Defeating Beelzebub
“Defeating Beelzebub”
Numbers 25:1-9, Matthew 12:22-27
Pastor Daniel Bracken
May 18, 2022
I. Introduction.
A. Who is Beelzebub?
1. We read that the Jewish religious leaders accused Jesus of driving out demons by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of demons.
2. Beelzebub is derived from the word “Baalzebub,” found in II Kings 1:2.
3. The actual word is Baalzebub.
B. To worship Beelzebub is to worship Baal, the god of the Caananites.
C. Baal worship included gross sexual immorality and child sacrifice.
II. A look at the text.
A. Balaam has been hired to curse ________ by the Moabites and Midianites.
B. God would not allow him to do so. Instead, he gave them ________ on how to have Israel destroyed.
C. A ________ broke out among the Israelites.
D. One of the ________ of this sin boldly brought a Midianite woman to his tent while the people were grieving over their sin and God’s judgment.
E. ________ killed the perpetrators of evil, and his action stopped the plague.
F. God ________ Phinehas because he was zealous for God’s ________.
III. The spirit of Baal affected the New Testament church.
A. Revelation 2:14-16, 20-25
B. Seduction from without and within.
C. Seduction or ________.
IV. Baal is at work today and is affecting us.
A. ________ ________.
B. ________.
C. ________ ________.
V. How do we defeat Beelzebub?
A. Know the truth.
1. Don’t be a ________ block.
2. Be aware that what you may be doing is having fellowship with ________.
3. ________ sexual immorality.
4. Understand ________.
5. God will bring ________.
B. ________.
C. Take a stand for ________.
D. ________ your life.
1. ________ ________ relationships that lead to sin.
2. ________ in God.
3. ________ in church.