Mid-Cities Church Sermon Podcast · Mid-Cities Church

What Makes Us Different from Demons? - Stand Alone

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The one thing demons did not do was love Jesus. It is possible to imitate religious behavior without actually loving God.
Guest speaker Seth from Oregon delivers a provocative sermon asking 'What makes you different from a demon?' Using Mark 5's account of demon-possessed man, he systematically shows that demons performed every religious behavior Christians value - running to Jesus, kneeling, theological knowledge, petition - except loving God. He then presents Bernard of Clairvaux's four stages of love as a framework for spiritual growth.

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A sermon that asks whether devotion is real, or just routine.

Seth's sermon draws a clean line between religious performance and actual love for God and neighbor. It opens with easy guest-speaker banter, then keeps returning to the harder question underneath: whether church attendance, prayer, study, service, and mission mean anything…

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If you want a sermon that mixes family banter with a hard look at your religious habits, start here.

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