Monday, May 18, 2009

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

So if your reading this and you do not know me i have only been saved for about 5 months now and my walk with Christ has been going a lot of different ways but has brought me closer to Him. I'm starting to become familiar with the Bible and the stories inside.





One story that really comes to my mined is when Jesus came to the country of the Gadarenes. As he came around there were 2 demon possessed men that let nobody pass them. They cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” Well close by there was a herd of pigs and the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” Now we have to keep in mind that the demons knew who Jesus was but they wanted to test Him. All Jesus had to say was "GO". The demons then went into all of these pigs and all the demon possessed pigs then ran in the same direction off of the cliff into the water. The farmers then ran into town to tell everyone what they had seen and when they saw Jesus they begged him to leave the region.


This story really stood out to me and there are mainly 3 different reasons.
The first one is the power of God. "GO". GO? One single word casted out the demons. It really makes you think how powerful our God truly is. He Saved me from such a horrible past and is involved with every single thing that i do, that you do, that this whole world is involved in yet we all sin and he forgives us.

The second is possession. The young men were possessed with this demon characteristics yet they still knew who Jesus was and knew the power of what he could do yet they still insisted in testing him. Swine always ran their own ways and usually never ran together yet when Jesus casted them into the pigs they all ran in the same direction off of the cliff into the ocean killing themselves. Even demon possessed cannot beat the Power or God.

The third one is gunna be the perspective of the people. When the farmer saw hwt had happened to the men and his pigs he hurried to go tell the town what he just had witnesses. Well when the whole town had come to see Jesus they they told him to leave the region. I think it just shows us that when God performs something and we dont see it we dont really wanna believe it but if you look in Matthew 9:8 Jesus performed another miracle to in such a way to show his authority to men.

The reason this story catches me is because when Jesus performs a miracle he follows it with something else to show the people who he really is. In chapter 8 he dosnt just cast out the demons but he follows it by casting them into the swine and sent them off the cliff and in chapter 9 he goes up to a paralyzed man and tells him his sins are forgiven. Well the men said to themselves that this fellow is blasphemes, now Jesus knew they were thinking evil in their hearts and said "is it easier to say 'your sins are forgivin' or to say 'get up and walk'? So Proving himself he told the man his sins are forgivin and to follow it he told the man to pick up his bead and to go home. How thankful i am for God saving me from such a horrible past, knowing the power of God i want to walk the path of Christ and glorify him in everything i do because of the day God hung his son on that tree to take away all of our sins. How thankful i am! Praise God!

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