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Her sister finally made her sit down in a chair, but
she just sat staring straight ahead like she was in
another world. I kept watching her, but she didn't blink
or even bat an eye. Her eyes were wide open and she
looked like she was in a trance. No matter what went
on around her, she sat there and never moved a muscle
or batted an eye.
The sister said to us, "I asked the head of the
institution, 'Is her condition unusual? Is it peculiar to
my sister that she thinks she's committed the
unpardonable sin?' And he said, 'Oh, no. About ninety
percent of the people in the asylum think they've
committed the unpardonable sin.'" That tells you the
devil has something to do with tormenting people in
this area, telling them that they've committed the
unpardonable sin—the sin unto death.
In this case, this minister had allowed an evil spirit
to get into her soul, and it had convinced her that she
had committed the sin unto death. You see, if you get
sick in your mind through wrong thinking, that opens a
door for the devil to come in. Devils, demons, and evil
spirits have more to do with these things than we
sometimes realize.
I knew that the woman could be sick in her head or
mind, just as someone could be sick in his stomach. If a
person is sick in his stomach, it just means his stomach
isn't working right. If a person is sick in his mind, it
means his mind isn't working right. So I knew this
woman's mind could just be sick. But I also knew that a
demon could have come in and gotten ahold of her
mind, and it could be the cause of her insanity.
The demon didn't possess this woman's spirit; it