In Jesus, we find not only our salvation, but also our sanity. This message was given on February 9, 2014 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info go to: www.newcitychurch.ca.

1. The Supernatural
Authority of Jesus
~ Luke 8:26-39 ~
image: Katie McKeown

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Today’s Scripture:
Luke 8:26-39
Found on page 865 in our guest Bibles.

3. Angels
72%
56%
Gallup Opinion Poll - 2004

4. Angels
Demons
72%
70%
56%
37%
Gallup Opinion Poll - 2004

5. “Well, there are all manner of lesser imps
and demons, Pete, but the great Satan
himself is red and scaly with a bifurcated
tale, and he carries a hay fork.”
~ Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother Where Art Thou?

6. “There still persists…
the quaint superstition
that only that which is
visible is real.”
~ Dr. Tom More

7. ‘There are more
things in heaven and
earth, Horatio, than
are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”
~ Shakespeare’s Hamlet

9. The Supernatural
Authority of Jesus
~ Luke 8:26-39 ~
image: Katie McKeown

10. Be on the lookout for...
1
The Authority of Jesus
2
The Response(s) to Jesus

11. Luke 8:26-27
Then they sailed to the country of
the Gerasenes, which is opposite
Galilee. When Jesus had stepped
out on land, there met him a man
from the city who had demons.
For a long time he had worn no

12. Luke 8:26-27
clothes, and he had not lived in a
house, but among the tombs. [Night
and day among the tombs and on
the mountains he was always crying
out and bruising himself with stones
(Mk. 5:5)…]

13. Demonology 101
• Demons are fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)

14. Demonology 101
• Demons are fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)
• ‘Satan’ is a Heb. term = ‘adversary’ (1 Pet. 5:8-9)

15. Demonology 101
• Demons are fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)
• ‘Satan’ is a Heb. term = ‘adversary’ (1 Pet. 5:8-9)
• Satan is the leader of demons (Rev. 12:9)

16. Demonology 101
• Demons are fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)
• ‘Satan’ is a Heb. term = ‘adversary’ (1 Pet. 5:8-9)
• Satan is the leader of demons (Rev. 12:9)
• Satan’s tactics involve lies & deception (John 8:44)

17. “You belong to your father, the devil, and you
want to carry out your father’s desire. He was
a murderer from the beginning, not holding to
the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he
lies, he speaks his native language, for he is
a liar and the father of lies.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in
The Gospel of John (8:44)

18. Demonology 101
• Demons are fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)
• ‘Satan’ is a Heb. term = ‘adversary’ (1 Pet. 5:8-9)
• Satan is the leader of fallen angels (Rev. 12:9)
• Satan’s tactics involve lies & deception (Rev. 12:9)
• Satan hates humanity b/c he hates God, and
humans bear the image of God (Gen. 2-3)

19. Luke 8:28
When he saw Jesus, he cried out
and fell down before him and said
with a loud voice, “What have you to
do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most
High God? I beg you, do not torment
me….”

20. “What have you to do
with us, Jesus of
Nazareth? Have you
come to destroy us…?
~ Gospel of Luke (4:34)
“…the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Matthew (25:41)

21. ~ The Apostle John
in Revelation 20:10
“…and the devil who
had deceived them
was thrown into the
lake of fire and sulfur
where the beast and
the false prophet were,
and they will be
tormented day and
night forever and ever.”

22. Luke 8:29
For he had commanded the unclean
spirit to come out of the man. (For
many a time it had seized him. He
was kept under guard and bound
with chains and shackles, but he
would break the bonds and be

23. Luke 8:29
…driven by the demon into the
desert…).

24. Luke 8:30-31
Jesus then asked him, “What is your
name?” And he said, “Legion,” for
many demons had entered him. And
they begged him not to command
them to depart into the abyss….

25. “We can smell the fear
of the demons in the
way they pleaded with
Jesus…. Some people
may not believe in
hell, but the demons
certainly do.”

26. Luke 8:32-33
Now a large herd of pigs [numbering
about 2000 (Mk. 5:13)] was feeding there
on the hillside, and they begged him
to let them enter these. So he gave
them permission. Then the demons
came out of the man and entered the
pigs, and the herd rushed down the

27. Luke 8:33-34
…steep bank and were drowned.
When the herdsmen saw what had
happened, they fled and told it in the
city and in the country….

28. Luke 8:35-36
Then the people went out to see
what had happened, and they came
to Jesus and found the man from
whom the demons had gone, sitting
at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his
right mind, and they were afraid.
And those who had seen it told them

29. Luke 8:36-37
…how the demon-possessed man
had been healed. Then all the people
of the surrounding country of the
Gerasenes asked him to depart from
them, for they were seized with great
fear. So he got into the boat and
returned….

30. “In their case the
god of this world has
blinded the minds of
unbelievers, to keep
them from seeing
the light of the
gospel of the glory
of Christ.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
2 Corinthians 4:4

31. Luke 8:38-39
The man from whom the demons
had gone out begged that he might
be with him, but Jesus sent him away
saying, “Return to your home, and

32. Luke 8:38-39
…declare how much God has done
for you. And he went away, proclaiming how much Jesus had done for
him.

33. Important Question
Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?

34. Main Idea
In Jesus we find
not only our salvation
but also our sanity.

35. 1
Decide what you
will do with Jesus
image: jjMustang_79

36. “There are only two
kinds of people—those
who say, ‘Thy will be
done’ to God or those
to whom God in the
end says, ‘Thy will be
done.’ All that are in
Hell choose it.”
~ CS Lewis
“The Great Divorce”

37. 2
Adopt Jesus’
view of reality
image: Grant Hutchinson

38. “
There are two equal and opposite
errors into which our race can fall
about the devils. One is to disbelieve
in their existence. The other is to
believe, and to feel an excessive and
unhealthy interest in them. They
themselves are equally pleased by
both errors and hail a materialist and
magician with the same delight.
~ CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
”

39. 3
Tell your own
rescue story
image: Sharon Drummond:

40. “He has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and transferred us into the
kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we
have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
~ The Apostle Paul in Colossians 1:13-14

41. flickr images courtesy of:
Katie McKeown: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-mckeown/8409391118/
jjMustang_79: http://www.flickr.com/photos/civisi/2611679744/
Grant Hutchinson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/9046310594/
Sharon Drummond: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/5937518215/