Section 4
(Matt. 4:12-16) so that they might receive the light of life (John 1:4).
Luke 4:32 says that the people "were astounded at His teaching, because His word was with au thority." As the One authorized by God, the Lord Jesus taught realities whereas the scribes taught vain knowledge without authority or power. The Man-Savior had not only spiritual power to sub due people, but divine authority to subject them to the divine ruling.
CASTING OUT DEMONS
In 4:33-36 we have an account of the Lord's casting out of a demon. In verse 33 we are told that a man in the synagogue had a spirit of an unclean demon. This kind of spirit is different from a fallen angel. A demon is one of the spirits of the living creatures who lived in the preadamic age and were judged by God when they joined Satan's rebellion (see Life-study of Genesis, Mes sage 2). The fallen angels work with Satan in the air (Eph. 2:2; 6:11-12), and these demons, the un clean spirits, move with him on the earth. Both act evilly upon man for the kingdom of Satan. A demon's possession of a person signifies Satan's usurpation of man, whom God created for His purpose. In His ministry the Man-Savior cast