So when was the last time you had a demon show up in your church?
A great teacher shows up and in the midst of his sermon a person jumps up and asks what he wants. One can sense the demon's fear in the situation. "Have you come to destroy us?!" And what makes the demon think this? Because he knows who Jesus is - the Holy One of G-D.
We see this wording in Psalm 16, which Peter quotes in Acts 2 and Paul in Acts 13. It's a psalm of praise to G-D, and it appears to have several meanings. First, the psalmist refers to himself as a holy one - one of the saints who lives in the land (v. 3). Peter and Paul saw this as a reference to Jesus...and so did the demon. They understood the resurrection and the power of G-D over death. I LOVE it!
And apparently the people did as well. No wonder news spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee!
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