“And when Jesus was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not even with chains.” Commentary: You know when you are in ministry people will find you! That was our experience in India for those 3 years! It was 24-7 needs for those 3 years! They would come in the middle of the night for prayer! A man shows up late at night and tells us he has no money to bury his father! A group of Nuns show up late at night telling us if the Priest finds out about this they will remove our burial rights on church owned lands! When you follow Jesus you will gain favor with God but often you will lose reputation with the world! Jesus why did you heal on the Sabbath? You broke our rules who cares about this man with a withered hand? He is nothing to us! Jesus you came to our village and healed this crazy man but we lost 2000 pigs! Get out Jesus we love our pigs! If you give our pigs back then we can live with this crazy man! We want our pigs! Money is more important to us than this crazy man healed! In India the poor would always say when delivered out of the most dire circumstances that God has sent us to them! The rich men there would always ask us why did you come to India? We lived in America and got our education there so why would you ever leave America? I would just repeat what I had heard from the poor! God has sent us here! I told my father just before leaving America to India that God is sending us to the mission field of India! He told me I must have heard from the Devil! The closest to you may forsake you to follow Jesus! Get out Jesus! We want our pigs back! The crazy man Jesus healed wanted to follow Jesus and get in the boat with him to leave his village! Jesus said no! Be a witness instead to your people for what I have done for you! Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world! So what made this crazy man crazy? In this case it was demons! The Greek translation of the word “unclean spirits” means demon possession due to Idol worship! Self worship! If your only God is yourself you are in deep trouble! This is what is happening in America today! Darwinism leads to atheism which leads to socialism and communism and dictatorships and self worship! Jesus gets kicked out of our culture! Anarchy death and destruction or demon spirits invade the vacuum left by abandoning Christ! The idols of self worship leave us living in the tombs! Young people buried by the hundreds of thousands by drug addiction living in the tombs! Crime waves killing our citizens living in the tombs! Cities burned down by rioters living in the tombs! Education systems teaching our children wickedness rejecting Christ and telling the children they are not really born with your gender? You can reject your gender because we have rejected the God of Creation! You just evolved and can evolve into anything! Male to female or female to male! We will sacrifice our children to prove we are right! Even a crazy man if you want! Jesus judge of the living and the dead comes to you today to make a decision about him? Who do you say I am? Jesus saved the crazy man but judged the demons! The chains of the crazy man were broken off! He no longer had to live in the tombs! Peace replaced terror! Righteousness replaced evil! Who are you following? Are you chasing after pigs? Your money can purchase pigs but not redemption! There was an old song written in India many years ago! It could have been written by a crazy man redeemed by Jesus and the lyrics go like this: “I have decided to follow Jesus! The Cross before me the world behind me! No turning back! No turning back! Have you decided to follow Jesus?” If you cannot look forward to Jesus then all you can do is look back to the tombs of yesterday! America must move out of the tombs but if it continues to reject Christ then the graveyard is our only option! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com