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0:00Mark 5:1
0:02They came to the other side of the sea
0:05into the country of the garrison. When
0:08he got out of the boat, immediately a
0:10man from the tombs with an unclean
0:12spirit met him, and he had his dwelling
0:15among [music] the tombs, and no one was
0:17able to bind him anymore, even with
0:20chains.
0:22Remember that in chapter three when the
0:25Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out
0:28demons [music] by the ruler of demons
0:30Behel Zbub he said no you cannot enter a
0:33strong man's house unless you first bind
0:36the strong man and I told you that the
0:39strong man was the devil and the house
0:42was the temple of God that the person
0:44represented [music] and no one was able
0:47to bind him anymore even with chains
0:50because he had often been bound with
0:52shackles and chains, and the chains had
0:55been torn apart by him, and the shackles
0:57broken in pieces, and no one was strong
1:00enough to subdue him.
1:03Constantly, night and day, he was
1:05screaming among the tombs and in the
1:07mountains, and gashing himself with
1:10stones.
1:13Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up
1:15and bowed down before him. and shouting
1:18with a loud voice, he said, "What
1:21business do we have with each other,
1:23Jesus, son of the most high God? I
1:27implore you by God, do not torment me."
1:32For he had been saying to him, "Come out
1:34of the man, you unclean spirit."
1:37So Jesus was apparently repeatedly
1:40saying, "Come out of the man, you
1:42unclean spirit." And in response, the
1:45unclean spirit is speaking through the
1:48man. And like I've explained before,
1:51he's trying to declare who Jesus is
1:54because he wants to poison the well and
1:59make the word go out through the mouth
2:01of demonpossessed people.
2:05And Jesus was asking him, "What is your
2:08name?"
2:10And he said to him, "My name is Legion,
2:14for we are many."
2:18And he began to implore him earnestly
2:21not to send them out of the country.
2:25Now there was a large herd of swine
2:27feeding nearby on the mountains. The
2:30demons implored him, saying, "Send us
2:32into the swine so that we may enter
2:35them." Jesus gave them permission. And
2:39coming out, the unclean spirits entered
2:41the swine, and the herd rushed down the
2:44steep bank into the sea, about 2,000 of
2:48them, and they were drowned in the sea.
2:51Their herdsmen ran away and reported it
2:54to the city and in the country. And the
2:56people came out to see what had
2:58happened. They came to Jesus and
3:01observed the man who had been
3:04demon-possessed
3:06sitting down clothed and in his right
3:08mind, the very man who had had the
3:12legion. And they became frightened.
3:17Those who had seen it described to them
3:20how it had happened to the
3:20demon-possessed man and all about the
3:22swine. And they began to implore him,
3:27Jesus, to leave their region.
3:32As he was getting into the boat, the man
3:35who had been demon-possessed was
3:37imploring him that he might accompany
3:40him.
3:43and he did not let him. But he said, "Go
3:47home to your people
3:49and report to them what great things the
3:54Lord has done for you and how he had
3:57mercy on you."
4:00And he went away and began to proclaim
4:03in Dopoulos what great things Jesus had
4:07done for him. And everyone was amazed.
4:12First of all, the demon speaks and he
4:15says something very specific.
4:17He says, "What business do I have with
4:21you?
4:22The demons will not work with,
4:25collaborate with, partner with anything
4:28that God is doing. We can't be in
4:31business together." The demon is saying,
4:33"Then the demons do what they always do,
4:35and they say who Jesus is. And that's
4:38not because they are lying, but because
4:40they want to poison the well and make
4:43people hear who he is from the mouth of
4:45an idiot first.
4:48And then we're told that Jesus was
4:50saying to him, "Come out of the man."
4:52But then he asks the demon to identify
4:56himself. And the demon identifies that
4:59it is not one. It is a legion. It is a
5:03plurality. that this poor guy has become
5:07the house of a lot of evil spirits.
5:10And then we ask, why were the demons
5:13willing and even desperate
5:15[clears throat] to go into the swine
5:18but not to be cast out of all physical
5:23expression. And this is an insight that
5:27what the devil wants is incarnation.
5:30He wants to incarnate his ideas, his
5:34fears, his power, his evil spirits in
5:38human beings
5:40because he sees that we are God's temple
5:43made for incarnation. That we are the
5:46temple where God desires to dwell by his
5:49spirit. And so in his competition with
5:51God, the devil wants to take up
5:53residence in the same temple of God, the
5:57human body.
5:59And if he can't have the human body, it
6:01would be better to have the body of an
6:02animal, but he does not want to be
6:04dispossessed
6:06to roam in the waste places. The demon
6:09said in Matthew.
6:12And the next fascinating thing is that
6:16the gospel writer Mark wants us to
6:20understand the paradox, the absurdity
6:24that this town had grown accustomed to.
6:27a man breaking chains, gashing himself
6:31with stones, crying out and living among
6:34the tombs. They had grown accustomed to
6:37the incarnation of a legion of demons in
6:40their town. And they weren't doing
6:43anything about that. But when the power
6:45of God comes and sets a man free,
6:49they're terrified.
6:52And he uses this word, they were
6:54frightened. And then he uses this word
6:56they implored Jesus. It means they
7:01begged him with desperation.
7:03[snorts] Please get out of our lives.
7:06Please leave our church, our town. We
7:10can't take this kind of power of the
7:12spirit.
7:14And then Mark uses the same word to
7:18describe the attitude of the man who's
7:21been delivered. And he implores Jesus,
7:25please let me go with you.
7:28Please let me be part. And this shows
7:32the difference between the attitude of
7:36someone who's been delivered by a legion
7:38of oppression versus the attitude of
7:41people who've just grown accustomed to
7:43the devil tormenting others and don't
7:47want God interfering with the status
7:49quo.
7:51And Jesus's words to the man are so
7:53powerful.
7:56He says, "Go home to your people."
7:59These people who are rejecting Jesus,
8:01Jesus still has a burden for them. He
8:04wants them to be evangelized.
8:07So in many cases, he tells the healed
8:09person not to tell anyone. But in this
8:12case, he tells the man, "Go tell your
8:17people, your people that are begging me
8:19to leave, go tell them
8:23all the great things the Lord has done
8:26for you." Help them see this isn't
8:28something to be afraid of. Help them see
8:31that this is something great and how he
8:34has had mercy on you.
8:38If you want to know how to evangelize,
8:40tell your people the wonderful things
8:43God has done and let them feel the mercy
8:47that he has shown to you. And so he went
8:50away and he did it and he began to
8:52proclaim what great things Jesus had
8:56done for him and everyone was amazed.
9:00And so we have a beginning of a change.
9:03We have people who are terribly
9:05frightened begging him to leave. And now
9:07we have people being very amazed when
9:10they start to hear it from their own
9:12countrymen.
9:15It's interesting that he tells him to go
9:17tell your people all the things that the
9:20Lord has done for you. And it says, "So
9:23he told all that Jesus had done for
9:26him." It's one of those subtle little
9:28hints that Jesus was the Lord, that
9:30Jesus was God.
9:33When Jesus had crossed over again in the
9:35boat to the other side, a large crowd
9:38gathered around him. And so he stayed by
9:41the seashore.
9:42One of the synagogue officials named
9:44Gyrus came up and on seeing him fell at
9:49his feet
9:51and implored him earnestly, saying, "My
9:54little daughter is at the point of
9:56death. Please come and lay your hands on
10:00her so that she will get well and live."
10:04And he went off with him. And a large
10:06crowd was following him and pressing in
10:09on him. A woman who had a hemorrhage for
10:1312 years and had endured much at the
10:16hands of many physicians and had spent
10:19all she had and was not helped at all,
10:23but rather had grown worse. After
10:26hearing about Jesus, she came up in the
10:29crowd behind him and touched his cloak.
10:33For she thought, "If I just touch his
10:36garments, I will get well."
10:39Immediately the flow of her blood was
10:41dried up and she felt in her body that
10:45she was healed of her affliction.
10:49Immediately Jesus perceiving in himself
10:52that the power proceeding from him had
10:55gone forth turned around in the crowd
10:58and said, "Who touched my garments?"
11:03And his disciples said to him, "You see
11:06the crowd pressing in on you, and you
11:09say, "Who touched me?"
11:13And he looked around to see the woman
11:15who had done this. But the woman,
11:17fearing and trembling, aware of what had
11:20happened to her, came and fell down
11:23before him, and told him the whole
11:25truth. And he said to her, "Daughter,
11:30your faith has made you well.
11:34Go in peace and be healed of your
11:37affliction."
11:40Now, this is a powerful thing that the
11:43Bible is trying to teach us. And we know
11:46that in the story of Matthew that this
11:49synagogue official and the woman with
11:52the hemorrhage, they come up when Jesus
11:55is preaching something specific. He's
11:58preaching about new wine skins. So their
12:01interventionist immediate approach is
12:05them acting on a new way of responding,
12:08a new wine skinin if you will.
12:11But what Mark wants us to see is that
12:16many people were touching Jesus, but
12:20only one was touching with a prayer,
12:23touching with faith, touching with a
12:26need, touching while saying to herself,
12:29"I know I will be healed." And so he did
12:33not feel power go out of him when any of
12:36the crowd jostled him as he moved. But
12:40when somebody touched him in faith,
12:44he sensed that the power that was always
12:47going forth had found
12:50a destination that it had found a mark
12:54and was making a difference for
12:55somebody. And so he said, "Who touched
12:58me?"
13:00God felt that the power that was
13:03available
13:04from him had found a home in someone's
13:08heart. And the disciples are like,
13:10"Don't ask who touched you. Look how
13:12many people are in this crowd." And he
13:14said, "No, no, somebody touched me
13:17differently." And this is a a word to us
13:21that it's not enough to be near God and
13:23to even feel his presence or even
13:26encounter a touch with him. But when we
13:29have a need, we need to touch him with
13:31expectation. We need to touch him with
13:34faith. We need to touch him with
13:36confession, saying, "If I do this,
13:39something's going to be different." And
13:41when we touch him in that way, we
13:43receive something that the crowd around
13:45him was not receiving.
13:47While he was still speaking, they came
13:50from the house of the synagogue
13:51officials, saying, "Your daughter has
13:53died. Why trouble the teacher anymore?
13:58But Jesus, overhearing what was being
14:01spoken, said to the synagogue official,
14:04"Do not be afraid any longer. Only
14:07believe."
14:10And he allowed no one to accompany him
14:13except Peter and James and John, the
14:16brother of James. They came to the house
14:18of the synagogue official,
14:21and he saw a commotion and people loudly
14:25weeping and wailing.
14:28And entering in, he said to them, "Why
14:31make a commotion and weep? The child has
14:34not died, but is asleep."
14:38They began laughing at him.
14:41But putting them all out, he took along
14:45the child's father and mother and his
14:48own companions and entered the room
14:51where the child was.
14:54Taking the child by the hand, he said to
14:58her, "Talitha kum," which translated
15:02means, "Little girl, I say to you, get
15:06up."
15:09Immediately the girl got up and began to
15:11walk, for she was 12 years old. And
15:15immediately they were completely
15:17astounded.
15:19And he gave them strict orders that no
15:21one should know about this. And he said
15:24that something should be given her to
15:26eat.
15:27I love the humanity of this.
15:30I love that
15:34in their unbelief, the companions of the
15:36synagogue official feel that while Jesus
15:40has been delayed performing another
15:42miracle, he's no longer needed because
15:45the child is dead. And Jesus tells the
15:48man, "Do not be afraid any longer. Only
15:51believe." So, he's saying, "You've been
15:54afraid this whole time, but you can stop
15:57being afraid because I'm able to raise
16:00the dead and let's just go see what God
16:02is going to do." And when he comes to
16:04the house, he sees a commotion and he
16:08says something. He says, "Why make a
16:11commotion and weep? The child has not
16:13died but is asleep." Now, that does not
16:16contradict the fact that the child was
16:18dead. It means that death in the
16:21presence of the living God means
16:23something different than death outside
16:25of the presence of the living God.
16:28Death away from Jesus is permanent.
16:32Death with Jesus is as easy to resolve
16:35as sleep.
16:38So he's not lying and he's not playing
16:40makeelie. He's trying to help them see
16:42that death means something different
16:45with the Lord who [music] raises the
16:46dead. And they begin to laugh at him.
16:50They go from weeping and wailing and
16:53creating a commotion that he can't stand
16:56to laughing at him.
16:58And he puts them out. Get out. So he has
17:03to get rid of all faithlessness. He has
17:06to get rid of all the commotion that is
17:10repeating and focusing on the framework
17:13of unbelief. Get them out of the house.
17:17And he brings along those who have faith
17:20and love. The child's mother, the
17:23child's father,
17:26who he's told only believe, and his own
17:28companions.
17:30And then look at the tenderness.
17:33He doesn't stand outside and tell her to
17:36rise up.
17:38That's what he did with Lazarus. But in
17:40this case, it's a little girl. And so
17:44Mark tells us that he took her by the
17:46hand. Taking the child by the hand, he
17:50said to her, "Little girl, I say to you,
17:54get up."
17:56Immediately the girl got up and began to
17:58walk. And Mark adds, because she was 12
18:01years old.
18:04Little detail that's helpful. And
18:06immediately they were completely
18:08astounded. We got two immediates that
18:10Mark got in here. Immediately she got up
18:13and immediately they are astounded.
18:16And then he gave them strict orders not
18:19to report this. And then he tells them,
18:21"Give her something to eat." It's like
18:25he didn't solve her human condition. He
18:28healed her. He raised her from the dead,
18:30but he didn't fill her body. She still
18:32needs some supper. So give her something
18:35to eat. Very human. Very hopeful.
18:41>> [music]
18:51[music]

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