The Consequences of Making Deals with the Devil

When you make a deal

with the devil,

it's an invitation, and he takes the invitation very

seriously. He comes right in.

One of the worst cases I've ever heard, it was a woman at J- young girl at

Julliard, a violinist, and she was about to

graduate. She was brilliantly talented, but all of her friends were getting job

offers, and she had none. And her friends remember always s-

hearing her

say the words, "I would do anything to be famous." Well,

guess who's

listening? Your angel's listening, but also there's other things in the

room. And it wasn't long after that that she, uh, went to bed one night,

had a dream, and she said in the dream was the most beautiful man she'd

ever seen naked, another sign, calling card of the devil, uh,

and he said,

"Do you really want fame and power?" And she said, "I do." And he

produced a contract,

and he took his finger and slashed her finger and had

her sign it in her blood, and then he touched the contract

and it burst into

flames, and the ashes fell on the floor.

So when you wake up from that dream and you remember it, you might

take a pause and be like, "I don't think that was a good thing."

But what's worse

is her finger was cut and the ashes were next to the bed.

So

she still doesn't say anything.

Not to be the devil's advocate, but I guess to be the devil's advocate,

may- w- could this girl just have been nuts making

it up?

And then-

She could have been.

She could have, yeah.

But you, you have to hear the whole story.

Okay.

So within a couple of weeks she signs this multinational tour, makes

a ton of money, becomes very popular and famous on this

circuit, and within a few years she gets involved

with drugs, goes

to needles, gets HIV. Now she's dying in a New York hospital,

and this whole thing comes back to her of how this started, and she calls her

Filipino mother

and tells her the story. And Mommy calls the chancery,

hysterical. "I need an exorcist right away for my

daughter." So

Jim is the exorcist. He shows up and they tell him the whole

story from the dream forward,

and he says, "Okay, well, that's not good.

You signed a blood covenant with the devil.

So I'm gonna need you to break that with a blood covenant.

So you're gonna write out the whole creed, and then you're gonna sign it in your

blood." Well, the doctor's like, "She has AIDS.

She's not signing anything in blood.

Not gonna happen." And he says, "Well, then you need to step out of the room

'cause

she needs to do this."

And she did do it, and she signed the contract, the,

the creed,

the whole faith in a neat little package,

and she signs it,

and she convulses and flat lines,

dies. So now the doctor comes back and he's really upset.

The mother is out of her mind. They're all blaming the priest.

Hysteria goes on for about 10 minutes, and then all of a sudden she jumps up off

the table.

She's back.

Oh.

And they test her.

No HIV, no AIDS. She's completely healed.

And so she then committed for the rest of her life to only

do music that would honor God and to tell people about the reality of

the devil and

not to make deals with him.