Welcome to
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Timeless Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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We're continuing
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today our journey
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through the Gospel of Mark.
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We're especially
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looking at healing insights,
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things
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that can make a difference
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as far as your personal health.
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Physically, mentally,
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emotionally and spiritually.
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We're going
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to turn our attention right now
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to the subject of hope.
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Hope for the hopeless
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as it comes to us
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from the pages
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of the Gospel of Mark.
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May God bless you
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as we study together.
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Father in heaven.
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We thank You
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that You have
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given us Your Word
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and that You speak through it.
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We look forward to You
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doing that again
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for us today
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as we open the pages
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of the Gospel of Mark.
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We thank You.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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Well, it seems like
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we're surrounded by language
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about epidemics and pandemics.
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But one of the epidemics
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that we often don't
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speak about is one
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that is also ravaging
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the world.
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It is an
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epidemic of hopelessness.
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That's right.
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An epidemic of hopelessness.
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There are many places
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in the world
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where hopelessness
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is pervasive,
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even in places
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where you might think people
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are extremely blessed.
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Many people struggle
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with hopelessness.
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It's not just a
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mental construct.
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It's not just something
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that we say, Oh, well, it's
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an interesting topic
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to discuss,
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but hopelessness
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has very real consequences.
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If you look at the
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medical literature
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as it relates to suicide,
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hopelessness is closely tied
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to suicides
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and to suicide attempts
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in some of the data.
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In the range of 90
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to 94% of suicides
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convincingly linked
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to hopelessness.
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And so the message is simple.
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If we can address hopelessness,
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we can address
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one of the leading causes
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of one of the leading causes
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of death, which is suicide.
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So hopelessness is something
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that grabs people's attention
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in the public health arena.
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And it should grab
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our attention
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as individuals who
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Jesus has placed here
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on planet Earth
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to make a difference.
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Now,
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when we speak
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about hopelessness,
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most people say, well,
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I understand hopelessness.
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It's the opposite of hope.
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And you could
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define it that way.
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But when research scientists
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look at this topic,
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they say,
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Oh, it's more than
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just either or.
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You're not just either
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hopeful or hopeless.
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There's a lot more
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that goes into the equation
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because you can be
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hopeless
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in a certain domain
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of your life,
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but you can still
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have overall hope
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or you can have
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hope in other areas.
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Let me give you an example.
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Let's say
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that in our midst today,
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is an aspiring athlete, okay?
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A professional athlete.
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And some of you are smiling
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because you think I must be
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speaking about you.
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Anyway,
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if something were to happen
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to you,
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a catastrophic accident,
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maybe a spinal cord injury,
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you may never be able to play
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that sport
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of your choosing again,
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at least not in the way
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you envisioned it, right?
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Yeah, there is Paralympics
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and other things like that.
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So you may lose hope
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as far as your career
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dream to be a NBA
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basketball player. Okay.
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But that doesn't mean
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you have to descend
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into hopelessness
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as it relates
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to your entire life.
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Are you seeing that?
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Now often
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these things go together.
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If it's a large,
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if it's an important
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area in your life,
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if you see
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hopelessness
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in a certain domain
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that can carry over,
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but they're not
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necessarily equivalent.
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So you can be struggling
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with hopelessness
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in a certain area,
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but you can still be hope
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filled
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in other aspects of your life.
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So you say,
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what does all this have to do
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with the Gospel of Mark?
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The Gospel of Mark,
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whether you realize it or not,
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the last story
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that we looked at together
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at the end of Mark 4,
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is the first
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in a series of four stories
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where Jesus brings
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hope to the hopeless.
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Four stories
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where Jesus brings
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hope to the hopeless.
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Now, if some of you are saying,
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Oh, well,
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this doesn't
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relate to me at all,
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I have no problems with this
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at all.
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I'm always filled with hope.
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Well, just just wait a minute.
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Let me remind you
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that it doesn't
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have to take
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a major catastrophe
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to induce
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feelings of
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hopelessness or to be
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causing a response in someone
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of being hopeless.
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Story, some years ago,
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I was lecturing
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to a group of health
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professionals in the southwest.
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They were especially working
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with a Native
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American population.
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And one of them shared a story
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of how
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they were working
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with a young man
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who was struggling
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with hopelessness.
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The reason for hopelessness,
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he had been diagnosed
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with diabetes.
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Now, some of you say, Well,
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I have diabetes,
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I'm not hopeless.
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That's a good thing.
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I mean, most people
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who have that diagnosis aren't.
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But why was he struggling
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with hopelessness?
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As his story
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played out, he saw in his mind
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diabetes was associated
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with two things.
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He saw it
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pervasively in his family.
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It was associated with
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dialysis and amputation.
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So his mindset
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as a young man in his teens,
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he hears diabetes
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and it doesn't matter.
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His blood sugars are fine.
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They're under control
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with maybe one pill.
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It didn't matter.
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He hears diabetes,
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and what is he thinking?
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I'm getting ready
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to go on dialysis
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and to have my limbs cut off.
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How would you feel 15,
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16 years old,
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if that's what you heard
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when the doctor said
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you have diabetes?
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Now,
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there's other diagnoses that
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you might be
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dealing with yourself
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and you're going along
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fine in life.
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God's blessing, you.
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There's there's one diagnosis
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I really don't like.
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When I, when I tell patients
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they have this, I . . .
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if I'm mindful,
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I try to explain it to him.
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It's it's
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a terrible name, heart failure.
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I mean, if you're a layperson,
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you hear heart failure.
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How about
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if you go to the mechanic
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and you said you've got
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engine failure,
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what are you thinking?
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You're thinking,
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oh, no big deal.
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What oil do I need to change?
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I need different oil.
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No, what are you thinking
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when you hear the word failure?
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It's like over, right?
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So heart failure,
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though, you can
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you know,
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there are reversible
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causes of heart failure.
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If your heart is beating real
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fast for some reason,
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maybe you've got a heart
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rhythm problem.
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You can go into what
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we call high output failure.
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Your heart is not able to
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pump enough volume out.
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Heart failure
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simply means there is
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more work to do than your heart
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is keeping up with,
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and it can be
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totally reversible.
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But some people,
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when they hear that diagnosis
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or that a parent
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who is diagnosed
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with heart failure
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and six months later
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they were dead.
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They hear heart failure
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and what happens?
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Hopelessness is what
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they're struggling with.
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So the reason
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I mention that to you is
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it doesn't matter what
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the situation is,
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whether it's financial,
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whether it's career related,
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whether it's
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relational,
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whether it's physical.
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There are things that happen
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that for some people,
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when that happens to them,
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they start struggling
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with hopelessness,
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where the other people
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say no big deal.
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So with that background, we
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want to look at four situations
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that are hard to argue
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with anyone
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not thinking that things
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look hopeless.
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So Jesus doesn't
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give us any gray areas
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as He lives out His life
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and as Mark records it
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in the fourth
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and fifth
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chapter of his gospel.
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So just to remind you,
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as Mark 4 closed,
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we had this picture
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of a violent,
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despair inducing storm.
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We might say a hopelessness
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promoting storm.
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And the reason we can say that
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without equivocation
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is these
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are the very words
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of Jesus?sciples.
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And I want to remind you
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that we don't know a lot
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about the careers
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of many of the disciples
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before they followed Jesus.
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But we know
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enough about a number of them
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that we can say
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there were plenty of disciples,
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at least four of them,
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who spent their lives
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on the Sea of Galilee. Right?
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James, John, Peter, Andrew.
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They were all
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fishermen, well,
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well acquainted with that sea.
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And we saw in Mark 4:38
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that as one voice,
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those 12 disciples
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come to Jesus saying, Teacher,
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don't You care that
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we are perishing?
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Was this a bad storm?
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I mean, this is, this was
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cataclysmic, okay?
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They're going down. It's over.
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These guys,
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some of them all
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their lives at sea.
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It is over.
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Jesus, don't
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You care that this is the end?
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They're saying
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this situation is what?
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Hopeless, humanly
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speaking, it's hopeless.
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And you know what happened?
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Jesus gets up
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and He simply says, Peace
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be still!
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The wind ceases
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and there's a great calm.
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They come to Jesus.
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Jesus acts,
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and it goes from hopelessness
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to a future of hope.
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Mark 5,
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the second in these
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four stories, begins this way.
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Then they came
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to the other side of the sea.
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Jesus and His disciples
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had been on the eastern shore
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of the Sea of Galilee,
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largely a Gentile, excuse me,
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they'd been on
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the western side,
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largely
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a Jewish side of the lake,
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and now they've gone
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to the eastern side.
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I've got to be careful
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with my gestures
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because, of course
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you're seeing things
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at the opposite direction.
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But they are traveling
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from a
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side where there is Capernaum
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northwestern shore
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of the Sea of Galilee,
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traveling over to the east
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where it's largely
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a Gentile region.
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And they come to this country
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of the Gadarenes.
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It says,
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when He came out of
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the boat, immediately
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there met Him out of the tombs,
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a man with an unclean spirit
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who had his dwelling
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among the tombs.
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No one could bind him,
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not even with chains,
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because he had often been bound
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with shackles and chains.
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And the chains
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had been pulled apart by him,
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and the shackles
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broken in pieces;
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neither could anyone tame him.
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As far as this man's future,
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what kind of picture
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are you getting?
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Well, the Gentiles in general,
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Paul even said,
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they were without hope
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and without God.
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They didn't,
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they didn't know
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about Bible truth.
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But it's worse for this guy.
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I mean, he is,
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he is ritually unclean.
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You couldn't be in contact
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with death, living in tombs,
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and not be rendered unclean.
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So he's spiritually unclean.
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He's racially unclean.
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He's not from
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the people of God.
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But what else?
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His situation is so hopeless.
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No one can bind him.
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No one can even control him.
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He can't control himself.
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No one can control him.
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This is a picture,
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humanly speaking,
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of hopelessness.
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Now, if you'd
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never heard this story before,
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just what we've read in those
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few verses, you would say
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this is not an
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ordinary individual.
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We are dealing with someone
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who has supernatural power.
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You've already got the clue
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that this man
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is demon possessed.
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And we soon find out
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just how cruel Satan's rule is,
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because Mark
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continues in verse 5,
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And always, night and day,
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he was in the mountains
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and in the tombs,
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crying out
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and cutting himself
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with stones.
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I mean,
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what kind of a life is this?
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I mean,
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he just kind of picture
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that for a minute.
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What would it be
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like to be living
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in those circumstances?
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Terrible.
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Now, what's
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so amazing about the story
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is a lot of people,
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as they read the story today,
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they say,
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oh, well,
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that guy just had,
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you know, mental illness
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and they didn't know
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what mental illness
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was back then. So
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they'd call it
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demon possession.
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There is no way you can read
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Mark 5 and say
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this man
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was merely mentally ill.
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How many times?
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Well,
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let me just put it this way.
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I'll tell you
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my own experience.
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I've dealt with many people
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who have mental illness.
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I've never seen
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a mental illness
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go from one person
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into one or more animals
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and cause them to do something.
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Now, you could say, well, you
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know, animals can get
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like their owners,
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but no, we're talking
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2,000 animals here.
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As this story plays out, right?
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Well, we'll
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get there in a minute.
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So this man is
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what the Bible says,
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demon possessed.
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And the question becomes,
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for a lot of thinking people,
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they say, well,
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how did he get demon possessed?
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I mean, could
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that happen to me?
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And the question I
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would ask you is, how did Satan
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gain control
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in the Garden of Eden?
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Wasn't it
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Adam and Eve?hoice?
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And I would suggest to you
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that's the essence
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of demon possession.
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It begins
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when people give
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Satan a place in their lives.
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And speaking about Mark 1,
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the demoniac
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in Capernaum
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that we studied earlier,
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the book Desire of Ages
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provides a scenario of demon
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possession.
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Let's walk through it
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and see what you think.
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The secret cause
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of the affliction
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that had made this man,
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this demon possessed man,
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a fearful spectacle
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to his friends
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and a burden to himself
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was in his own life.
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He had been fascinated
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by the pleasures of sin,
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and had thought to make life
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a grand carnival.
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He didn't dream
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of becoming a terror
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to the world
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and the reproach of his family.
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He thought his time
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could be spent
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in innocent folly.
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But once in the downward path,
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his feet rapidly descended.
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Intemperance and frivolity
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perverted the noble attributes
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of his nature,
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and Satan
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took absolute control of him.
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So did it start
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innocently enough?
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I mean, just
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following his own decisions,
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making his own decisions.
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I'm not going to have anyone
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tell me what to do.
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Even if that person's God,
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I'm going to have my fun
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and he ends up
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in the control of Satan.
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Remorse came too late.
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When he would have sacrificed
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wealth and pleasure
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to regain his lost manhood,
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he had become helpless
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in the grasp of the evil one.
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He had placed himself
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on the enemy's ground,
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and Satan had taken possession
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of all his faculties.
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The tempter had allured him,
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reeled him
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in, with many
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charming presentations;
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but when once the wretched
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man was in his power,
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the fiend became
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relentless in his cruelty,
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and terrible
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in his angry visitations.
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So it will be
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with all who yield to evil;
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the fascinating pleasure
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of their early career
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ends in the darkness of despair
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or the madness
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of a ruined soul.
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They say, Well,
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but that didn't happen
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in my life before Christ.
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One of you might be saying
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I didn't end up in
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despair, but maybe you did.
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You say, But
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I've been around
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a lot of people,
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some of them obviously
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not following Jesus,
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and I've never seen anyone
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acting like this
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demon possessed man.
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That's a thing of the past,
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right?
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Does demon
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possession occur today?
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That's the question.
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And if it occurs today,
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why does it seem
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to look so different
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or does it look different?
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Here's the perspective
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I'd like to share with you.
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What we're seeing
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in this battle
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between the demon possessed
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man and Jesus is an example
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of what we call
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the great controversy.
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It's Satan
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and his minions
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fighting against Christ
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and those who are loyal to Him.
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And Satan is trying
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to entice us
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to choose his leadership.
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And you see what
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plays out in this story,
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as in others,
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that sometimes it ends up
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in this overt possession.
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But how does Satan
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especially work today?
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How is he
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especially getting people
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to join his ranks?
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I would suggest to you
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that one of the most
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powerful influences
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in today's world,
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especially in the
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Western world, is atheism.
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When people give up on God,
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they often
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declare themselves what?
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I'm an atheist.
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There is no God.
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There is no,
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there is no spiritual realm.
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There are no devils,
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there are no angels.
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It's all just humanity.
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Okay?
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And we're here
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and there's no God.
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So think about this
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for a minute.
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If Satan is working with
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special force in our culture
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to induce people
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to throw God out and say
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there is no God,
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how effective
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would it be for Satan
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if he's possessing someone
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to have them act in a way
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that shows
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there is no question
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that there are supernatural
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forces at work?
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Would this be in his interest?
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It doesn't make sense
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for him to act
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that way, does it?
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He seems like he's
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smarter than that,
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because if he started having
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people going crazy,
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you know, and
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and your pets all running out
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and all the Fort
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Wayne pets, you know,
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running into one of the rivers
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here, we'd say,
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I mean, this is something
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spiritual, right, going on.
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But no,
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how does Satan work today?
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Let me go back
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to that description
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of Desire of Ages
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that goes back to a demoniac
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we mentioned earlier.
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The same evil spirit
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that tempted Christ
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in the wilderness,
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and that possessed the maniac
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or demoniac of Capernaum,
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controlled
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the unbelieving Jews.
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But with them
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he, Satan,
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assumed an air of piety,
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instead of being crazy,
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foaming at the mouth,
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rolling on the ground,
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cutting themselves,
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living in the tombs.
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It was an air of what?
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Of piety.
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Holiness.
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Seeking to deceive them
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as to their motives
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in rejecting the Saviour.
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Their condition
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was more hopeless
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than that of the demoniac.
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Why?
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Because they felt
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no need of Christ
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and were therefore held fast
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under the power of Satan.
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So two classes
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of demon possession, right?
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One looks like this
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crazy thing.
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Mental illness. It's terrible.
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And others,
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just these respectable
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looking people.
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It's sobering, isn't
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it, to think about.
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Well, back to Mark 5.
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Because
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even though
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this man is inhabited,
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as the account says, well,
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turn there to Mark
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5, if you will.
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I want you to realize that
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this is not just
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a simple,
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ordinary demon possession,
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but is
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this man in Mark 5,
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this demon possessed
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man sees Jesus.
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The account tells us
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that his response
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is that he
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sees Jesus from far away
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and he runs.
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And he does what?
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He worships Him.
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He worships Him.
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Now, I don't know
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what translation you have.
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Some of the modern translations
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take out that word
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worshiped Him.
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But Greek scholars tell us
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this is a very accurate way
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of translating what happens.
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It's the idea that he falls at
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Jesus?et, okay?
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So he's
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coming to worship Jesus,
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but he's possessed by demons.
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And the account says,
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if you look there in chapter 5,
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it is not just a single demon.
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Do you see what it says there?
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What is this man dealing with?
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He is dealing with demons
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that identify themselves
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as legion, in verse 9,
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for we are many.
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And so when he falls
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at Jesus?et,
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instead of being able
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to say, Jesus,
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Lord, help me, here's
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his prayer.
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Now, think about this,
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those of you
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that are tempted to judge
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other people's prayers,
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what would you do
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if you heard someone
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pray this prayer?
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How likely do
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you think God would be
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to answer it?
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What have I to do with You,
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Jesus,
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Son of the Most High God?
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I implore You
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by God
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that You do not torment me.
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What would you think?
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Would you think
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this is a prayer
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that Jesus is going to answer?
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The demons are saying,
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leave me alone. What is?
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Why did the man run to Jesus?
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Presumably he wanted
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Jesus to heal him.
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He wants the demons out of him.
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And the demons are saying
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no, get out of me.
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So here's the deal.
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The words coming out
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of his mouth
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don't seem like faith
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filled words,
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but his actions demonstrate
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his faith.
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He runs to Jesus,
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unspoken cry.
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And what does He do?
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He frees him
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from the demons
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that have plagued his life.
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As you read through
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the account,
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you see this amazing story.
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Verse 15,
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it says that after
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Jesus ministers to him, that
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demon possessed man is sitting
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and clothed in his right mind.
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But we don't want
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to miss something in the story
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because part of the drama
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here is
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the demons
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make a request of Jesus.
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Okay.
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Look at it there with me.
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In Mark's version,
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verse 10, it says, he begs
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Him, the demons
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speaking through the man,
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begged Him earnestly
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that He would not send them
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out of the country.
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If you compare it
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with other gospel
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accounts, Matthew and Luke,
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you'll find something
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very interesting.
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Luke 8:31 it says,
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the New International
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Version translates
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it quite literally.
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They beg Jesus repeatedly
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not to order them
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to go into the abyss.
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The abyss.
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Now some people read this
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and they say, Oh, well,
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they there's a place
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where the demons dwell.
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They might call it hell
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or something else.
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And they say the demons didn't
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want Jesus
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to put them in this
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place of hell
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that exists right now.
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That is actually not
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what the Bible teaches.
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The Bible teaches
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something quite different.
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It does teach about an abyss
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or a bottomless pit.
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Same word in the Greek.
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Look at with me Revelation 20.
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Revelation 20.
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John is giving this picture.
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So this is after
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all, the plagues on the earth.
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Sin and sinners
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are no more on planet Earth.
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Jesus has come back.
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And now the earth is left
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in a state of
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abyss
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without form and void,
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like the original pre
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creative states.
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I'm using this term
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analogously not literally.
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And so the earth is
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without form and void.
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Satan
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and his angels are on planet
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earth
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bound by chains
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of circumstances.
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Let's see how John
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was shown it in Revelation.
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Then I saw an angel coming down
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from heaven,
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having the key to the abyss,
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translated
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in the New King James
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as the bottomless pit.
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Same word
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that is used by the demons
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.53
in Luke's account in Luke 8.
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Key to the bottomless pit.
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A great chain in his hand.
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He laid hold of the dragon,
00:24:01.24\00:24:02.54
that serpent of old,
00:24:02.54\00:24:03.41
who is the Devil and Satan,
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.17
and bound him
00:24:05.17\00:24:06.21
for a thousand years.
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The point of Revelation 20 is
00:24:08.14\00:24:09.81
there is no abyss right now.
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There is no bottomless pit
00:24:11.61\00:24:13.21
right now.
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That's something that is formed
00:24:13.88\00:24:17.39
when Jesus comes back
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and it exists on this earth
00:24:19.79\00:24:21.06
for a thousand years,
00:24:21.06\00:24:22.19
while the living righteous
00:24:22.19\00:24:24.59
and those who died with faith
00:24:24.59\00:24:26.13
in Jesus are resurrected,
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they're reigning with Christ
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.00
for a thousand years.
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But this planet,
00:24:30.27\00:24:31.90
the chaos of this planet,
00:24:33.57\00:24:36.50
Satan and his angels bound here
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by their circumstances.
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Here's
00:24:41.18\00:24:41.51
the interesting thing
00:24:41.74\00:24:42.21
about this dialog.
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Some people say,
00:24:44.65\00:24:45.41
Well, the demon said,
00:24:45.41\00:24:46.82
don't cast us into the abyss.
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That means
00:24:48.22\00:24:48.58
there must be an abyss.
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How many of you think
00:24:49.72\00:24:50.42
demons have got
00:24:50.42\00:24:51.05
everything figured out
00:24:51.05\00:24:51.95
100 percent?
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Did the Jews in Jesus?y
00:24:54.19\00:24:56.09
have confusion
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about what Jesus
00:24:56.89\00:24:57.86
?rst coming would usher in?
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They did.
00:25:00.23\00:25:00.60
They thought it was going
00:25:00.86\00:25:01.13
to usher in,
00:25:01.23\00:25:01.86
you know, the Messianic
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.87
kingdom, right?
00:25:05.07\00:25:06.60
Physically,
00:25:06.60\00:25:07.20
Jesus was going to reign.
00:25:07.20\00:25:08.77
They equated prophecies
00:25:08.77\00:25:11.04
that would be
00:25:11.04\00:25:11.41
ultimately fulfilled
00:25:11.57\00:25:12.34
at the Second Coming
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with what would happen
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at the first.
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I would suggest to you
00:25:15.18\00:25:16.14
one reading of what's going on
00:25:16.14\00:25:17.31
here is
00:25:17.31\00:25:17.61
the demons were confused, too.
00:25:17.98\00:25:19.68
They thought
00:25:19.68\00:25:20.32
during Jesus?nistry,
00:25:20.32\00:25:21.75
He's going to constitute
00:25:21.75\00:25:23.42
this abyss.
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It has not happened yet.
00:25:24.29\00:25:25.85
So having said
00:25:27.06\00:25:28.02
all this,
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how does the story conclude?
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Well, it
00:25:31.19\00:25:31.53
concludes with,
00:25:31.66\00:25:33.13
as you see it
00:25:33.13\00:25:33.80
there, with pigs
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jumping into the steep
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place in the sea.
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That's verse 13.
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The unclean spirits
00:25:40.84\00:25:42.20
go out,
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they enter the swine,
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the herd runs
00:25:43.91\00:25:44.94
violently down the steep
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place into the sea,
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and they drown in the sea.
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Now, you might say,
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no big deal.
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Who cares about pigs?
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We are going to dive into that
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a little bit deeper.
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But at this juncture,
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I want you to notice something.
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Two stories.
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The first two
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in this group of four
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showing the same thing,
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that Jesus has power
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to help people
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in the midst
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of their hopelessness.
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I don't know what
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your situation is,
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but I know Jesus
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wants to minister hope to you.
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When we come to Jesus.
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Even if we can't pray the way
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we think we should,
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even if our situation
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looks hopeless,
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we cry out to Him,
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He speaks peace
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and healing to every one of us.
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The Bible,
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especially Mark's
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gospel, is indeed full of hope
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for the hopeless.
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With that in mind,
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let me pray for you.
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Father in Heaven,
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I want to thank You
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for each one
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who has joined us today.
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Father, this world is
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greatly in need of hope.
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And I just pray
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that these words
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that we've studied
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today would continue
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to minister
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hope to each one who's tuned in
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and that they would
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take that hope
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and share it
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with those around them
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so that the world
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would be blessed
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even more greatly
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by Your Word
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as it is shared with power.
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We ask it all in
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Jesus name, Amen.
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Not only is God's
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Word powerful
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and ministering hope,
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but we want to let
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you know that
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we're here to try to minister
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Hope in practical ways.
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In addition
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to those that come directly
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out of the Word of God.
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Feel free
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