It Is Impossible For A Christian To Be Demon Possessed

Luke 13:16, “And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”

Beware of wacky Pentecostals and Charismatics who attribute all evil thoughts, mental issue, sickness and deeds as being caused by demon possession.

I lived on the island of Guam from 2004 to 2021. When I needed major neck surgery in 2009, the senior pastor of Victory Chapel church on Guam rudely and insensitively insulted me. I had come out of a restaurant and met the pastor and two of his female church members. I had a bandage on my neck from the surgery. The pastor cruelly told me that if I had been filled with the Holy Spirit that I wouldn't have needed my neck surgery. That hurt my feelings. What a rotten thing to say to another human being! Unlike him, I am a gentleman and didn't want to rebuke the foolish pastor in front of his church members. Plus, I have never been quick on my toes to respond to situations, so I run the risk of saying things I shouldn't say in frustration, so it is just best for me to stay quite and leave. So, that is what I did, but I've never forgot his ungodly insensitive insult. I don't like Charismatics, because they are arrogant and foolish.

Pentecostals and Charismatics all share three main heresies:

1. Salvation can be lost (which is a works-based counterfeit gospel)
2. Speaking in unbiblical tongues (which has its origin in witchcraft)
3. Fake healing crusades (no faith healer has ever emptied a hospital)

Without these Satanic practices and ideologies their false religion would cease to exist.

The Woman In Luke 13:16 Was Not Demon Possessed

Someone cited this passage of Scripture the other day in an attempt to teach that a Christian can be possessed by a demon. But dear reader, the Bible does not say the woman was demon possessed, it says that “Satan hath bound” her for 18 years.

Concerning Lucifer, we read:

Isaiah 14:13-17, “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?”

Carefully notice the last phrase telling us that Lucifer “opened not the house of his prisoners.” That doesn't mean his prisoners are demon possessed, it means Satan hath bound them, just like the unfortunate woman in Luke 13:16 whom “Satan hath bound” with sickness for 18 miserable years. Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

We know that God gave Satan permission to afflict Job's health with painful boils from head to toe. So, with God's permission Satan can cause health problems.

The Apostle Paul Was Not Demon Possessed

The confused man I mentioned earlier also claimed that Paul was demon possessed.

The Apostle Paul wrote in 2nd Corinthians 12:7, “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” We simply don't know what that messenger of Satan was. Some theologians think it refers to Paul's poor eyesight (Galatians 4:15), but the truth is that we just don't know. The phrase “the messenger of Satan” to me implies that Paul had a difficult enemy. It just doesn't seem plausible to me that poor eyesight, which is a natural part of growing older, would compel Paul to call something like that “the messenger of Satan.” It's definitely a mystery.

But again, the Bible does not tell us that the Apostle Paul was demon possessed. The Bible simply says that the Devil sent a messenger to afflict Paul, which God had allowed. Paul thought that God had given him a “thorn” to keep him humble, after being given an exclusive view into Heaven. Satan would have desired for Paul to be puffed up in pride. So, even though Paul said Satan sent him a messenger, it must have been God's will if it humbled Paul.

We read in 1st Corinthians 3:16-17, Romans 8:9 and 1st John 3:24 that the Christian's body is the literal “temple” of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God. We also learn in Ephesians 1:13-14 that the moment we come as a guilty sinner by faith (taking God at His written Word)—to receive Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for our sins, believing that He was buried, but then resurrected the third day—we are forever “sealed” with the Holy Spirit. So, there is no way that a saint who is indwelt and sealed with God's Holy Spirit can simultaneously be possessed by a demon(s).

That being said, a Christian believer can be inspired by Satan. That is why in Matthew 16:23 Jesus called the Apostle Peter, “Satan.” Peter was not demon possessed, he had simply allowed some unbiblical thinking to invade his mind that agreed with Satan. Peter didn't want Jesus to go to the cross to die, which is exactly what Satan didn't want either. So, we must always be on guard as God's redeemed children, lest we start thinking like Satan. Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”