Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000062
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00:09 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS--" >> GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR MAN 00:13 WAS TO BE MADE IN HIS IMAGE AND REFLECT HIS CHARACTER, 00:17 AM I RIGHT? 00:18 AND IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ABOUT WHAT GOD'S PLAN FOR US IS TO BE, 00:24 GOD BECAME A MAN TO SHOW US HIS NAME WAS JESUS. 00:32 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:35 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:38 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:41 BROADCASTS. 00:43 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:46 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:49 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM "TOH FOR REVIVAL" 00:53 VIDEO SERIES. 01:00 >> THE BIBLE IS FILLED WITH STORIES OF THIS DRAMATIC 01:02 DELIVERANCE WHERE GOD SETS THE CAPTIVES FREE. 01:06 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 01:07 ONE COMMON THREAD I'VE SEEN IS THAT IT IS A MIRACLE OF GRACE. 01:11 I SOMETIMES BECOME FLUSTERED TRYING TO EXPLAIN A LOT OF 01:16 THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE COME IN. 01:17 "HOW DO I OVERCOME THIS AND HOW DO I OVERCOME THAT?" 01:20 I DON'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND THE SCIENCE OF HOW JESUS 01:25 DOES IT, IT'S A MIRACLE. 01:28 BUT IF YOU COME IN FAITH, HE DOES IT. 01:32 IT WORKS. 01:33 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR CHAINS MIGHT BE, THE LORD 01:36 CAN BREAK YOUR CHAINS. 01:39 TURN WITH ME, VERSE 1 MARK 5. 01:44 "THEN THEY CAME TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA TO THE COUNTRY 01:47 OF THE GADARENES. 01:49 AND WHEN HE HAD COME OUT OF THE BOAT, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM 01:52 OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, WHO HAD HIS 01:56 DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS. 01:58 AND NO ONE COULD BIND HIM, NO, NOT EVEN WITH CHAINS BECAUSE 02:02 HE HAD OFTEN BEEN BOUND WITH SHACKLES AND CHAINS AND THE 02:05 CHAINS HAD BEEN PULLED APART BY HIM AND THE SHACKLES BROKEN 02:08 IN PIECES. 02:09 NEITHER COULD ANYONE TAME HIM. 02:12 AND ALWAYS NIGHT AND DAY, HE WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN 02:16 THE TOMBS CRYING OUT AND CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES. 02:22 BUT WHEN HE SAW JESUS FROM AFAR, HE RAN AND HE WORSHIPED HIM." 02:27 IT SAYS THAT HE ALWAYS WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE TOMBS 02:34 CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES. 02:38 NOW WHEN I FIRST READ THIS, I THOUGHT WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE HE 02:40 WAS DEMON-POSSESSED AND DEVILS MAKE YOU CLUMSY AND HE FELL DOWN 02:43 AND HE CUT HIMSELF. 02:44 THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. 02:46 I LOOKED INTO IT AND I READ THE COMMENTARIES AND IT'S VERY 02:48 CLEAR, THIS MAN PICKED UP FLINTY STONES AND HE CUT HIMSELF. 02:56 IF YOU SAW SOMEBODY SITTING NEXT TO YOU DOING THAT, WOULD YOU 02:59 WORRY ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH? 03:01 YOU REALIZE, OF COURSE, THERE IS A GROWING TREND OF 03:04 SELF-MUTILATION IN OUR SOCIETY ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, 03:08 A LITTLE MORE AMONG GIRLS THAN BOYS. 03:10 AND I VISITED WITH A GIRL WHO HAS RECEIVED THE VICTORY OVER 03:14 THIS BUT SHE SAID THE ONE REASON SHE DID IT IS SHE JUST WANTED TO 03:16 FEEL ALIVE, WANTED TO FEEL SOMETHING. 03:20 WE ARE--OUR SOCIETY, WE ARE SO--OUR SENSES ARE SO BOMBARDED 03:24 THEY BECOME NUMB, AND THE DEVIL HAS PEOPLE DESTROYING 03:28 THEMSELVES. 03:29 CUTTING OURSELVES WITH STONES. 03:31 YOU KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS TYPICAL OF DEVIL WORSHIP. 03:36 IN VIRTUALLY EVERY PAGAN RELIGION, IT INVOLVES SOME FORM 03:42 OF SELF-MUTILATION. 03:46 IT MIGHT BE FLOGGING YOURSELF OR CRAWLING SOMEWHERE ON YOUR KNEES 03:49 UNTIL THEY BLEED OR YOUR HANDS AND YOUR KNEES. 03:52 OR IT COULD BE--YOU REMEMBER THE PROPHETS ON MOUNT CARMEL 04:00 WITH ELIJAH, THANK YOU. 04:02 WHEN THEY WANTED TO GET THEIR GOD'S ATTENTION, THEY JUMPED ON 04:05 THE ALTAR AND THEY CUT THEMSELVES, THEY PIERCED 04:08 THEMSELVES WITH LANCES UNTIL THE BLOOD CAME OUT. 04:11 THAT'S TYPICAL OF DEVIL WORSHIP. 04:12 YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 04:15 NOW I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS, FRIENDS. 04:18 IS IT JUST MY IMAGINATION? 04:20 PLEASE DON'T GET UPSET WITH ME, I WANT TO BE FAITHFUL. 04:22 I DON'T GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO A REVIVAL LIKE THIS VERY OFTEN, 04:25 BUT HAS THERE BEEN A GROWING TREND FOR PEOPLE EVEN IN 04:30 THE CHURCH TO BE PIERCING THEIR BODIES? 04:34 SAY, "AMEN," PLEASE, HELP ME. 04:38 IS THAT PART OF GOD'S PLAN? 04:41 I'VE GOT THIS VERY PRIMITIVE IDEA, I GUESS I'M JUST NOT 04:44 SOPHISTICATED, THAT WHEN GOD MADE US, HE MADE WITH THE RIGHT 04:47 NUMBER OF HOLES AND HE DOESN'T WANT US TO ADD TO THAT NUMBER. 04:54 YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND YET YOU AND I 04:58 KNOW THAT EVERYWHERE YOU GO NOW, THERE'S THIS GROWING TREND AND 05:02 THE ENVELOPE IS GETTING PUSHED FARTHER AND FARTHER. 05:05 AND THE KIDS, IT'S NOT JUST THE PIERCING THE EARS ONCE. 05:09 YOU KNOW IT'S JUST THE WHOLE RING OF PLACES IN EVERY POSSIBLE 05:12 APPENDAGE AND THINGS WE CAN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT. 05:15 THEY ARE PIERCING THEIR TONGUES AND NOSES AND LIPS AND EYES, AND 05:18 I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANYBODY HERE SELF-CONSCIOUS BUT YOU WANT 05:21 ME TO BE FAITHFUL. 05:23 IF I WAS TO MODIFY MY SERMON SO IT WOULDN'T OFFEND ANYBODY'S 05:25 PARTICULAR SINS, I COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING, COULD I? 05:31 ONE OF THE SIGNS OF REVIVAL AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE, WHEN THE 05:35 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WORSHIP THE GOLDEN CALF, THEY MADE A GOD OUT 05:40 OF THEIR JEWELRY AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY MADE THEMSELVES 05:44 NAKED. 05:46 THEY WENT TOGETHER AND THEN THEY WORSHIPED, THE BIBLE SAYS, 05:49 THE DEVILS. 05:51 WHEN JACOB WAS COMING TO MEET WITH THE LORD, A SIGN OF 05:54 REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL AMONG THE PEOPLE OF GOD, IT SAYS THEY 05:58 PUT AWAY THEIR FOREIGN GODS AND THEY STRIPPED THEMSELVES OF 06:00 THEIR JEWELRY. 06:04 WE'RE PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING READY TO MEET THE KING. 06:06 OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF HOLY SPIRIT. 06:08 AND I WANT TO HASTEN TO ADD, YOU AND I KNOW THERE ARE GOING TO BE 06:13 GODLY SPIRIT-FILLED PEOPLE THAT WILL BE IN THE KINGDOM THAT 06:15 MAY HAVE WORN SOME JEWELRY BECAUSE THEY WERE OBLIVIOUS OR 06:18 MAYBE THEIR VISION WAS OBSCURED BY THE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS 06:21 OF THE DAY. 06:22 BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YA, IF JESUS WAS HERE, HE WOULD NOT BE GOING 06:25 TO THAT PIERCING PARLOR AND HANGING MINERALS OFF HIS BODY, 06:30 AND HE'S THE ONE WE FOLLOW. 06:34 WE NEED TO THINK THESE THINGS THROUGH. 06:36 SOME OF YOU MIGHT TAKE SOME OF THAT STUFF AND PUT ON THE ALTAR. 06:41 I THINK GOD WANTS US TO BE HOLY. 06:43 I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYBODY BE ACCUSED OF LOOKING LESS LIKE 06:47 A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE THEY DON'T WEAR ENOUGH JEWELRY. 06:52 I FEEL MUCH BETTER. 06:54 THIS MAY BE MY LAST SERMON, FRIENDS, BUT GOD WANTED ME TO 06:58 SAY THAT. 06:59 ALWAYS IN THE MOUNTAINS, CRYING OUT AND CUTTING HIMSELF 07:01 WITH STONES. 07:03 LEVITICUS 19:28, "YOU WILL NOT MAKE ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR 07:06 FLESH FOR THE DEAD NOR TATTOO MARKS ON YOU." 07:10 IS IT JUST ME OR AM I SEEING MORE AND MORE TATTOO PARLORS 07:14 AND TATTOOS EVEN IN CHRISTIAN CIRCLES? 07:17 YOUR BODY'S A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 07:19 WHY WOULD YOU PUT GRAFFITI ON GOD'S TEMPLE? 07:22 AND YOU KNOW I KNOW SOME PEOPLE HAVE MADE THAT MISTAKE AND GOD 07:25 WILL FORGIVE YA AND YEAH, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE IT OFF 07:28 AND YOU CAN STILL BE A CHRISTIAN. 07:31 I DON'T KNOW TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE AND GOTTEN 07:33 A TATTOO THAT LIKED IT A FEW YEARS LATER, ESPECIALLY IF 07:37 IT'S AN OLD GIRLFRIEND. 07:41 AND THE OLDER YOU GET, THE MORE THOSE THINGS START TO LOOK LIKE 07:43 ANTIQUE MAPS. 07:46 THEY NEVER LOOK GOOD 20 YEARS LATER. 07:49 I MEAN PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE TO SAY, "WHAT WAS THAT?" 07:54 AND ALL THE DUMB THINGS, IF YOU WANT A TESTIMONY I DID 07:56 EVERYTHING DUMB I COULD DO, BUT I WAS NEVER--I NEVER DID GET 08:00 A TATTOO. 08:01 I HOPE THAT CONVICTS YOU. 08:03 EVEN PASTOR DOUG DIDN'T THAT 'CAUSE I THOUGHT YOU CAN'T 08:06 UNDO IT, NOT EASILY. 08:09 NOW SOME OF YOU YOUNG PEOPLE IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THAT, 08:11 I HOPE NONE OF YOU OLD PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT IT. 08:17 SOMETHING ELSE WE NOTICE, IT SAYS HE WAS ALWAYS CRYING IN THE 08:22 MOUNTAINS IN THE TOMBS CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES, 08:24 ALWAYS CRYING. 08:26 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN ISAIAH 48:22, "THERE IS NO 08:28 PEACE, SAYS THE LORD, FOR THE WICKED." 08:32 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE LIVING IN THE 08:34 AREA OF GADARA WHERE THIS MAN, THIS CREATURE COULD BE ROAMING 08:38 AMONG THE TOMBS AND THE VILLAGES SHRIEKING AND MOANING DURING 08:43 THE NIGHT, CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES AND SCREAMING? 08:45 YOU THINK THE KIDS SLEPT VERY WELL IN THOSE TOWNS? 08:49 ALWAYS CRYING. 08:51 YOU KNOW, THIS IS TYPICAL OF SOMEONE WHO IS LOST. 08:55 THEY'RE ALWAYS CRYING INSIDE. 08:56 THERE'S NO PEACE, THERE'S NO REST. 08:58 THEY DON'T HAVE THAT JOY AND THAT HAPPINESS. 09:03 ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE YOU THAT PEACE, PERFECT PEACE, HAVE THEY 09:07 THAT LOVE THY LAW AND NOTHING WILL OFFEND THEM. 09:10 I'VE COME TO GIVE YOU A PEACE THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING. 09:14 THIS MAN HAD NO PEACE. 09:16 AND THE OTHER THING WE NOTICE IS HE WOULD USE HIS SUPERNATURAL 09:19 STRENGTH TO BREAK HIS CHAINS. 09:22 HE BROKE THE CHAINS BUT HE STILL HAD THE SHACKLES. 09:25 HE DIDN'T WANT ANY RESTRICTION. 09:27 HE WANTED NO CONFINEMENT. 09:28 HE DIDN'T WANT ANYBODY TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT 09:31 TO DO. 09:33 AND THAT ALSO IS TYPICAL OF THOSE THAT ARE IN THE LOST 09:36 CONDITION. 09:37 THEY WILL NOT BE RESTRAINED. 09:38 THEY'RE WITHOUT RESTRAINT, NO SELF-CONTROL. 09:42 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU COULD TEACH 09:44 YOUR CHILDREN IS SELF-DENIAL AND SELF-CONTROL, AND I WORRY ABOUT 09:49 THAT WITH OUR KIDS BECAUSE WE ARE IN SUCH AN AFFLUENT AGE THAT 09:53 THERE'S SUCH A TEMPTATION TO INDULGE THEM AND THERE'S SO MANY 09:58 CONVENIENCES THAT THE HARDSHIPS THAT THE OLDER GENERATION GREW 10:01 UP WITH IS ALMOST UNHEARD OF AND THEY DON'T LEARN SELF-DENIAL 10:08 AND SELF-CONTROL. 10:10 WE GOTTA BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LAVISHING EVERYTHING ON OUR 10:12 CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN SO WE DESTROY THEM. 10:16 WE'VE GOTTA LEARN TO CONTROL OURSELVES. 10:19 IT ALSO SAYS HE WAS EXCEEDING FIERCE. 10:23 THIS MAN NOT ONLY BROKE THE CHAINS, HE WAS ALWAYS RAGING 10:27 AND ANGRY. 10:29 YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WE'RE LIVING IN THE AGE OF RAGE. 10:31 WE'VE GOT THIS PROBLEM NOW, ROAD RAGE. 10:33 YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHO YOU HONK YOUR HORN AT. 10:35 THEY MIGHT GET OUT AND SHOOT YOU. 10:38 AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION IS ACTUALLY PRINTING FLYERS, 10:41 THERE'S SO MUCH TRAFFIC IN THE CITIES NOW. 10:44 DO THEY HAVE TRAFFIC REPORTS HERE IN CHATTANOOGA? 10:49 TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO KEEP CALM WHEN THEY'RE DRIVING 'CAUSE 10:52 SOMEONE MIGHT LOSE THEIR TEMPER, RAM YOUR CAR. 10:58 PEOPLE LOSE THEIR TEMPER. 10:59 AND BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR TEMPER, YOU KNOW WHO 11:01 FINDS IT? 11:02 THE DEVIL. 11:03 YOU ARE, WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR TEMPER, AT LEAST MOMENTARILY 11:05 DEMON-POSSESSED BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING THINGS THAT YOU KNOW 11:09 ARE NOT RIGHT. 11:11 WHO WAS IT, WILL ROGERS HAD SAID "IF YOU'RE GONNA FLY OFF 11:16 THE HANDLE, BE PREPARED FOR A ROUGH LANDING." 11:20 IT'S ALSO ANGER IS A VERY COSTLY COMMODITY. 11:25 YOU REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT MIKE TYSON, THAT WORLD CHAMPION 11:29 BOXER LOST HIS TEMPER DURING A BOXING MATCH. 11:31 HE WASN'T CONTENT JUST TO PUNCH EVANDER HOLYFIELD, HE NEEDED TO 11:34 BITE OFF HIS EAR. 11:36 AND BECAUSE HE LOST HIS TEMPER LIKE THAT, HE LOST HIS LICENSE 11:38 AND HE LOST HIS TEMPER A FEW TIMES AND LAST I HEARD, 11:40 HE HAD EARNED OVER $300 MILLION BUT HE WAS BANKRUPT. 11:45 ANGER'S VERY EXPENSIVE, AND IT'S COST KINGDOMS. 11:49 IT'S COST MARRIAGES. 11:50 THIS MAN WAS ALWAYS RAGING EXCEEDING FIERCE, ANGRY. 11:56 JESUS--I'M TELLING YOU ALL THESE THINGS BECAUSE THIS MAN, 11:59 HE PROBABLY ENCOMPASSES SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY HERE 12:02 CAN RELATE TO. 12:05 NEITHER COULD ANY MAN TAME HIM. 12:09 WILD. 12:11 AND SOMETIMES WE THINK WE CAN PLAY WITH SIN AND WE DON'T KNOW 12:14 OUR OWN HEARTS. 12:15 THE HUMAN HEART IS DESPERATELY WICKED. 12:18 WHO CAN TAME IT? 12:20 SAMSON THOUGHT THAT HE COULD TOY WITH DELILAH AND HE FOUND OUT 12:25 HE COULDN'T. 12:26 IT COST HIM HIS EYES AND ULTIMATELY HIS LIFE. 12:29 SOME OF YOU, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE HERE ON THE EAST COAST, 12:31 YOU HEARD IN LAS VEGAS ABOUT SIEGFRIED AND ROY, THIS VERY 12:35 FAMOUS TIGER ACT AND THEY WORKED WITH THESE WILD TIGERS 12:38 FOR YEARS. 12:39 AND ROY HORN WAS THE ONE WHO TRAINED HIM. 12:43 HE SLEPT WITH HIM AND HE ATE WITH HIM. 12:45 HE SWAM WITH HIM. 12:46 AND HE SAID, "THEY'RE MY FAMILY." 12:49 AND ONE NIGHT, ONE OF THE TIGERS FORGOT ABOUT THAT FAMILY 12:52 RELATIONSHIP AND HE STARTED ACTING LIKE A TIGER AGAIN. 12:55 HE DRAGGED HIM BY THE NECK, SHOOK HIM LIKE A RAG DOLL, TOOK 12:58 HIM OFF STAGE AND HE HAS NEVER YET RECOVERED AND VERY LIKELY IS 13:02 NEVER GOING TO RETURN TO HIS SHOW AGAIN. 13:06 OUR HEARTS ARE DESPERATELY WICKED. 13:08 IF YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN PLAY WITH SIN AND YOU'RE IN CONTROL. 13:12 "I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT," FAMOUS LAST WORDS. 13:16 YOU BETTER FLEE TO THE LORD THE WAY YOU ARE. 13:19 AND YOU KNOW THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD POINT FOR ME TO 13:21 MENTION THIS. 13:23 THIS MAN CAME TO JESUS JUST AS HE WAS. 13:29 YOU KNOW, I WATCH OUT FOR PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SAY THAT THEY'VE 13:33 GOT A DEMON-POSSESSION MINISTRY, A DELIVERANCE MINISTRY. 13:37 I'M VERY SUSPICIOUS OF PEOPLE THAT HAND OUT BUSINESS CARDS 13:40 THAT SAY, "DEMONS ARE US. 13:41 WE CAST OUT DEVILS" AND THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T SEE 13:44 ANY OF THE APOSTLES IN THE BIBLE DOING THAT. 13:46 AND WE DO BELIEVE, I BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN PRAY FOR PEOPLE 13:50 WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH DEMON-POSSESSION AND THEY CAN 13:53 HAVE VICTORY AND DELIVERANCE. 13:54 WE'VE DONE IT AT MEETINGS. 13:55 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE TOTALLY DEMON-POSSESSED, LIBERATED. 13:59 WE WERE AT THIS MEETING IN AFRICA WHERE PEOPLE WERE JUST 14:02 SHRIEKING AND THEY HAD TO BE CARRIED AND SIX OR SEVEN PASTORS 14:05 COULDN'T HOLD THIS ONE WOMAN DOWN AND THEY PRAYED FOR HER, 14:07 AND HER MIND WAS RETURNED. 14:09 I MEAN I'VE SEEN IT, BUT DON'T GO LOOKING FOR IT. 14:12 SOME PEOPLE ARE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH THE DEVIL AND WHAT 14:14 THE DEVIL IS DOING. 14:15 THEY'RE MORE PREOCCUPIED WITH THE DEVIL THAN THE LORD. 14:17 WHEN IT HAPPENS, YOU DEAL WITH IT. 14:19 YOU DON'T GO LOOKING FOR IT. 14:22 BUT I'VE RUN INTO PEOPLE WHO ARE DEMON-POSSESSED AND I'VE PRAYED 14:24 AND COUNSELED WITH THEM. 14:25 AND I REMEMBER ONE LADY IN PARTICULAR THAT I KNOW SHE HAD 14:29 SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND SHE SAID, "I HEARD ALL THESE VOICES IN 14:33 MY HEAD." 14:36 AND I'M SURE THAT SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE GONNA SAY, "OH, 14:38 THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE AND THERE WAS 14:40 A MEDICAL CONDITION." 14:41 BUT I'M OLD FASHIONED ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE 14:43 WHO ARE JUST PLAIN OLD DEMON-POSSESSED. 14:47 AND THIS MAN, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO BE 14:49 POSSESSED WITH A LEGION OF DEMONS? 14:51 IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN 6,000 ROMAN 14:54 SOLDIERS, 6,000 DEVILS. 14:59 AND I THINK WHEN JESUS CAME ASHORE IN HIS BOAT, WHATEVER WAS 15:03 LEFT OF THAT MAN INSIDE, HE HEARD THESE DEMONS SAYING, 15:07 "OH, THAT'S JESUS." 15:08 DID THEY KNOW WHO HE WAS? 15:09 EVERYWHERE JESUS WENT, THE DEMONS SAID, 15:13 "WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE." 15:15 AND I THINK WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF THAT MAN, THAT LITTLE FLICKER, 15:19 THAT SPARK OF INTELLIGENCE AND WILL THAT WAS STILL LEFT, 15:22 HE THOUGHT "THIS IS MY LAST CHANCE." 15:24 AND HE WENT RUNNING TO JESUS AND HE THREW HIMSELF DOWN AT 15:27 JESUS' FEET, BUT WHEN HE OPENED HIS MOUTH TO SAY, "LORD, SAVE 15:30 ME" THE DEVILS TALKED WHICH IS OFTEN THE CASE. 15:33 BUT HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS: HE CAME TO JESUS THE WAY HE WAS. 15:42 THAT MAN WAS AS FAR FROM CHRIST AS ANYONE COULD BE. 15:45 AND THE DEVILS SAID--YOU KNOW THE STORY, THEY SAID, 15:47 "DON'T CAST US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS, CAST US INTO 15:49 THOSE PIGS UP THERE." 15:52 AND JESUS SAID, "GO." 15:54 HE HAD A PLAN. 15:55 AND I KNOW THAT BOTHERS SOME OF YOU THAT JESUS WAS CONNECTED 15:58 WITH ANOTHER ANIMAL DYING, AND YOU KNOW, THE ONLY OTHER THING 16:02 THAT DIED BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF CHRIST LIKE THAT WAS 16:04 A FIG TREE. 16:06 AND WHEN HE SAID GO, THIS AT LEAST 2,000 DEVILS 'CAUSE THERE 16:11 WERE 2,000 PIGS, WENT OUT OF THE MAN. 16:13 ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS HERD OF SWINE THAT WERE WALLOWING IN 16:16 THE MEADOW MUCK UP ON THIS STEEP HILLSIDE, THEY SUDDENLY WENT 16:20 BERSERK AND THEY BEGAN TO SQUEAL AND OINK AND TO STAMPEDE TOWARDS 16:25 THE PRECIPICE AND THEN THERE WAS THIS AVALANCHE OF PORK THAT WENT 16:28 OFF THE EDGE, BOUNCING OFF THE ROCKS AND TUMBLING INTO THE 16:32 WATER BELOW AND THEY DROWNED. 16:34 AND THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK CARE OF THE PIGS--SHEPHERDS TAKE CARE OF 16:38 SHEEP, PIGGERDS TAKE CARE OF PIGS, IS THAT RIGHT? 16:42 THEY RAN AND THEY TOLD THE VILLAGE. 16:45 AND THE BIBLE SAYS PRETTY SOON THE WHOLE VILLAGE CAME OUT, 16:47 EVERYBODY FROM THE REGIONS OF DECAPOLIS CAME OUT AND THEY SAW 16:51 THIS MAN THAT HAD BEEN TORMENTING THEM FOR SO LONG 16:53 SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS, CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND. 16:59 FIRST OF ALL, FRIENDS, YOU ARE NEVER IN YOUR RIGHT MIND UNTIL 17:02 YOU'RE AT THE FEET OF JESUS. 17:04 SECONDLY, YOU'RE NOT IN YOUR RIGHT MIND IF YOU RUN AROUND 17:06 WITHOUT YOUR CLOTHES ON. 17:08 THERE IS A CONNECTION. 17:10 I APPRECIATE WHEN JOE CREWS SAID, "DON'T MISS THE CONNECTION 17:12 OF BEING IN YOUR RIGHT MIND AND BEING CLOTHED." 17:18 NOW, I HAVE TO ASK THIS QUESTION, WHERE'D HE GET 17:20 HIS CLOTHES? 17:22 THE DISCIPLES I DON'T THINK WERE STANDING THERE WATCHING THIS. 17:25 I THINK WHEN JESUS TOLD THE DEVILS TO GO FOR ONE THING, 17:28 I THINK HIS CHAINS FELL OFF THE SAME WAY THE CHAINS FELL OFF OF 17:33 PETER THERE WHEN THE ANGEL CAME, THE SAME WAY THE SHACKLES FELL 17:37 OFF FOR PAUL AND SILAS IN PRISON. 17:42 AND THEN I THINK JESUS TOOK HIM DOWN TO THE WATER AND WASHED 17:44 HIM, BAPTIZED HIM. 17:48 AND THEN I THINK CHRIST TOOK OFF HIS ROBE AND COVERED HIS 17:50 NAKEDNESS. 17:52 I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT EXAMPLES OF 17:55 SALVATION IN THE BIBLE. 17:58 AND THEN HE SAT AT JESUS' FEET LIKE MARY AND HEARD HIS WORD. 18:01 AND JESUS SAID, "NOW LET ME TELL YA HOW YOU GOT INTO TROUBLE 18:03 AND THIS IS HOW YOU CAN STAY OUT OF TROUBLE." 18:05 AND THE MAN WAS SO THRILLED FOR THIS NEW LIFE. 18:11 WELL, PRETTY SOON THE VILLAGERS CAME AND THEY WERE SO 18:16 FRIGHTENED. 18:17 IS EVERYONE IN THE STORY AFRAID? 18:20 DISCIPLES ARE AFRAID OF THE STORM. 18:22 THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE CALM. 18:23 THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE DEMON AND NOW THE VILLAGERS ARE AFRAID 18:25 OF JESUS. 18:29 AND THEY SAID, "LORD, WOULD YOU PLEASE LEAVE?" 18:33 YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD THINK THAT HERE THEY WOULD PRAISE THE LORD 18:34 AND HAVE A PARADE IN HIS HONOR FOR DELIVERING THEM FROM 18:37 THIS MENACE. 18:39 BUT INSTEAD, YOU KNOW, THEY THOUGHT, "WELL, WE JUST LOST, 18:41 YOU KNOW, 2,000 PIGS, THAT'S EXPENSIVE. 18:43 THAT'S BAD ON THE ECONOMY. 18:44 CAN YOU LEAVE?" 18:46 MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR PIGS THAN THEIR PEOPLE. 18:51 AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS DID? 18:52 HE GOT IN THE BOAT AND LEFT. 18:53 THAT MAKES ME SHUDDER TO THINK ABOUT IT. 18:55 BE CAREFUL ABOUT ASKING JESUS TO LEAVE YOU ALONE. 18:57 HE LOVES YOU DESPERATELY, BUT HE WILL NOT FORCE HIS WAY 19:00 INTO YOUR HEART. 19:01 HE STANDS AND HE KNOCKS. 19:03 HE HAS MANNERS AND BY THE WAY, YOUR HEART IS NEVER A VACUUM, 19:08 YOUR HEART IS EITHER FULL OF THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD 19:10 OR THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS. 19:13 IT'S LIKE A BOTTLE, YOU POUR WATER IN TO GET THE AIR OUT. 19:17 JESUS IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR AND IF 19:20 WE WANT TO GET THE DEVIL OUT, WE NEED TO INVITE JESUS IN. 19:24 NOW THE MAN OUT OF WHOM THE DEMONS WERE CAST. 19:27 HE SAID, "OH LORD, DON'T LEAVE ME. 19:29 LET ME GO WITH YOU. 19:30 I WANT TO JUST SAIL AROUND WITH YOU AND THE APOSTLES." 19:33 AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS TOLD HIM? 19:35 "I DIDN'T SAVE YOU TO SIT IN THE BOAT." 19:38 WE'VE GOT TOO MANY PEOPLE IN OUR CHURCH JUST ROCKIN' IN THE BOAT 19:40 WITH JESUS. 19:42 HE SAID, "I SAVED YOU SO THAT YOU CAN GO. 19:46 GO BACK TO YOUR FAMILY. 19:47 GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND YOU TELL THEM WHAT GREAT THINGS THE LORD 19:50 HAS DONE FOR YOU." 19:52 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STORIES IN 19:54 THE BIBLE BECAUSE IT'S THE STORY OF SALVATION, IT TELLS US ABOUT 19:58 GOD'S PLAN FOR US, JESUS, AND THE DEVIL'S PLAN FOR YOU, 20:02 THAT DEMONIAC. 20:04 AND THEN IT REASSURES US THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAR AWAY YOU 20:09 MIGHT BE FROM GOD, YOU'RE NOT SO FAR THAT GOD CAN'T REACH YOU. 20:13 CAN YOU IMAGINE IN YOUR MIND A SITUATION OF SOMEONE WHO WOULD 20:18 BE MORE HOPELESS? 20:19 ONE MORE TIME, FRIENDS, STAY WITH ME. 20:23 LIVING IN A CEMETERY SURROUNDED WITH PIGS, COVERED WITH 20:28 SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS, CHAINS, NAKED, UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN 20:39 BUT HE CAME TO JESUS THE WAY HE WAS. 20:43 IF THEY HAD AN ELECTION THERE IN GADARA, DECAPOLIS AND SAID, WHO 20:48 DO WE THINK IS THE MOST UNLIKELY PERSON TO EVER BE A FOLLOWER 20:53 OF CHRIST? 20:54 THAT MAN WOULD HAVE WON THE ELECTION EVERY TIME AND 20:58 THAT'S THE ONLY MAN THAT JESUS SAVED ON THIS MISSIONARY TRIP. 21:02 HE LEFT. 21:03 HE CAME ACROSS THE OCEAN. 21:04 HE SAVED THAT ONE MAN AND THEN HE LEFT. 21:07 THERE'S A PHRASE HERE I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU. 21:12 "JESUS CROSSED THE ANGRY WAVES TO MAKE A MADMAN WHOLE. 21:16 HE WHO STILLED THE STORMY SEA CAN CALM A RAGING SOUL." 21:22 HE CALMED THE SEA AND THEN HE CALMED THE RAGING SOUL. 21:26 FRIENDS, YOU CAN'T SAY, "OH, THE LORD CAN'T REACH ME." 21:28 IF HE CAN REACH THAT MAN, HE CAN REACH ANYBODY HERE. 21:31 AMEN? 21:32 SOME OF YOU THINK YOUR LOVED ONES AND YOUR FRIENDS HAVE GONE 21:34 TOO FAR. 21:35 HAVE THEY GONE THAT FAR? 21:37 IF THE LORD CAN REACH THIS MAN, HE CAN REACH THEM. 21:41 I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO BE PRAYING IN YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW. 21:43 WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME TO JESUS JUST LIKE YOU ARE? 21:46 MAYBE SOME OF YOU, IN YOUR PRAYERS, WOULD LIKE TO BRING 21:48 A LOVED ONE WHO YOU THINK HAS WANDERED SO FAR AWAY. 21:53 BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS DID, HE CAN REACH 21:55 THEM. 21:56 THE CONDITION OF THAT MAN IS THE LOST CONDITION. 22:01 JESUS TOOK THAT CONDITION FOR EACH ONE OF US. 22:05 WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS, HE BECAME THAT MAN THAT WAS 22:09 SO HOPELESS AND POSSESSED AND SEPARATED. 22:13 HE BECAME SIN. 22:14 THAT MAN WHO WAS ASSAILED BY DEMONS, WHAT DO YOU THINK 22:17 THE DEVILS WERE DOING AROUND THE CROSS THAT DAY? 22:20 THEY WERE TRYING TO EXTRACT EVERY OUNCE OF SUFFERING FROM 22:22 JESUS. 22:24 THIS IS THE STORY OF SALVATION. 22:26 JESUS COULD COME TO THAT MAN, HE COULD SAY, "I'M TELLING 22:28 THE DEMONS TO SET YOU FREE. 22:30 YOU DON'T DESERVE IT, BUT I'M GONNA TAKE YOUR CONDITION." 22:33 AND WHAT HE SAID TO HIM, HE'S SAYING TO YOU, HE'S SAYING TO 22:37 EACH ONE OF YOU. 22:39 AND HE SET HIM FREE AND THEN HE GAVE HIM A WORK TO DO. 22:45 THE LORD WANTS TO DO THAT FOR EACH ONE OF US. 22:48 WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO COME JUST LIKE WE ARE AND ASK GOD TO 22:52 BREAK OUR CHAINS, TO COVER US WITH HIS ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 22:59 TO WASH OUR WOUNDS AND TO DELIVER US FROM OUR DEVILS. 23:05 WHAT HE DID FOR THAT MAN, THAT MAN WAS SO FAR FROM GOD, 23:09 BUT JESUS CROSSED THE SEA TO REACH HIM. 23:11 WHAT HE DID FOR THAT MAN, HE'LL DO FOR YOU. 23:13 SOMEONE WROTE IN A NOTE THEY SAID, "WHERE DOES IT SAY IN 23:15 THE BIBLE THAT JESUS WOULD HAVE DIED JUST FOR ME?" 23:17 THIS STORY, HE CROSSED THE OCEAN AND JUST SAVED THAT ONE MAN 23:22 AND THEN HE LEFT. 23:24 HE WOULD HAVE CROSSED THE COSMOS JUST TO SAVE YOU. 23:27 HE LOVES YOU THAT MUCH. 23:28 WILL YOU TELL HIM NO? 23:30 WILL YOU TELL HIM WAIT? 23:34 WHAT WILL YOU TELL HIM NOW? 23:36 I'D LIKE TO ASK THOSE WHO ARE HERE AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING 23:38 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRAY WITH ME NOW AND SAY, "LORD, I WANT TO 23:42 COME TO JESUS JUST THE WAY I AM, AND I'M GONNA ALLOW HIM TO BREAK 23:45 MY CHAINS AND SET ME FREE." 23:47 FOR THOSE HERE, STAND ON YOUR FEET IF THAT'S YOUR PRAYER. 23:51 THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU'RE ABLE TO KNEEL BY YOUR TV 23:54 OR TO STAND, WHATEVER THE SITUATION ALLOWS, I'D LIKE TO 23:58 HAVE YOU GESTURE COMING TO GOD AND WE WANT TO END THIS MEETING 24:02 BY SURRENDERING OUR HEARTS TO THE LORD, AMEN? 24:06 LOVING FATHER IN HEAVEN, OH, WE PRAISE YOU FOR THE STORY IN YOUR 24:10 WORD OF HOW MUCH JESUS LOVES ONE SINNER THAT NOBODY WOULD LOVE, 24:16 HOW HE CROSSED THE OCEAN AND RISKED THE STORM AND DEATH 24:20 TO SAVE THAT ONE MAN. 24:23 AND THEN, LORD, YOU TRANSFORMED HIM AND SO COMPLETELY FREED HIM 24:27 AND THEN GAVE HIM A WORK TO DO. 24:29 WE BELIEVE WHAT YOU DID FOR HIM, YOU CAN DO FOR US. 24:33 YOU CAN SAVE EACH PERSON, YOU CAN DO IT FOR OUR LOVED ONES 24:37 THAT MIGHT BE LOST AND WANDERING. 24:39 HELP US TO NOT LOSE HOPE. 24:40 AND LORD, I PRAY THAT WE'LL NEVER TELL JESUS NO BECAUSE HE 24:43 SUFFERED SO MUCH THAT WE COULD BE FREE AND DELIVERED FROM OUR 24:46 DEVILS, TO BE SAVED FROM THAT CEMETERY AND TO BE CLEANSED. 24:51 LORD, DO IT FOR US, GIVE US THAT NEW LIFE. 24:54 WE ASK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 24:58 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:01 SPECIAL OFFER. 25:07 >> IF WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO GET US TO CHURCH, HOW DARE WE 25:10 THINK WE'VE GOT ENOUGH TO GET US TO HEAVEN? 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