1. The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark

2. I’m going to leave the weather
forecasting to the pros!

3. Palm Sunday – An Ancient Prophecy
fulfilled in Christ
Easter Sunday –The Glory of the
Resurrection!
April 7th – reMARKable (finish chp. 5)
April 14th – Grace around the World
Missions Conference (Dave Guiles)

4. Sharpening Our Focus on Christ!
Five passages each week to help us
“fix our eyes upon Jesus!”

6. The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark

7. Mark 4:35 thru end of chp. 5
4:35-41 – Jesus’ sovereignty over the
natural realm (wind and sea)
5:1-20 – Jesus’ sovereignty over the
supernatural realm (demons)
5:21-43 – Jesus’ sovereignty over
both (death)

8. Jesus’ sovereignty over
supernatural realm
Mark 5:1
They came to the other side of the sea,
to the country of the Gerasenes.
Mark 4:35
On that day, when evening had come, he
said to them, “Let us go across to the
other side.”

9. The story’s setting . . .

10. Jesus’ sovereignty over
supernatural realm
Jesus encounters . . .
- A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
- A supernatural confrontation (vv. 6-13)
- A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)

11. A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
Mark 5:2
And when Jesus had stepped out of the
boat, immediately there met him out of
the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.
“a demon-possessed man.” (v. 15)

12. A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
Mark 5:3-4
He lived among the tombs. And no one
could bind him anymore, not even with a
chain, for he had often been bound with
shackles and chains, but he wrenched the
chains apart, and he broke the shackles
in pieces. No one had the strength to
subdue him.

13. A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
Mark 5:5
Night and day among the tombs and on
the mountains he was always crying out
and cutting himself with stones.

14. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Mark 5:6-7
And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran
and fell down before him. And crying out
with a loud voice, he said, “What have
you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the
Most High God? I adjure you by God, do
not torment me.”

15. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Mark 5:8
For he was saying to him, “Come out of
the man, you unclean spirit!”
Luke 8:31
And they begged him not to command
them to depart into the abyss.

16. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them into hell and
committed them to chains of gloomy
darkness to be kept until the judgment. . .
“Tartarus” (from Greek mythology)
The “bottomless pit” of Revelation

17. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
How The tormentors
ironic is did not want to be
this? tormented!

18. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Mark 5:9
And Jesus asked him, “What is your
name?” He replied, “My name is Legion,
for we are many.”
Mark 5:10
And he begged him earnestly not to send
them out of the country.

19. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Mark 5:11-12
Now a great herd of pigs was feeding
there on the hillside, and they begged
him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us
enter them.”

20. “The death of the pigs demonstrates
the ultimate aim of demonic
possession. The first purpose is to mar
the image of God in the person
possessed. This was pitifully evident in
the man from the tombs. The second
goal is death. What happened to the
pigs was what would have eventually
happened to the man.”
Michael Card

21. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Mark 5:13
So he gave them permission. And the
unclean spirits came out and entered the
pigs; and the herd, numbering about two
thousand, rushed down the steep bank
into the sea and drowned in the sea.

22. A supernatural
confrontation (vv. 6-13)
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the Lord our
God, but the things that are revealed
belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.

23. Jesus’ sovereignty over
supernatural realm
Jesus encounters . . .
- A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
- A supernatural confrontation (vv. 6-13)
-A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
- “The Crowd”
- The man who had been set free

24. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
“The Crowd”
Mark 5:14-15
The herdsmen fled and told it in the city
and in the country. And people came to
see what it was that had happened. And
they came to Jesus and saw the demon-
possessed man, the one who had had the
legion, sitting there, clothed and in his
right mind, and they were afraid.

25. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
“The Crowd”
Mark 5:16
And those who had seen it described to
them what had happened to the demon-
possessed man and to the pigs.
Mark 5:17
And they began to beg Jesus to depart
from their region.

26. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
The man set free
John 3:19-20
And this is the judgment: the light has
come into the world, and people loved the
darkness rather than the light because
their works were evil. For everyone who
does wicked things hates the light and
does not come to the light, lest his
works should be exposed.

27. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
The man set free
Mark 5:18
As he was getting into the boat, the man
who had been possessed with demons
begged him that he might be with him.

28. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
The man set free
Mark 5:19
And he did not permit him but said to
him, “Go home to your friends and tell
them how much the Lord has done for
you, and how he has had mercy on you.”

29. A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)
The man set free
Mark 5:20
And he went away and began to proclaim
in the Decapolis how much Jesus had
done for him, and everyone marveled.

30. Jesus’ sovereignty over
supernatural realm
Jesus encounters . . .
- A dismal situation (vv. 2-5)
- A supernatural confrontation (vv. 6-13)
- A dual reaction (vv. 14-20)

31. Today’s Takeaways
1. There’s no such thing as “hopeless”
when Jesus is in the situation!
Jesus is portrayed here in Mark 5 as
the Sovereign Lord of the Universe,
who exercises his absolute authority
over the most powerful forces of evil!

32. Today’s Takeaways
2. God’s ways are not our ways … His
thoughts not our thoughts!
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares
the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

33. Today’s Takeaways
Mark 5:10-12
And he begged him earnestly not to
send them out of the country. Now a
great herd of pigs was feeding there on
the hillside, and they begged him,
saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter
them.”

34. Today’s Takeaways
As we go through life,
we will encounter
difficulties. And often
these don’t get
resolved in the
manner we would
like!

35. Today’s Takeaways
1. There’s no such thing as “hopeless”
when Jesus is in the situation!
2. God’s ways are not our ways … His
thoughts not our thoughts!

36. Today’s Takeaways
3. Just as Jesus left behind the man he
had freed to be a witness for him in a
dark place, Jesus has also left us behind.
Therefore, let’s all get intentional and
“GO AND TELL!”

37. Today’s Takeaways
Mark 5:19
“Go home to your friends and tell them
how much the Lord has done for you,
and how he has had mercy on you.”