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Yes. Yeah. The devil's eyes is always. No, but we, you know, the demon has no rights to us. If you're baptized by right, your soul belongs to God, belongs to God the Father. It belongs through Jesus Christ. Right. Water and spirit regenerated. You belong to God now. But we offer him permissions and we have to undo those permissions. And sometimes goes back to the original question that there's. Sometimes there's a temporal punishment for that. There's penance that needs to be done. Too many people go through these. There's people that come out of the occult, come out of Satanism, and suddenly they want a podcast. I want to be the next Sean Ryan. I don't know, maybe you should spend some time in prayer and penance. Spend some time doing penance for that. Pray in reparation, preparation for, for the sins you committed. And so I'm not judging people because we're all sinners, but there is a time for that. But yeah, when you try to get, when you get out of that, I think you have. Sometimes it's written, but I think largely it's something spoken. It's something spoken. But when you try to get out, that's when you get hit. And it's kind of like, you know, it's when that movement of conversion and that's when the demon says, you're not getting out. So whether it's a spiritual affliction, you're going to suffer constant, you know, the demon is just going to pound you down like a, like a, if you really understand the interplay between the Fallen angel and the fallen human. Look at the relationship between, like an abusive couple, you know, an abusive relationship. By the time the lady, the cops show up, you know, the house is a mess. And, you know, he's got scratch on his face, she's got a black eye, and she says, don't take him away. I love him. It was my fault. So you got to get to that. So, and then what happens? And then the guy comes back and beats the crap out of her just to keep her in submission. So she tries to get out, he beats her up again and she drops. So the same thing. The demon does the same thing. We try to get out, we make our movement back to God. God. You know, I had a lady, she left a. She's a sister of a good friend of mine. And she had just drifted, you know, like, like, like. Like many people, she drifted and was suffering movements to conversion, but suffering even worse. And she finally just cried out, lord, when are you going to come for this lost sheep? And in that humility, I couldn't. I got a PhD, a master's degree. I got a pretty good handle. Greek and Latin. I couldn't have written a better prayer. When are you going to come for this lost sheep? And she has been flooded with graces, flooded with graces. So we always, always have the de profundis privilege. Psalm 130. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Lord. And so that's why it's a foot race to the end. The demon's going to try to try to keep you away from making that conversion, but he can't. Ultimately, even possession, liberation from possession is self liberation. Even if you need an exorcist, a little assistance from the church, you have to be the active agency in your own liberation. So that crying out to God and have mercy on me, a sinner. That's part of our protocol, praying, you know, have mercy on me, a sinner. So, yeah, it can. You can sell your soul, but you can have it back. But isn't again, you talk about the old gods. So I remember I studied Latin in high school, right? And we were reading about the old myths of the ancient worlds. And at that time, the great, that great singer Charlie Daniels was out, you know, and that song, the Devil Went down to Georgia. And so our Latin teacher, he was a great man, Vietnam veteran, tough guy. He said, you know, this is nothing new, selling your soul for musical talent. This challenge of the devil. He tells us the story of. We might even have translated. I don't remember now, there was a minotaur who found a discarded flute that one of the gods had dropped. And he challenges the God of music to. To which is Apollo, to, you know, a battle. Who can play, to try to. And the winner could name the prize, right? And so he. He loses to Apollo. And Apollo, for his punishment, flays him alive. I thought, and I was just thinking about that on this. This topic, and I. And I started thinking about. Now, this is. Again, this is just my. My speculation on this one. Okay. But I was thinking about the apostle Bartholomew. We have one apostle, one of the apostles, Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive in Armenia. So I looked up who was the principal, and he converted the king of Armenia, who was the principal deity of Armenia at the time of Bartholomew. And it was. I think the demon's name was Tyr, who was their version of Apollo. He was also the God of music, and he flayed him alive. That was his martyrdom. Maybe it's a coincidence, you know, Maybe it's a coincidence.
