“Go Run and Tell That”
Matthew 8: 28-34
Have you ever found something, and you just want to go and tell someone? How about you did something that was so great and sometimes extraordinary that you just can’t keep it to yourself? Well in this story there was a man who changed but he changed for the better. And so, this man went and told somebody what God has done for him. ” Go Run and Tell That”.
This was an interesting story and I’ll tell you why, Jesus helps someone and heals them, and He demonstrates His power as well as compassion.
As I was reading and re-reading this Scripture, here are some things that interest me.
1)Jesus saw a need. 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. Automatically Jesus saw there was a problem and wanted to do something. What are you saying preacher? God will meet you at your needs. It doesn’t matter what it is, Jesus is there to meet you at that need you are grappling with.
2)The Devil Knew Who They Were Up Against. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Here Jesus and His Disciples was at the grave site and two men possessed with devils. These devils knew who Jesus was because they spoke to Him personally. When Jesus speaks, even the demons tremble.
3)The Devils Begs for Their Lives. The devils that were in the man literally begged Jesus that if He is to cast them out, let them go into the herd of swine that was nearby. By now the farmers at this pig farm was the suitable place to go instead of another person. In Mark 16:17, Jesus explained why casting out devils by saying: “In my name they will cast out demons, they shall speak with new tongues” Luke 13:32,
“And He said to them, Go tell that for, today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.” In other words, To-day and to-morrow - I am to work miracles for two days more, and on the third day I shall be put to death. But it is probable that this phrase only means, that he had but a short time to live, without specifying its duration. Perfected - Or finished, I shall then have accomplished the purpose for which I came into the world, leaving nothing undone which the counsel of God designed me to complete. Hence, in reference to our Lord, the word implies his dying; as the plan of human redemption was not finished, till he bowed his head and gave up the ghost on the cross. IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL I SAY IT’S OVER! (NOTE: GET UP ALL IN THE DEVIL’S GRILL)
4)Jesus Defuses the Problem. Jesus is the number one problem solver in Heaven and on Earth. There’s nothing He cannot solve; any solution at anytime, anywhere. Jesus solved the problem of casting those devils out and going into a herd of swine nearby making the men healed and the herd of swine go “hog wild” messing up that swine farmer economically. But the two men who were when we first talked about had hell in them now all that hell was taken out of them by Jesus.
5)Go Run and Tell That. The people witnessed what happened. The Bible tells us that “And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.” (Verse 33).
Don’t let the trials of this life get you all out of sorts but go to the one who can save you and set you free from all your sins.
Think about it, let Jesus be the one to set you free because there is freedom in Jesus let Him set you free; be free indeed in Him.
And when He sets you free, go and tell somebody about the goodness of God like the people did after seeing the demons were casted out of those men. They were in darkness and now they walk in the marvelous light of Christ our Savior. Will you except Him today-AMEN.
