Sermon Outline:
- A church where Satan is welcome
- An embarrassing spiritual battle
- Christ proves He is the one who crushed the head of the serpent
Family Discussion Questions:
- This is Mark’s first introduction to us about what could be found in a typical synagogue during Jesus’ day. What is surprisingly NOT there? What is surprisingly there?
- What does it mean for Jesus to teach with authority?
- Would would it have meant for the preachers for Jesus to properly teach with authority even though they were not the Messiah?
- This doesn’t seem to be the type of battle Satan wants to be in. What is the ordinary way that Satan attacks the world and the church?
- What is the Bible teaching us when it mentions this kind of demon activity almost nowhere other than with Christ and the Apostles?
- If you were a regular worshiper in a synagogue around the time of Jesus who thought that the non-Jewish world alone had a problem with following Satan, how would this have corrected you?
- How is the authority of Jesus over Satan a sweet comfort to Christians?
- Are Christians ever instructed to talk to Satan or demons?
- These events proved Jesus had authority and was the chosen one to crush Satan, but how would he finally do this?
- What changed regarding Satan’s influence over the nations when Jesus rose from the dead?
