EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/21/2026
9:05 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“Jesus’
Power Over The Supernatural Realm”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
4:41
Message of the verse: Demons also were coming out of many,
shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But
rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be
the Christ.
Now after spending three says on the last section,
this one is short, and so it should be done this evening.
We have already looked in the
previous chapter of MacArthur’s commentary, if Jesus is to free those held
captive in Satan’s kingdom of darkness, He must have power over him and his
demon hosts. As Jesus did earlier in the
synagogue seen in 4:33-35, Jesus demonstrated that power so that demons also
were coming out of many. After
listening to MacArthur’s sermons on this section of Scripture I found out that
in this particular part of time, when Jesus was on the earth that there was a
lot of demon activity going on, and so Jesus has to show that He has power over
Satan, and also the demons that followed Satan when he fell, which happened
before the earth was made by the Lord, but not too much time before that.
MacArthur writes “Like the demon
Christ cast out in the synagogue, these were terrified of Him. They knew His true identity, that He was God
the Son, the second person of the Trinity incarnate, with absolute authority to
send them into eternal torment.
Confronted with the second member of the Trinity, in terror they were shouting
or screaming, ‘You are the Son of God!’ as they left their victims.
“But Jesus did not want their
testimony, so rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak, because they
knew Him to be the Christ. Jesus not
only had the power to cast them out, but also to silence them. To have demons affirming His identity would
only create confusion. ‘It was
altogether inappropriate that Jesus’ Messiahship should be proclaimed by
representatives of the evil one. Had He
allowed this by not silencing the demons, He would have given grounds for a
charge brought against him later by the Pharisees, that of being Satan’s ally
(Matt. 12:24; Mark 3:22)’ (Robert L. Thomas and Stanley N. Gundry, A Harmony
of the Gospels [Chicago: Moody, 1978], 50).
Paul similarly rejected demonic testimony from a possessed slave girl in
Philippi (Acts 16:16-18).”
(Acts 16:16-18)
“16 ¶ As we were going to the place of prayer, we
were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners
much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She
followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God,
who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” 18
And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly
annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus
Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.”
“Jesus’ authority over the demons
revealed His power to deliver sinners whose minds have been blinded by the god
of this world (2 Cor. 4:4) and his demon hosts.”
(2 Cor. 4:4)
“4 In their case the god of this world has
blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
“Believers
even now have renewed minds (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23), and one day will have minds
completely free from the effects of demonic deception.”
(Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23)
“2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what
is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
“23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your
minds,”
“The
Savior of souls, the one who will rescue sinners from Satan’s power (Eph.
2:1-3) and the kingdom of darkness (Col. 1:13-16), must demonstrate that He has
absolute power over the demon captors.”
(Eph. 2:1-3)
“1 ¶ And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
2 in which you once walked, following
the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions
of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
(Col. 1:13-16)
“13 He has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness
of sins. 15 He is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven
and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”
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