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Mark 3:7-19

⁷Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. ⁸When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon.

⁹Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. ¹⁰For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. ¹¹Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” ¹²But he gave them strict orders not to tell who he was.

¹³Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴He appointed twelve—designating them apostles—that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach ¹⁵and to have authority to drive out demons.

¹⁶These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter ¹⁷ James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

1. A. ILLUSTRATION: RENEE GET IN THE CAR!!!!
2. B. THE TEXT
   1. CROWD PUSHING TO BE HEALED
   2. WATCH THE CROWD; CAN BE ADDICTIVE
   3. C. ILLUSTRATION: PASTOR’S AT GREATER RISK, HB LONDON
   4. D. THREE THINGS JESUS NEEDED
      1. a. SOLITUDE
      2. b. TO PRAY
      3. c. HELP—HE APPOINTED TWELVE TO HELP HIM
      4. E. FOUR THINGS THE DISCIPLES NEEDED
         1. a. FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS
         2. b. A MISSION
         3. c. A MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION
         4. d. POWER

Acts 1:8

⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

CONCLUSION: MY EXPERIENCES WITH THE DEMON POSSESSED