Well, join me in your Bibles
in Luke chapter 11 this morning for our continuing study. And
this will be part two of the lesson that we began last week
called The Finger of God, and this will be The Finger of God
part two. as a little bit of a review back
in verse 14 of Luke chapter 11. And he was casting out a devil,
and it was dumb, and it came to pass when the devil was gone
out, the dumb spake, and the people wondered. Some of them
said he cast out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. And others tempting him sought
of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts,
said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought
to desolation, and a house divided against a house falleth. And
if Satan also be divided against himself, How shall his kingdom
stand, because you say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub?
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons
cast them out? Wherefore shall they be your
judges? But If I with the finger of God
cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. And that's our place where we'll
begin today. If I with the finger of God,
well, You know, God just doesn't have a giant finger that He does
stuff with. And the Scriptures tell us that
God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him
in spirit and truth. And as we look at this metaphor
here about the finger of God, we know that it's speaking about
the Holy Spirit, because that's what the other Gospels tell us
in Mark and in Matthew. We had the same scenario reported
to us in those Scriptures. And he says, if I by the Spirit
of God cast out devils in Matthew, and we'll read those in a little
bit here, but just so that you know up front that what we're
talking about here is the Spirit of God. And what they're accusing
him of is that he's casting, he's in league with the devil. He's casting out devils by the
chief of the devils. And they're as much as saying
the Spirit of God is the devil, is unholy. And that's what the
other scriptures tell us too, by the way, and especially in
the Mark's account in chapter 3. spells that out pretty specifically. And so I think that it's such
a terrible thing to bring out that they do that. And you know,
there's just so much work by the Holy Spirit that's attributed
to us, that's attributed not to the Holy Spirit. And we want
to look at that a little bit. But the main part of this lesson
here is that they're accusing him of casting out devils by
or through the power of Beelzebub. It's always comical to look at
that translation of that as the lord of the flies, or the lord
of the dung heap, I think is the translation of that Beelzebub. But I if I with the finger of
God cast out devils no doubt the kingdom of God has come upon
you and he's just saying I am the kingdom of God, and I am
here. And so it's imperative that we
look more closely at this statement and the significance it has with
the very redemption of the church by Christ and the new birth by
the Spirit. If we look at this in its proper
perspective, It's necessary that we go back to Genesis 3, where
the devil first appears in the Word of God. In Genesis chapter
3, it says, Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of
the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree in
the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. But of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it,
lest you die. And the serpent said unto the
woman, You shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the
day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Boy, you know, just
the exact opposite things happened there than what the serpent promised. Their eyes weren't open. Their
eyes became blinded to the Spirit of God. Their eyes became not
open, but closed. And he said, you shall not die. But they did die spiritually.
That part of them that could see things of God that Norm and
I were talking this morning about in Corinthians. It said, the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
neither can he has no ability, neither can he know them because
they're spiritually discerned. That part of them that could
do that died when Adam ate that fruit that God said thou shalt
not eat of it. So the insinuation here, The
lie that the devil told from the beginning was that man didn't
really need God. And if you, by this act, by this
eating of this, you will actually be the equal of God. That's what
he was telling them. He doesn't want you to eat that,
because if you eat it, you'll be like Him. You'll know good
and evil, and you'll be the equivalent of God. And really, that's the
basis of almost all religions, is making men the equal of God,
and that they can come to Him on their own terms. They can
have their own opinion of Him. Everybody has, well, my God is
this way, and my God is that way. And they don't, they can't
see the God, the true God of the scriptures because their
eyes are blind. blinded to it. It's what he told
Nicodemus. He says, unless you're born of
the Spirit, you can't even see the kingdom of God. You can't
see me. Unless you're born of the Spirit and of water, you
can't enter into the kingdom of God. So it's important that
we relate this to this finger of God because in Genesis chapter
2 regarding the creation of man, it's so interesting to look at
all these aspects of the Spirit of God. and how integral he is
in the redemption of the church and in our very life. In Genesis
2, verse 7, the Lord God formed man. excuse me, out of the dust
of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul.
What a metaphor for our condition in our natural state and how
that's overcome by the Spirit of God. This breath of life is
a really interesting word in the Hebrew, the root word of
it, is nisham, and it's a word that means a destroying wind.
And the breath of life here is a puff, a wind, a vital breath,
a life-giving breath. So the root word of it is a destroying
wind, a destroying breath, and the application in this case
is a breath that's a vital breath, a life-giving breath. The Spirit
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. So we find the Spirit has both
of those aspects. He can be a destroying wind,
and he can be a life-giving breath. In Luke chapter 4, When Jesus was dealing with some
devils there in Luke 4 and verse 34, they said, Let us alone.
What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou
come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the
Holy One of God." And again, we want to emphasize that the Holy Spirit and God the Father,
God the Son, God the Holy Spirit are one. They're in unity. They're
integral to each other. They can't be separated, the
one from the other, and they're united in every every aspect
of will, purpose, and effect. So it's important to always keep
that in mind. In fact, when it talks about
the resurrection of Christ, if you look in all the Scriptures,
you'll find that each one of them were involved in the resurrection
of Jesus. And so all working to that same
thing. In Luke 6, verse 9, in the aspect
of destroying, Jesus said unto them, I will ask you one thing,
is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to evil, to save
life or to destroy it? So those two aspects are involved
with the Holy Spirit. And as we look at that finger
of God, it's just a metaphor for the effectual arm of the
Lord and carrying out His purposes. And you know, the Father in the
covenant of grace, the Father. chose a people, elected them,
it says in the scriptures, and gave them to the Son. And the
Son said, my part of this will be to die for them, to redeem
them. And the Holy Spirit's part in
it is to breathe into them that breath of life, to apply that
redeeming blood. And in Hebrews 2, verse 14 says,
For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he, that's Jesus also himself, likewise took part of the same,
that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil. Isn't that what it tells us in
Genesis 3, that he's going to crush the head of... that was
his purpose. in redeeming the sheep. And 1 John 3, verse 8 says, He
that commiteth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth
from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
And then we read that back in Genesis where he said, It was
the lie. If you eat this, you'll be as
God. You don't really need God. You can be God yourself. And
that lie has just perpetuated itself down through time, through
every aspect. Cain and Abel and everything
that we read where people try to substitute the things of themselves
in place of the actual redeeming work of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit. You know, it's interesting that
this breath of life that we read about in that scripture that
we just read a minute ago, that he breathed into him the breath
of life in Genesis. And in the Greek, that breath
of life is the Greek word pneuma. And that's where we get pneumatic. For you, those that have garages
and tools and stuff, you know that a pneumatic tool is powered
by air. Isn't that an interesting application
of that? That the breath of life is powered by air, powered by
wind. And isn't that what Jesus told
Nicodemus in John chapter 3? He said, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit of
that pneuma, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And
he goes on to say the spirit is like that. He brings that
out. He says that spirit's like a
wind. It's like that movement of air. It's like that pneumatic
powered by air. He said it goes where it listeth. And no man can say which way
is it going or where did it come from. It's completely sovereign,
but it's completely united with the sovereignty of the Father
and of the Son. And so that spirit, that pneuma,
that air power breathes into men, the breath of life. And because of the fall, that
spiritual life that man enjoyed with God was snuffed out in an
instant when he ate that fruit. And remember, they hid themselves. He said, not only are you not
as God, you hid yourselves from the actual God. You tried to
separate yourself from him because you couldn't stand to be in front
of him. And he sought them out. And as we kind of sang in that
hymn that we had this morning, Now, in relation to our study
today, We need to compare our text in Luke 11 where Jesus declared
that He casts out devils with the finger of God. And we mentioned
that in the beginning here that those things were reported in
a couple of the other Gospels. You know, each of the Gospels
brings out a different aspect about the Holy Spirit and a different
viewpoint for us to look at it Say, thank God. Thank God for everything He does
for us. You know, in our previous lesson
on teach us to pray, we learned that we don't even know how to
pray as we ought, but it's the Spirit that intercedes for us
in that aspect of our life and converts it to something that's
compatible with the will of God. and away from what it might have
been in our natural condition here as we pray. So this finger
of God is referred to in the other Gospels, in Mark and in
Matthew. You know, in John, he brings
out this wonderful thing about, if I go, I'll send you another
comforter. not just a comforter, but he
says, I'll send you another comforter, which means that they're synonymous
in their unity and purpose and will. So, So here in Luke, we
have a manifestation of a view of the truth of the Spirit in
the covenant of grace for the redemption of the church. The
Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of
the Lord, the instrument by which the Lord affects the purposes
of God. And because He is God, He's one
with God. Note that all things of the Spirit
He regenerates. He convicts. He teaches. He commands. He comforts. He seals. He intercedes.
He preserves and He produces fruit. All those things, that's
just a brief list. I mean, we could spend months
and months and months every day going through all the aspects
of all the things that the Holy Spirit does in our life and for
the church. He'll testify of Christ when
He comes. When He comes to us, He'll not
speak of Himself, but He'll testify of Christ. So all those things,
all those aspects of Him, and we find that the natural man
takes every one of those aspects and rationalizes that he can
do those things. without that, that he can through
his own methods and own abilities accomplish those things. He's
the breath of life to the elect of God, and when he breathes
into us that living breath, it's the destroying wind to the works
of the devil. The same wind that blows life
into us kills the other thing. Isn't that an interesting way
to look at that? That root word that it's either
a destroying wind or a living breath and it's the same. And
isn't that what it says about the gospel? To some it's a saver
of life unto life and to others a saver of death unto death.
Isn't that interesting how that You know, there's no greater
devil in man than that lie that was from the beginning that you
shall be as gods. You don't need God. Isn't that
what the psalm said in Psalm 14? The fool said in his heart,
there's no God or no God. Either way, as you look at that,
it's bad. There's nothing good in it. Your own willpower is in that
scheme of things in the natural man. Your own willpower is sufficient
for you to decide for Christ. So really, there's no need of
the Spirit. And I was paraphrasing a fellow
named George Smeaton, wrote that in 1880. Your own will is sufficient for
you to decide for Christ. No need of the Spirit. Boy, how
contrary. It's not of him that willeth,
not of him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy. Every
aspect of the natural man is just the complete opposite to
the Scripture and to what God says and what the Holy Spirit
does. And there's just no getting around that. So, as we compare
the three Gospels which record this particular event, in Luke, the one we just read
here in Luke 11-20, but if I with the finger of God cast out devils,
no doubt the kingdom of God has come upon you. And in Matthew
12-28, he says, but if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God,
then the kingdom of God has come unto you. And then let's go over
to Mark chapter 3, and I want to read a pretty good chunk of
that Mark chapter 3 starting with verse 11. In Mark chapter 3 and verse 11
it says, And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down
before him and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. They
knew who he was. And this word unclean spirits,
it means unholy, evil, impure, demonic, foul, pneuma with a
little s spirit. That's kind of what that is.
definition of that is. So, the opposite of the Spirit
of God. And He straightly charged them
that they should not make Him known. And He goeth up into a
mountain and called unto Him whom He would, and they came
unto Him. Interesting there about this, He called whom He would,
and they came. Cause and effect there. and he
ordained twelve that they should be with him, that he might send
them forth to preach, to declare the gospel, and to have power
to heal sicknesses and cast out devils. And Simon he surnamed
Peter, and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James,
and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is the sons of thunder. And Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew
and Matthew and Thomas, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and
Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed
him. And they went into a house, and the multitude came together
again, so that they could not so much as eat bread." What a
crowd thronged him all the time. And when his friends heard of
it, they went out to lay hold on him, for they said, he's beside
himself. And the scribes which came down
from Jerusalem said, and in here it's called the scribes in Matthew's
account said the Pharisees were the ones that accused him of
this, and we spent some time talking about. There seemed to
be this, no matter where he went, they had these talking points.
Oh, he's not anybody. He's in league with the devil.
He is casting out devils by Beelzebub. And that's what they said here.
The scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, he hath Beelzebub,
and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. And He
called them unto Him and said unto them in parables, because
seeing they can't see, and hearing they can't hear, because that
part of them, that portion, as A.W. Tozer said, the intellect
part of them was spiritually dead, could not be used to discern
the things of the Spirit of God. He spoke unto them in parables,
saying, How can Satan cast out Satan? And why would he want
to? I mean, you'd think that he would
be saying, Yeah, stay there. And if a kingdom be divided against
itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against
itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against
himself and be divided, He cannot stand, but hath an end. No man
can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except
he first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house.
But verily I say unto you, all sin shall be forgiven unto the
sons of men, and blasphemies, wherever they shall blaspheme,
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness,
but is in danger of eternal damnation." Verse 30, because they said,
he hath an unclean spirit. So they took in this application
of what they called their unclean spirit mode, They emphasize all
the exact opposite things of the Spirit of God. He's unholy,
whereas the Spirit of God is holy. The Holy Ghost, He's called. He's evil, and He is the source
of all the good fruit. He's impure. He's holy again.
Demonic, foul, a little spirit. And He is the Spirit of God Almighty. So when they accuse him of that,
you cast out devils by this thing that's the exact opposite of
the Holy Ghost. He said that shall never be forgiven.
And boy, it's only that close that we come when we say we can
be regenerated without the Holy Spirit, that we can do that by
ourselves, that we don't need Him, that He is not effectual. It's just more of the same kind
of idea. Clearly, there's a severe and
immutable condemnation for denial of the work of the Holy Spirit,
or the finger of God, as it's called here in Luke chapter 11,
and attributing falsely the abilities and the prerogatives of that
holy work to unholy devils and others and even to ourselves. What dangerous, when I read that
and I just thought about it, what dangerous ground We dismiss the work of the Holy
Spirit. And you know, in religion, they
can't wait for the Holy Spirit to do His job. That's why they
put such pressure on people emotionally and psychologically. to make
a decision for Christ, to do what that Smeaton fellow said,
our free will is sufficient to make a decision. We just have
to say the words. There's nothing preventing you
from coming to Christ this very second, except just walking right
down here and repeating after me. That's from any so-called
evangelist from the 19th century. That was pretty famous in the
United States. And he was wildly successful
in his business, is what we'll call it, because it was not the
business of the Lord. But he just said, come on down. And people did. And they didn't
wait for the Holy Spirit to do his work. And our pastor, he brought out
in this great lesson from Zechariah in chapter 4, verse 6, Then he
answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord
unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by
my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. There's no separation
between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit
in will or purpose or action, and they act in concert for the
redemption of the church. The Father, again, chose a people
in Christ, His Son, before the foundation of the world, before
they had done any good or evil, the Bible says. that the purpose
of God according to election might stand. That's from Romans
9, 11. The Son in this covenant of grace
agreed to pay the ultimate ransom price for those whom the Father
had chosen Him. His very blood was required to
pay for their sins. And He willingly said, I lay
down My life for the sheep. No one taketh it from Me. I lay
it down in Myself. And the Holy Spirit, His job,
is the revelation. His job reveals and applies the
blood of the Savior shed on their behalf and causes them to believe
the gospel, the good news whereby they have been saved. And we
find those brought out again and again and again and again
in scriptures. Paul wrote in the Thessalonians, knowing, brethren,
beloved, your election of God for or because our gospel came
not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the
Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, as you know what manner of men
we were among you for your sake." You know, it's interesting there
that he as much as says that The Gospel has to come to you
in the Word of God. The Gospel has to come to you
in the power of the Almighty. The Gospel has to come to you
in the Holy Ghost. Our gospel came not into you
in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in
much assurance. For as you know what manner of
men we were among you for your sake." And it just tells us that
the gospel, it's right here in this Bible, and in these books,
and in the preaching, and millions of people hear it. To some, it's just words only.
To some, there's no power. To some, it's nothing. They can't see it. Unless you're
born of the Spirit, you can't see it. So that Spirit has to come in
the power of that Holy Spirit. This purpose and actions of the
triune God cannot be separated. No part can be eliminated, disallowed,
or replaced. You can't dissect it and say,
well, I don't need this part or I don't need that part. They
must all act in concert in the redemption of the church. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he can't enter into the kingdom of God. That which
is born of flesh is flesh. That part is of no value. That
part cannot see. That part cannot enter. That
part cannot understand. Cannot discern. Cannot, cannot,
cannot. No ability. That which is born
of the Spirit is Spirit. marvel not that I said unto you,
you must be born again. That has to occur. That has to
happen. That act by the Holy Spirit must
be applied, must take place. The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou knowest the sound thereof, but can't tell whence it cometh
and whither it goeth. And so is every one that is born
of the Spirit." And in religion, they try to get you to say, well,
they try to put a cause and effect in there of, well, if I do this,
then God is obliged to do that. If I say this, then God must
do that. If I do this, then that means
I am in this condition and not in that condition. And he said,
that's contrary to the works of the Spirit, because you don't
know how that is. No, the finger of God is displayed
throughout the Scripture as the effectual arm of the Lord, we'll
call it. The effectual arm of the Lord.
You know, we talked a little bit about the pneuma, the Spirit
of God working in Genesis. We find it in the very first
chapter, chapter 1, the Spirit of God moved on the waters. Then
we find him in chapter 2, he breathed into man the breath
of life. In Exodus chapter 31 verse 18
it says, And he gave to Moses, that's God Almighty, he gave
unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon
Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with
the finger of God. Isn't that interesting? It's
interesting that he's that destroying. Boy, what does the law do to
us? The law kills us. In Deuteronomy 9, verse 10, And
the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with
the finger of God. And on them was written according
to all the words which the Lord spake with you out of the midst
of the fire in the day of the assembly." He says He wrote them
with the finger of God. The same finger of God writes
His words in our heart. The same Holy Spirit. Jeremiah
31 and 33 says, This shall be the covenant that
I will make with thee with the house of Israel after those days,
saith the Lord. I will put my law in their inward
parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they
shall be my people. Well, we know this is talking
spiritually because he doesn't peel this open and take a pencil
and write some stuff on our heart. That's just dumb. But you know,
a lot of people take the literal application of the Bible in a
lot of wrong ways, and if you do that in one place, then you're
kind of obliged to do it in another. So this is just an example of how
not to do that. He writes in our hearts, with
the finger of God. It's a spiritual application.
Hebrews 8, chapter 10, it kind of paraphrases this. It says,
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord God. I will put my laws
in their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be
to them a God and they shall be to me a people. something
that they couldn't see before, something they couldn't understand
before. Hebrews 10, verse 16 says, This is the covenant that
I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will
put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them. So He applies it after we're born again. He applies
it in our intellect, in our mind, and we can understand, we can
see things in the scripture that we didn't see before. And we
say, oh, look at that. It's everywhere. It's in every
verse. It's in every chapter of the
Bible, the Christ that redeemed us. It's everywhere. And then, you know, Paul, he
says after that happens, in chapter 7, verse 22 of Romans, he says,
now I delight in the law of God in the inward man. The outer
part of me still has a little trouble with it, but the inward
part, the part that God took the finger of God and wrote his
laws in my heart and in my mind, that part of me delights in the
law because we know that the purpose of it, and we know that
Christ fulfilled every aspect of it for us in our place. In
2 Corinthians 3, verse 3, it says, for as much as you are
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered
by us, written." And he kind of uses the same metaphor, the
same spiritual metaphor. He says, Written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God. That's how we know that
that's what that's talking about when it says the finger of God,
and the Spirit writes in our hearts and our minds the things
concerning Christ. Not in tables of stone. but in
fleshly tables of the heart." And you can go back to the Old
Testament and read those prophets and they said, I'll take that
heart of stone out of you and give you a heart of flesh. And
I'll write on that heart of flesh. The finger of God writes His
word in our heart and then causes us to believe it. It's not enough
that He always takes care of every single aspect of it. In
Ephesians 1, verse 19, it says, What is the exceeding greatness
of His power to usward? And He's writing that to the
church. It's just not a general declaration, but He's writing
it to believers. The exceeding greatness of His
power to usward who believe according to or by the working of His mighty
power, His dunamis power, that word where we get dynamite from,
that's how we describe the power of that, which He wrought in
Christ when He raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own
right hand in the heavenly places. The same power that was required
to raise Christ from the dead, He applies in us that makes us
able to believe, makes us believers. We believe according to the working
of His mighty power. The finger of God seals us after
we believe. It goes on in Ephesians, a couple
of verses previous to that, in chapter 1, verse 13, it says,
In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth,
You can't trust in something you don't believe, and you can't
believe something that you can't see or know about. You heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. That means
the good news that He saved you. that He adopted you, He loved
you from before the foundation of the world, had the Lamb slain
from before the foundation of the world, loved you with an
everlasting love, and therefore with loving kindness has drawn
you. were sealed with that Holy Spirit
of promise. Sealed by the Spirit, which is
the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession unto the praise of His glory. The down payment,
the earnest is what we call earnest money on a house. We put a down
payment on it to to affirm our interest in completing the transaction. And that's what we have in the
Holy Spirit. The finger of God who's the Spirit
of God, the Spirit of Christ comforts us. It tells us in John
chapter 14, And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you
another comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even
the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, because the spiritual things
can't be discerned by the unregenerate, the world can't receive. Can't
see him, can't know him, but you know him, for he dwelleth
in you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless.
I will come to you." So he says, I'll come to you. If I go, I'll
give you another comforter. They're one. They are the one
in unity and purpose And it's interesting that, again, religion
tries to bypass all those things that are so necessary. And you
just see time after time after time of people that are not comforted. Their whole spiritual condition
is based on what they did that day or what they did the day
before or what they think. It's not based on what Christ
did for them that they can put their whole trust in that. It's
trying to trust in themselves and they know how feeble they
are. They know, oh man, I was bad yesterday. I guess I must
not be saved because It's all feelings and emotion.
The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send
you in My name, He'll teach you all things and bring all things
to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. So those
are just like three or four aspects of the Holy Spirit that we just
in our natural condition disallow and try to assume those things
on our own abilities and with abject failure. So I just wanted
to take some time today and look at that. If I cast out devils
by the finger of God, by the Holy Spirit, what power, what
what glory. And for us to say, you're just
doing that by the spirit of Beelzebub, how offensive must that be to
disallow that and to attribute it to what it's not in any condition. And I say that I can't see much
difference between that and disallowing all of the work of the Holy Spirit
in no matter what form it takes. and attributing it to ourselves
is a serious slap in the face to the Lord. So, with that we'll
stop, and next time we'll look at this verse 22, when a stronger
man, then he shall come. Jesus, the stronger man. Thank
you for your attention, and as always, be free.