“…and in your name have cast out demons? and in your name done many wonderful works?” Now, let me stop. These are many who cast out demons. I finally understand why it talks about that. I knew, personally the two men…and I’ve explained this before, who knew more about casting out demons than any ministers in Worldwide. If you put me in there, the three of us cast out more demons than probably any other 300 ministers, because I had those two fine mentors, Frank McCrady and Jim Reyer. The first man is deceased; the other still alive at age 85.
And
most ministers avoided demons like the plague. This is
not something that’s common. Rarely did anybody
ever,
ever cast out a demon. They tended to explain them away as psychological problems. I remember being at a Feast, as early as 1976, when a minister senior to me said, “Go get Dave Pack”—and I was only twenty-seven years old. But from then on, and before that really, because these men were so close to me…those two gentlemen…I learned most men did
not deal with demons. They didn’t
recognize them. They didn’t
discern them, which is a
gift. If you’re in the Body of Christ, discerning of spirits includes demons. They never dealt with them, so who are the
many who cast out demons? And the
many who did many wonderful works? Before I answer that question,
verse 23 is shocking…
