Understainding the Spiritual Realm
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Three part series: 1) Understanding the Spiritual Realm 2) Our Position in the Spiritual Realm. 3) Engaging in the Spiritual Realm.
Three part series: 1) Understanding the Spiritual Realm 2) Our Position in the Spiritual Realm. 3) Engaging in the Spiritual Realm.
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve their existence. The other is to believe and feel an unhealthy interest in them.” The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve their existence. The other is to believe and feel an unhealthy interest in them.” The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
What challenges do we have in understanding the Spiritual Realm?
What challenges do we have in understanding the Spiritual Realm?
How supernatural is my world view?
How supernatural is my world view?
What assumptions are we making concerning the spiritual realm?
What assumptions are we making concerning the spiritual realm?
26 Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.
27 When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house but among the tombs.
There are twenty-four encounters with Demons in the Gospels.
There are twenty-four encounters with Demons in the Gospels.
How does Christian traditional understand the demons in the spiritual realm?Satan fell with a third of his angels some time before Genesis 3. The passage sighted to support this are Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14;11-17 and Revelation 12:4.
How does Christian traditional understand the demons in the spiritual realm?Satan fell with a third of his angels some time before Genesis 3. The passage sighted to support this are Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14;11-17 and Revelation 12:4.
What is the understanding for the Gospels writers presentation of demons in the spiritual realm? They understood three divine rebellions against God. Genesis 3; 6; 11 and Deuteronomy 32:7-9
What is the understanding for the Gospels writers presentation of demons in the spiritual realm? They understood three divine rebellions against God. Genesis 3; 6; 11 and Deuteronomy 32:7-9
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”
29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)
Who has authority over Demons?
Who has authority over Demons?
Where are we as Christians?
Where are we as Christians?
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
We are in Christ!
We are in Christ!
30 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him.
Can demons posses some one? Can they posse a Christian?
Can demons posses some one? Can they posse a Christian?
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
What is this place called the abyss? It a prison for evil spirits. The same place is used in Revelation 20:1-3.
What is this place called the abyss? It a prison for evil spirits. The same place is used in Revelation 20:1-3.
32 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission.
33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.
34 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.
Demons cause destruction and chaos wherever they go.
Demons cause destruction and chaos wherever they go.
35 Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
36 And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been healed.
37 Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.
38 The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
39 “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.
Jesus has the authority in all realms. Will you receive it and will you proclaim it?
Jesus has the authority in all realms. Will you receive it and will you proclaim it?