Binding the Strong Man
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What Jesus is criticizing in the Jewish exorcists is that they only exercise. |
| 0:12.0 | They drive demons out. Whether they do it by the power of God or by the power of Satan, |
| 0:17.0 | he's not interested in arguing. What's missing is something positive, something in filling |
| 0:22.9 | to the life, something that replaces the old powers, the old forces that were at work. And evidently, |
| 0:30.1 | he thinks that the Jewish religion of the day does not supply that. And he's come on the scene to gather, to gather a people, |
| 0:41.2 | not just to exercise people and send them away, |
| 0:44.2 | but to gather a people in close to himself. |
| 0:48.7 | It's one thing to get evil out of your life. |
| 0:52.3 | It's another thing to have something stronger take its place. |
| 0:56.4 | In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper takes us to Luke 11, verses 14 to 28, |
| 1:03.8 | where Jesus shows us that casting out demons isn't enough. Jesus didn't just come to clean house. |
| 1:14.0 | Jesus came to move in and gather a people close to himself. This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on a Sunday |
| 1:21.3 | evening, November 7, 1982. Let's read this together now he that is Jesus was casting out a demon that was dumb |
| 1:35.3 | when the demon had gone out the dumb man spoke and the people marveled but some of them said |
| 1:42.3 | he casts out demons by Bielzabal, the prince of demons, while others to test him saw him sought from him a sign from heaven. |
| 1:52.3 | But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste and a divided household falls. |
| 2:00.7 | And if Satan also is divided against |
| 2:03.7 | himself how will his kingdom stand for you say that I cast out demons by Belsible and if I |
| 2:10.8 | cast out demons by Belsible by whom do your sons cast them out therefore they shall be your judges |
| 2:21.2 | but if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his |
| 2:28.9 | own palace, his goods are in peace. But when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him, he takes away his |
| 2:35.8 | armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil. He who is not with me is against me, |
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