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We are Christ’s

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  • August 11, 2024 at 9:38 am #18093
    DaleW
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    Story from the Lesson this week on SPIRIT, of Jesus healing the man with the unclean spirit in the country of the Gadarenes.

    From Matthew Henry Complete Bible Commentary:

    Luke 8:35
    “If God has possession of us, he preserves to us the government and enjoyment of ourselves; but, if Satan has possession of us, he robs us of both. Let his power therefore in our souls be overturned, and let him come whose right our hearts are, and let us give them to him; for we are never more our own than when we are his.”

    Luke 8:37
    “They thought more of the destruction of the swine than of the deliverance of their poor afflicted neighbor, and of the country from the terror of his frenzy, which was become a public nuisance; and therefore the whole multitude besought Jesus to depart from them for fear he should bring some other judgment upon them; whereas indeed none need to be afraid of Christ that are willing to forsake their sins and give up themselves to him….Those lose their Saviour, and their hopes in him, that love their swine better.”

    The healed man wanted to come with Jesus, but Jesus wanted him to stay, so they might see what God had done and be a blessing to his country.
    Matthew Henry:
    “We must sometimes deny ourselves the satisfaction even of spiritual benefits and comforts, to gain an opportunity of being serviceable to the souls of others….[Jesus] left the man among them to be a standing monument, and a monitor to them of it.”

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