The Bible Study Podcast, episode 121. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Luke in Luke 11.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We left off the study of Luke in

chapter 11 in verse 13, and we'll continue on in verse 14. Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute.

When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. But some of them said,

By Beelzebub, the prince of demons,

he is driving out demons. Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven. Jesus knew their

thoughts and said to them, any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided

against itself will fall. If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand?

I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Bielzebub.

Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your followers drive them out,

so then they will be your judges.

But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God

has come to you. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe.

But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man

trusted and divides up the spoils.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

Then it says, I will return to the house I left. When it arrives,

it finds the house swept clean and put in order. It then goes and takes seven other spirits more

wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And in the final condition of that man is

worse than the first. As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out,

Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He replied, blessed rather, are those who

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