So the question that we're gonna answer today

is are there spiritual forces at work in the world?

Are some of them dark and demonic and diabolical?

Are they evil?

And if evil forces are at work,

is God more powerful than those forces?

And is there any way that we can access his power

so that we're not overcome, overwhelmed,

overtaken by them, but we can live in the freedom that he has for us?

That's what we're going to deal with today.

We're in the Jesus Miracles sermon series, and today's question is, does Jesus deliver

people from demons today?

That's the big question.

And so what's really curious is as we're heading into dark days,

and how many of you, even in recent years, just the sudden rapid decline of Western culture is

quite shocking and quite concerning. I would tell you that there are dark forces at work to bring

death and destruction, and they are in fact demonic.

And what's really curious is even those who don't necessarily yet understand the Bible or believe in Jesus Christ,

they are coming to some understanding that we are more than just physical beings and what we're dealing with

is in fact highly spiritual and sometimes spiritual

conflict or war playing itself out in realities that are political and cultural. I'll give you an

example. This is a recent Pew Research study. 83% of all U.S. adults believe people have a soul

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