Nov. 13, 2024

The Exorcist Files

The Exorcist Files

For the last several years, the Catholic Church has noted an alarming increase in demonic possessions.

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For the last several years, the Catholic Church has noted an alarming increase in demonic possessions.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Before I give my introduction, before I give you the date,

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the time, anything like that, what I have to give

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is a very very very strong warning. What you are

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about to hear may offend some They may feel that

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this subject matter is not suitable for a Christian podcast.

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They may be offended by something they're going to hear

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in this but I feel it's important, so I'm going

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to discuss it. But I'm letting you know that be

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warned because what you are about to hear could prove

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to be offensive. For the last several years, the Atholic

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Church has noted an alarming increase in the number of exorcisms.

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And I'm going to be bringing to your attention a

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podcast that is now on the Spotify podcasting chart, I

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think at number fourteen, that deals with this alarming number

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of exorcisms and brings you the case files of these

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exorcisms and somewhat of a dramatic format. And when you

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hear the dramatic format and you hear some of the

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words that are said, you may be greatly offended. But

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because there's a podcast out there about exorcisms that's rising

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the podcasting chart. I think it's my job to bring

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it to your attention, and I'm gonna let you hear

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at least the trailer for it, and then we will

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discuss it and we will talk about it all right

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in this podcast. The trailer that you're going to hear,

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you're going to hear a word. The word may offend

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some people, but I'm going to give you this word

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by reading from the Bible Hebrews chapter twelve, verse seven.

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If you endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.

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For what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not.

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But if you be without chastisement, wherefore all our partakers,

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then are ye bastards and not sons. And the trailer

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that I'm going to play for you in a minute,

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bastards or bastard is used. So I want you to

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know it's a word used in the Bible. But some

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of you may be offended by it, but it's right there.

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That's the word that's going to be used. I just

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want you to be know that that's coming. You're gonna

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hear a dramatic you're gonna hear these sounds, which of

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a dramatic you know, giving forth of what happens during

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some of these supposed exorcisms that have occurred. Now, I

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am by no means saying I agree with the Catholic

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understanding of exorcism. I'm not saying that in any way,

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shape or form. I'm telling you here is a podcast

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about the alarming increase in the number of exorcisms that's

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happening within Catholicism. And then they compile these case files

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and then dramatize them in a sense, and you're going

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to hear it and you can draw your own conclusion. Obviously,

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as you know, with anything, I don't care. I don't

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care where the sermon is, I don't care what the

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theology is. You always need to be thinking and careful

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and examine and ensure that you are pursuing truth. So

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I think that the subject matter may be offensive. The

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way it is portrayed maybe offensive. A word that may

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be used may be offensive. The sounds you hear you

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may not like. And if you have small children, you

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definitely may not want them to hear this. All right,

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So with all of that said, welcome everyone, good evening,

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Welcome to a late night episode of the Theology Central podcast.

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It is Tuesday, November twelfth, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently ten thirty four pm Central Time, and I'm coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. Now, we were doing kind of

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a series where I was looking at all of the

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podcast on the Spotify podcasting charts right especially in the

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spirituality Christian religion category, and we were making through some

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some of those things were just frustrating to listen to.

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It was kind of crazy. I don't know if we

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were really accomplishing a lot, but we were doing that,

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and of course we get sidetracked by other things. But

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I thought, well, I haven't looked at the Spotify podcasting

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charts and for I don't know forever, let me look.

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And so I started looking, like, wait, a minut, what

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is this? And I think it was at number fourteen

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and it was increasing. It It had passed up Elevation Church,

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Steven Ferdick had passed him up, and it had passed

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a lot of big name you know, preachers and teachers.

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And the name of the podcast is The Exorcist Files.

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The Exorcist Files. Here's a little bit of how it

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is described for the last and right now, it has

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over six thousand, you know, reviews, and it's at four

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point nine stars. Over six thousand people giving it a

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star rating and it has a four point nine So

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a lot of people have reviewed it. If you have

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six over six thousand reviews, I mean there's a lot

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of people downloading and listening to your message, because most

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people won't even leave a rating or anything. Right, So

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it's the Exorcist files. They label it under true crime,

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which is interesting. I think that means they're trying to

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not have it just found somewhere in the theology section

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or religion section. I think maybe they're going for a

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broader audience. Okay, So I found that interesting, and here

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is the description. For the last several years, the Catholic

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Church has noted an alarming increase and the number of

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exorcisms performed. Now for some of the most disturbing and

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vicious cases of possession, one priest is often summoned. With

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almost two decades in ministry, renowned priests, Father Carlos Martin's

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has encountered evil in nearly every way imaginable, from Luigi

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boards and curses to witches and demonic packs. Father Martins

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has battled the ancient serpent and many forms. The Exorcist

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files are his story. Now I do not believe, or

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I don't know. I would have to look. I don't

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know if this has any official sanction from the Vatican.

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I don't know if it's recognized in any way, shape

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or form there. I've not done any research. I've just

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seen it listed on the chart. I'm like, you know what,

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if I'm going to talk about it, let's do it

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now so that we can play the trailer. It's late night,

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less likely to offend anyone. So here what I'm going

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to do is, I'm going to play the trailer now.

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I do have the Catholic Catechism right here in front

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of me, and I'm going to read a paragraph sixteen

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seventy three, which is a paragraph about exorcism, so you'll

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get kind of the official Catholic idea of it. I

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was going to go downstairs and look through one of

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my closets where I have lots of my textbooks and

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note books and course materials when I was pursuing a

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degree in Catholic theology, because I was very interested at

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the time trying to understand and taking courses dealing with

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the Catholic view of exorcisms and and and their approach

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to it, and just really trying to understand it. So

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I think I have an I think I have all

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of my notes and everything for a course of course

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on Catholic exorcisms. I think I have. I think I

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have an entire It's like a large notebook on it.

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So I remember I had to have a how to

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have a procter for one of my exams, and uh,

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one of I think it was one of the doctors

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I worked with at the time, and the doctor was

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the one proctering my exam and was looking at it

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and was like, what in the world are you taking?

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This is like exorcisms and demon possession and how to

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remove it. What in the world are you doing. I'm like, well,

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you know, you never know, right, So I just choked

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and they were like, what, You're always taking some weird course.

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So I have to look and see if I have

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all of my material. But with all of that said,

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by no means am I claiming I'm an expert on this. No, look,

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I'm not even pretending that. But obviously Cathola has a

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very specific view on this. And if you've noticed, even

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within the Christian world, there's been kind of a shift, right,

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We've talked about it where there's kind of now this

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theology within some branches of non Catholic Christianity claiming that

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the biggest problem facing the Church are demon possessed Christians.

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They're saying, now, the thing holding Christians back and causing

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all the problems and sin in their life is that

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Christians can be possessed by demons. Now, I completely reject

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that theology. I believe that as Christians, we are in

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dwelt by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit seals us,

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we have the Holy Satan can't come in and take

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over when we have the Holy Spirit inside of us.

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So I do not believe a Christian can be possessed

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by a demon. But that is a teaching even within

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some non Catholic circles, and then of course within Catholicism

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they have their own philological approach to demonic possession, and

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then their own approach and how to remove a demon

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through an exorcism. I believe the way a demon would

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be removed is you would not want to speak to

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the demon and have this big conversation in Hollywood. You

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would want to speak to the person present the gospel,

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and if one believes on Christ, then obviously if they

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are possessed, the demon would leave because now the Holy

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Spirit would in dwell them. That's kind of an oversimplification

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maybe of my view, but just so that you know it.

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But here it is. This is the trailer for The

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Exorcist Files, which is currently like number fourteen on the

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Spotify podcasting charts. Now, just remember, this is going to

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be dramatized. It's going to have all the sounds you

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would expect dealing with exorcisms and demonic possession. And you're

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going to hear, as from Hebrews thirteen. If you're not suns,

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you're a bastards. What's going to use the word bastard.

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So I'm just letting you know that's what you're going

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to hear. All right. I've done everything I can do

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to warn you so that nobody is easily offended. Obviously,

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you know, for some of you you'll be like, big deal.

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Others of you will be like no, okay, So you're

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gonna get wildly different reactions. But here we go, so hey,

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don't be offended after this all right, because you've been warned,

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right you can obviously now you can turn this off.

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But here we go. There's a lot of people, there's

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obviously a lot of interest in it. If it's moving

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up the podcasting charts. You can determine is this like, oh,

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this is ridiculous, this is hyperbole exaggerated Hollywood? Or do

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you feel like, wait, what is going on? It may

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raise all kinds of questions. I don't know, but here

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you go. Here is introduction or introducing the Exorcist files.

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Cheryl, Cheryl, honey, have someone here on to introduce you to.

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Hell?

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Sure?

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Why did you bring that?

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Pre what Hollywood portrayed in the movie The Exorcist with levitations, vomiting,

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spitting at the priest, with an uncanny marksmanship, all of

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that has not been a movie for me. I have

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seen that firsthand.

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Dark angels, demons, spiritual warfare. I need a priest.

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What do you think? It is? Something that's been inside

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me for a long time for some misalleged battle is

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utter myth, fables and stories designed to manipulate the masses.

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I order you to go in the name of Christ.

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I'm you've been together too long.

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But for Father Carlos Martin's. It is not only real,

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it's his job.

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Carlos. He definitely has something going on.

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It's primal.

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He's acting like an animal.

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In twenty eighteen, it was reported that the number of

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cases of demonic possession had skyrocketed around the world, constituting

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what some called a pastoral emergency. Still surely go thing's back.

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I see it, and for some of the most disturbing

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and difficult cases.

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Tell me who you are, the one you won't get out,

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the one who can't.

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Father Martin's was often summoned.

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My name is Father Carlos Martins. I am an exorcist.

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I was an atheist until as a young adult, the

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Lord brought me out of darkness, and since then I've

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been living in his love. But I've also seen.

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Things four hundred and seventy three twelve.

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Of me, very evil thing things that I wish weren't true.

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There's evil here, evil witchcraft.

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See the stitching, do.

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Not touch it.

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My job and the job of those like me, is

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to do battle with these things. This is the first

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time I've opened my files about these battles to the public.

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Demonic, Yeah, demonic, you need help.

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From my Heart Radio comes The Exorcist Files, a deep

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dive into the true stories from Father Carlos Martin's Listen

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to the Exorcist Files on January twenty fifth on the

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Now you can choose to go look up podcast on

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any podcasting app. You have the Exorcist Files, you can

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choose to listen. Obviously, you should be critical, you should question,

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you should challenge, you should you should you know, really

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think carefully about what you're listening to and pursue truth

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at all costs. Now you may ask, well, why were

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you interested in it? Why as attending a Catholic university,

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you wanted to take classes dealing with exorcisms and this

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type of thing. Because there's a part of me like

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this is just me personally. I'm not saying that my

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approach here is right. Look, when it comes to Christianity,

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when it comes to theology, obviously I love theology. Obviously

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I have pursued theological education my entire adult life, school

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after school, after school, but all of my life of

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studying the Bible, reading the Bible. Obviously, I hear all

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the crazy stories and the charismatic world, right, and so

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much of their stories, you know, over and over and

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over again, proven fraudulent, proven fraudulent, fake healings, fake miracles,

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this claims for prophecies that don't come true. And to me,

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they always come across as like a you know, like

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some crazy side show at a you know, at a

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fair somewhere. It's just it's a carnival, it's a circus.

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it is like, ah, now, I don't know, there's just

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something about it that just seems so cheesy, fraudulent, and

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so I've always written off the charismatic world is just insane,

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crazy nonsense and just was done with it. Any exposure

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to it just made me and the more expose as

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about it. I was done with it. So I didn't

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see like, oh, there's the power of God or there's

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the spiritual world. It just seemed like a big production.

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then I thought, well, man, there's all these exorcisms, and

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the Catholic Church has this long history, there's there's something

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to it that maybe gave me a different feeling. So

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then I was like, man, wouldn't it be awesome? This

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is the way I thought, not only to pursue the

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education of exorcisms, but man, maybe maybe one day And

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even though I know this is just my mind thinking,

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not obviously realistic because I don't agree with Catholic theology,

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but man, what would it be like to find a

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way to go to school, get the education, and one

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day become, you know, an exorcist within Catholicism, you know,

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become an ordained priest whatever I have to do, pursue

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it and become an and then finally like come face

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and really be confronted with not all of this theology

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with it in a very powerful, real way, like there'll

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be no question, Like there was almost like you know,

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the files to the truth is out there and I

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to see this for myself, right So there, I guess

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of these case files and to see and then maybe

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over time it'll be like this sounds just as you know,

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over the top and exaggerated and like some you know

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circus and and and and become just as you know,

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frustrated with it, as with many other things that that

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claim all of these types of things. But just for

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your exp you know, a little bit of extra content.

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I'm looking here at the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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I'm using the Ascension Addition, which is a beautiful white,

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kind of like leather bound copy. My one of my

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daughters got this for me, and this is I have

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it open to How we worship is the heading at

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the top. It's paragraph sixteen seventy three. Sixteen seventy three.

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So if you have if you look online for the

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Catholic Catechism, paragraph sixteen seventy three, you can read along

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with me. This is how This is a very simple

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explanation of kind of the Catholic view on exorcism. You're ready,

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Here's the Catholic view on exorcism, paragraph sixteen seventy three.

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When the Church asks publicly and authoritatively, in the name

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of Jesus Christ that a person or object be protected

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against the power of the evil One and withdrawn from

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his dominion. It is called exorcism, all right, So let

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me read that again. When the Church ask publicly and

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authoritatively in the name of Jesus Christ, that a person

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or object be protected against the power of the evil

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when the Church asks publicly and authoritatively in the name

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of Jesus Christ, that a person or object be protected

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against the power of the evil One and withdrawn from

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his dominion. Hey, that this person is removed, this place

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is removed from the dominion of the evil one. That

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that's an exorcism. Jesus performed exorcisms, and from him the

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Church has received the power and office of exercising. In

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a simple form, exorcism is performed at the celebration of baptism. So,

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in a simple form, anytime someone is baptized within Catholicism,

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that's an exorcism. Why because the person is being withdrawn

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from the dominion of the evil one, because they believed

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baptism is a sacrament. It's salvific right, it washes away

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original sin, it brings salvation. It's salvific, it's doing something,

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it's a means of grace. So therefore that's as that

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baptism is an exorcism in the Catholic Church. A lot

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of times people say Catholics do all of this, they

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chant all this Latin and do all this crazy stuff

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to get rid of a demon. They It can be

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something as simple. Let me see it again. When the

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Church asks publicly and authoritatively and the name of Jesus Christ,

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that a person or object be protected against the power

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of the evil One and withdrawn from his dominion, it's

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called an exorcism. We could call a simple exorcism a baptism,

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because that person and their theology is being removed from

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the dominion and power of the evil One. The solemn exorcism,

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So you have the simple one, right baptism. The solemn exorcism,

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called a major exorcism, can be performed only by a

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priest and with the permission of the bishop. The priest

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must proceed with prudence, strictly observing the rules established by

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the Church. Exorcism is directed at the expulsion of demons

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or to the liberation from demonic possession through the spiritual

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authority which Jesus entrusted to his Church. Illness, especially psychological illnesses,

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is very different, is a very different matter. Treating this

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is the concern of medical science. Therefore, before an exorcism

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is performed, it is important to ascertain that one is

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dealing with the presence of the evil one and not

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an illness. That is the Catholic teaching on exorcism. I

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read that because that podcast, the Exorcist Files, obviously is

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the case files of exorcisms being done by Father Carlos

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Martin's a Catholic priest. So therefore it will be giving

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you a Catholic perspective on exorcisms. Now whether again, I

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do not know. I have not looked it up. I

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do not know if the if the Catholic Church gives

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any credibility their view on his case files on what

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he has done, would we would have to do a

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little extra research. So I'm just telling you that what

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I'm doing is, Hey, here's this podcast that's moving up

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the podcast charts. Well, put it this way, the last

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time we looked at the Spotify podcast charts, it was

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nowhere to be found. Okay, Now, all of a sudden,

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it's number fourteen. All right. In fact, if I look

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at the charts, let me tell you who it's above. Yeah,

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it's number fourteen. Okay. It's above Elevation Church with Stephen Ferdick.

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It's above Unashamed with the Robertson Family. It's above the

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Briefing with Albert Mohler. It's above the Bible Recap podcast.

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It's above Billy Graham, Timothy Keller. It's above Pints with

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a Quinas. It's above who else your daily Prayer. It's

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above see here I'm looking for once Joyce Meyer. It's

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above which I mean it's a big name, whether we

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agree or disagree, it's a big name, the doctor, Charles Stanley,

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Life Church. So it's above many of the of some

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well known once it's right below Joe Ostein's right below

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The Bible Project, which comes in at number ten. It's

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it's below the Deep End with Lacree. Now the Bible

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in a Year. That's a Catholic podcast, The Bible Year.

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It's currently number two. So and then Girls Gone Bible

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is number one, and I think we've reviewed that one.

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So it's kind of right there. It's a it's a

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philological waste land on the Spotify podcasting app when you

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look at the chart. I mean, the only way to

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fix that is you would have to have Christians who

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care about theology going to the Spotify app and downloading

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and downloading and downloading and downloading and streaming and streaming

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and streaming a podcast they think is really, really really

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good theology, so that it will get up there, because

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in the meantime it's a philological wasteland on there. But

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you got to get Christians to say they're going to

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dedicate time and effort to download and stream, download and

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stream you know, a thiologically sound podcast. And I'm not

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saying anything about me any anyone that you choose, but

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in the mean time it's a it's a thiological wasteland.

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And you said, well, who cares? Well, I know you

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say that, but you don't understand where young people go

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to find theological truth. They go to TikTok, They go

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to podcasting apps. If they have a theological question, they search,

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they look for a podcast, They look for a video

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and TikTok et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They go

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to YouTube they're not calling their local church, they're not

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looking at a systematic theology. But there you have it. Now,

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I don't know how you feel to me, Like I

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just I'm just being just being transparent, Like I would

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love to walk into a room and just feel the

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presence of true evil, like there's true There would be

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no question that demonic power Satan is real, like truly

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be confronted with it. Maybe I may be scared to

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death right, I mean, like mad me get clear, I'm

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not coming and going like oh I'm so brieve. No,

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I'm saying I would be scared to death right, But

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it would be powerful to see it and to witness.

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In other words, it's not theoretical. It's not something I've

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studied and you know, classes on Satan or classes on

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demons or different classes I've taken in seminaries and Bible colleges.

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It would no longer be theoretical, would not be something

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I've written on paper. It would be like confronted with it. Now,

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whether his confrontations were they really demonic? Was it really demonic?

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Was it people really? Were they people just sick? Was

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it did he exaggerate? Were their witnesses? What do people like,

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there's so many questions about each case, right, so be

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skeptical though, go in question, challenge it. But hey, you know,

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if it's late at night you want something, you know,

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to listen to look up the Exorcist Files on your

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favorite podcasting, the Exorcist Files and you should be able

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to to find it and you can tell me what

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you think. All right. We do know biblically that our

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Bibles tell us that Satan is like a rowing line

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roaming about seeking whom he may devour. Our Bible tells

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us that we're in a spiritual war. We have to

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put on the armor of God. We know that. But again,

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it's still so theoretical what the Catholic Church has experienced

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over the last few years with this explosion of supposedly

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demonic possessions, or at least claims of it. What's happening?

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Is it just it's a psychological phenomenon? Is it? People

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having you know what issues like who knows? Who knows?

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What is exactly happy? Why is all of a sudden

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with the non Catholic Christianity You've got this new idea

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The problem with the church is everyone's demonically possessed, right,

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Like and so or is that whole thing about to

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just go away? Right? Was it kind of a fad

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and now we're going to be going on to something

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else I think now, you know, is it more political

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than it is philological? So you can draw your own conclusions.

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All right, thanks for listening to this special late night edition.

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Just remember if you were offended, I gave you every

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warning I possibly could give you. So please don't be offended.

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And well please consider and think, listen, question, challenge, and

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pursue truth. God bless