelessness. Spiritual sobriety and constant watchfulness is one way to ward him off.   Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did� (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.