Welcome to you. You have arrived at a plain text page in the LoveAllPeople.org network of web pages. To visit our regular HTML web pages, please copy the link below, and paste it into your Internet Explorer or other browser. Blessings to you. - Rev. Bill McGinnis Link to copy => http://www.loveallpeople.org/chapellinks.html Authority Over Unclean Spirits Given by Jesus Christ to Rev. Bill McGinnis According to His written Word, the Bible * * * NOTICE: TO ALL UNCLEAN SPIRITS INCLUDING SATAN, HIS DEMONS, AND THE SPIRITS OF ALL THE VARIOUS SICKNESSES AND DISEASES MY NAME IS BILL MCGINNIS. I AM A TRUE DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST. THEREFORE I HAVE SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS OVER ALL UNCLEAN SPIRITS. These unclean spirits include Satan, his demons, and the spirits of all the various sicknesses and diseases. By myself, I am nothing but another guilty sinner, doomed to hell. All the evil of mankind resides in me, and I know it from direct personal experience. However, I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour, and I have given myself totally and completely to Him, even to death and beyond. I know for a certainty that He is Son of God, raised from the dead to be my personal Saviour. Also, and of great importance, I have completely forgiven everyone of all their trespasses against me. And I continue to forgive all who trespass against me, even as their trespasses against me continue unrepented and unabated. Therefore, His dying blood has given me new life in Him, and it continues to cleanse me from all unrighteousness, even as I continue to sin. So I stand before Him spotless in His eyes, worthy to be His disciple, not through any merit of my own, but totally by His loving grace to forgive me, according to my faith in Him and my forgiveness of others. As His true disciple, I have power from Him over all unclean spirits: specifically, to bind them, cast them out, and loose whatever they have bound, in the name of Jesus, as the Holy Spirit leads me. I can exercise this power over them in person, face to face, or from any distance, by written or spoken words, addressed to them. * * * These scriptures confirm that I have this power over unclean spirits: First, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and I have met the conditions for salvation. John 3:16 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans 10:9 (KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Next, I am continuously forgiven of my sins, as they occur. Therefore at any moment I stand justified before God, by His grace, by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, I am a true disciple of Jesus. When He forgives us, He forgives us completely, "as far as the east is from the west." "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." (Psalms 103:12 KJV) He instructs us to forgive others again and again when they sin against us . . . "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." (Matthew 18:21-22 KJV) . . . and He will then forgive us the same way. "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14-15 KJV) We are dwelling in Christ, and He in us. His blood cleanses us from all sin, and makes us spotless before Him. " . . . and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7 KJV) " . . . though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow . . . " (Isaiah 1:18 KJV) Jesus gives His true disciples power over unclean spirits, including Satan, his demons, and the spirits of all the various illnesses and diseases. First, He gave this power to His original twelve disciples. Matthew 10:1 (KJV) And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. Matthew 10:8 (KJV) (Jesus to the twelve disciples) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Then, He gave it to His appointed seventy people. Luke 10:19 KJV (Jesus to His appointed seventy people) Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Finally, He gives this authority to all His true disciples, those who stand blameless before Him, by His grace. Matthew 28:18-20 (KJV) (Power extended to new disciples) 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. NOTE: Among the "all things whatsoever I have commanded you" are included the instructions to "heal the sick" and "cast out devils" given in Matthew 10:8, above. Mark 16:17-18 (KJV) (Power of believers to cast out demons) 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. This authority also includes the power to bind the unclean spirits and to loose whatever they have bound. Matthew 18:18 (KJV) Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Since it is the Lord's intention that we act against unclean spirits, He will make it possible for us to do so, even from a distance, just as Jesus did in the cases of The Nobleman's Son (John 4:46-53) and The Canaanite's Daughter (Matthew 15:22-28). "For with God nothing shall be impossible." (Luke 1:37 KJV) " . . . for with God all things are possible." (Mark 10:27 KJV) * * * Rev. Bill McGinnis bmcgin@patriot.net Pastor, INTERNET CHURCH OF CHRIST http://internetchurchofchrist.org P. O. Box 2543 Alexandria, VA 22301 U. S. A.