The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
July 19, 2009
Pastor Dana Johnson
"...Jesus, Son of
the Most High God?" -Mark 5:7
And he cried out
with a loud voice and said, "What have I to do with You,
Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that
You do not torment me."
1. Mark seems to have
had a youthful awe for Jesus' authority over the demonic
world.
2. Remember that, as
Mark, our emphasis should be on Christ, not the
spirit-world.
Colossians
2:18 - Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight
in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into
those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his
fleshly mind.
3. Consider the nature
of demonic activity:
a. Demons are
unclean spirits.
b. Demons are
abusive to humanity.
c. Demons seem to
have different jobs.
1) Rural
fear.
Mark
5:15 - Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who
had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting
and clothed and in his right mind. And they were
afraid.
2) Urban
deceit.
Acts
16:16-21 - Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that
a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of
divination met us, who brought her masters much profit
by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed
Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the
servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the
way of salvation." 18And this she did for
many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said
to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus
Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very
hour. 19But when her masters saw that their
hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas
and dragged them into the marketplace to the
authorities. 20And they brought them to the
magistrates, and said, "These men, being Jews,
exceedingly trouble our city; 21and they
teach customs which are not lawful for us, being
Romans, to receive or observe."
4. Notice the behavior
of the demons in the presence of Christ.
a. The demons
worshipped Christ.
Mark
5:6 - When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped
Him.
b. The demons
know:
Mark
5:7 - And he cried out with a loud voice and said, "What
have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I
implore You by God that You do not torment
me."
1) Who God
is: the Most high.
Isaiah
14:14 - "I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds, I will be like the Most High."
2) Who Jesus is:
the Son of God.
c. The demons
submit to the Son's sovereign rule.
Mark
5:7, 10-12 - And he cried out with a loud voice and
said, "What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most
High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment
me." 10Also he begged Him earnestly that He
would not send them out of the country. 11Now
a large herd of swine was feeding there near the
mountains. 12So all the demons begged Him,
saying, "Send us to the swine, that we may enter
them."
5. In contrast to the
demonic activity, notice Christ's divine
activity:
a. Brings
compassion.
Mark
5:19 - However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to
him, "Go home to your friends, and tell them what great
things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had
compassion on you."
b. Did great
things.
Ephesians 2:1-10 - And you He made alive, who were dead
in trespasses and sins, 2in which you once
walked according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now
works in the sons of disobedience, 3among whom
also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the
others. 4But God, who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us,
5even when we were dead in trespasses, made us
alive together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved), 6and raised us up together, and made
us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7that in the ages to come He might show the
exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us
in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is
the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone
should boast. 10For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in
them.
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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