GOSPEL THOUGHTS
22nd
Week – Tuesday
Gospel – Luke 4: 31-37
The Mode of Working of the Spirit of an unclean
Demon
1) It makes a person to cry with a loud voice
When a person cries or shouts with a loud voice
He/ She is not able to listen what others say
He/ She is not able to control his/her emotions. Emotional imbalance is seen at the highest level when one shouts or cries
He/ She is becomes very angry and there is a possibility of using all abusive words at others
There is also the possibility of doing physical at that moment
So when the spirit of an unclean demon makes one to shout means
It does not allow us to listen to the voice of God, voice of the conscience, and the voice of others who guide us in the right path
It also creates a lot of emotional imbalance within our life, which makes us to suffer a lot
It makes us to get angry and at times promotes to take revenge and do some physical harm.
This is how it works at the first level.
It does not want to keep a relationship with God. In other words it questions the divine relationship.
It works on the mode that, it has nothing to do with the divine
In our life to it gives us an impression that we can live without God, and we have nothing to do with God.
Such a tendency is growing very rapidly in today’s situation.
3) Destruction factor by the unclean Spirit
Have you come to destroy us?
It gives wrong information about the divine power
For the unclean spirit, Jesus is the destroyer
But the unclean spirit does not specify whether Jesus is the destroyer of Good or Evil
From the out word appearance, it gives an impression that Jesus is the destroyer
But we need to be very clear that Jesus destroys the Bad and brings up the Good.
4) The unclean Spirit is unable to hide the real identity of Jesus
“I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
In the battle of fighting against Jesus, the unclean spirit, finally reveals the real identity of Jesus *The holy one of God*
Even the unclean spirit cannot hide the real identity of Jesus, even though it wants to hide
The unclean spirit of the demon, finally has to confess the name of Jesus, which makes the demon to lose its power.
5) The confession of Jesus name makes the demon to lose its power
The moment the evil spirit confessed that Jesus is the *Holy one of God* it could not speak further
It lost its power and came out without doing any harm
It could not stand before Jesus after confessing His name. So it had to throw itself down before Jesus and before the crowd
It lost it power even to stand before Jesus, so it had to run from the presence of Jesus
Throwing Down is the total surrender to the power of Jesus. The demon could but had to humble itself before Jesus, by throwing itself down. That is how it was made powerless and useless.
The moment the unclean spirit of the demon pronounced the name *Jesus* and it confessed the real identity of Jesus *The Holy one of God* the unclean spirit completely lost its power, control and the trick. With that it was defeated and made to run away from the presence of Jesus.
6) The power of the name of Jesus in my life
The above episode clearly shows us the power of Jesus' name.
What about my experience with regard to Jesus' name
Have I experienced the power of Jesus' name in my life?
The name of Jesus is the powerful weapon against the devil. We need to use it.
“Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” and the man simply walked Acts 3:1-8
7) The various aspects of the Spirit of an unclean demon in my life
All of us have some effects of the spirit of an unclean demon in our life. The following may be some of the examples
- Jealousy
- Division
- Revenge
- Pride
- Gossip
- Cheating
- Non cooperation
- Pleasure
- Envy
- Anger
- Un-forgiveness
- Laziness
- Self-righteousness
- Arrogance
- Rigidity
- Narrow mindedness
Fr Maxim D’Souza
Jeppu Seminary
Mangalore
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