Mark 5:1-20
1. What was the primary purpose for Christ ordering His disciples to go to the other side? What is the country of the Gerasenes?
2. Why was this deranged man living among the dead? From where did he get superhuman strength? Why would he cut himself with stones?
3. Why did he address Christ as ‘Jesus, Son of the Most High God’ and why did he beg not to be tormented by Him?
4. Why did he say his name was ‘Legion?’
5. Why were the demons concerned with being cast out of the area?
6. Why were the demons made to enter pigs and why did the pigs immediately drown?
7. When the demoniac requested to go with Christ, why was he told: ‘No, go back to your people?’
8. What is the Decapolis?
9. Why were people so afraid of Christ once the demoniac was delivered?
10. What relation does this text have to current cultures? What similarities exist between the country of the Gerasenes and our country?

Sermon Notes:

I. The Confrontation

II. The Conquest

III. The Commission

IV. The Conformation

Lessons Learned
1. The demonic realm is

1. Christ releases men from the demonic realm by the

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   of His word.

2. No one who

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   Christ believed Him to be merely a good teacher.

3. When ‘legion’ is ordered to enter pigs, this was a

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   of all men everywhere.