090923: Luke 4-5

Luke 4

- Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit: why did Jesus prevent the demon from telling people who He was? Thought: Because it wasn’t time yet.

- Demon: evil spirit, angel casted down from Heaven who have chosen to fight with Satan against God’s rule

(Isaiah 14:12-17 http://www.cresourcei.org/lucifer.html)

- Demons in the Old Testament:

http://www.crivoice.org/demonsot.html

- Demonic possession: evil spirits over-taking the body, controlling the body, forcing it to do evil things with the body (dwelling with the dead, slander, convulse, evil thoughts and deeds, etc.)

Luke 5

- The Man with Leprosy: a “dirty disease” (Leviticus 13)

- Two major themes of the coming of Jesus: He will bring forth 1) forgiveness of sins, engraftment of the Gentiles into the kingdom of God, the proud being humbled; 2) rule, being the King of the world

- Jesus cured the paralytic by first forgiving his sins, suggesting diseases/disasters may be brought upon the self due to sins

- “Old wine is better than new wine”: People resist change, not willing to accept new ideas; people are the "old wineskins," Jesus is the "new wine"; in order to receive Jesus, the new wine, people have to change, have to become the "new wineskins," to give up their old way in order to receive the new way