<TITLE>03. Par 16-21</TITLE>L-16 Now, the first thing, what a demon is. You hear so many people talking about a demon. Well, now, a "demon, devil," all comes from one word, and in the English it's called "tormentor." A fellow that torments is a devil, a evil one. He, say... Now, the Bible today is to most, to many people, is some old back Book that grandpa and grandma read, or something like that, "There's not much to it; it's for the old folks, and so forth." But that's wrong. It's for everybody. And demons are tormentors that torment us.

L-17 Now, there is demons that comes into the soul of men, and that is, in the phraseology, that would be--that would be in the... I'd say this though, the demon that comes into the soul is something that torments the soul.
Many times you can see a person maybe of insanity. Now, they may be yet a converted person, filled with the Holy Spirit, and yet be totally insane. See? That's right; that has nothing to do with the soul. It's a tormentor (See?), something that torments them.

L-19 Now, all sickness, we have to find first that all sickness came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. God sometimes permits Satan to put sickness on you as a whip to bring you back to the house of God when you disobey Him. But sickness in its beginning come from the devil. Could you imagine a person would believe that God our heavenly Father would be the author of such a thing as sickness and death. Well, no, He isn't, never was, never will be. God permits death because of disobedience. God permits death. As one writer said, "All, that death can do, God harnessed it to a buggy, and it pulls us into the Presence of God, a believer." But a--the word "death" means "separation."

L-20 Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life." And He said, "I am the resurrection and Life, he that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." And we pack the bodies of each other over the saintless of our graves. "But he shall never die."

L-21 Now, if you'll watch when He spoke of Lazarus, He said, "Lazarus sleepeth."
The disciples, men like we are, they said, "Oh, if he sleepeth he doeth well." He meant taking a rest, what they thought.
But He come and talked to them in their language; He said, "He's dead," what you believe. But said, "I go wake him: wake him." See, see? When you're...
"Death" means "separate." Now, if one of you should, one of your family die or something, he is, if it's converted, they're not dead. They're dead in the humanistic standpoint. But they're just separated from us, but they're in the Presence of God. They're not dead, and they can't die. It's impossible for them to die. Jesus said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to Life." So he can't die. Anything that's immortal, eternal, it can't perish. It's imperishable Life. He's got It because God has give It to him. And now, not meritorial; it's with--it's unconditional, God gives it to him.


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