Demonization of Jesus’s Disciples

Don Calvert ~ February 16, 2025
Acts 5:1-11

Controversial Topic: The possible demonization of

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is the single most controversial areas of spiritual warfare, in Christianity.

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Hananiah Means:

has been

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.

Sapphira Means: Beautiful or

, symbolizing

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and

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.
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Spiritual Warfare Question: Do you think when Jesus

Satan and his demonic forces that they

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away, never to be

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again?
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1st Discovery – Satan gained a

into a church family (Ananias and Sapphira) when they gave in to their

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temptations.
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Truth: Temptations are not

; they are a call to

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into the spiritual

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taking place within you.
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2nd Discovery – Through Ananias and Sapphira’s sinful hypocrisy, of financial

and

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, Satan entered in and

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their hearts.
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πληρόω pleróō / καρδία kardía: To

the heart; to

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into the heart.
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Judgement #1 – Jesus knows exactly what is occurring within His

and His

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; His judgments against

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are always

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.
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Judgement #2 – What God has done in the past He will do again when acts of

interrupts the

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of His people.
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νοσφίζω [kept back] nosphízō: To hold back what was

to

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; to

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.
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3rd Discovery – Paul warns Timothy and the Ephesus disciples of Jesus not to

themselves to

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.
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πνεῦμα pneúma / πλάνος plános: Deceitful, deceiving, seducing spirits; demons that purposely

God’s people away from holding on to

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.
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4th Discovery – Paul warns the Corinthian disciples that when they accept a deceiving

, they will receive a different

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that will led them to embrace a different

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.
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First: The deceiver preaches, “another

.”
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Second: Those disciples who accept this deceitful message, “receive a different

” than the one they received

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.
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Third: These disciples embrace “a different

” from the

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.
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Implication #1 – Get rid of every form of

and acts of

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; it interrupts the

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spiritual progress in your life and within the life of His church.
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Implication #2 – The entire N.T. church learned that God’s grace doesn’t make Him

on sin; rather His judgements on sinful rebellion should produce within us a

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.
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