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这个湖畔城市有一个不寻常的问题，游客们有时会遇见一个大声喊叫和裸体的人！人们常用铁链锁住他和看守着他，但他总能把锁链挣断，然后又再次到处流荡了。

然而，当耶稣到来时，情形就不同了。附在这人身上的鬼认识耶稣并且怕祂。耶稣准许鬼进入猪群中，医好了这人，真是令人难以置信啊。接着下来，我们便看见这人“坐在耶稣脚前，穿着衣服，心里明白过来。”

群众聚集在那里，他们见到那人精神回复正常了，他们见到被淹死的猪群在水里浮着，他们见到耶稣。但他们有什么反应呢？他们很害怕耶稣，他们不但没有欢迎耶稣来到他们的社区，反而请求耶稣离开他们！

被医治的人又有什么反应呢？他恳求和耶稣同在！然而，耶稣却打发他回到那些要求祂离开的人那里，告诉他们神为他做了何等大的事。

有一个好消息：今天耶稣仍然在改变人的生命——有时改变是静静地在忠心基督徒的生命中发生的，有时却是戏剧性地翻转人的生命。

我们是怎样的邻舍？看见耶稣在作工时，我们会因害怕而退缩、还是放胆讲述主正在为我们作的事呢？

This lakeside town had an unusual problem. Visitors were sometimes met by a naked man who screamed at people! He would be bound in chains and placed under guards, only to break free and roam around again.

But things were different when Jesus came. The demons possessing this man knew Jesus and were afraid of him. Incredibly, Jesus healed the man by allowing the demons to go into a herd of pigs. And the next thing we know, the man was “sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind.”

A crowd gathered. They saw the man in his right mind. They saw the pigs drowned and floating in the water. They saw Jesus. And how did they react? They were terrified, and instead of welcoming Jesus to their neighborhood, they asked him to leave!

How did the healed man respond? He begged to stay with Jesus! But Jesus told him to go back to the very people who had asked him to leave, and to tell them all about what God had done for him.

Now here is good news: Jesus still changes lives today—sometimes quietly in faithful Christian living, and sometimes dramatically through a radical life change.

What kind of neighbors are we? When we see Jesus at work, do we shut down in fear, or do we speak up about what the Lord is doing for us?