8.27.17 // JESUS OVERCOMES EVIL

JESUS OVERCOMES EVIL
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Scott Young.com – Pastor of HOPE

 

1. You Will Encounter Evil Spirits

 

Mark 5:1-2 - Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He [Jesus] had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.

 

Mark 6:7 - And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

 

Luke 9:1 - And He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.

 

Luke 10:17 - The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."

 

2. Evil Spirits Will Create Problems

 

John 10:10 - The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

 

Mark 5:3-5 - [He] had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

 

3. Christ’s Power Brings Victory

 

Mark 5:8 -9 For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

 

4. Jesus Replaces Confusion With Peace

 

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.