Matthew 12:43-45 – When an unclean spirit goes out of a
person it goes to the watery places seeking a place to land and finding none it
says to itself, “I will go back to my house from which I came. On returning, it
finds the place clean, swept, and put in order. It then invites seven other
demons more unclean than itself to come in. So the person is worse off than he
was before. So it will be with this evil generation.
This is Jesus speaking after discussing the sign of Jonah. He
is saying that we by ourselves cannot get out of our sinful nature. There’s a
saying that one cannot get out of a sticky situation using the same thinking
that got them into it in the first place. So here. We need help or the demons
will keep coming back. We need someone else living in our home to help us fight
whatever our demons are. We need Jesus – the “something” bigger than Jonah.
What is this passage saying to me right here, right now?
What is the demon that needs banishing and how am I going to ask for Jesus’
help?
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