So, Father, as we exalt the sovereignty of Jesus over demons and disease and deaths,

even of a 25-year-old, come, help me to speak the truth in the power and the authority

of your Word and by your Spirit. And would you do your delivering work and your healing

work in this room? For the glory of Christ, we pray in His name. Amen. Look at verse 41 with

me. When we get there in a few minutes at the end of the message, you're going to see that

there's a world view in verse 41, signaled that's totally, directly relevant for your life

in 2023. Your relationship to demons, your relationship to disease and death and sin and the

sovereignty of Christ. And I pointed out here, lest you be tempted to think, these are interesting

stories from a long time ago, but they don't have a lot of relevance to what I'm dealing with now or

what this culture's dealing with now. That would be a big mistake. Verse 41, demons also came out of

many crying to Jesus, you are the Son of God, but he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak.

Now why is that? They had just said one of the most important truths in the world, right? You're the

Son of God. Shut up. What's with that? They had come a lot closer than Satan. They remember just

a chapter earlier, he's in the wilderness and he says, if you are the Son of God, they're not playing

that game. There's no if here. You are the Son of God. We know that. Why does he silence them? End of the

verse gives the answer. End of verse 41. Because they knew he was the Christ. Now Christ became a proper name. It's

fine to say, oh Christ, I love you, just like saying Jesus. Here it's a title. It's a title, the Christ. And you know why

Christ is the English word for the Greek Christos and Christos is the translation of Hebrew Machia, which

means anointed one, which means Messiah. The Christ is the Messiah, right? The long, expected Son of

David, kingdom bringing, world conquering, enemy defeating Jewish Messiah. And Luke at the end of

verse 41 says precisely because they know that truth, they must be silent. And my point here is that

concealed in that silencing of that truth is a world view directly relating to your life this

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