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Hi everyone and welcome back to 
the podcast. 

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Today we're looking at Mark 
chapter 1, continuing from 

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yesterday, but today, we're 
looking at verses 21 to 28 and 

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as you see in this particular 
passage Jesus performs an 

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exorcism on an unclean spirit. 
So we're Going to talk a little 

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bit about what's going on here. 
So let's start by looking at the

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passage that you'll hear. 
If you go to mass today, Mark 

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chapter 1 verses 21 to 28. 
Jesus and his disciples went as 

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far as Capernaum and as soon as 
the Sabbath came, he went to the

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synagogue and began to teach and
his teaching made a deep 

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impression on them, because 
unlike the scribes, he taught 

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them with authority, in their 
synagogue, just then there was a

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man possessed by an unclean 
spirit and it shouted. 

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What do you want with us? 
Jesus of Nazareth. 

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Have you come to destroy us? 
I know who you are. 

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The Holy One of God. 
But Jesus said, sharply be 

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quiet, come out of him. 
And the unclean Spirit through 

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the man into convulsions and 
with a loud cry, went out of 

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him. 
The people were so astonished 

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that they started asking each 
other, what it all meant. 

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Here is a teaching that is new, 
they said and with authority 

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behind it, he gives orders even 
to unclean spirits and they obey

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him. and his reputation rapidly 
spread everywhere through all 

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the surrounding Galilean 
Countryside, Okay, so that's our

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passage today and things are 
starting to ramp up a bit for 

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Jesus. 
He's been baptized his moved 

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into Capernaum, his home base. 
He started to preach the kingdom

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and now he does this sign as a 
sign that the kingdom has, 

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indeed come. 
So at the start of the passage 

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here in verse 21, it says they 
went as far as Capernaum or 

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other translations to simplify 
it a bit to say he went into 

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Capernaum. 
So this is one of the towns 

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around the Sea of Galilee so 
Jesus has been Spending time in 

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Galilee earlier, in chapter 1, 
and now he's coming to 

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Capernaum, which he is his 
current home town, it's a 

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fishing Village, and Jesus 
spends a lot of time here. 

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As soon as Sabbath came or in a 
more literal translation 

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immediately on the Sabbath, 
remember in the gospel of Mark, 

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the word immediately appears a 
lot, almost twice in every sort 

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of major passage. 
You'll see the word immediately.

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That's how Mark writes. 
He says this happened, then 

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immediately that happened. 
So it's almost like he's giving 

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us a movie script. 
So it's on this sabbath. 

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So in that culture on the 
Sabbath there was obviously lots

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of rules about what they 
shouldn't do, but one of the 

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things they had to do on the 
Sabbath was that they had to 

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attend their local synagogue 
which is kind of like the local 

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Parish church and when they are 
there at the synagogue on the 

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Sabbath day that have prayer 
readings and instruction in the 

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Old Testament much like what you
might hear at mass today 

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although perhaps a few less 
rituals it's more of a teaching 

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opportunity. 
There would be a homily of 

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sorts, so they'd read a passage 
from the Old Testament. 

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And then someone will get up and
provide a bit of a homily or 

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commentary on the words that 
they're just heard from the Old 

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Testament. 
The homily could actually be 

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done by anyone can be done, why 
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which is actually not that many 
people because not that many 

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people could read or write. 
So usually it was done by the 

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local Alder or a scribe, but a 
traveling preacher who knew the 

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scriptures, well, could 
sometimes preach the homily. 

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Component was a reasonably busy 
talents that was probably quite 

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a few people that could do it. 
But in this case, Jesus, 

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preaches because he's already 
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As a teacher and a miracle 
worker, he's become quite 

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popular so he gets up and 
preaches, the sermon on this 

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day. 
Now, Mark doesn't tell us what 

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Jesus preached in this 
particular homily, we don't get 

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the text of the homily here. 
But we know the crowd's reaction

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in verse 22. 
The crowds it says the crowds 

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thought unlike the scribes, he 
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So the people of Capernaum were 
used to hearing from the scribes

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every week and it appears that 
the scribes when they did their 

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homilies kind of just made stuff
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thought the correct 
interpretation of the Old 

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Testament was or basically just 
based on their own ideas and 

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preferences But these people are
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Jesus homily is quite different.
It seems that Jesus seems to 

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know what he's genuinely talking
about, and he appears to be 

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appointed by God. 
They're Amazed by his authority,

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his really, apparently to them 
seems to have some sort of Mark 

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that he has come from God, that 
he has Authority. 

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Unlike the scribes who just make
stuff up, Verse 23 in their 

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synagogue was a man possessed 
and in the original here it says

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immediately a man who is 
possessed and so there's that 

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word again. 
Now, what's going on here? 

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We have a man who is possessed, 
but he's in the synagogue, 

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there's a couple of different 
explanations here because you 

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would think that a demon would 
not be interested in going to 

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the synagogue. 
So, there's two possibilities. 

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Probably his acting Incognito. 
The demon is sort of pretending 

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that he's not there. 
And so probably this demon acts 

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in a way where he's possessed 
the man, but no one knows that 

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the man's possess. 
So he sort of acting like the 

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man would normally act. 
So he's probably making the man 

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go about his normal daily 
business so that no one thinks 

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any differently. 
Probably no one knows that he's 

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possessed. 
So he going to this the demon 

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says. 
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We're going to go to the 
synagogue, like we do every 

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week, so in order to keep the 
act up and so you probably 

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didn't know that Jesus would be 
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That's one possibility. 
So the demon could be acting 

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Incognito and just treating the 
man like a puppet and no one 

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knows. 
The second possibility though is

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that the man is actually in 
control of his body and the 

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demon only shows up sometimes. 
So he's got a bit of a lesser 

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influence on the man. 
Perhaps the demon only manifests

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in certain situations, but 
apparently the demon is provoked

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by whatever Jesus said, in his 
homily, what is an uncleaned the

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term here is unclean Spirit? 
What exactly is this thing? 

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Well, it's a Jewish term in that
culture for a defiled or 

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unnatural supernatural being 
something is, it's not a pure 

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supernatural, being like an 
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The word demon is also you. 
So unclean spirit, and Demon. 

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Same Nothing. 
They're mentioned in the Old 

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Testament, but pretty rarely you
don't often hear about demons in

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the Old Testament. 
Although, Saul the King Saul in 

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1000 BC is apparently plagued by
a demon, so they're around, but 

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not much. 
So, probably, it seems that by 

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the time of Jesus, particularly 
in the 400 years, leading up to 

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Jesus, there was a lot more 
prevalence about of demons and a

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lot more people writing about 
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If you read The Book of Tobit, 
which was written a couple of 

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centuries before Jesus, there's 
some demons in that book as 

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well. 
So demons had apparently become 

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quite common, and it was now an 
accepted scary part of Jewish 

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life. 
Serious Jews recognized that in 

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their town. 
There probably was a couple of 

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people that were possessed by 
demons and they would usually 

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steer clear of those people 
because it's pretty scary to 

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have to confront a demon. 
So the Jews did believe in 

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demons, they knew that these 
unnatural supernatural beings 

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existed and that you should stay
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But the Jews didn't really 
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were, it would appear. 
There was no consensus on where 

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these beings came from. 
The New Testament also doesn't 

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give us a whole lot about the 
background of demons. 

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The New Testament, tells us that
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tell us where, what they're up 
to or where they came from later

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Church. 
Teaching would clarify that 

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these beings are some kind of 
Fallen Angel and the catechism 

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tells us a bit more about that. 
Probably important to say this 

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point, as well as a lot of 
modern Scholars or liberal 

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Scholars would say that demons 
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Oh, and the Jews at the time and
the gospel authors thought that 

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demons were real, but they just 
didn't have a good medical 

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knowledge. 
Had they had the medical 

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knowledge we have today, they 
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people were just had 
psychological conditions or, you

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know, some sort of mental 
illness. 

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And there's no such thing as 
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If you read the gospels, it's 
pretty clear that these demons 

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are real things and that they 
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Particularly, if you look at the
way that they're exercised, look

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at the way that they control 
these people in the things that 

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they say. 
About Jesus. 

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So certainly Mark is intending 
to tell us that there was a real

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supernatural being in this man. 
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So the demon says to Jesus, what
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So the demon is scared at this 
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Satan and the demons are in 
control of the world, it's their

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territory. 
And they know the kingdom of God

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is going to come one day, but 
they're not expecting it this 

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soon. 
So, here's the demon is, 

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genuinely surprised and 
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So the demon says to Jesus, have
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So the demons do know a little 
bit about God and His Plan of 

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Salvation, though, not 
everything they know a little 

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bit and they know that the 
kingdom of God is going to come 

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one day. 
And when it does come, they the 

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demons will be judged and 
destroyed. 

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Now the demons just like the 
Jews at the time of Jesus didn't

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really understand that the 
kingdom of God is going to come 

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in two stages. 
So the demons just thought the 

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kingdom of God will come one day
through the Messiah and they'd 

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be wiped out straight away. 
But Jesus would, as he'd go on 

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to reveal, is that the kingdom 
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But there would only reach its 
consummation one day in the 

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future when the Judgment 
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The demon goes on. 
He says, I know who you are the 

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Holy One Of God. 
So, this is really early in 

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Jesus Ministry. 
Jesus hasn't yet told anyone 

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that he's the Messiah or the 
Holy One Of God. 

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He hasn't revealed his Divine 
identity, but the demon being a 

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spiritual creature supernatural,
being recognizes that Jesus is 

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the Messiah. 
He can see that. 

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This is the Holy One Of God, 
that they should be worried 

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about. 
So it's can be hard to work out 

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what demons know and what they 
don't know but I think we can 

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say this as a summary and 
appears that demons know that 

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God is going to send a messiah 
to bring in the kingdom of God 

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and that when he does they'll be
wiped out and they also 

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recognize that Jesus is the 
Messiah so they're able to piece

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all of that information together
but some things they don't know,

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they don't know the exact timing
of when the kingdom of God is 

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coming. 
Secondly, they don't know that 

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the Messiah is going to die in 
order to bring about salvation. 

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They do not perceive that they 
don't try to stop Jesus from 

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going to the Cross because they 
don't realize what Jesus is 

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going to do on the cross. 
They actually see Jesus death as

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a victory. 
They say yes, the messiah's did.

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He can't do any more damage to 
us so they don't realize what 

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God is trying. 
It will what God is going to do 

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on the cross through? 
Jesus so demons know more than 

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we do. 
At this point in history, but 

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they don't perceive everything. 
Some schools have also said, 

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there might be another element 
here. 

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When the demon says to Jesus, I 
know who you are, they some 

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Scholars would think this is a 
common demon tactic, as in that 

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they claim knowledge of the 
person's name and identity in 

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order to throw the person off. 
So some people think the demons 

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are trying to throw Jesus off 
here by saying I know who you 

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are. 
And in that sense, they're 

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trying to surprise Jesus and get
some control over him. 

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So, all of that is in the demons
mind as the demon speaks verse 

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25. 
Jesus said sharply, sorry, our 

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text said Jesus said sharply or 
another translation is, Jesus 

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rebuked him. 
And here's what Jesus says, be 

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quiet. 
Or another translation is been 

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muzzled. 
So why does Jesus say that Jesus

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doesn't want to engage this 
demon in a conversation? 

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He doesn't want his identity 
known as soon as the demon says.

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I know who you are. 
The Holy One Of God, Jesus says,

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be quiet. 
Jesus does not want his identity

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known yet. 
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So he exercises, the demon And 
the time to do that, he says 

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come out of him. 
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apparently familiar with 
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There were some gifted spiritual
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preachers who could do exorcisms
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But Jesus is able to do it very 
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through the man into 
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So the demon is doesn't want to 
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basically a trying to find a 
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They want to inhabit a body and 
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without a fight. 
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the gospels that demons when 
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hang around for a while and then
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Exorcist today there are some 
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exorcists will tell you that 
they when they perform 

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exorcisms, they see similar 
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The demon puts up a fight and 
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convulsions. 
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The demon leaves him. 
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It's not killed or something, 
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Probably. 
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try and find someone else. 
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destroyed until the end of time.
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announcement of the kingdom of 
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announcing earlier in the gospel
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Now becomes concrete that people
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up. 
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He's performing signs that the 
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And throughout Mark, if you keep
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Jesus is consistently and 
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The forces of Darkness verse 27,
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they discuss it with each other.
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happened in the middle of a 
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So, for them, this is something 
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they've been used to from the 
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is a new thing. 
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They've just seen Jesus do in 
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to accomplish what he's talking 
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He can walk the talk as it were 
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can't with authority. 
He commands even the unclean 

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spirits, and they obey him. 
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recognize that Jesus must be 
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They probably don't work out his
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that there's something special 
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And verse 28, it says Jesus Fame
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which is this Northern fishing 
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about. 
Jesus doesn't spread to Judea 

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and Jerusalem. 
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ministry is just confined to the
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So that's our text today. 
I hope you learned a little bit 

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there about demons and 
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There's a few references to this
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Firstly in paragraph 2, 173 the 
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about the Sabbath day says the 
gospel reports many incidents 

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where Jesus was accused of 
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Jesus never fails to respect the
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He gives the law. 
It's authentic and authoritative

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interpretation. 
The Sabbath was made for man. 

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Man, not man for the Sabbath. 
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catechism is this passage in 
Mark 1 when Jesus does an 

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exorcism on the Sabbath, he's 
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we learn later doesn't makes the
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Verse for 38, which is about in 
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It says, his eternal Messianic, 
consecration with revealed 

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during the time of his Earthly 
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baptism by John when God 
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the Holy Spirit and with power 
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Israel, as its Messiah, his 
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him as the Holy One of God. 
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Holy One Of God. 
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recognize that he is the Christ.
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1673 in the discussion about 
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it talks about exorcisms and 
here's what it says when the 

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church asks publicly and 
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Jesus Christ that a person or 
object be protected against the 

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power of the evil one and 
withdrawn from his Dominion, it 

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is called an exorcism Jesus 
perform exorcisms. 

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And from him, the church has 
received the power and office of

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exercising and that paragraph 
1673 goes on to talk about when 

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the appropriate time is to do an
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So I recommend checking out that
section if you're interested 

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more in The Rite of exorcism 
today because demons do exist 

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and exorcisms, continue to be 
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By members of the church 
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Okay, thanks again for 
listening. 

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I hope you found it interesting 
and hopefully we'll see you 

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