“When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said,
‘What have I to do with You, Jesus, You Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me.’ ”
Luke 8:28.
IF we understand these words to be the exclamation of the evil spirit which tormented this poor demonian, they are
very natural words and one can very readily understand them, for the Presence of Christ is such a great torment to the
Prince of Evil, that he might well cry out, “Are you come to torment us before our time?” If we would put Satan to rout
we have only to preach the Lord Jesus in the power of the Spirit, for this is the Hell of devils. Hence it is that he roars so
much against Gospel preachers—
he roars because the Gospel makes him hurt.
But if these words are looked upon as the language of the man himself, they are most extraordinary. In fact, they are
so singularly mad and foolish that we can only account for them by the fact that though it was a man who spoke, yet the
devil was in him—for surely none but a man possessed with a devil would say to Jesus, who alone could bless him, “De-
part from me!” or say, “Torment me not!” And yet there are tens of thousands of men in this world who are saying just
the same thing! Thousands of persons appear to be far more anxious to escape from salvation than to escape from eternal
wrath! They avoid Heaven’s love with scrupulous diligence and the prayer of their life seems to be, “Keep me, Lord, from
Heaven! Prevent me ever being saved! Give me the full swing of my sins and let me live so as to ruin my soul!”
C.H. Spurgeon- "Plain Words with the Careless"
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