Do You Know Him?
by Justin Horton
January 28, 2024 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Matthew 8:28-32, Mark 5:1-13, Luke 8:25-33, 1 Corinthians 15:55-57, Romans 6:23, Matthew 18:18, Isaiah 53:5, John 8:36, Ephesians 2:4-6, Revelation 1:18

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there is a sweet presence of God in this place today there's a sweet presence of God in this place today right now in the name of Jesus I plead the blood over this service tonight God let me be just be used by you Lord Jesus let our hearts and Minds be open to you Lord God and everything that it comes about Lord God surround us Lord God and make your presence known we love you in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus if you feel comfortable you can set in the name of Jesus I am very humble today very honor HED here today and I appreciate the opportunity which was taken and I am going to do whatever the Lord needs to be done amen today I come in a different position than what I was not statistically not physically in any way but mentally and emotionally and most of all spiritually there needs to be a lot of growth that took place and I do believe that God has still working in each and every aspect

the scriptures today that I have is kind of lengthy I do apologize but I promise you if you get and listen I prom I do have a point today and Matthew 82832 through 32 it says and when it came and when he come to the other side of the country of the gisans there met them two possessed with devils coming out of the tombs exceeding Fierce so that no man might pass by that way and behold they cried out saying what have we to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God aren't thou Heather torment us before the time and there was a good way off from them that heard of many swine feeding so the Devils besought him saying if thou castest out suffer us and go away into the herd of swine and he said unto them go and when he came and when they were come out they went into the herd of the swine and behold the whole herd of swine ran violently down the Steep Place into the sea and perished in the water

the next scripture in the second book I mean in the fifth book of Mark it says and they came unto they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of garus and when he came out of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with unclean Spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no not with chains because that he had been offer bound with feathers and chains and the chains had been plucked ass serd by him and the feathers broken into pieces neither could any man tame him and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones but when he saw Jesus a far off he ran and worshiped him and cried and with a loud voice and saidwhat have I to do with thee Jesus thou son of the most high God and I adure Thee by God thou mou Tor me me not for he said unto him come out of thy man thou unclean spirit and he asked him what is thy name and he answered saying my name is Legion for we are many and he sought him so much that he would not send them away out of the country in verse 11 now there were a might night unto the mountains and the great herd of the swine feeding all the Devils besought him saying send us into the swine that me that we may enter unto them and forth with Jesus gave them leave an unclean Spirit went out and entered to the swine and the herd ran violently down a seep Place into the sea there were about 2,000 and they were choked into the sea

everybody say second account scripture for this one is only seven verses Luke chapter 8 verse 25 it said unto them where is your faith and they began afraid wondering saying one to another what manner of this man for he commandeth even the winds and the Sea and they obey him obey him in verse 2 six and they arrived in the country of gasas which is over against Galilee and when he went forth into the land where he met him out of the city a certain man which had Devils a long time and there were no clothes neither AB Bo in any house but in a tomb when he saw Jesus he cried out and fell into down before him with a loud voice saying what have I to do with thee Jesus thou son of the most God God most high I beseech te thee torment me not for he had commanded the unclean Spirit to come out of the man for often times had caught him and he was kept bound with chains and feathers and he breaks in the band he break in the bands and was driven out of the devil Into the Wilderness and Jesus asked him saying what is thy name and he answered once again he said Legion because many Devils were entered into him and they besought him he would not command them to go into the deep and there was there a herd of swine feed into the mountain and besought them and they would suffer them into not and he suffered them not Matthew Mark and Luke we have three different accounts of the same story and different perspectives we have three different perspectives of the same story that is one way mimicked and one way told in a different way so today my question for you is do you know him before each perspective there is a faith-based tested before those that went out on little faith in verse 25 in the verse mark it says the winds and the seas are pushing us against Lord what are we going to do can you not tell it to calm down has anybody questioned God before their faith was tested and the other ones where it's like he goes abod and he says go and be healed but the lady an hour later was healed where is your faith but in the Scripture it drives me to this conclusion where it's like and what was the Lord saying when he said I need to go see this man not the sin but the man the scripture says he was living in a tomb a tomb is a large Vault typically underground that buries the Dead the scripture says he met the man out of the Tomb you see the enemy uses to set to conceive us for our sins that had doomed us from to death but he tells us therefore there is no life left and wait in the cemetery to die if he is convinced that we are as good as dead we will lay down and wait in misery never pursuing the plan of God for our life the scripture even says the man asked Jesus was there torment him because the enemy had convinced him that his future and there was no hope who in here has hope today but

the scripture binds that lie in 1 Corinthians 15: 55-57 it says when says oh death where is thy sting oh grave where is thy Victory The Sting of death is sin for the strength of sin is the law but thanks be unto God which give us the victory through Christ Jesus in Romans 6:23 says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ the story continues stating what he had tried and to bind him the question is do you know him

now I can go and say I know rodne Coleman anybody who rodne Coleman is man I love weightlifting I might not look like it but I promise you I do I do just the power they can have and the strength they have lifting those weight Stone iron left and right powder flying just men just going at it like lifting weights getting that and adrenaline pumped up getting ready to go something that drives a man I can do any I can read any book anything about him I can say I know him but if Ronnie Coleman came today look me in the face he would say I have no idea who you are you can read the Bible you can read the scripture you can look at the scripture in any way you want to you can say you read the Bible and you say you know God but if God came to you where's your prayer life I don't know you you see it says feds and chains could not hold him a Fetter is a chain Bound by different two to different links that bound him to his strength to where he was throwing weights left and right the men had no idea how to control his strength the men had no control over this man but you see the the lies of the enemy that bound him was not external it was internal the personality experienced a bondage of sin in the mind and shame kept the chains and guilt hopelessly kept him trapped in the Tomb you see but Jesus says into Matthew 8:18 varant sayto you whatsoever you shall bind on Earth he shall Bound in heaven for she bound on Earth he shall loosen Heaven it says that we should also let go of the things of the world

this is what gets me while reading this scripture I'm understanding that this man was in a tomb Pac and back and forth pack and forth not understanding how to go because he allowed the things in his life to cont trap him to trap him it says that he would cut himself with stones he was trying to cut away the things that this body that he was trying to get bound but he was wanting to feel something real he was wanting to be free the scripture tells us that kind of way our imperfections is not necessary because Isaiah 535 says he was wounded for our transgressions and he was buried in our iniquities but Chast of our peace upon him and he and with his stripes we are healed the enemy convinces that we are prisoners of our own tomb

when the Lord walks in your tomb there is no more pain there is no cutting away the parts of the enemy that you think is unnecessary because the parts of him that could stand are the things he felt Unworthy of you see God has a plan for our life there is bondage that keeps us trapped in for everything that we do Brother Sam can I borrow you for a minute please the scripture says in in the Mark chapter 5 it says that he goes and sees a man a far off and his name is Jesus right the man came out of the Tomb and he had no idea what to do but other than to submit to him and to worship God why because the enemy worships Jesus he knows of the enemy's plan but it says in the scripture says get out thou unclean Spirit the word thou means the submission a form of he had to be a part of the man that was connected to Jesus he says it's a form of thou unclean Spirit he looked at the man and he said what is thy name but after the spirit left so he looks aart he says I know who you are you worshiped me you you were on the altar you you on the praise and worship team you you've done the things you've done but you let the enemy deceive you and to understand that you allow the enemy to attack your mind so I'm not talking to you I'm talking to the unclean Spirit the spirit is the person he says what is Thy Name the Lord knows his name it's funny how God does that because he looks at the spirit and says uhuh what is thy name I know who you are I want to I want you to know who I am he looks at the spirit and he says uhuh you're unworthy here you're unworthy here because it says no matter what form you take or what presence you take no matter what he said he says the enemy said I want to die swine is this an attitute of a pig of a of a pig of anything that deceived to the unground of Unfaithful or uncleaned animal thank you sir and it goes into the fact that that God took the enemy in his right place to where he needs to be see he looks at the person and he sees oh you worship me through Worship You worship me through church you've done Outreach you've done preaching you've done teaching youve done food worship food Outreach you've done everything you need to do but the things that you allowed in your mind and the things you allowed to keep in your head that you allowed the enemy to win we're not talking about a physical tomb the mind is the biggest tomb that we have the enemy allows himself to creep into the place that you say this is the place I'm going to trap you because this is the place I Know The Enemy will destroy you bondage for 10 years allow the enemy to keep him a mind to prison to believe that enemy is for too long it took Jesus coming to the scene and saying leave you unclean Spirit taking the sin as it is and not having a place for my child Jesus speaking in the Book of John 8:36 says if a son therefore shall make you free you shall be free indeed Ephesians 2: 4-6 says but God who is richly in Mercy for his great love where his loved us even when he were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by Grace we are saved by hath rise up together and made us together Heavenly places in Christ Jesus

we are here today and I am here today because I was met by Jesus outside my tomb I Liv down I cast out the sin and that he had Bound in my mind through the things I have watched said and done and heard but I finally surrendered to him worshiped him and called The Enemy by his name if you call the Enemy by his name there is Authority that take place by the name of Jesus he removed the deception removed the lies that he has been living in for too long and he has been and he has Set Me Free I don't stand here a man that used to know but I am free if you're in my right mind and I hear to urage you I was hopeless I was doomed I was hated myself I was bound by the misery of the sin but Jesus walked up and didn't call me by my sin he spoke by my mistakes and he said he separated me and he he didn't condemn me to the swine who in here wants to be cast into the swine swine is only mentioned twice in the Bible in the in this book of the scripture not twice I'm sorry but two two stories of the Bible this in the prodical son it's when he was in his sin he realized I can't eat that that is the enemy's food that is where the enemy walks that is where I do not want to be you see the man that was trapped with the B the bands and the feeds and took him place to where the enemy knew where he would be entrapped I wonder how long he's stayed in his own tomb there are lies of the enemy that will keep you trapped because of what he said or she said or what they did what they didn't do the misconception the enemy will conceive you I mean deceive you and treat you in a way that you would not want to be treated because you get in your mindset saying I am not going to let them talk to me like that right and allowing the Lord to encourage you today that don't let your tomb be the place where you get buried you see it says also Revelations 1:18 I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forever more amen and the my favorite part says I have the keys of hell and death

you see the Lord already went to the tomb he got the keys so you don't have to live and die in your own tomb and so said things that he will set you free don't let the lies of the enemy keep in living you in your own tomb the illusion to abide you don't be friends on Facebook with Jesus and not in the word that's why I shut my Facebook down because CU I don't want to be deceived by the enemy to allow my mind to be distorted rather than restored I don't want to be caught in the Trap of the enemy deceiving me saying you're not good enough or not worthy enough because of what your past may be the biggest and the most influential or most influential spirit preachers and teachers are in the Bible they have done things out of this world I would not even think about doing but I am still here you are still here do you know him do you allow yourself to get out of the Tomb and let the deception and illusion to get out rather than you knowing him

and the Scripture it talks about he did not just walk to Jesus he ran and worshiped him even the enemy has to bow down in the name of Jesus

God is so good God is so good for allowing us to understand that hey we have people in our lives to bounce off one another and to direct one another and to help another in connection and direction to allow God to help us in a time of need rather than a time of hurt and hatred to those of this world and to condemn us because we are separate from the world and he will not condemn us but he will point out the sin to allow us to get things right before it's time to go you see the tomb is a place where you want to set your home or is it the garden beside the tomb that allows you to smell the flowers there is power in your own tomb but there is power over victory over the tomb the difference between Christ and you in the Tomb he was able to conquer it and he was able to get the keys to allow you to keep your mind and right says say hey I'm still here I am a far off turn around and see me and worship me and I will point out the sin I will not point you out the man has no name legion was the name of the demons that came out of him Legion was the enemy's name whatever you may be whatever it may cause it could be in any kind of addiction it could be any kind of deception it could be kind of Lies it could be but that's what the Lord's going to point out he's not going to point out hey you Justin you're the S no no no no no no the enemy attaches himself in a form of thou unclean spirit is a form is a verb has to have an action behind it now if we were dead the enemy would die because it feeds off of the energy it has don't let the enemy feed off your deception or your bondage allow the Lord to work in a mighty way can we worship him right now in the name of Jesus we love you God in the name of Jesus