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A KINGDOM DIVIDED? – ILLOGICAL LOGIC!
MONDAY, MAY 18
Mark 3:22-30
Memory verse: Mark 3:27
“…if Satan rise up against himself,
and be divided, he cannot stand…”
A KINGDOM DIVIDED? – ILLOGICAL LOGIC!
Jesus used three levels of argument to demonstrate the illogical logic of the scribes. How can Satan cast out Satan? If Jesus is Satan and the devil is Satan, how can someone cast himself out? This is an impossibility. Jesus followed up with the kingdom’s logic. If Satan sent his demons to possess humans globally to do his evil work, and then cast out the same demons to deliver them, such a kingdom would not stand, i.e. it would self-destruct. Jesus’ final logic was the house logic. If Satan sent demons to possess an individual and then cast out the demons in that person, he would then have neutralised his own work. Likewise, such foolish, self-destructive acts would bring down his own house. Satan would not stand if he kept undoing his work, which he had taken time and trouble to do. To destroy or rob a strong man’s house, one has to bind the strong man before he can ransack the house. The robber has to be an outsider, and not an insider to rob the house. The strong man would not bind himself. If he has bound himself, who will rob the house? This is the illogical logic Jesus used to help the scribes see the foolishness of their argument. Jesus is not Beelzebub nor does He receive His power from Beelzebub. He is an outsider who is against Satan and his demonic forces and deeds.
If Jesus is right in His argument, then the scribes would be wrong to assume that God is on their side since Jesus’ miracle could not be denied, not even by them. If God is on Jesus’ side, then all that Jesus taught is from God and must be true. He is who He said He is, the Son of God! The demons, including Satan obeyed only the Creator who created them. The conclusion by the argument of Christ is that He is God and the Creator of the heavens and the earth! The scribes who prided themselves in their pedigree, knowledge of the Bible, and good works needed to evaluate their pride-filled position that they were on God’s side, and anyone against them had to be on the devil’s side, thus their enemies. When we are rebuked by God, we ought not to regard Him as our enemy like the foolish scribes, but be teachable always.
THOUGHT: Am I truly confident that I am on Christ’s side?
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, help me to be teachable always and be sure of my faith that it is based truly on the Christ of the Bible.