WHEN PIGS ARE WISER
Verse to Memorise: And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. Mark 5:5
Bible Reading: Mark 5:1-13,
5 And they came over unto
the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
2 And
when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a
man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Bible in one year: Leviticus 8-9, 1st Corinthians 6:12-7:16
MESSAGE:-
It is great to
experience deliverance from demons, but it is better to never be repossessed by
them after being delivered. A better option than these is not to have being
possessed by demons at all. If you have never been possessed by demons all your
life, you do not know what God has done for you. These two things are common to
all those who have been possessed before: they suffered great losses and went
through hell. Take for instance the Gadarene demoniac in our Bible reading:
what he would never do to himself in his right senses, he did while demons were
inside him. He cut his body with sharp stones, bled and felt the pain, and yet
he compulsively repeated this often. In other words, the demons in him told him
to hurt his own body as if it was the body of an enemy, and he obeyed even
though he felt the pain. The demons tried to use him to destroy himself. Do you
know that even today, demonic spirits still compel their victims to destroy
themselves? We should not be surprised of this, as Jesus in John 10:10a already
revealed their mission to us:
“The
thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:”
All over the
world today, demons of addition gradually lure people into taking degenerative
substances such as cocaine, heroin, Indian hemp, cigarettes, tobacco powder
(snuff), etc. After a while, such people discover that they are unable to break
away from these substances. The aim of these demonic spirits of addition is to
destroy their bodies. In the same manner, these spirits get people into
drinking alcohol, and before long, they become alcoholics. The operations of
the demons of lust follow the same pattern. They get their victims into
immorality, sodomy, lesbianism, and other sexual sins, so as to make them
destroy themselves. 1st Corinthians 6:19
says:
“What?
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
The objective
of these demons is to make their victims destroy their bodies to the extent
that the Holy Spirit will not come near it, not to talk of entering in.
unfortunately, do you know that some people are happy to harbour demons because
of certain benefits they derive from them; for example, practitioners of
witchcraft? The pigs that were at the receiving end of the demons cast out of
the Gadarene demoniac were more sensible than such people. They preferred to drown
rather than to allow demons inhabit them. Are you as wise as these pigs? If you
have any spirit other than the Holy Spirit inside you, you need help through
deliverance.
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