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 Father, we confess before you that sometimes we don't want to act like Christians

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 because we are a bit embarrassed about how the world would view us,

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 how average Canadians would view us or our friends.

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 And we confess to that temptation even now.

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 But Father, in the name of Jesus, not in our strength,

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 but definitely not in our strength, but only in the name of Jesus,

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 and washed by him and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

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 In the name of Jesus, Father, we ask that every demon or evil spirit that is present or arrayed against us,

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 whether it is in this place or those who are entering into our worship online,

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 that, Father, in the name of Jesus, every evil spirit will be bound,

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 that in the name of Jesus, every demon and evil spirit will be silenced,

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 that in the name of Jesus, these foul spirits will be taken away, not to return.

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 And Father, in the name of Jesus, we ask that you do not leave us empty,

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 but that the Holy Spirit would come with might and power and deep conviction into each of our hearts,

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 that you, Jesus, might rule in our hearts.

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 We invite, with no qualifications, with no conditions,

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 we invite, Lord Jesus, you to speak into our hearts and rule in our hearts,

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 today and always.

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 And we ask this in the precious name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior.

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 Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So now that I've weirded some of you out by that prayer,

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 although some of you have heard me pray like this before,

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 Jesus and the Legion of Demons.

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 That's the sermon today.

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 Jesus and the Legion of Demons were evil spirits.

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 So let's turn and look at this text.

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 It's Mark chapter 5, beginning at verse 1.

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 It goes from 1 to 20.

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 And just before, as you're maybe turning to look at it in your Bibles,

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 just a couple of things.

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 First of all, I've written a blog about the fact that there are apparent significant contradictions

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 between Mark and Matthew and Luke.

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 Matthew, Mark, and Luke are three ancient biographies of Jesus,

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 either written by eyewitnesses or dependent upon eyewitness testimony.

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 And all three of these ancient biographies were written when many eyewitnesses were still alive,

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 to contradict it.

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 And if you look at the three accounts, you'll see that there are some...

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 I say that there's, in particular, three often pointed out contradictions.

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 And I'm not going to talk about that in the sermon.

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 I've written a blog.

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 And as I've said before, if I get my blog written before 4.30 on Friday,

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 you get it on Saturday.

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 If I get it written after that, you get it on Monday.

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 So on Monday, I've written a blog,

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 and I'll talk about those apparent contradictions

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 and why there aren't, in fact, any contradictions and you can trust the Bible.

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 But what I'm going to do in this text...

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 And by the way, this is actually just any...

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 Those of you who do Bible studies yourselves,

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 there's sort of two fundamentally different ways

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 that you can do a Bible study on Matthew, Mark, or Luke.

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 And because there's quite a few times

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 when all three of these biographies will talk about the same event.

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 And so one way to do it is to try to look at all three of them at the same time.

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 The other way to do it is to sort of fundamentally just look at one of them

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 and, in a sense, ignore the other two.

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 Because in every case, they tell the story in such a way

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 to make points that are significant for the story,

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 the bigger story that they're telling, like in Matthew or Mark or Luke.

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 So other than one little time where I'm going to mention something,

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 fundamentally what I've been doing every week when we preach on Mark

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 is just looking at Mark

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 and not trying to bring in pieces of information from the other stories.

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 We just sort of look.

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 So I'm not prejudging how I answer the challenges in my blog.

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 I'm going to preach this.

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 We're going to look at the story as Mark has written it.

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 And so here, let's go.

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 What's just happened is Jesus has just calmed the storm.

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 He is now in this area, which we'll hear about in a moment,

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 which is a primarily pagan area.

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 And at the end of the story, those of you who remember it,

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 it mentions the Decapolis.

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 And 67 BC, the area was subdued by the Imperial Roman forces.

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 And when the area was subdued by the Imperial Roman forces,

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 they picked this area and had picked 10 cities to be showcases of pagan,

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 cultural, and religious life.

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 And so that's the area that Jesus is coming into,

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 where the 10 principal cities have been set aside by the Roman Empire

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 now for quite a few years, almost 100 years,

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 to be a showcase for pagan culture, power, understanding.

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 And that's the area, a majority pagan area that Jesus has come into.

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 And here's how it goes.

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 Verse 1.

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 They came to the other side.

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 That's Jesus and the disciples.

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 They've gotten out.

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 Jesus has calmed the storm.

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 They arrive on the other side.

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 Sorry.

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 So they came to the other side of the sea,

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 to the country of the Gerasenes.

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 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat,

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 immediately there met him out of the tombs,

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 a man with an unclean spirit.

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 And just those of you who are a bit familiar with the Bible,

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 but some of you aren't,

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 the Bible sometimes will say unclean spirit,

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 sometimes an evil spirit, and sometimes demon.

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 It's just three different ways of referring to the same type of entity.

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 They're not different types.

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 They're all the same thing.

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 So this man has come,

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 and he has an evil spirit or evil spirits.

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 And now Mark is going to, in a sense,

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 take a bit of an aside.

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 I guess if they were doing a movie of this,

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 what you would see now is there'd be a bit of a flashback

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 where you get different images of what the man is,

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 sort of introducing the man

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 before it gets back to what's going to happen

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 between the man and Jesus.

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 So it sort of all of a sudden switches,

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 goes a little bit in time to make you familiar

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 with this particular man who's never named.

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 So that begins in verse 3.

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 The man with the evil spirit lived among the tombs,

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 and no one could bind him anymore,

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 not even with a chain.

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 For he had often been bound with shackles and chains,

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 but he wrenched the chains apart,

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 and he broke the shackles in pieces.

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 No one had the strength to subdue him.

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 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains,

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 he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

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 And in the original language,

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 the language is quite harsh and brutal.

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 You sort of get a bit of a feel of it in the English, right?

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 Where, you know, with chain, bound,

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 shackles, chains, wrenched, chains,

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 broke the shackles, the calling out.

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 You get this sense of a very brutal type of a language.

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 Now, in this description,

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 it's very interesting if you think about it for a second.

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 And, you see,

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 the Bible provides to us a mirror

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 of who we are really in our heart.

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 And in a sense,

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 constantly the challenge of reading the Bible is,

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 will you see it as a mirror,

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 or will you stand and looking at the Bible

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 sort of as a critic and a judge?

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 And, obviously,

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 I'm not saying you shouldn't have questions and all of that.

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 And if you're,

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 wouldn't say that you're a Christian

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 and you're watching this,

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 it's completely valid to have, like, questions.

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 I'm going to raise some questions about this in a moment.

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 But, fundamentally,

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 it's an opportunity.

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 This is what Christians believe.

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 It's a bit of a mirror.

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 I mean, it's both a window

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 to see into what the world is really like,

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 but it's also a mirror to reveal to us

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 who we are,

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 what we really are like at the level of our heart.

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 Now, if you think about it for a second,

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 this description of what we've just read

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 is what the average Canadian longs for.

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 You go, what?

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 If you think about it,

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 what I've just read

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 is what the average Canadian longs for.

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 This man is very strong.

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 He can break chains and shackles.

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 I mean, that's what superheroes movies are about.

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 That's what gyms are about.

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 But he's very, very, very strong.

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 He's feared.

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 He takes no guff.

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 There was a little feature the other day

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 about Bruce Willis movies,

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 which are still quite remarkably possible.

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 And one of the things that characterizes Bruce Willis

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 and other movies like that

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 is he's a guy who takes no guff.

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 Now, why is it that we would like a movie like that?

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 Because in and of ourselves,

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 I'd like to be the type of person

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 who takes no guff.

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 I'd like to be able to go into a meeting

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 and I'm not going to take any of this type of stuff.

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 And on one level,

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 most of us would like to be a little bit feared.

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 Maybe even sometimes a lot feared.

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 This guy is independent.

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 He doesn't care what people think.

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 I mean, on one level,

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 it's not what we sort of value in our society,

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 that we wish that we were the sort of person

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 who doesn't really care what people think.

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 And he doesn't care for social conventions.

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 And on one level,

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 that speaks very powerfully of North American culture.

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 We'd like to be the type of person

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 who doesn't care for social conventions.

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 Why?

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 Well, because

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 we want to be true to our inner life.

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 And we want to be authentic and autonomous.

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 And this man is true to his inner life

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 and he is authentic and autonomous.

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 He doesn't care about social conventions.

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 He doesn't take any guff.

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 He's very, very strong.

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 And on one level,

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 to our great horror,

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 to meet a man who's autonomous

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 and authentic and self-actualized.

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 But to our horror,

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 when we see a character like this in the Bible,

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 we recoil from him in horror.

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 Now, this is where you see

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 the Bible starts to become a bit of a mirror.

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 What does it say about the way

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 that Canadians casually talk

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 about the ideal type of life

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 if we actually see an example of it

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 and we would recoil from it in horror?

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 I mean, most of us would.

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 In fact, actually,

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 if we came across somebody in a Bible study,

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 that said,

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 whoa, I'd like to be like that guy,

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 you'd all go like this.

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 You'd take a bit of a step back

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 and say,

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 what, you'd like to be like this?

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 If it's your boss,

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 you'd say to yourself,

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 well, that explains a lot

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 if your boss

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 or your boss's boss

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 thinks like that.

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 But we would automatically just say,

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 this person is not a model.

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 They're alone.

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 They're unloved.

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 They're in agony.

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 They are brutal individuals

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 who are brutal to others

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 and they brutalize themselves.

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 They brutalize themselves.

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 They brutalize others.

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 He is a brutal man.

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 You see,

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 one of the things

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 that the gospel constantly does

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 is it subverts

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 what we think we want.

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 But it subverts

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 what we think we really want

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 and what our culture tells us

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 we really want

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 to fulfill at a deeper level

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 what we truly want.

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 Because the fact of the matter is

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 is we do want to be free.

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 Don't we?

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 We want to be free.

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 We want to be free.

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 But we also want to be loved

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 and we don't want to be alone

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 and we don't want to brutalize others

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 and be brutalized ourselves.

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 So the story now is setting up

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 how is Jesus going to handle this?

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 How is he going to deal with it?

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 What's going to be revealed about the man

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 and what's going to be revealed about Jesus?

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 So look what happens in verse 6.

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 And here,

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 the original language

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 gives a bit of a stronger sense

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 because you have this man

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 who lives where death,

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 where there is just death

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 and lives alone.

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 And the one thing that they will bring in,

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 if you look at the other accounts,

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 he's also naked.

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 That's what I meant by

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 I didn't care about social conventions

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 and stuff like that.

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 That's the one thing

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 I'm going to bring in

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 from the other accounts.

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 This fearsome, brutal, yelling, cut man

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 who's very, he's cut both in the sense

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 he's very strong and he's cut

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 because he cuts himself with stones.

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 And he sees Jesus.

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 And in verse 6,

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 when he saw Jesus from afar,

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 he ran and fell down before him.

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 In the original language,

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 there's this sense

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 that he's hurling himself at Jesus.

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 Hurling himself across the distance

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 to hurling himself at Jesus.

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 But rather than falling on Jesus,

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 he falls down.

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 Jesus doesn't have to defend himself.

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 The guy just falls down.

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 Almost like an early example

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 of being slain in the spirit

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 for my charismatic friends.

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 He just falls down.

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 Before Jesus.

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 And not only does he fall down

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 in the original language,

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 he's prostrate before him.

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 You know, if you've seen

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 Roman Catholic ordinations,

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 the priest through the deacon

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 getting prostrate on the floor.

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 That's the guy's prostrate.

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 He hurls himself at the Jesus.

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 But before that happens,

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 he's now prostrate.

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 Verse 7,

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 Now, one of the things which is interesting here,

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 and actually there's two cases in this text

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 where, to our Muslim friends

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 who might be watching this,

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 there's two cases in Mark's gospel

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 where the text very clearly says

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 that Jesus is God.

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 This is one of them.

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 And it's very interesting

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 because it says that Jesus is a God

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 in the context,

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 in the strongest possible sense

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 that a pagan would understand it

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 because it's a primarily pagan expression

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 that for the pagans who believed

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 that there were many gods,

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 you know, that there was, you know,

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 Hercules and Zeus

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 and all these different gods,

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 but they had this sense

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 that higher than all of the gods

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 and goddesses that they were aware of,

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 that higher than all of those

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 and however high you go,

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 there is eventually

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 an ultimately most high God.

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 And the demon-possessed man

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 is saying,

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 Jesus, you are the son

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 of the most high God.

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 And what that is meaning is,

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 of course, it means that Jesus

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 is of the same nature

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 as the most high God

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 because that's, you know,

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 I have, God has blessed me

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 with nine children

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 and all of the babies

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 have human nature.

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 Right?

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 That's just how it is.

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 Cats have kittens.

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 They share the same nature.

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 So this is a very high claim of God.

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 Remember, they're in a primarily pagan area.

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 He uses pagan categories,

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 but he says that Jesus

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 is fundamentally God.

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 He says,

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 what do you have to do with me,

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 Jesus, son of the most high God?

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 In the original language as well,

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 it's even a stronger thing.

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 What do you have to do with me?

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 In the original language,

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 it's expressing,

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 the demon-possessed man

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 is expressing that normally

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 somebody like Jesus

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 doesn't have anything to do

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 with somebody like him.

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 It would be a little bit

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 as if on the drive home

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 or when I get home today,

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 I get a call

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 and it's Justin Trudeau.

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 And I would say,

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 now maybe you guys get,

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 some of you guys get called

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 by Justin Trudeau all the time,

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 right?

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 But for me,

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 I would view it as a prank.

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 And after I did a couple of tests,

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 et cetera,

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 eventually became clear

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 and Justin Trudeau called me,

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 in a sense,

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 I'm thinking,

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 what does Justin Trudeau want with me?

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 Like,

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 we inhabit

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 completely different spheres

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 that have nothing to do

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 with each other.

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 So what on earth

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 would somebody like him,

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 like Justin Trudeau,

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 want to have

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 to talk with somebody like me?

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 And that's the same type

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 of idea here.

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 The demon-possessed man

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 is saying,

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 son of the most high God,

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 Jesus,

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 you and I are in completely,

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 and it's completely true,

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 right?

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 They are in completely

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 and utterly

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 different spheres.

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 And now,

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 demons lie.

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 Of course,

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 in a sense,

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 he would know

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 that ultimately

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 God is sovereign,

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 but he tries to talk

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 as if it's not something

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 that generally speaking

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 the most high God

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 would want.

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 But that's what's happening.

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 And the other thing about it

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 is it's both a type

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 of bravido,

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 you know,

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 I tell you,

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 you have to swear by God,

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 you're not going to hurt me.

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 It's a type of bravido

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 and whining,

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 all interspersed

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 at the same time.

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 Like a type of groveling,

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 whining with bravido

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 intermingled,

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 all in this short

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 type of thing

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 as if they're big and tough

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 and you can tell Jesus

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 what to do

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 at the same time

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 you're cringing

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 and saying,

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 don't hurt me

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 and acknowledging

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 that you're about

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 to get your butt kicked,

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 so to speak,

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 and there's nothing

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 you can do to stop it.

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 That's the Greek,

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 getting your butt kicked.

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 Sorry,

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 never mind,

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 that's not what

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 the Greek says.

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 Anyway,

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 so,

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 now one of the things

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 which is really interesting

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 about this text

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 and it's a,

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 it's a real challenge

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 to those who go to the church

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 and those who might

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 call themselves Christians

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 is that this demon-possessed man,

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 he knows Jesus,

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 he passed the theology test

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 way better than any of the disciples,

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 but it doesn't have

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 any type of a carryover

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 into repentance

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 or openness to Jesus.

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 So there's two types of things

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 that are going on here.

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 Just because you can have

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 very,

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 very clear knowledge

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 about certain types of things

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 doesn't mean that it necessarily

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 has affected your heart.

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 Now,

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 by heart,

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 I don't just mean emotions,

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 I mean the very center

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 of who you are

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 where your emotions,

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 your imagination,

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 your aesthetic sense,

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 your intellect,

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 your will,

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 that sort of central place

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 in the human being

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 where all of these things

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 flow out of

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 that is so involved

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 in a personal relationship

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 with like a friend

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 or if it's love,

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 romantic love,

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 where there's a sense

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 of a turning

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 of that whole self

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 towards the other person

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 and openness of that self

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 to the other person.

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 And so what you see here

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 is you see both

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 very,

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 very accurate knowledge

00:19:08.180 --> 00:19:10.080
 of Jesus

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 but at the same time

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 absolutely no desire

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 for a relationship

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 and no interest whatsoever

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 in anything like repentance.

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 And there's going to be

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 an asking for mercy

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 but it's not really

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 the type of mercy

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 that's connected

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 to knowing

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 and being known.

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 So how does Jesus respond

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 to this request

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 don't torment me?

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 you know,

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 you're the son

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 of the most high God

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 and the fact

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 that this demon-possessed man

00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:45.180
 clearly knows Jesus

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 but shows no,

00:19:46.120 --> 00:19:49.660
 the demons show no

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 hesitation.

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 They're in a sense

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 convicted,

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 convinced demons.

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 You don't want to change terms.

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 How's Jesus going to respond to it?

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 Well, let's see

00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:05.500
 what happens in verse 9.

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 And Jesus asked him

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 so there's a bit of a pause

00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:09.840
 from the casting out.

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 Jesus asked him

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 what is your name?

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 The man replied

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 my name is Legion

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 for we

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 are many.

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 And he

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 begged him earnestly

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 not to send them

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 out of the country.

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 I'm going to read that text again.

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 It's a very, very

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 interesting text.

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 Now,

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 yeah,

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 I'm going to say it.

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 All week I sort of

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 batted my mind

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 back and forth

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 whether I'm going to say

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 anything about this.

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 I understand

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 that we live in a time

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 when many, many people

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 are,

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 they wouldn't say

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 that they're confused

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 at all about their identity

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 but that it's a very common thing

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 for people to want to

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 change their pronouns

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 to reflect the fact

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 that they believe

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 that their internal identity

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 is significantly different

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 than their biology.

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 And I understand

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 that that's very

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 prevalent.

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 I understand

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 that for some people

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 it's a welcome thing

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 and for others

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 it's not a welcome thing.

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 and I understand

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 that for some

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 to move towards

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 their chosen identity

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 is a,

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 for them

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 that's how they understand

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 liberation.

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 And I understand

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 that many, many people

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 want to be able

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 to try to say

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 that there's no such thing

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 of,

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 all this dualism

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 and all is a bad thing

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 and I understand

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 all of that.

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 I really do

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 and I think

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 I understand

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 a tiny little bit

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 about the emotional

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 and imaginative

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 longing for these types

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 of things

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 and to see it increase

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 that they see it

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 as a bit of a sense

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 of liberation.

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 And I'm definitely

00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:50.480
 not saying

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 that people who think

00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:52.400
 this are demon-possessed,

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 I'm not saying

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 this at all.

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 But for those here

00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.060
 or those who might

00:21:57.060 --> 00:21:57.700
 be online

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 watching this,

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 the very, very first time,

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 this is quite a few years ago,

00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:02.340
 the very first time

00:22:02.340 --> 00:22:04.100
 I met somebody

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 who wanted me

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 to call them they

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 as their pronoun,

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 I have to confess

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 the first thing

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:10.700
 that came to my mind

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 was this story.

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 It's the very first thing

00:22:14.580 --> 00:22:15.480
 that came to my mind.

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 And I think,

00:22:18.220 --> 00:22:18.740
 amongst others,

00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:19.620
 if those of you

00:22:19.620 --> 00:22:20.300
 who are watching

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 and you sense

00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.100
 that your Christian friend

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 might not want

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 to use a word

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 like they

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 as your pronoun,

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 I mean,

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 I guess it just really

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 depends on whether

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 you'd like to have

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 a relationship with them

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 or whether you think

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 Christians just have

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 to automatically agree

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 with you,

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 but I don't think

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 my reaction

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 is completely,

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:39.960
 like I think

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 for Christians

00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.500
 who are well-instructed,

00:22:44.580 --> 00:22:45.279
 this story

00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:45.960
 and the pronoun,

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 there's just something

00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:47.879
 that doesn't fit

00:22:47.879 --> 00:22:49.200
 with it very well.

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 Now,

00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:51.660
 whether we can have

00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:52.839
 a conversation about that,

00:22:52.879 --> 00:22:53.160
 I don't know

00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:54.339
 if anybody will contact me

00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:54.980
 about it or whatever,

00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:56.480
 that's a whole other thing.

00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.519
 Part of the thing

00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:58.240
 we need to pray about

00:22:58.240 --> 00:22:58.920
 in our society

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 is that we can start

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 to have civil conversations

00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:02.000
 again,

00:23:02.740 --> 00:23:04.039
 because that's being lost.

00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:04.759
 We can't have

00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.819
 civil conversations.

00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:06.759
 People yell,

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 and sometimes

00:23:08.379 --> 00:23:09.519
 we Christians yell,

00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:10.859
 and when we Christians yell,

00:23:10.940 --> 00:23:12.299
 we need to repent of it.

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 We should not be

00:23:13.919 --> 00:23:15.700
 the best yellers.

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 We should be yellers

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 in repentance

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 and recovery

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 from yelling.

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 So,

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 that's just a bit

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 of an aside note.

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 I struggle

00:23:25.659 --> 00:23:27.180
 but that's really true.

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 The very first time

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 I heard that pronoun,

00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:29.299
 the very first time

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 I ever heard of it,

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 that's the first thing

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 that popped into my mind.

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 Do you realize

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 if I was to say that,

00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:35.819
 the background for that?

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 Anyway,

00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:37.500
 it's very,

00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:38.599
 look again at the pronouns.

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 It's very interesting,

00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:39.680
 right?

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 And Jesus asked him,

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 what is your name?

00:23:42.060 --> 00:23:42.640
 The man.

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 And in a sense,

00:23:44.259 --> 00:23:44.900
 whether it's the man,

00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:45.580
 but it's not really

00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:46.860
 the man who replies.

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 He replied,

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 that's singular,

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 but then says,

00:23:50.299 --> 00:23:51.360
 my name is Legion,

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 for we are many.

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 And he begged him earnestly.

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 That is,

00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:58.100
 the demons

00:23:58.100 --> 00:24:01.120
 beg Jesus earnestly

00:24:01.120 --> 00:24:01.960
 not to send them

00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:02.720
 out of the country.

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 whether the Legion,

00:24:08.600 --> 00:24:09.440
 the demons

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:10.380
 are telling the truth

00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:11.180
 and there really are

00:24:11.180 --> 00:24:12.880
 close to 6,000 demons

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.279
 inside of the man or not,

00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:15.220
 it doesn't really matter.

00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:18.100
 It's obviously

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 to speak to a Jewish person

00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:21.460
 who's been conquered

00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:22.980
 by the Roman legions,

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 a militaristic,

00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:26.740
 imperialistic,

00:24:26.940 --> 00:24:28.339
 and threatening name.

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 And it is revelatory

00:24:33.919 --> 00:24:34.919
 in this text

00:24:34.919 --> 00:24:36.019
 that Christians,

00:24:36.459 --> 00:24:37.379
 the Bible teaches

00:24:37.379 --> 00:24:39.379
 that it is possible

00:24:39.379 --> 00:24:42.000
 to be so demonized

00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.419
 that you can be possessed

00:24:43.419 --> 00:24:44.959
 by an evil spirit

00:24:44.959 --> 00:24:47.419
 and you can be so demonized

00:24:47.419 --> 00:24:49.240
 that in fact

00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:50.059
 you can have more than

00:24:50.059 --> 00:24:50.879
 one evil spirit

00:24:50.879 --> 00:24:51.699
 dwell within you.

00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:53.159
 Now some of you

00:24:53.159 --> 00:24:53.539
 are going to say,

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:53.799
 oh,

00:24:53.859 --> 00:24:54.619
 George,

00:24:54.939 --> 00:24:55.980
 time out,

00:24:56.159 --> 00:24:56.919
 time out.

00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:58.320
 George,

00:24:58.660 --> 00:24:59.480
 what are you?

00:24:59.560 --> 00:25:01.279
 Some medieval monk

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.019
 craves because

00:25:03.019 --> 00:25:04.600
 you haven't had enough sex?

00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:06.300
 Reading stupid,

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:07.340
 fanciful things

00:25:07.340 --> 00:25:08.080
 and being scared

00:25:08.080 --> 00:25:09.080
 of people in the dark?

00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:09.820
 Like George,

00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:10.940
 this guy is just

00:25:10.940 --> 00:25:11.800
 mentally ill.

00:25:13.620 --> 00:25:14.680
 There's a few other things

00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:15.519
 maybe some people

00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:16.000
 are thinking.

00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:17.380
 And all I'll say

00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:18.240
 about the mentally ill

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:19.080
 claim is this.

00:25:20.100 --> 00:25:20.460
 If you,

00:25:20.600 --> 00:25:21.019
 I think it was

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:21.660
 the last sermon

00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:22.519
 I did just before

00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:23.220
 in December,

00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:24.860
 but it's in Mark

00:25:24.860 --> 00:25:25.600
 chapter 3

00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:26.220
 and what you see

00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:27.100
 in Mark chapter 3

00:25:27.100 --> 00:25:28.039
 is very interesting

00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:28.759
 is that the Bible

00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:29.940
 understands the distinction

00:25:29.940 --> 00:25:31.100
 between mental illness

00:25:31.100 --> 00:25:32.140
 and demon possession.

00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:34.759
 The Bible itself

00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:35.920
 makes that distinction

00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:38.980
 and it's a distinction

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:39.900
 that's been lost

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:41.960
 and so what's being claimed here

00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:42.839
 is not that the man

00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:43.559
 is mentally ill

00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:44.680
 but the man is demon possessed

00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:45.960
 and we're going to see

00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:46.980
 that very clearly

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:48.299
 in a few verses

00:25:48.299 --> 00:25:49.680
 as the Bible

00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:50.620
 brings it home

00:25:50.620 --> 00:25:51.720
 that it's talking

00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.600
 about demonization

00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:54.160
 to the point of possession

00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:55.779
 not mental illness.

00:25:56.840 --> 00:25:57.620
 And then the other thing

00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.320
 you might say

00:25:58.320 --> 00:25:59.040
 Jojojojojo

00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:00.540
 well I didn't know

00:26:00.540 --> 00:26:01.500
 they understood

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:02.019
 the difference

00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:02.960
 between those things

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.480
 but George

00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:04.600
 what this text

00:26:04.600 --> 00:26:05.180
 is talking about

00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:06.580
 is just completely impossible.

00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:10.019
 It's just completely impossible.

00:26:13.060 --> 00:26:14.900
 And often in my sermons

00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:15.800
 I try to have a bit

00:26:15.800 --> 00:26:17.240
 of an apologetics element

00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.100
 to it

00:26:18.100 --> 00:26:18.900
 but at this time

00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:19.680
 I'm not.

00:26:19.820 --> 00:26:20.740
 Amongst other things

00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:22.200
 there's the time reason

00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:24.340
 but all I'm going to say

00:26:24.340 --> 00:26:24.980
 is this

00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:28.160
 this text

00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:28.920
 as I said

00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:30.420
 is an ancient biography

00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:32.360
 story of Jesus.

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:34.059
 It was written

00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.799
 by a man

00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:36.400
 who might have

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.039
 been a direct eyewitness

00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:39.500
 but it's very clearly

00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:41.100
 based on eyewitness testimony

00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:43.160
 and that's what it's claiming

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.700
 and it's written

00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:47.160
 while many eyewitnesses

00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:48.080
 were alive

00:26:48.080 --> 00:26:49.259
 and if you read

00:26:49.259 --> 00:26:49.880
 the whole thing

00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.360
 the language

00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:51.160
 as I've said before

00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:51.960
 is never like

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.980
 once upon a time

00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:54.620
 or anything like that

00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:56.460
 it's always talking

00:26:56.460 --> 00:26:57.320
 of the language

00:26:57.320 --> 00:26:58.060
 of history

00:26:58.060 --> 00:26:59.040
 that's the way it is

00:26:59.040 --> 00:26:59.820
 at the level

00:26:59.820 --> 00:27:01.080
 of the original language

00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:03.700
 and the book

00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:04.940
 understands the difference

00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:06.380
 between like parables

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:07.500
 and metaphors

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:08.560
 and stories like that

00:27:08.560 --> 00:27:09.220
 because we've just seen

00:27:09.220 --> 00:27:09.980
 a whole pile of them

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.680
 and we'll see more

00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:11.759
 in a moment.

00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:13.360
 We just saw

00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:14.080
 a little while ago

00:27:14.080 --> 00:27:14.980
 two sermons ago

00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:15.860
 there were a combination

00:27:15.860 --> 00:27:16.680
 of parables

00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:17.820
 slash aphorisms

00:27:17.820 --> 00:27:18.960
 slash metaphors

00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:20.759
 slash and then

00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:21.759
 some parables

00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:22.539
 so that Mark

00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:23.779
 understands the distinction

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.779
 between these things

00:27:24.779 --> 00:27:25.600
 just because

00:27:25.600 --> 00:27:26.779
 he didn't know

00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:27.860
 never heard of

00:27:27.860 --> 00:27:29.120
 TikTok or Instagram

00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:30.319
 doesn't mean he's stupid

00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.220
 and he understands

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:33.000
 these things

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.019
 and this is written

00:27:34.019 --> 00:27:35.299
 and the claim is

00:27:35.299 --> 00:27:36.299
 that this actually happened

00:27:36.299 --> 00:27:37.539
 that's the claim

00:27:37.539 --> 00:27:38.460
 like you might say

00:27:38.460 --> 00:27:39.740
 well it was just a lie

00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:41.180
 or something like that

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:41.640
 you know

00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:42.140
 and then we can have

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:42.980
 a discussion about it

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:44.220
 but you have to understand

00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:44.980
 the claim is

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:46.039
 that this actually happened

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:47.480
 and in a sense

00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:48.420
 what I'm going to show you

00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:48.799
 in a moment

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:49.339
 is that Mark

00:27:49.339 --> 00:27:50.440
 doubles down

00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.599
 on the historical nature

00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:53.039
 of this

00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:54.099
 that it actually happened

00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:55.159
 he's going to double down

00:27:55.159 --> 00:27:55.659
 on it

00:27:55.659 --> 00:27:57.139
 in a couple of moments

00:27:57.139 --> 00:27:59.559
 and so the claim

00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:00.000
 of the text

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.000
 is that this is actually

00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:01.700
 what happened

00:28:01.700 --> 00:28:05.659
 and obviously

00:28:05.659 --> 00:28:06.559
 if it happened

00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:08.700
 then you and I

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:09.399
 live in a world

00:28:09.399 --> 00:28:10.379
 that is very different

00:28:10.379 --> 00:28:11.220
 than is described

00:28:11.220 --> 00:28:12.099
 by CBC

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:13.420
 and Instagram

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:14.139
 and Ottawa U

00:28:14.139 --> 00:28:14.920
 and the Supreme Court

00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:15.420
 of Canada

00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:16.640
 and the Parliament

00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:17.120
 of Canada

00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:18.620
 we live in a very

00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:19.759
 very different world

00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:21.500
 and it's talked about

00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:22.120
 by the elites

00:28:22.120 --> 00:28:22.860
 in this country

00:28:22.860 --> 00:28:29.360
 and I don't want

00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:30.140
 to ever encourage

00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:30.460
 you to live

00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:31.519
 in a fantasy world

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:32.880
 I would like you

00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:33.580
 as a Christian

00:28:33.580 --> 00:28:34.820
 to live in the true world

00:28:34.820 --> 00:28:35.680
 the real world

00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:37.320
 as it really is

00:28:37.320 --> 00:28:38.680
 and Mark

00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:39.200
 is claiming

00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:39.860
 that this is

00:28:39.860 --> 00:28:41.720
 what the real world

00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:42.380
 is like

00:28:42.380 --> 00:28:43.080
 that there are

00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:44.080
 in fact beings

00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:45.220
 like evil spirits

00:28:45.220 --> 00:28:46.859
 and they can

00:28:46.859 --> 00:28:47.599
 affect

00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.240
 human beings

00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:50.139
 and they can

00:28:50.139 --> 00:28:50.539
 in a sense

00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:51.619
 demonize human beings

00:28:51.619 --> 00:28:52.259
 even to the point

00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:52.819
 of possession

00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:56.819
 and

00:28:56.819 --> 00:29:03.019
 there's another thing

00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:03.879
 to pause about here

00:29:03.879 --> 00:29:04.879
 before we see

00:29:04.879 --> 00:29:06.740
 what Jesus

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:07.619
 is going to do

00:29:07.619 --> 00:29:10.139
 remember I said

00:29:10.139 --> 00:29:10.679
 at the beginning

00:29:10.679 --> 00:29:11.559
 or close to the beginning

00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:12.319
 some of you haven't

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:12.879
 maybe you've already

00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:13.580
 fallen asleep

00:29:13.580 --> 00:29:14.700
 but in some ways

00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:15.580
 if you think about it

00:29:15.580 --> 00:29:16.340
 what this man

00:29:16.340 --> 00:29:17.640
 is described as

00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.020
 is what most Canadians

00:29:19.020 --> 00:29:20.060
 would like to be like

00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:20.700
 except

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:22.100
 that's not what

00:29:22.100 --> 00:29:23.080
 they'd like to be like

00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:25.720
 but he embodies

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.780
 what they like

00:29:26.780 --> 00:29:28.080
 it's just frightening

00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:29.560
 potentially for Canadians

00:29:29.560 --> 00:29:30.020
 to realize

00:29:30.020 --> 00:29:30.620
 that's what I

00:29:30.620 --> 00:29:31.400
 sort of like

00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:32.320
 I'd like to be strong

00:29:32.320 --> 00:29:33.080
 take no guff

00:29:33.080 --> 00:29:33.900
 not be controlled

00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:34.960
 by social conventions

00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.000
 be true to my inner self

00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:38.340
 be autonomous

00:29:38.340 --> 00:29:39.040
 be authentic

00:29:39.040 --> 00:29:39.980
 all of those things

00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:40.800
 but when you see this

00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:41.020
 you say

00:29:41.019 --> 00:29:41.579
 no no no no

00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:41.980
 okay

00:29:41.980 --> 00:29:43.660
 obviously something's

00:29:43.660 --> 00:29:44.180
 missing

00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:45.480
 in my list

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:46.099
 of desires

00:29:46.099 --> 00:29:47.019
 and fulfillments

00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:48.099
 the other thing

00:29:48.099 --> 00:29:48.740
 that this text

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:49.279
 is showing

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.619
 is that this man

00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:52.240
 perfectly expresses

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.079
 the average Canadian

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:55.720
 sphere of Christianity

00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:59.099
 I mean

00:29:59.099 --> 00:29:59.879
 how is it

00:29:59.879 --> 00:30:01.119
 that the average Canadian

00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:02.299
 or many Canadians

00:30:02.299 --> 00:30:03.240
 think of Christianity

00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:04.099
 they think of things

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:05.259
 like the handmaid's tale

00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:09.160
 that if you come

00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:10.160
 close to Jesus

00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:11.140
 you're going to

00:30:11.140 --> 00:30:12.559
 lose your individuality

00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:14.339
 you're going to

00:30:14.339 --> 00:30:15.299
 be brutalized

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:16.519
 you're going to

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:17.480
 turn into a person

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.799
 who brutalizes others

00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.200
 in fact

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:22.940
 I don't know

00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:24.299
 if anybody

00:30:24.299 --> 00:30:25.759
 who's involved

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:26.400
 deeply in the

00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.099
 trans movement

00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:28.140
 has watched this

00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:28.980
 but they might think

00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:29.640
 that what I said

00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:30.819
 earlier was brutalizing

00:30:30.819 --> 00:30:31.720
 to trans people

00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:36.180
 and so in some ways

00:30:36.180 --> 00:30:36.799
 what you see

00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:37.640
 in this man

00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.039
 is how the average

00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:40.559
 Canadian

00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:41.180
 thinks

00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:43.000
 like that

00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:43.960
 the Christianity

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:44.759
 that there's actually

00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:45.180
 something

00:30:45.180 --> 00:30:46.299
 many many Canadians

00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:46.940
 think there's something

00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:47.860
 evil about it

00:30:47.860 --> 00:30:48.700
 that it will destroy

00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:49.880
 your individuality

00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:50.380
 that it will

00:30:50.380 --> 00:30:51.460
 flatten you

00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:52.480
 it will hollow you out

00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:53.440
 it will brutalize you

00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:53.940
 it will make you

00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:54.700
 the type of person

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:55.900
 who brutalizes others

00:30:55.900 --> 00:30:57.180
 but one of the things

00:30:57.180 --> 00:30:57.839
 that this text

00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.720
 is doing

00:30:58.720 --> 00:30:59.159
 is saying

00:30:59.159 --> 00:31:00.439
 you were right

00:31:00.439 --> 00:31:01.240
 to not want to

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.859
 go like that

00:31:02.859 --> 00:31:04.039
 and if you come across

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:05.019
 an ideology

00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:06.519
 or a religion

00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:07.720
 or a spirituality

00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:08.819
 that leads you

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.480
 in the direction

00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:11.220
 run as fast

00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:11.959
 as you can

00:31:11.959 --> 00:31:12.579
 from it

00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:13.759
 but what

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.879
 is going to be shown

00:31:14.879 --> 00:31:15.599
 in this text

00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.399
 is this is not

00:31:16.399 --> 00:31:17.720
 what Christianity is

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.299
 Christianity

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:19.859
 is the antidote

00:31:19.859 --> 00:31:20.500
 to this

00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:22.519
 and it's going to be

00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:22.939
 shown

00:31:22.939 --> 00:31:24.579
 throughout the entire

00:31:24.579 --> 00:31:25.599
 rest of the gospel

00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:27.059
 Jesus is going to

00:31:27.059 --> 00:31:27.899
 deal with this guy

00:31:27.899 --> 00:31:28.839
 and as the story

00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:29.659
 goes on

00:31:29.659 --> 00:31:30.599
 what you actually

00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:31.440
 see is that

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.299
 Jesus is going to

00:31:32.299 --> 00:31:33.819
 be everything

00:31:33.819 --> 00:31:36.539
 the complete opposite

00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:37.379
 of everything

00:31:37.379 --> 00:31:38.899
 that a demon does

00:31:38.899 --> 00:31:40.839
 and that when you

00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:42.179
 respond to Christianity

00:31:42.179 --> 00:31:43.179
 and you respond

00:31:43.179 --> 00:31:44.220
 not respond to Christianity

00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:44.980
 when you respond

00:31:44.980 --> 00:31:45.659
 to the gospel

00:31:45.659 --> 00:31:46.980
 when you ask Jesus

00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:47.759
 to be your savior

00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.279
 and your lord

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.480
 you see that there is

00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:50.679
 a this is a man

00:31:50.679 --> 00:31:51.460
 who is the perfect

00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:52.139
 penitent

00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:53.259
 that is the perfect

00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:53.859
 sacrifice

00:31:53.859 --> 00:31:55.019
 that embodies

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:56.159
 perfect love

00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:57.040
 and he does

00:31:57.040 --> 00:31:58.019
 an act of

00:31:58.019 --> 00:31:58.880
 perfect love

00:31:58.880 --> 00:31:59.580
 setting aside

00:31:59.580 --> 00:32:00.279
 his power

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:01.140
 and prerogatives

00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:02.080
 and all of those

00:32:02.080 --> 00:32:02.320
 things

00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:03.060
 the opposite

00:32:03.060 --> 00:32:04.320
 of what religion

00:32:04.320 --> 00:32:04.900
 does

00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:05.779
 and the opposite

00:32:05.779 --> 00:32:06.060
 of

00:32:06.060 --> 00:32:07.420
 he does all

00:32:07.420 --> 00:32:07.620
 of that

00:32:07.620 --> 00:32:08.140
 so by the end

00:32:08.140 --> 00:32:08.680
 of the story

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:09.180
 you're in your

00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:09.980
 right mind

00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:12.980
 that you're

00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:14.140
 self-possessed

00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:16.460
 that your uniqueness

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:17.660
 can finally start

00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:18.400
 to come out

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:19.200
 and to flower

00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.180
 and to flourish

00:32:20.180 --> 00:32:23.000
 that you can have

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:24.300
 a re-establishment

00:32:24.299 --> 00:32:24.899
 of community

00:32:24.899 --> 00:32:25.839
 and all

00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:26.639
 in the context

00:32:26.639 --> 00:32:30.819
 of being rightly

00:32:30.819 --> 00:32:31.799
 related to the true

00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:32.419
 and living God

00:32:32.419 --> 00:32:33.359
 the triune God

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:37.680
 so see what happens

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.659
 so they've asked

00:32:38.659 --> 00:32:39.339
 that Jesus

00:32:39.339 --> 00:32:42.019
 the demons

00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.639
 have revealed

00:32:42.639 --> 00:32:43.680
 that whether there's

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.200
 just five

00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.299
 pretending to be a legion

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:47.359
 or whether there really is

00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:48.480
 close to six thousand

00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:49.099
 whatever it is

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:49.659
 we never know

00:32:49.660 --> 00:32:52.680
 that this man

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:53.279
 is controlled

00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:54.060
 by many demons

00:32:54.060 --> 00:32:55.200
 so what happens

00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:55.779
 verse 11

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:57.360
 now a great herd

00:32:57.360 --> 00:32:57.980
 of pigs

00:32:57.980 --> 00:32:59.279
 was feeding there

00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.160
 on the hillside

00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.940
 and they

00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:02.900
 that's the demons

00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:04.420
 begged Jesus

00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:05.380
 saying send us

00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:06.060
 to the pigs

00:33:06.060 --> 00:33:07.519
 notice this

00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.580
 let us

00:33:08.580 --> 00:33:09.960
 enter them

00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:12.100
 let us

00:33:12.100 --> 00:33:12.720
 enter them

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:16.140
 they sort of

00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:16.660
 acknowledge

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:17.580
 they don't actually

00:33:17.580 --> 00:33:18.240
 have power

00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:21.140
 so Jesus

00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:21.660
 gave them

00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:22.120
 permission

00:33:22.120 --> 00:33:25.259
 and the unclean

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.700
 spirits

00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:26.160
 came out

00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:26.539
 and entered

00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:27.140
 the pigs

00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:28.079
 and the herd

00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:29.740
 numbering about

00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:30.519
 two thousand

00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:31.759
 rushed down

00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:32.519
 the steep bank

00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:33.200
 into the sea

00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:33.700
 and drowned

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.319
 in the sea

00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:35.620
 you have a very

00:33:35.620 --> 00:33:36.480
 very powerful

00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:37.460
 graphic image

00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:38.740
 of the tremendous

00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:39.960
 chaotic

00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:41.579
 evil

00:33:41.579 --> 00:33:42.960
 life

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.779
 denying

00:33:43.779 --> 00:33:44.779
 power

00:33:44.779 --> 00:33:45.660
 that was inside

00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:46.640
 this one man

00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:49.660
 inside this

00:33:49.660 --> 00:33:50.520
 one man

00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:51.420
 was such

00:33:51.420 --> 00:33:52.320
 rage

00:33:52.320 --> 00:33:52.940
 and hatred

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.759
 of creation

00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:54.820
 and hatred

00:33:54.820 --> 00:33:55.680
 of life

00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:56.820
 and hatred

00:33:56.820 --> 00:33:57.680
 of God

00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:58.880
 that whether

00:33:58.880 --> 00:33:59.900
 it was two

00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:01.480
 or six thousand

00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:02.860
 it flows

00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.700
 into the pigs

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:05.140
 and it

00:34:05.140 --> 00:34:06.300
 hurls them

00:34:06.300 --> 00:34:08.680
 hurls them

00:34:08.680 --> 00:34:10.519
 to their death

00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:11.220
 and destruction

00:34:11.220 --> 00:34:12.260
 and doom

00:34:12.260 --> 00:34:18.440
 mental illness

00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:19.240
 isn't contagious

00:34:19.240 --> 00:34:22.540
 this is the part

00:34:22.540 --> 00:34:23.040
 of the story

00:34:23.040 --> 00:34:23.700
 that shows

00:34:23.700 --> 00:34:25.700
 that it's not

00:34:25.700 --> 00:34:26.560
 mental illness

00:34:26.560 --> 00:34:28.220
 if you didn't

00:34:28.220 --> 00:34:28.680
 know that

00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:29.320
 you can sit

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:30.120
 beside a man

00:34:30.120 --> 00:34:31.860
 or a woman

00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:32.460
 who has mental

00:34:32.460 --> 00:34:32.840
 illness

00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:33.620
 and it's not

00:34:33.620 --> 00:34:34.080
 contagious

00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:34.440
 you won't

00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:34.900
 get it

00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:36.800
 and we should

00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:37.320
 minister to

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:37.640
 people

00:34:37.640 --> 00:34:38.500
 and love

00:34:38.500 --> 00:34:38.880
 people

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:39.780
 who are

00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:40.380
 mentally ill

00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.340
 and our

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:41.660
 congregation

00:34:41.660 --> 00:34:42.420
 has people

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:42.860
 who suffer

00:34:42.860 --> 00:34:43.320
 from mental

00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:43.700
 illness

00:34:43.700 --> 00:34:44.119
 and there

00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:44.480
 are my

00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:45.019
 brother and

00:34:45.019 --> 00:34:45.480
 sister in

00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:45.800
 Christ

00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:51.140
 now

00:34:51.140 --> 00:34:53.480
 how do the

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:54.400
 people respond

00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:55.400
 and how did

00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:55.880
 the man

00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:56.640
 what's the man

00:34:56.640 --> 00:34:57.300
 like afterwards

00:34:57.300 --> 00:34:57.900
 well that's what

00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:58.420
 goes on in the

00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:59.039
 story next

00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.059
 the herdsmen

00:35:01.059 --> 00:35:01.579
 have seen all

00:35:01.579 --> 00:35:02.019
 of this

00:35:02.019 --> 00:35:03.240
 it wasn't just

00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:03.700
 that there was

00:35:03.700 --> 00:35:04.280
 this man

00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:05.800
 and Jesus

00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:06.180
 and his

00:35:06.180 --> 00:35:06.480
 twelve

00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:07.079
 disciples

00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:08.260
 but there's

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:08.700
 herdsmen

00:35:08.700 --> 00:35:09.039
 there with

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:09.539
 the pigs

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:10.779
 in verse 14

00:35:10.779 --> 00:35:11.320
 all of a sudden

00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:11.980
 we realize

00:35:11.980 --> 00:35:13.000
 that this

00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:13.539
 encounter

00:35:13.539 --> 00:35:14.340
 between Jesus

00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:14.759
 and the

00:35:14.759 --> 00:35:15.340
 demoniac

00:35:15.340 --> 00:35:15.739
 has been

00:35:15.739 --> 00:35:16.259
 witnessed

00:35:16.259 --> 00:35:17.279
 by the

00:35:17.279 --> 00:35:17.779
 locals

00:35:17.779 --> 00:35:19.840
 and in

00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:20.539
 verse 14

00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:21.599
 the herdsmen

00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:22.019
 flee

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:24.340
 they flee

00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:26.679
 pigs go

00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:27.119
 this way

00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:27.440
 to their

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:27.840
 death

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:28.759
 herdsmen

00:35:28.759 --> 00:35:29.179
 go this

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.500
 way

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:32.440
 the herdsmen

00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:33.039
 fled and

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:33.539
 told it in

00:35:33.539 --> 00:35:33.960
 the city

00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:34.300
 and in the

00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:34.639
 country

00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.199
 and people

00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:35.880
 came to

00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:36.400
 see what

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:36.800
 it was

00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:37.099
 that had

00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.539
 happened

00:35:37.539 --> 00:35:38.719
 in other

00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:38.860
 words

00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:39.119
 they didn't

00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:39.679
 just believe

00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:40.380
 these herdsmen

00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:40.860
 because the

00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:41.239
 herdsmen

00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:41.800
 said it

00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:43.519
 these people

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:43.980
 you know

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:44.380
 once again

00:35:44.380 --> 00:35:44.719
 just because

00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:44.940
 they don't

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:45.099
 have

00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:45.480
 instagram

00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:45.820
 doesn't

00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:45.960
 mean

00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:46.159
 they're

00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.579
 stupid

00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:47.719
 doesn't

00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:47.840
 mean

00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:48.019
 they're

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:48.420
 gullible

00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:48.940
 they go

00:35:48.940 --> 00:35:49.480
 probably

00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:50.039
 nah

00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:50.659
 that didn't

00:35:50.659 --> 00:35:51.139
 happen

00:35:51.139 --> 00:35:51.739
 come on

00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:52.099
 really

00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:52.579
 that's

00:35:52.579 --> 00:35:53.159
 impossible

00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:53.659
 like what

00:35:53.659 --> 00:35:54.840
 let's

00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:55.920
 go check

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.259
 it out

00:35:56.259 --> 00:35:56.579
 you know

00:35:56.579 --> 00:35:57.259
 these guys

00:35:57.259 --> 00:35:57.559
 have been

00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:57.820
 drinking

00:35:57.820 --> 00:35:58.380
 too much

00:35:58.380 --> 00:35:58.699
 cheap

00:35:58.699 --> 00:35:59.119
 wine

00:35:59.119 --> 00:35:59.559
 or whatever

00:35:59.559 --> 00:35:59.940
 they all

00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:00.519
 got drunk

00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:00.800
 they don't

00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.000
 know what

00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:01.099
 they're

00:36:01.099 --> 00:36:01.539
 talking about

00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:02.239
 they go

00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:03.119
 to look

00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:04.500
 in verse

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:04.859
 15

00:36:04.859 --> 00:36:05.099
 and they

00:36:05.099 --> 00:36:05.440
 came to

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:05.719
 Jesus

00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:06.139
 and saw

00:36:06.139 --> 00:36:06.539
 the demon

00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:06.960
 possessed

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.339
 man

00:36:07.339 --> 00:36:07.579
 and the

00:36:07.579 --> 00:36:07.900
 one who

00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:08.259
 had had

00:36:08.259 --> 00:36:08.859
 the legion

00:36:08.859 --> 00:36:09.359
 sitting there

00:36:09.359 --> 00:36:10.920
 clothed and in his right mind

00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:11.819
 and they were afraid

00:36:11.819 --> 00:36:14.579
 and those who had seen it

00:36:14.579 --> 00:36:16.079
 described to them what had happened

00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:17.659
 to the demon possessed man

00:36:17.659 --> 00:36:19.079
 and to the pigs

00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.119
 and they began to beg Jesus

00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:23.960
 to depart from their region

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.880
 now remember I said that

00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:26.699
 Jesus

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:28.559
 Mark has written this gospel

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.139
 to emphasize that this in fact

00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:30.719
 really happened

00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:32.439
 and here's how we can see part of that

00:36:32.439 --> 00:36:33.379
 that's what he's doing

00:36:33.379 --> 00:36:35.759
 you see he's written this gospel

00:36:35.759 --> 00:36:37.639
 this biography at a time

00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.779
 when there were so many eyewitnesses around

00:36:39.779 --> 00:36:41.739
 and what he's saying here is

00:36:41.739 --> 00:36:43.399
 listen if you don't believe me

00:36:43.399 --> 00:36:44.799
 the early readers of this

00:36:44.799 --> 00:36:46.599
 obviously we can't go back in time

00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:49.219
 like if you just picture what it was like

00:36:49.219 --> 00:36:50.939
 you go there

00:36:50.939 --> 00:36:52.039
 and what they're going to see

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.059
 is they're going to see

00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:56.299
 2,000 dead pigs floating in the water

00:36:56.299 --> 00:37:00.139
 or maybe washed up on the beach

00:37:00.139 --> 00:37:01.719
 2,000

00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:05.759
 and they would have been there

00:37:05.759 --> 00:37:06.440
 rotting

00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:08.579
 for weeks

00:37:08.579 --> 00:37:11.319
 the birds of prey

00:37:11.319 --> 00:37:12.079
 I mean the birds

00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:13.039
 the vultures and others

00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:13.859
 that would have come there

00:37:13.859 --> 00:37:15.239
 this would have been something

00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:16.739
 that was there for weeks

00:37:16.739 --> 00:37:19.059
 and people came

00:37:19.059 --> 00:37:22.199
 and so this is the part of the story here

00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:22.879
 you see that

00:37:22.879 --> 00:37:24.659
 Mark is in a sense saying

00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.940
 this did happen

00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:26.960
 this happened

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:28.219
 like you don't believe me

00:37:28.219 --> 00:37:30.039
 go travel to this area

00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.839
 I've given you enough descriptions

00:37:31.839 --> 00:37:33.119
 that you can figure out where it is

00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.299
 and go talk to the locals

00:37:34.299 --> 00:37:35.099
 and they'll say

00:37:35.099 --> 00:37:36.859
 I don't know what it was

00:37:36.859 --> 00:37:38.379
 I don't think it's

00:37:38.379 --> 00:37:39.899
 I would have said it was impossible

00:37:39.899 --> 00:37:41.199
 but there's no question

00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:42.659
 the guy was in his right mind

00:37:42.659 --> 00:37:44.099
 this guy that was like a main

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:45.599
 like a evil guy

00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:46.679
 he's in his right mind

00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:47.619
 and there's the whole

00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:48.599
 the water

00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:49.919
 just all these pigs

00:37:49.919 --> 00:37:50.399
 it's like

00:37:50.399 --> 00:37:50.959
 just

00:37:50.959 --> 00:37:52.739
 I don't know

00:37:52.739 --> 00:37:53.399
 100 meters

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:54.380
 300 meters

00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:55.139
 400 meters

00:37:55.139 --> 00:37:55.700
 into the water

00:37:55.700 --> 00:37:56.720
 these dead pigs

00:37:56.720 --> 00:37:57.800
 they ended up floating around

00:37:57.800 --> 00:37:58.079
 they

00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:04.280
 it's a very very public miracle

00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:10.139
 and the man

00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:12.119
 look again at how the man is described

00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:17.380
 it's in verse 15

00:38:17.380 --> 00:38:19.019
 they came to Jesus

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:20.559
 and saw the demon possessed man

00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:21.760
 the one who had had the legion

00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:23.200
 sitting there clothed

00:38:23.200 --> 00:38:25.220
 and in his right mind

00:38:25.220 --> 00:38:26.860
 he was sitting there

00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:27.420
 he's calm

00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:28.520
 he had his clothes on

00:38:28.520 --> 00:38:32.160
 he was in his right mind

00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:34.500
 you see deeper

00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:36.980
 than wanting to be true

00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:37.760
 to your inner self

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.100
 you want to be in your right mind

00:38:39.100 --> 00:38:45.320
 and you want to be unique

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.300
 and you want to be an individual

00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:48.360
 and that's the way God designed you and me

00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:49.580
 but we want to be unique

00:38:49.580 --> 00:38:50.220
 and an individual

00:38:50.220 --> 00:38:51.120
 in such a way

00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:52.839
 that it doesn't brutalize other people

00:38:52.839 --> 00:38:55.440
 where love is possible

00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:58.059
 and community is possible

00:38:58.059 --> 00:39:00.940
 and that's what we see here

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:01.679
 this man

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:07.179
 it's a very powerful image

00:39:07.179 --> 00:39:09.239
 just drawn in a couple of short words

00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:12.859
 and it's very very interesting

00:39:12.859 --> 00:39:15.059
 that the people wanted Jesus to flee

00:39:15.059 --> 00:39:20.079
 you see

00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.739
 the pagan gods of those days

00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:24.460
 they raped

00:39:24.460 --> 00:39:26.699
 they lied

00:39:26.699 --> 00:39:27.820
 they murdered

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:30.699
 and people were to be their slaves

00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:33.299
 and you would try to navigate

00:39:33.299 --> 00:39:34.259
 the distance

00:39:34.259 --> 00:39:35.320
 and the issues

00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:36.519
 of the different gods

00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:37.699
 and the different demands

00:39:37.699 --> 00:39:39.019
 to try to sort of get out

00:39:39.019 --> 00:39:40.039
 from under their notice

00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:40.400
 or to

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:42.000
 somehow or another trick

00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:42.719
 or coerce them

00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:43.880
 into doing something for you

00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:44.480
 that you wanted

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:49.460
 and it's a very fundamental principle

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.320
 of religion

00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:51.460
 and spirituality

00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:52.519
 that the god

00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:53.519
 or the goddesses

00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:55.380
 or the all

00:39:55.380 --> 00:39:56.800
 wants you

00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:57.880
 to lose your identity

00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:58.639
 and to die

00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:01.079
 for its glory

00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:04.219
 but here we see

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:04.740
 that Jesus

00:40:04.740 --> 00:40:05.860
 with all the power

00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:06.699
 in the world

00:40:06.699 --> 00:40:08.420
 uses his power

00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:11.019
 to die

00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:14.360
 he in a sense

00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:15.860
 goes the exact opposite

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:16.719
 of what the demons

00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:18.179
 and what religious wants

00:40:18.179 --> 00:40:19.280
 and what our self

00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:20.340
 and our society wants

00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:21.679
 which is to accrue power

00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:23.000
 and it's as if

00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:23.500
 you know

00:40:23.500 --> 00:40:24.320
 we're pulling back

00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:24.960
 and pulling back

00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:25.699
 and pulling like that

00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:26.159
 and he knows

00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:27.000
 that the only way

00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:27.880
 that we can be free

00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:28.639
 is in a sense

00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:29.880
 that he does

00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:30.920
 what we cannot do

00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:32.320
 which is to take this power

00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.199
 and go all the way back

00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:35.179
 and go even deeper

00:40:35.179 --> 00:40:36.079
 to the full extent

00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:36.719
 of the problem

00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:37.900
 that the power causes

00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:38.720
 and he goes

00:40:38.720 --> 00:40:39.619
 and empties himself

00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:40.539
 and empties himself

00:40:40.539 --> 00:40:41.440
 and empties himself

00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:42.220
 even to the point

00:40:42.220 --> 00:40:43.300
 of dying on the cross

00:40:43.300 --> 00:40:46.200
 you can't be more

00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:47.500
 powerless than dead

00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:48.619
 you can't be poorer

00:40:48.619 --> 00:40:49.260
 than dead

00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:52.420
 and the mystery

00:40:52.420 --> 00:40:52.900
 of the bible

00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:53.539
 tells us

00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:54.420
 that Jesus goes

00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:55.559
 and takes within death

00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:56.480
 all of the things

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:57.500
 all of the punishments

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:58.320
 all of the horrors

00:40:58.320 --> 00:40:58.740
 of death

00:40:58.740 --> 00:40:59.700
 with nothing left out

00:40:59.700 --> 00:41:00.579
 whatever that means

00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:01.200
 because we don't know

00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:01.860
 what that means

00:41:01.860 --> 00:41:03.000
 but whatever it means

00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:04.260
 he experiences

00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:04.900
 all of that

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:05.599
 out of love

00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:06.480
 for you and me

00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:08.519
 that when we put

00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:09.440
 our faith and trust

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.059
 in him

00:41:10.059 --> 00:41:13.260
 we begin a journey

00:41:13.260 --> 00:41:14.019
 of becoming

00:41:14.019 --> 00:41:15.240
 in our right mind

00:41:15.240 --> 00:41:19.039
 and being properly clothed

00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:21.199
 and being loved

00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.260
 by almighty God

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:24.599
 and being able

00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:25.659
 to sit in peace

00:41:25.659 --> 00:41:27.740
 with almighty God

00:41:27.740 --> 00:41:28.900
 and with others

00:41:28.900 --> 00:41:30.780
 in peace

00:41:30.780 --> 00:41:31.380
 and freedom

00:41:31.380 --> 00:41:32.059
 and uniqueness

00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:33.780
 and love

00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:34.840
 and safety

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:35.699
 and security

00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:36.399
 and affection

00:41:36.399 --> 00:41:37.039
 and delight

00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:38.699
 and that is why

00:41:38.699 --> 00:41:39.519
 he died for you

00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:42.639
 the complete opposite

00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:43.279
 of a demon

00:41:43.279 --> 00:41:47.779
 now some of you

00:41:47.779 --> 00:41:48.279
 might say

00:41:48.279 --> 00:41:49.159
 George

00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:51.039
 that's a very wonderful story

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:51.980
 but I think I'm like

00:41:51.980 --> 00:41:52.579
 that guy

00:41:52.579 --> 00:41:53.599
 because you see

00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:54.139
 that guy

00:41:54.139 --> 00:41:54.559
 he didn't

00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:55.579
 I remember what you said

00:41:55.579 --> 00:41:56.419
 when you read it earlier

00:41:56.419 --> 00:41:57.179
 he doesn't get to

00:41:57.179 --> 00:41:58.639
 he doesn't get to stay

00:41:58.639 --> 00:41:59.199
 with Jesus

00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:00.619
 and I think that's my worry

00:42:00.619 --> 00:42:01.500
 you know

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:02.960
 I've tried different religions

00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:03.739
 I've tried different

00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:04.539
 spiritualities

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:04.840
 and you know

00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:05.779
 they just don't stick

00:42:05.779 --> 00:42:07.659
 and at the end of the day

00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:08.779
 I just think there's something

00:42:08.779 --> 00:42:09.920
 maybe broken or wrong

00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:10.380
 about me

00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:11.259
 that this could never be

00:42:11.259 --> 00:42:12.659
 possibly true about me

00:42:12.659 --> 00:42:13.480
 and that's sort of George

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:14.440
 what the story shows

00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:15.159
 but that's not what

00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:16.039
 the story shows at all

00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:17.159
 let me show how it finishes

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:19.400
 and I'll tell you about

00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:20.279
 something that's going to happen

00:42:20.279 --> 00:42:21.440
 in two chapters

00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.380
 look at verse 18

00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:25.239
 as Jesus was getting

00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:25.739
 into the boat

00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:26.360
 the man

00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:27.900
 who had been possessed

00:42:27.900 --> 00:42:28.539
 with demons

00:42:28.539 --> 00:42:29.659
 begged Jesus

00:42:29.659 --> 00:42:31.199
 that he might be with him

00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:33.539
 and here's our fear

00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:35.579
 and Jesus did not permit him

00:42:35.579 --> 00:42:41.719
 and I've run out of time

00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:43.139
 but this doesn't mean

00:42:43.139 --> 00:42:44.159
 that the man is rejected

00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:45.000
 by Jesus

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:52.960
 this man becomes

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:54.399
 the first evangelist

00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:58.780
 he becomes the first evangelist

00:42:58.780 --> 00:43:00.820
 he is given a mission

00:43:00.820 --> 00:43:01.800
 and a purpose

00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:02.780
 and a commission

00:43:02.780 --> 00:43:05.740
 and with great affection

00:43:05.740 --> 00:43:06.940
 Jesus says to him

00:43:06.940 --> 00:43:08.740
 go home to your friends

00:43:08.740 --> 00:43:10.880
 and tell them

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:11.639
 how much the Lord

00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:12.519
 has done for you

00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.260
 and how he has had mercy on you

00:43:15.260 --> 00:43:17.280
 and since that's

00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:18.320
 every one of us

00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.039
 probably nobody here

00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:21.680
 has been delivered

00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:22.300
 from demons

00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:23.440
 but maybe one of you have

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:23.920
 I don't know

00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:25.039
 somebody watching

00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:25.820
 maybe you have been

00:43:25.820 --> 00:43:27.820
 had an exorcism

00:43:27.820 --> 00:43:28.960
 performed on you

00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:29.639
 and have been delivered

00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.119
 from demonic oppression

00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:32.280
 at a very deep level

00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:34.579
 but all of us

00:43:34.579 --> 00:43:36.700
 can bear witness

00:43:36.700 --> 00:43:38.679
 about how much

00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:39.800
 the Lord has done for us

00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:41.599
 and even if we can't think

00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:42.920
 of how much he's done for us

00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:44.159
 we can tell

00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.440
 how he has had mercy on us

00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:49.079
 how he has had mercy on me

00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:52.619
 verse 20

00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:53.299
 and he went away

00:43:53.299 --> 00:43:54.359
 and began to proclaim

00:43:54.359 --> 00:43:55.219
 in the Decapolis

00:43:55.219 --> 00:43:55.980
 how much Jesus

00:43:55.980 --> 00:43:56.639
 had done for him

00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:57.719
 and everyone marveled

00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.059
 now it's very very interesting

00:44:00.059 --> 00:44:01.199
 because in the Bible

00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:01.779
 one of the things

00:44:01.779 --> 00:44:02.219
 that the Bible

00:44:02.219 --> 00:44:03.099
 wants to make clear

00:44:03.099 --> 00:44:04.279
 is that there's only one hero

00:44:04.279 --> 00:44:05.239
 and that is Jesus

00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:06.539
 one of the things

00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:07.480
 I regularly pray

00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.219
 with the people up front

00:44:09.219 --> 00:44:10.359
 I didn't do it today

00:44:10.359 --> 00:44:11.599
 but it's a very regular thing

00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:12.440
 I pray that at the end

00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:12.960
 of the service

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:13.739
 people won't want

00:44:13.739 --> 00:44:14.619
 to know more about me

00:44:14.619 --> 00:44:15.219
 but know about

00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:15.460
 more

00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:17.780
 but want to know

00:44:17.780 --> 00:44:18.639
 more about Jesus

00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.820
 and I obviously

00:44:21.820 --> 00:44:22.420
 have an ego

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:22.960
 and a flesh

00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:23.619
 and obviously

00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:24.699
 I like being admired

00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:25.400
 and obviously

00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:26.360
 I like all of those things

00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:26.940
 but really

00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:28.699
 my deepest desire

00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:29.480
 is that nobody

00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:30.420
 wants to talk to me

00:44:30.420 --> 00:44:30.800
 afterwards

00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:31.460
 they want to spend

00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:32.220
 time with Jesus

00:44:32.220 --> 00:44:35.400
 and I confess

00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:36.199
 in my flesh

00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:37.159
 because I'm a fallen

00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:37.840
 human being

00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.400
 that people

00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:39.579
 I might sort of

00:44:39.579 --> 00:44:40.220
 be bothered

00:44:40.220 --> 00:44:41.280
 if somebody says

00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:42.099
 about this wonderful

00:44:42.099 --> 00:44:43.059
 thing they heard

00:44:43.059 --> 00:44:44.260
 a couple of months ago

00:44:44.260 --> 00:44:45.240
 and it's what I said

00:44:45.240 --> 00:44:45.780
 and they don't remember

00:44:45.780 --> 00:44:46.720
 that it came from me

00:44:46.720 --> 00:44:47.960
 but at the end of the day

00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:48.540
 what I really

00:44:48.540 --> 00:44:49.600
 really really really

00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:50.340
 do want

00:44:50.340 --> 00:44:51.080
 and I want to grow

00:44:51.080 --> 00:44:52.280
 in wanting even more

00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:53.300
 is that they just

00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:55.420
 they just love Jesus more

00:44:55.420 --> 00:44:56.420
 and they haven't realized

00:44:56.420 --> 00:44:57.120
 that I had anything

00:44:57.120 --> 00:44:58.800
 to do with their love

00:44:58.800 --> 00:44:59.380
 and that would be

00:44:59.380 --> 00:44:59.980
 a good thing

00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:00.840
 that would be

00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:01.440
 a good thing

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:03.420
 and so one of the ways

00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:04.760
 that the gospel models this

00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:06.040
 is this story ends

00:45:06.040 --> 00:45:07.120
 this is so cool

00:45:07.120 --> 00:45:08.760
 this story ends

00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:09.940
 that Jesus

00:45:09.940 --> 00:45:10.980
 in the Decapolis

00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:11.980
 he does the miracle

00:45:11.980 --> 00:45:13.000
 he the people

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:13.560
 all say

00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:14.739
 get away from us

00:45:14.739 --> 00:45:15.179
 Jesus

00:45:15.179 --> 00:45:16.539
 and and they

00:45:16.539 --> 00:45:17.559
 and Jesus leaves

00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:18.779
 and there's only one guy

00:45:18.779 --> 00:45:20.219
 left who likes Jesus

00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:23.259
 and in chapter 7

00:45:23.259 --> 00:45:25.059
 Jesus comes to the region

00:45:25.059 --> 00:45:25.480
 again

00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:26.360
 and he speaks

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:28.139
 and there's 4,000 people

00:45:28.139 --> 00:45:29.320
 there to hear him

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:30.860
 and Jesus performs

00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:31.619
 the miracle

00:45:31.619 --> 00:45:33.079
 of feeding 4,000

00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:34.500
 right where this guy

00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:35.299
 had gone

00:45:35.299 --> 00:45:40.860
 Jesus did not

00:45:40.860 --> 00:45:41.940
 reject the guy

00:45:41.940 --> 00:45:45.400
 there are no little

00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:47.019
 people in Jesus' life

00:45:47.019 --> 00:45:50.300
 if you come to know

00:45:50.300 --> 00:45:51.320
 Jesus as your Savior

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:51.700
 and Lord

00:45:51.700 --> 00:45:52.579
 you are special

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:53.420
 you are unique

00:45:53.420 --> 00:45:54.659
 you are deeply loved

00:45:54.659 --> 00:45:55.260
 and you will be

00:45:55.260 --> 00:45:55.940
 deeply loved

00:45:55.940 --> 00:45:56.900
 for all eternity

00:45:56.900 --> 00:45:58.340
 and part of

00:45:58.340 --> 00:45:59.240
 sanctification

00:45:59.240 --> 00:46:00.460
 is beginning to know

00:46:00.460 --> 00:46:01.420
 and experience that

00:46:01.420 --> 00:46:02.440
 now on this side

00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:03.240
 of the grave

00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:07.259
 Jesus took this one guy

00:46:07.259 --> 00:46:09.219
 and he started

00:46:09.219 --> 00:46:10.039
 to tell people

00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:11.599
 about what Jesus

00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:12.459
 had done for him

00:46:12.459 --> 00:46:13.039
 and how mercy

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:14.000
 had been shown to him

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:15.799
 and whether it was

00:46:15.799 --> 00:46:16.819
 months or a year later

00:46:16.819 --> 00:46:17.599
 the Bible doesn't give

00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:18.099
 chronology

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:19.639
 4,000 people came

00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:20.959
 more than 4,000 people

00:46:20.959 --> 00:46:21.819
 came to hear Jesus

00:46:21.819 --> 00:46:22.599
 the next time

00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.139
 let's stand

00:46:25.139 --> 00:46:31.059
 bow our heads

00:46:31.059 --> 00:46:31.500
 in prayer

00:46:31.500 --> 00:46:40.059
 Father we give you

00:46:40.059 --> 00:46:41.039
 thanks and praise

00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:42.659
 for Jesus

00:46:42.659 --> 00:46:44.699
 we thank and praise you

00:46:44.699 --> 00:46:46.239
 that

00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.299
 he did what we could not

00:46:49.299 --> 00:46:50.940
 he disentangled himself

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:51.960
 from power

00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:52.679
 and prestige

00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:53.879
 he did those things

00:46:53.879 --> 00:46:54.940
 not have a hold of him

00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:55.420
 those things

00:46:55.420 --> 00:46:55.900
 that we wish

00:46:55.900 --> 00:46:56.639
 that we could do

00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:57.579
 but can't

00:46:57.579 --> 00:46:58.619
 he did for us

00:46:58.619 --> 00:47:00.619
 and that he did

00:47:00.619 --> 00:47:01.200
 the complete

00:47:01.200 --> 00:47:02.539
 he used all of his power

00:47:02.539 --> 00:47:03.420
 to do the opposite

00:47:03.420 --> 00:47:04.380
 of what we expect

00:47:04.380 --> 00:47:05.579
 power to be used for

00:47:05.579 --> 00:47:07.220
 he used his power

00:47:07.220 --> 00:47:09.519
 to resist temptation

00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:11.039
 to live a sinless life

00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:12.260
 and to die upon the cross

00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:13.740
 as a sacrifice for sin

00:47:13.740 --> 00:47:15.360
 so that I can be made right

00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:16.360
 with God

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.340
 that anyone who puts

00:47:17.340 --> 00:47:18.280
 their trust and faith

00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:18.679
 in Jesus

00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:20.119
 can be made right with you

00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:21.360
 and we give you

00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:22.139
 thanks and praise

00:47:22.139 --> 00:47:22.519
 Father

00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:23.679
 that when we receive

00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:24.820
 the Jesus

00:47:24.820 --> 00:47:25.880
 into our lives

00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:27.240
 that he will begin

00:47:27.240 --> 00:47:28.240
 to work within us

00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:28.760
 to put us

00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:29.760
 in our right mind

00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.700
 to put us

00:47:31.700 --> 00:47:32.740
 in our right mind

00:47:32.740 --> 00:47:34.820
 to heal us

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:35.820
 that we might be free

00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:37.220
 as you intended us to be

00:47:37.220 --> 00:47:38.720
 and so Father

00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:39.400
 we ask that you

00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:39.880
 deliver us

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:40.340
 from whatever

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:41.580
 fear we have

00:47:41.580 --> 00:47:42.740
 of drawing close

00:47:42.740 --> 00:47:43.300
 to Christ

00:47:43.300 --> 00:47:45.300
 or surrendering

00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:45.820
 to him

00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:46.260
 that you would

00:47:46.260 --> 00:47:46.840
 deliver us

00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:47.120
 Father

00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:48.019
 from these fears

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:48.720
 we confess

00:47:48.720 --> 00:47:49.140
 that we're not

00:47:49.140 --> 00:47:50.019
 really fearing you

00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:50.980
 we're fearing demons

00:47:50.980 --> 00:47:52.480
 and help us

00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:53.280
 to have a great love

00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:53.840
 for Jesus

00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:54.539
 and trust

00:47:54.539 --> 00:47:55.039
 and know

00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:56.420
 that as he

00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:57.719
 becomes more precious

00:47:57.719 --> 00:47:58.340
 and real

00:47:58.340 --> 00:47:59.900
 and as his work

00:47:59.900 --> 00:48:00.619
 and his promises

00:48:00.619 --> 00:48:01.659
 become more precious

00:48:01.659 --> 00:48:02.059
 and real

00:48:02.059 --> 00:48:03.059
 and deep to our hearts

00:48:03.059 --> 00:48:05.440
 that you will help us

00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:06.679
 to be in our right mind

00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:08.900
 and in community

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:09.579
 with others

00:48:09.579 --> 00:48:11.219
 and in community

00:48:11.219 --> 00:48:11.659
 with you

00:48:11.659 --> 00:48:13.079
 so Father

00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:14.119
 please do this wonderful

00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:14.860
 work of grace

00:48:14.860 --> 00:48:15.579
 in our lives

00:48:15.579 --> 00:48:16.980
 and we ask this

00:48:16.980 --> 00:48:17.860
 in the name of Jesus

00:48:17.860 --> 00:48:18.460
 your son

00:48:18.460 --> 00:48:19.099
 and our savior

00:48:19.099 --> 00:48:19.900
 amen