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
1 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.
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 for to steal, and
to kill, and to destroy:" All over the world today, demons of addiction
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 addiction is to destroy their bodies. In
the same manner, these spirits get people into drinking alcohol, and before
long, they become alcoholics. The operations ofthe 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.
1 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 influenceof demons in your local church.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR :
LEVITICUS 8-9 and 1 CORINTHIANS
6:12-7:16
AUTHOR : Pastor Enoch
Adejare ADEBOYE
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