What is My Message?

Has God’s grace touched your life? Has His love changed you? Has the gift of Jesus changed your eternity?

If so, you are called to share the same message which changed your life. You have a mission to share your story and make disciples.

Are you keeping it to yourself…or are you sharing the message?

Mark 5:1–20 NKJV

Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him. And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me.” For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.” And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea. So those who fed the swine fled, and they told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had happened. Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine. Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region. And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him. However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

Let’s look closer this morning at vs. 18-20.

The demon posed man experienced 3 profound and life changing things that day when he encountered Jesus.

Grace was given

Love was given

Compassion was given

It all lead toward a mission that was given

Notice, he wanted to go with Jesus “begged Him that he might be with Him.”

We can be tempted to just stay what to stay in that sweet spot. You know the place. Church is a sweet spot. I love the church, the people of God, who give encouragement, it feels safe here, a place of rest and a sanctuary. However there is world outside these walls that need to hear the message that changed my life. The message of Jesus Christ and the gospel that His life brought to me and this world.

Yet Jesus didn't allow the previously demon posed man to go with Him. Instead God had a mission for Him. To do the following...

GO - TELL - SHARE

Lets look closer at each mission.

GO - WHERE

Start at home.

Mark 5:19 NKJV

However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”

Continue from there.

Matthew 28:19–20 NKJV

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Where ever you go, go in the name of the Lord.

Colossians 3:17 NKJV

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

TELL - WHO

Start with your family. Mark 5:19

Then your friends.

Then look for opportunities to tell others about what Jesus has done for you.

Acts 1:8 NKJV

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.”

SHARE - WHAT

What is your message.

Notice what the message was to be when Jesus told the man to Go home to his friends, and tell them what....

What Great Things the Lord has done for you. v.19

How He Had Compassion on you. v. 19

Mark 5:20 NKJV

And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.