{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"NL-Day015 Genesis 27; Job 15; Mark 9:30-50","description":"GENESIS 27: In yesterday's reading we read the history of Isaac and Rebecca's family before the narrative focuses on their dissimilar twin sons\u2014 and especially Jacob. JOB 15: God has revealed so much more to us in our day than what Job could know in his day. One thing was shown yesterday. Job asked, 14:14 If a man dies, can he come back to life? \u2026 MARK 9b: After coming down the mountain with three of his disciples, Jesus met his other disciples who were having two difficulties simultaneously with people arguing with them and with failing to heal a man\u2019s son\u2014 who was possessed by an evil spirit or a demon. Repeating a little of what I said in an earlier podcast: In Greek, \u2018demon\u2019 is daimonia, and the other term, \u2018evil spirit\u2019, is more literally \u2018unclean spirit\u2019. As someone who has worked in another culture and seen what has happened over my lifetime in the USA, I hope it will be helpful to some readers if I share about this topic. Some of you\u2014 particularly those of the older generation in the USA, will say, \u201cWhat people called demons in Jesus\u2019 day were just what we call mental illness.\u201d While, paradoxically, it is the younger generation in the USA who more readily believe that demons actually exist. I think the younger generation have it right this time. Demons do exist. Here\u2019s what I have observed: Where demons are not believed in, they are happy to stay in the background\u2014 where they are very adept at promoting falsehood and sin. Where demons are feared, worshipped, where people listen to satanic music and take part in occult rituals, demons come out more openly\u2014 to increase people\u2019s fear of them and to manipulate people. As believers in Jesus, remember that Jesus has complete power over Satan and all demons. We who belong to Jesus should not fear them. Nor should we seek communication with such beings. Remember two things from yesterday\u2019s story: The father wisely cried out, \u201cHelp my unbelief!\u201d So the first thing to remember is to fully believe in Christ Jesus. The second is the answer Jesus gave to the disciples question: Prayer is of vital importance in this area of spiritual warfare. NLT Translation notes: Mrk. 9:22 The [demon\/spirit] often throws him into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help us, if you can.\u201d 25 When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil f spirit. \u201cListen, you [demon\/spirit] [who\/that] makes this boy unable to hear and speak,\u201d he said. \u201cI command you to come out of this child and never enter him again!\u201d 26 Then the [evil\/0] spirit screamed and threw the boy into another violent convulsion and left him. The boy appeared to be dead. A murmur ran through the crowd as people said, \u201cHe\u2019s dead.\u201d 29 Jesus replied, \u201c[That\/This] kind can be cast out only by prayer. \u201d heading at 38: [Doing thing for Jesus' cause\/\/Using the Name of Jesus]38 John said to Jesus, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he wasn\u2019t in our group.\u201d 31 for he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them. He said to them, \u201c[I, the\/\/The] Son of Man, [am\/is] going to be betrayed into the hands of [my\/his] enemies. [I\/He] will be killed, but three days later [I\/he] will rise from the dead.\u201d 32 [However\/0] they didn\u2019t understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant. 39 \u201cDon\u2019t stop  him!\u201d Jesus said. \u201cNo one who performs a miracle [on my behalf\/in my name\/using my name] will soon be able to speak evil of me. [One thing I do not like about the NLT is the translation of 'in my name' as 'using my name' in places having to do with prayer like John 16. In v38 here, it works well. For believers in this age, when we pray 'in Jesus' name', the meaning is not simply that we end our prayers with an automatic 'in Jesus name'. The meaning of praying in Jesus' name is that we pray things for the cause of Jesus, on behalf of Jesus, or for Jesus' glory. This is why I end so many prayers on these podcasts with the idea of Jesus\u2019 glory!]   Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright \u00a9 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. ","author_name":"Daily Bible Reading Phil Fields","author_url":"http:\/\/dailybiblereading.info","html":"