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1,293.61499 | 1,297.977051 | So our Lord is displaying His ability to fulfill His purpose. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,299.031006 | 1,303.672974 | of bringing to naught, obliterating the works of the devil. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,303.912964 | 1,305.994019 | He has total power over them. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,306.514038 | 1,317.359009 | And He will be able to do what He says He will do in the end when it tells us in Matthew 25, 41 that He prepared the lake of fire for the devil and his angels. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,317.920044 | 1,320.760986 | He has the power to place them there. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,321.500977 | 1,327.384033 | Scripture makes it clear and believe me, the demons know it...the demons know it. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,328.083984 | 1,330.465942 | This then is a validation of His Messiahship. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,331.245972 | 1,345.156006 | Our Lord's own words make that clear in Luke chapter 11, unmistakably so in verse 20, if I cast out demons by the finger of God or by the power of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,345.855957 | 1,355.363037 | If I cast out demons with a word, with the power of God, then you know the kingdom of God has arrived. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,356.687012 | 1,360.51001 | When a strong man fully armed guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,360.831055 | 1,370.719971 | But when someone stronger than he attacks him, overpowers him, takes away from him all his armor on which he has relied and distributes his plunder, that's Christ. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,371.540039 | 1,377.546021 | Satan is the strong man who is doing fine until Christ appears, devastates him, plunders his house. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,379.166992 | 1,382.970947 | And when that happens, you know the kingdom of God has arrived. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,384.345947 | 1,395.953003 | Now with that as a background, we understand why this is an important incident because there's nothing of the vastness and the volume of this action against Satan recorded in any other place in the New Testament. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,396.654053 | 1,402.817993 | But as we unfold the story running down through the 20 verses, there are three displays of power that I want you to see here. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,402.858032 | 1,406.23999 | There's not just one, there are three displays of power. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,407.355957 | 1,417.652954 | The first one I want you to see is the devastating, destructive power of demons...the devastating, destructive power of demons. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,419.665039 | 1,432.692993 | We've already seen Jesus display His power in the previous paragraph at the end of chapter 4, verses 35 to 41, power over wind, power over water, power to subdue the natural world, the natural elements. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,433.233032 | 1,439.057007 | And here He shows His power to subdue the supernatural world, the supernatural elements. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,439.597046 | 1,449.703003 | The experience the disciples had in the storm on the water frightened them and this experience that we just read about is also a very frightening experience. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,450.422974 | 1,456.107056 | The disciples, you remember, were frightened of the storm and then they were frightened of the power of Jesus. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,456.707031 | 1,458.147949 | And we see the same thing here. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,458.748047 | 1,465.271973 | The people are frightened by this maniac and then they are even more frightened by the presence of Jesus. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,465.391968 | 1,467.373047 | So those are parallel elements. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,468.41394 | 1,472.496948 | You remember how Jesus got to this shore? | SPEAKER_01 |
1,472.516968 | 1,494.311035 | They left the northwest shore by Capernaum, got in their little boats, started across the sea intending to sail to the eastern shore, more unpopulated area, probably the disciples and apostles thought He was wanting some rest and maybe they were glad to get some rest from the massive crushing crowds. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,495.110962 | 1,514.149048 | They got in their little boat, started out, a storm came up, he stilled the storm, they were thrown off course by the storm, eventually got back on course, sailed the rest of the night on a placid lake and ended up in the dawn on the eastern shore at precisely the place they had intended to go, about six miles around the curve from the city of Capernaum. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,514.849976 | 1,519.753052 | When they arrived, the first thing we see is the devastating destructive power of demons. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,519.792969 | 1,520.69397 | Let's pick up the story. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,520.734009 | 1,524.677002 | They came to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gerasenes. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,525.197021 | 1,526.338013 | Just a comment about that. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,527.259033 | 1,529.219971 | Luke adds, which is opposite Galilee. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,529.839966 | 1,536.265015 | It is on the opposite side from the Galilee which runs down the western side of the Sea of Galilee. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,537.485962 | 1,541.729004 | Luke and Mark say it is the country of the Gerasenes. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,542.842041 | 1,546.123047 | Matthew says it's the country of the Gadarenes. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,547.083984 | 1,548.843994 | That's not difficult to understand. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,548.864014 | 1,549.785034 | It is both. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,550.444946 | 1,551.084961 | It is both. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,552.765991 | 1,559.389038 | Gerasenes, because there was a little town right there called Gerasa, or sometimes pronounced Gergesa. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,560.421021 | 1,566.267944 | but it is the town, the small, small town of Gerasa that they came near. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,566.468994 | 1,570.793945 | As I said, it's about six miles around the curve of the lake right there on the shore. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,570.894043 | 1,573.437012 | So it is the land of the Gerasenes. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,574.177979 | 1,576.301025 | However, a little further south and inland, | SPEAKER_01 |
1,576.68103 | 1,581.963013 | is a bigger and more important town and maybe the county seat called Gadara. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,582.383057 | 1,587.425049 | So while it was the village of Gerasa, it was the region that associated itself with Gadara. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,587.464966 | 1,596.328003 | So it was the land of the Gerasenes, if you look at the village, and the Gadarenes if you look at the larger town that sort of gave its name to the region. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,597.108032 | 1,599.588989 | In any case, here's the key, it was Gentile country. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,600.168945 | 1,601.989014 | It was Gentile country. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,602.389038 | 1,613.831055 | And here He is in this Gentile area with His disciples and Apostles, all of whom have gotten out of the little boats that had come across the sea and they're expecting a little bit of rest. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,613.850952 | 1,615.371948 | They're away from the Jews. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,616.112061 | 1,618.932007 | It's pretty open country there, pretty rural. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,618.972046 | 1,621.493042 | This would be a time for them to get a little rest. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,622.192993 | 1,624.775024 | only that's not what was planned and the Lord knew it. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,625.395996 | 1,632.982056 | Verse 2 says, when he got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,633.402954 | 1,636.344971 | This is not the local chamber of commerce representative. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,636.765015 | 1,638.487061 | This is not the welcome wagon. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,638.506958 | 1,641.04895 | This is your worst nightmare. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,643.19104 | 1,646.41394 | This is a man from the tombs who comes | SPEAKER_01 |
1,647.63501 | 1,653.637939 | racing down the slope to the edge of the lake to meet them. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,654.057983 | 1,658.97998 | He is defined as having an unclean spirit. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,659.959961 | 1,661.68103 | It's probably just barely dawn. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,662.340942 | 1,664.842041 | They have just tied up their boats. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,665.781982 | 1,667.963013 | Maybe a little dock was available there. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,669.16394 | 1,674.385986 | And immediately at the water's edge, a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met them. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,674.765991 | 1,676.967041 | Matthew 8...28 says he has a companion. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,677.96106 | 1,681.624023 | There are actually two men in this same condition. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,682.545044 | 1,690.712036 | But as the story goes on, that second man is left behind and all the focus of both Matthew, Mark and Luke who all record this story is on the one man. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,691.792969 | 1,694.35498 | But there were two that came racing down. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,695.937012 | 1,697.979004 | Now it says He came from the tombs. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,699.706055 | 1,702.067993 | That would be a little unusual. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,702.909058 | 1,706.551025 | Jews wouldn't go near a tomb for fear of being contaminated by a dead body. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,707.251953 | 1,708.593018 | But this is a Gentile area. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,708.633057 | 1,711.155029 | This is obviously a Gentile man. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,712.475952 | 1,713.937012 | What's he doing in the tombs? | SPEAKER_01 |
1,714.738037 | 1,716.918945 | Well, he lives there, verse 3. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,717.199951 | 1,719.661011 | He had his dwelling among the tombs. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,720.001953 | 1,721.522949 | He's a tomb dweller. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,722.785034 | 1,729.878052 | In ancient times this would be the common haunt of a deranged, insane, demon-possessed person. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,731.06897 | 1,737.811035 | Burial chambers in that time and that place, as in many places in the world in ancient times, were carved out of the hillside. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,738.21106 | 1,740.751953 | You can see them in various places in the world even today. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,741.151978 | 1,744.853027 | And you can see them right there where the town of Gerasa is. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,744.892944 | 1,755.735962 | There's a modern village called Kerusi and that village is located near some of the hillsides and some of the cliffs where you can still see these open tombs where they put dead bodies. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,756.715942 | 1,759.640015 | Here is a man who is more comfortable with the dead than he is with the living. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,760.360962 | 1,763.564941 | And by the way, the dead are more comfortable with him than the living would be as well. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,764.105957 | 1,766.428955 | So it's a mutually agreed upon condition. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,768.307983 | 1,770.609009 | He is defined as having an unclean spirit. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,770.649048 | 1,773.770996 | That's simply a term for a demon that's more descriptive. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,773.791016 | 1,785.416016 | A fallen angel called a demon clearly refers to demons because the man is designated as a demon-possessed man down in verse 18. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,785.515991 | 1,789.037964 | So this unclean spirit is synonymous with a demon, a fallen angel. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,789.557983 | 1,797.342041 | They are spirit beings and they occupy the bodies of human beings. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,798.995972 | 1,802.420044 | They are unclean, all of them are unclean...all of them. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,802.840942 | 1,807.967041 | So unclean spirit is simply a term that applies to all fallen angels and all demons. | SPEAKER_01 |
1,807.987061 | 1,815.895996 | When we went through the gospel of Luke, we went through this story in Luke chapter 8 and I digressed, as I am wont to do, and gave you a | SPEAKER_01 |
0.249 | 2.531 | All of them are unclean...all of them. | SPEAKER_05 |
2.951 | 8.055 | So unclean spirit is simply a term that applies to all fallen angels and all demons. | SPEAKER_05 |
8.095 | 19.323999 | When we went through the gospel of Luke, we went through this story in Luke chapter 8 and I digressed as I am wont to do and gave you a very expanded insight into the whole world of demons. | SPEAKER_05 |
19.384001 | 20.365 | I'm not going to do that again. | SPEAKER_05 |
20.405001 | 25.768999 | You can find that information there available for you in the Luke series. | SPEAKER_05 |
27 | 40.705002 | Then verse 3, he had his dwelling among the tombs indicates to us that he wasn't just visiting a tomb to see a dead friend or placing flowers outside a tomb or meditating about the loss of a past relative. | SPEAKER_05 |
41.771999 | 45.634998 | He would be classified as a man who lived in the tombs as a madman. | SPEAKER_05 |