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Podcast: Vertical Church Teaching
Episode: Authority over Demons | Mark 5:1-20 | Nathan Hughes | Vertical Church
Description: Week 5: Invading Enemy Territory
Text: Mark 5:1–20
Jesus tells His disciples, “Let’s go to the other side.” That detail matters. The “other side” of the Sea of Galilee was the region of the Gerasenes, part of the Decapolis—Gentile, Roman-occupied territory. No self-respecting Jew, especially not a rabbi, would willingly go there. Yet Jesus goes intentionally.
He steps into a graveyard.
He meets an unclean man.
He stands among unclean animals.
This is not accidental. It is invasion.
Before Jesus ever walked out of His own tomb in Jerusalem...