What Have We to Do with Jesus? The Healing of the Gergesene Demoniacs. Matthew 8:28-9:1

VIDEO:    • What Have We to Do with Jesus? The Healing...   Text: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-s... http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-s... 0:00 - Reading the Gospels with meditation; letting things jump out at you; questions everywhere in Scripture 0:48 - The healing of the demoniacs of the Gergesenes; why two men were possessed 1:07 - Demons enter through the sins of the people; what sins do you commit that hurt others? 1:38 - The danger of not praying, being irritable, not reading to your children; children with empty souls 2:20 - The Gergesenes were keeping pigs illegally — all because of money; sin opens the door to demons 3:19 - Our culture calls sins virtues; demons are shooting fish in a barrel; your sins contribute to the culture's condition 4:04 - The demons address Jesus properly: "What have we to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God?" 4:21 - That question is one you should be answering every moment: what have you to do with Jesus? 4:53 - We say we love Jesus and then eat our brother; we say we have faith and then live without faith 6:02 - "How is your soul?" — "I'm fine" — the problem of self-satisfied confession; never say you had a good week 7:19 - The demons asked to go into the swine; the swine immediately went insane and drowned themselves 9:22 - How malevolent demons are; God almost never allows this level of torment — but they are always at work 10:37 - Angry thoughts, impure thoughts — these are demonic attacks; we are highly suggestible to demonic suggestion 11:45 - Read the Gospels and Psalter enough and you will always be on guard; the demons entice pride and indifference 12:30 - Even when doing good things, demons attack — with pride, with discouragement, with suggestion 13:10 - The healed men sit at the feet of Jesus; the pig herders tell the town; the people are terrified 13:46 - They knew God had visited and judged them — and they said "Leave us"; one of the saddest moments in Scripture 14:14 - The contrast with the Samaritan woman: her sin was exposed and she wanted more, not less 14:47 - Are you sometimes more motivated by money, prestige, and promotion than by God? 15:16 - Did you say your prayers first thing, or did you look at your phone, make coffee, shower? Pick prayer 16:06 - Two answers to "What have we to do with Jesus?" — follow him, or say "Leave us"; it is binary 16:38 - Demons possess people through opportunities given by the sins of the culture and our own sins 17:27 - The terrible lost opportunity: Jesus judged them, showed them their sin — and they just wanted to sin more 18:32 - Answer the question "What have we to do with Jesus?" — especially Saturday around 4:00 p.m., at Vespers