Monday, May 18, 2026

"HIs Purity" (Luke 4:34c)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/18/2026 9:31 PM

My Worship Time                                                                                               Focus:  His Purity

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                     Reference:  Luke 4:34c

Message of the verse:  I know who You are—the Holy one of God

            This will be another of my shorter SD’s as I am having some trouble with my laptop.

            It is unlike atheists, liberal theologians, and also cultists, the demons know exactly who Jesus is.  In fact, in the first half of Mark’s gospel they are the only ones who are sure He is the Son of God.  Let us think about this for a moment.  The Bible teaches that God created the angels before He created the world, and when He created them they were all perfect.  Now we know that one third of them fell after Lucifer fell too.  Lucifer I believe was the archangel of the Son of God and it was pride that caused him to fall.  Now if one thinks about this they have to come up with the fact that all of the angels that God created knew exactly who the Son of God is.  Now back to our verse we are looking at this evening.  Expressing the sheer terror of one who is absolutely wicked in the presence of the One who is absolutely holy, the demon screamed, I know who You are—the Holy One of God!  Now like the rest of his fellow demons, this one was forced to acknowledge  that Jesus is the absolutely holy Son of God.  If God’s people are afraid of His holy presence cf. Isa. 6:5; Ezek. 1:28; Matt. 17:6; Rev. 1:17), how much more so a vile wicked demon?  Now Jesus however, did not want or need the testimony of hell.  So therefore, He silenced the demons whenever they affirmed His true identity (vv. 35, 41; cf. Mark 1:25, 34; 3:12; Acts 16:16-18).  Now since Jesus Christ lives in believers as seen in Galatians 2:20), demons fear them, because the One they supremely dread indwells them.

            As mentioned this is a very short SD, and I have one more to do in this group entitled “His Power where we will look at Luke 4:35-37.

5/18/2026 9:46 PM

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