It is not a matter of repeating the word “blood “over and over or of the phrase “I plead the blood“. Rather give testimony of what the blood does for the believer.“ this passage sounds like it came out of a book about Satan more than a book about Jesus. However, PIGS IN THE PARLOR is one of the worst Christian books I have ever read. Hammond teaches that *everyone,* including every Christian, has at least one demon and should seek to be delivered from it . In the Gospels, though, no one who had a demon ever approached Jesus and requested deliverance. No one! Loved ones had to bring the demoniacs to Jesus because they had no control over their bodies. It broke down all of the fake belief systems and church cliches and gave me real doctrine and scripture to explain deliverance and poke holes in my assumptions. I believed deliverance was something you were forced into and somebody lays you out and demons come out but - NOT SO!!!! So much more goes into it and this book gave me the tools I need in 2019 and this was first written in 1970s like whaaa!?!?!

The book seems somewhat self-aware, pretty much blaming negativity or bad emotions on demons and calling them such. It will make a cliché Bible passages that have really nothing to do with the paragraphs being discussed. I want to say that the authors are aiming to help people but they’re going about it all wrong with a kind of holier-than-thou mentality. Hammond implies that most demons enter a person before birth or during infancy (117). Most adopted children “will have spirits of rejection” (118). A child’s stuffed toy frog had to go because it could attract demons (142). (Sorry, Kermit!) I won’t go into details of all that Hammond writes as really they model the how to quite simply on Jesus way of doing it – such as this example as referred to above from Mark’s Gospel, Chapter 1:I will say this cover is absolutely gorgeous and should be something akin to animal farm but alas it’s not. Being advised to speak out loud to your demons, for example if the demon says 'so and so doesn't like you' then you are to admonish it out loud by saying 'You are a liar demon, do not say that about my friend, I am protected by the blood of Jesus' Hammond taught that ethical issues such as resentment and gossiping – together with issues such as compulsive eating, forgetfulness, sexual problems, and mental illness – may be caused by demons requiring deliverance ministry, and that such individuals may require such deliverance. [1] [2] [3] He and his wife Ida Mae have been called "perhaps the most influential practitioners of deliverance ministry." [2] Their 1973 book Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance is one of the most influential on the topic, [2] [3] and has sold over a million copies. [1] Jesus taught us to love our enemies. It heaps coals of fire upon their heads. That is, it purifies their minds.” These people sound scary, almost as scary as an autonomous woman or gay immigrant. Amiright (dadumtiss) Here is the clear example of how Christians, who have been born again and received Holy Spirit, can be tempted into receiving a false spirit - a demon.

My last post about ‘Healing the Family Tree’ touched on the topic of ‘deliverance’ in the context of the Eucharist – otherwise known as the Holy Communion service. From what I have read so far about healing and deliverance (as a total amateur on all of this by the way who isn’t really even in a position to practise any of the stuff I read except maybe on myself) the administration and receipt of deliverance through the Eucharist is apparently a minority method of receiving ‘deliverance’. Most other stuff I have found to read so far on the topic describes a different method which does not use the Eucharist. This method is modelled on what is found in the New Testament – especially the Gospel accounts of Jesus life and ministry, where we see descriptions of how Jesus ‘did’ deliverance on people in need of it, who he met. All Jesus did was to speak words of command much of the time and it was recorded that the demons simply obeyed him and come out of the people concerned – all be it with sometimes a last act of anger such as throwing the person being delivered to the ground. See Luke to 4: 34 to 37 for one example. There are plenty of others in the Gospels and Jesus is also recorded as giving authority to his followers (his disciples) to do the same – see Luke 9:1. The first argument to be considered is this one: ‘Christians can’t have a demon ‘in them’ because they have the Holy Spirit in them. You can’t have both in a person at the same time’. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. Demons return when they are cast out of unbelievers: Jesus clearly warned us that if we cast demons out of unbelievers, they are bound to return, each spirit bringing 7 even worse spirits with it (Matthew 12:43-45).

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Anyway these tormenting spirits caused the baby to cry incessantly until he was held by the authors wife who delivered him from these demons I would suggest steering far away from this kind of literature that gives our defeated enemy way too much credit for what can be explained by human depravity. This book doesn’t provide deliverance from anything, for the book itself IS bondage Deliverance is for those who are in covenant with God: In Matthew 15:26, Jesus tells a non-Jewish woman who was seeking deliverance for her daughter, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." Obviously the context of this verse tells us that He wasn't speaking of physical children, but spiritual children. I also believe Jesus made it clear in this verse that it is not fit to cast deliverance before those who are outside covenant with God. Paul speaks here about people who, through yielding to the influence of demons, “depart from their faith”. Obviously they could not depart from their faith unless they had been in the faith. As Christians they had apparently opened themselves up to deceiving demons and consequently turned away from their faith in Christ. This book contains a wealth of practical information for the person interested in, planning to engage in, or actively engaged in the ministry of deliverance.

This issue is written about in the New Testament quite a lot, and many Christians would assert that the New Testament is part of God’s ‘Word’ which is the contents of the Holy Bible. So do most churches in the developed and wider world today still teach demons are real? Not where I’ve been living that’s for sure. Your average evangelical Christian would say all of the Bible is true I’m sure – but you won’t find ‘deliverance’ being practiced as is written about in ‘Pigs in The Parlour’, which claims follows Jesus model of deliverance and teaching on the subject. Hammond's books helped to transfer the ideas of deliverance ministry into the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, in particular the concept of demonic influence short of the demonic possession that requires exorcism by a priest. [4] Personal [ edit ] What an absolute load of nonsense that was, I've read a few books on this subject and whilst I don't necessarily believe it I find it extremely interesting and love reading about it. Paul said” Let us clean ourselves”. God will not do the cleansing for us. We are responsible to do it ourselves. I have read some other stuff on deliverance and am still studying it gradually – all be it in a slightly wary way. There does seem to be some variation in details of the ‘how to do it’ and when and why you do it – oh yes and where to do – it if a place seems to need deliverance rather than a person. Yes, if you’ve heard those old stories of haunted places needing a visit by a priest to clear out a ghost or similar creepy spiritual problem it seems some people are still practising this kind of deliverance – usually calling it exorcism – from what I can gather.

Since it has already been shown that demon spirits are able to gain entrance to a fetus and to children.” Where? Where in the world is that a proven statement?? As this world gets crazier and more evil, my prayer is that we tap into, that we fully embrace, all that Jesus has given us to fight, to endure, to stand firm, and to be a warrior that He can send out for battle. I pray you reflect on His Word and His promises and how it can be lived out through you and your circumstances. Through all that I’ve learned from books like Pigs in the Parlor, friends like Jeannette, and other resources throughout this season, my faith and confidence in Him has grown exponentially. I’ve been stretched in more ways than I ever could imagine, yet I’m truly thankful and actually do consider it all joy. I’m so grateful too, that my kids were able to see this at a young age so that they can be better equipped for the battles that lie ahead for them — and as we know, there will be many. A practical point also made is that deliverance allows Christians to then be much freer to ‘move in the Spiritual gifts’ as referred to in 1 Corinthians 12. Part of the devils plan it seems is to make people A. suffer (and maybe die early) and B. be unable to work effectively with those Spiritual gifts or to feel the full joy of faith in Jesus if they’re Christians. Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!”* [26] The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.*

I read this book many years ago, it was an assignment I had in a class about demon-possession and spiritual deliverance ministry. It is a book I will keep all my life and over the years have used it many, many times to help people who struggle with religious issues and strongholds in their Christian walk. Hammond quotes scripture quite a lot and seems in no doubt about what he is teaching through this book. He even makes a large – but he says incomplete – list of all the demons he has encountered in his ministry – which is a lot of types, and explains that there is the potential to get a demon of just about anything! I don’t know what to think about that last assertion or how Biblical it is. Would you trust self-appointed exorcists or healers to baptise you, to marry you ? With exorcism, they take advantage of the stress of the situation .They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.* [22] The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.* [23] Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil* spirit cried out, [24] “What do you want with us,* Jesus of Nazareth?* Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”*