Healing School #27 | The Madman of Gadera | Part One

this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of defrayne ministries [Music] hello we're so glad you joined us today for jesus the healer we invite you to get your bible get a notepad get pen and pencil and follow along with us study along with us we're get we've gathered here today to have what we're calling healing school and we're taking all the healings that happened under jesus's earthly ministry and we're studying them verse by verse line by line so that we can see by detail what they did because uh healing is still for today it's not just for when jesus was on the earth he was giving us an example of the life that we are to walk out in receiving healing but also in ministering healing so we want to become skillful we do that by studying what he did so we invite you join with us we're going to be turning today to mark chapter 5 and we're going to be studying about the incident of what is called the madman of gadara and the thing that i so appreciate about this passage of scripture that as we've studied that jesus is the healer for the body he is also the deliverer for the mind that he will bring peace freedom to the mind and so in mark chapter 5 and verse 1 we're going to start reading and it says as they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of the gadarenes and when he was come out of the ship immediately there met jesus out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit now i want you to see that phrase an unclean spirit no demon no devil is clean they're all unclean spirits uh out of god's kingdom is the holy spirit but any other any other demon that operates any ain't fallen angel that works with satan they are all unclean spirits and so it says that immediately there met jesus out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit so we know it's not from god that's what we know verse 3 this man had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no not with chains so no doubt they had tried to bind him with something else and had to graduate to chains if ropes don't hold them so they used chains so chains couldn't hold them and it says in verse 4 because he had been often bound with fetters and chains and the chains had been plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces neither could any man tame him so we see that this man was demon possessed and this demon-possessed man had superhuman strength not from his own ability but from the strength of the demon that possessed him and look at this last phrase in verse 4 it says neither could any man tame him you can't tame devils you cast them out you can't you can't get them to calm down and live peacefully with them you they you can't you don't change their their behavior you cast them out jesus didn't try to do a recovery thing on him by getting things in his life tame he he cast him out when there's a demon present you can't tame it you cast it out he was so tormented that this man and your heart goes out to someone in this setting that he's so tormented by these demons that he's not among society he's not among the rest of people he's out living alone he's living by himself in a place where men ought not to live in graveyards in the tombs in places that are dark that have no hope so to speak that location does not speak of hope for the common man and so he's living in a place to where he's apart he's separated from family members from loved ones and uh this demon that possessed him if we could say it this way turn him almost into a wild animal out living in the wilderness out in the mountains and in the tombs by himself living living among the wild and notice when the devil gets his way with with people notice what happens he so degrades them as a human and that's one thing when the devil gets his way he is degrading to what god created god created every man and the devil so hates god that when he can come into contact and get his way with man he will degrade him as an insult to the god who created him so this demon degraded him as a human turning him more into an animal-like creature it's not it's not normal to not be able to live among society it's not normal to to live so completely separated and and be so wild and have this superhuman strength that no one can even approach you so we say this anytime there's any kind of pressure that comes to the mind to separate yourself from people to get away from the rest of society take your stand against that the devil wants to isolate you so he can torment you and god did not create us for isolation and so yes there it's perfectly fine at times to go aside and be alone but there's another thing to be driven to be alone to where you're tormented and you're harassed and so we see that when this man was possessed by this demon that it took all of his privileges a fellowship with others away from him and verse 5 it says and this man he was always night and day he was in the mountains he was in the tombs where was that where does that mean uninhabited places in the mountains he's in the tombs look at this crying and cutting himself his mind is so tormented that he screams he is so tormented that the bod that this demon that possesses him is getting him to mutilate his own body he's cutting himself and today's society people would call that being a cutter well how many of you know someone who has a normal healthy mind that they're not going to cooperate with that so i say if there's any kind of pressure or pushing on your mind to do damage to yourself take a stand against that take a stand against that don't let uh the devil erase human dignity from you this poor man was crying night and day and i when we're talking crying we're not just talking tears we're talking tormenting cries he's crying out in torment he had no peace and it says look at this night and day no relief no relief and the thing is no hope in the sense of he's not out among society that's hearing any hope from someone people are trying to keep away from him they're not offering him hope and when people would come to him basically that superhuman strength from that demon would kick in and he would resist any human contact so we see this it's not natural for a person to behave these ways amen this man looked to be beyond all help he lived a tormented existence but when it looks like there is no help when it looks like there is no relief there is a savior there is a savior there is help there is a deliverer and nothing is hard for him it's all easy for him so just remember jesus not only paid your paid the price for you to have to be saved and go to heaven when you leave the earth he not only paid the price for you to come into right fellowship with the father he not only paid the price for you to have a healed body he paid the price for you to have a peaceful calm mind that's part of the inheritance of a child of god is a sound mind and so we not only want to use our faith for the blessings of god that are our inheritance which of victory health provision but also use your faith for your sound mind your sound mind belongs to you in christ and just as the devil will try to challenge every other inheritance you have in christ he will try to challenge a sound mind so that just know this don't feel alone as though something is wrong with you if your mind gets challenged the devil will challenge everyone's mind at some point in some way some respect but you are authorized to say no you don't no you don't no you don't you have to answer those wrong thoughts you have to tell the devil the bible says resist the devil and he will flee so you resist him in the name of jesus you say pastor nancy how do i do that you say satan that's not my thought you will not torment my mind you will not take my peace from me you leave me in jesus name it's just as simple as that and you say well it doesn't feel like anything changes it doesn't matter what you said works you keep thanking god that a sound mind is yours in christ and the devil will flee from you amen there is help don't ever be hopeless don't ever feel as though you're there's no hope for you there is in verse six it says and when jesus when this man saw jesus afar off he ran and he worshipped him and he cried with a loud voice and said what have i to do with thee jesus thou son of the most high god i adjure thee by god that thou torment me not for jesus had said unto him come out of the man thou unclean spirit so the man is coming toward jesus now notice this this man did not need an introduction to jesus he said out of his own mouth what have i to do with thee jesus this is not the man talking this is the demon talking using the man's voice because he knew jesus by name he knew him as son of the most high god this man of himself would not have known this simply because he lives in a desert place he lives isolated he doesn't know what's going on in society he's not attending synagogue he's not he's not among family he's not among society that's telling him about jesus these are demons who knew jesus this goes to show when you walk with god demons know you when you walk in your authority the demons know who who it is that know their authority amen why because you have authority over them and they know when some someone has authority over them as a child of god as a son of god you have authority over the devil and you say well that's jesus son of the most high god well who do you think you are your son of the most high god amen you are given the same rights and privileges that we are co-heirs with jesus amen and so jesus had said when we come upon this scene jesus had said to the man come out of him thou unclean spirit and this was the response of that demon through the man's voice what have i to do with thee jesus thou son of those son of the most high god i adjure thee by god that thou torment me not now i want you to see the first phrase of verse six it says but when the man saw jesus so far off he ran and worshipped him notice he didn't run and hide from him i you have to get this sense was the man wanting freedom and he ran toward and jesus said anyone who comes anyone who comes no matter how tormented they are no matter how how harassed there been no matter how bad their life has been for how long if anyone will just turn in his direction amen he ran and he worshipped him that was an invitation that was a that was him giving permission to jesus to help him to intervene but notice the demon talking through the man said what have i to do with thee jesus thou son of the most high god then he says this i adjure thee by god that thou torment me not so notice the demon is tormenting the man but when jesus shows up he the demon doesn't want to be tormented so he gives out what he doesn't want to receive how was jesus tormenting this devil telling him to come out well why is that a torment because demons must have a body to gain expressions demons or spirits they do not have an earthly body so what they endeavor to do is find someone who will yield to them and yield their body to them yield their mind to them yield their voice to them so that they can gain expression they're not satisfied or gratified without getting expression so they're not content just to be present in the earth and trouble people's lives they want to express themselves and so jesus had told this unclean spirit come out and then he answered with torment us not and then in verse 9 it says and jesus asked him he's talking to the demon he's not talking to the man jesus asked the demon what is thy name and the demon answered saying my name is legion for we are many so when the demon didn't come out notice jesus asked what's your name the demon that possessed him had the name of legion but evidently that one demon had gotten in the man and then brought many others with him so he said for we are many now to bring clarity to this passage i want to tell you about an experience that kenneth hagin had not kenneth hagin was our spiritual father and jesus on one occasion appeared to him and said i'm going to teach you about demons and evil spirits and how they get hold of people and in the course of that he referred to this passage and he said i had said just jesus was telling brother haken he says i had spoken to that demon to come out and he didn't come out so he says i knew i needed to know its name giving us an idea that it was a higher ranking demon because uh just as military there are ranks in military you can have a general and you know lieutenants and colonels and sergeants and all the different rankings uh there are also in the spirit world there's ranks of authority and so notice this demon named legion had many under him because there were many in the man so the demon named legion came in and there were many that came with him giving you the idea he's in command over these other demons and so jesus asked for the name and uh so that's when he said my name is legion for we are many now the name legion also revealed the number of demons because a legion in that day is the largest unit in a roman army so during jesus's time this was a this was a unit in her own roman army at that time a legion would average anywhere between three to six thousand people trained military men it could be less or it could be more but that was the average number so it could be several thousands more but it was the largest unit so you get this idea that this demon had a large rank having other demons under him and this is the condition we see this man in just tormented by one but tormented by many demons and so it says in verse 10 that uh the demon besought jesus much that he would not send them away out of the country now there was there nigh unto the mountains a herd a great herd of swine feeding in verse 12 and all the devils besought him saying send us into the swine that we may enter into them now one of the things that brother hagin had also said when jesus taught him about this passage was that if you were just there you would have heard that one demon speaking through the man but he says i was hearing in the spirit realm so i heard them all speak i was hearing the whole spirit realm of their possess of them possessing that man so uh he said and and jesus said to dad hagin in this uh one incident where he taught them about this passage jesus said to dad hagin some may wonder why i cast the demons into the swine and not into the abyss there is a time when all demons will be cast into the abyss but it's not time for that yet if i could have when i was on the earth i would have cast them there and rid the earth of as many demons as i could but it wasn't time see matthew 8 29 when it records this same incident it said that the demons said art thou come to torment us before the time before the time see even demons know there's a time and they weren't sure could jesus override the time and cast them into the abyss they don't why they're not all-knowing demons are not all-knowing and so they're asking for permission to go into the swine and was jesus showing him mercy not no he wasn't showing a mercy he just could not cast them into the abyss yet and so notice this it says that in verse 10 it said that the demons besought jesus much that he would not send them away look look at this phrase out of the country why why did they not want to leave that region through this man it had taken them time to dominate that region and they no doubt had an effect on the spiritual atmosphere of that region because there are so many of them congregated in this one man that is demon-possessed so know this the devil will work over time to gain possession of someone to work against their life and to bind up not just the devil doesn't just want to bind up one he wants to bind up the family he wants to bind up a region he wants to bind up a city he wants to take as much ground as he can so notice these the demons were asking jesus don't send us out of the country why this is the this is the lame we've been working for a long time we've been working to gain domination here and they didn't want to leave that country but i'm so grateful for what the word says about the anointing that the anointing will destroy the yoke the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing jesus showed up he's the anointing they recognized a greater power than them had come on the scene and they recognized that all this work that they have been doing to dominate that region to hinder that region to hinder god from being able to do what he wants in that region was now being threatened by one man with the anointing one man with the anointing that's all it takes is one man with the anointing the anointing destroys the yoke as i said demons they they work overtime they don't just work in a moment and accomplish something they will they will suggest to someone one thought and they have to deceive that man into thinking those wrong thoughts and as they do then more wrong thoughts will come and then more wrong thoughts will come because it's a process for a demon to gain ground but it's not a pro it doesn't have to be a process for the anointing to gain ground one moment one moment speaking under the authority of god the anointing of god and these demons knew that they had just met something greater than they possessed so jesus can come the anointing can come your pastor with the anointing any believer with the word in their mouth there's an anointing on the word when you speak the word the anointing goes in and it breaks the yoke of anything the devil has done so we don't magnify the devil and make him look large god is so much greater the word is so much greater the anointing is so much greater the holy ghost is so much greater far greater far greater amen that jesus has raised up seat us in heavenly places far above all principalities and powers and all might and dominion there is no power that is anywhere near the power that god has it has has anointed his people with and so this is what we have to understand this is what the demons feared one man showing up on that territory with the anointing amen amen and so we see in uh verse 13. and forthwith jesus gave them leave he called them out and the unclean spirits went out why demons must obey demons must obey when you use the name of jesus the you have the blood of jesus the authority given you in christ demons must obey they don't have an option and notice this jesus was not conversing with them to carry on a conversation he was using his authority over them you don't sit and talk with demons you speak an authority over them and notice in every other place where jesus dealt with someone who was demon-possessed he would say this shut up and come out shut up and come out that's what they had the right to do was shut up and come out verse 13 and forthwith jesus gave them leaving the uns the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea and they were about two thousand were choked in the sea so we get this idea that because there were 2 000 swine that were affected that we could at least say there would have been 2 000 demons in the man so we see this that if a man's spirit can contain 2 000 demons how much more of god how much more of god's power how much more of the anointing that we be as ephesians 3 19 says that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of god may have the richest measure of the divine presence a body holy filled and flooded with god himself is what the amplified translation says and so i want you to see this and i it says that in verse 14 and they that fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country and they went out to see what was done and they come to jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion sitting he's not tormented anymore he's sitting calmly and clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid so i want you to see this this this was this put these people in awe and so i i want to remind us the all-conquering authority that we as believers have over anything the devil would seek to work against us and i say to those of you watching just know this i don't care what kind of torment you might have been under i don't care what kind of harassment mentally there's been there is complete deliverance complete freedom for you that your mind is your mind amen so i i pray with you and i take authority and i say satan you take your hands off the minds of everyone watching in jesus name you let them go free in jesus name and i say this there is no freedom apart from jesus if you're not born again you need to be born again and you say pastor nancy i want to be free i want my mind to be my mind again that is what god planned for you and so you say well how do i do it well the word says that whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved so i say this all you have to do is say jesus i call on you i call you to be my savior i call for you to help me that's all you have to do and you say pastor nancy i don't i don't know if it would work for me i mean i've been so bad i've done such bad things the word says whosoever it doesn't matter how bad it doesn't matter how what kind of life you live whosoever so i want you to say this after me say jesus i receive you as my savior you paid the price for my sin so now i'm free cleansed and forgiven from all my sin and now i'm a child of god you are my savior god is my father and i'm a new creature in christ in jesus name amen we trust you've enjoyed today's program visit us at defraneministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings share your testimony submit a prayer request or visit our online store this program has been made possible by the friends and partners of dufresne ministries

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Length: 28min 16sec (1696 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 09 2021