Summary
Highlights
Apostle Joshua Selman begins by welcoming everyone to 'Complete Deliverance Part Two' and recaps the previous session. He reminds the audience that understanding Satan, demons, and unclean spirits is essential for believers to live victoriously. He highlights that Jesus never sent disciples without a thorough understanding of the structure of darkness and emphasizes the biblical basis for studying demonology, citing Old Testament examples, Jesus' ministry, and the teachings of the apostles.
Selman reiterates Satan's two primary objectives: dominion (the dominion originally given to man) and transgenerational allegiance. He explains that Satan uses suffering, poverty, sickness, and other afflictions as a means to an end, pushing people to seek alternatives outside of God and thereby gain their perpetual submission. He illustrates this with historical examples of covenants made with deities to end suffering.
The teaching shifts to the structure and operation of Satan and demons. Selman uses scriptures like Revelation 12:7-9, Matthew 25:41, and Ephesians 6:11-12 to demonstrate that Satan operates as an organized kingdom with angels and a clear hierarchy. He mentions that the demonic structure is defined by geography, functions (e.g., spirit of death, infirmity), and ranking.
The corporate assignment of the demonic kingdom is to fight and frustrate God's purposes by any and all means. Selman explains this includes preventing people from knowing Jesus Christ and, if converted, hindering their spiritual growth and effectiveness in serving God. He emphasizes that 'any and all means' includes sickness, delay, and destruction, highlighting Satan's desperation.
Selman identifies several activities of Satan and demons, including fighting (Revelation 12:7), hindering (1 Thessalonians 2:18), stealing, killing, and destroying (John 10:10, Matthew 13:19), and lying (John 8:44). He stresses that deception is Satan's most pronounced strategy. He defines deception as deliberately causing someone to believe something untrue for personal gain, and notes that deception requires the deceiver to know the truth.
The account of Satan deceiving Eve in Genesis 3 is used as a case study. Selman explains that Satan targeted Eve (not Adam) strategically, leveraging the truth of God's word to introduce doubt and misinterpretation. He emphasizes that Eve's 'fall' began not with eating the fruit, but with her perception being warped by deception. He also highlights Adam's role, asserting that he 'fell because of love,' not deception. The tragic consequences of this deception—fear, shame, and blame—are analyzed.
Selman extracts key lessons from the Fall, including the importance of guarding what God speaks, protecting your ear and eye gates, and understanding that faith (even negative faith) comes by hearing. He then outlines three levels of satanic influence over men: witchcraft (deception causing error), manipulation and control of the mind, and complete possession. He clarifies that while a Christian cannot be possessed, they can be demonized or manipulated if their understanding is darkened through ignorance.
Deliverance is defined as the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces in a believer's life and destiny. It is about manifesting victory rather than fighting for it, as victory has already been secured in Christ. Scriptures like 2 Corinthians 2:14 and 1 Corinthians 15:57 are cited to affirm Christ's triumph.
Selman identifies three biblical access points through which Satan gains influence: covenants, ignorance, and disobedience. He explains that covenants are the most potent because they have transgenerational implications and are legally binding, even extending beyond the initiators (e.g., ancestral altars and blood sacrifices). He contrasts this with God's new covenant in Christ, sealed by the blood of Jesus, which provides a cure for all demonic covenants.
The sermon concludes with emphasis on the superior power of Jesus' blood which speaks better things than any other blood and settles all legal claims of Satan. Pleading the blood of Jesus in prayer shifts the judgment scene, making Jesus the accused in our stead. The congregation is led in a powerful prayer releasing themselves and their families from witchcraft, manipulation, and every legal access Satan has through the blood of Jesus, declaring victory and spiritual enlightenment.