Luke 9a: HG Bishop Youssef

Jesus Restores a Demon Possessed ManIntroduction

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• In the first 8 chapters, the period of instruction of the disciples is now completed
• Now it is time to send them on their mission for two things:
  • To proclaim the gospel
  • To heal the illnesses in the people
• It is like after Pre-servants, you when they have completed their instruction, are sent to be Sunday School Servants

Outline

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• 1-6: Sending out the Twelve
• 7-9: Herod Seeks to See the Lord Jesus Christ
• 10-17: Feeding the Five Thousand (Gospel of the 9th Hour)
• 18-20: St Peter Confesses Jesus as the Messiah]
• 21-22: The Lord Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection
• 23-27: Take Up the Cross and Follow Me
• 28-36: The Transfiguration on Mt Tabor
• 37-42: A Boy is Healed
• 43-45: Jesus again Predicts His Death
• 46-48: Jesus answers "Who is the Greatest"
• 49-50: The Disciples and Serving Others
• 51-56: A Samaritan Village Rejects the Savior
• 57-62: The Cost of Discipleship

Sending Out the Twelve

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¹ Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. ² He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. ³ And He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.

^26 4 Then“Whatever theyhouse sailedyou toenter, thestay countrythere, ofand thefrom Gadarenes,there which is opposite Galilee.depart. ^27 5 And whoever will not receive you, when Heyou stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!” ²⁹ For He had commanded the unclean spirit to comego out of thethat man.city, shake For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he brokeoff the bondsvery anddust wasfrom drivenyour byfeet theas demona intotestimony theagainst wilderness.them.”

^30 6 Jesus asked him, saying, “What is your name?”

And he said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him. ³¹ And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.

³² Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. So they beggeddeparted Himand thatwent Hethrough wouldthe permittowns, thempreaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

• The Lord sent the disciples who are now able to entergive them. And He permitted them. ³³ Thento the demonspeople wentwhat outthey ofhave received
• This missionary journey is recorded in Matthew 9 and Mark 6
  • St Matthew gives the man and entered the swine,reason and the herddetail ranof violently downhow the steepLord placeprayed intoall night before sending them
  • ³⁶ But when He saw the lakemultitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were ^[j]weary and drowned.
    scattered, like

    ³⁴ Whensheep thosehaving whono fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. ³⁵ Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. ³⁶ They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed.shepherd. ³⁷ Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the wholelaborers are few. ³⁸ Therefore multitudepray the Lord of the surroundingharvest regionto send out laborers into His harvest.”

• He gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases
  • Power to work miracles (e.g. cure diseases)
  • Authority by which the whole demonic system was to be subjected to them
  • The same principle is true today: when God calls someone, He equips them with the gifts that they need for ministry
  • God does not call the equipped, but He equips the called.
  • St Luke mentions both demons and diseases because the treatment of the Gadarenes askedtwo was not the same
    • Demons were to be cast out
    • Diseases to be healed
• The main mission was to preach the kingdom of God
  • Sometimes in our churches when we want to do missionary work, we feed the homeless, go to orphanages, visit the sick, etc. This is not missionary work... it's charitable work.
  • But missionary work is that while we do these charitable deeds, we preach the Kingdom of God
• The purpose of the authority over illness and demons is to CONFIRM their mission that they are sent by God
  • He did not send them only to present a message, but to do good to them with supernatural power
  • To heal the spiritual illness as well as the physical illness
  • The Wholistic Approach - dealing with the person as a whole
• The Lord will address their:
  • Material Needs
  • Social Relations
• Take nothing for the journey
  • He tells them to go as they are
  • The disciples were engaged in very holy work, so they could not give the impression that they have any other motive
  • God offered them the power and the authority and granted them the power of preaching and the power of healing before asking them to give up anything
  • He is asking them to rely on God and trust Him to departto take care of them
    • When they travel light, they are dependent on God
    • If the preacher, himself, does not trust God, how will he tell the people to trust God?
• Stay in the same house the whole time you are in a city
  • Don't be distracted in moving from them,place forto place
  • We see this applied in Acts 16 when Paul and Silas stayed at the house of Lydia the whole time they were seizedin Philippi
• Shake off the Dust
  • Their duty is to persuade the people with great fear.the Andmessage He got intoof the boatGospel, andbut returned.if the people of that city do not accept them, they should shake off the dust from their feet
  • There was a Jewish tradition that when they walked through a city of Gentiles, they would shake off the dust from their feet - a gesture that means "we don't want to take anything from this city of unbelievers"
  • This instruction means that any city that does not accept the message of the Gospel is as a city of unbelievers

Herod Seeks to See the Lord Jesus

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^38 7 Now Now Herod the mantetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,dead, ^39 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. ⁹ Herod said, “ReturnJohn I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?” So he sought to yoursee own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.Him.

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  • ItHerod Antipas (mentioned here) was mostlythe occupiedson byof Gentiles,Herod thoughthe someGreat, Jewsand didwas resideruler inover itGalilee
  • Herod Antipas is also the one who beheaded St John the Baptist
• MostHerod detailedwas descriptionnot of a demon possessed maninterested in the BibleLord Jesus in any sincere spiritual way, but interested in Him as a "celebrity"
  • ClassicHe profileobserved the popular thinking about who Jesus was (some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah or one of athe manprophets possessed- with demonsv19)
  • JesusWe will see later that Herod simply wants to see Him so he can see a miracle
• John the Baptist's Beheading is in Matthew 14
• Who did notpeople directlythink seekJesus outwas? to
  reach
  • Some thisthought man,that butJesus was St John because they both preached a message of repentance
  • Some thought that Jesus was a famous miracle worker like Elijah as promised in Malachi 4:5-6
  • Some thought that Jesus was a prophet as Moses promised in Deuteronomy 18:15-19
• Herod was perplexed
  • All of these rumors about Jesus left Herod confused
  • He had a guilty conscience over the manmurder wasof drawnJohn tothe JesusBaptist
  • A guilty conscience brings confusion and perplexity because God is not the author of confusion
• St Luke portraysnotes this to emphasize and warn us about the characterincreasing ofdanger surrounding the Savior as a Friend who works continuously for the sake of one or two people
  • The Lord came all the way to this city, healed this man, and went back
  • Although this man and others like him, were rejected and not esteemed by the community, the Lord came for them
• Demon Possession
  • This demon would try and seize him (give him seizures) and give him great power to break through bonds and chains
  • The sightwork of the Lord Jesus
  was
  • St enoughLuke records more than one reference to makeHerod the demon tremble
  • "WhatChapter have9: IHerod wants to dosee withJesus... You,maybe Jesus, Sonbecause of thehis Mostguilty Highconscience God?"or -maybe Leavehe mewanted alone!
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  • "I beg You, do not torment me!" - This statement is so ironic because the man was constantly tormented by the demons, yet the demons askkill the Lord notas tohe tormentkilled them.John
  • DespiteChapter their13: power, the Lord has more power because He is God
  • "What is your name?"
    • Instead of the man answering his human name, the demons spoke by his mouth and said "Legion"
    • The man's condition was so miserable that he could not even say his own name... the demons have complete control over him
    • A Legion is 6,000 soldiers so this man was likely possessed by 6,000 demons.
  • The Abyss
    • The deep place of torment of the demons (Revelation 9)
  • Swine
    • When the demons cannot destroy the person, they will destroy his goods. If they can't hurt the people in their bodies, they will hurt them in their goods and possessions.
    • Why would the Lord Jesus allow them to possess the swine? The swine were kept in a Jewish property which is a violation of the Jewish Law (because pigs are unclean animals)
  • The whole country AND the surrounding region
    • They feared Him maybe because they thought He would discipline them for breaking the law by keeping the swine and thought "what other judgments and punishments might we suffer"
    • They didn't mind having the demon-possessed man among them, but they minded having the Lord Jesus in their presence
  • The Lord told the man to go and tell them what great things GOD has done for you and the manPeople went and told all the things JESUS had done for him... there is no contradiction because Jesus is God.
  • Why did the Lord not allow this grateful man to be one of His disciples
    • Perhaps through his testimony, some of the hard-hearted Gadarenes will believe and be won to God
    • This is the man's ministry
  • The value of one soul to the Lord
    and
    • Hesaid traveled"Herod wants to thiskill cityyou" ONLYand forthe thisLord personreplied -“Go, Hetell didn'tthat dofox, anything‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be ^[j]perfected.’"
    • Chapter 23: The Lord Jesus faces Herod on the other sidemorning of theHis Seacrucifixion. ofHerod Galileewas exceptglad because he wanted Him to healdo thisa onemiracle. person
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  ^40 10 SoAnd itthe was,apostles, when Jesusthey had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. ¹¹ But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing. ¹² When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the multitude welcomedaway, Him,that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.”

  ¹³ But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

  And they weresaid, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all waitingthese for Him.people.” ^41 14 For there were about five thousand men.

  Then He said to His disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.” ¹⁵ And behold,they theredid came a man named Jairus,so, and hemade wasthem all sit down.

  ¹⁶ Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷ So they all ate and were ^[a]filled, rulerand twelve baskets of the synagogue.leftover Andfragments hewere felltaken downup atby Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house, ⁴² for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him.them.

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  • Disciples vs Apostles
    • In verse 1, St Luke calls them "Disciples" but in verse 10 "Apostles"
    • Before the mission, they were disciples - pupils, students, learners
    • After the mission, they are called apostles - "those sent with authority and a message"
    • (e.g. after pre-servants they are called 'servants')
    • The spirit of discipleship is important regardless of rank or order or service (i.e. indeacon, Galilee)servant, andpriest, thebishop, multitude welcomed Him and were waiting for Him
      • Contrast this with the Gadarenes and surrounding region where all the people asked Him to leavepope)
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      • JairusAs iswe sincerehave inServants his requestreporting to the LordCoordinator, (fellreporting down at His feet and begged Him)
        • This shows thatto the enthusiasmclergy, forreporting to the Lordbishop, wasreporting not justto the poor people - Jairus is rich
        • It was not just the non-religious people - Jairus is a ruler of the synagogueSynod
      • Despite hisThe humilityLord andtook histhem statusinto asa rulerprivate of the synagogue, his faith is weaker than the Centurionplace
        • JairusThe askedLord took special care of those who served Him
        • Bethsaida is the Lordcity of Andrew, Peter, John and James - close to comethe Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee)
        • That they might retire and be alone to hisget housesome rest and refreshment after their ministry, to healhave hissome daughter; Theprivate Centuriontime believed thatwith the Lord was ableLord, to healreceive hiswords servantof withcomfort aand wordblessing, from afar off
        • The Centurion thought he was not worthy that the Lord enter his house; Jairus asked the Lord to enter his houseetc.
      • While theThe Lord was on the way to Jairus' house, there was an interruption

      ⁴³ Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, ⁴⁴ came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.

      ⁴⁵ And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”

      When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”

      ⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” ⁴⁷ Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.

      ⁴⁸ And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

      • The woman has been bleeding for 12 years... the same age as Jairus' daughter. From the same time Jairus' daughter was born, this woman has been bleeding.
      • St Luke, as a physician, refers to the physicians here respectfully. But in Matthew and Mark, they document that she was "tormented by physicians"
      • Besides her physical illness, her bleeding made her ceremonially and socially unclean - this is a burden to live under for 12 years. Anything on which she sat or lay became unclean. Anyone who touched her became unclean. Her bed and her garments are unclean. She could not attend Synagogue or participate in Temple worship. Her condition was embarrassing.
        • She should not even be amongserved the crowd becausethat anyonefollowed whoHim touched
          her
          • wouldHe becomereceived unclean.them
            • Without anger
            • SheWithout wouldmaking bethem condemnedfeel even for touching Jesus. So she wanted to be healed secretly.guilty
            • SheWithout believed in the healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ - even the border of His garment.
            • She touched the tassel of His garmentrebuke
          • Who touchedHe Me?spoke Forto Ithem perceivedabout powerthe goingKingdom outof from MeGod
            • ThisSpiritual questionFood
            didn't
            make any sense to the disciples... St Luke just told us that the multitude thronged Him
          • There wereHe people all around who made some contact with Him
          • But the Lord said no! Someone - just one - touched Me intentionally with the touch of faith
          • Who touched Me?
            • In every meeting - Bible Study, Liturgy, Youth Meeting, Sunday School - I imagine the Lord asks this question: "Who touched Me?"
            • And we might say like the disciples... many people attended! How can You ask "who touched Me?"
            • And the Lord will say "I know many came and attended and had casual contact with Me, but I am asking abouthealed those who connectedhad with Me and touched Me with faith, and received power from Me to be healed from their sins"
            • Manyneed of ushealing come
              to
              • Did allgood offor these church services with no purpose - we are part of the crowd. But the voluntary living contact of faith is like an electric current that draws power from the Lord Jesus Christ.them
          • The woman realized she was not hidden
            • The Lord called her forward, and this may have embarrassed her... but that was not His purpose
            • He did so that she would know that she is healed
              • So she doesn't wonder if the bleeding will return
              • So she knows that it was her faith that made her well. Just the mere touch like anyone else in the multitude wasn't enough.31:56

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            ¹⁸ And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that theI peopleam?”

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            but
            • This is an illness that no one can see
            • People may not believe her if she goessome say Elijah; and says out of nowhere others say that the bleeding has stopped - after 12 years of physicians.
            • To contrast her faith with that of Jairus and to encourage Jairus in his faith
            • To bless her
              • He called her daughter
              • Jesus never called any other person in the Scripture by the name "daughter"
            • To heal her psychologically
              • The woman's suffering was not only physical, but also psychological
              • She felt rejected, not having human touch for 12 years
              • Wholistic Approachone of the Lordold
                • Physicians should deal with a person as body, spirit, soul; not just body
                • Counselors should deal with a person as body, spirit, soul; not just soul
                • Clergy and spiritual leaders should deal with a person as body, spirit, soul; not just spirit.
                • The Lord healed her body, then encouraged her calling her daughter and granting her His peace (Soul), and telling her "your faithprophets has maderisen you well" (Spirit)
          again.”

          ^49 20 While He wassaid stillto speaking,them, “But someonewho camedo fromyou thesay rulerthat I am?”

          Peter answered and said, “The Christ of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Teacher.God.”

          • Jairus 
          must
          have been frustrated during all of this... every minute counts!
          • When he heard these words, maybe he started to blame the

            The Lord Jesus Christ...Christ "IPredicts toldHis You my daughter is dying... why didn't you come with me quickly? Why worry that someone touched You? Why have this long conversation with this woman?"

          • God sometimes seems slow to the sufferer, but God is never slow
          • This interruption was another test of faith for Jairus
          • Imagine how Jairus' heart must have sank when he heard that his daughter had died.

        ⁵⁰ But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid; only believe,Death and sheResurrection will be made well.”

         ⁵¹ When He came into the house, He permitted no one to go in except Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the girl. ⁵² Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.” ⁵³ And they ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead.

        ^54 21 But He put them all outside, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.” ⁵⁵ Then her spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He strictly warned and commanded that she be given something to eat. ⁵⁶ And her parents were astonished, but He charged them to tell this to no oneone, ²² saying, “The whatSon hadof happened.Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

        • The Lord gave Jairus two commands
          • Do not be afraid
            • Fear and faith don't go together
            • "Why are you afraid, O ye of little faith"
            • To put away fear is a decision 

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          ²³ Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to believecome whileafter youMe, arelet stillhim afraid...deny himself, and take up his cross ^[b]daily, and follow Me. ²⁴ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. ²⁵ For what profit is it won'tto work.a Putman awayif he gains the fearwhole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? ²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the faithSon of Man will come.be ashamed

          when
        He
      • This is the first timecomes in theHis own glory, Gospeland in of Luke that we see Peter, JamesHis Father’s, and John singled out to accompany the Lord
        • They will also accompany Him at the Transfiguration (Luke 9) and at the garden of Gethsemane
      • Dead or Sleeping
        • Anyone would know the difference between dead and asleep
        • They ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead
        • He put out those who ridiculed Him
          • Likely they were "professional mourners" who were hired to add to the atmosphere of mourning at a death or funeral
          • These people were not interested in faith, so he drove them out so that they would not discourage the faith of the others
          holy
          angels. ²⁷ But
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      • Tell no one what had happenedGod.”
        • People were so excited - a huge multitude was waiting for Him. The Lord did not need extra attraction or attention. The crowds were increasing. This excitement was temporary.
        • He wanted the excitement to clear and be replaced with real and genuine faith
      • The Lord did not fail Jairus as He did not fail the bleeding woman
        • He needed to stretch Jairus' faith. With this experience, definitely the faith of Jairus grew
        • The work of the Lord is different, and yet the same
          • Jairus had a 12 year old daughter and her life was about to be ended; the woman was bleeding for 12 years in agony that seemed hopeless to heal
          • Jairus was an important man; ruler of the synagogue. This woman was nobody. We don't even know her name.
          • Jairus was wealthy; this woman was poor, having spent all her money on physicians
          • Jairus came publicly; this woman came secretly
          • Jairus thought Jesus had to do a lot - come to the house, etc. This woman thought all she needed is to touch the border of the garment of the Lord.
          • Jesus responded to the woman immediately, but responded to Jairus after a delay
          • Jairus' daughter was healed secretly, but the woman was healed publicly.