Who R U really meeting Daily? Ep 3227

Do you have any gracious gods? We come before your holy presence, we ask your forgiveness,

but each and every known sin be at worst thoughts or actions in our lives.

And we thank you for what Jesus Christ has crossed the Calvary.

We ask you allow your Holy Spirit to take today's message,

make it clear to the believer of the household of faith.

In Jesus' name we ask you and thank you, amen.

Welcome back to Challenges of Faith for Radio Program.

You know, only daily basis, you really don't know who you're meeting out there in the real world.

You know what's true? Before the believer of the household of faith, I hope today's message kind of

reawaking you, if it doesn't awaken you at all.

In the Word of God, it says, and they arrived at the country of gatherings,

which is over Galilee and when he went forth to land and met him out of the city of certain man,

which had devils long time and were no clothes, neither abode in any house but in the tombs.

When he saw Jesus with a loud voice said, he cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice

said, whatever I do with the Jesus, the Son of God most high.

I beseech thee, torn at me not, so he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man

for oftentimes it had caught him and he was kept bound with chains and infeaders

and he break the bans and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.

And Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name?

And he said, Legion, because many devils ran into him and they've sought him that he would not

command him to go out into the deep and there was their herd of many swine feeding on the mountain

and they've sought him that he would suffer them to enter into them and he suffered them.

They met the devils out of the man and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down the

steep place into the lake and were choked. When they that fed them saw what was done,

they fled and went and told it in the city and in the country. Then he went out to see what was

done and came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were departing sitting at the

feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid. They also was sawed

by what means he that was possessed if the devils was healed. Then the whole multitude of the

country the gatherings round about, he sought him to depart from them for they were taken with great

fear and when he went up into the ship and returned again, now the man out of whom the devils were

departing, he saw him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away saying return to thine

own house and show how great things God had done unto thee and he went his way and published

throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him and it came to pass that when

Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him for they were all waiting for him. You can find

it in Luke chapter 8 verse 26, Luke 40, I know you wrote it down and when you read it you notice how

this is one of the many scriptures which brings out our blessed Lord before us, especially

on his victorious, a victor with that satanic power. There are a lot of people today and maybe

they should have tuned in our backs and now who refused to accept the Bible's teaching as to the

personality of Satan in his house. There are a lot of people that think of the devils simply

and you know it's true, the personification of evil, but you notice how the word of God shows you

and I clearly that he was now the devil's one time with pure spirit and holding angel and tenet

on the throne of God. Do you remember? Do you remember he fell through pride? Our Savior, the Lord

Jesus Christ says of him, he had bowed not in the truth. So it's evident that many of the angels

were involved in his rebellion and I now leave with him, especially in his opposition to God,

our Savior and Christ followers, you are one or you're not. And you got to remember there's only one

devil, there are many demons and when you see the plural form devils it's always youth in a new

testament records and you got to keep in mind should always be understood as referring to demons

because there's a translation of the Greek word which means just that rather than devils.

Do you notice in our Lord's earthly ministry how did he frequently met people who were under

a demonical possession? Do you notice that? My brother, I was sort of a you and I might not be able

to understand fully what was involved in this power of a man and women and women and men,

but we know that our Lord was always victorious over it and hearing these scripture passages that

you heard me just read. Here we learned that when Jesus had arrived at the country of the

gatherings which is over in Galilee a man many moves dwelling was in the tombs think about in the

graveyard and he was possessed with not one but many demons and you got to remember as you

stayed to read word apply to word how to gather it itself with a forbidding country it was outside

the land of Cane unproper and it was inhabited by mixed population because many of the Jewish

individuals who engaged in customs they were repellent to the more orthodox, some of them even

raising and selling swine. Look at the condition of this possessed creature because Luke was telling

you and I that he had devils or demons a long time and he wore no clothes neither bowed in any

house but in the tombs. Look around the day in your country, your country, your country and mine.

Here you got a picture of fallen man under absolute satanic control and keep in mind again and

again his friends had tried to restrain him from the pyre that had imprisoned and bound him,

but by superhuman pyre you know how he snapped his shackles of Sunday and flared from the ordinary

dwelling places of men and found a refuge for himself among the dead in the tombs do you notice that?

And you got to think about it even if your own life if it's a current it's a terrible thing when

Satan gets such control of a man or one woman of man that they're no longer amenable to respect

the ability even decent restraint and when evil habits so dominate and control that one is

outside the ordinary law of bunning circumstances yet you got to remember how many are thus subject to

sin and Satan. In fact I was a little afraid we don't know what way the demons fully control and

how they gain control of this man but it's clear to some time or other in this early life he had

opened a door to them maybe by persistence and sands that the law of God condemned and maybe that's

the way in your life but as a result he was the slave to these evil spirits and it lost a part

of controlling himself and he noticed how his friends couldn't do anything with him. Think

about it if his parents was living you know their hearts must have been broken they just saw him in

this hopeless condition and maybe you as a loving parent or parents or mentor or grandparent

whoever you happen to be and you're seeing your child your grandchild or the person that you love

in this condition but you notice that that finally the day it came when he was brought into

contact with our bless the Lord himself and then you notice everything was changed just like in

your own life our savior was the only one who can help him and he noticed he was there for that very

reason because it's evidence that the demons within him recognized the Lord at once because the

word lets us know that when this man saw Jesus he cried out and fell down before and with the

loud voice said whatever I did do with Jesus our son of God most high I besieged the torment me

you notice how the demon was speaking to him and lips did this unholy fallen spirit new exactly

or savior was he recognized in Jesus the son of God who showed yet sin on the throne of judgment

and already in fear the hour had come when he was to be cast into the lake of fire

always tell believers of the household of faith when you go in any run those individuals don't know

the Lord you're serving where there may be demonic forces they know who you are the question is do

you know who you are think about the demons all believe that our savior was the Christ it was

only unrepentant men and women men and women women and men who questioned this

saying himself knew that Jesus was the son of God the only savior the only persons in the

universe who dared to deny that Jesus is the son of God our Christless men and women and women

and men who are yet the objects of his favor and though demons acknowledge that Jesus is the

son of God he knows that they're not entitled to finding him a savior for themselves

do you notice how the demon in this man recognized Christ as the judge and pleaded for an extension

of time areas doomed would be consummated do you notice that do you also notice that our

savior didn't really answer his question but put another question to this vile spirit what is

thy name he demanded and you notice how the answer came legion because we're told many demons were

entered into him and you already know if you've already studied that a Roman legion was ordinarily

made above about six thousand men and maybe we don't need to take legion here literally

but any rated indicates that a vast number of demons that enter to this man think about it he himself

was unable to reply personally because he was so completely under their control and you know

when you think about it was seemed that these demons or disembodied spheres yearned to come

into positions of the bodies of men and women and women and men in order that they may stir them

up into unlawfully and dreadful passions which was called them to insult the God who created them

do you notice that do you notice when the Lord Jesus Christ commanded the legion to leave the

body demanded they begged to be allowed to take possessions of the bodies of a herd of swine which

was feeding their body and do you notice that the Lord gave consent permission do you notice when

you keep reading the story understanding the story applying the story if it's applicable expelled

from the man they entered into the swine and you notice the powerful result that the herd ran

violently down the steep place into the lake and were choked you know it's interesting

you see the gear was essentially well what's interesting is simple man women women and men's ability

for evil look around today but here you got two thousand pigs couldn't hold the demons

there possessed one man and instead of this powerful evidence of the Lord's power over Satan's

kingdom making an impression for good upon the hearts of those who saw what was done the word

lesses know that they fled and he went in and told him to sit in the country and he related to

their fellow men the story the loss of the swine as well as the deliverance of the demi-on and

think about how trouble they were the word lesses know that they were so troubled that the

people by the financial setback involved that after they had come out to see what was done

it said we're told that they came to see Jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were

departed sitting at the feet of Jesus cloth and in his right mind and they were afraid

what then did they follow this feat confessing their own sins and seeking deliverance through them now

as you read the story but what they did was the opposite they beside Jesus to lead their country

and sorry if you really think about we may be sure that he exceeded to their requests Luke says

not your pastor you a mob rat by priest to human teacher Luke says then the whole multitude of the

country the gatherings round about they sought him to depart from them for they were taken with great

fear and he went up into the ship and returned back again you notice how Jesus never remains with

people who don't want him the question is do you want him here you got men and women and women

are permitted to such circumstances whether they receive him or not but you notice though he left

these gatherings at that particular time did you and I can be thankful to the Lord that the day

did come when he returned to the same country and found a wonderful welcome do you notice it was

brought about in this way that the delivered man was so happy over the great change that had

come into his life that he pleaded with the Lord Jesus that he might be with them as I stop and

take a sip of water do you notice that and the question in your own life are you happy about the

change the great change that's come into your life since you accept the Christ as you save him

think about this man would have joined the company of the apostles and gone to the Savior from

place to place because you can tell evidently his heart was so filled with the love and gratitude

because of his miraculous deliverance that he wanted to remain as near as redeemer as he could

but our Savior had something else in mind for him instead of taking him away from him he said to

the man returned to that own house and show how great these God have done unto them

or better than I sort of faith do you remember who's died for you do you remember who changed

you no man or woman or man changed you your employer didn't change you the political leader didn't

change you the law enforcement person didn't change you the sociology person the medical person

did that's a case no person you name him do you remember who changed you think about this man

who had been a gravy maniac a short while while think about now he's a reasonable that the

people listening him with amazing because he became an evangelist like you your life tells the

story and why he was evangelizing he went to it all that reason telling the thrones of what Jesus

had done for him think about he went from village to village the story was carried

and as a result you and I are learning to learn when Jesus came back to that district known as

the capitalist you notice how the mortitudes thrown the medium and their entire attitude was changed

you notice how they didn't want him before do you notice that do you notice how they were too

occupied with the loss of the swine with other evil things which kept them from opening their

hearts to him now bring them household of faith for those of you who don't know him who died for you

was keeping you from opening your hearts to him because you see now how they were glad to see him

so glad they brought out their sick and great numbers and in loving kindness guess what he healed

them all think about the result of the faithful testimony of one man maybe that's you

there was set free from Satan's power by Christ the Lord think about it remember it my brother

and the household of faith and those of you who don't know him who died for you