Unhook And Get Out

Given September 3, 2008

My wife and I spent the holiday weekend at Riverside Campground and RV Park, a Christian campground in Sevierville Tennesse.  It’s a great facility with owners who declare “To God be the glory.”.  We love to spend time there.

As I was praying this morning for several sick people on my list, I thought of the campground and how no ungodly behavior is allowed there.  Sickness comes in and sets up camp in our bodies when it doesn’t have any right to.  It just comes in, hooks up to the power and water, gets out the lounge chair and makes itself at home.  It doesn’t even pay the lot rent!

But…as the franchise owner of the campground, (God is the main boss and the campground is our body), we can say, “Not in my campground!  Unhook and get out! Your kind is not allowed here.”  “And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: Mark 9: 25-26“.

Now, it may take awhile for long term campers to pull up stakes and leave but we must stay after them.  And they may try to come back later but if we stand on the authority of the boss, we can keep them out.  “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. Luke 10:19“.  Take your authority as park owners and kick the sickness, depression, confusion, poverty, and fear bums out!