JESUS’ POWER OVER EVIL (1 OF 2)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 8:26-39
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Jesus’ Power Over Evil (1 of 2)
Series: Not the Same
Scott Maze
Luke 8:26-39
This is a two-week sermon series covering three people in Mark 5. Next week, you'll meet a woman who has bleed for much of her life and you'll encounter a man named Jairus, whose daughter had died. This week, I want you to meet the man whom history has called the Gadarene.
''They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, ''What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.'' 8 For he was saying to him, ''Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!'' 9 And Jesus asked him, ''What is your name?'' He replied, ''My name is Legion, for we are many.'' 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, ''Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.'' 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and ...
Series: Not the Same
Scott Maze
Luke 8:26-39
This is a two-week sermon series covering three people in Mark 5. Next week, you'll meet a woman who has bleed for much of her life and you'll encounter a man named Jairus, whose daughter had died. This week, I want you to meet the man whom history has called the Gadarene.
''They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, ''What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.'' 8 For he was saying to him, ''Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!'' 9 And Jesus asked him, ''What is your name?'' He replied, ''My name is Legion, for we are many.'' 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, ''Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.'' 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and ...
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