God has his purposes. He could stop the whole satanic operation instantaneously, bind them all

or throw them all into the pit immediately, even into the lake of fire, but he has his purposes.

He lets evil run its full course

because it brings him glory.

It brings out the wonder of his grace,

and it also brings out the wonder of his wrath. Wath. Welcome to Grace to you with a man.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson. to you're

come to great to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Imagine you're traveling in a boat with Jesus.

As soon as you land you come face to face with a man possessed by a horde of demons.

You watch as Jesus talks to the demons, you hear them beg for mercy.

What would you think? How would you react? More important, what was Jesus reaction and what does it say about the trust you put in him?

Today, John MacArthur takes you back 2,000 years to that bizarre encounter with a demon-possessed man and brings you a

lesson that will add color and texture and scale to history's most significant

person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

So follow along now as John continues his study titled Jesus Over All.

We continue in our study of the Gospel of Mark and go back to chapter 5 and the opening 20 verses, the purpose

for which Mark writes is laid out in verse 1 of chapter 1, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the son of God.

This is a history of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ as is the gospel of Matthew, the gospel of Luke, and the gospel of John.

There are four Holy Spirit inspired, divinely authored records of his life and ministry.

And even those four, with all that they contain, can't begin to tell the whole story.

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