Luke 11 has one of my favourite passages: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” It’s a reciprocal arrangement – give and take – perfect balance. Now after recounting this teaching, Luke launches into a description of a very special healing.
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Luke 11:14 “And he was casting out a devil, and
it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and
the people wondered.”
S&H 135:11 “The same power which heals sin heals also sickness. This is “the beauty of holiness,” that when Truth heals the sick, it casts out evils, and when Truth casts out the evil called disease, it heals the sick. When Christ cast out the devil of dumbness, “it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake.”... what cannot God do?”
S&H 135:11 “The same power which heals sin heals also sickness. This is “the beauty of holiness,” that when Truth heals the sick, it casts out evils, and when Truth casts out the evil called disease, it heals the sick. When Christ cast out the devil of dumbness, “it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake.”... what cannot God do?”
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Luke 11:15 Unfortunately not everyone was pleased to see Jesus
healing. “But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub
the chief of the devils.”
S&H 52:29 “The accusations
of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory as their religion. The bigot, the debauchee, the hypocrite,
called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber.
They said “He casteth out devils through Beelzebub,”
and is the “friend of publicans and sinners.”
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Luke 12:22, 23 Jesus is teaching by parables
again and he continues by adding “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat; neither for your body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.”
S&H 382:5 “If half the attention given to
hygiene were given to the study of Christian Science and to the spiritualization
of thought, this alone would usher in the millennium. Constant bathing and rubbing to alter the
secretions or to remove unhealthy exhalations from the cuticle receive a useful
rebuke from Jesus’ precept, “Take no thought...for the body.” We must beware of making clean merely the
outside of the platter.”
Words you
may like to know more about:
Beelzebub
Ba‘al Zəbûb is variously understood to mean
"lord of Demon flies" or "lord of the (heavenly) dwelling."
Originally the name of a Philistine god, Beelzebub is also identified in the New Testament as Satan, the "prince of the
demons". In Arabic, the name is retained as Ba‘al dhubaab
/ zubaab (بعل الذباب), literally "Lord of the
flies". Biblical scholar Thomas
Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba‘al Zəbûl,
"Lord of the High Place" (i.e., Heaven) or "High Lord". The
word Beelzebub in rabbinical texts is a mockery of the Ba'al religion,
which ancient Hebrews considered to be idol (or false God) worship. Ba'al,
meaning "Lord" in Ugaritic, was used in conjunction with a
descriptive name of a specific god. Jewish scholars have interpreted the title of "Lord of Flies" as the
Hebrew way of calling Ba'al a pile of dung and comparing Ba'al followers to flies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub#Religious_meaning
Parable
a succinct
story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles,
or lessons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
Thought (Greek: me-rēm-nä'-ō)
1)
to be anxious
a)
to be troubled with cares
2)
to care for, look out for (a thing)
a)
to seek to promote one's interests
b) caring
or providing for
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