The beloved physician Luke wrote how Jesus told His disciples, “If a son shall ask for bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”, and in chapter eleven and verse fourteen of his book Luke shared how Jesus was, “casting out a devil, and it was dumb” where we read:
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spoke; and the people wondered.
The verse reads, “And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.” Luke began with the words, “and he was casting out” or “and Jesus who is the Son of God, the Savior of mankind and God incarnate whose name means Jehovah is Salvation was driving out, expelling and banishing” “a devil” which means “a demon or wicked and evil spirit that is inferior to God and superior to men and the messenger and minister of the devil”, “and it was dumb” or “and the demon was blunted in tongue or speechless and dull in hearing”. Luke shared how Jesus “drove” a “demon” out of a man who caused a man not to be able to speak.
The verse goes on to say, “And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.” Luke continued with the words, “and it came to pass” or “and it happened and came into existence”, “when the devil” or “at the time and moment the demon or wicked and evil spirit that is inferior to God and superior to men and the messenger and minister of the devil” “was gone out” which means “was gone forth, expelled and banished from the man”, “the dumb spoke” or “the man who was blunted in tongue or speechless and dull in hearing uttered, declared, proclaimed and used his tongue to articulate sounds and words”; “and the people wondered” which means “and the men and women were amazed, astonished and in awe and admiration”. Luke shared how the man who was speechless, because of the “demon” within him, began to speak as soon as Jesus cast the “demon” out of him, and this caused the “people” surrounding him to be in awe and amazed.
When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we learn about another great work performed by Jesus. A “demonic spirit” overtook this man and caused him to be “dumb”, and Jesus addressed both the “spiritual and physical” problems within him. First, Jesus addressed the “demon” and drove him away, and this allowed the man to “speak” in such a way that it caused those who witnessed the event to be “amazed and in awe”. God loves to work in the miraculous, and there is no evil spirit that is greater than His Son Jesus. God sent Jesus to the world to “push back the darkness” within people that causes them to be separated from a relationship with Him, and when a person believes and trusts in Jesus as their personal “Savior and Lord” they align themselves with the One who has power over all “spiritual and physical” troubles that come into their lives.
Next time Luke shares how, “some of them said, He casts out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
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