Lessons of Jesus
Chapter 3: Let's go over to the other side

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And then, the Lord said to His disciples in metaphorically, "Come, let us go to the other side". It was an invitation to leave all the worldly desires, and follow him with whole heartly, its a calling to his heavenly kingdom, even today, in some of the ancient culture, for arranging the wedding to their daughter, or arranging good life to their children, they used to say how am i going to take them to other side, but the disciples who saw Jesus Christ as an ordinary man did not know how precious that calling was "Come, let us go to the other side", and without knowing they all went on the boat with the Lord - 35.That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, Let us go over to the other side. 36.Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37.And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38.Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” 39.He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. 40.He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” 41.They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him! - Mark 4:35-41

It was a great opportunity for them to sing and worship the God Almighty, but none of the disciples know that God is traveling with them, and none of them know why Jesus is taking them to Gerasenes, because there was a man targeted my thousands of evil spirit, and no one is there to help him, his testimony was so powerful, the Bible says everyone marveled for his testimony, let's see his testimony.

Quiet! Be still!

For years i was tormented by Legion of demons, they were many, not one, not two, they were in thousands, they used to torment me day and night, so i started living in the tombs and on the mountains, crying out day and night, cutting myself with stones, and used to wander as a naked man, and no one able to bind me even with chains, when people binds me with shackles and chains, i used to wrench the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces.

Finally, the God of Heaven heard my cry, one night I saw the boat coming towards Gerasenes from the other side of the ocean, it was coming towards the mountain where i was living, but i do not know the God of Heaven is in that boat, on that night the demons were so aggressive and started tormenting me, they thought the disciples cannot bind me and take me to Jesus, in fact, the demons were preparing me to attack in case if the disciples come closer to me, i was crying out loudly, and there was a storm in that night, the wind and ocean also started making noise like demons, i thought there are two new demons wind and rain also joined to torment me, i was sent flying between mountain cliffs.

As i was watching the boat from the mountain cliff, the boat also got stuck by the storm and the disciples were waving their hands for help, suddenly a voice came from that boat "Quiet be still", the voice was so commanding, so powerful, so comforting, and immediately the evil wind and roaring ocean ceased immediately and there was a great calm, i felt like two of the legion members were dead, but do not know it's a new beginning in my life.

for that very commanding word, not only the wind and ocean ceased, but the demons which is tormenting me also ceased to death, and they all started screaming for their life, from that very moment the healing started in me, and i never expected that God of Heaven can heal me from that boat itself, and finally the boat reached seashore, and Jesus of Nazareth stepped out of the boat and put his foot on my ground, and i came down the mountain cliff and saw him face to face, the one who commanded and said "Quiet be still", He is Jesus of Nazareth, the God of Heaven.

Yes, Jesus healed me from the boat itself, that was the reason Book of Mark recorded that Jesus had already said to the spirit, “Come out of the man, you evil spirit” the spiritual interpretation of "Quiet! Be still" - 1.They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2.And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3.He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4.for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5.Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6.And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7.And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8.For Jesus had already said to the spirit, “Come out of the man, you evil spirit” - Mark 5:1-8

Then I came down from the mountain and stood before the Lord, all the Legion of demons started begging to Him for their life, because He is God of all the power, and then, all the demons left me and took the shuttle called pigs and fell on the same ocean and went to permanent silent, they all are dead now - 9.And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10.And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11.Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12.and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13.So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea - Mark 5:9-13

This is how he shared his testimony to others and preached Gospel, because he know Jesus is God, He know the reason why Jesus came to Gerasenes, the disciples thought Christ said "Quiet be still" to calm down the wind and the ocean, but he know the actual reason, its to heal him and give him a life, so Christ did not allow to stay with him, and sent him to ministry immediately, he was the very first person sent forth by the Lord to the ministry, but the disciples still did not know that Jesus is God - 14.The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15.And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16.And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17.And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. 18.As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 19.And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20.And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled - Mark 5:14-20

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