What Right did
Peter Have to Make This Claim?
“And there is salvation in no one else; for
there is no other name under heaven that
has been given among men, by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12
Demons Fear & Obey –
In the Gospel of Mark chapter 5 verses 1-20, Peter has just finished taking
Jesus across the Sea of Galilee when a demon possessed man approaches the
boat. We’re provided details that this
man lives among the tombs, has often been bound to be restrained but broke the
chains, and constantly cried out and had self-inflicted wounds. Here is a man who knows no peace, who when
asked by Jesus what the name of the demon is, is told “Legion; for we are
many.”
Jesus told the demons to leave the man and they obeyed
him. Peter and those who knew the man
now observed him sitting down quietly, clothed, in his right mind, and perhaps
for the first time in his life, knowing peace.
Instead of a life causing fear and terror, he left proclaiming to people
in the region the great things Jesus had done for him and everyone marveled. Like Peter, here was a man whose life was
radically and dramatically changed.
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