In the Gospel of Mark, we look at lessons of faith illustrated by various miracles of Jesus: his peaceful sleep in the storm, the deliverance of the possessed Gerasenes, the healing of a woman flowing with blood, the raising of Jairus' daughter, the feeding of the 5,000 and Jesus' walking on the water. These stories invite us to understand faith and its content better.
In particular, we look at the story of a possessed man and his deliverance and what it means to be possessed. To understand this, we need a spiritual key: a clear understanding of the functions of the spirit, the state of the human being at birth and how the spirit controls the body. We also need to know the needs of the spirit and how to satisfy them.
Is possession an external control by the devil or an internal binding by the false identity? In fact, the human spirit unconsciously binds itself to Satan from the moment of conception, as it inherits the false identity “I am God”. In this sense, we are all “possessed” in a way, as we are trapped by an idea that does not allow us to act freely. This means that man is always his own enemy when things don't go right. We no longer act freely. When someone loses control, it shows their unconscious and involuntary obsession.
Since the attachment is a separate action of the spirit, only the person himself can free himself from it - and that happens only through a Savior. Jesus came to free us from our attachment to evil. Many Christians mistakenly believe that they are possessed by God. But that would be tantamount to equating God with the devil.
Everyone needs redemption - not just the obviously possessed. Through our inheritance, we are all taken in by the false idea that we ourselves are God. Only through Jesus can we experience deliverance and embrace a new life that frees us from self-destruction and sickness. Anything else is not true salvation. In the fifth part of the series “The Gospel of Mark”, we will explore these topics in more depth.