May 15, 2012
Possessed
Jesus may have been referring to Jewish exorcism when he talked about
an evil spirit seeking a place to rest after it had come out of a man. When the
evil spirit does not find rest it returns to the house it left. “When it arrives, it finds the house swept
clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits... and they
go in and live there.” (Luke 11:25-26 NIV) This certainly sheds a new light
on re-possession.
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Gail;
-----I enjoyed a conversation yesterday about this great nation and the lingering death of our freedom and dignity in it. Most of us rue the dark reasoning and exploitation that has come to inhabit all three branches of government. But few of us actually stop to realize that what was so great about this country was that the usual course of human government was cleared out of its way like forest and undergrowth is cleared for a field. Over the centuries and millennia of human governance, one man after another, or one gang after another, supposed they were morally superior, more intelligent, or just flat scary enough to make everyone else do things their way and believe what they believe. So humanity had governments of these sorts. Two hundred and nearly fifty years ago another gang of men swept all such bullyism aside so good men and women could run their own lives according to their own beliefs. Government became primarily a protective activity in which people could live securely by what things meant to themselves rather than by what they should mean to a government. According to one of the men who established our government, its constitution would serve none other than a moral and upright people.
-----In other words, once the thumbscrews, iron racks, and whipping posts of totalitarianism had been thrown out the back door, decency, justice and goodness must enter the front door. I think for an historic moment it did. Many cities included the cross in its logo. The preambles to nearly every state constitution honors God’s sovereignty. And church has been a large part of our heritage. I don’t think these things were symbols only. They came from hearts and minds.
-----But that wasn't enough. Part of goodness, justice, and decency is preservation of standards. Everything about goodness, justice, and decency was used to break down and destroy the substance of our freedoms except the preservation of standards. In fact, they were the standards which were the targets. Of all the good spirit our country had within its legal substance, there was no way made for the preservation of standards. Today we find constitutional laws hurled about and cast out windows like useless furniture. No standards remain to protect it. For the failure of our Constitution to make one law directly supportive of the God and the Word upon which it was founded, the demons of totalitarianism have returned with a fury.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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