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today's devotional. What is up, everybody? This is the Daily Drive. And I'm Mike Bro, and we've been

unpacking a story this week where we see Jesus as this fearless

chainbreaker who chases away darkness with light. The scene is this. Jesus and his guys,

they pull up on the shore of the other side of the lake where the others live. It's around

midnight. It's dark. It's creepy. And this scary dude comes running at them. And this guy is

uncontrollable. He's been banished to living chained up in a graveyard. He is tortured by demons.

And when he encounters Jesus, he falls on his knees in front of him. More accurately, the demons

fall down before him. And Jesus commands them to leave this man.

And because he says so, they got to go. So the evil spirits try to negotiate with Jesus. Check this out. Verse 11. There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside nearby.

Send us into those pigs, the spirits begged.

Let us enter them.

So Jesus gave them permission.

The evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of

about 2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.

Now, a couple of quick things here.

The demons wanted to enter to pigs because they're bent on destroying anything. They hate to be idle. And Jesus

gives them permission because he has that authority. And he doesn't completely put them out

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