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Grace Bible ChurchAuthor: John Pittman Hey
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Overcoming Demonic Interference
Sunday, 18 May, 2025
Regardless of what certain false teachers claim, as we have mentioned before, the Holy Ghost is powerful to sanctify every sort of believer, and suppress our character flaws for God's glory and our good, regardless of race. Paul's boldness is explicitly credited to the work of the Holy Ghost. He was bold in proclaiming the Gospel even when dangerous, followed by persecution, followed by Paul going elsewhere to preach. When Paul and Barnabas went to Paphos, the local minor ruler, Sergius Paulus, summoned Paul to hear the Gospel. Sergius' friend Barjesus, a sorcerer, interfered with the gospel work. No doubt this wicked man's income would be lost if his friend Sergius turned away from the devil's work and toward Christ. He needed to keep Sergius in Satan's thrall. Once again, Scripture tells us that it was the Holy Ghost in Paul that led him to denounce this wicked man to his face, as a child of the devil, an enemy of righteousness, and a perverter of the ways of the Lord! Then Paul called down judgment against the sorcerer, placing blindness upon him for a while. When Sergius saw what happened, he realized that the so-called "power" of his sorcerer friend was no match for the power of the Holy Ghost. All the benefits he supposed he had in his wicked friend, were worthless in the face of the truth of the gospel! Most people would have declined to confront the friend of the ruler, worrying that it would alienate him from the message, and perhaps even result in a violent reaction against the preacher. But not Paul. We see here a striking example of a boldness that could have been dangerous, but instead, the Spirit moved Sergius to believe the Gospel.
