Jesus Casts out Demons

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Satan and demons are at war against God, angels, and Christians. Satan is the accuser, adversary, destroyer, deceiver, father of lies, tempter, murderer, evil one, and a real enemy. Jesus comes to liberate those who are taken captive in this cosmic battle. When he meets a man possessed by a multitude of demons, he exercises his authority over them. He casts them out of the man and into a large herd of pigs (unclean animals in the Old Covenant), condemning that region’s pagan way of life. The people are scared of Jesus, but the saved man obeys Jesus and stays behind to boldly preach his story about what Jesus did for him—converting many others after him.

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0:00.0	On behalf of Pastor Mark Driscoll, we want to thank you for allowing us to bring you
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0:29.1	ministry with a gift of any amount. Thank you. We're in Luke chapter 8 verses 26 through 39 today,
0:37.9	and you're going to study with me the work of Jesus Christ in the life of one of the most
0:45.5	famous men in all of the Bible, a demon-possessed man. Now Jesus at this point has been exceedingly
0:54.2	busy. He is an itinerant preacher and miracle worker, and he has moved from town to town and
1:01.7	village to village. The number of people following him has increased. The number of critics opposing
1:09.7	him in a corollary fashion has increased just previous to his interaction with a demoniac that
1:18.1	will examine today. Jesus had dealt with multitudes of people and was absolutely altogether exhausted.
1:27.8	And we read both here in Luke and in the parallel account in Mark chapter 5 that he got into a boat
1:34.4	and that he asked his disciples to, as it were, get him away from the crowd to give him,
1:41.2	I think, a bit of a break. There are those seasons of ministry. I'm in one right now where you just
1:47.1	exhausted. It feels like war on all fronts. The number of people who need help and the number of
1:55.4	things that need attention is just absolutely overwhelming. Jesus was in that kind of season.
2:02.5	And so he got into the boat to get away from the crowds and his disciples who were many trained
2:09.8	fishermen were rowing. There was a strong, strong, strong headwind. They were making no progress.
2:16.4	They were exhausted and their lives were in jeopardy. In the midst of all of this, Jesus is so tired
2:23.1	that he's asleep in the boat. You've got to be tired just to sleep in an old fishing boat,
2:28.8	old by itself. Just that fact indicates how Jesus was fatigued. He was so fatigued, however,
2:36.3	that as the men were rowing all night and exhausted and overwhelmed and likely talking about this
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