LIBERTY FROM LEGION, PART 4 – A MAN UNHINGED

“Liberty From Legion”, words and music by Paul Hayden Mark 5.5-7: 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 …

LIBERTY FROM LEGION, PART 3 – THE POWER

“Liberty From Legion”, words and music by Paul Hayden Mark 5.3-4: 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. …

LIBERTY FROM LEGION, PART 2 – THE MEETING

“Liberty From Legion”, words and music by Paul Hayden Mark 5.2: And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. (ESV) Mark and Luke tell us that when Jesus got out of the boat a man who had a demon met him. This man is the …

LIBERTY FROM LEGION, PART 1 – THE SETTING

“Liberty From Legion”, words and music by Paul Hayden Mark 5.1: They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. (ESV) In the town of Capernaum, after healing a number of people and seeing the crowd begin to grow, Jesus directed his disciples to cross the Sea of Galilee and go to the other …

JESUS REJECTED IN HIS HOMETOWN – PART 4

Mark 6.5-6: And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. (6) And he marveled because of their unbelief. (ESV) So the big losers in this interchange with Jesus were the majority of these hometown people. They could not see or believe beyond their own self-conceived notions …

JESUS REJECTED IN HIS HOMETOWN – PART 3

Mark 6.4: And Jesus said to them, ” A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” (ESV) The truth of verse four above is spoken in the Bible for the first time by Jesus. This truth is also recorded in Matthew, Luke and John, all reflecting slight variations in …

JESUS REJECTED IN HIS HOMETOWN – PART 2

Mark 6.3: “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. (ESV) Verse three communicates to us that Jesus had all the appearance of being ordinary in the eyes of these people of Nazareth. He …

JESUS REJECTED IN HIS HOMETOWN – PART 1

Mark 6.1-2: He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. (2) And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?” …