Have you ever done something wrong in your life?
I know I have.
Have you realized it and repented only to find yourself falling back into the same habit and find yourself fighting to over come that same habit.
Did you notice each time return back to a habit and try to stop, it is much harder the 2nd go around?
Why is that?
in St Luke 11:23-26 and Matthew 12: 43-45
the answer is written
23 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man,
(when someone repents)
he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none,
(It seems like the craving for the sin is overwhelming)
he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
(I will return back to the sin)
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
(when you go back to a sin you are no longer trying to overcome it so every thing seem great at the time)
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. (This last verse is the reason it is so hard for us to overcome sin the 2nd go around. when we realize we have done something wrong have repented and return to the sin we literally take upon us 7 or more spirits more wicked that ourselves and our final state is worse than the first.)
Wow that sounds almost unbelieveable
Is it really true??????????
Let us look in the Bible for the answer.
Mark 5:1-16
1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gad'arenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
( this was a crazy man)
3 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
(chains and Fetters are chains and leg irons.)
(have you noticed someone on drugs seem to have super human powers.)
(this man was so powerful and crazy he broke the leg irons and chains to the point the people gave up trying to bind him)
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
(this is interesting it says that he was always crying and cutting himself with stones, Lucifer and his followers want us to destroy our bodies,(our temple of God))
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
(The man knew who Jesus was)
7 and cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he (Jesus) said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he (Jesus) asked him, What is thy name?
And he (the man) answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand,) and were choked in the sea.
(Now if there were enough spirits in this man to possess 2 thousand swine how many were in this man)
(This goes to show us if these spirits desire a body so bad they will beg to be sent into swine, who are we to think they do not want to be in our temple of god,our body.)
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
Often times in life we have pet sins that we want to hold onto.
They are our favorite sins.
We will clean the whole house but there is that small obscure closet in the back bedroom that we hide our junk.
How much better would we feel if we cleaned that closet.
I will show you why it is imperative that we clean that closet too.
If we looked at our life as a latter we would see that most people spend their whole life on 3 or 4 steps.
As we climb the latter of life when we get to the 4th step we are feeling so good because we have overcome that we tend to get lax on the things that caused us to climb that latter and that is when Old Scratch the Devil him self comes in.
I once heard a Preacher on the radio say
Don't let that Devil ride with you
Because the next thing you know he will be wanting to DRIVE.
The devil knows all of our pet sins and when we please God we displease the devil.
This is when he temps us with our pet sins.
If we fall then we go back down the 3 steps we just climbed and have to start all over rebuilding our life then we go up 3 steps and back down never realizing what we are missing if we could just overcome and go to the TOP of the Latter.
I have shared alot of opinion now I would like to demonstrate it in Scripture.
In life especially as teenagers we decide to sow our wild oats and pray for a crop failure.
Do you realize before we came to this earth there was a great war in heaven.
This great battle pitted God the Father, Jesus Christ, YOU and Everyone on earth against the Devil and every one who chose to follow him.
Everyone on earth chose to follow Jesus Christ, We know this because they are here.
This battle was caused because God had 2 Nobel sons
Jesus and Lucifer
Jesus as we know wanted to give us the opportunity to make choices and be free to choose our destiny.
As we know Lucifer had another plan he wanted wanted to force everyone to be righteous and not a soul would be lost.
When this Great War in Heaven ended 1/3 of the Host of Heaven was cast out and will never have the opportunity to gain a Physical body.
Now as a consequence of this these Spirits whom followed Lucifer are angry and jealous of the body each person on earth possesses.
Revelations 9:21
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
I am sure we understand what Fornication and Theft are but do we understand the word sorceries??
Sorceries has been translated from Greek to mean pharmakeion/pharmakeia
is pharmakon, which literally refers to "drugs."
The Greek word pharmakeia, literally refers to the 'use of drugs', or to 'poisoning', or to 'druggery (drug dealing).
My Dear Brothers and Sisters who read this post.
I hope you understand a drug from your doctor if abused can be just as spiritually physically detrimental as any drug from the street.
The use of Illegal drugs or abuse of prescription drugs control your mind.
The mind controls the body
The body houses the Spirit and Thus
Lucifer has captured one Beautiful Child of God Intact to use at his disposal.
Be wise and recognize that the fruits of the spirit are
Love
Joy
Gentleness
Kindness
Meekness
Patience
Peace
None of these fruits can be found when we are in the act of abusing our body mind or spirit.
I pray that now that we can see the root cause we may be better able to recognize why we have the consequences we face after we return back to our favorite sins.
This life is a time to prepare to meet God Let us recognize the traps of Satan and avoid them as if our life depended on it.
In truth it does
It affects our ETERNAL LIFE.
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