Well, both of those of are ridiculous. In pleading the blood of Christ, I don't even understand what that means. Some people will say to me, "Well, boy, we were afraid of demons so we went in this room and pled the blood of Christ in the bedroom, and then we pled the blood of Christ in the dining room--that's ridiculous. You've reduced yourself to magical formulas. You're acting like a witch or a warlock. You're reducing things to a formula. You don't need to beg the blood of Christ into your house. If you're a Christian, [then] the blood of Christ has covered your sin in your life. You know, going around and saying, "I plead the blood of Christ," you know, that little verbosity, those words coming out of your mouth have zero effect on Satan. They don't have any effect on him. What has an effect on what he does is your own holiness--right? Or the practical righteousness of your life, your salvation. Saying that doesn't mean anything.

So the idea of running around and pleading the blood here, there, and everywhere is ridiculous. People get into conflict with demons and they think they've got it all figured out and they forget that demons are so much more intelligent than they are; that they're dealing with demons who are infinitely wiser than they are, and who are liars, you know. So you can't believe anything they say. There are even demons that claim to have the name Jesus. So the idea that you can go around and say little formulas and clean Satan out of your house or demons is ridiculous. The way to eliminate them is simply by having a pure life and confessing sin before God and that takes care of it. So the idea of pleading the blood is not even a biblical concept. The blood of Christ has already been pled in your behalf and it's washed away your sins and made you a child of God and you're cleansed forever. There's nothing left to plead.