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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time.

Thank you Lord for preserving our life throughout this past week.

Thank you Lord for this Chinese New Year and a time of holiday season for many of us.

And I pray Lord that even though We are in this festive new year That you would draw close to us even now as we study your word That you would guide us and lead us with your spirit.

We pray in Jesus name Amen So Jesus he's added again in this story in this encounter and we start off by going to Matthew chapter 12 and verse 22.

He's about to heal someone here and the Bible says this, Then was brought unto him 1 possessed with the devil, blind and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and the dumb both spake and saw.

So that word dumb there meant he could not talk.

He was a mute and Jesus healed him so that now he could see and talk as well.

And then we look now at what happened as a result of his healing.

That healing was pretty quick, but what happened after that?

Matthew chapter 12, 23 continues, And all the people were amazed and said, is not this the son of David?

Verse 24, but the Pharisees heard it and they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

So the people that were standing around that saw what happened, they were amazed and they said, what, is not this the Messiah?

That's what that word Son of David meant.

You know, This was King David and this is what it meant for the Jews to call him the son of David.

Look at this next Bible text in John chapter 7 and verse 42.

Hath not the scripture said that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was.

You see that word Christ, that word Christ there is not referring to Jesus Christ, but the word Christ itself means Messiah.

So when they said, is not this the Son of David?

It was referring to the prophecies that pointed forward to the Messiah that would come from the seed of David.

So when the people saw Jesus heal this man, they said, wow, this must be the Messiah.

They were declaring that Jesus must be that promised 1 that they're all waiting for.

But look at how the Pharisees responded in contrast.

Oh, this man, he's casting out devils by the prince of Beelzebub, which is another name for Satan.

They were not willing to accept what Christ had just done and instead they accused Jesus by using the Prince of Darkness, His power, for casting out this man that was possessed with an evil spirit.

Now look, it's 1 thing to not accept what Jesus is doing, but when the man that was clearly possessed with an evil spirit, with a devil, and that was blind and he could not speak and he was harassed in every way, is now there clear of his past sickness, spiritual and physical, it is clear that a power more than human was present.

However, they refused to accept that Jesus was divine.

They refused to accept him as the Messiah.

So the only other option, since there was some sort of power in play at that point, the only other option they had was to conclude that Jesus was in league with the devil.

You know it's 1 thing for a person to have a personal bias and a grudge against someone but when their fruits like what Jesus bore, when their fruits are so clear, we've got to make sure that we judge people by their fruits and not by our own personal opinion of what we think of them.

It's so interesting that the common people were the ones that were ready to accept Christ as a Messiah and yet the religious leaders, the ones that are studying the Bible, the ones that are meant to know the prophecies of the coming messiah were the ones that rejected him and yet in this case they said what he's using the prince of the darkness the the the the powers of the dark darkness to cast out this evil spirit.

And Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

And if Satan cast out Satan, He is divided against himself.

And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?

Jesus replied that it did not make sense for Satan to cast out himself or his comrades or his evil angels out of somebody.

Look, even common sense and common logic, when you put 2 and 2 together, could have figured that out.

That Jesus not using the powers of darkness to cast out a man that was possessed with an evil spirit.

And then he continues and says what if Jesus was casting out demons with with the the powers of darkness then how about others because he was not the only 1 this is probably not the first time it's happened but how about those that also cast out evil spirits as well.

Were they also using the powers of darkness as well?

How come they weren't being condemned by using the powers of Satan, right?

So Jesus was exposing their clear envy and hatred and jealousy of him, that the Pharisees had against him.

And in their hatred, they were blind to the fact that they were walking a very dangerous path.

You know, envy and jealousy, it really blinds us so easily.

It makes us think outrageous thoughts that we wouldn't normally think and it makes us in this case unreasonable.

In the case of the Pharisees, it would ultimately lead them to crucify Jesus at every at the opportunity that they had.

You know I want you to consider this case in the Old Testament.

There's a story of Dathan, Korah, and Abiram, and it's found in Numbers 16, okay?

And we're just going to read 1 verse from there, so if you're not familiar with the story, you can go back and read it later in number 16 but they came to Moses and Aaron and they said look the children of Israel they are all holy they are all fine they don't need a leader you are the ones that exalt yourself pointing to Moses and Aaron you are the ones that exalt yourself personally, uphold yourself above everyone else and no 1 asked you to do it.

What was Dathan, Korah and Abiram saying?

That they are the ones that had their own agenda to put themselves, brothers, in this position.

Numbers chapter 16 and verse 3 says it this way, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them, You take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy, every 1 of them, and the Lord is among them.

Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord." In their envy and jealousy and their pride of the position that Moses and Aaron had, they were blinded and they accused them that it wasn't God that put them there.

They forgot the miracles that God did through them in Egypt with the 10 plagues.

They forgot that God worked through Moses for the Red Sea and so many other miracles that it was evident, evident and clear that Moses and Aaron did not have their own personal agenda but that God was with them.

They were jealous of the position that they had.

And in this case, the Pharisees, you know, when we come back to the story, they were envious of Christ, that he was gaining popularity, that he could read their minds, that he was doing great things and people were following them and not the Pharisees themselves.

And so they accused Jesus of using the Prince of Darkness's power for his miracles.

Friends, we have to be so careful that we check and recheck ourselves that our actions are not born of jealousy or envy or hatred.

It leads us to do the most heinous sins and accuse people of such unreasonable actions.

Matthew 12, 28-30 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you?

Or else how can 1 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?

And he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

You can see very quickly here that, you know, Jesus, He heals that man that is blind and that is dumb.

And even though that's the title of our study this evening, that's only just the beginning but really the rest of his discourse and the rest of his interaction is with the Pharisees that accused him for what?

Casting out the demon from this person by the Prince of Beelzebub, by the power of Satan.

But yet in this text that we just looked at here in Matthew 12, 28 to 30, Jesus gives another alternative, another possible alternative to their accusation.

If by any chance that I do cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God is coming to you.

The possibility is that God's Spirit is working through him and not the devil's power.

Of course, Look, for us that's studying it, we know that it is the Spirit of God.

Jesus has already established that it makes no sense for Satan to cast out himself and to work against himself.

And then he gives the illustration of what?

No man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil or steal his stuff until he binds the strong man and then he can do whatever he wants.

He just bound the strong man and cast him out.

And he did it by something that was even more powerful than the strong man, which was what?

If you're not with me, you're against me.

If you don't gather with me, you're scattering abroad.

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