Emmanuel330: WEEK 34 - New Force: Go! Get Lost! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: Matthew 8:28-34

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Please click this link to Matthew 8:28-34

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Bible Study

For the past few days, we were reading passages in Matthew about the total authority of Jesus over disease, over the winds and waves and now over forces of evil.

Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):

Jesus is somebody with authority over everything that the physical world on the one hand, and the non-physical world on the other, can throw at us. This is a Jesus we can trust with every aspect of our lives...He was a force to be reckoned with. You might follow him, or you might be scared stiff of him, but you couldn't ignore him. That is the Jesus we must follow today, the Jesus we must make known in the world.

N.T. Wright. Matthew for Everyone, Part 1. Louisville,KY:Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.94,95.

Is there any kind of force controlling you that you can not exercise this new force from Jesus? Do you know what kind of force is controlling you now? What is Jesus telling you now through this passage?

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

The topic I received from Jesus today is :

New force: Go! Get lost!

What I got from Jesus today is a word for you to use to command all evil forces to go and to get lost. If you have an attitude problem, controlled by anger, doubt, fear or any negative attitude, command that to go and get lost in the name of Jesus. If you have any kind of addiction controlling you, command that to go and get lost in the name of Jesus.

Receive this new force from Jesus that no evil force can control you. You are free!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to have faith to receive this new force from you that we are no longer controlled by any evil force and that you are the only Lord who control our lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Questions for group discussion

New Force: Go! Get Lost!

新的能力: 走開! 消失!

Passage: Matthew 8:28-34

Questions for group leaders

1. Read Matthew 8:28-34 again now. Have you experienced the wicked evil force before? Can you share what happened? What is the right way to deal with those evil force?

2. Is there any kind of force controlling you that you can not exercise this new force from Jesus? Do you know what kind of force is controlling you now?

3. Do you have an attitude problem, controlled by anger, doubt, fear or any negative attitude? Do you have any kind of addiction controlling you? How can you command those evil force to go and get lost in the name of Jesus?

4. What is your highlight in today’s session?

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