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Life Lessons from people in the Bible – ARE WE ALSO LOOKING AT THE PIGS LIKE THE MEN OF GADARENES? Luke 8:33-37 ‘then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned. When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what had happened and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. They also who had seen it told them by what means he how had been demon-possessed was healed. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned.’ My dear friends, the Lord does a great miracle by delivering a man from a legion of demons. But the people instead of rejoicing and praising Him and asking Him to stay longer, they ask Him to leave. They focus their attention on the pigs and demons and let fear come into their hearts and they miss the privilege of an encounter with the Messiah. They see a miracle and they still do not want to praise God for it. Beloved how many times are we like that? We look at the negatives and let fear into our heart and fall away from God. Many times believers prefer pleasing men over pleasing God. Many times people prefer to focus on the negative circumstances that presently surround them and forget the miracles the Lord has done for them in the past to deliver them. Many times they look at the evil and forget that the Lord is all powerful. Yes beloved we look at the negative or the work of the evil ones and we reject the Lord. The people in this city were doing something that was against the law of Moses. Jews were not supposed to have anything to do with pigs. Yet these people were tending pigs. They owned pigs and they might have even eaten them breaking the law given to the Jews. Yes beloved it is because of sin that we end up rejecting the Lord. Not having faith is a sin. Not trusting the Lord is a sin. Not pleasing God is a sin. Anything that dishonours or displeases God is a sin. When that sin resides in our lives then like how the people of Gadarenes were driven to reject the Lord we too are inclined or motivated to not have anything to do with Him. Sin separates us from the living God. Beloved let us not entertain sin in our lives. Let us not focus our eyes on the pigs and lose out on an encounter with the Lord. The pigs or sin leads to destruction as you see in the account the pigs whom the demons possessed went and jumped into the lake and drowned. Similarly if you allow sin to reside in your life you too will be going down the path of destruction to the lake of fire. Basically that is eternal death. Beloved we must not be like that. Let us rejoice in the goodness and love of the Lord and His wonder working power and live to please Him daily and forget and forsake and leave behind the pigs and live for Jesus only. God bless you. (Romesh Daniels).
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:45:05 +0000

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