Legion Of Chains Series

ESSENTIAL KING JESUS: LEGION OF CHAINS

MARK 5:1-20

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USE AUDIO BIBLE: Mark Chapter 5:1-43 [5:32]

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/esv/Mark.5

INTRODUCTION

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/4768151/amazing-grace-my-chains-are-gone/viewlyrics

My chains are gone I've been set free; My God my Savior has ransomed me

And like a flood His mercy rains; Unending love amazing grace.

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/7060031/chain-breaker/viewlyrics

Verse 1

If you've been walking the same old road; For miles and miles

If you've been hearing the same old voice; Tell the same old lies

If you're trying to fill the same old holes inside; There's a better life; There's a better life

Chorus

If you've got pain He's a pain taker; If you feel lost He's a way maker

If you need freedom or saving; He's a prison shaking Savior

If you got chains He's a chain breaker

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/5910977/break-every-chain/viewlyrics

Chorus

There is power in the name of Jesus; There is power in the name of Jesus

There is power in the name of Jesus; To break every chain

Break every chain break every chain

Verse

All sufficient sacrifice; So freely given such a price; Bought our redemption Heaven's gates

Swing wide

Chorus

There is power in the name of Jesus; There is power in the name of Jesus

There is power in the name of Jesus; To break every chain

Break every chain break every chain

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/7074690/chains/viewlyrics

Verse 1

Jesus who You are amazes me; You laid Your own life down; To set the captives free

You knew the worst part; Still You chose to die; So in Your resurrection we could come alive

Chorus

There’s no other love like this; No other love that’s breaking chains chains

There’s no other love like this; No other love that’s breaking chains chains

You hear those chains falling falling off of me; And now we’re dancing 'cause were finally free

No other love like this no other love; That’s breaking chains chains

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/1773799/remember-your-chains/viewlyrics

(So) remember your chains; Remember the prison that once held you; Before the love of God broke through; Remember the place you were without grace; When you see where you are now

Remember your chains; And remember your chains are gone

ILLUSTRATION… https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/4293808/break-every-chain/viewlyrics

Break every chain; Break every chain; Where Your Spirit is; There is liberty

As You break every chain; Break every chain

Break every chain; Break every chain; Sins that bind; Are stripped away

As You break every chain; Break every chain

Break every chain; Break every chain; Forgiveness flows; And our love grows

As You break every chain; Break every chain

ESSENTIAL KING JESUS

We are in Mark chapter 5 this morning and we are going to look at an absolute amazing passage that describes what happened to Jesus when He entered an area where a demon-possessed man lived. The whole passage teaches us something very important about Jesus that we need to understand and that we definitely need to share with others. This Truth about Jesus speaks to our brokenness and the sinful nature that we all deal with.

We are focusing on the Essential King Jesus. Essential King Jesus from chapter 5 is: Jesus breaks our chains.

RE-READ MARK 5:1-5 (ESV)

They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet Him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

Jesus steps onto land and a man under bondage to evil immediately finds Him. We get a sense of this poor man’s life and it is not good. He had been driven to live in tombs. People had tried to help him by trying to chain him to control what was happening to him, but the evil in him was stronger than all chains and irons. The worst part I think is verse 5. The man was being tortured by the unclean spirits and he not only cried out in pain or anger or anguish, but he hurt himself as well.

What words would we use to describe this man? Deranged. Afflicted. Tormented. Unclean. Hurting. Bloody. Enraged. Miserable. Hostile.

I cannot help but notice that the man has been physically chained hand and foot and is very much chained symbolically to the demons that fill his life. Right away I can’t help but see our lives in this man. This man is chained by demons that infest his life. You and I might deal with chains as well.