>> COMING UP NEXT ON
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>> THE BIBLE IS FILLED
WITH STORIES OF THIS DRAMATIC
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DELIVERANCE WHERE GOD
SETS THE CAPTIVES FREE.
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"AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
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TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN
EXCERPT FROM "OH FOR REVIVAL"
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VIDEO SERIES.
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>> JESUS CAME TO
SET THE CAPTIVES FREE.
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ONE OF THE CENTRAL THEMES
IN THE BIBLE IS DELIVERANCE
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FROM PRISON.
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THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE
IS THE STORY OF HOW GOD DELIVERS
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PEOPLE, A WHOLE NATION,
FROM PRISON AND SLAVERY.
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AND WE ALL STRUGGLE BEING
IMPRISONED OR CHAINED BY SIN.
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I'M GONNA BEGIN WITH A STORY
IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU MAY HAVE
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VERY SELDOM HEARD.
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IT'S ONE OF THE LAST STORIES
YOU'LL FIND IN BOTH 2 CHRONICLES
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AND THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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JEREMIAH 52:31, "NOW IT CAME TO
PASS IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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OF THE CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN,
KING OF JUDAH, IN THE TWELFTH
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MONTH OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY
OF THE MONTH THAT EVIL-MERODACH,
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KING OF BABYLON IN THE FIRST
YEAR OF HIS REIGN, HE LIFTED UP
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THE HEAD OF JEHOIACHIN, KING OF
JUDAH, AND HE BROUGHT HIM OUT OF
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PRISON AND HE SPOKE KINDLY
TO HIM AND HE GAVE HIM A MORE
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PROMINENT SEAT THAN THE KINGS
WHO WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON.
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SO JEHOIACHIN CHANGED FROM HIS
PRISON GARMENTS AND HE ATE BREAD
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REGULARLY BEFORE THE
KING ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
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AND AS FOR HIS PROVISION, THERE
WAS A REGULAR RATION GIVEN HIM
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BY THE KING OF BABYLON, A
PORTION EACH DAY UNTIL THE DAY
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OF HIS DEATH, ALL
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE."
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YOU MIGHT THINK, PASTOR
DOUG, WHY ARE YOU GOING THERE?
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I THINK THIS STORY REALLY
SUMMARIZES WHAT JESUS DOES
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FOR US.
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KING JEHOIACHIN WAS A
YOUNG KING WHO WAS IMPRISONED BY
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR 37
YEARS IN A BABYLONIAN JAIL.
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AND THEN A NEW KING COMES TO
THE THRONE WHO DANIEL, NO DOUBT,
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SPOKE TO AND SAID, "PLEASE HAVE
MERCY ON THIS KING OF JUDAH.
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HE IS A SON OF DAVID."
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AND THE KING HAS MERCY ON HIM.
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HE FREES HIM FROM PRISON.
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HE GIVES HIM NEW CLOTHES,
OBVIOUSLY ROYAL CLOTHES BECAUSE
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HE SAYS, "YOU'RE NOW GOING TO
EAT WITH MY KINGS AT THE ROYAL
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TABLE" AND HE GETS KING'S FOOD.
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THIS IS THE STORY OF SALVATION.
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GOD GIVES US
FREEDOM FROM OUR PRISON.
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HE GIVES US NEW ROYAL ROBES.
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HE GIVES US NEW BREAD AND THEN
IT SAYS, "ALL THE DAYS OF HIS
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LIFE AND I WILL DWELL IN
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER."
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IT'S THE STORY OF SALVATION.
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YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE BIBLE
IS HOW GOD TAKES PEOPLE FROM
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THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
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THE BIBLE IS FILLED WITH STORIES
OF THIS DRAMATIC DELIVERANCE
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WHERE GOD SETS
THE CAPTIVES FREE.
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AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
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ONE COMMON THREAD I'VE SEEN IS
THAT IT IS A MIRACLE OF GRACE.
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I SOMETIMES BECOME FLUSTERED
TRYING TO EXPLAIN A LOT OF
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THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE COME IN.
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"HOW DO I OVERCOME THIS
AND HOW DO I OVERCOME THAT?"
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I DON'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND
THE SCIENCE OF HOW JESUS
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DOES IT, IT'S A MIRACLE.
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BUT IF YOU COME
IN FAITH, HE DOES IT.
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IT WORKS.
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IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
YOUR CHAINS MIGHT BE, THE LORD
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CAN BREAK YOUR CHAINS.
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AND ONE OF THE CENTRAL
THINGS THAT WE'RE HOPING WILL BE
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ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THIS SERIES
OF MEETINGS IS THAT WE WILL COME
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BEFORE HIM.
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WE WILL HUMBLE OURSELVES.
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WE'LL CHOOSE TO DO IT.
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WE WILL SIGH AND CRY
AND REPENT FOR OUR SINS.
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HAVE YOU READ EZEKIEL 9?
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IT TALKS ABOUT THE ONES WHO
ARE SAVED ARE SEALED AND THEN
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THERE'S ANOTHER GROUP REVELATION
TALKS ABOUT WHO GET THE MARK OF
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THE BEAST, BUT
EVERYBODY IS SEALED.
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GOD'S SERVANTS
GET THE SEAL OF GOD.
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EZEKIEL 9 SAYS, "THESE
ARE THE ONES IN THE HOUSE OF
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THE LORD WHO SIGH
AND CRY BECAUSE OF SIN."
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IT BEGINS WITH REPENTANCE AND
A SORROW OVER SIN AND GOD CAN
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PUT HIS NAME ON THOSE PEOPLE.
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SO AS WE HUMBLE OURSELVES
AND WE COME TO HIM AND WE MAKE
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A DECISION, LORD, I WANT TO BE
FREE, HE THEN WORKS A MIRACLE.
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I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'M HOPING
IS GONNA HAPPEN--I'M HOPING THAT
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PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING
AND LISTENING, THE HOLY SPIRIT,
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THE GREATEST EVIDENCE OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING POURED OUT
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ON US, IT'S GOING TO BE HOLINESS
IN OUR LIVES, A WILLINGNESS
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TO TURN AWAY FROM OUR SINS.
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I'M HOPING THAT GOD WILL CONSUME
ON THE ALTAR A LOT OF THINGS
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THAT YOU KNOW IN YOUR LIFE
THAT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE.
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I WAS THRILLED THIS MORNING WHEN
SOMEONE SAID, "TODAY I'M GONNA
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THROW AWAY MY CIGARETTES.
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PRAY FOR ME."
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AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A
PRAYER OTHER PEOPLE ARE ASKING
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ABOUT.
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SOME YOUNG PEOPLE WROTE
IN A QUESTION ABOUT ALCOHOL.
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I HOPE THAT YOU WILL MAYBE MAKE
YOUR TOILET AN ALTAR AND POUR
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THAT STUFF DOWN
WHERE IT BELONGS.
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AMEN?
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THERE'S PEOPLE
STRUGGLING WITH IT.
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IT'S DESTROYING
FAMILIES, WASTING MONEY.
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I'M HOPING THERE'LL BE TANGIBLE
DELIVERANCE AND YOU'LL SEE GOD
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BREAK THE CHAINS.
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NOW A STORY I
WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU.
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TURN WITH ME, VERSE 1 MARK 5.
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"THEN THEY CAME TO THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE SEA TO THE COUNTRY
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OF THE GADARENES.
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AND WHEN HE HAD COME OUT OF THE
BOAT, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM
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OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH
AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, WHO HAD HIS
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DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS.
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AND NO ONE COULD BIND HIM,
NO, NOT EVEN WITH CHAINS BECAUSE
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HE HAD OFTEN BEEN BOUND
WITH SHACKLES AND CHAINS AND THE
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CHAINS HAD BEEN PULLED APART
BY HIM AND THE SHACKLES BROKEN
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IN PIECES.
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NEITHER COULD ANYONE TAME HIM.
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AND ALWAYS NIGHT AND DAY,
HE WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN
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THE TOMBS CRYING OUT AND
CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES.
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BUT WHEN HE SAW JESUS FROM AFAR,
HE RAN AND HE WORSHIPED HIM."
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NOW JUMP IN YOUR BIBLES TO
THE BOOK OF LUKE 8, I'M GOING TO
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BEGIN WITH VERSE 26.
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SAME STORY, DOCTOR LUKE
GIVES A FEW MORE DETAILS.
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"THEN THEY SAILED TO THE
COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES THAT IS
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OPPOSITE GALILEE,"
IT'S ACROSS THE OCEAN.
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"AND WHEN HE STEPPED OUT
ON THE LAND, THERE MET HIM
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A CERTAIN MAN FROM THE CITY
WHO HAD DEMONS FOR A LONG TIME,
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AND HE WORE NO CLOTHES."
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MARK LEAVES THAT OUT.
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"NOR DID HE LIVE IN A
HOUSE BUT IN THE TOMBS.
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AND WHEN HE SAW JESUS HE CRIED
OUT AND HE FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM
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AND HE SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE,
'WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU,
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JESUS, SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD?
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I BEG YOU DO NOT TORMENT
ME.' FOR JESUS HAD COMMANDED THE
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UNCLEAN SPIRIT TO COME OUT OF
THE MAN FOR IT HAD OFTEN SEIZED
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HIM AND HE WAS KEPT UNDER GUARD
BOUND WITH CHAINS AND SHACKLES,
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AND HE BROKE THE BONDS
AND WAS DRIVEN BY THE DEVIL
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INTO THE WILDERNESS.
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AND JESUS ASKED HIM
SAYING, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'
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AND HE SAID, 'LEGION' BECAUSE
MANY DEMONS HAD ENTERED HIM.
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AND THEN THEY BEGGED HIM HE
WOULD NOT COMMAND THEM TO GO OUT
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INTO THE ABUSSOS,
THE BOTTOMLESS PIT."
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THE SAME WORD THAT'S TRANSLATED,
THE DEEP, THE NOTHINGNESS.
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ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVE THE STORY?
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LET ME GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS
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AND THEN I WANT TO
BRING OUT A FEW POINTS.
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THIS STORY IS, I THINK, ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STORIES IN
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THE BIBLE WHERE JESUS
DELIVERS THE DEMONIAC.
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IT'S MENTIONED BY
MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE.
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THIS MAN IS THE MOST
LOST MAN IN THE BIBLE.
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BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT,
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
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LEADS UP TO THIS STORY.
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JESUS CROSSES THE SEA OF GALILEE
AND HE GOES OPPOSITE GALILEE, HE
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LEAVES THE PLACE OF HIS COMMON
LABOR AND HE GOES TO THIS REMOTE
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REGION THAT WAS LARGELY
INHABITED BY THE PAGANS.
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ON THE WAY ACROSS, JESUS IS
SO EXHAUSTED FROM HIS WORK, HE
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FALLS ASLEEP, INTO A VERY DEEP
SLEEP EVIDENTLY, AND THE DEVIL
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THINKING THAT HE IS
VULNERABLE, THE DEVIL SENDS THIS
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SUPERNATURAL GALE, A STORM.
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CAN THE DEVIL CAUSE A STORM?
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DID HE DO IT IN THE BOOK OF JOB?
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ALL OF A SUDDEN, BLACK CLOUDS
GATHER AS THE SUN IS GOING DOWN
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AND THE WIND BEGINS TO
HOWL AND THE WAVES ARE RISING UP
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AND LIGHTNING IS FLASHING.
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AND SOON IT BEGINS TO POUR AND
THE BOAT IS BEING TOSSED AROUND
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LIKE A CORK SO MUCH SO
THAT THESE SEASONED, EXPERIENCED
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FISHERMAN WHO HAVE LIVED BY THE
SEA ALL THEIR LIFE ARE TERRIBLY
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AFRAID FOR THEIR LIVES.
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THAT'S GOTTA BE
SOME KIND OF STORM.
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YOU KNOW, I DO A LOT OF FLYING,
BOTH COMMERCIALLY, A LITTLE BIT
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MYSELF BECAUSE I'M A PILOT
AND A LITTLE BOUNCING DOESN'T
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BOTHER ME, AND I KIND OF,
I MUST ADMIT, I DO CHUCKLE
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A LITTLE BIT WHEN I'M FLYING AND
THE SEAT BELT LIGHT COMES ON AND
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THE PLANE BOUNCES A LITTLE BIT.
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IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK.
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AND I SEE PEOPLE PULL OUT
THEIR ROSARY BEADS AND TIGHTEN
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AND CINCH UP THEIR SEAT
BELTS AND START LOOKING AROUND,
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THEIR KNUCKLES ARE WHITE
ON THE ARMREST AND I USUALLY
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DON'T WORRY.
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BUT I TELL YOU WHEN I START
GETTING A LITTLE WORRIED IS WHEN
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THE CAPTAIN TELLS THE CREW
TO SIT DOWN, AND WHEN I SEE
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THE CREW LOOKING
WORRIED, THEN I GET WORRIED.
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AND THE CREW WAS WORRIED.
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AND THEY'RE PROBABLY TRYING
TO BAIL THE BOAT AND THEY--
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LIGHTNING FLASHES AND
THEN THEY REMEMBER JESUS.
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THEY'D FORGOTTEN
JESUS WAS WITH THEM.
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AND THEY WOKE HIM UP AND
THEY ASKED THE DUMBEST QUESTION
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IN THE BIBLE.
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"LORD, DON'T YOU CARE
THAT WE'RE PERISHING?"
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WHAT A THING TO ASK JESUS.
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DOES HE CARE?
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THAT'S WHY HE CAME.
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CHRIST AWAKES, SOON AS HE
PULLS HIS SCRUPLES TOGETHER, HE
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SURVEYS THE RAGING ELEMENTS AND
WITH ONE HAND PROBABLY CLINGING
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TO THE MASS, HE STRETCHES OUT
HIS OTHER HAND AND HE JUST SAYS,
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"SHALOM."
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JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO YELL.
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I RESENT THAT.
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I THINK THE WORD OF GOD IS,
YOU KNOW, SO MANY PREACHERS I'VE
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HEARD THEM TELL THIS STORY,
AND THEY'VE GOT JESUS JUMPING UP
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AND DOWN IN THE BOAT
SCREAMING AT THE ELEMENTS.
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HE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
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HIS WORD IS SO POWERFUL.
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HE SAYS, "PEACE" AND ALL
OF A SUDDEN, THAT STORM CEASED
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INSTANTLY.
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NO MORE WIND.
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IT WENT FROM A
HURRICANE TO NOTHING.
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THE WAVES FLATTENED OUT.
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IT BECAME GLASSY.
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THE BIBLE SAYS THERE WAS A
GREAT CALM AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S
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INTERESTING, THE DISCIPLES
WERE SCARED DURING THIS STORM.
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AFTER THIS HAPPENS IT SAYS THEN
THEY WERE EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID.
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AND THEY'RE THINKING TO
THEMSELVES, THEY'RE MUSING IN
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THEIR HEARTS, WHAT MANNER
OF MAN IS THIS THAT THE WIND
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AND THE WAVES OBEY HIM?
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WHILE THEY'RE PONDERING
THIS, JESUS DIRECTS THEM TO ROW.
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THEY CAN'T SAIL,
THERE'S NO MORE WIND.
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HE DIRECTS THEM TO ROW TO THE
SOUTH EASTERN SHORE OF GALILEE,
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A REGION THE
JEWS USUALLY AVOIDED.
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IT WAS SORT OF A GRECO-ROMAN
AREA CALLED DECAPOLIS,
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TEN CITIES.
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AND IT WAS THE AREA WHERE THEY
HAD A LOT OF PAGAN GODS AND PIG
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FARMERS AND THEY USED TO FARM
THE PIGS FOR THE ROMAN SOLDIERS.
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AND THEY WEREN'T SURE EXACTLY
WHY BUT AS THEY APPROACHED THE
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SHORE, THE SUN IS NOW RISING
AND THEY SEE THE SILHOUETTE OF
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TOMBSTONES AGAINST THE
BACKDROP OF THE EASTERN SKY.
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AND AS THEY'RE PULLING THE
BOAT UP ON THE BEACH, PROBABLY
00:12:11.83\00:12:16.90
CLIMB OUT OF THE BOAT AND
THEY'RE STARTING TO LOOK AROUND
00:12:16.90\00:12:18.76
FOR A LITTLE DRIFT WOOD SO THEY
CAN BUILD A FIRE AND TO DRY OUT
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THEIR SHIVERING
BODIES AND THEIR WET GEAR.
00:12:21.40\00:12:25.16
THEY HEAR THIS BLOOD-CURDLING
SHRIEK, THIS SCREAM.
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AND FROM ONE OF THE HAUNTS OF
THE TOMBS IN THE CEMETERY, IT'S
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ALREADY A CREEPY
ENVIRONMENT, ISN'T IT?
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THIS CREATURE COMES CHARGING
TOWARDS THEM, AND I WANT YOU
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TO HAVE THE PICTURE.
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THE BIBLE GIVES US THE DETAILS.
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HE'S DRAGGING BROKEN MANACLES
AND CHAINS AROUND HIS NECK
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AND HIS WRISTS AND HIS ANKLES.
00:12:51.53\00:12:54.10
HE'S GOT LONG, FILTHY, GREASY
HAIR FULL OF DIRT AND TWIGS AND
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HIS EYES ARE WILD AND GLARING
AND HIS MOUTH IS FOAMING AND HIS
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TEETH ARE GNASHING AND HE'S
NAKED AND HIS BODY IS COVERED
00:13:03.26\00:13:06.40
WITH BRUISES AND
DRIED BLOOD AND SCARS.
00:13:06.40\00:13:11.66
AND HE COMES CHARGING TOWARDS
THEM, DANGLING HIS CHAINS, AND I
00:13:11.66\00:13:18.00
PICTURE THAT ONE OF THE APOSTLES
ELBOWED HIS FRIEND AND SAID,
00:13:18.00\00:13:21.26
"PRAISE THE LORD, AN OPPORTUNITY
TO SHARE JESUS WITH A VISITOR."
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DO YOU THINK THAT WAS THE
FIRST THING ON THEIR MIND?
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I MEAN LET'S FACE IT, WE
SOMETIMES MEET PEOPLE AND THE
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LAST THING WE'RE THINKING OF
IS ABOUT HOW TO WITNESS TO THEM.
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THEY PROBABLY TURNED THE OTHER
WAY AND THEY RAN AND THEY DOVE
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IN THE BOAT, AND THEY BEGAN TO
PROBABLY PADDLE WITH THEIR HANDS
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AND KICK WITH THEIR FEET AND
DO EVERYTHING THEY DID TO GET
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AS FAR AWAY.
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AND YOU KNOW THEIR NERVES ARE
ALREADY FRAYED FROM THE EVENTS
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OF THE NIGHT.
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THESE POOR DISCIPLES
ARE HAVING A ROUGH TIME.
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THEY'RE AFRAID DURING THE STORM.
00:13:52.70\00:13:53.63
THEY'RE AFRAID
WHEN THE STORM IS OVER.
00:13:53.63\00:13:55.00
THEY LAND AND NOW A
LUNATIC IS TRYING TO KILL THEM.
00:13:55.00\00:13:59.40
AND I USED TO SAY THAT I THOUGHT
YOU COULD PROBABLY DROP A SKI
00:13:59.40\00:14:02.10
ROPE OFF THE BACK OF THAT
BOAT AND GET SOMEBODY UP BECAUSE
00:14:02.10\00:14:06.23
THEY WERE SO ANXIOUS
TO GET AWAY FROM THERE.
00:14:06.23\00:14:09.13
AND THEN THEY DID A HEAD
COUNT, AND THEY ONLY COUNTED 12.
00:14:09.13\00:14:15.00
THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 13.
00:14:15.00\00:14:17.26
THEY LOOKED BACK AND HE WHO
DID NOT FRET DURING THE STORM,
00:14:17.26\00:14:21.33
DID NOT RUN FROM
THIS DEMON-POSSESSED MAN.
00:14:21.33\00:14:25.13
AS THAT MAN CAME CHARGING
TOWARDS CHRIST, HE RAN INTO
00:14:25.13\00:14:28.30
A FORCE FIELD.
00:14:28.30\00:14:29.46
CHRIST HELD UP HIS
HAND AND HE HAD TO STOP.
00:14:29.46\00:14:32.80
THE DEMONS WERE SUBJECT TO HIM.
00:14:32.80\00:14:34.86
AND THERE HE WAS
RAVING AT HIS FEET.
00:14:34.86\00:14:38.13
NOW, I WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT
PICTURE IN YOUR MIND, AND I'LL
00:14:38.13\00:14:40.76
TELL YOU WHY
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
00:14:40.76\00:14:42.93
THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE IS
THE PICTURE OF THE TWO ULTIMATE
00:14:42.93\00:14:48.03
DESTINIES.
00:14:48.03\00:14:50.10
THERE ARE TWO
MASTERS IN THE WORLD.
00:14:50.10\00:14:53.56
THERE ARE TWO DESTINIES.
00:14:53.56\00:14:55.80
GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR
MAN WAS TO BE MADE IN HIS IMAGE
00:14:55.80\00:14:59.96
AND REFLECT HIS
CHARACTER, AM I RIGHT?
00:14:59.96\00:15:03.70
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ABOUT
WHAT GOD'S PLAN FOR US IS TO BE,
00:15:03.70\00:15:08.93
GOD BECAME A MAN TO
SHOW US HIS NAME WAS JESUS.
00:15:08.93\00:15:12.93
JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE OF
GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU AND ME.
00:15:12.93\00:15:16.46
A CHRISTIAN IS
TO BE LIKE CHRIST.
00:15:16.46\00:15:19.20
DO YOU KNOW THAT THE
LORD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU?
00:15:19.20\00:15:22.93
LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS.
00:15:22.93\00:15:23.83
YOU AT HOME, THE
LORD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU.
00:15:23.83\00:15:26.43
HOW MANY OF YOU ALSO BELIEVE
THE DEVIL HAS A PLAN FOR YOU?
00:15:26.43\00:15:31.06
OH, I GOT A GOOD RESPONSE HERE.
00:15:31.06\00:15:32.16
PEOPLE ARE MORE HESITANT TO
RAISE THEIR HANDS, YOU KNOW,
00:15:32.16\00:15:34.63
WITH THAT QUESTION.
00:15:34.63\00:15:37.30
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT
THE DEVIL'S PLAN FOR YOU IS?
00:15:37.30\00:15:40.53
YOU DON'T WANT TO EXPERIENCE,
BUT ARE YOU WONDERING?
00:15:40.53\00:15:43.06
THIS MAN IS THE DEVIL'S PLAN.
00:15:43.06\00:15:46.43
ON THE SHORE OF GADARA THAT DAY,
THERE BY GALILEE, YOU'VE GOT THE
00:15:46.43\00:15:50.23
EPITOME, EXHIBIT A OF GOD'S PLAN
FOR YOU IS JESUS AND THE DEVIL'S
00:15:50.23\00:15:54.53
PLAN FOR YOU IS THAT DEMONIAC.
00:15:54.53\00:15:56.03
THAT MAN WAS FILLED WITH DEVILS.
00:15:56.03\00:16:00.53
THEY WERE BOTH SPIRIT-POSSESSED
BY OPPOSITE SPIRITS.
00:16:00.53\00:16:06.73
EVERY DAY YOU AND I ARE MOVING
STEP BY STEP TOWARDS ONE OR
00:16:06.73\00:16:11.23
THE OTHER DESTINY.
00:16:11.23\00:16:14.06
IT ISN'T SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS
ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT'S USUALLY
00:16:14.06\00:16:17.86
THROUGH A SERIES OF STEPS.
00:16:17.86\00:16:19.66
DO YOU THINK THAT
MAN WAS BORN THAT WAY?
00:16:19.66\00:16:22.80
I MEAN SOME OF YOU HAVE HAD
CHILDREN AND YOU'VE WONDERED
00:16:22.80\00:16:26.03
BUT--NO.
00:16:26.03\00:16:30.13
I THINK THAT HE BECAME THAT MAN
THROUGH A SERIES OF DECISIONS.
00:16:30.13\00:16:36.96
IT IS USUALLY A SERIES OF LITTLE
DECISIONS THAT DEVELOP THE
00:16:36.96\00:16:40.86
CHARACTER, AND EVERY TIME WE SAY
YES TO TEMPTATION AND WE GIVE
00:16:40.86\00:16:45.70
INTO TEMPTATION, WE BECOME A
LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE THE DEVIL.
00:16:45.70\00:16:50.56
AND EVERY TIME WE SURRENDER TO
CHRIST AND WE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW
00:16:50.56\00:16:55.36
HIM AND OBEY HIM AND RESIST
THE DEVIL AND DRAW NEAR TO GOD,
00:16:55.36\00:16:59.03
WE BECOME MORE LIKE CHRIST.
00:16:59.03\00:17:01.66
WE ARE GRADUALLY BEING
TRANSFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF
00:17:01.66\00:17:05.50
THE ONE WE BEHOLD.
00:17:05.50\00:17:09.40
NOW, THIS MAN WAS POSSESSED
WITH MORE DEVILS THAN ANYBODY IN
00:17:09.40\00:17:16.76
THE BIBLE.
00:17:16.76\00:17:17.80
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS CONDITION
APPEARS TO BE THE MOST HOPELESS
00:17:17.80\00:17:22.43
CONDITION IN THE BIBLE.
00:17:22.43\00:17:24.06
THINK ABOUT IT ONE MORE TIME.
00:17:24.06\00:17:25.50
LOOK AT HIS CONDITION, FIRST OF
ALL HE'S LIVING IN A CEMETERY,
00:17:25.50\00:17:30.93
UNCLEAN ACCORDING TO THE
BIBLE LAW, WHERE THE DEAD WERE.
00:17:30.93\00:17:34.93
HE'S SURROUNDED BY PIGS.
00:17:34.93\00:17:36.30
HOW MANY OF YOU
ALREADY KNEW THAT?
00:17:36.30\00:17:38.10
WE'RE GETTING TO THAT PART.
00:17:38.10\00:17:39.26
UNCLEAN, HE'S COVERED
WITH BLOOD AND WOUNDS, UNCLEAN.
00:17:39.26\00:17:44.70
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS UNCLEAN.
00:17:44.70\00:17:46.33
HE'S FILLED WITH DEVIL'S.
00:17:46.33\00:17:47.70
HE'S BOUNDS WITH CHAINS.
00:17:47.70\00:17:48.96
HE'S NAKED.
00:17:48.96\00:17:49.86
EVERYTHING SAYS HE IS AS
FAR FROM GOD AS ANYBODY CAN BE.
00:17:49.86\00:17:55.53
AND YET JESUS CROSSES THE OCEAN
TO REACH THAT MAN BECAUSE HE IS
00:17:55.53\00:18:01.03
EXHIBIT A OF WHAT THE DEVIL
WANTS TO DO TO YOU AND HOW GOD
00:18:01.03\00:18:06.83
CAN SAVE YOU.
00:18:06.83\00:18:08.50
AND THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE
TELLS US THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER
00:18:08.50\00:18:13.30
HOW FAR FROM GOD YOU'VE
WANDERED, IF GOD CAN REACH THAT
00:18:13.30\00:18:15.73
MAN, HE CAN REACH YOU.
00:18:15.73\00:18:17.70
NOW EACH ONE OF THE CONDITIONS,
AND I'M NOT GONNA HAVE TIME TO
00:18:17.70\00:18:21.46
COVER THEM ALL, TELL US
SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL'S PLAN
00:18:21.46\00:18:26.00
FOR US AND GOD'S PLAN FOR US.
00:18:26.00\00:18:27.66
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT YOU TO HELP
ME HERE IN CHATTANOOGA AND YOU
00:18:27.66\00:18:30.93
CAN EVEN CALL OUT IN YOUR GROUPS
IF YOU'RE MEETING IN CHURCHES
00:18:30.93\00:18:33.60
OR HOMES.
00:18:33.60\00:18:35.53
WHERE DID THIS MAN LIVE?
00:18:35.53\00:18:38.10
CEMETERY, RIGHT.
00:18:38.10\00:18:40.06
WHO TYPICALLY
LIVES IN A CEMETERY?
00:18:40.06\00:18:42.90
I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE SAY THAT.
00:18:42.90\00:18:44.03
DO DEAD PEOPLE
LIVE IN A CEMETERY?
00:18:44.03\00:18:47.26
THAT'S SORT OF A, YOU KNOW WHAT
I MEAN, BUT THAT'S THE RIGHT
00:18:47.26\00:18:49.56
ANSWER, RIGHT?
00:18:49.56\00:18:53.10
WHAT DOES THAT SYMBOLIZE?
00:18:53.10\00:18:55.86
YOU KNOW THIS
WORLD IS LIKE A CEMETERY.
00:18:55.86\00:18:58.46
YOU KNOW THE LAST
FIVE WORDS IN GENESIS?
00:18:58.46\00:19:00.76
"IN A COFFIN IN EGYPT."
00:19:00.76\00:19:04.73
THEN YOU TURN THE PAGE AND
YOU'VE GOT THE EXODUS SALVATION
00:19:04.73\00:19:07.30
FROM SLAVERY.
00:19:07.30\00:19:08.96
THIS WORLD IS LIKE A
COFFIN, THIS WORLD IS GROANING
00:19:08.96\00:19:11.70
AND TRAVAILING
UNDER A CURSE OF DEATH.
00:19:11.70\00:19:14.93
ALL OF US ARE UNDER
THIS CURSE OF DEATH.
00:19:14.93\00:19:19.20
"WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM
THIS BODY OF DEATH?" PAUL SAYS.
00:19:19.20\00:19:23.13
HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE,
HE THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE SON
00:19:23.13\00:19:25.73
DOES NOT HAVE LIFE.
00:19:25.73\00:19:28.06
THIS MAN IS LIVING IN THE
REALMS OF THE DEAD, AND WE'RE
00:19:28.06\00:19:31.33
SURROUNDED IN A WORLD
THAT IS UNDER A CURSE.
00:19:31.33\00:19:33.90
JESUS CAME TO THAT
CEMETERY TO SAVE THAT MAN.
00:19:33.90\00:19:36.93
HE CROSSED THE SEA
OF GALILEE TO REACH HIM.
00:19:36.93\00:19:39.96
JESUS CROSSED THE
COSMOS TO REACH YOU AND ME.
00:19:39.96\00:19:43.16
I REMEMBER GOING TO EGYPT A
NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND PART
00:19:43.16\00:19:46.56
OF THE TOUR WAS THEY TOOK
US BY A CEMETERY THAT IS CALLED
00:19:46.56\00:19:49.66
THE CITY OF THE DEAD.
00:19:49.66\00:19:51.50
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:19:51.50\00:19:53.26
CAIRO, EGYPT HAD THIS BIG
SPRAWLING CEMETERY, MANY ACRES
00:19:53.26\00:19:58.50
AND MANY OF THE TOMBS WERE BUILT
WITH THESE BEAUTIFUL ORNATE
00:19:58.50\00:20:01.60
BUILDINGS WITH
MAUSOLEUMS AND ROOMS IN THEM.
00:20:01.60\00:20:04.30
AND THE POOR PEOPLE EVENTUALLY,
OUT OF DESPERATION TO ESCAPE
00:20:04.30\00:20:07.70
THE ELEMENTS, THEY
MOVED INTO THE CEMETERY.
00:20:07.70\00:20:11.83
AND AT FIRST THE
GOVERNMENT WOULD CHASE THEM OUT,
00:20:11.83\00:20:13.30
THEY'VE MOVE BACK IN.
00:20:13.30\00:20:14.10
FINALLY THEY GAVE UP AND THEY
SAID, "BUT WE DON'T RECOGNIZE
00:20:14.10\00:20:16.03
THIS AS AN OFFICIAL CITY."
00:20:16.03\00:20:18.00
BUT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T CARE AND
THEY STAYED AND GRADUALLY THEY
00:20:18.00\00:20:22.86
THOUGHT YOU KNOW FOR SANITATION
PURPOSES AND STUFF, THEY BROUGHT
00:20:22.86\00:20:25.73
THEM PLUMBING INTO THE CEMETERY.
00:20:25.73\00:20:29.16
THEN THEY
BROUGHT THEM ELECTRICITY.
00:20:29.16\00:20:31.76
THEY HAD POST OFFICE BOXES.
00:20:31.76\00:20:34.33
AND THE PEOPLE ARE ALL LIVING
IN A CEMETERY, AND IT WAS ONE OF
00:20:34.33\00:20:38.23
THE MOST BIZARRE
THINGS YOU'VE EVER SEEN.
00:20:38.23\00:20:40.63
I MEAN HERE YOU HAVE FAMILIES
GROWING UP THAT PARENTS ARE
00:20:40.63\00:20:42.13
IRONING ON A TOMBSTONE
THAT'S TURNED UPON ITS SIDE.
00:20:42.13\00:20:45.06
IN SOME OF THESE MAUSOLEUMS
ARE VERY BIG AND ORNATE.
00:20:45.06\00:20:47.76
THEY'VE GOT A COFFIN IN THE
MIDDLE AND THEY ALL SIT AROUND
00:20:47.76\00:20:50.03
AND THEY EAT ON TOP OF
THIS COFFIN AND THEY'VE GOT THIS
00:20:50.03\00:20:53.70
UNUSUAL GUEST THAT'S
THERE UNDERNEATH THE TABLE.
00:20:53.70\00:20:58.83
HOW COULD YOU EVER GET
USED TO LIVING WITH A CORPSE?
00:20:58.83\00:21:01.86
THIS MAN WAS
LIVING WITH THE DEAD.
00:21:01.86\00:21:05.03
YOU KNOW, I READ ABOUT A WOMAN,
HER NEIGHBORS NOTICED THAT
00:21:05.03\00:21:09.53
THE MAIL WAS PILING UP ON HER
DOORSTEP AND SO THEY KNOCKED ON
00:21:09.53\00:21:13.20
THE DOOR.
00:21:13.20\00:21:14.00
NO ONE ANSWERED.
00:21:14.00\00:21:14.70
THEY GOT THE POLICE WHO
FINALLY OPENED THE DOOR.
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.26
THEY WENT IN AND THEY
FOUND THE WOMAN HAD DIED.
00:21:16.26\00:21:18.43
SHE WAS AN OLDER WOMAN, BUT WHAT
REALLY WAS SHOCKING IS THEY ALSO
00:21:18.43\00:21:22.80
FOUND THAT HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD
IN THE HOUSE TOO, IN THE BEDROOM
00:21:22.80\00:21:26.56
AND HE HAD BEEN
THERE FOR 4 YEARS.
00:21:26.56\00:21:30.43
SHE KEPT THE TEMPERATURE TURNED
UP PRETTY HIGH AND HE BASICALLY
00:21:30.43\00:21:32.76
HAD MUMMIFIED, AND SHE DIDN'T
WANT TO TELL THE AUTHORITIES
00:21:32.76\00:21:35.20
BECAUSE SHE WAS
COLLECTING HIS SOCIAL SECURITY.
00:21:35.20\00:21:37.96
AND THE SHOCKING THING WAS
SHE STILL SHARED THE BEDROOM
00:21:37.96\00:21:40.06
WITH HIS CORPSE.
00:21:40.06\00:21:42.30
OH, YOU COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT
THAT, RIGHT, HEARING THAT
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.20
TONIGHT?
00:21:44.20\00:21:45.83
BUT YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT
THE BIBLE TELLS US SIN IS LIKE.
00:21:45.83\00:21:48.76
WHAT DO ANGELS SEE WHEN
THEY LOOK DOWN AT THIS WORLD?
00:21:48.76\00:21:52.36
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SEE?
00:21:52.36\00:21:54.20
CRAZY PEOPLE, WILD-EYED, FOAMING
AT THE MOUTH, COVERED WITH
00:21:54.20\00:21:59.90
CHAINS, LIVING AMONG THE
DEAD, SURROUNDED BY PIGS.
00:21:59.90\00:22:03.50
COMPARED TO THE GLORIES OF
HEAVEN, THIS IS WHAT THIS WORLD
00:22:03.50\00:22:05.56
LOOKS LIKE TO THE ANGELS.
00:22:05.56\00:22:07.60
BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS JESUS CAME
TO THE CEMETERY TO GIVE THIS MAN
00:22:07.60\00:22:12.53
LIFE, TO SET HIM FREE.
00:22:12.53\00:22:15.13
WHAT ELSE DO WE NOTICE?
00:22:15.13\00:22:17.40
WHAT WAS HE WEARING?
00:22:17.40\00:22:19.60
NOTHING.
00:22:19.60\00:22:21.56
HE WAS NAKED.
00:22:21.56\00:22:22.46
ADAM AND EVE, YOU KNOW THE
DEVIL WANTS TO MAKE US NAKED,
00:22:22.46\00:22:25.36
DOESN'T HE?
00:22:25.36\00:22:26.43
AND THAT CLOTHING, WHAT
DOES CLOTHING SYMBOLIZE?
00:22:26.43\00:22:30.23
I SOMETIMES HEAR PEOPLE
SAY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THAT'S
00:22:30.23\00:22:32.43
NOT TRUE.
00:22:32.43\00:22:33.13
IT DEPENDS ON WHOSE CLOTHING.
00:22:33.13\00:22:35.50
ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS LIKE FILTHY RAGS.
00:22:35.50\00:22:39.16
IT REPRESENTS CHARACTER.
00:22:39.16\00:22:41.10
THIS MAN DOESN'T EVEN HAVE
FIG LEAVES, HE DOESN'T HAVE
00:22:41.10\00:22:42.83
ANYTHING, HE DOESN'T CARE.
00:22:42.83\00:22:44.70
HE'S NAKED AND
DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE.
00:22:44.70\00:22:47.96
YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS
US ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS WITH
00:22:47.96\00:22:50.53
THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:22:50.53\00:22:53.26
WE ARE POOR AND--REVELATION
3-- AND WRETCHED AND MISERABLE
00:22:53.26\00:22:56.73
AND BLIND AND WE DON'T KNOW.
00:22:56.73\00:23:01.16
WE SEEM OBLIVIOUS.
00:23:01.16\00:23:03.53
YOU KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS?
00:23:03.53\00:23:05.10
WE NEED TO SEE
OURSELVES THROUGH GOD'S EYES.
00:23:05.10\00:23:08.90
HUMANS ARE THE ONLY CREATURES
THAT ARE NOT BORN WITH THEIR OWN
00:23:08.90\00:23:11.86
NATURAL CLOTHING.
00:23:11.86\00:23:13.40
WE USE ARTIFICIAL CLOTHING.
00:23:13.40\00:23:16.63
WE DON'T TYPICALLY WEAR CLOTHING
FOR, I SHOULD SAY, WE DON'T ONLY
00:23:16.63\00:23:21.46
WEAR CLOTHING FOR PROTECTION
FROM THE HOT OR COLD BECAUSE IF
00:23:21.46\00:23:25.23
THE TEMPERATURE WAS PERFECT, NOW
WOULD YOU TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF?
00:23:25.23\00:23:28.50
NO.
00:23:28.50\00:23:30.10
DON'T IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE.
00:23:30.10\00:23:35.16
YOU WOULD BE ASHAMED RIGHT NOW.
00:23:35.16\00:23:38.46
MY MOTHER WAS ALWAYS ON THE
EDGE OF EVERY NEW FASHION AND I
00:23:38.46\00:23:41.26
REMEMBER THEY CAME OUT
WITH PAPER DRESSES AT ONE TIME
00:23:41.26\00:23:44.50
IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:23:44.50\00:23:45.50
AND MY MOTHER WORE A PAPER
DRESS, A VERY EXPENSIVE DRESS
00:23:45.50\00:23:48.00
TO A PARTY AND I THOUGHT,
"MOM, THERE WAS A POOL THERE.
00:23:48.00\00:23:50.60
I THOUGHT WHAT IF YOU FALL
IN THE POOL OR SOMETHING, WHAT'S
00:23:50.60\00:23:52.13
GONNA HAPPEN TO YOUR DRESS?"
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.13
IT WOULD SUDDENLY DISSOLVE.
00:23:54.13\00:23:56.80
I HEARD THEY HAD A SCAM ABOUT
CHECKS A FEW YEARS AGO WHERE YOU
00:23:56.80\00:24:02.40
COULD PAINT THIS CHEMICAL,
THERE'S A POINT TO THIS,
00:24:02.40\00:24:05.50
STAY WITH ME.
00:24:05.50\00:24:06.30
YOU COULD PAINT THIS
CHEMICAL ON THESE CHECKS.
00:24:06.30\00:24:08.63
PEOPLE WOULD GO TO THE BANK,
THEY'D WRITE A CHECK FOR THIS
00:24:08.63\00:24:10.23
LARGE SUM OF MONEY.
00:24:10.23\00:24:11.70
THEY WOULD CASH THE
CHECK BUT BEFORE THE BANK COULD
00:24:11.70\00:24:14.13
PROCESS THE CHECK,
IT WOULD DISINTEGRATE.
00:24:14.13\00:24:17.16
THE CHEMICAL WOULD DISINTEGRATE
IT AND THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE
00:24:17.16\00:24:19.53
ABOUT WHO WROTE THE
CHECK OR WHERE IT CAME FROM.
00:24:19.53\00:24:22.56
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF SOMEHOW
UNBEKNOWNST TO YOU YOU CAME TO
00:24:22.56\00:24:26.70
THE MEETING TONIGHT AND SOMEONE
SPRAYED YOUR CLOTHES WITH THAT
00:24:26.70\00:24:30.53
CHEMICAL AND YOU SHOULD LOOK
DOWN RIGHT NOW AND GO UH-OH?
00:24:30.53\00:24:38.13
BE HONEST, HOW MANY OF YOU
WOULD FLEE FROM THIS PLACE?
00:24:38.13\00:24:44.26
WHY?
00:24:44.26\00:24:45.20
THINK ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE YOU
WOULD NEVER WANT OTHER PEOPLE
00:24:45.20\00:24:48.60
TO SEE YOU THAT WAY.
00:24:48.60\00:24:53.03
WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU,
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00:24:53.03\00:24:56.40
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ESPECIALLY WHEN JESUS SAYS,
"I'M OFFERING YOU A ROBE," WOULD
00:24:58.66\00:25:01.53
YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN NAKED?
00:25:01.53\00:25:03.26
IT WOULD BE CRAZY.
00:25:03.26\00:25:04.60
THIS MAN WAS OUT OF HIS MIND.
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.86
THAT'S THE SINFUL CONDITION.
00:25:07.86\00:25:09.90
NAKED AND
OBLIVIOUS, WE DON'T CARE.
00:25:09.90\00:25:12.70
JESUS IS SAYING, "I'M OFFERING
YOU A ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:25:12.70\00:25:16.03
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00:25:16.03\00:25:17.86
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