Reference: Possession
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POSSESSION
1. Meaning of the term.
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When they arrived there at Gibeah, a band of prophets was right there to meet them. The Spirit of God came upon Saul, and he prophesied along with them.
The next day, while David was playing the lyre as he had before, the evil spirit from the LORD attacked Saul, and he began to rave inside the house with a spear in his hand.
After Ahab had left, the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his mantle into his belt and outran Ahab in a race to the city gate of Jezreel.
"The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners;
His fame spread throughout Syria, and people brought to him everyone who was sick those afflicted with various diseases and pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralyzed and he healed them.
Many will say to me on that day, "Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name, drove out demons in your name, and performed many miracles in your name, didn't we?'
As the men were going out, a man who couldn't talk because he was demon-possessed was brought to him.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. You have received without payment, so give without payment.
Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to talk was brought to him. Jesus healed him so that the man could speak and see.
If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!
Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"
Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to talk, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he healed them.
"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!" But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he ordered, "and come out of him!"
When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.
screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"
So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.
Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."
When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"
When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"
John told Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"
After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.
because he will be great in the Lord's presence. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.
just as he promised long ago through the mouth of his holy prophets
Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, along with many of his disciples and a large gathering of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.
At that time Jesus had healed many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind.
as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
Jesus was driving a demon out of a man who was unable to talk. When the demon had gone out, the man began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.
Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.
If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!
Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person is worse than the first."
A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight.
He told them, "Go and tell that fox, "Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work.
Indeed, it's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"
I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.
When the day of Pentecost was being celebrated, all of them were together in one place.
They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,
You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,
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Possession.
[DEMONIACS]
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