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🗓️ 5 October 2020
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0:00.0 | A listener named Calvin, great name, from Singapore, writes us today with a Bible question |
0:10.7 | on Matthew 8. |
0:12.7 | Pastor John, thank you for your ministry and for this podcast, which I've benefited |
0:15.7 | from greatly. |
0:16.9 | My question is over Matthew 8 verses 28 to 34. |
0:20.9 | In this text, why did the demons ask Jesus's permission to be sent into the pigs when |
0:25.1 | those pigs would be immediately drowned? |
0:28.2 | Where else would they have gone and where did they go after the whole herd rush down |
0:32.4 | the steep bank into the sea and drown in the waters? |
0:36.6 | This has always perplexed me, Pastor John, what can you tell Calvin? |
0:40.7 | Not everybody knows this story, so probably we should read that section from Matthew 8 |
0:46.4 | that he's referring to. |
0:48.6 | When Jesus came to the other side, so this is starting at verse 28 of Matthew 8, when |
0:54.6 | Jesus came to the other side, to the country of the getterains, to demon possessed men |
1:01.6 | met him coming out of the tomb, so fierce that no one could pass that way. |
1:08.1 | And behold, they cried out, what have you to do with us, O Son of God? |
1:13.7 | Have you come here to torment us before the time? |
1:17.9 | Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them and the demons begged |
1:26.0 | him saying, if you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs and he said to them, |
1:34.2 | go. |
1:35.7 | So they came out and went into the pigs and behold, the whole herd rushed down the |
1:42.2 | steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. |
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