Mark 5 Discussion

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And welcome back to a chapter a day.
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Keeps the devil away.
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I'm Pastor Pleck, along with Pastor Holland.
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We're talking Mark chapter 5.
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We're going to outline it.
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We're going to find some uh in principles about the nature of man and the character of God.
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And then we are going to find a way to put that into practice.
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Okay, so first off, we got Mark 5, 1 through 20, the crazy story of the Garrison demoniac.
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And then you've got the woman with the issue of blood from 5, 21 through 34.
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And then you've got uh intermixed with this is the raising of Jairus' daughter.
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And then uh you have finally hold on, start over.
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Keeps the devil away.
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We're talking Mark chapter 5.
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I'm Pastor Plekman with Pastor Holland, and we're gonna outline it.
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We're gonna find some uh truths about the nature of man and the character of God, and finally put it to some application so that your day goes great today as you keep the devil away.
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So, first off, Mark 5, 1 through 20, we have the story of the Garrusine demoniac, crazy story of Jesus casting out the demon with a Hulk-like figure.
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Then you've got the woman with the issue of blood, and uh she's gonna be coming up, and uh she is intermingled in with uh the raising of Gyrus' daughter, but she comes up as um this huge story of Jairus coming up, says, Hey, uh heal my daughter.
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But in the middle of that, this woman with uh bleeding comes and asks for help and Jesus heals her.
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Finally, after that, Jairus' daughter is healed after she is pronounced dead, and that's 35 through 43.
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So um let's talk about some observations we've made about this text there, Han, about the incredible work of Jesus.
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These are awesome stories, and I think one of the most interesting things here is when the woman touches um Jesus' uh garment, and it says in verse 30, he perceived in himself that power had gone out from him.
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I'm like, that is so cool.
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Like it just she touched his garment, and power kind of just flowed out from Jesus to her.
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What do you make of that?
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Yeah.
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This wasn't Jesus seeking someone and saying, Be healed.
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This was her grabbing his garment.
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I don't know, that's an observation that's like some stolen power.
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I don't know.
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That that's that's wild, right?
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I I think it's really a powerful story that her faith was so great.
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Um now, obviously, Jesus knew she was coming, obviously Jesus knew all of that, but um, it's incredible that to see her um boldness to go and receive well and and she was unclean, right?
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Because she had this discharge of blood.
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And typically, an unclean person, if you touch someone who's clean, you make them unclean.
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But Jesus is the reverse.
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Yeah, she touched him, and instead of Jesus becoming unclean, impossible, he's the Lord, his power goes to he his cleanness cleanses her.
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So here's a wild thing.
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Um, in the old testament, there is, I think, only one thing that if you touch it, all the things that touch it become clean.
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And so I think that is is it the altar where they um burn the sacrifices, or is it the altar or the ark?
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Um where you touch it and you become clean.
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So it would be essentially Jesus would be the reality, the substance of that, which was a shadow.
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Right.
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It would be exactly so.
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I think in um uh and it wasn't like a person, usually, it was like the the bronze instruments or the the whatever that touched uh the um uh the whatever was, you know, whatever you're using to pr do the service, if it had been unclean at some point and it touched the altar, it became clean because it came in contact with something that was that holy.
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So that's that's uh I wish I could find that now.
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It makes me feel bad that I'm not pulling it up.
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Um some homework to the listeners, figure out what that is.
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Yeah, what was that?
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Uh let me see if whatever it is.
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Basically, Jesus is like the the true and better version of that, not just ceremonially, ceremonially making something clean, but actually giving a true healing to her.
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Um, what else did you like?
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Um, okay, so I also noticed with the um demon-possessed guy, yeah, when um he saves that guy, delivers him from the demons, he says, Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.
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Um and he goes away and begins to proclaim in the decapitus how much Jesus.
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So you go, go tell everybody.
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But then when he heals the little girl, it says in the final verse, he strictly charged them that no one should know this and told him to give her something to eat.
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Okay.
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So what do you what's your thoughts?
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What why the difference?
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Why demoniac tell everyone, and why you know the little girl don't tell anyone?
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Yeah, I I think it was it was I think where it was with Jesus, um, there was no theological thing limiting the um here's what I mean, the the theological box that the Jews were in to receive the Messiah, he had to come with some certain prerequisites that everyone sort of wrapped their head around.
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And I don't think that he had felt that he had presented himself in a way that was ready for a messiah.
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That's the only thing I can think of.
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Whereas with the Gentiles, there is no, it's just the king of God's here.
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We've never seen anything like this.
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They were used to just the brokenness of the world.
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Yeah, so the difference being verse one, they came to the other side of the sea to the country of the Garrison.
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So now he's crossed the sea over into Gentile territory.
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Right.
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Among the Gentiles, he says, go tell everybody.
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Yeah.
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And then um, verse 21, when Jesus crossed again in the boat to the other side, so now he's back in Jewish um territory, uh, he says, Don't tell anyone.
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And so this is uh Gentiles, hey, go tell everybody, you know, um what God has done to you.
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And to be fair, the Gentiles and the Jews don't mix, right?
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So it's not like he's a f also like there's a prescribed timeline for Jesus to be crucified, and I think that might have had something with his name getting out too fast too quickly, um would have right, that would have been a problem.
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So among the Jewish people who had messianic expectations and um questions and things like that, he's kept a low profile.
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Um, don't tell anybody.
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But among the Gentiles, hey, go tell everybody.
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Yeah, it's wild.
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Yeah.
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And and I think people thought that uh either Jesus was being cryptic or um unfair to keep it to yourself.
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I've I've heard those uh frustrations.
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Um but I do think it's it's primarily because uh of who he was trying to reach and what he's trying to specifically do within Israel.
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Yeah.
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Um yeah, let's let's talk about um nature of man.
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Yeah, or what what about why how about this?
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Why do you think Jesus allowed the demons to enter the pigs?
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Like, what did that do for them?
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What did it do for the demons?
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Yeah, yeah, they seem to be like pretty stoked about that, right?
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Right.
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Um they begged him, saying, Send us to the pigs.
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But but like but once the pigs die, don't they have to find another spot?
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I don't know how that works in demonology once once that work.
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Once they once the pig dies, doesn't it's like given like another little maybe I just saw that one movie with Denzel Washington.
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They've got to find a new host somewhere.
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I don't think demons need a host, right?
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I know, yeah.
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Um and so uh demons can enter into like it talks about uh Satan entering into Judas, right?
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Later on in the gospel.
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Talk about wild.
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Um so demons can possess people, but don't have to.
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And so um Yeah, I was I was curious.
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I I kind of went to the old uh that Denzel what I can't remember what that movie was, but uh I don't even know.
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Book was it uh like the biblical fiction type.
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It was a prime movie that you know this this guy who was possessed by a demon murdered people, and then he, you know, the only way to get rid of the guy was to have him poison or die out there, and so Denzel ends up killing him.
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More homework for the listener.
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Find out what movie that was.
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Yeah, I don't know, but you know, Jesus, it doesn't really say why, it just Jesus gave him um permission.
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It does call them unclean spirits.
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We do know that pigs were ceremonially unclean animals, so there's a lot of uncleanness going on in this chapter.
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Yeah.
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Um and uh you see the unclean spirits entering the unclean pigs and taking them away to death.
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So it could be kind of a parable for um uh, you know, uncleanness leading to death.
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Um, and then, you know, juxtaposed with this unclean woman who touches Jesus and experiences life and healing.
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Yeah.
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So you do get a little bit of a juxtaposition there of um here here's what happens if uncleanness goes to it all its ultimate end.
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And here's what happens if uncleanness meets Jesus.
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Right.
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Which is pretty awesome.
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Speaking of uncleanness.
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Yeah.
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So have you ever heard of the water purification ashes of the red heifer?
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Yes.
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So if you came in contact with something dead, the only way to get clean was to be uh have like this water that had ashes of a red heifer, a type of cow, right, sprinkled on your sport on you, and then all the objects that were touched by that would become clean.
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So in a and that was a special purification that somebody touched something dead in the same way Jesus is life.
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What would touch what that was that bleeding was gonna kill that woman.
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Yeah.
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And she touches Jesus, and by her touching him, that curse of death is broken and she is given life.
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So anyway, I I think there's all these Old Testament references I always sort of get excited about because very rarely is there anything that, if you touched it, made you clean if you were unclean, and Jesus is that.
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Yeah.
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Um, anyway, okay.
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Um how about uh some truths about the nature of man?
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Um, man is vulnerable.
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Yeah.
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Oppression, fear, uh like the the people in the garrisons were like they were afraid after the guy's been delivered.
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So afraid they tell him to leave.
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Wild.
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Yeah.
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And um yeah, you see you see the nature of man as as a sinner, as an unclean person.
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You see that, you know, death is in our it is in our nature now as sinful people, um, that we die.
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Um the uncleanness, the spiritual sickness, you know, of the demons go into the pigs, lead them to death, they drown.
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Um, the woman's um you know, ceremonially unclean discharge of blood also would have led to physical death.
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Now you see the little girl whose disease led her to death.
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You see, all this um spiritual, physical, and ceremonial sickness and uncleanness leading to death.
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And then in the midst of it, you see Jesus setting people free, healing, and giving life.
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Okay, what about this?
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Pretty awesome.
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The people laugh at Jesus when he and he says the girl's not dead but only sleeping, and they laugh at him.
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Um, and I it's sometimes I'm like, are they laughing at death?
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Are they laughing at Jesus?
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Or is it is it a nervous laughter because uh it's too um incredible?
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What is that?
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What is that laughter?
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And uh just about men is like when we don't know what to do with it, we either we have some sort of emotional reaction of fear, we scoff at it, laugh at it, um, because we don't know what to do with it.
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There's a category that doesn't fit for us, and Jesus is that category for many people.
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Yeah.
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What about the character of God?
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He's a deliverer, a healer, a savior, a resurrector of life.
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You see all of that in these couple of stories.
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Yeah.
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How about he has authority over the spiritual and the physical?
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Yeah.
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Um, and I I love this one.
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How about Jesus responds to personal faith?
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That's good.
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Uh, no matter how hidden or how desperate.
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How about some uh application?
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So there's you know, sin to avoid, a promise to claim, example to follow, a command obey, or knowledge to believe.
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Which one would you pick out here for one of our listeners?
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Man, knowledge to believe, Jesus can heal, Jesus can save.
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Uh, you know, what you brought up, he has authority over the spiritual and over the physical.
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Um, that's some knowledge to believe and apply faithfully to the way that you pray.
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Yeah.
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Um, one of the things I loved here for an example to follow, the man just wanted to be with Jesus.
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Yeah.
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Uh the healed one.
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And then Jesus is like, nah.
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Yeah.
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Go.
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And and that's an example to follow.
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Yeah.
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Go and tell.
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Tell.
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Yeah.
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Um, and he does.
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He went away and began to proclaim in the decapolis how much Jesus had done for him.
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So he obeyed.
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I think that's a great example to follow.
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And it's a one of like when your one hope is that you get to be with Jesus, and Jesus is like, nope, I still have work for you to do in your hometown.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Hey, thanks so much for watching.
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We'll see you next time on a chapter a day.