12 | Possessed

Mark 5:1-20
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors…
- CS Lewis


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He could break chains; but he wasn't free until Jesus delivered him.


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Matt 8: 29 “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time”

Luke 8:31 They were imploring Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.

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Rev 19:19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended.

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2 Cor 12:7 I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

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Luke 22:31 “Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”



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2Cor 12:8-10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners”
Isaiah 61:1


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-That demons are real, and dangerous.
-That Jesus reigns over the enemy with complete authority, power and sovereignty.
-That true freedom is ONLY found in and through Jesus.
-That followers of Christ cannot be controlled by demons, but we can be tormented.
-That Jesus is sovereign and powerful in those circumstances to help us.
-That no one is too far gone for Jesus to save.
-That Jesus can use anyone to further His Kingdom.