Title: People possessed by ghosts
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people possessed by demons
(Mark 5:1-15)
“For Jesus had already said to him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit” (verse 8).
In our daily conversation, we use the spooky word “ghost” a lot. "I heard a ghost," "Let's get rid of it without knowing it", "The ghost is singing a song," "I guess like a ghost," "It's a house where ghosts come out of", "It's a sound like a ghost.
Jesus also spoke about demons.
In Matthew 12, an unclean spirit took seven demons more evil than them and entered the house where he lived and made a mess. In Luke 22:31-32, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan wants to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith will not fail. After you are converted, strengthen your brother."
The Apostle Paul also healed a demon-possessed maidservant in Philippi, the first city of Macedonia in chapter 16 of the March of the Apostle, and in 1 Corinthians 10:20, “For the sacrifices of the Gentiles are offered to demons, and not to God. I don't want to be."
In the Bible, "The Devil" (16 times), "Unclean Spirit" (22 times), "Evil Spirit" (14 times), "Spirit of the Newcomer" (16 times), "Deceived Spirit" (4 times), "Foolish Spirit" (2 times) times) "The Jealous Spirit" (2 times) and the spirit meaning the devil appears 15 times.
Originally, the devil is a creature and a fallen angel. Demons are personal and intelligent, and when they enter a person, they fully express themselves. Demons are servants of the devil, tormenting humans to the fullest and creating misery and despair. Demons destroy personality. It destroys families, destroys churches, destroys peace, destroys faith. So ghosts are dirty. It is dirty, deceitful, babbling, screaming, sickening, harassing, self-harm, and slandering.
In the Bible, among the demons that symbolize excrement, the male is called 'Baal' and the demon that symbolizes the female excrement is called 'Asherah' or 'Astaroth. Because Jesus is good at driving out demons, 'Beelzebub' or 'Beelzebub' built it, but 'Beelzebub' means a dung fly, and 'Beelzebub' means the owner of a dung house.
Guys, it's dirty to see a person possessed by a demon. It smells. They only do dirty things. Because demons are dirty. No matter how holy a person is, if an unclean spirit enters them, they dwell among the tombs and breathe the smell of rotten corpses. This is a characteristic of ghosts.
But in verse 7, “When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down and cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Son of the Most High God, what have you to do with me? that I found out.
Recognizing Jesus first, he wanted to be alone in a place that Jesus did not reach. "I am such a bastard, just leave me alone" means "Do not meddle in what I do."
Today, I am giving these words to you. On April 24, 1988, on the last Sunday of April 24, 1988, there were 13 worship services and 5,000 people were burned, and that day, 1,700 people came to our church for the first time. And today is the Sunday, April 24, six years after that, and it is 'Family Invitation Day'.
When you bring your unbelieving family to you this afternoon, there must have been a lot of rejection. Many of them know more about Jesus than you do. I know it well, but I don't go to church. It shows the characteristics of a ghost as it is.
There is a story like this. One day, Satan's men had a meeting. When the test leader said, "Our activities are so low these days. Please tell us how we can deceive even one person more." One of the pawns said, "Let's say there is no God."
Another demon asked, "Can't we just say that Jesus is not the Son of God?" The captain said, "That's what the whole world knows about the fact that he died and rose again. How can he deny that?" When he said, "How about doing this? We're going to try to trick you into saying, "I'm going to believe" instead of talking about the existence of God and that Jesus is his son. The devil's game is "cha-cha".
Also, in verse 12 and below, there are three kinds of people's petitions. "Send us to the pigs, that they may go in." ② In verse 17, he wanted to depart from that area, which was the supplication of the people of Gerasea. ③ In verse 18, we prayed for the restored person to be with us.
Originally, Jews did not eat pork. Leviticus 11:7 says that pigs are unclean animals because they have split hoofs and are paws, but cannot chew the cud. It is the same for both the cudless pig and the deaf person. Luke 8:31 says, "I begged you not to tell me to go into the abyss, but even the demons hate going to hell.
In verse 13, we see that unclean spirits entered 2,000 pigs, and the pigs possessed by the demons went into the sea and perished, so that the swine owners resented them. If one soul, more precious than the world, can be made whole with 20,000 pigs instead of 2,000 pigs, it must be done. However, it was too much to cause 2,000 animals to die in order to make one person whole. Even if it was a loss, I saw it firmly.
We need to put all our heart and soul into inviting our families. You should not be stingy with material investments to satisfy your spiritual values. Even if there are only one or two losers at today's event, it will be a huge profit and a great success.
Let's see the text. In verse 18, when Jesus got into the boat, he asked the man who had a demon to be with him. The same person in verse 7 afflicted me and begged me to leave, but here in verse 18, he asked me to be with him.
There is something we must point out here. Demon-possessed people hate Jesus. I'm trying to go far. However, those who have gone away from demons and have a sound mind like Jesus. I want to be close. This is the difference. I like to go to the temple, I like to read the Bible, and I want to have fellowship with the saints. I hope you all be like this.
And in verse 19 it says, “Tell your relatives that you have pity on you.” In Mark 1:44, the leper was commanded to be silent, but here he commanded evangelism, and in Luke 8:39, he said, “Tell them all.” It shows that the beginning of evangelism is always the family.
In that sense, I agree positively with children, sensitive youth, or celebrities who suddenly decide to become the Lord's servant without ever thinking about it, or for those who want to become the Lord's servant by studying theology or studying theology after dropping out of college for the first or second time. I don't want to.
Being a servant of the Lord… This is a sense of duty, but it is very dangerous to decide to do the Lord's work without a sense of duty.
Verse 20 says that he preached the gospel of Jesus to the Decapolis. ‘Degapolis’ means ‘ten cities’. Gerasa is one of those ten cities. The person who was healed by Jesus in Gerasa reported it to his relatives as Jesus had said, and gradually spread to 10 cities.
A small seed of the gospel like a mustard seed eventually shows the work of great change like the leaven that swells the inside of the powder. This is the mustard seed movement of the gospel and the Decapolis evangelism movement.
Let's lead the many Gerasa people around us who are possessed by demons to the Lord.
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