JIM CAIN
GOOD MORNING!
The 7 sons of Sceva, a high priest, were traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits. They tried to use the name of Jesus in their incantation, saying, “I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, to come out!” But once when they tried it, a demon replied, “I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?” Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them, and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house, naked and battered.
The sons of Sceva were using the name of Jesus Christ as if the name alone had power, but they were NOT believers in Jesus Christ the person. They merely developed faith in His name, they believed the stories… but they didn’t have the faith in the PERSON.
Evil spirits didn’t cower at the name simply because it was said. It was the faith in the person behind saying the name that vanquished demons. For it says in Romans 10:17, “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”
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