WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.800 practical ways. Jeff, eventually we're going to get a new 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:13.320 role in. 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:15.519 You think, so, yeah, I hope. 6 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.600 So that is so unbelievably old. 7 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:19.320 It is old that we used to do. You're like 8 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.800 half the man you are in that video. Yeah yeah, yeah, 9 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:23.519 weight was Yeah, you've lost so much weight. 10 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:26.280 But guess what we used to use headphones? 11 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:28.559 Did so on this because we were cool? 12 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.280 Yeah back then, that was that lone. How how long 13 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:33.960 has it been since we have not used headphones? 14 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:35.719 More than a year? 15 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:37.920 Oh, way more than a half I was. I would 16 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.000 say closer to two years. 17 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:40.600 Okay, yeah, probably a long time. 18 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:41.520 That's how long that rollins? 19 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:42.600 Trying to make a new roll in? 20 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.359 I think so yeah, okay, yeah, well we'll get to 21 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:46.719 it eventually, we'll get around to it. 22 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:47.159 Okay. 23 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.359 But but but everybody who listens regularly, if we change 24 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.000 the audio of that, they're going to be like, it's 25 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:54.439 not the same. 26 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:55.880 They won't even know what they they don't even know 27 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.079 what to do with Connor. He did a great job 28 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:01.240 on that, great job. So all right, well man, we've 29 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:05.079 got a cool uh what do you call these things 30 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.560 that we do at the beginning segments, segments? We've got 31 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:08.599 a cool segment. 32 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.400 Yes, we do, before we dive into the quote that 33 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.719 Jesus said, return home and tell how much God has 34 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.400 done for you. I'm not sure that that is necessarily 35 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.599 one that we quote all the time all the time, 36 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.200 but it certainly is a attached to a famous story. Yes, 37 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:25.840 we're gonna go ahead and fill in the blank today. 38 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.319 So it says this desiree says, let's try this again, 39 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.040 but this time Jeff will start a sentence, then Chris 40 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.120 will have to complete it in an unexpected way. Okay, 41 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:39.680 so we'll see if it goes better this time. Last 42 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:40.680 time it was pretty good. 43 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.480 Okay, So that goes to make So I'm going to 44 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.040 start a sentence, yes, that you have to finish. Yes, 45 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.560 maybe setting up some kind of story concept. 46 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.799 Yeah, just well it says unexpected, which means I could 47 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:52.280 do whatever I want. 48 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:56.640 Okay, Well I'm going to be unexpected. Okakay. So there 49 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.359 I was standing in the lobby with a chicken under 50 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.920 my arm when the janitor came up and said. 51 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.840 Do not slice its neck because I don't feel like 52 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:06.879 cleaning up another bucket of blood today. 53 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.120 Wow, that went dark. 54 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.879 Well, it's only chicken killing. 55 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:18.360 It's not human, it's only it's girls. We are not 56 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.840 advocating that you go out and. 57 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.759 Slice your chicken. Hey, listen, anybody who goes up in 58 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.159 a farm. 59 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.319 That's true, cut chicken. That's true. That's true. WHOA Okay, 60 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.240 that is not what I was expecting to come out of. 61 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.520 Well that you said, it says unexpected. 62 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.240 I thought you were going to say something about don't 63 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:34.960 squeeze it because I don't want to clean the mess, 64 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:35.719 or something like that. 65 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:37.639 No, I said, spilts blood. 66 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.639 More eggs. You know, there's all kinds of things that 67 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.520 could have happened there besides well, guess whying it. Guess 68 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:45.120 what you watch too many movies. No, I I have. 69 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.960 Actually believe it or not. This is this is a 70 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.319 true statement. I've actually wrestled with the idea because I'm 71 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.639 not a hunter. Right, so, if you like I would, 72 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.520 I would never go hunting. I just I never could 73 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.599 do it. But I've held chickens before, and I've heard 74 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:06.199 stories about chickens, probably more so than any other animal, 75 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.800 about how to prepare chicken. 76 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.599 You and so and so I just think you can 77 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:11.080 do that one. 78 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:14.639 Visually, No, of course I cannot, But visually I picture 79 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.080 it every time I think of a chicken. So me 80 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:17.599 holding a chicken, that's all I think about it. 81 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:18.319 That's how you think about it. 82 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.120 Because people say, this is what you do, this is 83 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.000 what you do, and I'm like, I'm like, I could 84 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.280 never do that, right, I'm glad other people do. 85 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.599 Yeah, but when I was growing up, we butchered one 86 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:29.439 hundred chickens in two days. 87 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.319 Right, exactly exactly. 88 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:34.599 I take it back, it was ninety nine because one 89 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.680 of them had died, but yeah, we had ninety nine. 90 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.280 That's crazy since that we butchered in two days. So 91 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:40.800 isn't that the ones. 92 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.759 Where it's just the thing man, where you were wanting 93 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.520 male and female? They were all females. 94 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.960 Well, we wanted we wanted hens, and somehow my dad 95 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.199 got ninety nine roosters because we wanted to I wanted 96 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.240 to sell eggs. Yeah, so we had to fat them 97 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:54.879 up in the butcher. 98 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.520 That's so good, go ahead. So that's another sentence. 99 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:01.599 Well that was my only sentence. 100 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:03.879 Oh no, we're supposed to do a few. 101 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.479 Oh, we're supposed to do a few. 102 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:07.960 Yeah, say what, let's just do one more. 103 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.080 Okay, let's just do one more yep, Okay, go. When 104 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.800 the officer walked up to the to my window, I said, would. 105 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:17.639 You like to go on a date? 106 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:19.040 What? 107 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:24.839 I don't know. I just saw a TikTok you just proposed, well, 108 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.560 not me personally, a hypothetical person in the car. 109 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.160 No. I thought it was yours story. You're supposed to 110 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.439 so I start your story. So it's your story, So 111 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:33.839 it's me. 112 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.040 I wasn't. I wasn't thinking it was me. 113 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.319 Okay, the helen me tell you the reason why. 114 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.920 I just saw like a TikTok video or something where 115 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.920 a girl got pulled over and she asked the officer out. 116 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.680 I literally just saw it like it might have been 117 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.439 this morning or yesterday. Okay, well I don't feel like 118 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:50.040 that counted. 119 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.680 Well okay, I didn't do it from me. Okay, all right, you. 120 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:54.319 Want to do one more. 121 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.199 There I was in the ocean, yep, and I had 122 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.319 just stood up on my surfboard when. 123 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.680 The Lockness monster came up and took a bite out 124 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:05.439 of my shin. 125 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.839 Wow, there it is in the ocean. 126 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.079 Yes, that's the reason why they haven't. 127 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.120 Spotted him because he's cruising the ocean. 128 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.360 All all water sources lead to the ocean. 129 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:22.000 Okay, wow, all water sources except the Dead Sea. 130 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:23.680 That's correct. 131 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:29.240 And that's correct, and all of the other lakes that 132 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:30.160 are below sea level. 133 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.040 You know, you know what I was trying to quote, right, No, 134 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.480 in Finding Nemo, he said all drains lead to the ocean. 135 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.480 Oh okay, yeah, so sorry quoting Nemo. 136 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:42.639 Yes, Finding Nemo, I was actually quoting. 137 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.360 I would have thought that a cartoon wouldn't be entirely 138 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.399 scientifically correct. I would have never thought. 139 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.279 Well, I mean, they weren't trying to be scientific. It 140 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:52.839 was a fish. 141 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.680 Was It was a joke? Yeah, it was a joke. 142 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.000 I don't remember the name of the fish though, I 143 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:59.800 don't either whoever his name was. 144 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.120 Okay, well, here we are now, and speaking of leading 145 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.959 to water, I don't know. Is that what we've got? 146 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:15.399 No, I would say, speaking of unexpected endings. 147 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:20.319 Unexpected endings, Oh that's a good one. Yeah, yeah, we're 148 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:21.399 talking about Jesus. 149 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:25.600 Who would have ever thought that the deranged man filled 150 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.439 with demons would end up being in his own right mind? 151 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.079 Yeah, Or that the pigs would run down the hill 152 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.399 into the water. Yes, I mean that's what I was saying. 153 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.079 All things run down, all of it is unexpected. Okay. 154 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:40.639 So anyways, that was a terrible, terrible rolling set up 155 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.160 for this story. But we are in Luke position. Yeah, yeah, 156 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.560 we are in Luke chapter eight and verse twenty six. 157 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.560 It says, so they arrived in the region of the Garacenes, 158 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:55.639 across the lake from Galilee. You remember when Jesus had stopped 159 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:56.079 the storm. 160 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:56.800 I do remember. 161 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.600 Remember on the other side it was just massive crowds 162 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.279 and He's like, hey, we got leave these crowds. Let's 163 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.279 go to the other side. In the middle, there's this 164 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.160 big storm. He wakes up, says, peace be still. When 165 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.680 they get to the other side of the lake. This 166 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.480 story happens, Yes, as soon as he gets off the boat. 167 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.680 So they arrived in the region of Garriscenes, across the 168 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.800 lake from Galilee. As Jesus was climbing out of the boat, 169 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:18.839 a man who was possessed by demons came out to 170 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.399 meet him. For a long time, he had been homeless 171 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:25.399 and naked, living in the tombs outside the town. As 172 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.120 soon as he saw Jesus, he shrieked, fell down in 173 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.920 front of him and then he screamed, why are you 174 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.279 interfering with me? Jesus, Son of the Most High God? 175 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.560 Please I beg you don't torture me. For Jesus had 176 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.759 already commanded the evil spirit to come out of him. 177 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.240 This spirit had often taken control of the man. Even 178 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.199 when he was placed under guard and put in chains 179 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.600 and shackles, he simply broke them and rushed out into 180 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:48.519 the wilderness, completely under the demon's power. Jesus demanded, what 181 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.240 is your name? Legion? He replied, for he was filled 182 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.639 with many demons. The demons kept begging Jesus not to 183 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.480 send them into the bottomless pit. There happened to be 184 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:00.720 a large herd of pigs feeding on the hill side nearby, 185 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.279 and the demons begged him to let them enter into 186 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.519 the pigs. So Jesus gave them permission. So the demons 187 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.240 came out of the man and entered the pigs, and 188 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.920 the entire herd plunged down the steep hillside into the 189 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.120 lake and drown. When the herdsman saw it, they fled 190 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.560 to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the 191 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.839 news as they ran. People rushed out to see what 192 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.600 had happened. A crowd soon gathered around Jesus and they 193 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.959 saw the man who'd been freed from the demons. He 194 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.920 was sitting at Jesus' feet, fully clothed and perfectly sane, 195 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.720 and they were all afraid. Then those who had seen 196 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.279 what had happened told the others how the demon possessed 197 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.639 man had been healed. And all the people in the 198 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:37.639 region of the Gharriscenes begged Jesus to go away and 199 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.200 leave them alone, for a great wave of fear swept 200 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:43.000 over them. So Jesus returned to the boat and left, 201 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.159 crossing back to the other side of the lake. The 202 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.960 men had been freed from the demons begged to go 203 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.039 with him, but Jesus sent him home, saying, no, go 204 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:50.840 back to your family and tell them everything God has 205 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:53.320 done for you. So he went all through the town, 206 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:57.519 proclaiming the good things Jesus had done for him. Oh, well, 207 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.360 that corrected my application from the other day. The other day, 208 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.200 I said, Jesus told him, don't tell people. Oh remember 209 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.360 we were talking, okay about how so many times these 210 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.000 don't tell people, and I just lumped this story in it. 211 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.480 But he didn't. Jesus told him no, you can't travel 212 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.799 with me. I want your Your best witness is going 213 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:13.879 to be at home. Yeah yeah, yeah, right right yeah, 214 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.080 and it was the evidence of his healings that was 215 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.679 the witness. But he went home and told everybody. 216 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:24.159 Yeah, and didn't. Another version records the same story and 217 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.679 says that he actually went to the ten surrounding cities 218 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.440 the capitalists. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So actually 219 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.320 maybe the other one includes something else too, but yes, 220 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.799 he says, yeah, don't go with me, but go tell everybody, 221 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:44.759 to go, tell everybody, and yeah, he went out around 222 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.600 and he didn't just Jesus didn't say go to the 223 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.799 ten cities. Jesus just said stay here. And then it 224 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.279 says that he went to the capitalists. Am I saying 225 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:55.559 that right? 226 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:56.320 Yes? 227 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.320 Yes, And it's the ten cities, Yeah, the ten cities 228 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:04.519 surrounding cities City yep, Deca, yep, and uh yes, yes, 229 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.159 thank you. I was reading I was reading a Roman 230 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.039 numeral just yesterday, and I was trying to figure out 231 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.080 all the all the meanings of it, and I couldn't 232 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.960 do it. It was like m c l V one 233 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.159 one and I was like, well, I know what V means, 234 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.600 I know what one one means and m's a thousand. 235 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:23.399 What's what's L? 236 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:25.799 L is fifty? Oh? Is it? 237 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.600 Okay? Yeah, darn it. I wish I could go back 238 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.440 now and see the number is. 239 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.240 Isn't it rom L is fifty. 240 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:34.799 I don't know what L is. I know C is 241 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.399 one hundred, so L has to be fifty, You're right, 242 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.519 and then uh and then uh V is five and 243 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:49.000 then one is one. So yep, anyway, anyway, the uh 244 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:53.440 so anyway Jesus, Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying 245 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.840 to shift my brain. Oh yeah, there it is. I'm 246 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.360 trying to shift my brain. So here's what I love 247 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:05.639 about this, this conversation that the demon demons immediately recognize 248 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.080 Jesus and when they see him they shriek. So the 249 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.759 Book of James says even the demons believe, and they tremble. 250 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.120 It also says that if you, if you submit yourselves 251 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.519 therefore to God, resist the devil, he will flee from you. 252 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:23.960 So it tells us that the demons are afraid. The 253 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:29.720 demons recognize Jesus's authority. They literally call him by his title. 254 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:34.480 They say, Jesus, Son of the Most High God, and 255 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:38.120 do not torture me, do not. They're afraid because here 256 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.039 these demons possess this man, and they have just wreaked 257 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.039 havoc in this man's life. And then Jesus comes along 258 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.639 and they're like, oh no, right, and then they say, just, uh, 259 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.639 you know, allow us to go into the herd of swine, which, 260 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:54.639 by the way, is a crazy, crazy turn of events, 261 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:54.919 isn't it. 262 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:55.320 Yeah. 263 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.480 And now you were in the Sea of Galilee when 264 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.279 we when we sailed because I went at a different 265 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:05.320 time than you, but our group when we were there, 266 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.360 we sailed to the south near this city, and there 267 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.919 was a massive cliff that had a slight slope and 268 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.679 a complete drop off. And they said, this is where 269 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.840 the pigs most likely would have run down and jumped 270 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:21.519 off the cliff. Did they tell you that too? 271 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:23.559 Yeah, well, we could see it from where we were. 272 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.120 We were more to the north, but when we turned 273 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.679 around you could see the hill on the cliff side 274 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.679 over there. Together it's not a big lake, so. 275 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.320 Right right right, and which is pretty amazing. And and 276 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:39.080 so just the going goings on of these demons, uh, 277 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.960 they you know, how many demons were inside this man 278 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.159 to possess an entire herd of Swan. 279 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:46.960 A legion was the largest unit in the Roman army. 280 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.320 This according to the Life Applications of out. I don't 281 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.679 know why people don't have steady bibles, it says, well, 282 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.600 what do you mean, maybe people do? No, No, I don't. 283 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.000 I can't imagine why somebody wouldn't. Oh, there you go, Yeah, 284 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.360 that's it. A legion was the largest unit in the 285 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.279 Roman army, having between three thousand and six thousand soldiers. 286 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:07.360 What the man was possessed by not one, but many demon. 287 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.360 Three thousand and six thousand. I did not know that. 288 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:12.960 I thought legion meant a thousand. 289 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.120 Well, let me ask. Maybe the Bible's lying to us. 290 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.159 Let's find out what it would be. 291 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:20.720 The scholars writing the study notes, not the actual Bible. 292 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.759 But I just preached on this the other week. It 293 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.120 must have been three four weeks ago. And when I 294 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:30.320 was imitating, when I was reading the scripture, I said, we. 295 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:35.120 Are legion, This says. A Roman legion, at his peak 296 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.240 strength during the late Republican early Empire, typically had about 297 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.879 four thousand to six thousand soldiers. 298 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:40.440 Well, there you go. 299 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:42.960 The exact number varied over time and by circumstances. 300 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.440 There it is son of a gun, so many more 301 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:48.159 than we think. 302 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.200 And so when people talk about Allegian, they often mean 303 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.720 the core Roman citizen soldiers, roughly five thousand men. It 304 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.600 is a good ballpark. Wow, so you're talking somewhere around 305 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:57.159 five thousand. 306 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.679 So have you ever been asked the question over the years, 307 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:04.120 how many angels do you believe there are? Because it 308 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.720 does say it doesn't give us a total number in 309 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:11.559 the Bible, correct, But it does say that when Satan 310 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:17.240 rebelled against God, Lucifer, who was the chief angel beautiful 311 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:22.480 by the way in appearance, that that one third of. 312 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.399 The angel, the angel stars fell from Yeah, the. 313 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.960 Stars fell from heaven, and so they went down to 314 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.200 they were cast down to the earth, and they became 315 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.679 known as demons. And so whether or not their countenance 316 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.759 has changed, whether or not they're still beautiful, we don't 317 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:44.240 really have much insight into that other than you know, uh, 318 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.600 that Satan appears to Adam and Eve in the form 319 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.120 of a snake or actually a serpent. 320 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:55.919 Right, Well, so the question how many how many angels 321 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:57.600 are there and how many demons are there? 322 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:00.480 Yeah? Well, I mean this insight here if it's if 323 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.960 their name is Legion, there's a good chance there's thousands 324 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.000 in one man. Yeah, which means which means there's probably 325 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.799 a surplus of other demons elsewhere. Right. 326 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.840 Oh yeah, surely this guy didn't have all the demons, correct, 327 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:17.759 How important is he? Because you know, angels and demons 328 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.240 can't be everywhere at one time. Only God can be, 329 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.440 which means then the devil has limited resources and he 330 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.919 has to marshal his resource. It's why the Bible talks 331 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:28.399 a lot in military terms when it talks about angels 332 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.879 and demons, right, It's because the devil has to marshal 333 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:36.039 his troops. He has to use his troops. There's spiritual 334 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.799 warfare going on, and so he has to make sure 335 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.279 that his troops are on the front lines of spiritual warfare. 336 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.600 So the idea that this guy that the devil would 337 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:49.000 just willy nilly, just go, hey, let's send five thousand 338 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:54.360 into that guy, right, unless there's maybe millions of angels 339 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:55.600 well and millions of demons. 340 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.200 I have read in commentaries before that would suggest that 341 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.919 there's millions. Yeah, I would think so, yeah, I would 342 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:05.679 I would think that. Yeah, you know, you think about 343 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.480 you know, the you know, I think I literally described 344 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.000 I think it was yesterday. I was at lunch with 345 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.600 one of our people at our staff, and I told 346 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.320 them the story about how I was riding motorcycle and 347 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.639 I went down at fifty five miles an hour and 348 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.840 came up without a scratch, and so, you know, the 349 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.159 ambulance came. I only had a half a helmet on. 350 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.919 It was all tore up. It was literally just all 351 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.679 scratched up. And I didn't have a single scratch on 352 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.120 my entire body except for I had these leather gloves 353 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.840 on and they had the knuckles were exposed, and this 354 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.559 knuckle had a tiny little scratch on it where there 355 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.600 was a little bit of blood. And I went down 356 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.519 a fifty five on asphalt and I rolled like a 357 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:50.159 piece of sausage for like forty yards. 358 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.919 Which, by the way, that's an incredibly descriptive I know, 359 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.279 piece of sausage. Yes, fabulous for me. 360 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:55.720 Thank you. 361 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:56.639 You enjoyed that. 362 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.960 Yeah. Well, the people behind me who actually saw me 363 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.159 fall said I was flailing. I was flailing. I just 364 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.440 like kept on rolling over and over and over. And 365 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.559 the ambulance comes and the guy who's you know, literally 366 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.200 you know, shining the light in my eyes says, I've 367 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.119 been an ambulance driver for thirteen years. He said, I'm 368 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.200 a motorcycle owner myself. He said, how fast did you 369 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.440 say you were going when you went down? I said 370 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.920 fifty five miles an hour? And he said, I have never, never, ever, 371 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:28.400 ever seen anybody who's went down at fifty five. He goes, 372 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.319 I'm literally going to give you permission to get back 373 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.519 on your bike and ride. He goes, you are completely fine, 374 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.240 And so I don't know about you, but I'm like, 375 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.240 that's divine. Yeah, So I mean you could try to 376 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:41.279 explain it away another way. 377 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.519 Bob says that we have angels that look over us 378 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.880 and guard us God's people, that kind of thing. Yeah. 379 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.279 Well, so I'm thinking, hey, if if I have an angel, right, 380 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.759 and I've had an angel experience before, by the way, 381 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.200 which is a whole other sermon altogether, I don't have 382 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.039 time to tell that, but I believe it was an angel. 383 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.680 Hebrew says, we attend angels unaware, right, and so I 384 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.720 believe I've experienced that. That means there has to be 385 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.960 a plethora of angels, Oh sure, at God's disposal. 386 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:09.480 And then on top of that, you want to know 387 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:13.279 how powerful the angels are in the Old Testament, there's 388 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:19.599 one story one angel defeats seventy five thousand people one 389 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.680 one angel. Right, So as you're trying to work out 390 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.240 how powerful is the angel, God has a sign to 391 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.920 taking care of you. Well, there you go, right, right, 392 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.759 even if it happens to be the guy who's trying 393 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:32.640 to earn his wings on. 394 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.319 Oh stop, it's a wonderful life. 395 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:41.400 Yeah, was Clarence Clarence yea, even if you got Clarence right, 396 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:44.200 he's a pretty tough one, That's what I'm trying to say, 397 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.799 compared to us. So then that's also because. 398 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.160 By the way, Jimmy Stewart said, uh, figures you'd be 399 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:52.359 the kind of angel I get, that's what he says. 400 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.720 That's what he says to Clarence. 401 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:00.400