Can Demon Abduction Really Threaten a Follower of Jesus Christ? 

Abduction means to be seized and carried away by force.  So often in the Christian circles we are told Satan and his demons draw us away from the faith.  Like a demon abduction, we are forced away.  Many churches try to go this route, like “the devil made me do it.” We often put so much emphasis on Satan luring us away, we never deal with the heart of the problem.  Willingly, we choose to follow the course of this world and the desires of our own flesh.  We are hedged in from all sides while on this earth.  Our desires by nature are not to follow God.  We are caught up in pride, self-indulgence, self-pity and doing everything “my way.”  It is seen in the heart of every baby and child, me-me-me and only me.  

 Unfortunately, despite clever cover ups and shrouds of humility, pride rears its ugly head as sin enemy number 1. Our sin nature cannot change without a heart transplant. We need a transformation from a Master Surgeon. And that kind of transformation of the heart can only come from Jesus Christ.  But how do we then live the Christian life when surrounded by so much evil both outside and within us.  Jesus has washed us with His Blood to pay the price for our sin.  He clothed us in His righteousness.  Furthermore, He gave us the Holy Spirit to assist and guide us.  Jesus declared He has never lost and will never lose even one of those given to Him by the Father.   

Never Forget This Truth

We, who know Him as Lord and Savior were chosen before the creation of the world. Chosen to be a love gift to the Son from the Father. Purchased by the blood of the Son out of Love. And sealed by the Holy Spirit for eternity.  The perfect Triune God has eternally dwelt in a perfect relationship of love-Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is why it is so unimaginable yet beautiful that the Son went to the cross. There for a moment in time He was separated from that love while enduring the wrath that we deserved.

Beware of Demon Abduction in our midst. 

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: ² May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.  Jude (NASB) 

Before we go further, I want to point out Jude was Jesus’ half-brother. However, humbled by his own humanity did not say that. Instead, now he considered Jesus to be Lord and Savior of him.  He referred to himself as a bondservant to Jesus Christ.  Then, notice to whom he addressed his letter.  To those who are called (the work of the Spirit), beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ.  

But then comes the warning in Jude: 

³ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation. I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all time handed down to the saints. ⁴ For certain people have crept in unnoticed. Those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation. Ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into indecent behavior and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Jude 

Some might think this more of a demon abduction; because it is disguised as religion and creeps into our midst.  That is what surrounds us today.  Demon possession with all the violence may still exist. But, if so, today it can only be dealt with by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Therefore, the only hope that men and women can be pulled from demon possession is by prayer and preaching. Jesus could cast out demons. He gave that power to the apostles. Today, it is the Holy Spirit who can convict and open the eyes of the blind. We can preach the uncompromising gospel. We can pray. Then only those whose eyes are opened can be pulled from demon possession. They are also unchained from their own fleshly desires of sin.   Demon abduction is then impossible once the Holy Spirit indwells them as true believers of Christ.

Paul Warned the Church of Galatia 

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel, ⁷ which is not just another account; but there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! ⁹ As we have said before, even now I say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! Galatians 1 

Pride was a big part of the false doctrines in Galatia as they taught that works were a part of salvation.  Although work should be the fruit of salvation, it is not by our own efforts that this can be accomplished. Only through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit working in us can we accomplish any righteousness; all the glory can only go to Him.   

Everywhere that the gospel was taught, there was infiltration of false doctrine.  There were those who persecuted Paul and the true believers.  They drove him out of Thessalonica.  Yet, in the brief time he was there he had laid the foundation not only of the truth of salvation, but also of the kingdom of God.  It is in knowing the truth that we have hope.   

DEMON Possession and Exorcism 

While Jesus walked on the earth, He cast out demons.  This power, He also gave to His apostles.  The gospel message was not yet spread and written. Therefore, these kinds of miracles were necessary to demonstrate to a skeptical world that Jesus was truly the long-awaited Messiah.  The power to was part of the apostle’s ministry on earth.  Of course, there were those who wanted to gain a profit by imitating the apostles.  

¹¹ God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹² so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out. ¹³ But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!” ¹⁴ Now there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit responded and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶ And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ACTS 19 (NASB) 

But God Used It to Spread the Gospel 

¹⁷ This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. ¹⁸ Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing, and disclosing their practices. ¹⁹ And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of the books and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. ²⁰ So the word of the Lord was growing and prevailing mightily. ACTS 19 (NASB) 

So, I am not certain how I believe concerning demon possession in our time; however, I do know that they cannot possess a believer because we have the Holy Spirit in us.  He is the restrainer of this age.  The only one with the power of exorcism is Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can call someone out of darkness into a saving knowledge of Christ.  So, our place in exorcism is just to proclaim the truth of the gospel everywhere we go.  But what about us? Can a demon abduction occur?  No, as our first verse said, “we are hemmed in on every side” by God.  The demons bowed at the feet of Jesus, frightened of being cast into the pit where some demons already reside since the time of Noah.    

So, Is It Always Demon Abduction When Humanity Fails? 

Absolutely not.  Look at these verses in Ephesians (NASB) 

And you were dead in your offenses and sins, ² in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.  

What were you?  DEAD.  Not just sick, not partially dead, not drowning and going down for the last count.  You were dead.  Because of the course of this world, your own lusts, and desires of the flesh.  What changed that? But God! 

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  

So where are we seated? Already seated and why? 

⁷ so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹ not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2 (NASB) 

What are we made for? 

What are we to do? 

¹⁷ But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” ¹⁹ These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. ²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. ²² And have mercy on some, who are doubting; ²³ save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.  Jude (NASB) 

Furthermore, We Have Our Armor to Protect Against any Demon Abduction 

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

¹³ Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. ¹⁴ Stand firm therefore, having belted your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having strapped on your feet the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 

¹⁸ With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be alert with all perseverance and every request for all the saints, ¹⁹ and pray in my behalf, that speech may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.  Ephesians 6

Beyond all that remember: 

³⁷ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8 (NASB) 

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy, ²⁵ to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude (NASB) 

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