FROM SATAN TO SAVED THEN SERVING

Mark 5:1-20

Theme: The Servant’s Power

Key verse: v.1

43 verses; 952 words

Grade level: 4.4

1. Dealing with Devils. vs.1-20

2. Dealing with Disease. vs.21-34

3. Dealing with Death. vs.35-43

If that demon possessed man were alive today, he would be sent off to live in a mental institution. That diseased woman would be sent to terminal care ward. The dead girl would be sent to the cemetery.[1]

As we learned in chapter 4 Jesus is the Master of the deep. Now we learn in chapter 5 He is the Master of the devils, diseased, and death!

Let’s examine the PARTS to what could be your story.

I. The Guided Direction. vs.1-5

Where Jesus came from. v.1

1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

b. Who Jesus was after. v.2

2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

11 occurrences in the Bible; here are the ones in the other places in Mark.

Mar 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

Mar 3:30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

Mar 7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

He was bound but not with fetters and chains. vs.3-4

3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

He was sleepless. v.5

5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Let’s examine the PARTS to what could be your story.

I. The Guided Direction. vs.1-5

II. The Godless Devils. vs.6-10

They love worship services. v.6

6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

They love being loud. v.7

7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

They are rebuked by the Lord. v.8

8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Let’s examine the PARTS to what could be your story.

I. The Guided Direction. vs.1-5

II. The Godless Devils. vs.6-10

III. The Grievous Descent. vs.11-14

What they sought. vs.11-12

11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

What they killed. v.13

13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

Where the pig farmers did. v.14

14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

Let’s examine the PARTS to what could be your story.

I. The Guided Direction. vs.1-5

II. The Godless Devils. vs.6-10

III. The Grievous Descent. vs.11-14

IV. The Gracious Detail. vs.15-17

What salvation looks like. v.15

15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

What salvation sounds like. v.16

16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.

What lost looks and sounds like. v.17

17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

V. The Gift to Decapolis. vs.18-20

The request of the saved man. v.18

18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

The requirement of the Saviour. v.19

19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

The result of the whole passage. v.20

20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

Conclusion:

You can reach more than the one who led you to the Lord.

You can reach more than your pastor.

You can but will you?

[1] Carr, A. (2019). The Topical Sermon Notebook: Mark (Mk 5:1–20). Wordsearch