Reading it Right - Prepare
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Recap series
Recap series
Summary - Brief sentence to recap or restate
Expose - To reveal something, sin in our life
Change - specifically doing something else
Today - Prepare
1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.
2 As soon as he got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.
3 He lived in the tombs, and no one was able to restrain him anymore—not even with a chain—
4 because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains, he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.
7 And he cried out with a loud voice, “What do you have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you before God, don’t torment me!”
8 For he had told him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”
9 “What is your name?” he asked him. “My name is Legion,” he answered him, “because we are many.”
10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region.
11 A large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.
12 The demons begged him, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
13 So he gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.
14 The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.
15 They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
16 Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.
17 Then they began to beg him to leave their region.
Tell the Story of the demon possessed man
legion of demon in him
chain in a graveyard
he is unclean and cannot be restrained
Jesus casts the demons out to the a herd of pigs
they go crashing down into the sea!
imagine the ones who had the pigs
they run and get people tell them the story and come back to find the demon possessed man sitting, clothed in his right mind talking to Jesus
18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged him earnestly that he might remain with him.
19 Jesus did not let him but told him, “Go home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.”
Summary - The demon possessed man wants to serve Jesus after he has been rescued.
Expose - I do not always live in a way that shows my appreciation to Jesus for what he has done for me.
Change - Continue in reading through a Psalm everyday to increase my worship.
Prepare - Andy in his book asks four questions
In what way is this passage preparing me? For what might it be preparing me?
What could I do with my life if I truly lived out this teaching?
If I make the change this passage requires, where is it ultimately leading me?
How do I fit into God’s purposes according to this passage?
For me - I think of Eph 2:10
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
I have been created for good works, works that point people to God
Recap the four again -
Summary
Expose
Change
Prepare
