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What am I hearing?
would God say that to me?
is it true?
What is the truth?
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the presence of the deominc
Intro/Welcome
1 John 5:19 (ESV)
19 ...the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Do you believe this?
I mean “The whole world...”
....in the power of the evil one.
Let that sink in.
Let’s think on this.
Exercise: Sit in silence and listen:
What do you hear when you think about this? (write it down)
The whole world lies in the power of tee evil one
disbelief?
impossible?
not true?
fanatical?
Book
We’ve been studying the book of Mark and we’ve seen Jesus do remarkable things.
He has healed people, he has taught with authority, he has even calmed a storm by his voice
From the beginning of his ministry he has been at battle with the spiritual forces of darkness
actually it hasn’t been much of a battle, he simply casts demons out and they leave.
Today we have perhaps the most detailed and specific instance of Jesus waging war against the unseen demonic realm.
When Jesus arrived on the scene after his defeat of satan in the wilderness he declared:
Mark 1:15 (CSB)
15 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near.
Repent and believe the good news!”
The Kingdom of God as opposed the the Kingdom of Darkness
There is a clash of Kingdoms.
Jesus came to wage war.
1 John 5:19 says that the “whole world is under the power of the evil one”
But look what else John wrote in the same letter
1 John 3:8 (ESV)
8 ...The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
You and I were born into a war
In our text today we see Jesus winning a decisive victory.
With he begins a covert invasion into enemy territory.
Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil, and you and I are his foot soldiers.
Today he will show us how to wage war by demonstrating:
The Presence of the Enemy
The Power over the Enemy
The Plan for defeating the enemy.
Bible
We’ll be in Mark 5:1-20.
my name is Justin
Welcome everyone and online
Let’s Pray
Pray
2 Corinthians 10:4–5 (CSB)
4 since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds.
We demolish arguments 5 and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
Context
Remember where we are in the Book of Mark
Jesus begin his ministry in Mark 1-3
In Mark 3:13-19 he calls the 12 Apostles
In Mark 6:7 he’s going to commission them to go and do the works he has been doing.
In between he is training them.
Jesus wasn’t just training the apostles.
He’s discipling, disciple-makers.
Today’s lesson is on the Spiritual War we are all in.
The Presence of the Enemy
Mark 5:1 (CSB)
1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.
Jesus just calmed the storm, they responded with fear!
They grew in their wonder of Jesus
Mark 5:2–5 (CSB)
2 As soon as he got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit (a man having demons - Luke 8:27) 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.
Luke 8:29 (CSB)
29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.
Matthew 8:28 (CSB)
28 When he had come to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they came out of the tombs.
They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
This is a severely disturbed man and the towns people knew of him.
He lived out among the dead (the tombs) — in the caves in that region
real place, real event, at a real time
Demon-possessed
this man was possessed by a demon — lit.
had demons with him.
Jesus is in enemy territory here.
This is about as bad as it gets.
Super-human strength, violent, isolated and would inflict self-harm (cutting)
these are all demonic manifestations
what you might call ‘extraordinary manifestations’
but most often, as we’ll see, there are the ‘ordinary manifestations’
Look what happens next
and try to imagine what this would have been like for the disciples to witness.
The Power over the Enemy
Mark 5:6–13 (CSB)
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