Worship Next Sunday
August 20, 2017
Preaching:
Rev. Nathan Snyder
Sermon
Text: Mark 5:1-20
Sermon
Title: The
One Whom Demons Fear
Music:
Opening Hymn: (#80) Lord with
Glowing Heart I'd Praise
Preparation Hymn: (#303) Blessed
Jesus at Your Word
Response Hymn: (#646) Jesus,
Thou Joy of Loving Hearts
Closing Hymn: (#528) My Faith
Looks Up to Thee
Meditation
on God's Law: Sixth Commandment
Supporting
Passages: Psalm 70, 1 John
4:1-6
Preparation
Guide
Sunday:
Psalm 13
(Tonight: Main Text)
Monday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Tuesday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Wednesday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Thursday:
Psalm
70 (Next Sunday: OT Read.)
Friday:
1 John 4:1-6 (Next Sunday: NT Read.)
Saturday:
Mark 5:1-20 (Next Sunday: Main Text)
Meditating
on the Scriptures Together
Mark
5:1-20
[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.
1
John 4:1-6
[1]
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into
the world. [2] By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, [3]
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is
the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is
in the world already. [4] Little children, you are from God and have
overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world. [5] They are from the world; therefore they speak from the
world, and the world listens to them. [6] We are from God. Whoever
knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to
us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
