{"id":1338,"date":"2017-08-27T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2017-09-24T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T22:30:39","slug":"sermon-august-27-2017-great-victory-great-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-august-27-2017-great-victory-great-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon \u2013 August 27, 2017: \u201cGreat Victory, Great Testimony\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1338-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug27-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug27-17.mp3\">http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/aug27-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h4><em>Great Victory, Great Testimony<br \/>\n<\/em><em>(But you have to understand the Enemy)<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Luke 8:26-39<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallel accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew 8:28-34<\/li>\n<li>Mark 5:1-20<\/li>\n<li>Luke 8:26-39<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>All place this event after Jesus calms the storm and all agree on major details except\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where there is disagreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Country of the Gerasenes, Gadarenes or Gergesenes?\n<ul>\n<li>Scribal additions to help clarify the area<\/li>\n<li>Most likely the city of Gergesa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One demoniac or two?\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew was an eye witness so most likely two<\/li>\n<li>One most likely stuck out more than the other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did Jesus do evil?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One must believe this event happened in order to make such a judgment.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus is God and can use his creation how he sees fit.<\/li>\n<li>Some scholars think the herd may have been owned by Jews.<\/li>\n<li>The people seemed to be more afraid of Jesus power than upset about the loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ancient Hebrew concept of demons<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No real word in Hebrew that carries the connotation of demon as we know<\/li>\n<li>Hebrew words translated demon refer to idols and false gods<\/li>\n<li>A vague idea of adversary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Victory, Great Testimony (But you have to understand the Enemy) Luke 8:26-39 Parallel accounts Matthew 8:28-34 Mark 5:1-20 Luke 8:26-39 All place this event after Jesus calms the storm and all agree on major details except\u2026 Where there is<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-august-27-2017-great-victory-great-testimony\/\"><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,43,10],"tags":[48,57,79,24,44,13],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-studies","category-members","category-sermon","category-worship","tag-bible-studies","tag-bible-study","tag-luke","tag-members","tag-sermon","tag-worship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Gospel-of-Luke.jpg?fit=1931%2C817&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}