Sermon Tone Analysis

I. INTRODUCTION:

ME

A. Now there is this tv show that is popular with the younger crowd or as many call them “whippersnappers”.

It’s called the walking dead and it’s about Zombies that take over the world and mankind becomes a minority in the world.

B. Their world becomes a whole different culture.

They do stuff they would never imagine doing for the sake of survival.

They kill for food.

They kill for shelter.

They kill for survival not the zombies but, they start killing their own kind.

C. Their is this one group leader, named Negan.

His group would oppress other surviving communities and force them to pay tribute to him.

When any group member would be asked “Who are you?”, they would respond and say “I am Negan”

WE

A. Now for us, our whole world changes to when we come face to face with death.

B. We can be tempted to do things we wouldn’t normally do.

We become even more fragile and Broken.

Our faith is tested.

We might even ask ourselves, “Who am I”?

As we question our identity, we can lose our sense of value, worth, and purpose.

C.

So what do we do, when we find ourselves in that dark place?

Where our humanity is being stripped away and we are having this identity crisis?

Jesus encountered such a person....let’s turn to…

II.

GOD (

A. The Setting-

C.So what do we do, when we find ourselves in that dark place?

Where our humanity is being stripped away and we are having this identity crisis?

Jesus encountered such a person....let’s turn to....

Spiritual warfare is real

a.

Illustration- “Though the Church does not keep official statistics, the exorcists, attest to fielding more pleas for help every year.

Father Vincent Lampert, the official exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, said in early October that he’d received 1,700 phone or email requests for exorcisms in 2018, by far the most he’s ever gotten in one year.

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2. To the Region of Gerasene

Father Vincent Lampert, the official exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, told me in early October that he’d received 1,700 phone or email requests for exorcisms in 2018, by far the most he’s ever gotten in one year.

a. Gerasene was apart of a region of 10 cities known as “Decapolis”.

It was located at the other side of Galilee.

b.

This region was extremely Gentile and Pagan(This explains their dismay for losing a heard of pigs) for they didn’t consider pork “unclean”.

c. people of this area were described as belonging to the seven pagan Canaanite nations driven out of the Promised Land by Joshua and the Israelites.

d.

These nations worshiped Baal and ate (and sacrificed) pigs

e. used sexual perversions and even child sacrifice in their worship.

3. Dangerous Places Jesus went too

a.

Jesus went to regions that one else dared to

b. Jesus went to cross to suffer a humiliating death

c. Jesus went to the grave that he defeated

4.

There is spiritual warfare happening all around us

a.

Its happening overseas

b.

Its happening in own community

c.

Its even happening in our own households

B. The Satanic

As Jesus gets out of the boat he is confronted by man possessed by Demons

The Demon possessed man is homeless, naked, and lives in a cemetary(makes him unclean)

This man is lost to himself.

He no longer knows himself.

He is shattered and broken in a thousand different pieces and has been stripped of all he thought he was.

He is barely human.

He is left to himself, isolated, alone, and afraid

How do we respond when we are approached by someone who is like this?

How do we respond when we become this?

Each of us have been there

Our life shattered in a thousand different pieces

We lose a loved one

A marriage falls apart

Depression and anxiety just consumes us for no reason

The Demons address Jesus as “Son of the Most High God”

Here the demon was again using Jesus’ true name, hoping to gain control over him (in ancient times, people believed that to know a person’s precise name could help one gain control over that person).

1.

Here the demon was again using Jesus’ true name, hoping to gain control over him (in ancient times, people believed that to know a person’s precise name could help one gain control over that person).

d.

Jesus ask the Demon possessed man to reveal his name

the demon answered, saying that its name was Legion.

A “legion” was the largest unit in the Roman army, having between three thousand and six thousand soldiers.

Thus this man was filled with many demons.

1. the demon answered, saying that its name was Legion.

A “legion” was the largest unit in the Roman army, having between three thousand and six thousand soldiers.

Thus this man was filled with many demons.

2. Ed Murphy, in his Handbook of Spiritual Warfare, observes, "What Jesus is doing is what most deliverance ministers do.

He requests information from the demon to know better what is occurring in the life of the poor man."

3.

If you've can imagine being tormented by a single terrible sin or habit or thought, what would it be like to be bombarded by hundreds or thousands of them?

The demons are pleading not be tormented, but think of the torment this man has suffered for years!

e. Satan’s very purpose is to destroy the image of God.

He is out there to steal, kill, and destroy and he has an army of demons out here to do this very thing.

THE DESTROYER

There is an old fable about a scorpion and a frog.

The scorpion asked the frog to carry him on his back across a creek.

The frog said no, fearing the scorpion would sting him.

The scorpion swore he would not, and so the frog warily allowed the scorpion to hop on, and started across the stream.

Sure enough, when they were halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog.

“Why did you do that?”

yelled the frog.

“Now I will die and you will drown, too!”

“I know,” replied the scorpion.

“It’s just my nature to sting.”

Satan is pictured several different ways in Scripture—Lucifer, the Accuser, a prowling lion—but they all have this in common: Satan’s nature is to destroy.

Luke 8:27–29 shows how demons were intent on destroying a man.