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 It's great to be with you guys again tonight. Thank you to Chris for leading and to Willie

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! I'm just going to read again from the start of the passage just because it's so short.

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 So it's Mark 4, verses 35 to 520.

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 He said to him,

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 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees,

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 in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice,

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 Send us among the pigs. Allow us to go into them.

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 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs.

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 The herd, about 2,000 in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

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 Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and the countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

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 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there dressed and in his right mind.

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 And they were afraid.

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 Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and told about the pigs as well.

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 Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

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 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him.

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 Jesus did not let him, but said,

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 Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you,

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 and how he has had mercy on you.

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 So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him,

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 and all the people were amazed.

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 Amen.

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 So I'm wondering how you guys feel about authority.

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 Are you someone who responds well to authority?

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 Perhaps you see it as a threat.

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 I think quite a lot these days people see it as non-existent.

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 No one really has any authority over another person apart from the systems that have been made up.

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 This passage tonight is about the real, ultimate, tangible authority of Jesus Christ,

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 and it's also about fear.

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 You might notice it crop up three times in this passage.

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 If you look at verse 41, it says,

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 The disciples were terrified and asked each other,

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 Who is this?

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 Even the wind and the waves obey him.

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 The disciples were terrified by Jesus' authority over the wind and the waves.

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 In 5 verse 7, it talks about the man possessed of demons.

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 He shouted at the top of his voice,

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 What do you want with me, Jesus, son of the most high God?

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 In God's name, don't torture me.

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 The demons inside the poor man were panic-stricken and begged Jesus not to hurt them

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 because they recognized that he is the son of the most high God.

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 And thirdly, in 5 verse 15,

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 After the man was healed, the town folks came to see,

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 and when they came to Jesus,

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 they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there,

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 dressed and in his right mind,

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 and they were what?

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 They were afraid.

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 So the big question that this passage gives us tonight is,

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 what authority does Jesus really have?

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 And what does it mean for us?

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 So firstly tonight, the first point is that Jesus has authority over nature.

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 Let me read the first few verses again, 35 to 38.

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 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples,

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 Let us go over to the other side.

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 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along just as he was in the boat.

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 There were also other boats with him.

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 A furious squall came up,

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 and the waves broke over the boat so that it was nearly swamped.

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 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.

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 At this point in the book of Mark, in Jesus' ministry,

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 he's preaching the gospel through parables to Jewish people in the area of Galilee.

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 But in this chapter, he intends to bring the gospel to some Gentiles

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 on the other side of the lake in the region of the Gerasenes.

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 You can tell that they're Gentiles because of the detail in chapter 5

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 that says that they kept pigs.

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 That would be an unclean animal for Jews.

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 And this story has striking resemblance to another story in the Old Testament.

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 You might know about the prophet Jonah who left his home country

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 to preach the gospel to the Gentiles in Nineveh.

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 Unlike Jesus, he was unwilling to go, and he tried to run away.

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 But in the course of him running away, he falls asleep on a ship that undergoes a big storm.

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 The sailors woke him up, and they called out to their idols.

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 But Jonah knows that it's not the idols that have authority over this storm,

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 but the Lord God himself.

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 They asked him to call out to his Lord, the God of Israel, and right enough, the storm calmed.

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 So Jonah and the sailors ended up recognizing that nature belongs to the Lord,

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 as he created all of it, and it answers to him.

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 So that makes it striking, then, in verses 39 to 41,

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 when we see that the person who commands the storm and the wind is Jesus himself.

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 Jesus awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea,

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 Peace, be still.

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 And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

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 So what this passage is saying is that Jesus is not simply a prophet or a preacher,

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 not only a man, but he is God in the flesh.

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 That's why he has authority over the nature.

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 That's why it answers to him, because he created it.

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 He was there in the beginning.

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 He has such a level of authority that even inanimate objects in nature obey him.

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 You see this kind of authority elsewhere in Genesis 1, right at the beginning,

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 when God says, Let there be light, and light obeyed, and there was.

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 Jesus has the kind of authority where he simply has to speak, and it happens.

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 So the disciples question, Then is this, that the wind and sea obey him?

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 Well, the answer, he's God in the flesh.

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 The same Lord who calmed the sea for Jonah hundreds of years before,

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 and the same God who in the beginning said, Let there be light.

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 If you're someone who believes in Jesus tonight, this is great news for a couple of reasons.

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 Firstly, it means that nothing will get in the way of Jesus' mission.

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 Remember that what Jesus was doing here was part of his evangelistic mission.

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 He was going to these people to preach the gospel to them.

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 He was crossing the Sea of Galilee to bring the knowledge of God to Gentiles.

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 And that is a mission which he continues today through his church.

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 The church exists to hold out and hold up the truth of Jesus Christ to the world.

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 To teach his words, to live according to his commands, and to eagerly await his return.

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 And so it's great news that Jesus has all the authority in the world because it means that his mission won't fail.

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 The storm and all of nature couldn't stop him getting to the other side of the lake.

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 He simply commanded it to stop.

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 The same way nothing will stop Jesus achieving his mission in the world through his church.

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 I think many of us maybe feel a little anxious or disappointed in a sort of post-Christian culture that we live.

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 Where the church seems to be declining.

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 You might have seen the recent news that that encouraging report on the quiet revival was based on dodgy data.

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 But what this passage shows is that you shouldn't pin your hopes on headlines, but pin your hopes on Jesus Christ himself.

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 We can be optimistic and hopeful for the gospel in this country and every other country.

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 Because it's backed by Jesus.

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 Who has the authority to make it happen.

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 Secondly, this shows that Jesus cares for his people through the worst circumstances.

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 He doesn't only care for the corporate mission of the church, but he cares for us as individual believers.

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 Look at what the disciples were asking in verse 38.

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 Teacher, don't you care that we're perishing?

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 Or in the NIV, it's don't you care if we drown?

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 The disciples in this passage must have felt they were about to die.

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 They must have felt like it was the end.

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 A furious squall came up and the waves broke over the boat so that it was nearly swamped.

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 There was water in the boat.

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 There's no life jackets or coast guard or swimming lessons in 30 AD.

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 If the boat sinks, that's it.

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 A storm was not a trivial situation.

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 So they wake up their sleeping teacher and say, don't you care that we're about to drown?

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 So Jesus stops the storm and he answers them saying, why are you so afraid?

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 Do you still have no faith?

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 Jesus recognizes that the disciples are so afraid because it hasn't sunk into them that God was in the boat with them.

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 They hadn't come to the settled realization that Jesus is God himself and that he cares for his people.

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 I certainly find this relatable at times and I'm sure you do too.

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 We all have moments of extremity, moments of panic, fear, anxiety, or deep sadness.

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 Moments where our faith is put to the test.

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 And perhaps we think, how am I going to get through this?

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 Or what am I going to go through next?

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 This passage encourages us that Jesus has the authority to protect you through the adversity of life.

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 And also the care and the willingness to do so.

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 There's a good question in the Heidelberg Catechism.

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 Just to help teach people the Bible.

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 And I try and make these words my own and I hope you can too.

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 The question, what do you believe when you say, I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

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 And the answer, that the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth and everything in them,

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 who still upholds and rules them by his eternal counsel and providence, is my God and Father because of Christ his Son.

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 I trust him so much that I do not doubt he will provide whatever I need for body and soul.

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 And he will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends me in this sad world.

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 He is able to do this because he is almighty God.

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 He desires to do this because he is a faithful Father.

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 We don't have a promise that we won't go through adversity or difficulty, but we have a promise that God will bring you through it.

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 Disciples, years later, must have looked back on this day and thought, we were afraid we're about to die.

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 But God was with us and he brought us through.

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 So it is with us.

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 So Jesus has authority, the top authority in the sphere of nature, and therefore we don't need to be afraid when the church goes through adversity,

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 and we don't need to be afraid when we go through adversity.

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 For believers, Jesus' authority in the world is good news.

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 Now the sphere of Jesus' authority extends beyond nature and into supernature, into the spiritual world.

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 That's what the second part is about.

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 Jesus has authority over spiritual darkness.

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 God's people aren't only opposed by adverse and natural circumstances, but also the devil seeks to destroy people.

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 Look at verses 1-2.

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 They went across the lake to the region of the garrisons.

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 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.

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 When it says he had an impure spirit, it's not that he's got a dirty mind or a critical personality.

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 It means that he's been taken in by real spiritual evil.

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 The Bible affirms that the devil and demons are real.

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 And they seek to keep people trapped in sin and opposition.

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 Verses 3-5 read,

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 This man is an example of the destruction and the devastation that the devil seeks to do in people's lives.

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 He was essentially separate from living society.

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 He lived among tombs, which in those days were chambers hollowed out in stone.

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 In ancient family tombs, there'd be a mixture of bones and decomposing bodies.

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 And the man spent his days in those dark rooms with dead bodies and bones surrounding him.

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 Because he was more at home with the dead than the living.

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 You might have noticed his strength.

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 No one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

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 For he'd often been chained hand and foot.

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 But he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet.

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 No one was strong enough to subdue him.

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 I think we see super strength in films as a bit of a superpower.

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 But this is not a superpower or talent for this man.

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 It's a curse.

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 No one's able to help him because he's too strong.

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 He doesn't have control of himself and the devil has isolated him from anyone who wanted to help.

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 Spiritual evil that gripped him even resulted in himself trying to destroy his own flesh.

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 It's worth registering that this sort of spiritual evil is still real.

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 University of Edinburgh has an occult society where you can learn tarot cards and divination.

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 I was at the Meadows yesterday and there was a group of people celebrating Beltane,

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 a pagan festival about some pagan gods.

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 In the book of 1 Corinthians, Paul says that worshipping pagan gods is worshipping demons.

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 It's not an innocent, quirky, quaint tradition.

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 People who go to mediums or seances or do Ouija boards are drawing near to something terrible.

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 They may go to these things with innocent intentions,

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 but they're unknowingly experimenting with evil.

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 You wouldn't stick your hand in a hornet's nest because you'll get stung.

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 And so it is with anything occult related.

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 The devil wants to destroy people.

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 However, Jesus came to destroy the devil.

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 So let's read verses 6 to 8.

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 When the demon-possessed man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.

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 He shouted at the top of his voice,

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 What do you want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God?

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 In God's name, don't torture me.

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 For Jesus has said to him,

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 Come out of this man, you impure spirit.

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 Jesus has the authority in the spiritual realm to destroy spiritual darkness.

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 And this passage makes it clear that he's not got authority because he's on their side,

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 but precisely the opposite.

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 Jesus has authority over demons in the same way that a judge has authority over a criminal,

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 or a king has authority even over the rebels in his land.

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 Jesus came to judge and destroy the devil and his demons.

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 The disciples were afraid because they didn't really know who Jesus was,

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 but the demons here were afraid because they know precisely who he is.

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 Jesus was the son of the Most High God.

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 You see him exerting his spiritual authority in verses 9 to 13.

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 Jesus asked him,

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 What is your name?

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 My name is Legion, he replied, for we are many.

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 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of that area.

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 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside.

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 The demons begged Jesus,

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 Send us among the pigs, allow us to go into them.

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 He gave them permission and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs.

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 The herd, about 2,000 in the number,

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 rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

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 The man was afflicted with a legion of demons.

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 And if that's an accurate number, that could mean up to about 5,000.

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 I think this shows Jesus' different level of authority

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 because there's a story in the book of Acts

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 where two men tried to cast out a single demon from a person and fail.

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 And the demon beats them up.

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 But Jesus is able to destroy a whole legion of demons with a word.

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 And this is to show his authority.

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 You might remember that in Ephesians 6,

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 Paul talks about demons.

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 And he says,

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 We wrestle not with flesh,

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 but with authorities and the spiritual powers of darkness.

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 The word for demon comes from the word authority.

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 And so that's another way of referring to them.

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 In the chapter before in Mark 3,

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 Jesus sends out his disciples,

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 not with the power to cast out demons,

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 but with the authority to cast out demons.

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 In other words,

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 what saves this poor man from the authority

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 of wickedness and evil powers in his life

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 is the authority of someone greater.

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 That means it doesn't matter how tightly the devil may grip a person

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 or how terrible a person's spiritual state is.

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 Jesus can still save them

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 because he has the authority of the Most High God.

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 Some people we know,

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 or perhaps even among us,

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 may have had experiences with the occult

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 and spiritual darkness like that.

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 But be assured that Jesus has the top authority.

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 He absolutely has the power

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 to take people away from that.

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 But thinking more widely,

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 if we're not believers in Jesus,

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 we're really in the same chains

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 as that poor man.

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 It might not be visible,

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 but the Bible says that before you're saved by Jesus,

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 you're spiritually dead.

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 It says you're slaves of sin,

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 following the devil before we're saved.

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 But Jesus has the power to destroy the work of the devil,

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 and he does that through his gospel.

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 By believing in Jesus,

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 we're no longer slaves to sin,

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 but we're set free.

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 Look at how the man changed in verses 14 to 15.

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 Those tending the pigs ran off

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 and reported this in the town and the countryside,

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 and the people went out to see what had happened.

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 When they came to Jesus,

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 they saw the man who had been possessed

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 by the legion of demons sitting there,

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 dressed and in his right mind,

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 and they were afraid.

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 Jesus reversed and undid the damage done to him.

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 He was sat down and clothed rather than naked.

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 He was in his right mind.

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 The Bible says that the devil blinds the minds of unbelievers.

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 It says that under the power of sin,

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 the mind is warped and twisted

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 to oppose God and to reject his truth.

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 I wonder how it must have been

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 for the poor man

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 to have thousands of demons in his head.

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 They must have given him

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 the most horrible, disturbing thoughts.

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 But Jesus fixed his mind

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 and put him at peace.

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 When you become a believer,

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 Jesus sets you free from the devil,

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 deals with the shame

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 of your past and the sin,

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 and he forgives you,

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 and he renews your mind

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 through his word.

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 The last point is a bit shorter,

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 and that's simply that Jesus' authority

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 produces different responses.

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 Verses 15 to 17,

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 it says that the people began to plead with Jesus

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 to leave their region.

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 They were afraid

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 rather than being delighted

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 that Jesus came to free them.

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 Perhaps if you're someone

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 who's new to church

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 or just exploring faith,

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 it might seem all a bit too much.

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 I brought a friend

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 to church once at uni,

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 and he thought Jesus was good,

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 and it was a good message,

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 but it's just too deep.

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 The Bible talks about suffering and death,

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 and he just didn't want to think about that.

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 It was too much to take on.

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 Maybe something similar happened

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 to the people of the Gerasenes.

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 For them,

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 the implications of Jesus' authority

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 was too much to handle.

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 The implications of his authority

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 on our lives

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 may have been too much

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 for them to handle.

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 And if that's like you today,

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 I want to encourage you

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 that you don't want to miss out on Jesus

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 just because of fear.

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 It's true that believing in Jesus

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 has implications for every area

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 of our lives,

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 but they are good implications.

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 The other response to see in this passage

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 is that of the healed man.

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 In verse 18, it says,

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 as Jesus was getting into the boat,

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 the man who had been demon-possessed

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 begged to go with him.

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 Jesus did not let him,

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 but said,

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 go home to your own people

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 and tell them how much the Lord

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 has done for you

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 and how he has had mercy on you.

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 So the man went away

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 and began to tell in the Decapolis

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 how much Jesus had done for him,

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 and all the people were amazed.

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 The man loved Jesus

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 for healing him

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 and begged to stay with him.

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 In that case,

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 Jesus had other plans for him,

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 but he instructed him

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 to spread his gospel

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 in the Decapolis.

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 And the man recognized

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 Jesus' authority

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 and he obeyed him.

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 Isn't that a great example

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 for us as Christians?

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 If we're Christians,

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 then the Lord has taken us out

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 of darkness,

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 sin,

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 and death.

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 So we must also,

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 out of love and gratitude

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 to Jesus,

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 obey him

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 and bring the gospel

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 to our friends

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 and family

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 and loved ones.

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 So I mentioned at the start

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 that this passage

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 is about authority and fear.

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 And what we see

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 is that Jesus

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 has the top authority

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 in all things,

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 physical and spiritual.

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 He is the Lord

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 over nature

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 and supernature.

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 For people who believe

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 in and love Jesus,

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 his authority

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 is truly good news

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 because you have

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 a powerful shepherd

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 who cares for you.

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 For the spiritual powers

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 of evil,

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 Jesus' authority

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 is a sign

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 of their destruction.

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 He has the authority

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 and capability

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 and capability

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 to undo

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 the work of the devil

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 in people's lives.

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 For the people

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 of the world

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 who don't know Jesus

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 yet,

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 his authority

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 is a light

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 in the darkness.

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 His authority

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 means hope

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 for salvation

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 from spiritual death.

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 Let's pray.

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 Then they cried

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 to the Lord

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 in their trouble

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 and he delivered them

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 from their distress.

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 He made the storm

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 be still

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 from their distress.

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 For the people

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have the birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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 who have birth

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