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MARK 4:35-41 AND MAR 5:1-20
LESSON #07
THE BURDEN-BEARER HAS AUTHORITY OVER SATAN AND HIS DEMONS

• MEMORY VERSE: ROMANS 2:11

• AFTER THE CROWDS, AFTER THE TEACHING PARABLES, AND AFTER THE EXPLANATIONS TO THE DISCIPLES, JESUS IS VERY TIRED. HE AND HIS DISCIPLES ENTER A BOAT TO CROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE. JESUS FALLS ASLEEP.

• READ MAR 4:35-41 STILLING THE STORM
• STORMS AND THE SEA OF GALILEE
• THE SEA OF GALILEE IS A SMALL LAKE, 13 MILES LONG AND 8 MILES WIDE. THE CLIMATE IS WARM AND USUALLY CALM.
• HOWEVER, WHEN A COLD WIND AROSE FROM THE WEST, IT SWEPT DOWN THE MOUNTAINS ACROSS THE LAKE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. IT CAUSED VIOLENT STORMS ON THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• THE STORM CONDITIONS:
• THE WAVES WERE SO HIGH THE SMALL BOAT WAS HIDDEN IN THE TROUGHS OF WATER.
• MANY OF THE DISCIPLES WERE LONG-TIME FISHERMEN USED TO THE SUDDEN STORMS THAT AROSE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• IF THEY WERE AFRAID, THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY FIERCE STORM. THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD ALL DIE.
• SATAN MUST BE BEHIND THIS STORM IN AN EFFORT TO DESTROY JESUS BEFORE HE COULD GO TO THE CROSS.
• REMEMBER THE SATAN’S FIRST ATTEMPT WAS TO HAVE HEROD KILL ALL THE JEWISH BOY BABIES UNDER TWO YEARS OLD AT JESUS BIRTH.
• WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO REBUKE THE STORM? WASN’T GOD IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING?
• READ PSA 89:9
• GOD IS IN ULTIMATE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE BECAUSE HE IS THE CREATOR WHO MADE EVERYTHING. HOWEVER, SATAN IS ALLOWED TO TEMPORARILY BE THE GOD OF THIS WORLD SYSTEM (2COR 4:4)
• JESUS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATING HIS AUTHORITY IN VARIOUS AREAS, AND NOW EXPANDS THAT DEMONSTRATION TO THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WORLD.
• JESUS HAD DEMONSTRATED HIS AUTHORITY IN THE WORD OF GOD.(MAR 1:22)
• JESUS HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS AUTHORITY OVER THE SPIRIT WORLD BY CASTING OUT DEMONS.(MAR 1:27)
• JESUS HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS AUTHORITY OVER PHYSICAL ILLNESS.(MAR 1:34)
• JESUS HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS AUTHORITY OVER SIN BY FORGIVING IT.(MAR 2:10)
• JESUS HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS AUTHORITY OVER THE RELIGIOUS WORLD BY DEMONSTRATING THAT HE IS LORD OF THE SABBATH.(MAR 2:28)
• WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THIS PASSAGE ABOUT JESUS CALMING THE STORM?
• JESUS WAS NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE STORM BECAUSE HE KNEW HIS TIME HAD NOT YET COME.
• WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THIS PASSAGE ABOUT THE DISCIPLES?
• JESUS REQUIRES FAITH FROM HIS DISCIPLES, AND THEY LACKED FAITH.
• FAITH DOES NOT COME BY SEEING MIRACLES OF HEALING OR FROM HEARING PARABLES. FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. (ROM 10:17)
• IF THE DISCIPLES WOKE JESUS BECAUSE THEY KNEW HE COULD DO SOMETHING, THEY MUST HAVE HAD SOME FAITH IN HIM. THEN WHERE DID THEIR FAITH FAIL?
• THEY HAD NO FAITH IN GOD’S PLAN TO PROTECT HIS SON UNTIL THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR THE CRUCIFIXION.
• THEY DID NOT APPLY THEIR FAITH TO THE STORM. THEY EVIDENTLY COULD HAVE STILLED THE STORM THEMSELVES HAVING BEEN GIVEN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY AS APOSTLES.
• THIS WAS THEIR TEST OF FAITH AFTER HAVING BEEN MADE APOSTLES. (MAR 3:14-15)
• THEY DID NOT HAVE FAITH IN JESUS WORD WHEN HE COMMANDED THEM TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE. (MAR 4:35)
• THIS WAS THE PRIMARY FAILURE BECAUSE FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.
• NOTICE THAT THE FEAR OF THE DISCIPLES IS NOT JUST FROM THE STORM. THEY ALSO FEAR GREATLY WHEN JESUS STILLS THE STORM.
• THEY SEE THE AWESOME POWER OF A GOD THAT DESERVES FEAR AND RESPECT.

• READ MAR 5:1-20 THE GADARENE DEMONIAC
• BACKGROUND:
• THE AREA EAST OF THE JORDAN WAS THE TERRITORY GIVEN TO THE TRIBE OF GAD. IT WAS CALLED GADARA. THIS TRIBE STARTED OUT IN THE PROMISED LAND IN GOD’S PERMISSIVE WILL BY STAYING ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE JORDAN RIVER.
• FROM THIS PASSAGE WE KNOW THEY WERE STILL IN GOD’S PERMISSIVE WILL BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE FORBIDDEN BUSINESS OF PIG FARMING.
• THE MAN POSSESSED WITH MANY EVIL SPIRITS: (MAT 8:28)
• SOMETIMES IT IS THE MAN SPEAKING AND SOMETIMES IT IS THE EVIL SPIRITS SPEAKING THROUGH THE MAN.
• THE MAN TRIES TO GIVE HIS NAME AND A DEMON SPEAKS SAYING “LEGION”.
• A LEGION IN THE ROMAN ARMY CONTAINED 6,000 SOLDIERS. THIS MAN WAS POSSESSED BY MANY, MANY DEMONS. NO WONDER HE WAS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE.
• LEV 19:31 AND LEV 20:6, 27 TELLS US THAT IF A PERSON WAS DEMON POSSESSED, HE WAS TO BE PUT TO DEATH. THE REASON BEING THAT MAN INITIALLY OPENS HIMSELF TO DEMONS AND INVITES THEM IN. THE JEWS WERE WARNED STRICTLY TO AVOID CERTAIN DEMONIC PRACTICES THAT WOULD OPEN THEM TO DEMON POSSESSION.
• WE DO NOT SEE THE JEWS CARRY OUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR DEMON POSSESSION IN THE TIME OF JESUS. THE REASON IS PROBABLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE JEWS HAD NO AUTHORITY TO PUT ANYONE TO DEATH. THAT RIGHT BELONGED TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• THE BIBLE REFERS TO CASES OF INSANITY, EPILEPSY, BLINDNESS, DUMBNESS, FEVERS, ETC. ASSOCIATED WITH DEMONS. (MAT 12:22 MAT 9:32 MAR 9:17, 25 LUK 11:14-16).
• ALL SUCH ILLNESSES ARE NOT NECESSARILY CAUSED BY DEMONS. WE SHOULD NOT GENERALIZE. JESUS COULD TELL IMMEDIATELY WHETHER THE PERSON’S ILLNESS WAS DEMON CAUSED OR NOT.
• THE REQUEST OF THE DEMONS:
• NOTICE THAT THE DEMONS KNOW WHO JESUS IS AS WELL AS THEIR FINAL DESTINY IS IN THE LAKE OF FIRE.
• THEY CALL JESUS THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD (5:7)
• THIS NAME FOR GOD IS “EL ELYON” FROM GENESIS 14:18.
• THE DEMONS ALSO KNOW THAT THE TIMING OF THEIR END IN THE LAKE OF FIRE HAS NOT YET COME. THAT PROMPTS THEIR REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO INHABIT HOGS.
• DEMONS ALWAYS SEEK TO INHABIT SOME KIND OF A BODY.
• WHY DO YOU THINK JESUS PERMITTED THE DEMONS TO INHABIT THE 2,000 HOGS ONLY TO HAVE THEM DROWN IN THE LAKE?
• JESUS KNEW THAT THE PEOPLE’S VALUE SYSTEM EMPHASIZED ECONOMICS INSTEAD OF THE SPIRITUAL THINGS OF GOD.
• TO THE JEW, PIGS WERE AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL FORBIDDEN TO EAT. HOWEVER THE ROMANS ATE PORK.
• THESE JEWS DID NOT HESITATE TO PROVIDE PIGS FOR THE ROMANS TO EAT ALL FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY.
• THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HOGS WAS A DESERVED PUNISHMENT TO THE TRIBE OF GAD FOR BREAKING GOD’S LAWS.
• THE REACTION TO THE HEALING:
• THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA WERE UPSET AT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ANIMALS.
• MANY ANIMAL ACTIVISTS TODAY HAVE WRONG PRIORITIES JUST AS THESE PEOPLE DID. THEY FORGET THAT GOD PLACED THE VALUE OF MAN ABOVE THAT OF ANY ANIMAL.
• WHY DID JESUS NOT PERMIT THE HEALED MAN TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH HIM?
• JESUS HAD HIS 12 DISCIPLES AS WELL AS A CAMP FOLLOWING. THE MAN WOULD HAVE A GREATER IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS IF HE STAYED IN GADARA.
• THE AREA OF GADARA WAS CALLED DECAPOLIS BY THE ROMANS MEANING 10 GREEK CITIES THAT BELONGED TO A TRADING FEDERATION. IT WAS INHABITED PREDOMINATELY BY GENTILES.
• WE ARE NOT TOLD WHETHER THIS HEALED MAN WAS A GENTILE OR A JEW.
• NOTICE THAT JESUS COMMANDS THE MAN TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE HEALING.
• THIS IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE HAVE SEEN JESUS DO WHEN HE HEALED PEOPLE IN HEAVILY JEWISH AREAS THAT RESULTED IN OPPOSITION BY JEWISH AUTHORITIES.

• SUMMARY AND APPLICATION:
• WE HAVE EXAMINED TWO VERY DIFFERENT MIRACLES:
• THE STILLING OF THE STORM, WHICH WAS PRIMARILY A TEACHING TOOL FOR FAITH AMONG HIS DISCIPLES. HOWEVER, WE ALSO SAW JESUS’ AUTHORITY OVER SATAN WHO WAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEHIND THE ELEMENTS OF THE STORM.
• THE HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIAC, WHICH INTRODUCED JESUS TO A WHOLE NEW GEOGRAPHIC AREA INHABITED PREDOMINATELY BY GENTILES.
• JESUS IS DEMONSTRATING THAT HE DID NOT COME TO EARTH JUST TO MINISTER TO THE JEWS, BUT HE CAME TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO THE GENTILES AS WELL.

HOMEWORK
MARK 5:21-43
THIS IS A SELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FORCORRECTION.

• APPLICATION OF MAR 4:35-41 AND MAR 5:1-20
• JESUS DID NOT DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE. HE MINISTERED TO BOTH. DO YOU FIND YOURSELF DISCRIMINATING BY LIMITING YOUR CHRISTIAN LOVE AND MINISTRY ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE “LIKE YOU”?

• HOW CAN YOU EXPAND YOUR OUTREACH TO PEOPLE IN NEED REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE RACIALLY OR ETHNICALLY?

• PREPARATION FOR MAR 5:21-43
• READ MAR 5:21-43 THE DOUBLE HEALING: JAIRUS’ DAUGHTER AND THE WOMAN WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD
• DO YOU NOTICE ANY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE TWO HEALINGS TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE INTERTWINED TOGETHER?
• MEMORY VERSE: MARK 4:40