This week’s session in our course on healing is called “Questions About Deliverance." We looked into some important issues of terminology in deliverance. What does it mean to rebuke the enemy? Can people bind Satan? What about binding and loosing? Do these forms of “praying” accomplish anything in the spiritual realm? We also began to make some observations from the healing stories of the Gospel. Watch with us! 

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EXCERPT: Many of us have heard people speaking about “binding and loosing.” They recall how Jesus said, “…whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 18:18). But in context, all that means is to exercise authority and judgment in the church. It refers to what spiritual leadership permits and does not permit in the church. In fact, in Matthew 18, the subject is people who sin unrepentantly and are put out of the church.

Among the Jews, the rabbis had the power of binding and loosing — in other words the authority to permit some things and forbid others. When Jesus came, He gave the Twelve Apostles the ability to do the same. So, I know it may sound dramatic to hear people binding Satan and loosing God’s angels, and all these kinds of things, but it has no support whatsoever in God’s Word.

I’m afraid this is simply learned behavior, and learned language. It’s a part of the traditions of men concerning deliverance ministry.

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