Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with exorcism rights as we pick up in Luke chapter 11 verse 17 and now with today's message

Here's Pastor Chuck they did have exorcism rights

According to Josephus that were handed down from Solomon

They say that Solomon in all of his wisdom

did devise certain drugs and all and incantations

for the exercising of demons.

And there were those in those days, according to Josephus, who using these ancient rights of Solomon were able to exercise demons.

And Jesus was probably referring to these widely practiced and totally accepted exorcism rights, of which Josephus speak. And he said,

if I am casting out demons by Beelzebub, then who are your sons casting them out by?

They'll be your judges. But if I with the finger of God am casting out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God has come to you.

He's just asking them to use their reasoning powers.

Jesus is reasonable and he asks you to be reasonable.

They're making a ridiculous accusation. He's casting out devils by the power of the devil.

Jesus says, hey, that's ridiculous. If that's going on, then Satan's kingdom is divided against

itself. It's going to fall. You better be rejoicing at what I'm doing. But that's not the case.

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