Luke The Orderly Account of Truth - Fear of the Sovereign_Response of the Sinner - Luke 8:26-39

I'm glad you're all here. We are continuing our series going through the Gospel

of Luke called Luke The Orderly Account of Truth. Wow, this TV is

short, That's okay anyway. In the Gospel of Luke, we're looking at

Luke's careful examination and investigation into the life and ministry and the death and resurrection

of our Lord Jesus. And last week, Pastor Paul took us through the

account of Jesus calming a storm while sailing on the Sea of Galilee with his

disciples, and we read that Jesus's disciples were terrified when the storm hit because

it was so intense, and they seem to have forgotten, or at least

doubted, who was on the boat with him. The disciples wake Jesus from

his sleep because he's taken a nap during the storm. Because he's not scared,

they wake him up. Jesus steps forward, rebukes the storm and nature

itself submits to his power and authority, and Jesus asks his disciples, where

is your faith? Do you not know who's on board with you? And

in fear and amazement, the disciples asked one another, who is this?

He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him, and

their fear of this terrible storm shifts to fear and amazement of Jesus, their

teacher, and this awesome power and authority he just displayed. My sermon today

is titled Fear of the Sovereign Response of the Sinner. We're going to look

at another example of Jesus's power and authority, and also more examples of fear,

the types of fear that you see from people around him in his awesome

presence. Turn with me to Luke chapter eight, verse twenty six. If

you need a bible, we have some in the back on the tip that

is yours to keep. We're gonna read through verse thirty nine. Then I'll

pray and we'll dig into the text. Verse twenty six. They sailed to

the region of Garrisonis, which is across the lake from Galilee. When Jesus

stepped ashore, he was met by a demon possessed man from the town.

For a long time. This man had not worn clothes or lived in a

house, but had lived in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he

cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice.

What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High

God? I beg you don't torture me. For Jesus had commanded the impure

spirit to come out of the man many times it had seized him. And

though he was chained by excuse me, and though he was chained hand and

foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven

by the demon into solitary places. Jesus asked him, what is your name?

Legion? He replied, because many demons had gone into him, and

they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the abyss. A

large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus

to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission. When

the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and

the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. When

those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this

in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had

happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the

demons had gone out sitting at Jesus's feet, dressed and in his right mind,

and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people how

the demon possessed man had been cured. That all the people of the region

of Garrisonis asked Jesus to leave them because they were overcome with fear. So

he got into the boat and left. The man from whom the demons had

gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

return home and tell how much much God has done for you. So

the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for

him. Let's pray, Lord, as we dive into this text. From

your servant Luke, I asked that you would soften our hearts and make us

good soil to receive from your word, to apply it to our lives,

and to submit to its truth and authority. Lord, we thank you that

we can as Christians. Lord, we no longer have to live in fear

of you, but we can live in reverence of you. And how mighty

you are and how good you are to us. We thank you for this

text today, help us to understand it. And to bend to it in

your name. Amen. So in verse twenty six we see that right after

Jesus calms the storm while sailing on the sea of Galilee, the one that

terrified his disciples, they make port on the other side of the lake,

in the region of Garrisones, And as soon as Jesus stepped on to the

shore, he's met by a man that's demon possessed. And we're gonna read

it again real quick, and then we're gonna get deeper into what's happening here.

Nope, I'm gonna read from here. They sailed to the region of

Garrisones, which is across the lake from Goilee. When Jesus stepped ashore,

he was met by a demon possessed man from the town. For a long

time. This man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but

had lived in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and

fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, what do

you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I

beg you don't torture me. For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come

out of the man many times. It had seized him, and though he

was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains

and had been driven by the demon into solitary places. Now there are several

things to unpack here, several verses at once, I know, and I'm

gonna start by unpacking and looking at the demon possessed man that comes up to

Jesus, and real quick before I go any further. Matthew's Gospel tells this

story this encounter as well, and Matthew's Gospel it tells us that there were

actually two demon possessed men, but the gospels of Mark and Luke I only

focus on one of them. I just want you to be aware of that,

because when I reference Matthew's account of this encounter, if you're following along

with me in your Bible, is you're going to see that it says to

demon possessed man, And I don't want you to be confused or thrown off.

Cool. Cool. So this man is, as Luke details from his

investigation of eyewitness accounts, appears before Jesus says, something of a wild man.

He's been bound and kept under guard many times before because he was a

danger to the people around him. And Matthew's Gospel says in chapter eight twenty

eight that he was so violent that no one could pass that way, no

one could even walk past him. He was also a danger to himself if

you look in the Gospel of Mark, chapter five, verse five, which

says, night and day among the tombs and in the hills, he would

cry out and cut himself with stones. He had broken free of the chains

binding him and was living in isolation. Not only was he isolated, he

was living in the tombs outside among the dead for some time. This man

had not lived in a house. He wore no clothes, and had likely

not bathed, and the Lord knows how long. So try to imagine this.

Pretend you're a bystander on that same mountain side. Jesus gets out of

the boat, steps onto the shore, and is immediately run up on by

this violent, naked wild man who's been living outside among the dead, and

he's been cutting himself with sharp stones. And look what happens when this man

gets to Jesus verse twenty eight. We have it. When he saw Jesus,

he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of

his voice, what do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the

Most High God, I beg you don't torture me. There's two things I

want us to see here in this verse number one, it's the demon speaking

to Jesus, not the man. How do we know that? Because at

first glance, upon seeing Jesus, it's the man that speaks. It's from

the man that these words are being spoken. It's the man that appears to

be distraught at the side of Jesus. But we know it's the demon.

How do we know that because the demon knows who Jesus is. Earlier in

our reading through Luke's Gospel, Jesus had a different encounter with a demon that

went much the same way. This is ter four, verse thirty three.

In the synagogue, there was a man possessed by a demon in impure spirit.

He cried out at the top of his voice, go away, What

do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth, Nazareth? Have you come

to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.

So similar to this encounter, and Luke forward, Jesus is now approached

by this wild man. But once again it's the demon possessing the man speaking

through him. And it's the demon that speaks through the man and says this

at the tail end of verse twenty eight, shouting at the top of his

voice, what do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most

High God? I beg you don't torture me. It's the demon that's crying

out in fear of Jesus. Why, because the demon recognizes and is afraid

of who Jesus is, God, the Sun, God in flesh. The

second thing that's interesting in verse twenty eight is the contrast of this encounter compared

to what we read last week. In verse twenty five, look again at

how the disciples respond to Jesus when he displays his authority over the storm.

In fear and amazement, they asked one another, who is this? He

commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him. In fear

and amazement, they ask each other that question. Up until now, the

disciples have seen Jesus perform miracle after miracle. They have heard him speak with

wisdom and authority time and time again. But when Jesus calmed the storm with

a word, they were in fear and one in awe of him because of

what he did This is a power they never thought possible. They couldn't categorize

the kind of being that was among them. They realize they weren't in the

presence of a mere prophet. They're starting to see that Jesus wasn't just their

teacher living among them. They were in the presence of a being that they

could not categorize and could not fully comprehend. They don't fully know all of

who Jesus is. And in our text today, we find this demon crying

out in fear because it fully knows who is standing before it. While the

disciples couldn't fully comprehend all of who Jesus really is, and we're in on

fear of what Jesus could do would have just shown them. The demon is

in fear of Jesus because of who he is, the Holy One, the

son of the most High God, God in flesh. The demon knew that

Jesus was the one through whom the world and everything in it was created.

Go to John one, Verse one. In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was

with God in the beginning. Through him, all things were made. Without

him, nothing was made that has been made. Is there one more verse?

Nope, that's it. Ignore that Typo one through three. The demon

knew that Jesus is the Word, the one true God, that everyone on

earth will bow down to, and every tongue confess that he is Lord.

Look at Philippians two nine through eleven. Therefore God exalted him, Jesus,

to the highest place, and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and

on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is

Lord to the glory of God, the Father. The demon knows of Jesus's

deity. It knows that Jesus is the Word. He is the living God,

God in flesh, and it brings up the question every person on earth

is faced with, do I believe in God? Do I believe in God?

Seems pretty basic at first, but stay with me. Look at Romans

chapter one, verse eighteen. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven

against all the godlessness and wickedness of people who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

since what may be known about God is plain to them. Because God

has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world,

God's invisible qualities, his eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen,

being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse,

So that people are without excuse, Everyone will be without excuse. Everyone

at some point in their life will be faced with the question do I believe

in God? And if they answer yes, great, It's not enough.

It's not enough. Look at what James says in chapter two. You believe

that there is one God good. Even the demons believe that in shudder.

As we're seeing in today's text, the demon believes Jesus is God and shudders.

James wrote this to say, you believe in God, okay, and

so what the demons believing him too. Jesus is making the point that merely

knowing or believing in the One True God isn't enough. That mere belief in

God isn't what matters. The belief in God on its own is not what

saves a sinner. That belief in God on its own isn't what makes a

Christian. A Christian, a true Christian, a genuine born again believer places

their faith in Him and displays that faith through works with a desire to please

God. Catch this out of submission to him. A genuine born again believer

places their faith in him and displays that faith through works with a disare to

please him. Out of submission to him. This demon knew who Jesus is

and rightly feared him. But as James said, good so what. It's

not enough to merely believe that there is a God, or even to believe

that Jesus is the God. So the real question for every single person alive

and dead today is not do I believe in God or even do I believe

Jesus is God. The real question everyone must answer is do I submit to

Jesus as God and Lord? Do I submit to Jesus as God and Lord?

Do I merely believe Jesus's God? Or do I submit to him as

the one in power, believe he is God? Or do I submit to

the one in authority, the Master, the ruler, the King. Because

the reality is whether you believe in Jesus or not. At the final judgment,

every knee will bow before him and every tongue will confess that he is

Lord. Our choice and responsibility is whether or not we submit to him as

Lord. The belief in faith in his saving grace that erased our dead of

sin brings us to know and experience the ultimate expression of love. The submission

to him as Lord is when that faith is displayed through our works, our

words, and our actions. That is the proof of a professing Christian.

That's when our lives are radically changed because His ways are always going to be

better than yours. If you acknowledge the debt of your sin, if you

acknowledge that the debt of your sin is forgiven by the Savior, and submit

to him as your Lord, rejoice. You got it. You get to

walk in that freedom forever. You get to enjoy him for eternity and glorify

his name along the hosts of heaven, singing, Holy, Holy, Holy,

is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

Amen. Let's read verses twenty seven through twenty nine again to recap what

happened, and then we're gonna move on to verse We're gonna review verse twenty

nine. Let's read verse twenty seven. When Jesus stepped ashore, he was

met by a demon possessed man from the town and for a long time.

This man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived

in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at

his feet, shouting to the top of his voice, what do you want

with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you

don't torture me, For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of

the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained

hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had

been driven by the demon into solitary places. And I want us to catch

what Luke wrote here at the end of verse twenty nine. Look at the

last half of it. Many times it had seized him, and though he

was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains

and had been driven by the demon into a solitary into solitary places. Did

you catch it? The demon drove the man into solitary places. Now this

is a bit of a bunny trail from the main point of the text,

but I want to point it out. It's very important. This is Satan's

go to strategy. This is one of the ways he attacks us when we

are alone, and when we are at our most vulnerable. You were called

months ago when Pastor greg was teaching us about Jesus being tempted by Satan.

Do you remember where Jesus was when Satan came to tempt him. This goes

on your final score. But he was in the wilderness. He was alone

in the wilderness. He was isolated. Look at what Peter says about it

in First Peter chapter five. Be alert, in a sober mind your enemy.

The devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Satan's primary strategy for tempting us or attacking us is the same as a

lion on the prow It's the same as a lion on the hunt. The

devil gets us alone. He gets us isolated. He waits for the week

and the sickly to be separated from the flock, because it makes us easy

pray. This is one of the primary reasons we shouldn't even try to walk

out our faith alone, which is my next point. Find strength and faith

together, or stumble in faith alone. Find strength and faith together, or

stumble in faith alone. Hebrews Chapter ten, verse twenty three. Let us

hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Amen, and let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love

and good deeds, not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit

of doing, but encouraging one another. And all the more as you see

the day approaching, we should never let ourselves give up meeting together like this,

to encourage one another, to pray with one another, to worship God

together, to spur one another on towards love and good deeds. We are

weak, but we are at our weakest when we are alone. We are

at our weakest when we're alone. First Peter, verse eight of chapter five.

It told us how the devil acts. It told us his strategy,

and the very next verse tells us how we resist him. Spoiler alert,

it's together. Let's read it in context. Be alert and of sober mind

your enemy. The devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone

to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know

that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

How could we know that the family of believers throughout the world are undergoing

the same kind of sufferings if we are not actively in the family. And

you might say, well, because the Bible tells me so, Yeah,

it also tells you to be in the family. In Ecclesiastes, the preacher

writes two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.

If either of them falls down, one can help the other up,

But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also,

if to lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can

one keep warm alone? The one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. We are not designed

to carry our grief alone. We are not designed to struggle with our fears,

our anxieties, our depression alone. We are not designed to live in

this world full of pain and sin alone. Side thought, talking about fear

today, think about how much our fear is amplified when we're alone. We

are the body of Christ, his Church, his bride, whom he he

died for to bring us to salvation from all of that, together as we

await his return. Notice this verse in Ecclesiastes doesn't say two will never be

overpowered, or a quart of three strands can never be broken. We're not

invulnerable, we're not omnipotent, but we're certainly not perfect. But God is.

That's why when we spur one another on, we do it to spur

one another on in falling after him, falling after his perfection, and extend

the grace that He extended to us when we fail, as we strive to

follow in his ways and obey his commands, all the while resting in his

never ending love, peace and mercy. Okay, bunny trill done like Jordan.

That was a deer trail. Return to our text. Jesus is met

by this man. Jesus see that he is possessed and is being tormented,

and in Mark's Gospel, Chapter five, verse eight, we see that Jesus

tells the demon come out of this man. You impure spirit and the demon

while speaking through the man, responds in fear of Jesus and says, what

do you want with me? Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

I beg you don't torture me. Let's move on to verse thirty. Jesus

asks him, what is your name? Legion? He replied, because many

demons had gone into him, and they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them

to go into the abyss. The demon or demons fear who Jesus is,

and they fear the authority and power he has over them, and they're begging

him not to send them to the abyss. The abyss or bottomless pit,

depending on your translation, is the demon's destined place of torment at the appointed

time of God's final judgment. This is one of the places that the apostle

Paul excuse me, the apostle John saw in his vision and wrote about in

Revelation nine and chapter twenty if you want to read about that. During this

encounter, we see the demons say this in Matthew chapter eight, verse twenty

nine. And behold, they cried out, this is the demon. What

have you to do with us, o, Son of God? Have you

come here to torment us before the time? The demon knows it's permitted time

on Earth is limited and scheduled. It yeah, It fears the destination of

its final judgment, and it fears the sovereign Creator standing before it, who

has the power to send him out early if he wants to. Jesus has

the authority to cast it into the abyss before the final judgment. And you

can read about that in June Jude chapter one or Revelation chapter nine. But

continuing on in today's tech, this is chapter eight, verse thirty two.

A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged

Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission.

When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs,

and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned with

Jesus permission. The demon possesses a nearby herd of pigs. According to Marx

Gospel, it was numbered around two thousand pigs, and in the demon's desire

and thirst to kill and destroy, the demon causes the herd of pigs to

immediately rush off a cliff and drown in the Sea of Galilee. And I'll

say this about the pigs, another bunny trail, dear trail, whatever you

want to call it, for anyone that reads these verses and thinks, look

how cruel and unjust Jesus was to allow this demon to go into these innocent

creatures. Doesn't God. Doesn't God care about animals? Of course he does.

When God created all the fish in the sea, the birds of the

air, the beast of the field, and everything that creeps along the ground,

he called his creations good. He created them as expressions of his goodness,

and he cares for them. In the Book of Jonah, God when

God shows mercy to the city of Nineveh, and Jonah starts crying that he

would rather die than see God show mercy. Seriously, go read it.

I want you to show mercy these people. I'd rather die than see you

be merciful. God responds by saying this, and should I not have concern

for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than one hundred

and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and

also many animals. He cares for animals, and his command to Israel about

the Sabbath, he commanded that the animals are to rest as well. The

animals shall not work. He cares for them. We're also commanded to care

for them. This is Proverbs twelve to ten. The righteous care for the

needs of their animals, but the kindness acts of the wicked are cruel you

call yourself righteous than care for the animals that you have dominion over. So

if anyone asked the question, For anyone asking the question, didn't Jesus care

about these pigs? Yes he did. God cares about his creation. Now

hear this, But this possessed, tormented, tortured man in front of him,

his ultimate creation in humanity, full of dignity and value, was worth

more than these pigs. What we see here is not only Jesus' authority and

power over this demon and to do what he pleases, but also his compassion

for the man in front of him, this human being. It's out of

his compassion that he purposed to allow the death of two thousand animals to save

one human life. And to anyone that struggles with that reality in a time

where fish eggs are more protected than life in the womb, hear this human

life is more valuable. As a human. You need to know your worth,

your value in the eyes of God. That all human life is wonderfully

made and for the believer, Jesus's death on the cross granted us adoption to

sonship through faith in Him, making us not only wonderfully made, but mercifully

saved. That's my next point. You are wonderfully made, purposely saved,

and mercifully obtained. We are wonderfully made in the image of the Living God,

purposely brought to faith in, saved in Jesus, and lovingly obtained or

secure as a child of God. Trailed done, let's continue on in verse

thirty four. So the pigs run off the cliff. They drowned the lake.

When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and

reported this in the town and the countryside, And the people went out to

see what had happened. When they came to see Jesus, excuse me,

When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had

gone out sitting at Jesus's feet, dressed and in his right mind, and

they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people how the demon

possessed man had been cured. Then all the people of the region of genis

Aras asked Jesus to leave because they were overcome with fear. So we got

into the boat and left. Now, when I was reading this, I

was just like, this is how these people were spond but think about this.

Imagine being one of the people tending to these pigs. If this happened

to you today, you just be mining your own business, probably watching a

I don't know, YouTube video something. You're watching your pigs. All of

a sudden, you see crazy Carl run up to this man who just got

off a bow. So you get out your phone to start recording what's happening.

Next thing you know, your entire herd of two thousand pigs runs off

a cliff and drowns. You'd go tell the rest of the town too,

and you'd probably be afraid. And if it was my wife, she'd probably

start googling how long can pigs hold their breath? Sorry? I love you.

But everyone around the countryside and from the nearby town come to see what

just happened. They get there and they find the demon possessed man, crazy

Carl, I guess is what I'm calling him, clothed, calm and in

his right mind and sitting at the feet of Jesus. John MacArthur, in

his commentary of this passage and the transformation these people just saw, put it

this way, speaking of the demon possessed man, the formerly demon possessed man,

he was clothed, not naked, seated at the feet of Jesus,

not wandering aimlessly away from the tombs, the realm of the dead, and

in the presence of the Lord of Life, quiet, not shrieking, calm

and peaceful, not out of control, and deadly, comforted not tormented.

In short, manifesting given sanity, not demon inspired insanity. The man that

people knew about was completely changed. The man they now see sitting at the

feet of Jesus was completely transformed. And for us, this man is the

perfect example of a salvation transformation. The people show up and see a salvation

transformation, well we would say is a salvation transformation. And when they get

there, instead of seeing the transformation in this man and rejoicing, they see

him, they see Jesus, and they're overcome with fear, like the Disciples

when they were in the storm. Instead of let me back up, like

the Disciples, they're fearful of what Jesus had done, this incredible act of

power, and like the demon, they're overcome with fear of who Jesus is.

Before this wild man was saved by Jesus, they were in the presence

of destructive evil, and now Jesus is here in front of them, and

they're in the presence of restorative holiness. How many of us have shied away

from telling others about our faith in the Holy One. We probably assume that

the response we're gonna get is going to be one of anger or pride,

and that assumption is not unfounded, because when someone is confronted with the Gospel,

they're confronted by the One that is holy and without sin, like these

people were that came to see the former demon possessed man. When someone is

confronted with the Gospel, they come face to face with the truth that they're

not good. The Romans three ten, as it is written, there is

no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands.

There is no one who seeks God. All have turned away. They have

together become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one.

Their throats are open graves, their tongues practice deceit. The poison of

vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.

Their feet are swift to shed blood. Ruin and misery mark their ways and

the way of peace. They do not know. There is no fear of

God before their eyes when you're confronted with the gospel message of Jesus Christ.

At the root of any anger or pride you may feel is fear. Why

we feel fear because our imperfection, our sinfulness, our evilness is confers rounted

by the Holy One, who is all together perfect, sinless and good.

It's not until we repent of the sin in our lives and put our trust

in the Holy One that we can approach his throne of grace with boldness,

knowing that our sin is covered by the blood that He shed. When that

happens, we are no longer When that happens, we no longer have to

be in fear of God. By grace through faith, and in the death

by grace through faith, in the death and resurrection of the Sun, we

can now be in reverence of God. We no longer have to be in

fear of Him. We can be in reverence of Him. Take get the

band to come up. The people that came to see what had happened,

having been confronted with the Holy One, respond in fear of Jesus and tell

him to leave, and he does. In verse thirty eight, the man

from whom the demons had gone out, begged to go with him, but

Jesus sent him away, saying, return home and tell how much God has

done for you. So the man went away and told all over town how

much Jesus had done for him. How beautiful is this man's response. The

demon that feared him begged Jesus not to send it to the abyss. The

people that gathered there feared who they were confronted with and what he had done,

and begged Jesus to leave. But the one that Jesus saved begged to

go with him. Jesus saves him from his torment and the evil that was

controlling him, and he begs him to continue to follow him. Jesus denies

his request and gives him a greater mission, return home and tell how much

God has done for you. And what does the man do? He does

just that, he went all over town and told everyone what God had done.

In his joy and gratefulness, and out of his transformation, he obeys

and tells everyone how God had saved him. This man's response is our application

today to consider what Jesus has saved us from and follow him. Consider the

fear the disciples the demon and the townspeople had of Jesus. Consider that because

of his death on the cross, once we repent and put our faith in

him, we no longer have to be fearful of him as enemies. We

can be in reverence of him as children. Like the demon possessed man,

Jesus saved from the evil controlling him. He has saved us from our evilness,

our wickedness, our wickedness that controlled us. When we understand that transformation,

our response is gratefulness, joyful submission, born out of a desire to

follow him, a true and right form of worship to his glory and obedience

to his commands. How this man responded to what Jesus had done for him,

and his obedience to Jesus' command is how each of us should joyfully and

obediently respond by doing this, Tell all how much God has done for you.

Consider what God has saved you from, and what He has saved you.

To consider all of that. Respond in gratefulness, enjoy submission to the

command. To go tell others be like this man, Be like this man,

Tell all how much God has done for you.