{"id":45860,"date":"2022-10-01T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/does-demon-possession-happen-today-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:04:08","slug":"does-demon-possession-happen-today-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/does-demon-possession-happen-today-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Demon Possession Happen Today? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Do you believe demon possession happens today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From this Bible student&#8217;s study of the Scriptures, God allowed demons to inhabit people in the first century in order <strong>to demonstrate and establish Christ&#8217;s superiority and authority over the devil and his agents <\/strong>(Matthew 12:28-29; Luke 11:20-22 cf. Luke 4:36; Matthew 17:18).<\/p>\n<p>The ability to cast out demons in the first century was given in order <strong>to confirm the validity of the Gospel<\/strong> (Mark 16:17-20 cf. Luke 10:17-18).<\/p>\n<p>That Gospel has now been <strong>validated<\/strong> (John 20:30-31) and <strong>confirmed<\/strong> (Hebrews 2:3-4), thus the casting out of demons is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demons: Ancient Superstition or Historical Reality?<\/li>\n<li>Demon Possession<\/li>\n<li>Demon Possession, the Bible, and Superstition<\/li>\n<li>Exorcism, Demons, Witchcraft, and Astrology<\/li>\n<li>The Demon Frenzy<\/li>\n<li>The Theology of Demons<\/li>\n<li>Were the Pharisees Able to Exorcise Demons?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Do you believe demon possession happens today?&#8221; From this Bible student&#8217;s study of the Scriptures, God allowed demons to inhabit people in the first century in order to demonstrate and establish Christ&#8217;s superiority and authority over the devil and his agents (Matthew 12:28-29; Luke 11:20-22 cf. Luke 4:36; Matthew 17:18). The ability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/does-demon-possession-happen-today-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Demon Possession Happen Today? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}