Video from Desiring God
Put to Death the Deeds of the Body - John Piper
'Aug 7, 2024
Speaker: John Piper
Conference: The Cove' from the video introduction
"Before I pray once more, I just want to reaffirm something that John said about the relationship between music and the devil. My first year in ministry, the Lord put me to the test by having the phone ring at 10:30 p.m. one night. It was a group of college students who had cornered a demonically possessed young woman in an apartment room. They said, “Pastor John, there’s a woman here who’s demon possessed and we want you to come do something, and we won’t let her out until you get here.” So I called Tom Steller, my associate, who lived upstairs and said, “Go with me. Jesus said, ‘Go two by two.’”
So we went and it was a really remarkable scene. They said, “This is not her. It’s a different face. It’s a different voice. We know this girl and it’s just not her.” She had this little pen knife that she was going around threatening these students with, and it was incredible. They wouldn’t budge at the door when she threatened them. So I knew God had already arrived. To make about a three-hour story short, with all my efforts, I knew nothing about this. I knew nothing. I have no experience in this whatsoever. That’s to encourage you. You may be called into situations where you have no experience. I tried reading the Bible. She would come over and smash the Bible out of my hand, and I would try to recite Scripture. All I knew is to use the Bible..." from the Transcript
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