Fight The Good Fight - Stand Firm In The Fight Of Faith
Yeshua came to destroy the works of the Devil, providing us with the sword of the spirit to fight a global war against malicious demons (1 John 3:8; Eph. 6:10-18). Yeshua and His disciples once sailed across Lake Galilee to the region of the Gerasenes (headlong rush). When Jesus stepped ashore, He was welcomed by a screaming, naked, wild-looking man who was possessed by a legion (6000 soldiers in the Roman army) of demons. The disciples had seen Yeshua cast out many demons before but nothing like this one. Once expelled, the demons entered unclean pigs that then rushed headlong into a lake and drowned. Pigs were sacrificial animals that were offered to their deities. The town’s people valued their pigs more than the saving of a lost soul, so they asked Yeshua to leave. Yeshua not only delivered the man from demons, but also anointed the naked man with His own shirt and sent him to evangelize Decapolis (10 cities) ( Luke 8:26-39 ). Many Ekklesias were established only after a fierc...