“An Unclean Spirit Met Him”

July 13, 2017

“An Unclean Spirit Met Him”

Blessings folk!

Who is this that even the winds and waves obey Him?

Think on that.

What we call “nature” obeyed the voice of the Lord?

We know much, but experience little, of the power of God.

By His voice…change!
His voice created.
His voice instructs/commands.

We can only imagine the impact upon the men with Jesus.

They were is awe.
They were in fear.
First, fear of the storm…afraid.
Second, fear of He Who calmed the storm…very much afraid.

Read what happens next…

Mar 5:1-4

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

When He got out of the boat,
immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him,

and he had his dwelling among the tombs.
And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

This is the beginning of an intense encounter.
Let’s look at it slowly.

Jesus arrives to the other side of the lake.
Immediately He is confronted.
He is confronted by a man with an “unclean spirit” - a demon.
People in the days of Jesus readily acknowledged the demonic.
Such is not so today - to our detriment.
Demons are real.
They exist.
They are the reason for many things that happen.
We, in our “enlightened, cultured, western society”, choose to not believe.
We are blind.

This was a serious, dangerous situation.
The man could not be subdued.
He had been chained - broken.
He had been shackled - broken.
He now lived in and among the tombs.

No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Now, this man boldly and immediately comes to Jesus…wait until you see all that happens.

For today.
Do you believe?
Do you understand that our battle is not against flesh and blood?

Eph 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.


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