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Mark 5 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word together. In Mark chapter 5, Jesus
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  performs a trio of miracles that, though they may seem
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  disconnected from one another on the surface, work together to
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  display one beautiful truth about the Savior.
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  First, Jesus comes into the country of the Garrisons and
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  encounters a demon possessed man, or as Mark says it, a man
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  with an unclean spirit. No one was able to control this
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  man, so he made his home among the tombs, a place that would
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  make a person unclean after having been around the dead,
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  meaning it was a place of isolation for this demon
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  possessed man. People would literally put
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  chains and shackles around him, and through the strength of the
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  evil spirits within him, he would physically break the
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  chains. He spent day and night
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  tormented, screaming and gashing himself with stones.
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  As Jesus approached him, he fell down before him and shouted.
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  What business do we have with each other?
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  Jesus, Son of the Most High God, I implore you, by God, do not
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  torment me. Though the world may not
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  recognize Jesus, the demons certainly do.
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  Jesus then cast out what we find out is a legion of demons from
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  this man, and at the request of the demonic horde, cast them
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  into a herd of pigs that rushed off a steep bank and into the
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  sea. And so the casting out of this
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  legion is miracle #1 next Jesus is approached by a synagogue
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  official named Jairus, whose daughter was sick to the point
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  of death. But as Jesus headed to Jairus
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  house, he was interrupted. Among the crowd of people that
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  was pressing in on him was a woman who'd had a hemorrhage for
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  12 years. She'd been bleeding for 12
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  years. This would have, for essentially
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  all of the last 12 years, made her unclean and caused her to
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  have to live as a sort of outcast.
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  This woman made her way through the crowd and desperately
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  touched the cloak of Jesus, thinking, if I just touch his
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  garments, I'll get well. And when she touched him, she
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  was made well. Jesus, knowing that power had
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  flowed from him, asks who touched him and gives the woman
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  an opportunity to tell the truth.
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  And when she does, he said to her daughter, Your faith has
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  made you well. Go in peace and be healed of
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  your affliction. Miracle #2 Finally, we get back
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  to Jairus's daughter while Jesus was still speaking to the
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  hemorrhagic woman. He's just healed.
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  People come from Jairus's house with the news that his little
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  daughter has died. But Jesus was unmoved.
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  He said do not be afraid any longer, only believe.
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  Then he entered the room where the now dead girl was lying and
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  took her by the hand and said to her, Talith akum or little girl,
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  I say to you, get up. And at once this little 12 year
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  old got up and began to walk. Miracle #3 Now what do these 3
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  miracles have to do with one another?
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  I'm glad you asked. In each of these three
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  scenarios, the demon possessed man, the bleeding woman, and
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  Jairus's dead daughter. Uncleanness is front and center.
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  Going among the tombs would have made one unclean.
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  Jesus interacts with what Mark calls an unclean spirit, a touch
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  from an unclean woman, and touching the hand of a recently
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  deceased girl. All of these things should have
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  made Jesus unclean. Jesus is entering uncleanness,
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  but rather than the uncleanness rubbing off on Jesus, as the Son
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  of God enters these situations, His cleanness, His power, his
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  perfection and holiness rubs off on those who were unclean.
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  He enters uncleanness, and rather than being made unclean,
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  he makes the unclean one clean. He enters brokenness and doesn't
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  walk out broken, but walks out having made the broken one
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  whole. And friends, this is the gospel.
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  Jesus has entered into our sinful state.
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  He's engaged us when we were far from him and sick and dirty and
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  dead, and has made us new and near and alive and whole and
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  clean. So don't hide your mess from
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  Jesus. Don't fear how He might respond
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  when you come near Him. He is our only hope.
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  He is the only one who can heal us.
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  Let us go to Him over and over and over and receive His healing
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  touch and be made clean.