“As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.” Luke 9:42 HCSB
Why does it seem like so many of the evil spirits throw their people in convulsions at the command to leave the person?
“What do You have to do with us, Jesus — Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are — the Holy One of God! ” But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet, and come out of him! ” And the unclean spirit convulsed him, shouted with a loud voice, and came out of him.”
Mark 1:24-26 HCSB
It is because they are trying to hang on but at the words of Jesus, they must let go and leave! One set of demons had the opportunity to barter with Jesus. instead of leaving and go to dry and waterless places, they insisted on going into a herd of pigs. This ended up bring the whole town to Jesus to kick him out, but Jesus left the man to tell about his encounter with Jesus.
“The demons begged Him, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”
The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed by the legion, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Then they began to beg Him to leave their region. He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging Him to be with Him. But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.” So he went out and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and they were all amazed.”
Mark 5:12, 14-15, 17-20 HCSB
I often wonder what Jesus would have found if he went back to that place. I wonder if the story would sound like this:
“As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Him. They hurried throughout that vicinity and began to carry the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was. Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel of His robe. And everyone who touched it was made well.”
Mark 6:54-56 HCSB
What is in our lives trembles when we get in the proximity of Jesus? Do we try to hang on to it or do we let Jesus take it from us to better our lives? do we open our arms and let go or do we clamp down and keep it for ourselves.
“Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 HCSB
“Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
Romans 12:1-2 HCSB
“What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?”
Romans 6:1-2 HCSB
The Holy Spirit lives in us and when we willfully commit sin it causes tension in us between the Holy Spirit and our spirit. We then have to go back to God to tell Him what we have done wrong and determine to not do that again by the power of God. When we do that we experience liberating freedom to live for Jesus.
When sin is left to remain and in not confessed it grows until it kills us spiritually and ultimately physically.
“Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?”
Romans 6:16 HCSB
Rather deal with your sin with God and He would bring life back into your life.
“A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.”
John 10:10 HCSB
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