When Deliverance Disrupts Profit, People Push Back

He's been hanging out in the tombs and the mountains and he's crying and he's cutting himself and man , I'll tell you what . I lived about a year in New Orleans . Above-ground graveyards is a sketchy place to be , especially there . There's something that kind of attracts . And I've worked in graveyards for a long , long , long time .

My old man had a mowing business . We mowed graveyards , man , they were doing that . My family , not me , but my family was doing that up until about two , three years ago . And you know , you see some strange things and when you get in them above ground graveyards ,

man , man , a lot of robbers , a lot of murders , a lot of other stuff . Won't even mention rituals going on and stuff like that . And this guy is there . For those of you familiar with this story you can always read it yourself , get in the word for yourself .

But he is possessed by what he says is a legion of demons , that's thousands of demons , and they said don't torment us before the time , don't send us into the abyss , send us into those hogs over there on the hillside . What happens is they enter the hogs . Jesus said well , get out of him . You can go in the hogs if you want , but get out of this guy .

And so , all of a sudden , these pigs go nuts and rush down the steep bank of the mountain they're on and jump into the sea and drown . The herdsmen are watching this .

That would have had to be a heck of a thing to see , though , and then they see the demon possessed man , who had the Legion this is verse 15 , sitting there , clothing in his right mind , and they were afraid , and those that have seen it described what had happened to the demon possessed man , to the pigs , and they began to beg Jesus to depart from their

region , and so the demon possessed man

that got delivered . He's the one to follow him , and he goes no , just tell what good things the Lord has done for you , and he ends up publishing what happened . I want to point out a few things here , though A lot of times , if we're complacent , if we're all about ourselves and sometimes we might not be doing things to honor God .

There's a very real temptation to be comfortable with the sin and misery of others . Now , granted , if somebody's sinning , that is their choice . But this guy is demonically possessed , depressed , and everybody's like well , we've done all we could do . We've got to feed our hogs . Other question why are Jewish herdsmen raising hogs , which are unclean animals ?

You can't eat them . Now , maybe you can sell them to the Romans to eat , or maybe some other group that is allowed to eat them . But you know , as a business this is kind of questionable in and of itself , unless they're just something I'm totally ignorant of . But everybody's good , as long as this guy is possessed and contained , when that deliverance happens .

And they got to deal with the same demons that this dude was dealing with , all of a sudden , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa . What's going on here , jesus ? And in human nature there is this propensity to be comfortable with the misery of others . As long as we're good , we can even profit off that a little bit . You know , and I see this .

You know , it reminded me reading this story in the last day or two . It reminded me of what it's like in a lot of our ghettos and a lot of our inner cities . It reminds me , as someone who grew up in one of the poorer counties in southern Illinois and my mom's side of the family was from the poorest . It reminds me of the attitude of ask those people .

They don't know any better . They don't know any better , you know , because poverty is evil too , especially when it comes to an impoverished mindset . You can have a spirit of poverty over a family , over a person , over a region .

You can have a poverty mentality parading itself as holiness , just like you can have a controlling and enslaving spirit parading itself as being decently in an order and maintaining the proper protocol in a church . When Jesus shows up and that thing isn't contained anymore . When there's real deliverance , when there's real deliverance

, when there are real moves of God that hit areas and hit families and hit people to where it affects things . When kingdom work shows up , it's not going to be popular .

If you're showing up and doing kingdom work , you can expect deliverance , but you can also expect pushback by people that were profiting off of things they shouldn't have been and who were very , very comfortable in the idea of . That's them folks over there .

You leave them to that as long as we're content with what we have over here , let it be , we did all we could do , not the right attitude . And you know what , with what's coming , with what the Lord's doing , that thing's going to get exposed too . So make sure you don't have that attitude Something I'm checking myself on when I read it today .

Make sure you don't have an attitude of being comfortable in other people's misery and man . Get that relationship right with the Lord so you can be the one bringing about deliverance .

And also , don't be surprised if you're in a church , if you bring deliverance to a church , if you bring deliverance to a family , if you bring deliverance to a community , don't be surprised if it makes everybody uncomfortable and you get asked to leave it

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