God’s Spiritual Handiwork

GOD’S SPIRITUAL HANDIWORKTEXT: Mark 5:1-20SUMMARY: The restoration of the demon-possessed man of Gadara to sanity displays the superiority of God’s handiwork over the devil’s, but it also shows man’s natural inability to discern it.I. THE DEVIL’S HANDIWORK ON DISPLAY, vv. 1-5.A. A Man Attracted to Death, vv. 2-3. B. A Man Given Over to Sin, vv. 3-4.C. A Man Tormented by Satan, v. 5.II. GOD’S HANDIWORK ON DISPLAY, vv. 6-13.A. A Man Called by God, v. 6.B. A Man Pursued by God, vv. 7-9.C. A Man Conquered by God, vv. 10-14.D. A Man Controlled by God, v. 15.III. MAN’S DEPRAVITY ON DISPLAY, vv. 14-20. 1689 Confession, on the Fall of Man: “Although God created Man upright, and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof; yet he did not long abide in this honour; From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, proceed all actual transgressions…. being now conceived in Sin, and by nature children of wrath, the servants of Sin, the subjects of death and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.”A. Curiosity, v. 14.B. Fear, v. 15.C. Rejection, v. 17.