<TITLE>09. Par 39-45</TITLE>L-39 Jesus laying in the back of the boat, and He was asleep, and He raised up to still the waters. Now, look, He's crossing that stormy sea. And when He gets over to the other side... He come all the way across that stormy sea, through that dark, dismal, rainy, stormy night, when, perhaps, ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drowned Him...
And there He was out there in that little, old boat bouncing around like that through the night, tired and weary. He come all the way over to Gadara for one purpose. There was one person needed help. That was a maniac of Gadara, a crazy man. He come all the way across the stormy sea. It took Him all night to help one person.

L-40 He'd come all the way from glory tonight to manifest Hisself to heal any person that's in here. That's the loving heart of the Lord Jesus.
And when this maniac met Him, he run out there, I suppose, like he was going to kill Him. But He seen he was so completely... That boy was so completely surrendered to Satan till the devil used his tongue.
You believe the devil can use your tongue? Certainly he does: Make you say things that you don't want to say, make you lie, steal, make you tell things that's not right, say bad words that God don't want you to say. The devil gets complete control of you.
Well, then if he gets all the way control of you, you don't know what you're going to say. You become a mad man. And a person... Do you believe your tongue can be used for Jesus Christ? Certainly it can.

L-41 Then you sing the Gospel, preach the Gospel, and--and speak good things, and talk good things, and say good words. Then you can--can come--become so completely surrendered to the Holy Spirit till He can speak a language that you know nothing about. That's right. He can.

L-42 Now, this maniac was so completely in the hands of Satan, poor fellow, bound, perhaps one time a good man. But he just started trifling a little here, and trifling a little there. After while, the devil's had him out in a tomb. And when he was, he's such a powerful man till they could bind him with chains, and he'd just break the chain.
Did you ever try to hold a mad man, maniac? Why, they're many times their strength. Try to hold one once and watch how he carries on. Why, he's a rough fellow. What is that? That's supernatural power. It's the devil on the man.

L-43 Well, if the devil can take a man yielded perfectly to him, and make him two or three times his strength, what can a man that's yielded to the Holy Spirit, what can God do for him? How many more times can He make him strong?
A man that can't move, is paralyzed, the Holy Spirit get a hold of him, straighten him right up. A man that's so weak he can't raise up...

L-44 A little woman the other night, they was talking about here, from Mayo's that was so--so completely gone, that she was laying on a stretcher. And the Holy Spirit got a hold of her and healed her right there. She got up, and so happy she couldn't even sleep all night when the Mayo Clinic had give her up, just a few nights ago.
Now, what is that? Yielding. And this man, when he seen Jesus coming... Perhaps, the devil tore his mind and run out there to get Jesus because no one could pass by. So when that demon got close to the Lord Jesus Christ, he recognized Who it was. Don't say they don't recognize you; they do. You believe devils recognize Christians? Certainly they...

L-45 Well, the Scripture, I believe, some place says that the devils tremble when the weakest of saints goes to their knees. What a power and a privilege has been given to the Church of the living God. When you fall to your knees in prayer even the devils tremble, to the weakest of them. Think of it.


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