How to Help Young People Close The Doors to the Devil

Let me tell you one more type of thing, and I’m only mentioning a few, that is very common today. And that is trying to get us a kind of kick out of fooling around with things we’re not supposed to fool around with, such as a Ouija board. How many of you know what a Ouija board is?

Yeah. Well, I won’t even ask how many of you have played with a Ouija board. But playing with a Ouija board is going to the devil to get to know things that you shouldn’t ask from the devil. You should never go to the devil for help. And when you start to play with a thing like a Ouija board, or you get somebody to read your palm, or you get somebody to tell your fortune out of the teacup, or you do any of these things like that, or you start to study the horoscopes to find out what’s going to happen to you each week, you are playing with the things of the devil.

And when you start to play with the things of the devil, you get into trouble. Now, there is a proverb in English, I don’t know whether you’ve ever heard it, it says, “He that eats supper with the devil must use a spoon with a long handle.”

But I tell you tonight, there’s no spoon with a handle long enough to make it safe to eat with the devil, see? And you give the devil your little finger and before you turn around he’s grabbed above your elbow and he’s got you. And lots and lots of boys and girls in the United States today have been grabbed by the devil through the Ouija board.

I was in New Zealand, which is a place where they don’t have so much of this thing. I was preaching and praying for people and needed deliverance. Quite a young girl came up and was having a most terrible time getting delivered. And I went to her and I said, “Whatever did you do to get you into this condition?”

And she said, “In our school, some of the girls decided that we’d ask the spirits to come. And we had a time when we sat and waited for the spirits to come.” And she said, “Something came into me that I can’t get out of me.”

Now, I know that happens in many grade schools in America. I’ve talked to parents and children to whom it has happened. And if that happens, you’ve got something bad in you, a bad spirit that shouldn’t be there. Or some of you have been to churches or other places where they don’t preach the truth about Jesus.

There are some churches which are called churches, but they don’t truth teach the truth about Jesus. They don’t teach that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died on the cross for our sins and shed His blood and rose again from the dead. And some of you, just through going to places like that and listening to teaching like that, have let a little thief slip into you. Shall I tell you some of the churches that I mean? Well, first of all, spiritual churches, spiritists, Unity Church, Christian Science Church, Unitarian Church. Though they’re called churches, what they teach about Jesus is not true. And behind every lie about Jesus is a nasty, dirty, little, lying demon.

And if you listen, he’ll slip in. Now, I’m not telling you all this to scare you, but I’m telling you this because I want to help you. Now, some of you, as I sit and as I stand and talk to you and you sit and listen, you begin to realize there’s something in you there shouldn’t be. Some of you, you feel your heart beginning to pound a bit faster right now. Is that right?

Some of you have got a kind of churning feeling in your stomach. Why? Because the thing I’m talking about is right inside you there. All right? Now, I’m going to tell you how to get rid of it. First of all, you’ve got to come to Jesus. And you’ve got to tell Jesus that you’re sorry for all your sin, anything bad you’ve done. And you’ve got to ask Jesus to forgive you and cleanse you in His blood, and drive any of these bad spirits out of you.

And then, if you really trust Jesus, and we pray together, He’ll drive them out of you. But listen, there are certain things particularly that children have to do. One is you have to get right with your parents. The Bible says,

“Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you.”

And if you don’t honor your father and mother, it won’t be well with you. Now, you might say, “My father and mother haven’t always treated me right.” I’ll agree. I won’t argue. But you still have to honor them. You still have to submit to them.

If you feel mad and bitter against your parents, father or mother, Jesus won’t deliver you from those bad spirits. So, you just have to make up your mind. You might say, “Well, my mother didn’t treat me right. I’m mad at her.” Well, you just have to make up your mind. Is it worthwhile going on being mad at your mother and having the bad spirit inside you?

I could have said the same about my father. He didn’t treat me right. It was partly his fault that these things entered me. But what good would that do me? I want to get rid of them. Don’t you? Do you or don’t you? You do? All right, then you’ve got to say, “God, I’m sorry that I haven’t treated my mother and father right.” And you’ve got to make up your mind from now on that you will obey and listen to your father and mother, that you’ll be obedient, respectful, and tell the truth.

If you don’t make up your mind about that, I don’t believe Jesus will really help you. All right. Now, I’m going to try and show you how you can get help. First of all, you must feel that you need help. How many of you boys and girls that are 11 years old or under would agree with me that this past week you haven’t just been exactly as good as you ought to be? Would you agree upon that? Is that true? Are you sure? Well, you don’t have to say it to please me. Maybe you’ve said and done bad things. You’ve said things that weren’t true. You’ve been sassy to your parents. Okay? Now, you need Jesus to forgive you. Is that right? If you tell Him what you’ve done wrong, ask Him to forgive you, He’ll do it.

Then you’ve got to say, “Now on, from now on, Jesus, I mean to obey my parents. I mean to be as good as I can in my home. And I want you to drive out of me, by your Spirit, any of these nasty, bad, dirty spirits that have got into me.” Okay? And if you really mean it and ask Jesus to do it, He’ll do it. Now, when you’ve prayed that prayer, and we’re going to pray together in a little while, then remember what the little boy said. He said, “If you want the wrong spirit out, you breathe it out.” Just don’t sit there and just hope something will happen. Start to kick the old devil on, see?