Speaker 1: Welcome to vlat Subject podcast. Our mission at Vlatimery Subject
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Let's dive into this episode.
Speaker 2: The truth about witches in your church. What if I
told you not everyone.
Speaker 3: Who sits in the church is there moortion Jesus.
Speaker 2: Some people come hungry for God, some people come out
of a habit, some people come for community, and yes,
sometimes people come with dark spiritual activity with assignments to monitor, manipulate, curse, seduce.
Speaker 3: And even cause division.
Speaker 2: Now listen, this video is not to make you a
paranoid or to turn you into a spiritual deliverance detective,
nor is it to create a witch in the.
Speaker 3: Body of Christ.
Speaker 2: But it's something that we need to restore in the
body of Christ, and that is discernment. Because the Bible
says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. We do
wrestle against spiritual powers. And the enemy loves to hide
in the religious environments. And today I'm going to share
with you the truth about which is in the church.
What the Bible actually shows, how the enemy operates in
the House of God.
Speaker 3: The signs of occultic.
Speaker 2: Influence without you accusing people unjustly and what to do
biblically as a believer if you see this in the church.
Now from the beginning, I want to set the foundation
very clear. The Bible clearly prohibits witchcraft and occult practices
in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen. The New Testament shows even deeper
reality of the spiritual world. You will see a guy
in the Bible in the New Testament, Simon the Sorcerer,
who tried to mix power with the Gospel after he
professed to be a fallover of Christ. In Book of
accept eight you will see also a demonized girl used
for divination, following Paul and saying all the right things.
You will see emas the Sorcerer resisting the Gospel. And
Book of Acts chapter thirteen. So you see these interactions
with the men of God, preachers, and the occultic world
in some cases where the occultic world try to infiltrate
the churches. So it's true that dark influences exist, but
you must remember not everybody that's struggling is a witch.
Some people are bound, some people are deceived, some people
need deliverance, some people need discipleship.
Speaker 3: That's why the scripture teaches.
Speaker 2: Us in First John chapter four, verse one, that test
the spirits. That means we test, we don't jump to conclusions,
we don't accuse, we discern, we don't slander. So what
do I mean by witches in the church? Because when
you hear the word which some people think of movies,
but biblically, the deeper issue is witchcraft, which is an
attempt to control reality or manipulate reality spiritually outside of
biblical borders or outside of submission to God. Witchcraft is
more than just lighting candles and casting spells. Witchcraft in
the Bible is tied to manipulating, dominating, intimidating, and rebellion
as the spiritual nature of it in Galatians chapter five,
where actually witchcraft and sorcery is listed as the work
of the flesh. So in the church setting, a cult
influence shows up, usually in two kinds of lanes. O
Cult pratitioners or people who practice a cult who attend
with hidden involvement, so they practice witchcraft and they are
there as like spiritual spies. And the other one is
the witchcraft like control that operates through people who are
not necessarily involved with spells and they are not in
the contract or covenant with demons, but they're through the flesh,
allowing manipulation, domination, and spiritual intimidation to operate in the church.
And they'll never call themselves witches, but they do act
like those. So here are the five realities or warning
signs of occultic influence in the church.
Speaker 3: Now, remember these are patterns.
Speaker 2: We're talking about fruit, we're talking about behavior, So don't
use any of them to write away label somebody in
your church, but it's important that we highlight them. Number
one sign is these people are drawn to power, not
to God's presence, So they don't love Jesus. They love power.
You'll notice things like an obsession with manifestations but not
the fruit of the spirit, or not transformation. They're interested
in codes and secrets especial revelations, but they're not interested
in scripture. They want a lot of influence and they
want access, especially being near leaders or prayer teams. And
this is actually assignment. In Book of Acts, chapter eight,
he saw power and wanted to buy it. So the
question you got to ask is this does this person
hunger for holiness or do they hunger for control and power?
Now you may say is it wrong to be hungry
for power, not necessarily, but as Christians are hunger, the
Bible says, blessed to those who hunger for righteousness. The
hunger for the Word of God, and the hunger for
the presence of God has to become first for the Christian,
not for power. Do we want power, absolutely, do we
ask God for power?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Our main hunger is for the presence. The second sign
is this is they resist repentance, but they do love
attention and platform. So when the word is preached, broken
people repent. Often occultic influence read acts to the word
of God when it's preached with irritation when conviction is present,
offense when correction is given, anger when they are confronted,
and the refusal to submit to leadership or any sort
of accountability. So when somebody is operating with the occultic influence,
you will notice when they are convicted, they're irritated, when
they're corrected, they're offended, when they're confronted, they're get angry,
and they refuse to submit to any accountability. But they
still want to be seen, they still want a lead,
and they still want access. And so that's a reflac
when somebody wants authority and wants no accountability because witchcraft
and a cult will never submit and they will never
correct their behavior when they're confronted, and repentance is not
on the radar. Control is influences and accesses. It's a
big draw drive for access.
Speaker 3: And influence, not for repentance.
Speaker 2: The third sign is they operate through whisperings and divisions.
Dark demonic influence loves to plant seeds, and the seeds
go like this, did you hear what the pastor said?
I don't feel peace about this leader. God showed me
something about them, and it's always destructive. They would rarely
confront someone biblically, but they will recruit emotionally, so they
don't bring solutions. They always bring suspicions. And the enemy
knows if he cannot stop the church with persecution, he
will seek to stop the church with division, which starts
with emotional recruitments, where people sow seeds of suspicion. They
would never go talk to that person because there's nothing
to talk about. They'll go and talk about that person
and they're just pretty much. They love whispering. They're into
whispering about people. The fourth sign is they try to
attach themselves to spiritual leaders and people in position, and
many times even intercessors. In Book of Acts sixteen, they
demonized the girl. Interestingly, she didn't follow just any Christian.
She followed Paul. Close proximity. Occultic influence comes to monitor
what God is doing, gather information, and intimidate sensitive people,
disrupt prayer. Paul was headed to prayer and moments of
encounters with God. And they'll often be unusually interested in
and who is on the worship team, who is on
the deliverance team, what the pastor is planning, and who
has the influence. Not because they love the church, listen
to this. It's because they love leverage and they love
that access. Sometimes they'll even buy that access through giving.
Sometimes they'll buy that access through contributions. And that's why
as leaders people in positions, we have to be very careful.
Not everybody who says these are the servants a Most
High God. The source is God. You have to discern
otherwise you will be leveraged and you will fall prey. Well,
they said all the right things, they did all the
right things, but the spirit with which they did it
was wrong. Because they needed access to the leader, and
so you gotta practice discernment. The fifth sign is there
is usually a spiritual cloud around this person or these people.
They have confusion, heaviness, intimidation. This is harder to explain,
but this stuff is real. When a cultic influence is near,
you will notice sudden mental fog during worship or around
that person. You will notice heaviness and distraction around the
time when it's a time to go to the altar.
You will notice fear intimidation rising and paralyzing the room.
And you will also notice strange manifestations that pull away
from our focus on Jesus. Let me say this very clearly.
Not every strange moment is a witch, not every manifestation
is demonic, but things that constantly induce confusion, fear, control
and distractions from Christ.
Speaker 3: That is a red flag.
Speaker 2: Because the Holy Spirit exalts Jesus, he doesn't distract us
from Jesus.
Speaker 3: So what should you do? What should the church do?
Speaker 2: Well? Number one is that don't panic, but also don't accuse.
Accusations destroy churches. If you start labeling people, which without evidence,
you actually become a weapon in the hands.
Speaker 3: Of the enemy.
Speaker 2: Discernment is quiet wisdom, is slow and love is careful
or patient. So don't rush, don't panic, and nor should
you right away start whispering and labeling people as witches.
Pray and ask God to bring things to the surface.
Ask God to expose what needs to be exposed, and
heal what needs to be healed. Sometimes people are just
hurt deceived, and sometimes there set their minds to actually
sent by Satan into churches. Light and God has a
way of exposing things, and that's when we need to
start praying. Sometimes you need to start fasting. And then
there's also a biblical order to follow, which means if
you are going to go and confront this person and
you know that this person has an occultic agenda behind it,
don't confront this person alone. Involve pastoral leadership, document things
as well, patterns, not just your feelings and your preferences,
and handle things with maturity but also protection, which is
why it's very important not to do it alone church leadership.
Speaker 3: Pastors.
Speaker 2: Leaders should also guard their prayer teams. We should train
our ushers, our ultra workers, and we should have protocols
for disruptive behaviors. We should prioritize discipleship and deliverance, but
not major and drama. Not seek the drama that we
should as church. Have grace, but also boundaries, and remember
the goal of Christian confrontation is repentance and deliverance, not humiliation.
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Sometimes
the person you suspect is actually bound, they just need freedom.
Sometimes they're truly involved in darkness, and the church needs wisdom,
firmness and actually remove that person from the fellowship. But
the heart behind all of that is the people to
be rescued, redeemed and delivered. Yes, darkness can walk into
the church, but darkness is not close to light when
the church is full of prayer and fasting, full of
God's Word, full of holiness, and full of love. Witchcraft
will try, but it cannot dominate the atmosphere. So this
is my call to action to every believer, and that
is this. If you're a believer walking on fire for God,
please don't be naive, have some discernment. If you're a leader,
do not tolerate manipulation, division, guard the flock. And if
you're watching this and you are involved in witchcraft or
a cult.
Speaker 3: Listen to me.
Speaker 2: Jesus can set you free. You don't have to hide,
you don't have to stay bound. And if you want
to renounce that darkness and return to Jesus, say this
with me, Say Lord Jesus, I repent for any involvement
with you, occult, known or unknown. I have renounced witchcraft,
I renounce sorcery. I renounce this divination and every demonic
lie I belong to.
Speaker 3: Jesus.
Speaker 2: Cleanse me right now, forgive me and fill me with
the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen, thank you for
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