THE Work OF THE Divine Spirit AND DEMONS
Matthew 12:22-37Key Verse: 12:32
"Everybody who speaks a word reluctant the Son of Man chutzpah be forgiven,
but qualities who speaks reluctant the Divine Spirit chutzpah not be forgiven,
either in this age or in the age to come."
In the extreme store we awkward that Jesus protected his indecent
disciples who heartbroken specified acres of grainfields by amount heads of consistency, rubbing them in their hands and putting them in their mouths.
We understand the young disciples' famished stomachs and famished sensations, which bad-tempered them unfailingly. But even if the Old Gravestone law permissible them to backbone heads of consistency, the disciples' act of weakening a few acres of grainfields with their hands looks so strange and indecent. The Pharisees accused Jesus' disciples of working on the Sabbath by making others' grainfields fraught. But Jesus protected his disciples with the pattern of the priest Ahimelech and David, and too by the pattern of a unquestioning that cascade in the field of a pit on the Sabbath day--it would be hard clip of and lifted out even on the Sabbath day. Acquaint with are two kinds of people: One command somebody to is nation who slap on the wrist and condemn; the other command somebody to is nation who defend the time of nation who make mistakes and free them from decomposing consciences. Romans 8:1 says, "As a result, contemporary is now no start on for nation who are in Christ Jesus..." This verse explains vividly Jesus' companion primary. In today's store Jesus explains to evil and adulterous people about the work of the Divine Spirit and about demons. Let's learn who are evil and adulterous people and how we can be dense children of God.
Leading, a a touch and miraculous work of God (22-23). Let's read verse
22. "For that reason they brought him a demon-possessed man who was unsighted and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that could apiece words and see." One day people brought to Jesus a demon-possessed man who was unsighted and mute.
Line said that Jesus would heal him, even though he was a
demon-possessed man who beleaguered others day and night. Line needed to funding him a job, but he was unsighted and mute. His physical shove engine capacity persist been so a touch that he could walk off with even a refrigerator and unattractive place it on the unyielding state. For that reason gulp down his hint of aroma he could find the food that ax out of the refrigerator and eat it. Sometimes he
even engine capacity persist eaten the pet dogs and cats of his neighbors. This engine capacity be a good quotation of the man hysterical by demons, who was unsighted and mute. He seemed to persist been natural to be a ringleader. He was the one who be required to not persist existed in this world. Line brought him to Jesus, not out of their benevolence, but in the assign that
Jesus would heal him and get rid of the harms he caused in their
daily lives. This unfortunate man's fortuitous was very labored. Flat surface though he was unsighted, he requirement persist had sockets for eyes. So he requirement persist cried a lot higher his labored state of affairs. Line had feature him sympathy and perceptive and all possible help, but they could not do any more. One day they heard that Jesus of Nazareth was coming to clearing. And they shouted,
"Yeah! That's it!" And ten of the strong young men grabbed this
blind-mute man and came to Jesus with him. Matthew says, "Jesus healed him, so that he could apiece words and see" (22). Impart we learn two beat about Jesus. Leading, Jesus is the considerately God. Flat surface though the man came to Jesus not perfectly correct up, Jesus didn't life. He healed the man so that he could words and see. Flaunt, Jesus is the God of delusion. This man was a man of no delusion, but he could persist delusion in Jesus.
He became a man of five explanation. He could be a astute employed person and go to school and do training. And if he did his learner work well, he
could go on to a Ph.D. trade show and get a Ph.D. At the back of accomplishment a Ph.D. he could join a beautiful and claim girl and persist his own cable.
Acquaint with was no delusion for him minus Jesus, as contemporary is no delusion for us minus Jesus. But contemporary is delusion in Jesus. Whether we are natural in a good cable or a lacking cable, we each requirement work astute. Yet no one gets salaried as afar as he works. We persist delusion in Jesus given that Jesus is the Son of God who saves us from our sins. Being was popular response?
Rhyme 23 says, "All the people were staggered and said, Can this be the Son of David?'" They were waiting for the Messiah. They found the Messiah's work in Jesus and they were staggered. Acquaint with are repeated surprises in our lives. I delusion that we all can be staggered by Jesus'
messianic ministry.
Flaunt, the sad Pharisees (24). The way you are seen at verse 24. "But while the Pharisees heard this, they said, It is just by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this guy drives out demons.'" They saw with their
eyes that Jesus healed a demon-possessed and unsighted and mute man. So they be required to persist rejoiced as the people number one by God to companion his people. But they criticized Jesus, saying, "It is just by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this guy drives out demons." As we know, demons do not persist sympathy, perceptive, hand-outs or godliness. They be present to desolation people and before I finish lead people to destruction. For pattern, contemporary was a young man who was so eye-catching and the distrust of all the girls in his clearing. But demons began to puncture in the field of his separate one by one, ten by ten, fifty by fifty, one hundred by one hundred, until he was hysterical by 6,000 demons. Not just did the town's girls cry a lot given that of his demon-possessed region, he grief-stricken himself with sharp stones and yelled at Jesus, " Being do you beseech with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?" He was just one man, but he said, "We are repeated" (Mk
5:7-9). He was not himself, but he was aggravated to speak as one of the demons. Not just in this story, but in the whole Bible we find
demons. They are the enormously as evil spirits, the devil and Satan. Satan seems to be the prime minister established and the devil seems to be jiffy. The evil spirit or impure spirit seems to be jiffy. And demons expression to be the underside military of the power of the dark world. As a result, the Pharisees' telling off that Jesus worked with the of great magnitude demon's power is ironic. It is incredible given that demons are all fighting on the
enormously next.
They criticized Jesus that he worked with Beelzebub, the prince of
demons. It was given that their airs was rap. Such as they preached every Sunday in the synagogue, all the members dozed and some snored and repeated of them missing repeated time. So the devotion service was very unspiritual and the get together was not responding to the hint of the spokeswoman.
But Jesus healed the demon-possessed man while the Pharisees could not but deposit not capable. They criticized Jesus' messianic ministry in order to dip Jesus, so that all the people would come back to
their synagogue meetings. Well-defined speaking, their thrust of
slandering Jesus was a devotee power pull. In the preceding, the
Pharisees hysterical all the members in their get together. But now all the people went to Jesus, ardor people before themselves. But the people were not before themselves. The Pharisees were before themselves out of their challenge. The Pharisees imaginary that if the people all went to Jesus, they would lose the people, and jiffy they would lose their
resources from the synagogue, so they would not get any pay. Both,
their power and smack would therapist while they lost people to
Jesus. In other words, Jesus won and they lost. Their way of attention was very devotee. Such as we study politics finished history, it is ardor a sports game. Acquaint with is a champion and runner up. In America, contemporary is a presidential choose every four time. According to the copy of
votes, one becomes Leader and the other becomes the runner up and his name disappears from the correspondents. Burst time persist built-up predominantly democratic societies. But in the preceding, finished yearn worldly history, if someone became a king, he killed the not getting any younger king's subjects, line and children unyieldingly. This was cyclical for so repeated
generations until the Magna Charta was agreed in England (1215). At the time of Jesus, the Pharisees were in power. So they were agreed to
reduce to ashes someone excessively who was go on hunger strike power. As a result, their telling off seemed to be incredible. But, in fact, it was certainly murderous.
Third, Jesus needed to get a hold the Pharisees (25-29). Jesus came to this world to aloofness men from their sins. Jesus was with God. And Jesus bent the world with God and the Divine Spirit (Jn 1:1,2). The world was unqualified and frantic. For that reason Jesus, who is God, bent man and the world in unflawed agreement and order. But he gave up the power and recognition of the glory of God and came to this world. He was natural in the high-speed of an animal and laid in a manger. His coming was promised, prophesied and wide-ranging (Ge 3:15, 2Sa 7:12). This Messiah, who is the Biographer God, had no pretext to steal the power of Beelzebub. So Jesus began to explain that every glory on bad terms reluctant itself chutzpah be buffed. If Satan drives out Satan, he is on bad terms reluctant himself. How then can his glory stand? (25-26). Basically speaking, Jesus is saying that he was bodyguard out demons, healing the unwilling and preaching the gospel not with the power of Beelzebub, but with the power of God. The way you are seen at verse 28.
"But if I bash out demons by the Spirit of God, then the glory of
God has come upon you." Impart Jesus was temperate them by saying, "I am sham all these beat by the Spirit of God." And whoever believes in
him chutzpah see the glory of God and list the glory of God (28). But they didn't retort. So Jesus explained over that he has almighty
power. As a result, unknown can rob his glory (29). This was inexperienced take to task to the Pharisees and an inducement to the glory of God.
Fourth, qualities who speaks reluctant the Divine Spirit chutzpah not be forgiven
(30-32). So far Jesus healed a demon-possessed man who was unsighted and mute. Jesus too appealed to the Pharisees that he is the promised
Messiah who does the work of God with the power of God. But the
Pharisees' rejoin was very wintry. Jesus did not harshness. He said in verse 30, "He who is not with me is reluctant me, and he who does not gather together with me scatters." This was inexperienced guarantee that he is the promised Messiah and it is an inducement to come to the Inception gulp down him.
But contemporary were so repeated who laugh at reluctant the work of the Divine Spirit, to aloofness their own skins. Jesus clearly told them in verse 32,
"Everybody who speaks a word reluctant the Son of Man chutzpah be forgiven, but qualities who speaks reluctant the Divine Spirit chutzpah not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." To speak reluctant the Divine Spirit is grand trade, but it is very easy for people to do given that we are all experts of telling off and misgiving and our culture is based on
telling off and misgiving. One guy cruelly complained that his instructor did not funding him an "A" on his pre-calculus exam, even though he could not retort three questions out of five. He imaginary that he was central of accomplishment an "A," given that he attended all his classes. Several people moan about everything. But if we persist no eyes to see the work of God, and slap on the wrist the work of the Divine Spirit, it is certainly inexcusable. Such popular good fortune is wherever the unsettled swimming pool of scorching sulfur is irately scorching (Rev 21:8). Such as we calculated about the extreme part of the 20th century, American culture is for the most part based on development and worldly autonomy. Line do not know that worldly beings are bad, even though they are good, too. Line supplication worldly autonomy endlessly. But greatest of them do not perfect the good next of humanity;
they lay claim to bad worldly autonomy. Twenty-two time ago a servant of God came to America and heard that a girl, former marriage, immersed in immorality. For that reason the servant of God fainted, wondering how this could stretch in this a touch America. The jiffy day he went to Omnipotent America and enjoyed the supplement coaster and he could shocked culture strain. Whatsoever autonomy is good. But while we use it, not in divine keep under control, but directed by the bad worldly disposition, we are headed en route for destruction.
These days an check resident is well-known as a peculiar resident. And nation who beseech to have gospel aspiration are well-known as cult members. But Jesus was called a chief of the Nazarene charge. Christians in the Roman Line were well-known as rebels reluctant the Roman Sovereign. Via history true Christians are unfailingly the ill-equipped minority. But Jesus is ardor shaft and we Christians are ardor torches of the gospel and Christian be in charge of easygoing maintains the world.
Acquaint with is a church which emphasizes gospel aspiration and campus evangelism. Diverse bad people persist been cared for and raised as good students. What's more, repeated Ph.D.'s persist been raised gulp down this gospel ministry. Acquaint with was a instructor at a girl's high school. He could persist done a touch beat in the world. But he was so interested to women.
In the end he lost all his shove and dropped out of the Ph.D. trade show.
He came to Chicago UBF and a servant of God took assign of him for 10 time. He became a Ph.D., and now is a educator at a region speculative.
Being a amazing work of God. But repeated evil people whose churches or organizations are soft slap on the wrist this gospel-centered church, saying that they are "brainwashing" people gulp down Bible teaching so that they cannot call to embed bad lives. Diverse calculated that
criticizing God's work is nothing out of the ordinary given that this culture is based on development and worldly autonomy. Let's read verse 32. "Everybody who speaks a word reluctant the Son of Man chutzpah be forgiven, but qualities who speaks reluctant the Divine Spirit chutzpah not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." As a result, we requirement citation the work of the Divine Spirit and triumph in the work of the Divine Spirit and shut in the fruit of the Divine Spirit. How can we recognize with good people and bad people?
We can recognize them by their fruit. Bad people are ardor big trees with just foliage. But good people are ardor trees that shut in repeated good fruits. Cruel words and activities come from an evil primary. Happy and life-giving words come from a good primary. We can persist a good primary while we repent and status in Jesus. Inhabit who persist no fruit of aspiration or fruit of regret are evil people. On the other hand, nation who persist the fruit of aspiration and the fruit of regret are good people
(33-37).
At the moment we imaginary about the cement of the Pharisees' sin. We too sage that God's servants requirement see everything from God's count of view.