Title: Jesus Searching for Someone Abandoned
Contents
Key Verse: “He went and preached to the Decapolis how great Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed” (Mark 5:20).
Wealthy Hymns: 275, 262
▣ Open the door of your heart
There are people who are very successful and there are people who are bullied by everyone. Whom do you give your heart to, pay attention to, or who do you want to approach more, a person who smells or a person who smells, you will be surprised when you follow Jesus today. Shall we share
▣ Examine the Word
After Jesus had finished the meeting by the sea (Mark 5), he and his disciples hadtily crossed the sea (Galilee) in the evening, and walked among the cemeteries at Gerasein (Gadarah), to the demon-possessed man It is said that by visiting the abandoned, the demons enter the herd of pigs, slaughtering them into the sea, and saving that person, the new person will travel around the town to evangelize.
1. When Jesus and his companions arrived at the port
1) Who met them? (:2) :
2) How did he meet Jesus? (:6-7) :
2. The demon-possessed man
1) Where you live (:3):
2) What was your status? (:4-5) :
3. Then what did Jesus command him? (:8) :
What did you ask him? (:9):
4. What did the demon-possessed man plead with Jesus? (:10) :
(:12) :
5. What happened when Jesus granted supplication to a man possessed by a demon? (:13-14) :
6. What were the pig herders afraid of? (:15) :
7. What did the pig herders ask Jesus? (:17) :
8. Who followed Jesus as he left the place? (:18) :
9. But Jesus did ① how he (the man possessed by demons) made the request (:19):
② What did you ask him to do? (:19) :
10. How did he (the demon-possessed man) respond to Jesus' instructions? (:20) :
▣ Apply the Word
1. A body tired after meeting all day, an evening to finish everything, a long and rough sea road, but Jesus still has work to do. Where was it to save someone (exorcise)? Have you been looking for the salvation of one soul so deeply?
2. The demon-possessed person Jesus met was a person who had been thrown away from the town, so he could not live with the living and lived with the dead (tombs). Shouldn't we be looking for "non-human" people around us?
3. This demon-possessed man went back to the people (neighborhood) who had abandoned him and became an evangelist by telling what Jesus had done. Those who betrayed us, those who harmed us Shouldn't they be our target of evangelism?
▣ The resolution of the word
Let's not forget that the person everyone turns away from, abandons, doesn't pay any attention to, or bothers us, is the person we care about and need to go to.