WHEN
PIGS ARE WISER
Memorise:
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying,
and cutting himself with stones. Mark 5:5
Read: 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,the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
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
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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.
Action
point
Ask
God to deliver anyone under the manipulative influence of demons in your local
church.
Reference:
from open Heavens daily with Pastor E.A. Adeboye
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