In Mark 5:1-17 we have before us the event in the life of Christ on earth that changed a mans life forever. There was a man in the region of the Gadarenes that was full of evil and wicked spirits called demons. He was seriously possessed. This man from the country of the Gadarenes had a Legion of evils spirits inside him. Meaning between 4000 to 6000 in numbers.
Can you imagine how crowded and tormented this man was on the inside of himself in the regions of his soul? (Men are far heavenly bigger, deeper, lengthier, wider and higher in their inside territories, on the inside of their being in their created in them heavenly places than they can naturally understand.) The whole creation of heaven and earth is a fragmented measure or portion of How Big God Is On The Inside Of His Eternal Spirit. God's inside spiritual heavenly depths, heights, lengths, and widths are deep and wide and lengthy and exceedingly high beyond measure. They are all together infinite. FOR IN HIM ALL THINGS MOVE, LIVE AND HAVE THEIR BEING AND EXISTENCE.
(Something extra here)....If men were to travel to the outer realms of the Universe or back to the trace of the GREAT BEGINNING of the Creation, God that was then is still there now and His presence ever shall be in all the places His Words Still Exist until they are erased and dissolved by another OVER RIDING REPLACING SPOKEN WORD OF GOD. For His Word makes for Him His Spread both new and old. His Word governs all Movements and Steps and Reach and without His Word there is NO GOD MOVEMENTS or PRESENCE OF GOD. Even all recoveries, all restorations and salvation's follow His Words. Even so does the damned in bottomless pits.
God never roams beyond His Word whether by Law of behavior, or beyond His mercies reach, or by fellowship, and the filling of His Presence and Spirit. God is so Gigantically big on the inside of Himself that He needed to spread out all the territories of all the Heavens and the Universe to feel NOT CROWDED. This can be understood by His Spirit that reveals and teaches us ALL THINGS, even the DEEP THINGS OF GOD....Now back to the lesson at hand.
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When Jesus came on to the scene of where this man with all those 6000 demons INDWELT in his inside heavenly territories that Satan took over, there are revelations to be learned and noticed in this scene of life, truth, deliverance, and grace. One is we can see that even though Jesus Christ our Lord, the Son of God, the Lord from heaven by whom God created all things. Even though Jesus was given the Spirit of God WITHOUT MEASURE (John 3:34), did you notice that this MASSIVE ANOINTING ITSELF did not keep the demons back from trying to challenge or withstand the Lord and His will. Matter of fact verse 6 reveals to us that instead of those 6000 demons running from Jesus to another place and time, scared out of their wits, they RAN UP TO JESUS talking back to him resistantly.
This truth mentioned above, this revelation blows out of the water the idea that one can be so full of God that Satan freaks out and runs the other way or keeps back from resisting us, or challenging us, or talking back to us. Sorry, that lie that we have in the past believed is not scriptural. Jesus had the GREATEST ANOINTING AND THE GREATEST PRESENCE OF GOD and the bible clearly tells us in these read scriptures above and in Matthew 4:1-11 that the devil came to Jesus, tempted and tested Jesus. Spoke to him even face to face, spirit to Spirit, will to will, desire against desire.
Matter of fact, going further into the light of this, In verse 8 of Matthew 4 we find that Jesus who had the Spirit, the Anointing of the Spirit of God WITHOUT MEASURE, that the devil took JESUS. He literally laid holt of him and took him up to an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Well this reveals to us the close contact we have in the wrestling's we have with the host of darkness and wicked spirits.
Wrestling is the word Paul used in Ephesians 6 because he knew the close contact of spiritual warfare and spiritual wrestling's. Jesus wrestled with Satan so to speak in those temptations BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JESUS and many of us is JESUS REALLY RESISTED THE DEVIL AND DID NOT ENTERTAIN THE SINFUL THOUGHTS TO BEND UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE TEST, OF THE TEMPTATION. Jesus cast Satan out and not the other way around as we read in Acts 19:13-18). Woe to anyone or to any Nations that loses it's real bible faith and trust in God and in the Name of Jesus Christ His Risen Son, who died for our sins and rose again for our justification by faith in His Blood.
We have to often instead of REALLY RESISTING THE DEVIL to the point to where he really FLEES FROM US, we instead gave into his biddings and desires and lust and wanting and joined his desire for us and SINNED and SINNED and SINNED AND GAVE HIM MORE PLACE IN OUR LIVES and even in our Nation (Hello). But blessed are those who resist the devil properly and submit themselves to God. Resist the devil with faith and submissions to God and the bible says then he will flee from you. Those that successfully do resist the devil, THEY KNOW and taste graces, blessings, highs, joys, Anointings of gladness that many other believers who resisted not Satan, have never yet tasted or known. (Hebrews 1:9).
Another thing we can learn from this light is that we as believing believers, we must command the devil to listen and obey us. Just Jesus being Jesus did not in itself whip the devil. Jesus by the Spirit of God had to boss Satan around with His Highest Ranking Authority and Power in faith filled directing, ordering words like a spiritual law enforcer. God just being God on earth as Jesus was did not save all the world automatically right? He had to do something and preach something for men to believe and mix faith with in order to be delivered and saved. Even so Satan is not going anywhere if the Church does not get REAL BOSSY IN THESE LAST DAYS BELIEVING IN THE MIGHT, AUTHORITY AND POWER THAT IS INVESTED IN JESUS' FAR ABOVE ALL NAME AND THRONE. (Hebrews 1:1-14)
These demons speech to Jesus in our text scriptures reveals to us some very important and needful light. In verse 7, we find out from their speech that evil spirits do not want to have anything to do with Jesus or Gods Works. They oppose them. They said to Jesus, What have we to do with you, Jesus thou Son of the Most High God. In another place the demons cried, Leave us Alone Jesus.
Have you ever had some one come up to you and say you need to straighten up your life, or that you need stop all that sinning and fooling around? That you need to go to church, or you need to repent; or you need to forgive someone; or you need to read the bible and pray and a VOICE NEAR YOUR HEART, MIND, OR CONSCIENCE SAYS SOMETHING LIKE THESE WORDS, "I find these words boring, even annoying. Be this way and these words far from you and me. They irritate me. They agitate men. They go cross grain with my agenda. I don't want anything to do with them"? hmmm, getting interesting isn't it? Legions are looking for homes today as they did back then. They are now spread across all of America and the world.
These Legions of demons Knew Jesus. Knew who He was and is, but they still wanting nothing to do with him or his holy ways of light. They loved darkness rather than light.(One of Americas many present sins)....We also find out in verse 9 that demons know who they are. They know their names and they are calculating spirits. They knew their NUMBERS....AND that they can unite, organize and talk as ONE (So can the liberals and the left and the Antichrist and his deceived dreamers and followers). What is your name, Jesus asked them. They answered, MY NAME (United as one talk) IS LEGION FOR WE ARE MANY.
From verse 10 on things get even more interesting and revealing. It says that these demons began to beg Jesus not to send them away out of that territory. What we can learn from this and from these words is that Satan does not want to leave his conquered territories. If they have wiggled their way inside of peoples inner places like a worm wiggles it way into a new hole he has dug to love in, whether their reach has reached into peoples or animals bodies, or into human minds, souls, or spirits. Wherever they have gained territory, they want to be left there alone, uncontested, undisturbed, un-bothered by other stronger resisting wills or higher authority and power as of course is in Jesus.
Where ever a demon is or where ever a work of theirs is, or wherever they have planted a seed of theirs to grow up in time in a persons being or life, or whereever they have a person wrapped up in a sin type, sin gripping lust or stronghold, Satan and all his demons never want to lose that territory or their conquered places in mans life and kingdoms. They will not volunteer to leave or to go. They hate those dry places where their purpose or their lust finds no rest, meaning NO SATISFACTION (Matthew 12:43-45).
As God prepared for Jesus A BODY FOR HIS WILL AND DESIRES TO BE FULFILLED AND SATISFIED IN (Hebrewa 10:4), evenso Satan and all evil spirits go to and fro over the face of the whole earth SEEKING BODIES, knocking on the heart of human doors to see if the person may like what they offer and they bid them to open their doors willingly to let them in. Then once inside, many of them go undetected, uncontested or undisturbed because of the lack of the faith of the church and because of the lack of the ANOINTING AND SPIRIT OF GOD IN MANIFESTATION BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS EITHER UNFILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD or they are in unbelief QUENCHING AND GRIEVING THE SPIRIT OF GOD POWER.
In this above most dreadful church condition, the serpents of the witches of Egypt will seem to swallow up the serpent of Moses Staff and God and light goes un glorified on the earth and the spirit of the devil and of evil and of wrong becomes the main attraction. This is, in part, what happens in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12) Unbelief can actually makes this occur and the world mocks and talks back to Christ and the truth that is in Him afresh with the tongue of resisting Satan,... And the unbelief in the Christians gives him no trouble in his withstanding them. (See and Read Matthew 15:58 and also Mark 9:17-27). This is also, in part why Jesus said the words, But when I return, will I find faith in the earth. I pray he does, even so great faith as has not yet been seen in all of Israel and in all the world. So be it Father in Jesus Name.
Then also in our text we find this most important light and revelation.. The demons reveal it themselves. Boy I know now they dread letting this truth out. They said IF YOU ARE GOING TO CAST US OUT...they knew, THEY KNEW, they were FULLY SUBJECTED TO THE WILL AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST. If Christ wanted them out and gone, THEY WERE THEN OUT AND GONE to WHEREVER HIS WORDS DIRECTED THEM, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. THIS WAS BINDING LAW and ever shall be. They said. If you are going to cast us out, verse 12) ALLOW US, ALLOW US, ALLOW US to go into the pigs that we may enter into them.
These spirits were torturing spirits who wanted to make painful and miserable their victims as we see they did in the mad man here in the regions of the Gadarenes. They themselves were tortured spirits not in their ORIGINAL IMAGES or in THEIR ORIGINAL MINDS and this in them came shining thru that man. And since THEY KNEW they could not withstand the REAL BIBLE FAITH COMMAND of Jesus Christ that NO DOUBT DWELLS IN AT ALL, they pleaded and begged him to at the least let them go into those pigs.
See they WANT SOME KIND OF TERRITORY TO dwell in, function in and thru to EXECUTE THEIR WILL, THEIR LUST, THEIR DESIRE, THEIR KIND UPON (John 8:44). They want physical bodies, minds, souls, and hearts, and spirits and to dominated and to posses peoples minutes, hours, days and nights and even their life time, to work their desires in and thru in this world under Satan's dark control. I think it was possible that they would have killed that man and took him down to hell to the worse level of their torment had they had they fullest desire fulfilled in him. But evidently that man still had a strong will to live and they could not yet take the torture to that level. But they were by and by slowly breaking him down.
How on the inside of himself in his so crowded hotel of a Legion of evil spirits that had entered into him and took him over, oh how deep down inside where he was, he wanted deliverance....God heard that mans cry from the deepest of the heavenly places in him, that is in man even though he cried from the depths of caves and taverns of darkness that was like hell places within his soul and being.
In closing I want to leave you with this truth. The Demons were ALL IN FULL SUBJECTION TO JESUS AND JESUS HAD THE NON DOUBTING FAITH THAT IT TOOK FOR GOD TO DELIVER THAT MAN, TO RESCUE THAT MAN AND SET HIM IN HIS RIGHT MIND IN PERFECT PEACE. THAT SAME POWER AND AUTHORITY CAN SET US AND AMERICA STRAIGHT AND BACK RIGHT TO OUR ORIGINAL CONSTITUTIONAL MIND AND IMAGE.
Those devils knew, THEY FULLY KNEW they had to obey the command of Jesus and go no place but where HE ALLOWED. CHURCH EVEN SO IT IS TODAY..Satan cannot take over you, us, or the Church, or America if we the BODY OF THE ANOINTED ONE, the Body Of Christ on earth bearing the Name Of Jesus Christ in this world of darkness, if we in real bible faith RESIST HIM AND CONTROL HIM. Satan can only get away with what we allow him to.
Our faith in Jesus Name and our directing words Satan has to follow. It is a Binding Law. But if the church is of little faith, full of doubt and unbelief, Jesus said God would not be glorified in that. Let us wake up, get real, get serious, quit knocking and putting down the faith truth and the faith message and its great importance. Jesus never knocked the faith message while he was on earth but rather HE EXALTED IT, HIGHLY ESTEEMED IT AND PREACHED OF IT'S EXTREME IMPORTANCE. and also he said, oh ye of little faith. Why did you doubt? He did say, But this kind of demon does not budge or come out but by PRAYER AND FASTING. He did say concerning faith that Abraham was STRONG IN FAITH WHICH GLORIFIED GOD.
Jesus said, be not doubting Thomas, BE BELIEVING.....hope this light and these insights bless you and keep you in Jesus Name. Amen.......deno......please share freely.
