The Sins of a Devil: OCCUPYING AND POSSESSING HUMANS
by Pastor Dag Heward-MIlls
Then was brought unto him ONE POSSESSED with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. Matthew 12:22
And they that saw it told them how it befell to HIM THAT WAS POSSESSED with the devil, and also concerning the swine. Mark 5:16
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and THEM THAT WERE POSSESSED with devils. Mark 1:32
“One of you is a devil!”
How can you know when someone is a devil?
When somebody is a devil, he behaves exactly like the devil and enters churches, families and nations just as the devil does and destroys them from within!
One of the most unfortunate sins of Satan is the sin of entering human beings, occupying them and living in them. It is a crime to enter homes where you are not welcome! It is also a crime to enter a house and destroy everything there. It is a crime to enter a home and kill, hurt and afflict the owners of the homes. In the three separate scriptures above, you can see how Satan entered and possessed a man and also possessed several human beings. This is the greatest crime of wickedness ever done by the devil against the human race.
Until you have encountered a demon-possessed person, you may not understand how evil the sin of entering, occupying and living in human beings is.
Satan has now inspired many people to follow his example and enter churches and homes secretly to destroy them. The devil directly inspires people to join the leadership of a church and destabilize it.
Usually, expelling only one person from the church leadership, will end the confusion, the division and the unhappiness in a church. This is because that person is a planting of the devil and is walking in the sins of Satan to destroy the church from within.
How Satan Occupies Humans
Amazingly, human beings have received a slow but sure impartation of demonic nature. There are several steps that have taken place over the years, that have caused humans to share in the sins of Satan. Human beings have gradually taken up the nature of Satan as devils have sought after them, oppressed them, possessed them and imparted their nature to man. Let us go through the stages that have led to this great wickedness in human beings.
1. DEVILS SEEK OUT HUMAN BEINGS TO DESTROY THEM.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR: 1 Peter 5:8
Without knowing it, you are the devil’s mission. He is looking for you and he is looking to destroy you and end your life. God’s power is coming alive in your life and you are being set free from all forms of ambush and entrapments.
The devil has decided to behave like a lion. His only dream is to devour you and to devour me. Think about that! Should we not equally spend time finding him and sprinkling the blood of Jesus on him? It is time to rise up and rule in the midst of your enemies. It is a contest of power and you must display the greater power over and against the power of the enemy. Power against power! It is time to destroy the lion that spends his time hunting you down.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: RULE THOU IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. Psalm 110:1-3
2. DEVILS OPPRESS HUMAN BEINGS.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL; for God was with him.
Acts 10:38
Many people are oppressed by devils. Many of the afflictions of human beings are caused by devils. Almost every sickness and disease is caused by devils. A disease is “not being at ease”. Whatever causes your “not being at ease” is a disease.
It may be a financial disease, a physical disease or even a marital disease. The devils are hard at work to oppress God’s creation. They are truly wicked spirits with no good intentions for the human race.
As devils oppress human beings, the human beings become weaker and more vulnerable. As human beings weaken in their resistance to devils, they eventually become fully possessed.
3. DEVILS POSSESS HUMAN BEINGS.
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mark 5:15
Whenever a devil possesses a human being, he takes over and does what he pleases with the human being. The result is usually the greatest kind of suffering, humiliation and death.
The mad man of Gadara, who was stripped naked, living in the cemetery, cutting himself with stones, is a good example of someone who was fully possessed by the power of the devil.
When the devil possesses a person, the person lives a life that makes no sense. All his actions stand against good reason. When the devil possesses a person, he acts like the devil himself.
When the devil possesses a person, he becomes a living, moving, physical devil. Jesus spoke of Judas Iscariot and called him a living, moving, physical devil. Jesus said, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” (John 6:70). Before Judas turned into a devil, Satan entered into him.
Notice the scripture below. After Satan entered into Judas, he became a living devil.
THEN ENTERED SATAN INTO JUDAS surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
Luke 22:3
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve and, ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL? John 6:70
4. DEVILS IMPART THEIR NATURE OF WICKEDNESS TO HUMAN BEINGS.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other SPIRITS MORE WICKED than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matthew 12:43-45
Many devils have occupied human beings and consider human beings as a home. Tenants are known to destroy buildings and impart their nature and culture to the building. This is why landlords do not rent their houses to certain people. Landlords object to certain people from certain nations and cultures occupying their houses. I have heard landlords declaring that they would never rent their houses to certain people from certain countries.
This is also why landlords receive a deposit before the tenant can enter the house. This deposit is used to repair the damages the tenant will ‘impart’ to the house.
Jesus taught us how the devil that goes out comes back with seven other ‘tenant devils’. By crowding into human beings, these devils definitely impart something to the human beings.
Anyone who lives in a house imparts something to the house he lives in. If he is a scruffy person, he imparts the scruffiness to the house. If he is a melancholic person, he imparts tidiness to the house. These wicked spirits come and find the house tidy, swept and garnished. With wicked demons present, the house is gradually destroyed.
Wicked spirits have imparted their wickedness to their human hosts! There has been a gradual mixing of the nature of wicked spirits with the nature of human beings. Human beings have gradually become as wicked as devils!
Unfortunately, the human race is contaminated and is being made to commit the exact same sins that Lucifer committed.
5. DEVILS TEMPT HUMAN BEINGS TO FALL INTO THE SAME SINS SO THEY RECEIVE THE EXACT SAME CONDEMNATION.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Matthew 4:1
The devil wants human beings to commit the same sins that he did so that they will be condemned with the same condemnation of Satan.
Satan’s goal is to tempt and test human beings who claim to be serving God! Many things you experience are simply tests. Many of them are set up by devils who seek to destroy you by making you fall. You will not fall in Jesus’ name! Satan seeks to bring you down to his level.
Satan accuses you even when he does not have a factual basis for his accusation. Can you imagine how he will condemn you when he has a real basis for accusing you? Satan is seeking to bring you down to his level so that you will be condemned with the same condemnation of the devil.
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 1 Timothy 3:6
Satan wants you to do what he did so that you will be as guilty as he is. When you commit the same mistakes that the devil did, you will be as guilty as he is. When you are guilty, Satan will have a legal reason to request your presence in hell with him.
You must therefore be aware that every one of the sins of Satan is being offered to you today on a silver platter. Many Christians walk in the sins of Satan and fall into the condemnation that the devil has. The devil is truly condemned, but you are not! If you joke with this revelation, you may one day walk in the sins of Satan and experience his condemnation.
I know many people who have behaved exactly like the devil and brought into their churches the same confusion, division and commotion that Lucifer brought into heaven.
Do you want to be ‘the devil’ and ‘the Satan’ of your home and your church? It is time for you to gain understanding into the sins of Satan in Jesus’ name! By the grace of God, you will never walk in those sins!
by Dag Heward-Mills
Best Selling African Author
Then was brought unto him ONE POSSESSED with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. Matthew 12:22
And they that saw it told them how it befell to HIM THAT WAS POSSESSED with the devil, and also concerning the swine. Mark 5:16
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and THEM THAT WERE POSSESSED with devils. Mark 1:32
“One of you is a devil!”
How can you know when someone is a devil?
When somebody is a devil, he behaves exactly like the devil and enters churches, families and nations just as the devil does and destroys them from within!
One of the most unfortunate sins of Satan is the sin of entering human beings, occupying them and living in them. It is a crime to enter homes where you are not welcome! It is also a crime to enter a house and destroy everything there. It is a crime to enter a home and kill, hurt and afflict the owners of the homes. In the three separate scriptures above, you can see how Satan entered and possessed a man and also possessed several human beings. This is the greatest crime of wickedness ever done by the devil against the human race.
Until you have encountered a demon-possessed person, you may not understand how evil the sin of entering, occupying and living in human beings is.
Satan has now inspired many people to follow his example and enter churches and homes secretly to destroy them. The devil directly inspires people to join the leadership of a church and destabilize it.
Usually, expelling only one person from the church leadership, will end the confusion, the division and the unhappiness in a church. This is because that person is a planting of the devil and is walking in the sins of Satan to destroy the church from within.
How Satan Occupies Humans
Amazingly, human beings have received a slow but sure impartation of demonic nature. There are several steps that have taken place over the years, that have caused humans to share in the sins of Satan. Human beings have gradually taken up the nature of Satan as devils have sought after them, oppressed them, possessed them and imparted their nature to man. Let us go through the stages that have led to this great wickedness in human beings.
1. DEVILS SEEK OUT HUMAN BEINGS TO DESTROY THEM.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR: 1 Peter 5:8
Without knowing it, you are the devil’s mission. He is looking for you and he is looking to destroy you and end your life. God’s power is coming alive in your life and you are being set free from all forms of ambush and entrapments.
The devil has decided to behave like a lion. His only dream is to devour you and to devour me. Think about that! Should we not equally spend time finding him and sprinkling the blood of Jesus on him? It is time to rise up and rule in the midst of your enemies. It is a contest of power and you must display the greater power over and against the power of the enemy. Power against power! It is time to destroy the lion that spends his time hunting you down.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: RULE THOU IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. Psalm 110:1-3
2. DEVILS OPPRESS HUMAN BEINGS.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL; for God was with him.
Acts 10:38
Many people are oppressed by devils. Many of the afflictions of human beings are caused by devils. Almost every sickness and disease is caused by devils. A disease is “not being at ease”. Whatever causes your “not being at ease” is a disease.
It may be a financial disease, a physical disease or even a marital disease. The devils are hard at work to oppress God’s creation. They are truly wicked spirits with no good intentions for the human race.
As devils oppress human beings, the human beings become weaker and more vulnerable. As human beings weaken in their resistance to devils, they eventually become fully possessed.
3. DEVILS POSSESS HUMAN BEINGS.
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mark 5:15
Whenever a devil possesses a human being, he takes over and does what he pleases with the human being. The result is usually the greatest kind of suffering, humiliation and death.
The mad man of Gadara, who was stripped naked, living in the cemetery, cutting himself with stones, is a good example of someone who was fully possessed by the power of the devil.
When the devil possesses a person, the person lives a life that makes no sense. All his actions stand against good reason. When the devil possesses a person, he acts like the devil himself.
When the devil possesses a person, he becomes a living, moving, physical devil. Jesus spoke of Judas Iscariot and called him a living, moving, physical devil. Jesus said, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” (John 6:70). Before Judas turned into a devil, Satan entered into him.
Notice the scripture below. After Satan entered into Judas, he became a living devil.
THEN ENTERED SATAN INTO JUDAS surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
Luke 22:3
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve and, ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL? John 6:70
4. DEVILS IMPART THEIR NATURE OF WICKEDNESS TO HUMAN BEINGS.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other SPIRITS MORE WICKED than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matthew 12:43-45
Many devils have occupied human beings and consider human beings as a home. Tenants are known to destroy buildings and impart their nature and culture to the building. This is why landlords do not rent their houses to certain people. Landlords object to certain people from certain nations and cultures occupying their houses. I have heard landlords declaring that they would never rent their houses to certain people from certain countries.
This is also why landlords receive a deposit before the tenant can enter the house. This deposit is used to repair the damages the tenant will ‘impart’ to the house.
Jesus taught us how the devil that goes out comes back with seven other ‘tenant devils’. By crowding into human beings, these devils definitely impart something to the human beings.
Anyone who lives in a house imparts something to the house he lives in. If he is a scruffy person, he imparts the scruffiness to the house. If he is a melancholic person, he imparts tidiness to the house. These wicked spirits come and find the house tidy, swept and garnished. With wicked demons present, the house is gradually destroyed.
Wicked spirits have imparted their wickedness to their human hosts! There has been a gradual mixing of the nature of wicked spirits with the nature of human beings. Human beings have gradually become as wicked as devils!
Unfortunately, the human race is contaminated and is being made to commit the exact same sins that Lucifer committed.
5. DEVILS TEMPT HUMAN BEINGS TO FALL INTO THE SAME SINS SO THEY RECEIVE THE EXACT SAME CONDEMNATION.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Matthew 4:1
The devil wants human beings to commit the same sins that he did so that they will be condemned with the same condemnation of Satan.
Satan’s goal is to tempt and test human beings who claim to be serving God! Many things you experience are simply tests. Many of them are set up by devils who seek to destroy you by making you fall. You will not fall in Jesus’ name! Satan seeks to bring you down to his level.
Satan accuses you even when he does not have a factual basis for his accusation. Can you imagine how he will condemn you when he has a real basis for accusing you? Satan is seeking to bring you down to his level so that you will be condemned with the same condemnation of the devil.
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 1 Timothy 3:6
Satan wants you to do what he did so that you will be as guilty as he is. When you commit the same mistakes that the devil did, you will be as guilty as he is. When you are guilty, Satan will have a legal reason to request your presence in hell with him.
You must therefore be aware that every one of the sins of Satan is being offered to you today on a silver platter. Many Christians walk in the sins of Satan and fall into the condemnation that the devil has. The devil is truly condemned, but you are not! If you joke with this revelation, you may one day walk in the sins of Satan and experience his condemnation.
I know many people who have behaved exactly like the devil and brought into their churches the same confusion, division and commotion that Lucifer brought into heaven.
Do you want to be ‘the devil’ and ‘the Satan’ of your home and your church? It is time for you to gain understanding into the sins of Satan in Jesus’ name! By the grace of God, you will never walk in those sins!
by Dag Heward-Mills
Best Selling African Author
