Hello, I'm Jill Morikone,
and I want to welcome you
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to another edition
of 3ABN Worship Hour.
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You may notice this does
not look like our usual set
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for 3ABN Worship Hour
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when we get
together and we open up
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the Word of God
and we study His Word.
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That's because it's
a special time of year.
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We're in the month of December,
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and we are
celebrating the birth of Jesus.
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Now in case you think,
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okay, this sermon is going
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to be all about
the birth of Jesus.
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It's not, but it is
all about deliverance.
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The title of the message for
today is Time for Deliverance.
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Is it time for
deliverance in your life?
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Do you want to
experience Christ's deliverance?
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And maybe you have already
experienced His deliverance,
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and God wants you
to extend that promise
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of deliverance to someone else.
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Our scripture is John 8:36.
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I love this reference.
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John 8:36, "If the
Son makes you free,
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you shall be free indeed."
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Let's pray.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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This is Your time,
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we ask that Your Word
which is already anointed
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and inspired would come
alive in our hearts and minds.
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We ask for the
outpouring of Your Holy Spirit,
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and that You would set us free.
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And we thank You in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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There was a
Chinese farmer who was...
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This was several years ago,
and he lived in mainland China,
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inland China in one
of those little villages.
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And one day, he
walked along ways,
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and he ended up at the clinic.
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This was a clinic
run by Christians.
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And he walked in and he said,
"I'm blind and I can't see it.
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I don't know
what's wrong with me."
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And they took a look at him
and decided he had cataracts.
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And they
performed cataract surgery,
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and all of a
sudden, he could see.
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Well, a couple days went
by and a couple of weeks.
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And then all of a sudden,
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the people at the
mission clinic looked out
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the front door one
morning and here came the man
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that used to be blind, walking,
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holding a very long rope.
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There were probably
a couple dozen people,
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blind people
holding on to the rope
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because they couldn't
see and they didn't know
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where they were going.
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This man who used to be
blind wanted all of his friends,
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all of his neighbors, all
of the people that he knew
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had struggled with the
same affliction he had,
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dealt with the
same issue he had.
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He wanted them to
experience healing too.
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If you have ever
experienced healing,
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if you have ever
experienced deliverance,
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then you want to pass
that on to someone else.
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You want to tell someone
else, what you have experienced.
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That's what we see
in our story today.
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We see a man who
was in the tombs,
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a man who was lost, a
man who needed deliverance,
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a man who was inhabited
by thousands of demons,
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and yet Jesus
came to set him free.
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This is a story, of
course, of the demoniacs.
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And we find this in
the Book of Matthew,
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Mark, and Luke.
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But before we get to that
story and the 14 takeaways,
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yes, you heard me right,
14 takeaways of deliverance
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that we can find from
the story of the demoniacs.
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Before we get to that,
let's look at the prologue.
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Remember, Jesus had to
cross the Sea of Galilee
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from the western side over
to the eastern side of the sea.
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And that sea is beautiful.
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Greg and I several years ago
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had the
opportunity to go to Israel,
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and it is incredible.
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The sea is calm,
and it's beautiful.
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But when the wind comes,
and when the storms arise,
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it can be
whipped up to a foment.
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And that is what happened.
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We see the
story of the disciples
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crossing the sea with
Jesus and Jesus arising,
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and what does He say?
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"Peace, be still."
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Now in the Greek,
it's even more forceful.
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It's a command.
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He's not just
saying, "Peace, be still."
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It's a command.
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And He says,
basically, shut up, be calm,
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and instantly
the sea became calm.
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You see, this
miracle demonstrated Jesus'
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authority over nature.
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The next miracle is going
to demonstrate His authority
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over Satan himself.
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This miracle we see Jesus'
ability to tame the wild sea.
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The next miracle, we see Jesus'
ability to tame the wild man.
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This miracle we see
Christ giving peace in the midst
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of a storm.
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And the next miracle
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we see Christ
giving peace in a soul.
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Before we actually unpack
the story of the demoniacs,
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I want to look just a
moment at the integrity
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of the Synoptic Gospels.
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You know the Synoptic
Gospels are Matthew, Mark,
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Luke, and John.
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They all tell the story
of the demon-possessed man.
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But yet there seems to
be an apparent contradiction
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in this story.
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And what is that?
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Matthew says that
there are two demoniacs.
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But Mark and Luke only
mentioned one demoniac.
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And critics of the
Word of God have taken
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that apparent disparity.
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And they have said,
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"Well, that proves that
the Bible is uninspired.
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Why in the world would
Matthew say there's two,
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when Mark and Luke
say there is only one."
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I would submit to you that
the apparent contradictions
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actually authenticate
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the validity of
the historical story.
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Each author would
have remembered the story
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just a little differently.
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Each author would have
focused on a different portion
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of the story.
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You know, if they
had forged the account,
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if they had said,
okay, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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they're going to get together,
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and they're going to see
what is actually accurate.
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And they're going to try
to forge the gospel account,
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they would have compared notes.
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And they would have
said, I'm going to say one,
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well, you better
say one person as well.
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Only Matthew would
have actually been there.
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Remember, Mark was
written by John Mark,
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which would have
been dictated by Peter,
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but it was written by John Mark.
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And Luke, of
course, was written by Luke,
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the Gentile doctor.
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You know, it's kind of
like if you are a witness
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to an accident, and say,
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the accident happened here
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in the middle of
the intersection.
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We pretend our lectern is
the middle of the intersection.
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And I'm over here on this side,
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and I saw the
accident and I said,
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"There's two people in the car."
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And I was a
bystander on the street corner,
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there were
definitely two people.
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But somebody over
here on this side,
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said, "No, no, no, there
were three people in the car.
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I saw that." Now who is true?
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They're both eyewitnesses.
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That word is
martus in the Greek,
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we're going to get to
that at the end of our story.
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And they're both eyewitnesses
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of something that took place.
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There's no apparent
contradiction from this side,
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baby, I only saw
two people in the car,
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because maybe one
person blocked another person,
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from this side, that
person wasn't blocked,
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and you actually saw three.
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The apparent disharmony
in these little minutiae
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that we see in the gospels
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actually proves the
validity of the gospels.
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There's many
similarities in the stories,
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Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
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all three discussed
Jesus crossing the lake
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and calming the storm.
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All three discussed
the demon-possessed man
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who was set free.
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All three discussed the pigs.
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And all three discussed Jesus
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who healed this man.
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The different number
of men Mark and Luke,
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maybe their focus
was just on the one man,
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maybe he talked more,
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maybe he talked more with Jesus,
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and they focused
more from that aspect.
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You know, I could say,
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there's two
apples on this table here
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or I could say,
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there's an apple on the table.
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And it doesn't
mean there aren't two,
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it just means I'm
focused on one particular apple.
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So as we tell the story,
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we might say
demoniacs or the man demoniac.
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But it's still
all the same story.
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So let's look at the story.
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We're in the Book of Luke.
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Most of our account,
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we're going to pull
from the Book of Luke.
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Luke Chapter 8,
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we pick it up in verse 26.
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It is time for deliverance.
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Luke 8:26,
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"Then they sailed
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to the country of the Gadarenes,
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which is opposite Galilee."
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So they're going to
mainly Gentile territory.
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Jesus has focused His work.
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He's focused His mission
really mainly on the Jews,
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but not just the
highfalutin Jews,
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not just the echelon of society,
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not just the religious leaders,
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He came to seek and to
save those who were lost.
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He came for the outcasts.
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He came for the lepers.
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He came for the untouchables.
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He came for the woman,
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and He also came
for the children.
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We see those that were
marginalized in Jewish society,
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those that would
have been cast aside,
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Jesus came specifically
to set those people free.
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But He didn't just come for
the nation of the Jewish people.
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He came for the Gentiles.
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He came for the entire world.
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We see this in John Chapter 4
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as Jesus visits
with a Samaritan woman.
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We see this in
another account in the gospel,
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as He goes in visits
with a Syrophoenician,
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the Canaanite woman.
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And in this account, we
see Him crossing the sea,
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going to the
country of the Gadarenes,
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which was mainly
Gentile territory.
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Takeaway number one,
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remember these 14
takeaways of deliverance.
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Takeaway number one,
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deliverance is for everyone.
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It's not just for
the people we like.
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It's not just for
the people we know.
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It's not just for the
people that we want to help.
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Deliverance is for everyone.
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It's for the stranger,
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it's for the foreigner,
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it's for the outcast.
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You know what?
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It's even for the person
I don't necessarily like.
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The gospel is for everyone.
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The Book of Galatians
really tells us very clearly.
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I love the Book of Galatians.
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We see the gospel portrayed
in such an incredible way.
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And in Galatians 3:28-29.
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It says, "There is
neither Jew nor Greek,
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there is neither slave nor free,
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there is
neither male nor female,
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for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are Christ's,
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then you are heirs,
according to the promise
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you are Abraham's seed."
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So what is Paul saying here?
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The gospel is for everyone.
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Deliverance is for everyone.
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It's not just for the people
that we want it to be for.
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It's not just for the people
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that we
naturally are inclined to.
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It's not just
for the good people,
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or the people we think are good.
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Deliverance is for everyone.
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Let's read the next verse.
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Luke 8:27,
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"And when He
stepped out on the land,
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there met Him a certain man
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from the city
who had demons for,"
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just a week or two.
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No, it doesn't
say that, does it?
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"He had demons for a long time.
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And he wore no clothes,
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nor did he live in a
house but in the tombs."
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Takeaway number
two, deliverance is,
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especially for those who
have been bound the longest.
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I love that,
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Jesus did not just
come for those who were just
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stepped into sin,
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or just stepped off
the abyss into something
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that God did not
want them to be in.
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What did it say?
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This man had demons a long time.
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Deliverance is
especially for those
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who have been bound the longest.
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Do you feel like you're bound?
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Are you in addiction?
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Are you in sin?
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Do you feel like
there is no way out
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and you say, but you
don't understand, Jill.
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I have been in
bondage a long time.
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I haven't walked
in sin just a week
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or a month or a year or two,
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or 10 or 20, or 30.
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I've been 50
years, I've been 60 years,
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I've been 70 years
steeped in addiction and sin.
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Deliverance, Jesus came
especially to set you free.
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Satan is the
accuser of the brethren,
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and we see that in
Revelation Chapter 12.
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Turn with me there,
keep your finger in Luke,
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we're coming back.
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But let's go to
Revelation 12:10,
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"Then I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven,
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'Now salvation, and strength,
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and the kingdom of our God,
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and the power of
His Christ have come,
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for the accuser of our brethren,
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who accused them
before our God day and night,
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he has been cast down.'"
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You know, what's amazing to me,
00:13:41.85\00:13:43.22
is that Satan is the one
who wants to lead us into sin,
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does he not?
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He's the one who tempts.
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He's the one who entices.
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He's the one who
wants to wrap us up
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in addiction, in bondage.
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And yet, when he does that,
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when he wraps us up in sin,
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when he cloaks us with darkness,
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when he covers us with all that,
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then he stands and accuses us.
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He's the one who enticed
us and pulled us into sin.
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And as soon as we step into it,
00:14:09.91\00:14:11.85
he stands in judgment.
00:14:11.88\00:14:13.42
He stands in
condemnation over us.
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He is the
accuser of the brethren.
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Have you ever heard
any of those accusations
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from the enemy?
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I have.
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You're not good enough.
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You don't obey well enough.
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You don't measure up.
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You aren't holy enough.
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Who do you think you are?
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You messed up yet again.
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You think God would take you
back after what you have done?
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If I'm being honest with
you and transparent with you,
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I have wrestled with this.
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There have been times
in my Christian experience.
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I accepted Jesus in my heart
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and life as a little girl.
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And I grew up
wanting to walk with Him,
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wanting to follow Him,
00:14:57.89\00:14:59.53
wanting to sense
His smile upon me,
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to feel His breath
as it were on my cheek,
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to walk in concert with Him.
00:15:06.37\00:15:09.80
And yet there have
been times in my experience
00:15:09.84\00:15:13.07
that Satan has enticed me.
00:15:13.11\00:15:15.44
And instead of me
clinging to Jesus,
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I have walked
the other direction,
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I have gone in a
way of my own choosing.
00:15:20.62\00:15:23.42
I've said, "I want to
do my own thing, God."
00:15:23.45\00:15:25.89
And when I did,
00:15:25.92\00:15:27.62
when I stepped into sin,
00:15:27.66\00:15:30.79
Satan instantly
pounced on my back and said,
00:15:30.83\00:15:33.50
"Who do you think you are?
00:15:33.53\00:15:34.93
You think you're a Christian?
00:15:34.96\00:15:36.60
What type of
Christian would do that?
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Jesus, He's not
gonna forgive you.
00:15:38.67\00:15:41.10
You need to do penance,
00:15:41.14\00:15:42.57
you need to try harder.
00:15:42.60\00:15:44.57
You need to be good
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before He will even
accept you back to me."
00:15:45.97\00:15:51.18
Nothing is
further from the truth.
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Jesus came that you
and I would have life
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and have it more abundantly.
00:15:56.48\00:15:57.82
He came that we could
experience forgiveness,
00:15:57.85\00:16:00.96
and freedom, and
deliverance from bondage.
00:16:00.99\00:16:04.49
So do not listen to
the lies of the enemy.
00:16:04.53\00:16:08.40
Do not listen to
Satan's accusations that say,
00:16:08.43\00:16:12.03
you aren't good enough,
00:16:12.07\00:16:13.87
or you've gone too far,
00:16:13.90\00:16:15.70
or you've done too much
00:16:15.74\00:16:17.77
that He cannot forgive you.
00:16:17.81\00:16:20.28
Do not listen to that.
00:16:20.31\00:16:21.64
For Satan is the
accuser of the brethren.
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In Luke 5:32, Jesus is speaking,
00:16:24.31\00:16:27.75
he says, "I have not
come to call the righteous,
00:16:27.78\00:16:32.22
but sinners, to repentance."
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You see,
deliverance is especially
00:16:35.66\00:16:37.73
for those who are bound.
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Deliverance is especially
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for those who have
been bound the longest.
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Think about
Jesus in His ministry,
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the woman who was
bound for 18 years
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Jesus came and delivered her.
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Think about the woman
with the issue of blood
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for 12 years, Jesus
came and delivered her.
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Think about the
man who was born blind.
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That is a lifetime of bondage,
00:16:59.35\00:17:02.42
Jesus came and delivered him.
00:17:02.45\00:17:05.12
Think about the woman
caught in the act of adultery.
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And I have a feeling
it was not the first time
00:17:08.72\00:17:10.53
she was caught in that,
00:17:10.56\00:17:11.89
but not the first
time she engaged in that,
00:17:11.93\00:17:13.80
it was just the first
time she was caught in that.
00:17:13.83\00:17:16.70
And yet Jesus
came to set her free.
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Takeaway number two,
deliverance is for those
00:17:20.60\00:17:23.30
who have been bound the longest.
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Deliverance is for us.
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Takeaway number three, this
is still from the same verse.
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Deliverance is for
those who struggle with shame,
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who struggle with sin.
00:17:33.75\00:17:35.08
Remember the demoniac?
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What does the Bible say?
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He wore no clothes.
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That's a symbol of the
shame that he lived under.
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Remember, in the Garden of Eden,
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Adam and Eve
walked and talked with God
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in the cool of the day.
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And then in Genesis Chapter 3,
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we see sin entered this world.
00:17:52.27\00:17:55.00
We see sin brought
separation from the Father,
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sin brought fear and guilt,
00:17:58.31\00:18:00.81
sin brought
shame and condemnation.
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In Genesis 3:7,
00:18:04.81\00:18:07.15
"The eyes of both of them,"
00:18:07.18\00:18:08.52
this is Adam and
Eve, "were opened,
00:18:08.55\00:18:10.79
and they knew they were naked,
00:18:10.82\00:18:12.29
and they sewed
fig leaves together
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and made themselves covering."
00:18:14.99\00:18:17.43
Why?
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Because they were ashamed and
they recognize their nakedness.
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Deliverance is especially
for those who struggle
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with shame and with sin.
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Isaiah 50:7, I
love this promise.
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I love the Book of Isaiah.
00:18:31.14\00:18:32.47
The first half, of course,
00:18:32.51\00:18:33.84
being the book of judgment,
00:18:33.88\00:18:35.34
but the second half
being the book of comfort
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and healing, and
we're in the second half.
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We're in Isaiah 50:7,
00:18:41.22\00:18:45.32
"For the Lord God will help Me,
00:18:45.35\00:18:47.52
therefore I will
not be disgraced,
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I have set My face like a flint,
00:18:50.76\00:18:53.93
and I know I
will not be ashamed."
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Isn't that
incredible the Lord God says,
00:18:56.60\00:18:58.17
"You do not have to be afraid.
00:18:58.20\00:19:00.70
You do not have
to walk in shame.
00:19:00.74\00:19:03.00
You do not have to wallow
in guilt and condemnation."
00:19:03.04\00:19:07.68
Jesus came.
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Takeaway number three,
00:19:09.21\00:19:10.65
deliverance is especially
00:19:10.68\00:19:13.31
for those who
struggle with sin and shame.
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Let's read the next verse.
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We're in Luke Chapter 8,
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we're picking up
verses 28 and 29.
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"When he saw Jesus,"
this is the demoniac,
00:19:22.12\00:19:25.26
"he cried out and
fell down before Him,
00:19:25.29\00:19:28.86
with a loud voice and said,
00:19:28.90\00:19:30.90
'What have I to do with You,
00:19:30.93\00:19:32.27
Jesus, Son of the Most High God?
00:19:32.30\00:19:35.37
I beg You, do not torment me!'
00:19:35.40\00:19:39.17
For He, that's
Jesus, had commanded
00:19:39.21\00:19:41.98
the unclean spirit to
come out of the man.'"
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Takeaway number four,
00:19:44.18\00:19:45.58
deliverance is for
those who cannot say
00:19:45.61\00:19:49.72
what is in their heart.
00:19:49.75\00:19:51.09
What do I mean by that?
00:19:51.12\00:19:52.45
Was that the demoniac speaking,
00:19:52.49\00:19:54.06
saying, "What do I
have to do with you?
00:19:54.09\00:19:56.56
Leave me alone."
00:19:56.59\00:19:57.93
Was that the man
speaking or was that the demons
00:19:57.96\00:20:01.20
that inhabited him?
00:20:01.23\00:20:02.96
You see, Jesus
looked beyond the words
00:20:03.00\00:20:04.77
that were merely spoken.
00:20:04.80\00:20:06.17
He looked beyond the demon
that was possessing the man
00:20:06.20\00:20:08.54
and he looked
into the man's heart.
00:20:08.57\00:20:11.21
And he knew that this man,
00:20:11.24\00:20:13.81
he wanted deliverance,
00:20:13.84\00:20:15.24
he wanted to be set free.
00:20:15.28\00:20:17.05
You see, it was
time for deliverance
00:20:17.08\00:20:19.98
in the life of the demoniac.
00:20:20.02\00:20:21.38
And Jesus knew this.
00:20:21.42\00:20:23.75
He says in 1 Samuel 16:7,
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.96
"The Lord said to Samuel,
00:20:26.99\00:20:28.32
'Do not look at
his outward appearance,
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.76
or his physical
stature, for I have refused him.
00:20:31.79\00:20:34.93
The Lord does
not see as man sees,
00:20:34.96\00:20:37.57
man looks at the outward
appearance, but the Lord,
00:20:37.60\00:20:40.90
He looks at the heart."
00:20:40.94\00:20:44.11
I love that.
00:20:44.14\00:20:45.47
Because when you
cannot even get out exactly
00:20:45.51\00:20:48.14
what's in your heart,
00:20:48.18\00:20:49.51
when you don't know
how to express your desire
00:20:49.54\00:20:52.68
for freedom and deliverance,
00:20:52.71\00:20:54.72
the Lord sees your heart.
00:20:54.75\00:20:56.08
The Lord knows your heart.
00:20:56.12\00:20:57.45
Think about Peter when
he's walking on the water
00:20:57.49\00:20:59.85
to meet Jesus.
00:20:59.89\00:21:01.22
And what happens?
00:21:01.26\00:21:02.59
He begins, he
takes his eyes off Jesus,
00:21:02.62\00:21:04.36
and he begins to sink
00:21:04.39\00:21:05.83
and he doesn't have
time for a big, long prayer.
00:21:05.86\00:21:08.70
He doesn't have time
to articulate the way
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.87
he had sinned or stepped
off and looked away from Jesus.
00:21:10.90\00:21:14.54
All he says is, "Lord, save me."
00:21:14.57\00:21:17.27
God sees our hearts.
00:21:17.31\00:21:19.71
God sees your heart.
00:21:19.74\00:21:22.04
God knows what is in your heart.
00:21:22.08\00:21:25.71
And God wants to
bring you deliverance.
00:21:25.75\00:21:28.32
Let's look, we stop
halfway through verse 29.
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So let's read the
second half of verse 29.
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We're in Luke 8:29,
00:21:32.95\00:21:34.92
"For it," this is the demons,
00:21:34.96\00:21:37.63
"had often seized him,
00:21:37.66\00:21:40.26
and he was kept under guard,
00:21:40.30\00:21:42.00
bound with chains and shackles,
00:21:42.03\00:21:45.47
and he broke the bonds
00:21:45.50\00:21:47.77
and was driven by the
demon into the wilderness."
00:21:47.80\00:21:53.21
Takeaway number five,
deliverance is for those
00:21:53.24\00:21:57.65
who others can't control.
00:21:57.68\00:22:01.22
What do I mean by that?
00:22:01.25\00:22:02.58
That's kind of an interesting,
00:22:02.62\00:22:03.95
how can deliverance be for those
00:22:03.99\00:22:05.82
who others can't control?
00:22:05.85\00:22:07.66
Now did people want
to control the demoniac?
00:22:07.69\00:22:10.66
It's very clear, they
would not have bound him
00:22:10.69\00:22:13.09
with chains unless
they were afraid of him.
00:22:13.13\00:22:15.43
And less, they wanted
to keep him restrained,
00:22:15.46\00:22:18.67
unless they didn't want him
to break away and hurt them.
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.70
And yet other
people tried to control him
00:22:21.74\00:22:25.77
and he was uncontrollable.
00:22:25.81\00:22:27.28
He was a wild man,
he was uncontrollable.
00:22:27.31\00:22:30.15
And yet,
deliverance was even for him.
00:22:30.18\00:22:33.28
You could say, well, if
other people couldn't do it,
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.42
how could Jesus
bring him deliverance?
00:22:35.45\00:22:37.22
Jesus is the master of the sea.
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.45
Jesus is the master of men.
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.26
Jesus is the master of demons.
00:22:41.29\00:22:44.13
And He can deliver
where other methods fail.
00:22:44.16\00:22:48.83
Have you tried other methods?
00:22:48.86\00:22:50.57
Have you tried school or tried
church or tried discipline?
00:22:50.60\00:22:54.60
Are you a parent
00:22:54.64\00:22:55.97
and you're looking at
your children and say,
00:22:56.00\00:22:57.77
"But I want them
to walk in obedience,
00:22:57.81\00:23:00.24
I want them to follow Jesus.
00:23:00.28\00:23:02.44
But yet, it seems
like all the controls
00:23:02.48\00:23:05.08
I put on aren't working,
00:23:05.11\00:23:06.72
and they are out of control."
00:23:06.75\00:23:09.35
Are you an adult and you think,
00:23:09.38\00:23:10.92
but I want these 12 step groups,
00:23:10.95\00:23:13.29
I am not knocking 12 step groups
00:23:13.32\00:23:15.02
because I believe
there's a lot of healing
00:23:15.06\00:23:16.73
and help and
wholeness to be found in that.
00:23:16.76\00:23:19.06
Yet at the same time,
00:23:19.09\00:23:20.83
there comes a
certain point where we say
00:23:20.86\00:23:22.46
all these outside things
that we put on ourselves,
00:23:22.50\00:23:25.83
they're not really helping,
00:23:25.87\00:23:27.20
and I need deliverance.
00:23:27.24\00:23:29.20
I want deliverance.
00:23:29.24\00:23:31.51
Deliverance is for those
who other methods have tried.
00:23:31.54\00:23:34.88
Other people have
tried and they have failed.
00:23:34.91\00:23:37.78
Deliverance is for you.
00:23:37.81\00:23:40.22
The next verse.
00:23:40.25\00:23:42.55
Before we get to
that, in the same section,
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.49
we're jumping over to Mark,
00:23:44.52\00:23:46.39
Mark Chapter 5.
00:23:46.42\00:23:47.76
Remember, the
story is told in Matthew,
00:23:47.79\00:23:49.12
Mark and Luke, and I
like this particular instance
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.69
that Mark brings
out that Luke does not.
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.86
So let's go to Mark 5.
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.23
This is our takeaway number six,
00:23:55.26\00:23:56.67
but we find it in Mark.
00:23:56.70\00:23:58.03
Mark 5:5, "And
always, night and day,
00:23:58.07\00:24:02.77
he was in the
mountains and the tombs,
00:24:02.80\00:24:05.94
crying out and
cutting himself with stones."
00:24:05.97\00:24:11.68
That word cutting in
the Greek means to cut,
00:24:11.71\00:24:14.48
to gash, to mangle,
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.92
so he wasn't just
lightly cutting himself,
00:24:16.95\00:24:19.82
he was cutting himself
deeply with the stones.
00:24:19.85\00:24:24.59
Takeaway number six,
00:24:24.63\00:24:26.06
deliverance is for
those who self harm.
00:24:26.09\00:24:29.93
Deliverance is for
those who self abuse.
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Deliverance is for
those who self inflict pain.
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She was a beautiful girl.
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Probably 16
upperclassman in school,
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blond hair like that,
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peaches and cream,
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perfect looking complexion,
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tall, lot of
gifts, lot of abilities.
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I was a brand new
teacher fresh out of college,
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my very first job,
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didn't know
anything about anything.
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And I was so busy,
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caught up in the rounds of
teaching for the first time,
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of grading papers,
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making lesson plans
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and trying to
maintain classroom control,
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all those new things
that you've never done before,
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you really don't know how to do.
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And I was so caught up in that,
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that I forgot,
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or I was too busy to take
time to ask about this girl.
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We'll call her Megan.
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That's not her real name.
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But I was too busy
to ask about Megan,
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to ask how her heart was,
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to ask was she okay.
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She smiled.
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She seemed okay.
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But I never took
time to even ask.
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And I'm ashamed
to tell you that,
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this was 20-25 years ago.
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And I still remember it
as if it were yesterday.
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Several months went by
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and we took the
students on a getaway.
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It was a
boarding school, academy.
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We took them on a
getaway for the weekend.
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It was one of those
weekend retreats at this cabin.
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And we got together
and did all this stuff
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for community and team
building within the school.
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And I'll never forget,
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Megan came to me and she said,
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.28
"Miss Jill, can I talk to you?"
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And I said, "Oh, sure,
I'd love to talk to you."
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And we sat down on the bed.
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And for the first time
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I remember she
looked at me in the eyes.
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And for the first
time I was really amazed
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at the pain in her eyes.
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I'd known her for months.
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And I'd never
even noticed and it
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kind of caught my breath.
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And I remember thinking,
has she always had this pain?
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Have I never even
noticed that pain before?
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And I said,
"Megan, I'm so sorry,"
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because the pain
was evident on her face.
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She said, "No,
no, no, Miss Jill,
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you don't understand."
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And so she began,
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she was wearing a
long sleeve shirt.
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And she unbuttoned it
and she began to roll it up.
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And just at that
moment, it hit me
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that I never seen her
in a short sleeve shirt.
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She always wore
sweaters even when it was warm,
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long sleeve shirts.
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And I thought that's odd,
00:27:14.60\00:27:15.93
why didn't I ever
notice that before.
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And she unrolled
her shirt and pull it up
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and I'll never
forget on her forearm
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she'd been cutting.
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You could see the
scratches in her arm
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and the dried
blood across her arm.
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But what she had done
was not just random slashes
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in her skin.
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She had cut four
letters into her forearm.
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And they spelled help,
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H-E-L-P.
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And I remember, I sat there.
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And I thought,
Jill, you've been too busy
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to see the pain in this girl,
00:27:54.67\00:27:57.77
to see that she was
literally crying out for help,
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cutting herself.
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And yet you
never saw that before,
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and you never
reached out before.
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This man had been in
the mountains in the tombs,
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cutting himself with stones.
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Deliverance is especially
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for those who self harm.
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Deliverance is for the
bulimic, and the anorexic,
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and the cutter,
and the drug addict,
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and the drug
dealer, and the alcoholic,
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and the prostitute.
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And for those who are suicidal,
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deliverance is
especially for you.
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John 6:37, I
love this scripture.
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"Jesus says,
'Whoever comes to me,
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I will never cast out.'"
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You might be
saying but I'm afraid
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I'm going to be cast out,
00:28:51.39\00:28:52.86
but He doesn't
know what I've done.
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Of course, He
knows what you've done.
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Of course, He
knows all about you.
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He created you.
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He made you, He
wants to redeem you.
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He knows that
you're trapped in bondage.
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He knows that
you're in addiction.
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He knows all about that.
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And yet He came to deliver you.
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It is time for deliverance.
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And not just Jesus came for you.
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But John 16:27, I
love this scripture,
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it says, "The
Father Himself loves you."
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So many times we think
the God of the Old Testament
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is this God of justice,
and this God of harshness,
00:29:26.26\00:29:28.70
and He's all about rules.
00:29:28.73\00:29:31.03
And the God of the New Testament
00:29:31.07\00:29:32.47
is all about love and
all about relationship.
00:29:32.50\00:29:34.80
But the truth is they
are one and the same God.
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Yes, God is a God of justice.
00:29:38.57\00:29:40.38
Yes, God is a God of judgment.
00:29:40.41\00:29:42.01
God is a God of fairness.
00:29:42.04\00:29:43.38
His law is holy, just and good.
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At the same time Jesus came,
00:29:45.41\00:29:47.85
so that you and
I can be set free
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and so that you
and I can be delivered
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and that we don't
have to walk in bondage.
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We don't have
to cut with stones,
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we don't have to
walk in that anymore.
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Takeaway number seven,
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deliverance is for
those who feel they are dead,
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or wish they were dead.
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Now you say, "Jill,
where did you get this?"
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Where did the demoniac live?
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He dwelt in the tombs,
00:30:14.11\00:30:16.24
he dwelt in the caves.
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This is where they
buried dead people.
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And yet Jesus
came to set them free.
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He dwells in those places.
00:30:27.19\00:30:28.79
Deliverance is
especially for those who feel
00:30:28.82\00:30:31.46
they are dead,
00:30:31.49\00:30:32.83
who feel like
you dwell in a cave,
00:30:32.86\00:30:35.06
and I wish my life were over.
00:30:35.10\00:30:38.27
Deliverance is
especially for you.
00:30:38.30\00:30:42.10
I love this
promise in Romans 4:17.
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This tells us the power
of the God that we serve,
00:30:45.11\00:30:48.44
and the power
of the Word of God.
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There is
tremendous power in this Word.
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Romans 4:17.
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This is, of course,
talking about Abraham.
00:30:56.25\00:30:59.25
But it says, God who
gives life to the dead,
00:30:59.29\00:31:01.49
meaning Abraham and
Sarah were past the age
00:31:01.52\00:31:03.66
where they could have
children, Sarah specifically.
00:31:03.69\00:31:06.16
And yet God gave
life to her dead womb,
00:31:06.19\00:31:10.43
you could say, her dead body.
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God who gives life to the dead,
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and calls those
things which do not exist,
00:31:14.77\00:31:17.67
as though they already did.
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So do you feel that
you are in a dead place?
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Do you feel like
there is no hope?
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Do you feel like
there is no deliverance?
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Deliverance is
especially for those who feel
00:31:28.42\00:31:32.09
they were dead or
wish they were dead.
00:31:32.12\00:31:36.32
Jesus came to give us life.
00:31:36.36\00:31:39.49
Jesus came to set us free.
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Jesus came to bring deliverance.
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Let's turn to
Ephesians, Ephesians Chapter 2.
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I love this passage,
because this is about
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how you and I are all
dead in trespasses and sins.
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And this is all of us.
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You could say, "But
I'm a pretty good person,
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and I'm a good Christian.
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And I'm not one of
those addicts, Jill.
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And I'm not one
of those prostitutes.
00:32:00.65\00:32:02.72
You know, I
don't cut and I don't,
00:32:02.75\00:32:04.55
I'm not a drug addict.
00:32:04.59\00:32:05.92
I don't walk in those ways."
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But we will get
in just a moment,
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to not the demoniac
but the other people,
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the townspeople, who
still were in bondage,
00:32:13.23\00:32:17.67
who still needed deliverance.
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You see,
deliverance is for all of us.
00:32:20.77\00:32:22.94
If we feel like we're
in the muck in the scum,
00:32:22.97\00:32:26.37
we might recognize
our need of Jesus more.
00:32:26.41\00:32:29.74
Yet, deliverance
truly is for all of us
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whether we recognize it or not,
00:32:34.28\00:32:35.75
whether our sins are
more sanitized than others,
00:32:35.78\00:32:40.56
deliverance is still for us.
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We're going to Ephesians 2.
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Ephesians 2, it says in verse 1,
00:32:43.39\00:32:45.93
"And you He made alive,
00:32:45.96\00:32:47.60
who were dead in
trespasses and sins,
00:32:47.63\00:32:50.97
in which you once
walked according to the course
00:32:51.00\00:32:53.07
of this world,
according to the prince
00:32:53.10\00:32:54.87
of the power of the air."
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That's all of us.
We all walked in sin.
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The Bible says, "All have sinned
00:32:58.17\00:32:59.51
and fallen short
of the glory of God."
00:32:59.54\00:33:02.51
"The spirit who now works
in the sons of disobedience,"
00:33:02.54\00:33:05.15
verse 3,
00:33:05.18\00:33:06.82
"among whom also we all
once conducted ourselves
00:33:06.85\00:33:10.72
in the lusts of our flesh,
00:33:10.75\00:33:13.76
fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind,
00:33:13.79\00:33:17.33
and were by
nature children of wrath,
00:33:17.36\00:33:19.26
just as the others."
00:33:19.29\00:33:20.73
But God, it does not stop there.
00:33:20.76\00:33:22.93
We do not have to
live in addiction.
00:33:22.96\00:33:26.30
We do not have to
live in that place
00:33:26.33\00:33:28.17
where we were dead
in trespasses and sins.
00:33:28.20\00:33:31.24
Verse 4, "But God,
00:33:31.27\00:33:33.34
who is rich in mercy,
00:33:33.38\00:33:35.44
because of His great
love with which He loved us,
00:33:35.48\00:33:37.78
even when we were dead
in trespasses and sins,
00:33:37.81\00:33:40.92
have made us alive
together with Christ,
00:33:40.95\00:33:44.79
by grace you have been saved,
00:33:44.82\00:33:47.02
and has raised us up together,
00:33:47.06\00:33:48.62
and made us sit
together in the heavenly places
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.53
in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come
00:33:50.56\00:33:54.30
He might show
the exceeding riches
00:33:54.33\00:33:55.80
of His grace in His kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus."
00:33:55.83\00:33:58.90
And then it goes on to
the passage we all know,
00:33:58.93\00:34:00.80
by grace we've been
saved through faith.
00:34:00.84\00:34:02.57
But I love that
preamble to that,
00:34:02.60\00:34:05.41
because it shows
that we were dead
00:34:05.44\00:34:06.94
in trespasses and sins.
00:34:06.98\00:34:08.31
Yes, we were lost.
00:34:08.34\00:34:09.71
We were without God.
00:34:09.74\00:34:11.51
We were without hope.
00:34:11.55\00:34:12.88
And yet, but God
demonstrated His love toward us
00:34:12.91\00:34:16.75
while we were yet
sinners, still, even now.
00:34:16.79\00:34:19.85
He came to pull us
out of that dead place
00:34:19.89\00:34:24.49
of trespasses and sins,
pull us out of the tombs,
00:34:24.53\00:34:27.53
and bring us deliverance.
00:34:27.56\00:34:30.43
We're going back
to Luke, Luke 8:30.
00:34:30.47\00:34:33.13
This is takeaway number eight.
00:34:33.17\00:34:36.40
"Jesus asked him saying,
00:34:36.44\00:34:38.24
'What is your name?'"
00:34:38.27\00:34:39.97
And he said, now, this
is the demons speaking,
00:34:40.01\00:34:42.84
"'Legion,' because many
demons had entered him.'"
00:34:42.88\00:34:47.62
Takeaway number eight,
00:34:47.65\00:34:49.28
deliverance is for
those who are overwhelmed
00:34:49.32\00:34:53.25
or controlled.
00:34:53.29\00:34:56.06
I don't know about you,
but I cannot even imagine
00:34:56.09\00:34:58.86
being controlled
by a legion of demons,
00:34:58.89\00:35:00.80
not just one demon but a legion.
00:35:00.83\00:35:03.00
You know, a legion
was the largest unit
00:35:03.03\00:35:05.50
of the Roman army,
00:35:05.53\00:35:06.87
and it consisted
of up to 6,000 men.
00:35:06.90\00:35:11.21
Now, we don't know
00:35:11.24\00:35:12.57
how many demons
resided inside this man.
00:35:12.61\00:35:15.91
But you could say there
was at least a thousand or two,
00:35:15.94\00:35:18.38
or maybe three, maybe four,
00:35:18.41\00:35:19.88
we don't know,
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.25
multitudes of
demons in one person.
00:35:21.28\00:35:25.42
Deliverance is especially
for those who are controlled,
00:35:25.45\00:35:29.66
or for those who are overwhelmed
00:35:29.69\00:35:32.86
with a seeming
multiplicity of issues.
00:35:32.89\00:35:35.86
When you're at
the end of your rope,
00:35:35.90\00:35:37.27
when you cannot carry on,
00:35:37.30\00:35:39.40
when you can't get the victory,
00:35:39.43\00:35:40.94
Jesus shows up.
00:35:40.97\00:35:43.10
Jesus encountered a
legion of Satan's army
00:35:43.14\00:35:46.21
there in the man
right there at the shore.
00:35:46.24\00:35:49.11
And he not only had
authority over them,
00:35:49.14\00:35:51.28
he put them to route
00:35:51.31\00:35:52.65
and we see that
in the next verse.
00:35:52.68\00:35:54.72
We're in Luke 8:31-32,
00:35:54.75\00:35:57.65
"And they begged
him," this is the demons,
00:35:57.69\00:36:00.46
"that he would not command
them to go out into the abyss.
00:36:00.49\00:36:04.73
Now a herd of many swine was
feeding there on the mountain.
00:36:04.76\00:36:08.10
So they begged Him
He would permit them
00:36:08.13\00:36:10.07
to enter into them.
00:36:10.10\00:36:12.60
And He permitted them."
00:36:12.63\00:36:13.97
So what did the demons say?
00:36:14.00\00:36:15.34
Don't just cast us out,
00:36:15.37\00:36:16.71
don't send us
out of the country,
00:36:16.74\00:36:18.07
don't send us into the abyss.
00:36:18.11\00:36:19.44
We want to go into the swine.
00:36:19.47\00:36:20.81
They're right over here,
00:36:20.84\00:36:22.18
that's where we want to go.
00:36:22.21\00:36:24.61
And amazingly, what does it say?
00:36:24.65\00:36:27.62
He permitted them.
00:36:27.65\00:36:28.98
Jesus allowed it.
00:36:29.02\00:36:31.29
Takeaway number nine,
00:36:31.32\00:36:32.75
deliverance does
not always happen
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.39
the way you and I expect.
00:36:34.42\00:36:38.06
You know, if I were
doing this, and I mean this,
00:36:38.09\00:36:42.06
not in a sacrilegious way.
00:36:42.10\00:36:43.57
But if you were doing
this, say you were Jesus.
00:36:43.60\00:36:46.13
And I don't mean
that disrespectfully.
00:36:46.17\00:36:48.54
But would you say, okay, yeah,
00:36:48.57\00:36:50.24
we'll have the
demons come out of this man
00:36:50.27\00:36:51.87
and go into a
whole bunch of pigs,
00:36:51.91\00:36:53.51
I wouldn't have expected that.
00:36:53.54\00:36:55.11
That is not what you
would naturally think
00:36:55.14\00:36:57.91
would have happened.
00:36:57.95\00:36:59.65
Deliverance does
not always happen
00:36:59.68\00:37:01.48
in the way that we expect.
00:37:01.52\00:37:03.39
We kind of put God in a box.
00:37:03.42\00:37:04.75
And we think He has to
function in a certain way,
00:37:04.79\00:37:07.92
He has to function
in a certain capacity.
00:37:07.96\00:37:10.49
And this is, this is
how God's gonna heal me.
00:37:10.53\00:37:13.13
This is how
God's gonna deliver me.
00:37:13.16\00:37:15.33
This is what it is
going to look like.
00:37:15.36\00:37:17.73
But you know what?
00:37:17.77\00:37:19.10
When Jesus shows up,
00:37:19.13\00:37:20.47
deliverance does not happen
00:37:20.50\00:37:23.20
always the way that we expect.
00:37:23.24\00:37:27.08
Now, this is very
interesting to me.
00:37:27.11\00:37:28.48
When I study this passage,
00:37:28.51\00:37:30.18
you would think that
Jesus would answer the request
00:37:30.21\00:37:33.52
of His eager
follower, would you not?
00:37:33.55\00:37:35.22
Because later, what
does the demoniac say?
00:37:35.25\00:37:37.02
Jesus, let me go with you.
00:37:37.05\00:37:39.22
So you would think Jesus
would answer that request.
00:37:39.25\00:37:43.02
You would think He would
deny the request of the demons
00:37:43.06\00:37:46.56
and He would deny the
request of the unbelievers.
00:37:46.59\00:37:49.96
And yet, that's not
what we see in the story.
00:37:50.00\00:37:52.73
Jesus agrees to the
request of the demons.
00:37:52.77\00:37:57.01
Jesus agrees to the
appeal from the townspeople,
00:37:57.04\00:38:00.84
from the unbelievers.
00:38:00.88\00:38:02.44
Later, we'll see, they
say, leave our country,
00:38:02.48\00:38:05.48
and He agrees to that.
00:38:05.51\00:38:07.02
And yet Jesus denies
the request of the man
00:38:07.05\00:38:10.09
who says, "Please,
please just let me go with you."
00:38:10.12\00:38:14.12
And Jesus says, "No."
00:38:14.16\00:38:16.62
It's very interesting to me,
00:38:16.66\00:38:18.73
Jesus granted the
appeal of the demons, why?
00:38:18.76\00:38:22.76
I think because their
time of final judgment
00:38:22.80\00:38:25.07
and destruction was
still in the future.
00:38:25.10\00:38:27.84
We know they will be
cast into the lake of fire
00:38:27.87\00:38:30.87
at the end, not to burn forever,
00:38:30.91\00:38:32.54
but to be burned up.
00:38:32.57\00:38:34.51
But that time of
judgment has not come yet.
00:38:34.54\00:38:36.98
Until that time comes,
00:38:37.01\00:38:39.21
Ephesians 6:12 tells us,
00:38:39.25\00:38:41.08
we're still going to wrestle.
00:38:41.12\00:38:42.75
We wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
00:38:42.78\00:38:46.32
but against
principalities, against powers,
00:38:46.35\00:38:48.92
against the rulers of
the darkness of this age,
00:38:48.96\00:38:52.23
against spiritual
hosts of wickedness
00:38:52.26\00:38:55.53
in heavenly places.
00:38:55.56\00:38:57.67
In other words,
00:38:57.70\00:38:59.50
we are still engaged
in the great controversy,
00:38:59.53\00:39:02.14
this battle
between good and evil
00:39:02.17\00:39:04.21
between Christ and Satan.
00:39:04.24\00:39:06.54
And demons are still
around and still real,
00:39:06.57\00:39:09.44
but our God has
victory over them.
00:39:09.48\00:39:14.18
Why did Jesus allow the
demons to enter into the swine?
00:39:14.22\00:39:18.39
Now, of course, we know
that swine are unclean animals,
00:39:18.42\00:39:21.76
and they entered into
these unclean animals.
00:39:21.79\00:39:26.39
I would say a couple of reasons.
00:39:26.43\00:39:27.76
Now, this is
Jill's interpretation,
00:39:27.80\00:39:29.20
you might have
something different.
00:39:29.23\00:39:30.87
I think it really got
the townspeople attention.
00:39:30.90\00:39:33.80
That was their livelihood,
00:39:33.84\00:39:35.57
their pig
farming, you could say,
00:39:35.60\00:39:38.34
was very important
to the community there.
00:39:38.37\00:39:40.48
And when they ran off the cliff,
00:39:40.51\00:39:41.91
which we'll see
in just a moment,
00:39:41.94\00:39:44.31
that had a
profound effect on the town.
00:39:44.35\00:39:47.68
That coupled with
the demoniac's testimony
00:39:47.72\00:39:52.29
made a big difference
in many of the townspeople,
00:39:52.32\00:39:55.69
later making a choice when
00:39:55.72\00:39:57.29
we see Jesus coming
back to the community,
00:39:57.33\00:40:00.76
making a choice to accept Jesus.
00:40:00.80\00:40:04.50
People are more
important than any livelihood.
00:40:04.53\00:40:09.27
Now Jesus granted the
appeal of the townspeople,
00:40:09.30\00:40:11.54
which is really
fascinating, too.
00:40:11.57\00:40:13.24
And He granted that
00:40:13.27\00:40:14.94
because He knew that
He never forces people.
00:40:14.98\00:40:20.58
You know, they
said, "We don't want you."
00:40:20.62\00:40:22.35
And now was Jesus
gonna say, "But yes, you do.
00:40:22.38\00:40:24.52
You need to come." No.
00:40:24.55\00:40:25.89
If they said,
"We don't want You,
00:40:25.92\00:40:28.46
Jesus, leave, leave our country.
00:40:28.49\00:40:30.89
We don't want
anything to do with You."
00:40:30.93\00:40:32.63
What's He gonna say?
00:40:32.66\00:40:34.00
I will respect your free choice.
00:40:34.03\00:40:38.07
We also see Jesus
denying the request
00:40:38.10\00:40:40.64
of the healed freed man,
00:40:40.67\00:40:42.44
the man who used
to be a demoniac,
00:40:42.47\00:40:43.94
who's now healed.
00:40:43.97\00:40:45.87
But he knew
00:40:45.91\00:40:47.31
that this man would be a witness
00:40:47.34\00:40:52.21
to what Jesus has done,
00:40:52.25\00:40:53.58
and he would
testify to other people
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.55
of the deliverance
that he had experienced
00:40:55.58\00:40:59.15
through Jesus.
00:40:59.19\00:41:00.52
So let's read the next verse.
00:41:00.56\00:41:01.89
We're in Luke 8:33-34,
00:41:01.92\00:41:03.69
"Then the demons
went out of the man
00:41:03.73\00:41:05.86
and entered the swine,
00:41:05.89\00:41:07.30
and the herd ran
violently down the steep place
00:41:07.33\00:41:10.37
into the lake and they drowned.
00:41:10.40\00:41:12.53
When those who fed them
00:41:12.57\00:41:14.90
saw what had happened,
00:41:14.94\00:41:17.17
they fled and
told it in the city
00:41:17.21\00:41:19.74
and in the country."
00:41:19.77\00:41:21.11
So you can just imagine
these caretakers of the swine
00:41:21.14\00:41:23.08
are kind of watching over here,
00:41:23.11\00:41:25.21
what's happening, and
they see this demoniac,
00:41:25.25\00:41:28.45
who's raging and mad,
00:41:28.48\00:41:30.25
and yet, all of a
sudden, he becomes calm,
00:41:30.29\00:41:32.65
and their pigs go mad,
00:41:32.69\00:41:34.02
and they run off the
herd and there's nothing
00:41:34.06\00:41:35.79
the caretakers
can do to stop it.
00:41:35.82\00:41:37.66
So they run back
to the city and say,
00:41:37.69\00:41:39.26
"Wait a minute, we
just lost our livelihood.
00:41:39.29\00:41:41.06
Look at what has happened."
00:41:41.10\00:41:43.26
Now, if you read Mark's account,
00:41:43.30\00:41:44.93
we learned that
there was 2000 pigs.
00:41:44.97\00:41:46.67
That's a lot of pigs.
00:41:46.70\00:41:48.04
Two thousand ran off
the cliff and into the sea.
00:41:48.07\00:41:51.27
Takeaway number 10,
00:41:51.31\00:41:53.64
deliverance is
never kept a secret.
00:41:53.68\00:41:56.95
What happened to this
man was about to be told
00:41:56.98\00:41:59.58
to the entire countryside.
00:41:59.61\00:42:01.95
You know Romans
1:16, I love this verse,
00:42:01.98\00:42:04.15
"I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ,
00:42:04.19\00:42:07.12
for it is the
power of God to salvation
00:42:07.16\00:42:09.89
for everyone who believes,
00:42:09.92\00:42:12.69
for the Jew first
and also for the Greek."
00:42:12.73\00:42:17.17
I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ.
00:42:17.20\00:42:20.57
Deliverance is
never kept a secret.
00:42:20.60\00:42:23.10
When Jesus has set you free,
00:42:23.14\00:42:25.47
you want to go and tell.
00:42:25.51\00:42:27.64
And when Jesus sets you free,
00:42:27.68\00:42:30.38
other people see that,
00:42:30.41\00:42:33.08
other people experience that.
00:42:33.11\00:42:34.88
Remember in Luke
Chapter 5, we are in Luke 8.
00:42:34.92\00:42:37.05
But if you jump
back a couple chapters,
00:42:37.09\00:42:39.05
and you look at Luke Chapter 5,
00:42:39.09\00:42:40.42
we see the healing of a leper.
00:42:40.46\00:42:41.79
And what did
Jesus tell this man?
00:42:41.82\00:42:45.26
Don't tell anybody
that I have just healed you.
00:42:45.29\00:42:50.47
We see that in Luke 5:15,
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.60
when the report, but
the man didn't keep quiet,
00:42:52.63\00:42:55.50
because in Luke 5:15,
00:42:55.54\00:42:56.87
we see, "When the
report went around
00:42:56.91\00:42:58.67
concerning Him all the more,
00:42:58.71\00:43:02.08
great multitudes came together
to hear and to be healed by Him
00:43:02.11\00:43:06.88
of their infirmities."
00:43:06.92\00:43:08.68
So the leper didn't
keep his mouth shut.
00:43:08.72\00:43:10.42
And he told and then the
report went out tremendously
00:43:10.45\00:43:13.56
and more people
came forward to see
00:43:13.59\00:43:16.56
because deliverance
is never kept a secret.
00:43:16.59\00:43:20.20
When Jesus has
healed you, others know.
00:43:20.23\00:43:22.86
We see the healing of the
leper in Luke 8 and then later,
00:43:22.90\00:43:26.17
we see when the
healing of the paralytic,
00:43:26.20\00:43:28.10
there were so many people,
00:43:28.14\00:43:29.54
because Jesus' fame had
gone abroad around Galilee.
00:43:29.57\00:43:33.41
There were so many
people who had heard about Jesus
00:43:33.44\00:43:37.51
who wanted to see,
00:43:37.55\00:43:38.88
who wanted to be touched,
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.25
who wanted to be healed,
00:43:40.28\00:43:41.62
who wanted to be delivered,
00:43:41.65\00:43:43.28
that they could not
even fit in the house
00:43:43.32\00:43:45.32
and they had to
remember open up the roof
00:43:45.35\00:43:47.16
and let the paralytic
down through the roof.
00:43:47.19\00:43:49.92
The woman who was
caught in adultery,
00:43:49.96\00:43:51.83
all the religious leaders knew
00:43:51.86\00:43:54.76
that Jesus was setting her free.
00:43:54.80\00:43:57.63
Lazarus, when
he was resurrected,
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.30
what happened when
he was resurrected?
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.87
As a result, the
fame of that miracle
00:44:01.90\00:44:04.77
of His resurrection was so great
00:44:04.81\00:44:06.84
that Jesus was
later arrested and tried.
00:44:06.88\00:44:09.38
Deliverance is
never kept a secret.
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.08
Let's read the next two verses.
00:44:13.11\00:44:14.45
We're in Luke 8:35-36.
00:44:14.48\00:44:16.48
Then they went out,
this is the townspeople
00:44:16.52\00:44:18.39
who heard about the deliverance
00:44:18.42\00:44:19.75
and the pigs
going off the cliff.
00:44:19.79\00:44:21.92
"They went out to
see what had happened,
00:44:21.96\00:44:23.29
they came to
Jesus, and found the man
00:44:23.32\00:44:25.09
from whom the
demons had departed."
00:44:25.13\00:44:26.73
I love this.
00:44:26.76\00:44:28.10
This is my favorite
part of the whole story.
00:44:28.13\00:44:29.90
What was the man doing?
00:44:29.93\00:44:31.27
Cutting himself.
00:44:31.30\00:44:32.63
Was he in the tombs?
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.00
Was he naked?
00:44:34.04\00:44:35.37
Was he based in shame?
00:44:35.40\00:44:36.84
Or did he wish he were dead?
00:44:36.87\00:44:38.57
Was he still self inflicting
abuse, self harming himself?
00:44:38.61\00:44:42.61
No, no, no.
00:44:42.64\00:44:43.98
"He was sitting
at the feet of Jesus,
00:44:44.01\00:44:46.38
clothed and in his right mind.
00:44:46.41\00:44:51.25
And they were afraid.
00:44:51.29\00:44:54.09
They also who had seen
it told them by what means
00:44:54.12\00:44:56.79
he who had been
demon-possessed was healed."
00:44:56.83\00:44:59.33
Takeaway number 11,
00:44:59.36\00:45:00.73
deliverance always changes us.
00:45:00.76\00:45:04.43
The demon-possessed
man was now whole.
00:45:04.47\00:45:06.50
He was sitting, he was clothed.
00:45:06.53\00:45:08.50
He was in his right mind.
00:45:08.54\00:45:10.21
You see, when God
gets a hold of us,
00:45:10.24\00:45:11.87
when God delivers me,
00:45:11.91\00:45:13.24
when God delivers
you, what happens?
00:45:13.27\00:45:16.28
He heals us physically.
00:45:16.31\00:45:17.71
He heals us mentally.
00:45:17.75\00:45:19.55
He heals us
emotionally. Most important,
00:45:19.58\00:45:22.92
He heals us spiritually.
00:45:22.95\00:45:25.05
That demon-possessed
man was now made whole.
00:45:25.09\00:45:29.32
Deliverance, it
always changes us.
00:45:29.36\00:45:33.43
I remember Monday
nights was our night
00:45:33.46\00:45:35.60
going in to give
Bible studies in the jail.
00:45:35.63\00:45:37.27
And I remember this
one particular woman.
00:45:37.30\00:45:39.37
We were talking about the change
00:45:39.40\00:45:40.74
that Jesus makes in our lives,
00:45:40.77\00:45:42.60
and how He can take
00:45:42.64\00:45:44.24
what once was
sick and stony heart.
00:45:44.27\00:45:49.14
What once we were
crawling in the mire,
00:45:49.18\00:45:51.51
in the muck of sin,
00:45:51.55\00:45:52.88
what once was
bound in addictions,
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.48
and He can set us free.
00:45:55.52\00:45:57.25
And I remember one
of the women there,
00:45:57.29\00:45:59.05
and she looked up, I
can't remember her name.
00:45:59.09\00:46:00.72
It's been several
years, but she looked up at me
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.59
and she said,
"Jesus has set me free,
00:46:02.62\00:46:05.39
and He has changed me."
00:46:05.43\00:46:08.40
But I wish you all could see in.
00:46:08.43\00:46:10.80
And the truth was,
00:46:10.83\00:46:12.17
we told her it is so evident,
00:46:12.20\00:46:13.80
it is so apparent
that Jesus has set you free
00:46:13.84\00:46:17.54
and that Jesus has changed you.
00:46:17.57\00:46:19.37
Because I remember
00:46:19.41\00:46:20.74
when she would come
into Bible study before,
00:46:20.78\00:46:23.18
she was afraid,
00:46:23.21\00:46:24.55
and she would
cower in the corner,
00:46:24.58\00:46:26.18
and her face was dark.
00:46:26.21\00:46:27.95
You know how people's face looks
00:46:27.98\00:46:29.52
when they're clouded by sin?
00:46:29.55\00:46:31.35
Their eyes look
when there's guilt
00:46:31.39\00:46:33.99
and condemnation and shame.
00:46:34.02\00:46:36.32
You know how people look
after years of use and abuse.
00:46:36.36\00:46:40.80
That's how she used to look,
00:46:40.83\00:46:42.53
but she didn't
look that way anymore.
00:46:42.56\00:46:44.33
When you looked at
her face, there was joy
00:46:44.37\00:46:46.50
and there was
peace on her countenance
00:46:46.53\00:46:48.70
and she smiled.
00:46:48.74\00:46:50.07
There was assurance in her eyes.
00:46:50.11\00:46:53.31
You know why?
00:46:53.34\00:46:54.91
Because
deliverance always changes us.
00:46:54.94\00:46:58.68
Now, she didn't know
that she'd been changed.
00:46:58.71\00:47:01.08
She didn't see
that she'd been changed,
00:47:01.12\00:47:03.59
but we saw,
00:47:03.62\00:47:04.95
the evidence was apparent
that she had been changed.
00:47:04.99\00:47:10.29
Takeaway number 12,
00:47:10.33\00:47:11.66
we also get this from
the same verses we just read.
00:47:11.69\00:47:13.40
Takeaway number 12,
00:47:13.43\00:47:14.76
deliverance
causes fear in others.
00:47:14.80\00:47:16.70
It was very interesting to me
00:47:16.73\00:47:18.07
'cause here's the demoniac
00:47:18.10\00:47:19.43
sitting clothed
in his right mind.
00:47:19.47\00:47:23.37
And what were the townspeople?
00:47:23.41\00:47:25.17
It said, they were afraid.
00:47:25.21\00:47:30.05
Deliverance causes
fear in others, not always,
00:47:30.08\00:47:34.72
but it can cause fear in others.
00:47:34.75\00:47:38.19
Why were they afraid?
00:47:38.22\00:47:39.92
You know, we really
like the status quo.
00:47:39.95\00:47:41.52
Have you noticed that?
00:47:41.56\00:47:43.02
We like no changes.
00:47:43.06\00:47:45.79
Why were they afraid?
00:47:45.83\00:47:47.16
Maybe they were
afraid because they just lost
00:47:47.20\00:47:48.53
their livelihood, the
2000 pigs went off the cliff.
00:47:48.56\00:47:51.47
Maybe they were afraid
because they'd never seen
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.23
anyone before who had
power to control demons.
00:47:53.27\00:47:57.14
Maybe they were afraid
00:47:57.17\00:47:58.74
because they thought
Jesus was coming to make changes
00:47:58.77\00:48:00.74
in their lives and
they weren't ready for that.
00:48:00.78\00:48:04.81
You know, anytime
Jesus enters the room,
00:48:04.85\00:48:09.38
anytime Jesus
enters someone's life,
00:48:09.42\00:48:13.66
you and I are forced
with the decision as well.
00:48:13.69\00:48:16.39
What are we
going to do with Jesus?
00:48:16.42\00:48:18.03
Are we going to
make the same decision
00:48:18.06\00:48:20.16
that the demoniac
made to be healed,
00:48:20.20\00:48:22.20
to be
transformed, to be set free,
00:48:22.23\00:48:24.37
to be delivered?
00:48:24.40\00:48:26.07
Are we going to
continue in our own sin?
00:48:26.10\00:48:30.07
1 Corinthians 1:23-24.
00:48:30.11\00:48:33.21
Paul's talking here, he says,
00:48:33.24\00:48:34.94
"We preach Christ crucified,
00:48:34.98\00:48:38.11
to the Jews as a
stumbling block."
00:48:38.15\00:48:39.71
Why was it a stumbling block?
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.08
Because they were
taught from Deuteronomy,
00:48:41.12\00:48:42.52
cursed is anyone
who hangs on a tree.
00:48:42.55\00:48:45.45
So they thought
Jesus was under a curse,
00:48:45.49\00:48:47.52
and he was to be blasphemed.
00:48:47.56\00:48:48.92
And they had an issue with that.
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.29
"To the Jews a stumbling block,
00:48:51.33\00:48:52.66
it was difficult for them
to accept Jesus as the Messiah,
00:48:52.69\00:48:56.63
to the Greeks foolishness,
00:48:56.67\00:48:59.40
but to those who are
called both Jews and Greeks,
00:48:59.43\00:49:02.04
Christ is the power of
God and the wisdom of God."
00:49:02.07\00:49:06.68
You see Galatians 4:4,
00:49:06.71\00:49:08.04
"When the
fullness of time was come,
00:49:08.08\00:49:10.95
God sent forth his
Son, born of a woman,
00:49:10.98\00:49:14.15
born under the
law to redeem those,
00:49:14.18\00:49:16.82
that's you and I
who are under the law."
00:49:16.85\00:49:19.25
You see, it's
time for deliverance.
00:49:19.29\00:49:21.56
It's time for a
deliverer, that deliverer,
00:49:21.59\00:49:25.49
that person is
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:49:25.53\00:49:28.16
So let's read our next
verse, we're in Luke 8:37.
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.60
We're almost
done with the story.
00:49:30.63\00:49:32.13
Luke 8:37,
00:49:32.17\00:49:34.04
"Then the whole multitude
of the surrounding region
00:49:34.07\00:49:36.87
of the Gadarenes asked Him,
00:49:36.91\00:49:38.64
that's Jesus, to
depart from them,
00:49:38.67\00:49:41.01
for they were
seized with great fear.
00:49:41.04\00:49:44.58
And He got into
the boat and returned."
00:49:44.61\00:49:48.15
Takeaway number 13,
00:49:48.18\00:49:50.29
deliverance of one
reveals the dominion of others.
00:49:50.32\00:49:56.26
Now what do I mean by that?
00:49:56.29\00:49:57.69
The demoniac was set free,
00:49:57.73\00:49:59.29
the demoniac was delivered.
00:49:59.33\00:50:01.83
His deliverance,
00:50:01.86\00:50:03.47
all of a sudden
revealed that the townspeople,
00:50:03.50\00:50:06.30
they needed deliverance too.
00:50:06.33\00:50:08.27
They needed Jesus too.
00:50:08.30\00:50:09.67
Now their sin
did not look the same
00:50:09.70\00:50:12.74
as that of the demoniac.
00:50:12.77\00:50:14.98
The demoniac was
cutting and he lived in tombs,
00:50:15.01\00:50:17.35
and he had all these
problems, and he broke chains,
00:50:17.38\00:50:20.18
and he was a wild, crazy person.
00:50:20.22\00:50:22.25
And you would say, oh,
clearly, he's a sinner.
00:50:22.28\00:50:23.82
Clearly, he's lost in addiction.
00:50:23.85\00:50:25.69
And the townspeople
thought they were respectable,
00:50:25.72\00:50:27.96
and they thought that they
were maybe even good Christians.
00:50:27.99\00:50:32.49
And yet, the
demoniac's deliverance
00:50:32.53\00:50:36.53
revealed that these
townspeople were still,
00:50:36.56\00:50:40.67
they themselves were
under the dominion of Satan.
00:50:40.70\00:50:45.54
The demon-possessed man
clearly needed deliverance,
00:50:45.57\00:50:48.01
but the people from his village
00:50:48.04\00:50:49.38
they needed
deliverance just as much.
00:50:49.41\00:50:52.35
Did you notice this was in Mark,
00:50:52.38\00:50:53.92
you can find that in Mark 5:10.
00:50:53.95\00:50:56.79
This is a demon
speaking to Jesus.
00:50:56.82\00:50:58.95
They begged Him earnestly,
00:50:58.99\00:51:00.46
Jesus, that He would not
send them out of the country.
00:51:00.49\00:51:03.09
So that tells me
00:51:03.12\00:51:04.66
that the demons were
at home in that country.
00:51:04.69\00:51:07.36
They weren't just at
home in the demoniac.
00:51:07.40\00:51:09.60
They were at
home in the country,
00:51:09.63\00:51:11.03
because when they left
the demoniac, they said,
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.50
"Please don't send
us out of the country,"
00:51:12.53\00:51:14.00
because they were at home.
00:51:14.04\00:51:15.37
They had settled down
and taken up residence.
00:51:15.40\00:51:18.24
The people, the
townspeople were more concerned
00:51:18.27\00:51:21.61
about the loss of the swine
00:51:21.64\00:51:23.91
than about the
healing of the demoniac.
00:51:23.95\00:51:26.82
They begged Jesus to leave.
00:51:26.85\00:51:28.88
Now clearly, they
were afraid of legion.
00:51:28.92\00:51:30.45
They were afraid of the demons
00:51:30.49\00:51:31.82
because they tried to bind the
man in with chains and fetters,
00:51:31.85\00:51:35.32
and, of course, it didn't work,
00:51:35.36\00:51:36.69
but they were
afraid of the man and yet,
00:51:36.73\00:51:39.43
they were even
more afraid of Jesus.
00:51:39.46\00:51:41.76
They were afraid of the demon,
00:51:41.80\00:51:43.13
but they were more
afraid of Jesus and they said,
00:51:43.16\00:51:45.13
"Please get out.
00:51:45.17\00:51:46.80
Leave our country."
00:51:46.84\00:51:49.37
The last two
verses, Luke 8:38-39,
00:51:49.40\00:51:54.14
"Now the man
from whom the demons
00:51:54.18\00:51:55.71
had departed begged Him."
00:51:55.74\00:51:57.38
He begged Jesus,
please I want to be with You.
00:51:57.41\00:52:01.62
But Jesus sent him away, why?
00:52:01.65\00:52:05.19
Saying, in verse 39,
00:52:05.22\00:52:07.09
"'Return to your own house,
00:52:07.12\00:52:08.99
and tell what great
things God has done for you.'
00:52:09.02\00:52:12.93
And he went his way
00:52:12.96\00:52:14.30
and proclaimed
throughout the whole city
00:52:14.33\00:52:15.73
what great things
Jesus had done for him.'"
00:52:15.76\00:52:18.03
Now Mark, I like
how Mark expresses it,
00:52:18.07\00:52:20.14
Mark 5, halfway
through verse 19.
00:52:20.17\00:52:23.04
It says, "Go home
to your friends..."
00:52:23.07\00:52:24.64
This is Jesus
speaking to the demoniac again.
00:52:24.67\00:52:26.98
"Go home to your friends,
tell them what great things
00:52:27.01\00:52:29.34
the Lord has done
for you, and how He had,"
00:52:29.38\00:52:32.21
what's the word?
00:52:32.25\00:52:33.58
"Compassion on you."
00:52:33.62\00:52:35.28
I love that.
00:52:35.32\00:52:36.65
The compassion of our
God, the love of our God,
00:52:36.69\00:52:39.45
Jesus who said, "I
have compassion on you.
00:52:39.49\00:52:42.09
Yes, you're lost in sin,
00:52:42.12\00:52:43.56
yes, you're lost in addiction,
00:52:43.59\00:52:44.96
but I want to deliver you."
00:52:44.99\00:52:47.13
And he departed.
00:52:47.16\00:52:48.50
This is the
demoniac, who's now healed,
00:52:48.53\00:52:50.57
who's now delivered.
00:52:50.60\00:52:52.63
"He departed and began
to proclaim in Decapolis
00:52:52.67\00:52:56.00
all that Jesus had done
for him, and they marveled."
00:52:56.04\00:53:00.28
Now, Decapolis comes from
two words Deca meaning 10,
00:53:00.31\00:53:03.55
Polis meaning city.
00:53:03.58\00:53:04.91
So this is 10 Gentile
cities in that region,
00:53:04.95\00:53:08.62
on the eastern side of the shore
00:53:08.65\00:53:10.82
of the Sea of Galilee.
00:53:10.85\00:53:12.89
And this man,
00:53:12.92\00:53:14.26
this man who had once
been bound in addiction,
00:53:14.29\00:53:16.56
this man who needed deliverance,
00:53:16.59\00:53:18.29
who had experienced deliverance,
00:53:18.33\00:53:20.76
went to the 10
surrounding Gentile cities
00:53:20.80\00:53:23.93
telling them what?
00:53:23.97\00:53:25.30
What Jesus had done for him.
00:53:25.33\00:53:28.34
Our last and final takeaway.
00:53:28.37\00:53:30.37
Takeaway number 14,
00:53:30.41\00:53:32.87
delivered people
share deliverance.
00:53:32.91\00:53:37.45
That's what the demoniac did.
00:53:37.48\00:53:39.01
He was delivered,
00:53:39.05\00:53:40.95
and then he shared that
deliverance with someone else.
00:53:40.98\00:53:46.55
You and I can only share
what we have experienced.
00:53:46.59\00:53:51.69
The word martus,
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.06
we mentioned at the beginning,
I told you, we come back to it.
00:53:53.09\00:53:54.96
The word martus in the Greek is,
00:53:55.00\00:53:58.17
it's the word
witness in English,
00:53:58.20\00:54:00.37
and it's in Greek, it's martus.
00:54:00.40\00:54:03.14
But the word doesn't
just mean witness as you and I
00:54:03.17\00:54:05.47
would consider a witness.
00:54:05.51\00:54:06.91
It literally means an
eye or an ear witness.
00:54:06.94\00:54:12.68
In other words,
you and I are to share
00:54:12.71\00:54:15.42
what we've seen,
what we've heard,
00:54:15.45\00:54:18.35
what we've experienced
of the deliverance of Jesus.
00:54:18.39\00:54:23.02
Let's turn to 1 John,
00:54:23.06\00:54:24.39
this is our last scripture.
00:54:24.43\00:54:25.76
1 John Chapter 1.
00:54:25.79\00:54:28.00
I love this passage.
00:54:28.03\00:54:30.07
1 John Chapter 1.
00:54:30.10\00:54:31.43
Now, John, clearly
John, the beloved apostle,
00:54:31.47\00:54:34.60
disciple, he was an
eyewitness, and an ear witness.
00:54:34.64\00:54:39.04
He was a martus of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:54:39.07\00:54:42.18
because he walked and
talked to Jesus for three years
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.35
when He was on this earth.
00:54:44.38\00:54:45.78
We're in 1 John 1,
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.15
"That which was
from the beginning,
00:54:47.18\00:54:48.52
which we have heard..."
00:54:48.55\00:54:49.98
The Greek means to give
in the audience of, meaning,
00:54:50.02\00:54:52.65
he just didn't
hear it secondhand,
00:54:52.69\00:54:54.99
he didn't hear
about Jesus from a cousin
00:54:55.02\00:54:57.26
or from a
mother or someone else.
00:54:57.29\00:54:59.23
He actually was there
on the Sermon on the Mount.
00:54:59.26\00:55:02.33
He heard Jesus'
voice with his own ears,
00:55:02.36\00:55:05.70
he was there on the boat,
00:55:05.73\00:55:07.74
the Sea of
Galilee, when Jesus said,
00:55:07.77\00:55:09.70
"Peace, be still."
00:55:09.74\00:55:11.41
"He heard him,
00:55:11.44\00:55:12.91
which we have
seen with our eyes,
00:55:12.94\00:55:15.24
which we have looked upon
and our hands have handled."
00:55:15.28\00:55:17.88
Literally means
to verify by touch,
00:55:17.91\00:55:20.15
I touched Jesus, I felt Him,
00:55:20.18\00:55:22.08
I walked with Him,
I experienced Jesus.
00:55:22.12\00:55:25.75
Jump down to verse 3,
00:55:25.79\00:55:27.12
"That which we
have seen and heard
00:55:27.16\00:55:28.76
we declare to you,
00:55:28.79\00:55:30.56
that you also may
have fellowship with us,
00:55:30.59\00:55:33.83
and truly our
fellowship is with the Father
00:55:33.86\00:55:35.86
and with His Son Jesus Christ."
00:55:35.90\00:55:37.23
So what's John saying?
00:55:37.27\00:55:38.60
That which I've seen,
that which I've heard,
00:55:38.63\00:55:40.44
that which I've touched,
that which I have experienced,
00:55:40.47\00:55:44.04
that's what I'm
sharing with you.
00:55:44.07\00:55:45.97
Because delivered people,
00:55:46.01\00:55:47.64
they share deliverance.
00:55:47.68\00:55:49.84
What are those 14 takeaways?
00:55:49.88\00:55:52.38
Deliverance is for everyone.
00:55:52.41\00:55:54.92
It's for you.
00:55:54.95\00:55:56.28
Deliverance is for those
00:55:56.32\00:55:57.65
who have been bound the longest.
00:55:57.69\00:56:01.02
It's for those who
struggle with sin and shame.
00:56:01.06\00:56:04.49
It's for those who cannot even
express what's in their heart,
00:56:04.53\00:56:07.43
but yet so long for deliverance.
00:56:07.46\00:56:10.50
It's for those who other people
00:56:10.53\00:56:12.33
and other methods
have failed to control.
00:56:12.37\00:56:15.40
It's for those who self harm.
00:56:15.44\00:56:18.37
It's for those who
feel they are dead,
00:56:18.41\00:56:21.84
or wish they were dead.
00:56:21.88\00:56:23.41
It's for those
who are overwhelmed
00:56:23.45\00:56:25.25
or controlled.
00:56:25.28\00:56:26.61
It's for those
who need Him the most.
00:56:26.65\00:56:30.29
Deliverance does not
always happen the way we expect.
00:56:30.32\00:56:32.82
It is never kept a secret.
00:56:32.85\00:56:35.62
It always changes us
00:56:35.66\00:56:37.33
and impacts the
lives of those around us.
00:56:37.36\00:56:40.66
Deliverance of one reveals
dominion in other people,
00:56:40.70\00:56:45.23
and delivered
people share deliverance.
00:56:45.27\00:56:49.57
In 1947,
00:56:49.60\00:56:50.94
Robert Pierce went to China
00:56:50.97\00:56:53.01
and he was touched
by the widespread hunger
00:56:53.04\00:56:56.34
specifically in the
children that he saw there.
00:56:56.38\00:56:59.61
And he wrote in the
flyleaf of his Bible,
00:56:59.65\00:57:02.05
"Let my heart be broken
00:57:02.08\00:57:05.15
with the things that
break the heart of God."
00:57:05.19\00:57:09.02
So I want to ask you today,
00:57:09.06\00:57:11.13
it is time for deliverance.
00:57:11.16\00:57:14.46
Do you want to experience
deliverance in your life
00:57:14.50\00:57:17.53
and in your heart?
00:57:17.57\00:57:18.90
And do you want to
share that deliverance
00:57:18.93\00:57:23.17
with someone else?
00:57:23.20\00:57:24.67
Ask God, "Let my heart be broken
00:57:24.71\00:57:27.84
with the things that
break the heart of God."
00:57:27.88\00:57:30.98