LORD Have MERCY, And Help Us Stay Faithful To YOU. AMEN.

These Gergesites had rather 
lose CHRIST, than lose their porkers!
(Thomas Brooks, "The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 
or, HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness", 1662) 

"When they saw HIM, they pleaded 
with HIM to leave their region." 
Matthew 8:34

A man bewitched with the world will 
prefer the most base and contemptible 
things before the LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
He will, with the Gergesenes, 
prefer his swine before a SAVIOR. 
Matthew 8:28-34. 

When they saw what a sad market 
their hogs were brought to, they desired 
CHRIST to depart out of their country. 
These Gergesites had rather lose 
CHRIST, than lose their porkers! 

They had rather that the devil 
should possess their souls--
than that JESUS should drown 
their pigs. They prefer their 
swine, before their salvation!

They present a wretched petition 
for their own damnation; they 
pleaded with HIM to leave their region. 
Though there is no misery, no plague, 
no curse, no wrath, no Hell--
compared to CHRIST'S departure 
from a people; yet men bewitched 
with the world will desire this. 

"When they saw HIM, they pleaded 
with HIM to leave their region." 
Matthew 8:34

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