#3: THE WILD MAN OF GAD
(THAT’S MOST OF US), AND THE SWINE (THAT’S THEM)
07-09-17 This message may be
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The brightness of our
revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines (our building blocks)
(Luke 8:28-30) When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell
down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee,
Jesus, thou Son of God most
high? I beseech thee, torment me not. (For he had commanded the unclean spirit
to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound
with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil
into the wilderness.) And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he
said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
JESUS:
THE WAY TO ESCAPE
(Luke
8:28-30) When he saw Jesus, he [the wild man of Gad] cried out, and fell down before him [the
man himself temporarily exerted dominating self-control, as he did when he was
“cutting himself with stones” (Mark 5:5), for the inner fallen angel would not,
at this prior-to-judgment time, bend the knee] [2], and with a loud voice
[a different phrase than the preceding
“cried out”] [the defiled and
defiling fallen angel(s)] said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech
thee, torment me not. (For he had commanded the unclean spirit [the defiled
and defiling fallen angel(s)] to
come out of the man. For oftentimes it
had caught [Gk: seized] [control
of] him [spiritually, internally in the form of
“strong holds” of groups of “like-minded” fallen angels inside his mind] [3]: and
he was kept bound [to control him] with chains and in fetters [physically, by men]; and he brake the bands
[with psychosomatic strength; perhaps,
according to social scientists, tapping into the approximately 90% of the
inactive brain-power, existent but unused, present in every person – kind of
like “the well” of the Holy Spirit?],
and was driven of the devil [the fallen angel(s)] into the wilderness. [4] And
Jesus asked him, saying, What is
thy name? And he said, Legion [ref: a Roman legion of about 6,000 soldiers. Legion is “a body” like
us, but fully (spiritually) activated, i.e., countless like-minded thoughts
in the “One Body” of Christ Jesus] [5]:
because many devils [fallen angels: messengers of Satan, bad,
evil thoughts influencing him] were
entered into him [6].
2. (1
Cor 10:13) There hath no temptation [Gk: test] taken
you but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not suffer [Gk: permit] you to be tempted [Gk:
tested] above that ye are able [to overcome]; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear [Gk: endure] it [i.e., to
bear the testing].
a. (John
14:6) Jesus
saith unto him [doubting Thomas],
I am the way [Gk: road], the truth, and the life [both here and there, both in earth and in heaven]: no man cometh
unto the Father [unto heaven], but [Gk: except] by [Gk: through] me.
3. (2 Cor 10:3-5) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh: (For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal [Gk: fleshly], but mighty [Gk: powerful] through God to the
pulling down [Gk: demolition:
destruction] of strong holds
[Gk: fortified: a castle (fig. an
argument)];) Casting down imaginations,
and every high [prideful] thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
4. wilderness = Gk: lonesome,
by implication (waste): desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness. [a spiritual/physical description of this
world]
5. (2 Tim 2:1-4) Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach
others also. Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs of this
life; that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier.
6. (Mark
4:19) And
the cares [Gk: distractions] of
this world, and the deceitfulness
[Gk: delusions] of riches, and the lusts [Gk:
longing for what is forbidden] of
other things entering in,
choke [Gk: strangle completely ///
take by the throat] the word, and it
becometh unfruitful [Gk:
barren /// without fruit].
a. Commentary: “becometh unfruitful” = meaning that the
word (“The seed” Luke 8:11) was once growing
toward fruitfulness, but now has ceased growing, i.e., has
ceased becoming fruitful. Luke 8:14 has a clarifying rendition: “and bring no fruit to perfection
[Gk: to be a bearer to completion
(maturity), ripen].”
Amen
Amen