"Meditate on these things, give yourself wholly to them, that your profiting may apprear to all"

Scripture:
Read - Mark 1:21-27
21. They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22. The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23. Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out, 24. "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!" 25. "Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!" 26. The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. 27. The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching--and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him."

Some people have it all mixed up. They think being a Christian is about going to church. It is not about becoming religious or going to church. The devil goes to church. Mice go to church. It is about church, it's about encountering Jesus Christ whether at church, in the hospital, on your deathbed, in a bar, or on skid row. Jesus changes lives. It is not about self-help, trying harder, achieving better results, positive thinking, yoga, or getting your act together. It is about meeting Jesus.

Here is a man that was so out of it that he hated Jesus. He had somehow, somewhere, someway surrendered his life to demonic forces. Usually that comes from dabbling in the occult, which leads to deeper involvement in Satan's kingdom of sin and finally what we call "possession." The Greek language in which the New Testament is written does not use the word possessed. The word is "demonized," that is controlled, manipulated or afflicted by demons.

A demon possessed person to me is any man who has surrendered control of himself to another. He has been willingly taken over by a force other than Christ or himself. He is under bondage. He is enslaved. He is bound.

That control happened through drugs, demons, or deliberate sins and can only be taken back through the power and authority of Jesus and his word. Jesus said, "If a man commits sin, he is a slave of sin." (John 8:32) But in the very next verses Jesus promises freedom to anyone who would allow himself to be set free by Jesus.

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

If your life is broken and cannot be fixed, it its hopeless and cannot be helped, it its lost and cannot be found, ruined and cannot be repaired - Come to Jesus. If all hope is gone, and all help is vanished then come to Jesus, come to Jesus, come to Jesus and live. If it is not you but a son or daughter, husband or wife, mother or dad, friend, relative or foe, bring it to Jesus, bring it to Jesus and see. He can set them free!