The WOFOYO Podcast
The WOFOYO Podcast
When Deliverance Disrupts Profit, People Push Back
The confrontation with comfort zones begins when Jesus meets a man possessed by thousands of demons, living among tombs and cutting himself. What follows isn't just a supernatural deliverance but a powerful exposé of human nature's darkest tendency—becoming comfortable with someone else's suffering.
This short episode unpacks the story from Mark 5:1-20 where Jesus casts demons from a tormented man into a herd of pigs. Rather than celebrating this man's freedom, the community begs Jesus to leave their region. Why? Because deliverance disrupted their economic interests and comfortable routines. The parallel to our modern world is striking—from inner cities to impoverished communities, we've normalized suffering that doesn't directly affect us. "That's them folks over there. You leave them to that as long as we're content with what we have over here."
The challenge is clear and convicting: examine whether you've adopted an attitude of comfort with others' misery. Are you profiting from systems that keep people bound? When kingdom work shows up and brings real deliverance, it makes people uncomfortable. Those bringing freedom to churches, families, or communities should expect resistance rather than gratitude. If you're doing genuine kingdom work that challenges the status quo of contained suffering, don't be surprised if it makes everybody uncomfortable and you get asked to leave.
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Hey everybody, welcome to another Wofoo Yule Short. This is C-Dub. I'm going to bring some things out. I'm not going to read the whole thing because this is a short. In Mark 5, 1 through 20 is a story about the demoniac. In Matthew it says Gadara, mark's version says the Gerasenes. And so Jesus comes upon this demoniac. He's been hanging out in the tombs and the mountains and he's crying and he's cutting himself and man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1:I lived about a year in New Orleans. Above-ground graveyards is a sketchy place to be, especially there. There's something that kind of attracts. And I've worked in graveyards for a long, long, long time. My old man had a mowing business. We mowed graveyards, man, they were doing that. My family, not me, but my family was doing that up until about two, three years ago.
Speaker 1:And you know, you see some strange things and when you get in them above ground graveyards, man, man, a lot of robbers, a lot of murders, a lot of other stuff. Won't even mention rituals going on and stuff like that. And this guy is there. For those of you familiar with this story you can always read it yourself, get in the word for yourself. But he is possessed by what he says is a legion of demons, that's thousands of demons, and they said don't torment us before the time, don't send us into the abyss, send us into those hogs over there on the hillside. What happens is they enter the hogs. Jesus said well, get out of him. You can go in the hogs if you want, but get out of this guy. And so, all of a sudden, these pigs go nuts and rush down the steep bank of the mountain they're on and jump into the sea and drown. The herdsmen are watching this. That would have had to be a heck of a thing to see, though, and then they see the demon possessed man, who had the Legion this is verse 15, sitting there, clothing in his right mind, and they were afraid, and those that have seen it described what had happened to the demon possessed man, to the pigs, and they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region, and so the demon possessed man that got delivered. He's the one to follow him, and he goes no, just tell what good things the Lord has done for you, and he ends up publishing what happened.
Speaker 1:I want to point out a few things here, though A lot of times, if we're complacent, if we're all about ourselves and sometimes we might not be doing things to honor God. There's a very real temptation to be comfortable with the sin and misery of others. Now, granted, if somebody's sinning, that is their choice. But this guy is demonically possessed, depressed, and everybody's like well, we've done all we could do. We've got to feed our hogs. Other question why are Jewish herdsmen raising hogs, which are unclean animals? You can't eat them. Now, maybe you can sell them to the Romans to eat, or maybe some other group that is allowed to eat them. But you know, as a business this is kind of questionable in and of itself, unless they're just something I'm totally ignorant of. But everybody's good, as long as this guy is possessed and contained, when that deliverance happens. And they got to deal with the same demons that this dude was dealing with, all of a sudden, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on here, jesus?
Speaker 1:And in human nature there is this propensity to be comfortable with the misery of others. As long as we're good, we can even profit off that a little bit. You know, and I see this. You know, it reminded me reading this story in the last day or two. It reminded me of what it's like in a lot of our ghettos and a lot of our inner cities. It reminds me, as someone who grew up in one of the poorer counties in southern Illinois and my mom's side of the family was from the poorest. It reminds me of the attitude of ask those people. They don't know any better. They don't know any better, you know, because poverty is evil too, especially when it comes to an impoverished mindset. You can have a spirit of poverty over a family, over a person, over a region. You can have a poverty mentality parading itself as holiness, just like you can have a controlling and enslaving spirit parading itself as being decently in an order and maintaining the proper protocol in a church.
Speaker 1:When Jesus shows up and that thing isn't contained anymore. When there's real deliverance, when there's real deliverance, when there are real moves of God that hit areas and hit families and hit people to where it affects things. When kingdom work shows up, it's not going to be popular. If you're showing up and doing kingdom work, you can expect deliverance, but you can also expect pushback by people that were profiting off of things they shouldn't have been and who were very, very comfortable in the idea of. That's them folks over there. You leave them to that as long as we're content with what we have over here, let it be, we did all we could do, not the right attitude. And you know what, with what's coming, with what the Lord's doing, that thing's going to get exposed too. So make sure you don't have that attitude Something I'm checking myself on when I read it today.
Speaker 1:Make sure you don't have an attitude of being comfortable in other people's misery and man. Get that relationship right with the Lord so you can be the one bringing about deliverance. And also, don't be surprised if you're in a church, if you bring deliverance to a church, if you bring deliverance to a family, if you bring deliverance to a community, don't be surprised if it makes everybody uncomfortable and you get asked to leave it. It's okay. Wofo Yo. Everybody thanks for listening. We hope this challenges you and causes you to ask yourself some hard questions. You can always check us out at wofoyoorg, find out how to contact us there, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, spotify or Audible, or check us out on YouTube. For Bones and myself, this is CW reminding you. If you're going to grow, you've got to Wofo Yo.