The Gadarene Demoniac
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Only the Son of God bears an authority that causes the demons of hell to tremble. From this exposition of the gospel of Mark, today R.C. Sproul considers how the divinity of Christ is revealed in His deliverance of a man possessed by a legion of demons.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The demons of hell understood that in the timetable of God in his providence, in his plan of redemption, |
| 0:06.9 | God had appointed a day when Satan would be bound. |
| 0:11.0 | All of the forces of hell would be crushed once and for all. |
| 0:15.6 | When the Messiah would come in any confrontation, the demonic world would have no equality with the power of the Messiah. |
| 0:28.3 | The unbeliever doubts suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. If you engage with non-Christians, |
| 0:36.9 | you likely hear argument after argument, |
| 0:39.2 | objection after objection. But as you'll hear today, even the demons know the identity of Jesus. |
| 0:45.7 | And as James says, they shudder. This is the Sunday edition of renewing your mind, and we're |
| 0:51.8 | spending several weeks in Mark's gospel, exploring the power |
| 0:55.4 | of Christ that was on display during his earthly ministry. The sermons in this series are from a |
| 1:01.3 | larger sermon series from Dr. Sprawl, and those sermons form the basis for his line-by-line commentary |
| 1:07.3 | on Mark. We'll send you the hardcover edition as our way of saying thank you for your |
| 1:12.0 | support when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:18.8 | So what confrontation did Jesus have with the demonic realm? Here's Dr. Sprawl in Mark |
| 1:24.7 | Chapter 5. |
| 1:34.0 | When I look at this account here in the Gospel of Mark and the parallel accounts in Matthew and Luke, I can't help but ask a speculative question. |
| 1:40.4 | Why, in the wisdom of God, did the Holy Spirit so determined to superintend and inspire the record |
| 1:51.0 | of this event? |
| 1:54.3 | What purpose is there in this text for us? |
| 1:59.5 | I'm sure you've heard sermons on this text before, and most of them deal with the consequences |
| 2:09.3 | that come to Christians who put their faith in Jesus, that there's an enormous psychological benefit by which the presence of Christ |
| 2:21.6 | comes to us, stills the tempest on the sea, as we've already seen, and stills the same |
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