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Luke 8:26-39
Stephen Caswell © 2001
The Pentel Pen
A type of pen, once imported from Japan and called Pentel, flooded the market in the United States.
Though having been available for only one year, sales of Pentels climbed to 1.8 million and rising.
And all this without heavy promotion!
The explanation?
Word of mouth advertising.
Businessmen and public-relations counselors, office workers, and housewives; all contributed to the advertising of the pen simply by using it and introducing it to others.
/Likewise, Christians should introduce others to Christ by sharing their salvation experience./
Introduction
For the last two weeks we have been looking at the family of God.
*/Firstly,/* we saw that a new birth is required */to enter/* God's family.
We must be born again of the Holy Spirit.*/
Secondly,/* we saw that */to enjoy/* God's family we need to draw on His provisions.
God lavishly provides for the needs of His children.
Today we will see our responsibility */to enlarge/* God's family.
The Lord wants to fill His heavenly home with children.
Every believer has a part to play in this.
We have been commissioned to share Jesus Christ with the world.
*Mark 16:15* /And Jesus said to them, Go into all the world and *preach* the gospel to every creature.
/The word */preach/* is khrussw and means */to publish, to proclaim, to declare as a herald/*.
/But how can ordinary saints preach Jesus Christ?
/By sharing what God's done in their own lives.
*Acts 1:8:* /But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
/A witness in court isn't required to give an opinion or a verdict.
What is expected of them is a testimony of what they have personally seen or heard.
That's what Jesus asked from the man of Gadara! *Luke 8:38-39:* /Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him.
But Jesus sent him away, saying, *return* to your own house, and *tell* what great things God has done for you.
And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
What facts should we share with the lost?
/Just 3 things.
*/Our Life Before Christ/*, */Our Salvation By Christ, /*and*/ Our Life After Christ./*
/Firstly,/ Our Life Before Christ
*Luke 8:27a:* /And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time./
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The Protective Barrier
It appears that within man there is a protective barrier sheltering him to a certain extent from the baneful influence of demons.
Once a person begins dabbling in the occult, this protective fence is broken down.
The victim henceforth becomes the prey of wicked spirit forces.
Occultly - subjected people often confess that it was not too difficult to make contact with the spirits.
But once they become aware of the diabolical nature of their spirit intercourse and sought to renounce this evil, they found that no power on earth could free them.
/ /
We aren't told how the demons entered this man and took control.
Possibly it was the result of yielding to sin.
Demons can easily get a foothold in the lives of people who cultivate sinful practices.
Because he yielded to Satan, the thief, this man lost everything!
/a.
Slavery/
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Jesus was confronted by a man who */had been possessed/* by Satan for*/ a long time./*
The word */had/* ejcw means */to have/*,*/ to hold /*or*/ to possess.
/*In verse *36* we are told that he */had been demon possessed./*
When Jesus asked the demon his name he said, Legion, for we are many.
At that time a Roman legion numbered six thousand soldiers.
This man had been overcome by an army of Satan's demons.
Satan had bound him and there was nothing that he could do.
I am sure that this man wanted to be free from these demons but each time */they seized him./*
Satan's bondage had gone on for a long time, probably many years.
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Shame /
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*Luke 8:27b:*/ And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs./
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This demon possessed man had a shameful appearance.
He roamed around naked.
This shouldn't surprise us since demons have no shame.
They reveled in this.
He probably stank and was filthy, but this was normal since unclean spirits controlled him.
He had no home to live in or family to love him.
He lived all alone in the tombs.
/Why there?/
Because demons like to be around death and decay.
The tombs were most suitable.
This man was living near the dead and that was appropriate for someone spiritually dead.
He truly was a down and out.
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Sin /
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*Luke 8:29a:* /For He had commanded the *unclean spirit* to come out of the man./
/For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles.
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This man from Gadara behaved very sinfully because of the demons control.
Unclean spirits promote sinful behavior.
They gave him incredible strength which frightened the locals greatly.
*Matthew 8:28* says that he was /exceedingly fierce./
The local citizens tried to solve this problem by chaining him up.
But when they bound him he would simply break free.
*Mark 5:4:*/ says that no one could tame him.
/People were afraid of him and completely unable to help him./
/As a result/ /*Matthew 8:28b:*/ says that no one could pass that way for fear of the man.
/*Mark 5:5*/ /*says that:*/ He cried out night and day/ as the demons tormented him.
No doubt these outcries would have been blasphemous and full of filth.
Unclean spirits never speak anything virtuous.
This man's behavior would have been very sinful.
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Suffering/
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*Luke 8:29c:*/ and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.
/*Mark 5:5:* /And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones./
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The results of Satanic bondage and sinful behavior is suffering.
The demons sent him mad.
These demons drove him relentlessly.
This man from Gadara experienced the old saying, /there is no rest for the wicked first hand./
He had no peace as the demons tormented him night and day.
They drove him from one hard place to the next.
The wilderness, the tombs and the mountains are all lonely harsh places to live.
The demons forced the man of Gadara to cut himself with stones.
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