Reference: Possession
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POSSESSION
1. Meaning of the term.
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Word went all through Syria about him, and people brought to him all who were suffering with any kind of disease, or who were in great pain??emoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics??nd he cured them.
Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?'
But just as they were going out, some people brought to him a dumb man who was possessed by a demon,
Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.
At that time some people brought to him a man blind and dumb, who was possessed by a demon, and he cured him, so that the dumb man could speak and see.
And if I am driving the demons out by Beelzebub's aid, by whose aid do your sons drive them out? Therefore let them be your judges.
Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."
Then great crowds came to him bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. And they laid them down at his feet, and he cured them,
"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!" Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!"
In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons,
and screamed out, "What do you want of me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name, I implore you, do not torture me."
So he gave them permission. And the foul spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned.
And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
and wherever it seizes him it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it."
Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"
Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"
John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."
He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong."
Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,
"By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,
And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.
Just then he cured many of diseases and ailments and evil spirits, and he gave sight to many who were blind.
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,
Once he was driving out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone the dumb man spoke. And the people were amazed.
Others to test him asked him for a sign from heaven.
But if it is with his aid that I drive out demons, by whose do your sons drive them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.
Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."
and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.
He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through.
It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"
The crowd answered, "You must be possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"
I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.
On the day of the Harvest Festival, they were all meeting together,
and when they reached Mysia they tried to get into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit it,
But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
You must not offend God's holy Spirit, with which you have been marked for the Day of Redemption.
Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit,
but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men.
Smith
Possession.
[DEMONIACS]
See Demoniacs