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if you have a problem with roaches
stepping on one roach has not addressed
your problem you need somebody who’s
going to look for the cause and not
merely step on the symptoms when there
is
unresolved sin you have Amplified the
uncontrolled in a life and in a
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culture
when you’re facing
a a medical challenge that won’t go
away and where overthe counter remedies
are not
working that will drive you to the
doctor because you need a professional
analysis of your crisis and your
cure inevitably the doctor will look
much
deeper then you can
see through the MRIs the CT scans the
x-rays they’re going to delve deeper
into the issues that are causing you the
pain struggle stress difficulties that
you are
facing he’s going to look or she’s going
to look in places that you can’t
see because the problem is deeper than
you are able to fix
in Mark chapter 5 we have an electric
story of demonic
oppression we look
at the
demoniac in the whole chapter is the
whole first half of the chapter is
dedicated to a man gone
wild
the first five
verses
describe the crisis facing this
man we’re
told that
Jesus when he gets out of the boat in
verse two having crossed the Sea of
Galilee comes to a man from the tombs
with an unclean Spirit who met
him he dwelt among the tombs we’re told
that is he didn’t live in the vicinity
of life he lived in the vicinity of
death because the tombs were his
home we’re told that he was a man out of
control verse three no one was able to
bind him anymore even with the
chain so the powers that be couldn’t
stop the chaos he
caused
we’re told that because he often had
been bound with shackles and chains and
the chains had been torn apart by him
and the shackles broken in pieces and no
one was strong enough to subdue
him consistently night and day he was
screaming among the tombs and in the
mountains and gashing himself with
stones
you are now looking at a person out of
control our human designation for him
some would say he’s
crazy others would say that man has lost
his
mind when Luke tells the story in Luke
chapter 8 and verse 27 it says that he
lived without
clothes so he walked walked around in
death in
nudity out of
control when you look at our world today
it’s made up of a lot of
demoniacs people who are out of
control and you know that something
deeper is wrong because the powers that
be can’t make it right amen
verse two says a man from the tombs with
an
unclean Spirit met
him what we are told is that this man
was being influenced and
controlled by something other than what
you see
amen there was something deeper going on
in this man’s life than just mental
instability
yes he was being informed and defined by
an unclean spirit that is a demon this
man had been demonized now if you saw
him you didn’t see
demons if you saw him you didn’t see
Devils you didn’t see Red Jumpsuit and a
pitchfork all you saw was a crazy
man so you just would think he is
mentally deranged but when we look
deeper the passage tells us that this
man was under the
influence of an
unclean
spirit that is
demons was controlling his mental
instability now before I go on I do not
want to be
misunderstood all mental
illness is not tied to demonic
oppression how do you
determine
whether it’s purely a mental illness a
chemical
imbalance that needs to be addressed as
many do through the professional
mechanisms that God has allowed us to
erect in our culture or whether
something is much
deeper we’re told that this man’s
actions were controlled by an unclean
spirit that is unresolved sin operating
in his
life unrighteousness that had not been
addressed when there is out of control
this this man is out of
control
you want to be able to
identify any spiritual issues that have
gone unresolved or else you could be
trying to address a problem with
over-the-counter
medicines and not with spiritual
causation demons are at home with
unresolved unaddressed unrighteousness
in our
lives when there is unresolved or
refusal to address unrighteousness what
you have done is you have invited
demonic attention to make a bad thing
worse when there is
unresolved sin you have Amplified the
uncontrolled in a life in a family and
in a
culture so we are now living in a
culture gone mad
where people don’t care about life where
people don’t care about property where
people don’t care about how they talk to
one another where people don’t care
about abuse where people people have
lost their minds but don’t know demons
are helping a brother
out helping a sister
out he says this man’s uncontrolled
M was being Amplified by an unclean
Spirit that’s what was making him act
mad now you may be saying well I’m a
Christian and the Holy Ghost lives in me
right so the demons can’t mess with
me well in 1 Corinthians chapter 10
verse 22 and 24 he’s writing to the
Christians at Corinth and he says many
of you are eating at the Demon’s
tables
when we finish our sermon and have
communion many folk will be having
communion with demons in the name of
Jesus so even Christians can fellowship
with
demons so some of the things that we
can’t get rid of in our lives in our
families in our addictions is because
demons have grabbed them amp them up so
that you’re not just fighting the
problem you’re fighting the demonization
of
problem an unclean spirit and when they
come in they take over cuz demons have
relatives and as 1 Timothy 4: 1-5 says
they come with a lot of false
information Paul calls them doctrines of
demons with a lot of false information
they may be sounding good talking sweet
acting nice but he says they are
doctrines of demons because there’s
information contrary to the truth and
knowledge of
God so what I’m starting off saying here
is that if your life is being
ruled
Authority by something
illegitimate have you checked out
whether the problem is deeper than you
are aware of whether there is
inflammation in your soul
because the demons have been invited in
the uncleanness of the environment
yeah
so day and night we’re told in verse
five that means it’s your lifestyle day
and night 24 hours a day
247 if if something if something is
illegitimately holding you hostage day
and
night all the
time you’re living in the realm of the
illegitimate and there is unresolved
unrighteousness connected to your life
and you can’t get rid of it it won’t go
away you can’t defeat
it and what you need to know is the
thing that’s keeping that addiction is
alive is the demons who have attached
themselves to the
addiction and so you’re fighting
something deeper than you realize than
we
realize seeing Jesus verse six from a
distance
he ran and bowed down before
him and shouting with a loud
voice he
said what business do we have with each
other Jesus Son of the most high God I
implore you by God do not torment
me okay wait a minute wait a minute wait
a minute verse n and he was asking him
what is your name name and he said my
name is Legion for we are
many
okay I don’t know I don’t know if you
caught
that he runs to Jesus in verse six bows
down before
him and he said what business do we have
with
you he’s
singular says what business do we
plural have with
you
so we have a confused individual
here he says the he is also a we you
can’t make sense of reality because your
Humanity has been messed up tow up from
the flow
up Dr Evans will be right back after
this important
announcement
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so this self identity is is confused
but the
man in his
confusion comes to Jesus why because his
problem was not merely mental it was
spiritual affecting the mental again not
all mental illness is tied to demonic
possession but when there is unresolved
unrighteousness there is a high degree
of potentiality that the problems that
do exist have created inflammation in
the soul that has resulted in the
uncontrol nature of the life many people
have
demonized attitudes about themselves
that’s why they can become racist day
and
night because their evil has become
demonized have drawn the roaches and the
Rats so
this man comes and the
spiritual confronts the
spiritual because he’s dragging the
demons to Jesus
now he bows down recognizing Jesus’s
position he humbles himself to bow down
is to enter into a posture of
worship he recognizes Jesus
the son of the most high
God please notice a word here the word
is found in verse 7 the word is found in
verse 10 the word is found in verse
12 I employ
you verse 10 he began to employ
him verse 12 the demons employed
him okay
so you have a man and demons
begging to employers to beg so the man
says he employed them but then it comes
right around and says the demons
employed
him both of them the human and the
spiritual were begging
Jesus which means the man in his
Humanity needed
Jesus but the demons couldn’t even do
anything without Jesus
permission so the devil demons had to
get permission from Jesus even to be
demons we implore
you he
says you are a son of the most high
God do not torment
me you know when a person is an
alcoholic or a drug ad
you go through a period of
Torment in order to become
whole you go through a period of
discontinuity where things are not
flowing and concert one another because
you want this evil that’s controlling
you to get off your back which means you
are going to be torment things are going
to get worse before they get
better and so you have this request
don’t torment me because I know for this
thing to get resolved it’s going to
cause me some inconvenience and
pain Jesus says in verse
n what what what is your
name in the Bible your name is your
identity who are you now Jesus is not
asking because he doesn’t know he’s
asking for you to affirm
what is your name who are you what is
your identity and the voice says I am
Legion a Roman legion with 6,000
soldiers Roman legion is 6,000 soldiers
so we got a man here with 6,000 demons
in because Demons Run in
crowds the reason why the Wilder you get
the more demons you
have we are living in a world now where
people are not only been demonized but
we have a society that’s demonized so
you got demons running everywhere
yeah my name is Legion for we are many
6,000 had consumed no matter no no no
wonder the man’s life is operating in
Madness and
so
the
demons say we are many we own this place
we call the shots now right there that
tells you a bunch number one it tells
you demons can
talk they
communicate that means they can think in
order to put together language so they
have a
mind so he employs them these they have
the qualifications of personhood they’re
not human beings but they are
persons verse 12 the demons employed him
saying send us into the swine so that we
may enter
them send us into the swine that we may
enter them Luke 11 verse 24- 26 says
that demons need a place to reside right
so when the demons were exercise excise
from from from him they say can we go to
another unclean location and please
notice what happened there was a large
herd of swine feeding nearby the demons
employed send us into the swine verse 13
Jesus gave permission because even the
demons have got to get an okay from
Jesus and coming out of the unclean
spirits into the swne and the herds
rushed down the Steep Bank into the sea
about two 2,000 of them so that mean
that 2,000 there was 6,000 demons and
they were drowned in the sea so what is
the goal of demons to kill
you but the beautiful thing is when
Jesus
spoke the demons left amen because the
spiritual had to be addressed before the
personal could be changed
now stay with me just a little bit
longer they asked for permission because
they didn’t know whether Jesus was going
to give it or
not but the man had positioned
himself now watch
this the herdsmen ran away ones who had
the pig farm they ran away and reported
in the city and in the
country
okay and they came to Jesus and observed
the man who had been demon possessed
watch this sitting down instead of
roaming clothed in his right mind
instead of crazy the very man who had
Legion and they became
scared they got
scared why are they afraid
those who had seen it described to them
verse 16 how it had happened to the
demon-possessed man and about all the
swine and they began to employ him to
leave their
region why did they ask him to leave
Jesus was messing with their
money they made their living with the
swine and and because their business was
being interrupted because their
economics was being interrupted we don’t
want to hear no more about
Jesus and the reason Jesus is being
kicked to the curb in our culture today
is if you follow Jesus he’s going to
mess with your lifestyle he’s going to
mess with your look look if you follow
Jesus he going to mess with big farmer
if if you follow Jesus he going to mess
with drug prices if you follow Jesus he
ain’t going to just let you make a
profit off of the back of the poor off
of the back of the oppressed off of the
back of those who are being misjudged if
you follow Jesus he ain’t going to let
you mess folk up in the name of money in
your pocket he’s not going to tolerate
crooked politicians he’s not going to
tolerate messed up economic systems he’s
not going to tolerate the evil in
society so what do they do they got to
get rid of Jesus they got to dumb down
the church they got to shut the mouths
of Christians cuz if we Let Jesus stay
in this country he’s going to mess with
how our capitalistic system
operates he going to mess it
up he got to leave
here which is why in most cases of
socialism and communism you got to dumb
down religion or cancel it all together
so that man can rule instead of God and
place mandates on everybody else how you
should function in spite of what God
Said and watch this now I don’t have
time to develop it but the bigger the
mandates the more satanic the system
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now the Bible believes in safety the
government which responsible for safety
but when you control through mandates
something that God has not allowed the
Bible says in Revelation 13 it is the
system of the
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Antichrist and so in conclusion the man
says
something man says
um he imploring
him the man the demon possessed man says
look he
says I want you to let me go with you
verse 18 He says can I go with you but
look at verse
19 he did not let
him but he said to him go home to your
people and report to them what great
things the Lord has done for
you and how he had mercy on
you he says I want you to tell
it they won’t let me stay but you live
here I won’t you tell it and he said
verse 20 he went away and began to
Proclaim in the
decapus what great things Jesus had done
for him and everybody was amazed
Wherever You Go I want you to talk about
what Jesus has done for you so if you
ain’t telling nobody what you’re saying
is Jesus ain’t done nothing for me but
if Jesus has met you along the way if he
forgave your sins and gave you eternal
life if he has kept you going when you
wanted to throw in the towel if he has
kept you in your right mind when you you
thought you were going to go crazy I’m
here to tell you you better go tell it
you better let it be known that Jesus is
in my life Jesus has changed my life
Jesus has resurrected my life Jesus has
empowered my life and I’m not going to
be ashamed of Jesus I’m going to go tell
it in the 10 City
region so I challenge
you I challenge us
don’t leave Jesus in the
sanctuary don’t leave him in your
private
time you let it be known in the reason
of this church and in the reason of
whatever Church you are a part of that I
belong to Jesus I believe in God but I
follow
Jesus and I’m not ashamed to say
it because I know what he’s done for me
and if you’re here today and you need
some Demon
Deliverance Hallelujah he still cast out
demons he still cast out
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demons
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