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Liberation of a Demoniac
INTRODUCTION

In our study today in the Cell, we will be meditating on one of the

most tremendous encounters experienced by the Master in a confrontation with the
spiritual forces of Evil. The attitude of the Lord Jesus towards a demon-possessed man
it shows us how valuable the life of a human being is to Him and how powerful He is
to free him from the most desperate situations. Let us allow the Spirit of God
he teaches us the spiritual truths necessary for our Christian living in the days of
today.

Temas:Demonios, Gracia, Grattud, Mal, Milagros, Vida Nueva.

BEGIN

What situations or people do you consider hopeless?

What people do others try to avoid when they encounter them on the street?

Lucas 8:26-39

26 They arrived at the land of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

27 When he arrived at the land, a man from the city met him, possessed by demons.
for a long time; he did not wear clothes nor lived in a house, but in the tombs.
28 Upon seeing Jesus, he let out a great shout, and falling at his feet he exclaimed with a loud voice:
What do you have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.
29 (Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for it had been a long time)
the time that had taken hold of him; and they bound him with chains and shackles, but,
breaking the chains, he was driven by the demon into the deserts.) 30 Jesus said to him
He asked: 'What is your name?' He said: 'Legion.' Many demons had entered him.
31 and they begged him not to send them to the abyss. 32 There was a herd of many
pigs that were grazing on the hill; and they begged him to let them enter into them. He gave them
Permission. 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the
The dove fell off a cliff into the lake and drowned. 34 Those who tended
the pigs, when they saw what had happened, fled and gave notice in the city
and through the fields. 35 And they went out to see what had happened; they came to Jesus and

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They found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus,
they were afraid. 36 Those who had seen it told them
how the demon-possessed had been saved. Then all the multitude of the region
around the Gadarenes, they begged him to depart from them, for they were in great fear.
Then Jesus got into the boat and went away. 38 The man from whom the demons had gone out
demons begged him to let them stay with him, but Jesus dismissed them, saying: 9
Go back to your home and tell how great things God has done for you. He, then,
He went away, publishing throughout the city how great things Jesus had done for him.

EXPLORE

1. Where did Jesus and his disciples go? By what means did they do it? (v.26)
What was the first thing that Jesus and his disciples encountered upon arrival? (v.27).
3. What had the life of the demon-possessed man been like until he encountered Jesus? (vs.27
y29).
4. How did the possessed man react to Jesus? (v.28).
What did the man have? (v.28).
6. Why was the man called Legion? (v.30).
7. What did the demons choose before life in the abyss? (vs. 31 and 32).
8. What was the result of the election of the demons? (v.33).
9. How did those who took care of the pigs react to what happened? (v.34).
10. Who else learned what happened, and what did they find? (v.35).
11. What emotion took hold of the others, except for the man who had been
possessed by demons? (vs.34 to 37).
12. What did the man want to do? (v.38).
13. Why did Jesus say no to the man's request to follow him? (vs. 38 and 39).
14. What was the result of man's obedience? (v.39).

ANALICE

If you had been one of the disciples, what would have been your first reaction?
before the demon-possessed?
What does this story say about Jesus' concern for the life of a
person?
3. To what extent do you believe that demons are active today?
4. Why is the word 'fear' repeated?
5. In what ways do people today ask Jesus to have nothing to do with them?

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6. What would have happened if Jesus had given in to the man's request?
accompany him/her?
7. What situations or forces have occasionally disturbed your mind?

APPLY
If you have been in a situation or have considered a person already helpless,
sudden people immersed in drug addiction, no one likes to come across a
drug addict or with a person from the street, or even people who only talk to complain
no one even wants to run into her... a person whose life is totally wrecked, without clothes, without
house, without family...

In the previous passage, the Lord showed his power by saving his disciples from the
physical forces of nature, but these physical forces are not the only ones
powers of the potentially hostile and uncontrollable universe for man.
There are also spiritual powers that seek the destruction of man:(Ef
6:11-12Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood
meat, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this century, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the regions
celestial.

So, the story will take us from the description of the furious sea to a
fierce and untameable man who was possessed by a legion of demons. And he
what is going to make us notice is that the Lord Jesus Christ has full dominion over
both.

v.26. The region they arrived in was that of the Gadarenes. GadaraI was in territory
gently to the southeast of the Sea of Galilee, in the region of Decapolis which means the ten cities.In the
antiquity, this region to the east of the Sea of Galilee had been part of
territory that Moses had given as inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the
from Ruben and from Gad. In the times of Jesus, although there were Jews
scattered throughout the region, it can generally be said that it was a territory
kind. Their cities were essentially Greek: they had their Greek gods, their
Greek temples and their Greek amphitheaters; they were dedicated in the manner
Greek way of living. The presence of the herd of two thousand pigs that we see in the passage,
being this an animal prohibited for the Jews, it reminds us that the influence
paganism was very strong in this region.

the highest dignity that a human being can experience is that his body
I became a temple of the Holy Spirit and may be guided by Him. In contrast to the
satanic forces, the Holy Spirit frees men from sin, develops
his personality and dignity and increases his self-control.

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Whoever dominates me has to be the Holy Spirit; in Ephesians 2:2 it says that in another.
We were following the current of this world that is under the dominion
of the prince of the power of the air because we were children of disobedience,
we lived doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts and by
nature children of wrath, but Christ came to undo the works of the devil.
This helps us understand our nature and thus be able to fight, to wage war.

Talk about a life without control, being tied to something, enslaved by Satan, tormented people.
I think about the people who are in self-help programs. When an addict
arrives at a clinic, agency, or hospital, the objective is to isolate or detach that person from their
addiction. These programs aim to distance people from the outside to separate them from their
addiction. But every program that is based on a person enslaved by drugs
he may be free through personal effort, he will fail. It will not work. Ask
every addict who has been in these programs. Or also with resentful people, lack of
forgiveness, envy, resentment, things that enslave you, that harm you, that isolate you and you
they are destroying life.

They wanted a temporary home so that when the pigs were slaughtered the
spirits could leap over other people.

The Bible says that God has given us all power and authority over the enemy to cast out
demons and unclean spirits. Although Jesus said "this kind" goes out only when
we fast and pray.
1.- Our battle against unclean spirits will continue until
Christ returns. And each day will become more fierce as the devil who is very
angry, increases its seductions over humanity in these last ones
times. We see this incessant battle taking place across the New
Testament. Everywhere Christ and the apostles went, they expelled
unclean spirits.

You are puzzled as you wonder why Christians seem to have

So little authority to cast out spirits from possessed people? I think there is.
two reasons for that.

Number one, we are not committed to fasting and praying, as Jesus asks.
in certain cases. We have to acknowledge that satanic forces can only
to be expelled by a true spiritual authority, which is obtained through
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of prayer and fasting. "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness
of this century, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places
(Ephesians 6:12).

Secondly, the church has become so flexible that we are afraid to stand up.
against the demons. don't give up on anyone. That person you think is very
Away from God, she could end up preaching the Gospel in your neighborhood.

He was so emotionally disturbed that he showed clear suicidal tendencies.

Satan always works for the self-destruction of the person.

When the demon-possessed man came into the presence of Jesus, things changed.
immediately. The men of the region were afraid of the possessed man, but
He was afraid of Jesus. The powers of darkness prove to be invincible.
for men, but not for Jesus.

And the power of the Lord Jesus Christ reaches where neither the government nor the
Social workers, neither psychiatrists, nor family, nor friends can reach. No one
before I had managed to get this man to be at peace with himself and with
his equals.

they had lost a large herd of pigs, therefore, they couldn't feel
joy for nothing that happened. Surely this is why they invited him to leave. No
They valued all the good that Jesus could have done in the region. How many more
There were still demoniacs or sick people there! But it seemed that they appreciated
much more their possessions than the people. In the conflict between business
and spiritual well-being, business was their priority, as such
What happens today is a terrible example of blindness.
materialist.

Countless multitudes continue to prefer Christ far from them for fear that
his communion with him may cause some material, social, economic or
personal. And so, trying to save their possessions, they lose their souls.

And the Lord went away. Those people did not know what they were losing.
Here we learn a fundamental principle: The Lord does not stay where He is not.
welcome. He does not force anyone to have faith in him or to love him, he never imposes himself
by force

What Christ desired was to restore this man socially and within his family.
the home must be the first place where the believer should provide evidence of their
new life.
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The true missionary activity begins at home. It is not coherent to do
great efforts in favor of the evangelization of other parts of the world
while we neglect the Christian education of our own children,
for example.

The demon-possessed man of Gadara challenges us to two things. First, to experience the profound change that
God brings to the lives of people. Second, to bear witness to the reality of that change in
our environment, among ours.

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