2009-10-02T12:07:36-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/demon+possession/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208:28-34&version=NIV 2009-10-02T12:07:36-05:00 The account of Jesus' healing of a demon-possessed man. Nobody else dared go near the violent man, but Jesus cast the demon out of him with a word into a herd of pigs. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2015:21-28&version=NIV 2009-09-20T13:09:01-05:00 Jesus often challenged the idea that God's love extended only to the people of Israel. In this account, he heals a Canaanite woman's daughter because of her earnest faith, despite the fact that Canaanites would have been considered "dogs" by the religious establishment. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%205:10&version=31 2009-08-11T17:18:49-05:00 When Jesus confronted a demon-possessed man, the evil spirit in him identified itself by name: "Legion." Jesus cast it out and into a nearby herd of pigs. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208:30-32&version=NIV 2009-08-06T22:46:33-05:00 Jesus casts demons out of a possessed man and into a nearby herd of pigs. The pigs--considered unclean in the Jewish tradition--plunged off of a nearby cliff. http://biblica.com/niv/appendix/concordance_resultsingle.php?rowid=30 2008-01-18T14:23:52-05:00 A powerful evil spirit that works for Satan. Demons can sometimes control people. But Jesus has power over demons. He can make them come out of people. (Mark 1:21-28; Mark 9:14-29; Acts 16:16-18; Ephesians 6:10-18)