Lord's Day Sermon
March 29, 2026
Out of the Tombs
Sermon Details
Read passage (ESV) — Mark 5:1-20
Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon
5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 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. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 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.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 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.
14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 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. 16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 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.” 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
Outline
- Jesus as the True Israel and Servant King seeks His lost children, covering all distances, shattering all resistance and reversing all previous curses so that we can be cleansed, clothed and set free from the ______________, placed in a family of servants who continually beg to be closer to ______________.
- We resist Jesus the Servant-King by clinging to the world's false peace through promises of ______________ management, and by feeding our flesh in the dark ______________ attempting to peacefully coexist with our demons in private rather than surrender to His Holy authority.
- Jesus experienced the rejection and torturous isolation of the ______________ that we deserved for our idolatry that denied the power of his holy promise, so that we could experience a ______________ life in Him, replete with joy, a renewed mind, and a heart that begs for Christ.
- Because of Christ's perfect work, we get to desire and experience a ______________ that transcends all understanding as we look forward to being in Christ's presence forever which anchors us against worldly storms and fleshly winds as we serve even among the ______________, telling others about Him in words and deeds.