Tues.’s Devo - A Confrontation with Satan

Read Luke 9:37-45 The day before, Jesus had spoken to Moses and Elijah about his death. God had come down in a cloud and put his stamp of ownership on Jesus for the sake of his disciples. Every time Jesus goes up to spend time with God the devil manifests. So the next day, it is no wonder that the first person Jesus meets is a man’s son who is totally oppressed by the devil. He involuntarily screams, foams at the mouth, and is thrown down and bruised by the devil. Don’t you know the devil is trying to torment Jesus by showing him what happens when someone is given to him. He knows that he is soon his father will be handing him over to the devil to be tormented himself. The boy’s father tells Jesus that the disciples couldn’t help him so he was coming to ask Jesus if he could. Jesus doesn’t rebuke the disciples… he rebukes the whole generation. He calls them faithless and perverse. They have things backwards. They should not be afraid of the devil - he should be afraid of them. As Jesus approached the boy, the devil gave him one more threat and threw the boy down in a convulsion. Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child and gave him back to his father. Then as the crowd was wondering how he could do this, he told them to remember this scene because he was going to repeat this when he is delivered to his enemies. They couldn’t comprehend it. Two fathers and two sons. The heavenly father is about to deliver his son to the devil for the sake of all the people. The earthly father has gone to all the people to help him deliver his son from the devil. The son of God is the answer to the earthly son and all the sons to come. Halleluah!!!