Whether Or Not It Matters is Dependent Upon To Whom It Matters - Left or Right

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Apr 24, 2012 at 12:30

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." The Sofrim who came down from Yerushalayim said, "He has Ba'al-Zibbul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Hasatan cast out Hasatan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If Hasatan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. Most assuredly I tell you, all of the sons of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; but whoever may blaspheme against the Ruach HaKodesh never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

-- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

When he saw Yeshua from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Yeshua, you Son of Ha'Elyon God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

At once Yeshua gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

Let them who have an ear, hear……….

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