Must We Cast Out Demons “in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth Who Came in the Flesh?”

I’m sure that works, but you can just cast them out in the name of Jesus or the name of Jesus Christ and get the same results with less speaking.

However, people who use this whole phrase probably went to a certain Special Weird Deliverance Seminar where people are taught to glorify the devil and demons with 100 hours of unbiblical teaching that just puts people into bondage while puffing their heads, making them think that they are now some kind of super-qualified deliverance experts with their notebooks full of silly ideas.

If you want to be a deliverance expert, know this: Demons have to leave when you command them to leave in the name of Jesus.  There, I just spared you the “need” to go for 100 hours of nonsense in order to cast out demons.

What flabbergasted me was that none of the material being taught at the Special Weird Deliverance Seminar (not its actual name) was in the Bible.  I pointed that out to an attendee when she started telling me some wonderful “truths” she learned.  She told me to my dismay that the first thing you’re told in that seminar is that what was being presented isn’t in the Bible.  That’s why you have to go to the Special Weird Deliverance Seminar – the information isn’t available anywhere else!  Now anyone with any sense would have bolted out the door immediately, especially if he realized that 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says that the Word thoroughly furnishes you unto ALL good works, which includes deliverance.  It’s nice to have someone explain to you what the Word says, but you do not need special training BEYOND the Word – according to the Word itself!  (What on earth did people do for a couple millennia before Special Weird Deliverance Seminars showed up?)

Anyway, the ridiculous logic goes something like this, at least as this attendee understood it:

1.       Some demons go by the name Jesus just like some Spanish people do.  So you have to specify Jesus Christ.

2.       Some demon got clever and decided to call himself Jesus Christ, so you have to specify that this Jesus Christ is the one from Nazareth.

3.       Some demon got even cleverer and called itself Jesus Christ and moved to Nazareth so that it would be Jesus Christ of Nazareth, so you have to specify that you mean Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh – which no demon would ever acknowledge.

However, there was no hair-splitting in the Bible when Paul simply said, “I command you to leave her in the name of Jesus Christ!” (Acts 16:18).  It left.  So I’ll stick with the Bible.  I’ve cast out enough demons over the years in the name of Jesus to know that His name (without embellishments) makes every knee bow (Philippians 2:9-11).