{"id":5010,"date":"2014-02-07T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2014-02-06T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:22:48","slug":"a-new-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/02\/07\/a-new-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tSuddenly, while still in the meeting place, he was interrupted by a man who was deeply disturbed and yelling out, \u201cWhat business do you have here with us, Jesus? Nazarene! I know what you\u2019re up to! You\u2019re the Holy One of God, and you\u2019ve come to destroy us!\u201d<\/p>\n

\tJesus shut him up: \u201cQuiet! Get out of him!\u201d The afflicting spirit threw the man into spasms, protesting loudly\u2014and got out.<\/p>\n

\tEveryone there was incredulous, buzzing with curiosity. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here? A new teaching that does what it says? He shuts up defiling, demonic spirits and sends them packing!\u201d News of this traveled fast and was soon all over Galilee.<\/p>\n

\tDirectly on leaving the meeting place, they came to Simon and Andrew\u2019s house, accompanied by James and John. Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was sick in bed, burning up with fever. They told Jesus. He went to her, took her hand, and raised her up. No sooner had the fever left than she was up fixing dinner for them.<\/p>\n

\tThat evening, after the sun was down, they brought sick and evil-afflicted people to him, the whole city lined up at his door! (Mark 1:23-33)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tWhen Jesus began his public ministry, the first miracle that got widespread attention was when he told a demon to leave a possessed man and the demon left. The response of witnesses was incredulity.<\/p>\n

They said that Jesus gave \u201ca new teaching.\u201d Had no one cast out demons before? The difference was that Jesus\u2019 words were backed up by actions. Jesus was more than just speeches\u2014he was about doing something new and startling. Before Jesus arrived, casting out demons was a complex process, fraught by difficulty and ritual. Jesus just told the demon to leave\u2014no theatrics, no formulas, no ritual. There was a power to Jesus that was unlike any of the other teachers they\u2019d known up until then.<\/p>\n

\tJesus told the demon to be \u201cquiet!\u201d The only other place in Mark\u2019s gospel account where Jesus used that particular verb was when he shut down a storm on the Sea of Galilee. Demons obeyed Jesus the same way the inanimate forces of nature obeyed him, or as a well-trained animal might obey its owner. Demons, like storms, were dangerous and powerful. For Jesus, they were nothing at all. Nothing is difficult for Jesus. Jesus doesn\u2019t just offer us mere words. He offers us genuine solutions. He will move in and disrupt our lives\u2014not just give us advice.<\/p>\n

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