EFMC SUNDAYS

Sunday, November 30, 2025

This sermon steps into Mark 5 and the story of a man living among the tombs—isolated, out of control, and beyond human help. His life is what it looks like when sin and spiritual bondage run their full course: cut off from people, surrounded by death, and no longer ruling his desires, but ruled by them. We’ll connect that picture to how sexual sin works in our lives and marriages today: it starts small, feels manageable, but slowly steals our peace, hardens our hearts, and rewrites who we believe we are. But the center of this message is not the man’s brokenness; it is Jesus’ mercy. We’ll see how Christ crosses into “unclean” territory, confronts what no one else can tame, exposes the powers bent on destruction, and frees this man completely—clothed, in his right mind, and sent home with a testimony. From there, we’ll talk about what real freedom looks like for us: naming the desires that have been running the show, surrendering them to Christ instead of managing them in the dark, and learning to walk in a new identity as people He has set free and sent out to tell what He has done. The message invites us to be honest about our own “tombs,” to surrender what we can’t fix on our own, and to receive the same freeing, restoring grace that then sends us out to tell others what the Lord has done for us.