The Return Of Evil Spirits Unto This Wicked Generation

The Return of Evil Spirits

Unto this Wicked Generation

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - Nelson Mandela once said “You speak a language people know you speak to their head. You speak a language people understand you speak to their hearts”. It is my desire to speak to your hearts.

So often we say we are living in the last days and that Jesus is soon to come when we look and see what is going on in the world today and understanding scripture, we realize that these are perilous times. If we look at the last 8 – 15 years we see just how much our nation has declined morally, economically, politically, and most of all Spiritually. What we were shocked about 8 years ago is mild compared to what we are facing right now. We are a culture clashing between timeless truths and modern thinking, a culture of offense and division where people are so easily offended by the slightest thing, politics, news, and every part of part of religion because it exposes their sin and the sin of humanity. We have developed an invisible switch that is so easily flipped and if you flip that switch then there will be hell to pay.

A normal conversation often ends in strife because often unaware you flipped the switch in someone when you spoke about race, education, medical issues, a political party, a certain candidate, an athlete, celebrity, or preacher. God forbid if you speak on sexual orientation, transgenderism, adultery, fornication, abortion, homosexualism, heterosexualism, polyamory, or anything for that matter that someone doesn’t agree with or has a different opinion then yours then immediately you fall victim to this so-called cancel culture that is so quick to dismiss people then tries to quote the Bible out of context and without any understanding of the Word of God at all.

I have written in the beginning of my Bible a statement that has been my desire down through the years in ministry, it says “My desire is not to read the Bible to get a sermon but read the Bible to get to the heart of God”. When it comes to understanding the Bible, we must strive to understand it from God’s perspective instead of our own denominational, traditional, westernized, and opinionated understanding. You can never fully understand a text of any kind outside of understanding the culture of when it was written, the people for whom it was written, and the time in which it was written. We must first understand to whom it was written, why it was written and then how can I apply that scripture to my life and this situation.

Returning Evil Unto this Wicked Generation.

PRAYER: -

SCRIPTURE: - Matthew 12:43-45 “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation”.

This scripture is a parable of Jesus a Parable is a natural story with spiritual implications. Matthew 13:10 -13 says, “And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”

Let me suggest that in this parable the man represents the nation of Israel as well as the spiritual leaders of Israel, such as the scribes and Pharisees. The unclean spirit is the sin of pagan idolatry, which the children of Israel constantly struggled with until the Babylonian exile, like the idol worship of Baal, Ashtoreth, and Molech – remember those 3 names. The casting out of the spirit was the Babylonian exile and return under Ezra, Nehemiah. The Israelites, now out of bondage begin to serve the Lord again.

Although they externally pretended to keep the Law, they did not do so, because they did not obey from the heart. They had a form of godliness but neglected the core teachings and spirit of the Law. Matthew 23:27-28 says, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity”. Even as they praised God with their words and external rituals, internally they were empty and unoccupied. The Bible says in Isaiah 29:13 “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men”.