The Monster Within

What is the most terrifying monster?

Many people dressed up as monsters each Halloween.  There are zombies, vampires, Frankenstein, werewolves, ghosts and the like.  People sometimes argue over which of these is scariest but the truth is that none of them are real.  So they cannot compare to a human monster like a child molester or Hitler.

People can sometimes escape these human monsters or at least avoid their presence for periods of time.  The terror of these human monsters will always come to an end.  So they cannot compare to the monster within.

There is no escaping a monster that lives inside of you.  Its presence is always there.  Its terror never ends.  You never get any rest from the monster within because it is with you day and night.  Every waking moment it is there trying to get you to do things that you despise doing and know will only bring you trouble later.  Every night it will haunt your dreams so much that you dread going to sleep.  There is no rest from the torment of the monster within.

I have been terrorized by the monster within.

The monster within was constantly trying to take control of my actions and haunting my dreams.  There was no rest from it and it would always inevitably wear down my resistance.   Sooner or later it would take me over from the inside.

I would have violent fits of rage that would spring up suddenly for no really good reason.  I would feel my body grow stronger and I just seemed to grow larger like Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk.  Like the Hulk I would go into a rampage of destruction breaking stuff and hurting people.  Then suddenly it would be over.

I was always sorry later for the damage that I had done.  My sorrow was genuine and my remorse was deep.  Still I knew that no matter how hard I tried the monster within would always eventually take over again.

The monster within cause me lived in constant fear but other people did not really understand it. Some bullies thought that I feared them but the truth is that I was terrified that one day I would lose complete control and kill one of them.

I was even more afraid of how I would act afterwards.  Perhaps I would be plunged into deep remorse and kill myself.  Perhaps I would be caught and end up on death row.  Most terrifying of all was the prospect of getting away with killing one bully and then turning into a serial killer of bullies.

When I was about twelve my mother sent me to a psychologist to help me overcome the monster within.  Miss Kim met with me every week at the Presbyterian church after school for months.  She did all she could but she was no match for the monster within.

She did give me one useful technique though and that was to chop wood when I felt the monster within trying to take over.  Sometimes I would split five ricks of wood in a single setting.  Of course the entire time I imagined that the logs were the heads of bullies but at least no one got hurt.  I would be exhausted when I was done chopping wood but I was still not free from the monster within.

I had a new terror when I got to the age where I was becoming interested in girls.  I was afraid that if I became involved with any girl that she might set off the monster within.  I was terrified that I might hurt or kill a girl that I deeply cared about.   So I did everything that I could to push girls away.  I insulted them, disrespected them and did everything that I could to make myself unattractive to them.  I had to protect them from the monster within.

However there was one girl that I was absolutely crazy about.  This created a terrible conflict for me because I wanted her to like me as much I liked her but I also wanted to protect her.  Then one day she told me that she thought I was sweet.  I knew what had to do and I did it.  I went out of my way to drive her away from me.  Finally she told me that she no longer like me even a little bit anymore.  It broke my heart but I knew that I had kept her from being harmed by the monster within.
 
Then suddenly I had a period without any nightmares or fits of rage.  It seemed as if the monster within had left for some reason.  However, it did not stay away long.  Then suddenly one day I could feel that it was back.  When it came back it seemed as if it had brought along some of its buddies.  Now I was no longer just afraid of killing someone in a fit of rage but also started becoming involved in all kinds of sexual perversion, doing things that could only be described as sick and twisted, and dabbling in occult activities like seances and astral projection.  I became obsessed with hunting out other boys that were alienated from their parents and getting them interested in the occult to some degree through role playing games.

Every since the monster within had moved back in with his buddies I had thought about killing myself to protect others from the monster within.  I attempted to do so several times but I would always hear this kind and gentle voice that would talk me out of doing so.  The kind and gentle voice would ask me if I really wanted to hurt my mother and other relatives by killing myself.  The kind and gentle voice would tell me if I did this then I would end up in Hell with no chance of escape.  The kind and gentle voice also gave me a reason to hope that I could be the good man that I wanted to be and truly be free from the monster within.

You see the monster within could never take me over completely because there was something that it was no match for - praying grandmothers.

Their prayers were the reason that I heard the kind and gentle voice that put to silence the monster within when it spoke.  They probably never knew all of the evil that their prayers had prevented me from doing.  They must have been tempted to quit praying when I just seemed to get worse and worse but they persevered.  They stood in the gap between me and the monster within.

They could not have known it but events were being set in motion to bring about the answer to their prayers.

I had a bed with a built in book shelf at the head of the bed.  My grandfather had given me a Bible with a zippered cover that I kept on that book shelf.  I had zippered it shut when he died and had not read it since.  Then one afternoon when I was taking a nap I was awakened by a loud thud.  That Bible was laying on my floor unzipped and opened to a passage with a list of death penalty sins in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law).  I looked at the passage when I went to pick it up and I knew that I was guilty of more than one of those sins.  I knew that I deserved death for what I had done.

However, knowing the penalty of my sins was not enough to keep me from continuing in them.  I was still a slave to the monster within.

Then someone gave me a Good News translation of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka New Testament) and I read all of it in one marathon sitting.  Later I read it again over a period of several days.  I really did not understand most of it but I did get three things out of it.  First I learned that I was a worse sinner than I thought because the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) was not just looking at my actions but at my intentions.  (Anyone that wants Him to judge them based on their intentions instead of their actions is lying to themselves about their intentions.)  Second I learned that He expected me to end my sins and do what was right instead.  Third I learned that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) wanted all of me or none me.  He would rather me serve the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) full time than to serve him part time.  My performance of religious duties like going to church each weekend were not of any value unless I lived for him full throttle ever day of the week.

This troubled me greatly. I had tried to turn from doing the wickedness that I did not want to do but I could not seem to stop even though I often cried while doing those things.  I wanted to do the things that I knew were good but I kept finding myself not doing them when I had the chance.  So I found that I did the evil that I did not want to do and that I did not do the good that I wanted to do.  I simply could never be strong enough to conquer the monster within.

Then something happened to my cousin that changed everything.  My cousin had been heavily involved in drugs, alcohol, smoking and the like.  What I like to call garden variety sins.  I had already personally known more than five people that had died from drug related causes.  I have always been good at picking out patterns from repeated events so considering the hardness of the drugs he took I did not expect him to live to the age of twenty five.

Then suddenly, in the snap of a finger, he was completely free from all of it.  There was no twelve step program and he did not have any withdraws from quitting any of it.  It was as if the evil man that he had been was suddenly replaced with the good man that he now was. I knew that something supernatural was going on because no one that has been using heroine for years just gets up one morning and quits cold turkey with no withdraw symptoms.  This defied everything that I had been told and experienced but yet the living proof was right there in front of me.

The good news was that he said that what had happened to him could happen to anyone.  He told me that the Man of Truth had set him free from his own monster within.  He told me that the Man of Truth would do the same for me if I would meet his condition of total surrender.  He told me that if I would put the Man of Truth in charge of every area of my life then he would take the place of the monster within.  This was not a matter of me somehow being strong enough on my own.  This was a matter of the Man of Truth coming to live in me and he being strong enough to overcome the monster within.

For the first time I had a tangible reason for hope of being free from the monster within.  However, his explanation contradicted everything that every religious professional I had ever talked to had told me.  I had been told that Christians were just sinners saved by grace who were forgiven but still were slaves to a sin nature.  They had nineteen hundred years of church tradition to back up their doctrine while my cousin only had his testimony of what the Man of Truth had done for him.

So I watched my cousin to see if it was real and if it would last.  I even tempted him to go back to his old ways because I had to know if there was really hope for me.  It soon became obvious that there was no going back for my cousin.  (This was thirty years ago and he has never went back to any of it since that day.  He has truly been set free.)

So on November thirteenth nineteen eighty two, shortly after midnight, I pulled my car over to the side of the road and took the deal.  I cried like a baby while I listed each sin that I had committed, or had wanted to commit, while telling the Father of Truth how sorry I was. I told the Man of Truth that I no longer wanted to be in charge of my life and he was in charge of every area of my life from now on.  It was total surrender.

My cousin had told me if I would do this then I would be set free by the Man of Truth.  The good news is that it was true!  In a moment of time, in the twinkling of an eye, Jesus came into my life and I no longer had to fight the monster within.  It was suddenly all gone - the fits of murderous rage, the desire to hunt down and kill bullies, the sexual perversion, the pull of the occult on my soul, the sick and twisted acts, the constant thoughts of suicide along with everything else that came from the monster within and his buddies.

Instead I could hear that kind and gentle voice that had talked me out of so many terrible things, including suicide, now talking to me from the inside.  (I did not know that this kind and gentle voice was the voice of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) at the time.)  The moment that kind and gentle voice came in was the moment of the total eviction for the monster within.

(The guy that I was giving a ride to when I pulled over must have been pretty freaked out by all of this.  He had no idea of what I had done before this or what I been struggling against doing.  He did not know about the monster within until that moment.  The man that drove him home from that spot was not the same man that had pulled over to the side of the road.)

I had been a man possessed by the monster within but now I am a man possessed by the Man of Truth.  I have been set completely and utterly free from the monster within.  While I can be exposed to the same temptations on the outside there is no desire to do them on the inside.  I feel no more temptation to do those things when I am in the same situations that I was in before then I do to pick up dog poop and eat it when I see it on the ground.  I am dead to those things because the Man of Truth lives in me and he is dead to those things.  As long as I live a life of total surrender to the Man of Truth then there is no chance of return for the monster within.

The Good News is that the same thing can happen to you.  I have known about twenty five people that have had the same experience even if their monster within was different than mine.  It does not matter if your monster within is overcoming you so that you commit garden variety sins like fornication or alcoholism or putting on a religious show or less common struggles like being on the road to becoming a serial killer.   Anyone who will surrender control of every area of their life to the Man of Truth will be set free from the monster within.

Those of us that have been set free from the monster within are not unique or special in any way.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells what really happened to those of us that have been set free from the monster within.  Now it is time to look at the same events through the lenses of the Book of Truth.

The efforts of Miss Kim and others to help me were ineffective against the monster within because my problem was neither physical nor mental but rather spiritual (Ephesians 6:12).

When there is a monster within there are really have two forces at work to effect the behavior of the person.  First of all their spirit lives in a human body that has no desire to do what is right even if their spirit wants to do what is right (Romans 7:18).  The flesh wants to do every evil thing under the sun (Galatians 5:19-21).

Second of all there are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) that appeal to the nature of their flesh to do wrong just as the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) tried to tempt the Man of Truth to do wrong by appealing to the nature of his flesh (Matthew 4:1-3).

When someone yields to one of these Spirits of Lies by obeying them in disobeying the Father of Truth then they become slaves to that spirit who can lead them into certain types of sin (John 8:34).  This Spirit of Lies can then move in and try to take control of their body by constantly appealing to the nature of their flesh (Romans 6:16).  This Spirit of Lies that has moved in is the monster within.

These Spirits of Lies can cause everyone to be afraid of the people they inhabit (Matthew 8:28).  The monster within can fill a person with rage so that they hurt other people (Acts 19:14-16).

The monster within can make the person stronger than they are on their own when it gets control (Mark 5:2-4).  The monster within will cause them to isolate themselves, live strangely and hurt themselves (Mark 5:5). The monster within will drive them to attempt to commit suicide (Matthew 17:15-18).  The Spirits of Lies will cause those that they have completely take over to kill themselves when they have no more ability to resist their influence (Mark 5:11-13). 

Some Spirit of Lies can pass on information from other Spirits of Lies to the host person when they move in (Acts 16:16-19).  Those that have the monster within will resort to the occult that is filled with other people who are puppets controlled by their own monster within (1 Samuel 28:6-8). 

Sometimes the monster within will leave on its own if the conditions are not suiting it for some reason.  For example when I chopped wood until I was exhausted whenever I felt the violent fits of rage coming on.   However this absence of the monster within will only last for a little while like it did for me.  When the monster within comes back and finds that everything has been cleaned up and there is still a vacancy it will move back in with some of its buddies and the person will be worse off than before (Matthew 12:43-45).  Since I was still empty inside the monster within was able to move back in with his buddies and make me worse than I was before (Luke 11:24-26).  This is why people get clean through some sort of self-effort for a while and then return to their former behavior to only end up even worse off.

People can never be free from the monster within on their own strength.  They must be delivered from the terror of the monster within by the Man of Truth (Romans 7:24-25).

When my grandmothers prayed to the Father of Truth for my deliverance their prayers were not in vain because they had been made righteous by the Man of Truth (James 5:16).

Their prayers caused angels to be sent to literally wake me from my sleep with the Book of Truth and opened it to the Law of Truth.  If it were not for the Law of Truth then I would not know that I was in bondage to sin through the monster within (Romans 7:7).   It was the Law of Truth that made me aware of the true nature of the monster within and that I was deserving of death for giving in to it (Romans 7:8-11).   It was the Law of Truth that convicted me of my sin and show me my true condition (Romans 7:12-14).

While I knew what the Law of Truth said was good still it only made me aware of how wretched I really was (Romans 7:22-24).  The Law of Truth was powerless to make me able to obey it because my flesh was powerless against the monster within  (Romans 8:3).

Since the Law pointed me to the Man of Truth it caused me to seek after deliverance by reading the Renewed Covenant twice (Galatians 3:24).

However, I could not understand what I needed to do because the religious professionals that I had sought out contradicted what I read in the Renewed Covenant in order to maintain their own traditions (Mark 7:9).  Their traditions made the Word of Truth ineffective to deliver me because I could not believe what it said while also believing what they said (Mark 7:13).  They were religious but they denied the power of the Man of Truth to set people free from continuing in sin so I needed to stay away from them (2 Timothy 3:5).  They were powerless over the monster within because they clung to their traditions instead of believing the Word of Truth whereby they could truly know the Man of Truth (Acts 19:13-16).

However, three things were evident.

First, I would be judged on my intentions and not just my actions (Matthew 5:21-22).  In the eyes of the Father of Truth hating bullies was no different than murdering bullies (1 John 3:15).  Anyone who wants to be judged by their intentions is deceived about the condition of their own heart (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

Second, the Man of Truth demands that I repent and sin no more (John 8:10-11).  This is the same thing that His Father demands (Ezekiel 18:21).

Third, the Man of Truth wanted me either serving him full time or serving the Father of Lies full time instead of just playing church on the weekend (Revelation 3:14-16).  This was only reasonable since he had given everything at the cross (Romans 12:1).

This troubled me greatly.  I found myself unable to do the good things I want to do but instead doing the evil things that I did not want to do because I was still under the control of the monster within (Romans 7:15-17).  No matter how hard I try to do good I just ended up doing evil (Romans 7:19-21).  The conflict between what I want to do and what I ended up doing when I knew that it would lead to my demise made me miserable (Romans 7:22-24).  This kind of double mindedness made me unstable in everything that I did (James 1:8).  I was tormented by a constant fear of completely giving in to the monster within because I did not have perfect love (1 John 4:18).

Then I saw proof that the Man of Truth was alive and living in my cousin.  The deliverance of my cousin from his own monster within was a supernatural sign from the Father of Truth that I could not deny which made evident His wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:22).  The change in my cousin was living proof of the power of the Man of Truth to deliver people from the monster within that I had about read in the Renewed Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:2-4).

My cousin told me that the Man of Truth would set me free from the monster within if I would submit to giving him control of every area of my life in total surrender - which is what it really means to be his disciple (John 8:30-32).  If I became his disciple then I would have to put the Man of Truth in front of everyone else and everything else including my very life (Luke 14:26-27).  I was told to count the cost before I made such a commitment because it would be of no value unless I was willing to give everything (Luke 14:28-30).  I simply would not be accept as his disciple unless I was willing to forsake everything else in total surrender (Luke 14:33-35).  Total surrender to the Man of Truth is the only way to be free from the monster within (Romans 6:15-18).

I watched for my cousin to see if he to return to his old ways.  He never went back to his old ways because the Man of Truth had really set him free (John 8:34-36).

So I took the deal.  The moment I submitted to the Man of Truth in total surrender the monster within became terrified because that Spirit of Lies knew he was coming (Mark 5:6-7).  When the Man of Truth came into my life the monster within and its buddies went out (Mark 5:8-10).  When I chose total surrender to the Man of Truth I was set free from the monster within (Romans 6:16-18).  The Spirit of Truth came in and forced out the monster within (Romans 8:15-17).  The perfect love that the Man of Truth had ended the tormenting fear that came from the monster within (1 John 4:17-19).

In that moment I began to truly live instead of just occupying space and sucking air (John 5:24).  I became a new man with new desires and all of the desire to do the former things had passed away (2 Corinthians 5:17).  I was dead to sin and alive to the Father of Truth (Romans 6:10-12). The Spirit of Truth began changing my thoughts, attitudes, and actions (Galatians 5:22-23).  I no longer hated bullies but instead was overwhelmed with concern about telling them how they could be delivered from their own monster within (1 John 3:14).

Just as the monster within had kept me from doing what was pleasing to the Father of Truth so now the Man of Truth keeps me from doing what is pleasing to the Father of Lies (Romans 6:20-22).   This is not a matter of me being strong enough on my own to meet the righteous demands of the Law of Truth but of the Spirit of Truth giving me the strength to do so (Romans 8:2-4).  No one can do so in their own strength (Romans 8:6-8).  It is living a life of total surrender to obey the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that gives me that strength to live as a Child of Truth (Romans 8:12-14).  This causes the Man of Truth to live inside me instead of the monster within (Galatians 2:19-21).

The monster within can only return to someone that is empty inside (Matthew 12:44-45).  When I submitted to the Man of Truth in total surrender then the Spirit of Truth came in so that I was no longer empty inside (Romans 8:9-11).  That Spirit of Lies cannot return because the Spirit of Truth that lives in me is greater than even the Father of Lies (1 John 4:4).

As long as I continue in total surrender to the Man of Truth by hearing and obeying the Spirit of Truth then I will not return to the behavior that allowed that Spirit of Lies to become the monster within (Galatians 5:16-18).

The Good News is that I am nothing special.  It does not matter whether your monster within drives you to an addiction to pornography or alcohol or drugs or putting on a religious show or even becoming a serial killer.  It is not about your abilities or your worthiness.  It is about the ability and worthiness of the Man of Truth.

He will deliver you from your monster within if you submit to him in total surrender (Matthew 16:24-25).   He will make you worthy to participate in his plan like he did Mary Magdalene after he delivered her from her own monster within and its buddies (Luke 8:1-3).  He made her so clean that she was the first person that he revealed himself to after his resurrection (Mark 16:9).  There is no condemnation for those that submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Romans 8:1).

The Father of Truth will deliver anyone from their monster within if they will surrender control of every area of their life to the Man of Truth (Acts 10:34-35).  It does not matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile (Romans 2:10-12).  Whether or not you are delivered from the monster within depends upon your willingness to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Colossians 3:24-25).

Total surrender will cost you something in this life or maybe even everything in this life.  You will lose relationships with other people and maybe even your property (Matthew 19:29).  The religious professionals may kick you out of your congregation and persecute you in their religious zeal (John 16:2).  You will suffer some type of persecution from other people (2 Timothy 3:12).

However, you should come into the House of Truth and take the deal.  What good is for you to keep running your own life just to lose everything that you thought you had gained (Matthew 16:26-27)?  If you insist on running your own life then the monster within will bring you to ruin (Mark 8:34-36).  The Father of Truth has graciously given you an opportunity to be free from the monster within before it destroys you completely (Romans 6:23).  What you lose in this life due to total surrender cannot compare to what you will gain by being free from the monster within (Romans 8:15).

All you need to do to come into the House of Truth where you will be free from the monster within is submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Spirits of Lies

Do you know what is really going on behind the scenes?

Have you every heard it said that someone has not been themselves lately?  Have you ever heard it said of someone after they have done something wrong that it is so not like them?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone, who followed the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ), who suddenly found themselves, doing what no one would have ever imaged them doing?   How could they be doing the very things that they hated?  What brought them to that place?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that seemed like a good person even though they were of a different religion than the one prescribed in the Book of Truth (The Bible)?  Have you ever found that once you got to know them better that they were not near as good as they first seemed?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone to be suddenly overtaken by some strong emotion for no apparent reason?  I am not talking about suddenly becoming sad a few months after the lost of someone they were really close to or about someone becoming enraged after someone provoked them.  I am talking about someone being so overwhelmed by one emotion when there is no apparent cause for such a strong onset of that emotion.  Again I am not talking normal feeling of sadness after a tragic event nor about feelings of anger after someone did something to make them mad.  I am talking about suddenly being overwhelmed by emotion to the point that it completely dominates their thoughts and actions.  When this emotion comes on them they lose all ability to reason and their normal personality is completely obscured by the emotion.  I am talking about people that are going along doing one thing, say attending a sporting event, and then they suddenly going into a fit of anger or despair or the like for no good reason.  Then just as suddenly, again for no good reason, it will be over and they will be back in their normal frame of mind.  Sometimes they cannot even remember the event occurring.  It seems as if they were someone other than themselves for a short while.  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever read about or known someone that has had multiple personalities?  This is beyond unpredictable periods of their personality being taken over by some emotion.  This is where suddenly the person will start going by a different name and display a different personality.  They often will have different talents and abilities than the person normally has.  They will have different taste in food, music, movies and about everything else than the person normally has.  They will even have a different sounding voice.  Then just as suddenly the person will return to their normal personality.  Usually they cannot even remember what occurred when the other personality had taken over.  It was as if they were someone other than themselves for a short while.  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that went insane and was eventually institutionalized?  Have you ever met or seen a video of someone like Charles Manson that does not even seem human when he talks?  Is there any hope at all for people like David Berkowitz who many people know as the Son of Sam killer because he shot thirteen people at the command of his neighbor's dog named Sam?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known an animal that start behaving strangely for no known reason?  Have you ever been around an animal that just seemed creepy to be around even though it looked harmless?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that has some part of their body that does not work but medical science cannot find a reason for it to not be working?  Have you ever known someone that sickness just seems to hang on to for no apparent reason?   Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Fortunately, we do not have be left in the dark wondering about what is really going.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells us.  While people are accountable to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) for their own actions there are other entities that are contributing to their actions.  In all the cases above there were entities that worked to bring about the destructive behavior or circumstances.

What are these entities?

These entities are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods). A Spirit of Lies can only move forward in time (Matthew 8:29).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) says that a Spirit of Lies does not need a body to live in this world (Matthew 12:43).  He says that a spirit does not have a body of its own (Luke 24:39). 

A spirit is an energy being without a physical body to host it.  Since it has no physical body of its own a spirit has no physical mass and takes no physical space although it is bound by time.

How do Spirits of Lies operate?

Spirits of Lies can do nothing to people without getting people to carry out their desires.

The Spirits of Lies operate under the direction of their prince (Matthew 9:34).  The name of their prince is Beelzebub (Ba'al Zebub), the Lord of the Flies, because flies flourish on things that are dead or filthy (Matthew 12:24).  They operate under the direction of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) (Luke 11:18).  They work on behalf of the Father of Lies to bring people into disobedience to the Father of Truth (Ephesians 2:2).

The primary way that the Spirits of Lies influences people is by telling them lies (2 Chronicles 18:21).  They lead people who will cooperate with them to give other people false information (Micah 2:11).  They cause all who will listen to them to turn from the Father of Truth (Hosea 4:12).  They will always cause people who will listen to them to err from the truth so that they will not listen to the Father of Truth (1 John 4:6).  That is why I call them "Spirits of Lies".

The Spirits of Lies operate by appealing to the wrong desires of the bodies of people.  The desires of the body are at war with the desires of the Spirit of Truth so they appeal to those desires (Galatians 5:17).  They know that everyone who allows the desires of their flesh to control their behavior will be destroyed by the Father of Truth (Ephesians 2:3).  They appeal to the desires of the flesh with what brings pleasure to the flesh, the desires of the eyes with what is pleasant to see and to the pride of life with what inflates the egos of people because those things are from the world of darkness instead of the Father of Truth (1 John 2:16).

The Spirits of Lies operate through every religion that keeps people from the Father of Truth.  They are the ones who people make sacrifices to when they sacrifice to anyone other than the Father of Truth (Leviticus 17:7).  They are who people are really worshiping when they worship any god other than the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 32:17).  They are who people worship when they are lead in worship by anyone other than those who the Father of Truth ordained to lead them in worship (2 Chronicles 11:15).  They will demand sacrifices other than those commanded by the Father of Truth (Psalm 106:37).  They demand these sacrifices so that people will be in the House of Lies instead of the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).  They keep people worshiping them so that people will not repent from rebelling against the Father of Truth no matter what they suffer for their rebellion (Revelation 9:20).

The Spirits of Lies work through people to carry out their religions. They work through people that become familiar with them to lead others from the Father of Truth by carrying out their religion (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).  They speak lies through every prophet that was not sent by the Father of Truth (1 Kings 22:22).  They will produce counterfeits of the Children of Truth that work in counterfeits of the prophetic gifts of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 16:16).  They will work miracles through people they control to deceive other people into remaining in rebellion to the Father of Truth (Revelation 16:14).

The Spirits of Lies are not confined to idol temples and places like houses of prostitution where the activities of their worship are carried out.  They will operate right in the midst of where ever people congregate to worship the Father of Truth by infecting their doctrine.  They will seek to confuse people about the Man of Truth by giving witness that the Man of Truth is the Son of the Father of Truth so so that people will be unable to tell their doctrine from the doctrine of the Man of Truth (Luke 4:41).  They will come in with anyone in the congregation who they have gained control of (Luke 4:33).  They will try to confuse people about the Children of Truth by giving witness that the Children of Truth belong to the Father of Truth so that people will be unable to tell their doctrine from the doctrine of the Father of Truth (Acts 16:16-17).  They seek to seduce people to leave the House of Truth through doctrines that are not from the Father of Truth (1 Timothy 4:1).  They will try to influence a congregation that calls itself a place for worshiping the Father of Truth so much that it is really comes under the complete control of the Father of Lies (Revelation 3:9).

Each Spirit of Lies has its own personality and some are pretty much all one emotion to the exclusion of everything else including reason and logic.  Some of them produce unreasonable jealousy over their wife in men who listen to them (Numbers 5:14).  Some of them produce a haughty attitude in those who listen to them (Proverbs 16:18).  Some of them produce unreasonable fear in those who listen to them (2 Timothy 1:7).   There are Spirits of Lies for every emotion that can bring ruin to people when that emotion takes someone completely over.

Every Spirit of Lies wants to produce some sort of behavior in people.  Some of them produce perversion in those who listen to them (Isaiah 19:14).  Some of them cause those who listen to them to be asleep to the danger that they are in (Isaiah 29:10).  Some of them produce fornication in those who listen to them (Hosea 5:4).  There are Spirits of Lies for every behavior that can bring ruin to people when someone does it.

The Spirits of Lies seeks to take complete control of a person by joining themselves to the spirit of the person so that they are living in the body of the person and can take control of it.  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person will cause the person can cause the person to speak in a voice that is not their own because it is the Spirit of Lies who is actually speaking (Luke 8:28).  They can cause the person to display different personalities as different Spirits of Lies take control of the body of the person that they are living in because more than one Spirit of Lies is living in the person (Luke 8:30).

A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to harm other people (Matthew 8:28).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to have unnatural strength (Mark 5:2-4).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to hurt themselves (Mark 5:5).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to be out of their mind (Luke 8:27).  A Spirit of Lies will live in a human body if it gets the opportunity (Luke 11:24-26).

A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause part of the body to not function right for no apparent reason (Matthew 12:22).  If a Spirit of Lies cannot take control of the body of a person it can still hang around the person to afflict the person with sickness (Luke 13:11).  A Spirit of Lies can afflict the person with sickness as long as it hangs around the person (Acts 5:16).

A Spirit of Lies will live in the body of an animal in order to harm people.  A Spirit of Lies will seek out the body of an animal to live in if no humans are available (Mark 5:12).  A Spirit of Lies can enter the body of animal and take over the animal (Mark 5:13).  A Spirit of Lies will use the body of an animal to bring harm to people (Luke 8:32-34).

Every Spirit of Lies seeks to keep people from every good thing that the Father of Truth has for them in the House of Truth.  Each one brings people into bondage as slaves to the Father of Lies instead of becoming Children of Truth that live with the Father of Truth in the House of Truth (Romans 8:15).  They will say that the Man of Truth never even lived in this world as a man to prevent people from coming into the House of Truth (1 John 4:3).

So is this any way to fight these Spirits of Lies?  Is there any hope of rescuing those that are being harmed by these Spirits of Lies?  Can those that have been taken over by a Spirit of Lies be brought back to their right mind?

The first thing to recognize is that the Father of Truth gave people control of the Earth and everything in it (Genesis 1:28).  The Spirits of Lies can only operate in the lives of people where they have gained some sort of legal right to operate by the choices that people make (1 Kings 22:5-7).  They can only do anything to people because people have not kept the Father of Truth in control of every area of their lives (Romans 1:28-32).

The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to save people from being slaves to the Father of Lies (John 3:17).  Those that come into the House of Truth will be set free from the bondage that comes from the Spirits of Lies (John 8:31-32).  The Man of Truth sets free those whose choices that brought them into bondage to the Father of Lies when they come into the House of Truth (John 8:34-36).  The Spirit of Truth forces out every Spirit of Lies that belong to this world when anyone becomes a Child of Truth (1 Corinthians 2:12).  The Children of Truth have the Spirit of Truth living in their body so that the Spirits of Lies cannot live in their bodies (1 Corinthians 6:19).

The Children of Truth are sent by the Man of Truth to teach people to obey the Man of Truth so that they can be free from the Spirits of Lies (Matthew 28:19-20).  The Children of Truth are sent by the Man of Truth to set people free from every form of bondage that is brought about by the Spirits of Lies (Mark 16:17-18).  The Children of Truth come in the power that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth to set people free from the Spirits of Lies (1 Thessalonians 1:5-6).

Those that come into the House of Truth will be set free from the Spirits of Lies and returned to their right minds no matter how many Spirits of Lies had taken control of their bodies (Mark 5:15).  This is what happened to David Berkowitz after he went to prison.  He is now a Child of Truth and he works from prison to set others free from the Spirits of Lies.  You can find freedom from the Spirits of Lies if you will believe and the Man of Truth will help you have enough faith to be set free if you will be honest with him and seek his help (Mark 9:23-25).

The House of Truth is your shelter from every Spirit of Lies.  If you have not came into the House of Truth, then you can by submitting every area of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-11).

Come into the House of Truth.

Home Invasion

Do you know how to prevent the worst kind of home invasion?

Has your home ever been invaded?  If so, what did you do about it?  If not, what can you do to prevent it?

When I was about three and a half years old, a man with a knife invaded our home, while we slept.  My dad was awakened, before the man could hurt anyone, and he fought off the man.  The man ended up fleeing from our house into the night, badly wounded from the sound thrashing that my dad gave him.  Good thing for him, that my dad had not had time to get his hands on a gun. I don't know if his intentions were to rob us, or kill us, but he definitely picked the wrong home to invade.

We never really worried about that man returning.  We knew that we were safe as long as our father was in the house.  Our father was not going to let our home be invaded.

About twenty years later, my cousin had his home invaded by thieves, who ransacked his house, and stole his property, while he was at work.  It was more than his property, that they took.  They took away his sense of security, and well-being for a while.  However, they were not able to take away his most valuable possession.  My cousin had the greatest security system in the world to keep his greatest possession safe, and no one in world can beat that security system.

About ten years after that, someone invaded almost every house on our block, ransacked those houses and stole property from those houses, while the owners were at work.  The houses, that were continually occupied, were the only ones that were not invaded.

However, as bad as having your home invaded by thieves is, there is something even worse - squatters.  These people find a house that is currently empty, while the owners are occupied else where, and simply move in.  They use the owners utilities, and eat the owners food.  They sell the owners stuff.  Sometimes, they even try to get listed as the legal owners of the property.  They do all of this, while knowing the whole time, that they do not really have a right to live there.

The only thing worse than having your home invaded by squatters, is trying to get them to leave.  You cannot put them out by physical force in many states without going to jail.  Your only recourse is to turn to someone stronger than yourself, that has the legal standing to physically remove them, like the county sheriff.  Even then, they will often try to throw up roadblocks, to delay their removal.

Until the squatters are removed by a stronger entity, that has the legal standing to do so, you really only have two choices.  You can let the squatter have complete control of your home, until the squatters are removed.  This is the situation that happened to a couple in Littleton, Colorado in 2012.  The other choice is to share your home with the squatters, as happened to a woman in Detroit, Michigan in 2012.

Once the squatters have been removed, then you still have to deal with the damage, that they have done to your home, just like you have to do something about the property, that was stolen by thieves, who have invaded your home.

While stolen property can be replaced, and the damage to your home can be prepared, the best course of action is to prevent your home, from every being invaded in the first place.  The surest way to do that is to have a strong protector, like my dad, in the home at all times.

There is another kind of home invasion, that is even worse than any of those. 

You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body.  While you are on this Earth, your body is your home.  When someone has that home invaded, then they have a real problem.  This brings up some questions that must be answered.

Who invades that home?

The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) gave people the right to make their own choices and will never invade that home because He made them in his own image (Genesis 1:26-28).  The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka Holy Spirit aka Holy Ghost) requires voluntary cooperation from the Prophets of Truth when they are used by the Spirit of Truth to speak the Word of Truth (1 Corinthians 14:32).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) will not come into your home unless you invite him in (Revelation 3:20).  Those from the world of truth will never invade that home.

It is a Spirit of Lies (devil aka demon aka unclean spirit aka god) that invades that home.   Sometimes a Spirit of Lies invades for a while and then leaves after he has what he wants like a thief (Matthew 12:43).  Other times a Spirit of Lies invades a home and takes possession of the home like a squatter (Mark 1:32).  It is those from the world of darkness that invade that home.

How is that home invaded?

That home can be invaded when people make sacrifices to do what is pleasing to a Spirit of Lies instead of the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 32:17).  That home can be invaded when people go to a place dedicated to a Spirit of Lies to worship (2 Chronicles 11:15).   The home of the children can be invaded when the parents have handed over their children to a Spirit of Lies (Psalm 106:37).

You might be thinking that no one does these things in this day and age in a country like the US.  While the literal idols are missing, the same activities of worship are very present.  People cannot find time and money to do the things that please the Father of Truth like spreading the good news about the Man of Truth because they have sacrificed those things to pursue things that are pleasing to a Spirit of Lies like getting drunk.  People go to a place like a strip club where Aphrodite, the Spirit of Lies that leads people into fornication, is worshiped to join others in that worship.  Parents hand their children over to the very same Spirit of Lies when they indulge themselves in whatever sin that Spirit of Lies leads them into for they have invited that Spirit of Lies that seeks to harm their children into their home instead of  protecting their children.

Those that have any kind of relationship with a Spirit of Lies are subject to having that home invaded.  That home is invaded because doing the things the please a Spirit of Lies joins your spirit to the Spirit of Lies just like have sexing with a harlot joins your body to her body (1 Corinthians 6:15-17).  Since your spirit lives in your body you give a Spirit of Lies the ability to invade your home when you do what is pleasing to that Spirit of Lies.

What happens when that home is invaded?

A Spirit of Lies will find more Spirits of Lies to invade that home with it (Matthew 12:45).  Sometimes there can be only one Spirit of Lies that has invaded the home (Matthew 17:18).  Some times this can lead to a few Spirits of Lies that have invaded the home (Mark 16:9).  Sometimes this can lead to thousands of Spirits of Lies, like a Roman Legion of six thousand men, that have invaded the home (Luke 8:30).

A Spirit of Lies will take control of some aspect of that home.  Some Spirits of Lies can cause parts of that home to not function like speech (Matthew 9:32).  The senses of a person like sight can be shutdown by some Spirits of Lies (Matthew 12:22).  Some Spirits of Lies will cause fits of madness in the home that they have invaded (Mark 9:17-18).  Some Spirits of Lies will try to destroy the home that they have invaded (Mark 9:21-22).  If there are enough Spirits of Lies that have invaded the home, then they will completely take over the home to the point that complete madness sets in as if the true owner was living somewhere else (Luke 8:27-29).

How are the invaders removed from the home?

A Spirit of Lies are evicted from the home by the Spirit of Truth (Matthew 12:28).

The Spirit of Lie can only be evicted by someone that is strong enough to bind them up against their will and destroy the junk that they brought into the home (Matthew 12:29).  The Man of Truth is that strong man that has the legal authority and strength to cast a Spirit of Lies out of the home that has been invaded (Mark 1:27).  Every Spirit of Lies know that the Man of Truth can cast them out because he is the son of the Father of Truth (Mark 3:11).

The Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) have been given the legal authority by the Man of Truth to cast Spirits of Lies out of homes that has been invaded (Mark 16:17).  The Children of Truth that are baptized in the Spirit of Truth and full of the Spirit of Truth have the strength that come from the Spirit of Truth (Acts 6:3-5).  The Children of Truth that have the strength that comes from the Holy Spirit can cast Spirits of Lies out of the homes that they have invaded by the Spirit of Truth (Acts 8:5-7).  The Children of Truth can cast Spirits of Lies out of the homes that they have invaded because they are children of the Father of Truth like the Man of Truth (Romans 8:14).

A Spirit of Lies can leave a home that it has invaded on its own accord (Matthew 12:44).  Some Spirits of Lies will only leave a home that they have invaded if the Child of Truth has strengthened their faith enough in the Man of Truth through fasting before commanding them to leave in the name of the Man of Truth (Mark 9:28-30).  Some Spirits of Lies are so afraid of the Man of Truth that they will leave a home that they have invaded when they are told to do so in the name of the Man of Truth rather or not the one telling them is a Child of Truth (Mark 9:38-39).  Some Spirits of Lies will attack anyone that is not a Child of Truth who tries to cast them out of the home that they have invaded by using the name of the Man of Truth (Acts 19:13-16).

Some Spirits of Lies will use the home that they have invaded to talk to the one that has came have came to cast them out (Matthew 8:28-31). Some Spirits of Lies will put on a show when someone that can force them to leave the home that they invaded shows up (Mark 9:19-20).  Some Spirits of Lies will put up a fight before they leave the home that they invaded (Mark 9:25-27).

What happens when the invaders are removed from the home?

When a Spirit of Lies leaves the home that it invaded the problems that it caused leaves with it.   The parts of the home that it caused to not function, like speech, will resume functioning (Matthew 9:33) when the Spirit of Lies leaves the home it invaded.  The senses like sight that it shut down will resume working when the Spirit of Lies leaves the home it invaded (Matthew 12:22).  The fits of madness and destructive behavior will end when the Spirit of Lies leaves the home it invaded (Luke 9:42).  The person will return to their right mind when the Spirit of Lies leaves the home it invaded (Luke 8:35).

How do can you prevent your home from being invaded?

When a Spirit of Lies leaves a home that it invaded for any reason it might return to invade the home with other Spirits of Lies after the home has been cleaned up if it is still empty (Matthew 12:44).  This is why people will sometimes be able to appear to overcome an addition of something like alcohol for a little while only to later find themselves addicted to drugs, fornicating, gambling and other destructive behaviors that they did not have before they got cleaned up from alcohol.  The home must not be left empty if you want to prevent it from being invaded again.

Just as there is a place in the body of a woman so a man can join his body to her body so also there is a place in the human spirit so that another spirit can join that spirit.  Everyone has this hole in their spirit so that they can join their spirit to the Spirit of Truth so that they can be one spirit with the Man of Truth in the same way that a man joined to a woman is one body with the woman (1 Corinthians 6:16-17).  So if you do not want your home invaded, you must not provide any space to the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) to live in your life (Ephesians 4:27).

Once a Spirit of Lies leaves a home for any reason it will look for another home to invade in the same type of place that it found the last one it invaded.  If you return to a place where people worship a Spirit of Lies with their actions to rejoin them in their worship activities like drinking alcohol and viewing naked women, then you are befriending those same Spirits of Lies instead of the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).  You cannot live in the House of Truth and the House of Lies at the same time. 

You prevent your home from being invaded by coming into the House of Truth and staying there.  When you are in the House of Truth you live with the Father of Truth and no one can take away your most valuable possession, your place in the House of Truth because you have the greatest security system in the world (John 10:29).  You come into the House of Truth by submitting yourself to everything that the Man of Truth tells you to do because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).  When you are in the House of Truth the Spirit of Truth dwells in your home so any Spirits of Lies that are there will have to leave your home and your home will not be found empty by any Spirits of Lies that comes to it after it has been cleaned (1 Corinthians 3:16).  As long as you stay in the House of Truth your home is safe from invasion because the Father of Truth is strong enough to keep your home from being invaded (1 John 4:4).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Power of The Dark Side

Do you know the power of the dark side?

"You don't know the power of the dark side".  This is the line that Darth Vader used to try to persuade Luke Skywalker to join the dark side in the movie "Return of The Jedi".  However, in reality it was Darth Vader that did not understand the power of the dark side.  The truth is Darth Vader was a slave to the power of the dark side.  Darth Vader needed someone with the power of the light side to deliver him from the power of the dark side.

Do you know the power of the dark side?

Those who operate in the power of the dark side can do things beyond human ability.  Those who operate in the power of the dark side can do many of the same things as those that operate in the power of the light side (Exodus 7:10-12).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can hold captive the hearts of kings by displays of their power (Exodus 7:21-23).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can bring trouble upon the land of a nation (Exodus 8:7).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can talk to the dead (1 Samuel 28:8-11).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can interpret dreams (Daniel 2:1-3). Those that operate in the power of the dark side can do amazing things that are beyond human ability (Matthew 24:24).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can have superhuman strength (Mark 5:2-4).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can have great influence over everyone around them (Acts 8:9-11).   Those that operate in the power of the dark side can turn people from those that operate in the power of the light side (Acts 13:6-8).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can know future events before they occur (Acts 16:16).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can recover from deadly wounds (Revelation 13:3).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can call fire down from the sky (Revelation 13:13).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can bring an idol to life (Revelation 13:13).

Do you understand the power of the dark side?

The power of the dark side does not come from some dark side of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side operate by the power of Spirits of Lies (demons aka devils aka unclean spirits aka gods) (1 Samuel 28:8-13).  The Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) do not operated in the power of the dark side (John 8:12).   The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) came to deliver people from the power of the dark side (John 12:46).  The Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) is the source of the power of the dark side (Acts 26:18).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side operate in the power of the Father of Lies (2 Thessalonians 2:8-10).  The Father of Truth has no dark side (1 John 1:5).

Are you a slave to the power of the dark side?

Everyone that operates in the power of the dark side is a slave to the Father of Lies.  Those that operate in the power of the dark side can be driven to madness by the Father of Lies (Luke 8:27-29).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side belong to the Father of Lies (Acts 13:9-10).  Those that operate in the power of the dark side are under the control of Spirits of Lies and have no superhuman powers that belong to them (Acts 16:16-19).

Are you ready for someone with the power of the light side to deliver you from the power of the dark side?

The power of the dark side is no match for the power of the light side.  The power of the dark side is swallowed up by the power of the light side (Exodus 7:12).  Those who operate in the power of the dark side do not have as much power as those who operate in the power of the light side (Exodus 8:17-19).  Those who operate in the power of the dark side are under the curse of the Father of Truth (Leviticus 20:6).  Those who operate in the power of the dark side have brought a death sentence upon themselves (Leviticus 20:27).  Those who have anything to do with those operate in the power of the dark side have made themselves to be an abomination to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).  The Man of Truth has the power of the light side to deliver people from the power of the dark side (Mark 1:27).  The Children of Truth have been given the power of the light side to deliver those held hostage to the power of the dark side (Mark 16:17).  Those who operate in the power of the dark side can leave the dark side and come to the light side by putting their trust in the Man of Truth (Acts 8:13).  Those who operate in the power of the dark side can be made helpless by those who operate in the power of the  light side (Acts 13:11).  The power of the light side that comes from the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka Holy Spirit aka Holy Ghost) is greater than the power of the dark side that comes from the Father of Lies (1 John 4:2-4).  The Father of Truth will use the power of the light side to destroy the power of the dark side completely by destroying the Father of Lies (Revelation 20:10).

Are you ready to leave the dark side?

Perhaps you have been operating in the power of the dark side and you want to operate in the power of the light side instead.  You may have even made some sort of deal with the Father of Lies.  Or perhaps you  have never done anything like that.  Whatever the case, if you have not came into the House of Truth then you can come into the House of Truth to be kept safe from the power of the dark side. The Spirit of Truth destroys the power of the dark side that has been enslaving you so you can come into the House of Truth (Isaiah 10:27).  The Man of Truth came to destroy the power of the dark side so everyone can come into the House of Truth and operate in the power of the light side (1 John 3:8).  If you come into the House of Truth then you belong to the Father of Truth and the Father of Lies no longer has any claim on you (Colossians 1:13).  You come into the House of Truth by submitting to the Man of Truth in everything because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Are you ready to know the power of the light side?

You can start to operate in the power of the light side by being baptized in the Spirit of Truth in the House of Truth (Acts 1:8).  The Spirit of Truth will operate the power of the light side if you will remain in the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).

Come into the House of Truth.