Luke #12: A Man of Authority (4:31-44)

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One of the great things about preaching through the Gospel of Luke is that we’re just walking through the life and ministry of Jesus—seeing the promise of His arrival, His birth, His childhood, and over the last few weeks, the start of His earthly ministry. Last Sunday, we studied about Jesus’s last recorded trip to Nazareth (which was quite likely His last trip there ever), and the way that He went basically from being hometown hero to hometown zero in their eyes because He spoke the truth about their corrupt hearts. We considered how familiarity can breed contempt, and how we must not allow our familiarity with the Gospel to create contempt for it in our hearts, where we stop seeing it with the wonder and gratitude and praise that it deserves.

This morning, we make the trip over to the town that even today calls itself “The Town of Jesus:” Capernaum (PICTURE), which Jesus would use as His Galilean “home base” of sorts. And in our focal passage today, we expand on the Story of the King as we see the true King display His authority.

So please stand as you are able in honor of God’s Holy Word as you turn in your Bibles or Bible apps to Luke chapter 4, and follow along with me as I read verses 31-44 of that chapter:

Luke 4:31–44 CSB

31 Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. 32 They were astonished at his teaching because his message had authority. 33 In the synagogue there was a man with an unclean demonic spirit who cried out with a loud voice, 34 “Leave us alone! What do you have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” 35 But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be silent and come out of him!” And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all. 36 Amazement came over them all, and they were saying to one another, “What is this message? For he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!” 37 And news about him began to go out to every place in the vicinity. 38 After he left the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. 39 So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and began to serve them. 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. As he laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them. 41 Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah. 42 When it was day, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them. 43 But he said to them, “It is necessary for me to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.” 44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

PRAYER (Joshua & Brittany Brown)

Authority is an interesting thing. Simply defined, it means the power to command, influence, or act. All of us have it, to some extent. You might not think that you have any authority, but you do. We all have a definite measure of authority over ourselves—the choices that we make. Some of us have authority over other people, such as our children, employees, or teams that we coach or lead. Some of us hold positions of authority, such as police officers, military leadership, or government. So authority can be bestowed through being placed in a role, but authority can also be earned through responsible action. Authority can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse. Authority can be abused, misapplied, or unwisely given. Authority can be seized through threat, manipulation, or violence. Authority can make the humble haughty and the noble naughty, but it can also make the meek mighty and the timid intrepid.

And what we see in the life of Jesus in this week’s focal passage is a snapshot of the reach of His authority. Remember that we are calling this series “The Story of the King,” and who has more authority than the King Himself? Jesus, the King of kings, is the most authoritative human being to have ever walked the face of the planet. He actually said in Matthew 28 that:

Matthew 28:18 CSB

18 Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Jesus said that “all authority” was His… No one can have more than “all.” And here at the beginning of His ministry, we see that Jesus taught with authority, exercised authority over both the supernatural and the natural worlds, and ultimately, we see how He chose to use that authority.

1: Jesus's words have authority.

How many of you remember the old E.F. Hutton slogan from the late 70’s and early 80’s?

“When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

The point of this slogan was that the stock brokerage firm E.F. Hutton knew the market so well that what they said had authority: they could influence other people to act on certain investments or market strategies. They had earned this authority by successfully serving their clients for 75 years by the time those commercials came out.

We saw last week that people were pretty excited about Jesus’s preaching ministry. Verse 15 told us that He was being praised by everyone around Galilee, and even the people of Nazareth were “amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth,” before they started wondering how that was possible for Joseph’s son. Jesus left Nazareth and went back to Capernaum and continued His ministry:

Luke 4:31–32 CSB

31 Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. 32 They were astonished at his teaching because his message had authority.

Jesus made a regular practice of teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath, when the men of the town would gather to hear and discuss God’s Word. This would have taken place in a synagogue probably not too different from the one that I showed you last week in Magdala. I have a picture this morning of an ancient synagogue in Capernaum. This synagogue was probably built in the fourth century, but it was built on the site of the first century synagogue. They have one corner of the fourth century ruins excavated to expose the first century ruins. Here’s a picture of that corner.

The people were astonished because the teachers of the day simply taught from tradition and reinterpretation of that tradition. They might read a passage of the Scriptures (our OT), then explain what rabbi so-and-so said about it, and what rabbi thus-and-such said about it, and then agree with those guys about it.

But when Jesus spoke about the Scriptures, it was different. Jesus was telling His own story when He spoke from and about the Hebrew Scriptures. Not only that, but He is God: He breathed them (2 Tim 3:16). When the people sat down in that synagogue and heard Jesus preach, in a way, they were sitting down with the Author, listening to Him lecture on what He meant when He wrote what He wrote. Let me give you a couple of examples:

We saw last week about how He read the messianic prophecy of Isaiah 61’s declaring good news and liberty and freedom and the year of the Lord’s favor. He pointedly proclaimed that that passage was being fulfilled as the people listened that day in Nazareth. He said it was written about Him.

In a couple of weeks, we’ll be looking at Luke’s rendition of the Sermon on the Mount. Since Luke was hearing all of this after the fact (remember he’s just a reporter), he doesn’t bring as much detail as Matthew does. In Matthew’s account, Jesus directly reinterprets Scripture, even redefining God’s rules:

Matthew 5:27–28 CSB

27 “You have heard that it was said, Do not commit adultery. 28 But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Jesus told the people not what other rabbis said that other rabbis had said. He told them how they should live as a response to what the Scriptures taught. He taught the Scriptures with authority.

There’s actually an interesting little hint to this in the original language of verse 32. Luke chooses to use the Greek word logos, which literally means “word,” for what the CSB translates as “message” in verse 32. Luke says that Jesus’s word had authority.

In John chapter 1, which we went through this past Christmas, John calls Jesus the logos, the Word of God:

John 1:1–2 CSB

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

His Word had authority because He is the eternal Word of God. When He spoke, He spoke from His very nature and essence.

Now, we have the Bible, which must be authoritative in the life of the Christian. Our Statement of Belief says this about the Bible:

[The Bible] reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

— EHBC’s Statement of Belief, First Article

God’s Word is authoritative because it is true and completely trustworthy. As I said to the men at Men’s Breakfast yesterday, we should be reading it every day and submitting ourselves to its teaching as a means of drawing near to the unexpected love of Jesus.

And part of what was unexpected for the people of Capernaum was that Jesus’s Word was authoritative not just in His teaching, but over the supernatural world in their midst:

2: Jesus has authority over the supernatural world.

There are too many demon possessions in Scripture for us to write them off as false, and the results of Jesus’s interaction with those who were demon-possessed are so sudden, so complete, that we also aren’t left with the option of saying that these were merely mental disorders that had been blown up into something more sinister by the uneducated and superstitious people of the day. Consider this interaction:

Luke 4:33–35 CSB

33 In the synagogue there was a man with an unclean demonic spirit who cried out with a loud voice, 34 “Leave us alone! What do you have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” 35 But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be silent and come out of him!” And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all.

Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, and a possessed man was there, listening. Given how Hollywood horror movies tend to portray religious buildings as somehow immune to the presence of the demonic, it’s interesting that this guy was right there in the synagogue. Hollywood doesn’t know what they’re talking about. We see here that it’s Jesus who makes demons tremble (James 2:19), not church buildings.

Demons are evil (“unclean”) beings who were once angels, and who have been cast out of heaven and down to earth. They oppose God and hate God’s people. Daniel Akin writes:

Sometime between Genesis 1:31 (everything was “very good”) and 3:1-5 (the temptation), Satan rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven, bringing many evil angels under the same judgment (Isa 14:12-15; Ezek 28:11-19; Matt 25:41; Luke 10:18).

—Daniel Akin, A Theology for the Church

The CSB translates the first word that the demon uttered as “Leave us alone!” which might be what the demon meant by its screaming, but the first word is literally what we might yell in frustration, fear, or anger: “AH!” It’s as if the demon just couldn’t hear one more second of the teaching of Jesus, because it just loses it and screams at Him.

The questions that the demon poses to Jesus are rhetorical, and could actually be interpreted as statements. The demon knew exactly what was happening. He’s basically trying to talk Jesus into not taking any action: “What do You have to do with me, Jesus?”

He even tries a superstitious tactic by declaring that he knew Jesus was the Holy One of God. The thought at the time was that if you knew someone’s name you could use it like a kind of incantation, giving you power over them.

In verse 41, something similar happens with other demon-possessed people:

Luke 4:41 CSB

41 Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

We don’t know how the demons knew who Jesus is. I suppose it wasn’t that difficult. He was there when they were cast down.

And while the demons thought that they could try to exercise some control over Jesus by declaring His titles, this was a futile attempt. The King cannot be controlled or manipulated. He is in charge, and He has the authority to command the demon to act in a particular fashion. So that’s what He does, commanding the demon to be silent and come out of the man. The demon throws the man down and comes out, leaving the man unharmed (you can see Luke the doctor’s medical interests in today’s passage).

Grant Osborne, in his commentary on this passage, wrote that often we are “pragmatic atheists about Satan.” We say that we believe that he exists and actively opposes us, but we don’t live as if that is true. Brothers and sisters, spiritual warfare is real. There is literally a powerful spiritual enemy called the devil who opposes us, who actually has beings called demons who assist him in his opposition. We must take this seriously and soberly. The Scriptures warn us:

1 Peter 5:8–9 CSB

8 Be sober-minded, be alert. Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. 9 Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

Spiritual warfare is very much real, and it is only through the strength that comes from Christ through His indwelling Holy Spirit that we can stand against those forces arrayed against us:

Ephesians 6:10–13 CSB

10 Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength. 11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. 13 For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

Jesus has all authority, even in the realm of the supernatural. If we belong to Him, we have access to His strength in the face of malevolent spiritual forces, and so we can walk in peace. But the reality that the Bible communicates is that if we do not belong to Christ, then we already belong to the devil, because we also stand opposed to God in our sin and our rejection of His Son:

1 John 3:8–10 CSB

8 The one who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works. 9 Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because his seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.

I preached on this passage almost exactly two years ago. And just to summarize: the one who belongs to God is declared sinless because Jesus is sinless, but also will not be comfortable remaining in sin—the direction of their life goes away from sin because they have been reborn. But the one who is comfortable in their sin likely does not belong to God, but is a child of the devil. If the places in your life where you fail to match up to the Gospel don’t bother you, you should be very, very concerned about your spiritual state.

Jesus has all authority over the devil, but if you don’t belong to Jesus, then the devil has authority over you, because you are his child. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The way He did this was by breaking Satan’s power through becoming the means through which we are justified before God, and by showing that He who is in the believer is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

Christ died so you could be set free from the power of sin and the power of Satan, and He overcame death so you could be raised to eternal life through faith in Jesus. And there will come a day when Christ will return to bring the final judgment against the devil and all who belong to him, and all who belong to Christ will receive the heavenly reward promised by the Scriptures. You can believe in Christ right now, right where you are, and be set free from the devil’s snare.

So how do the people respond to Jesus driving this demon out of the man in the synagogue? We see this in verses 36 and 37:

Luke 4:36–37 CSB

36 Amazement came over them all, and they were saying to one another, “What is this message? For he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!” 37 And news about him began to go out to every place in the vicinity.

Again the people are amazed. But this amazement is merely external—it’s not evidence of a heart change. They again give reference to Jesus’s words: Jesus hadn’t done anything to the man except spoken to him, and the demon was forced to flee. His words didn’t merely have authority, but power. And when they left from there, they started telling everyone about what Jesus had done. This makes sense, because it was amazing. I’m not faulting the people at all for being amazed.

We sometimes think of the universe in a sense called dualism: that good and evil are locked in a cosmic struggle that is basically equal—along the lines of the Chinese yin-yang, or for you other Star Wars fans: the light and the dark sides of the Force (also drawn largely from yin-yang duality). But Jesus displayed that He is the King with all authority and power, because the demon had to come out simply because Jesus had issued the command that the demon do so. This was neither a fair nor a balanced contest. Jesus showed His might over the supernatural.

But He also has authority over the natural world.

3: Jesus has authority over the natural world.

Jesus is the creator and sustainer of the universe. It came together by His will, and it is by Him that it all holds together. And He is not some distant God as the deists suggest—that He made the universe and then just set it off to do its thing, and that He’s not involved in what’s happening. He stepped into the world, took on very natural flesh, and became one of us. But He’s still got all authority. And he exercised the same level of authority that He has over the supernatural world over the natural world in the next few verses:

Luke 4:38–40 CSB

38 After he left the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. 39 So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and began to serve them. 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. As he laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them.

This appears to be the same Sabbath day as the day Jesus drove out the demon. After the time in the synagogue, Jesus goes to Peter’s house (Luke calls him Simon until chapter 6), and Peter’s mother-in-law is ill with “a high fever” (again we see Luke’s medical sensibilities). Fevers in the ancient world were a big deal. They could be fatal, especially high ones, because they had very few reliable ways of knowing the cause of a fever, and little means of treating the cause if they did know it. They knew it was serious, because they ask Jesus to do something about it. And just like He had rebuked the evil spirit in the synagogue, He rebukes this impersonal fever (Matthew records that He touched her hand), and it leaves her instantly.

There is a modern church building (more a pilgrimage site) called St. Peter’s Church at the site of Capernaum, and it’s built in a very interesting way: It’s raised up off of the ground, because of what lies underneath it. Here’s a video of what we find underneath St. Peter’s Church: VIDEO, followed by still frame. The church itself was closed for work when I was there, so I didn’t get to go inside.

That square structure in the center is where they believe, because of ancient markings found on the walls, that the Apostle Peter lived with his family. The reason the building above is suspended is because they wanted it to be directly over the site where Jesus performed this miraculous healing. The church actually has a glass floor so you can look down into the ruins. It would have been super cool to see.

What I want us to catch here is the nature of the healing. Is there any medical intervention that we currently have that instantly resolves a high fever? I’ve had some pretty high fevers in my life, and they’ve always resolved over a decent period of time through a whole bunch of shivering and sweating. The instant relief that Jesus brought to Peter’s mother-in-law is a display of His authority over the natural world.

There are other places in Scripture where we see Jesus’s authority over our physical reality. He cleanses people from leprosy (Mark 1:41-42), heals a man with a shriveled hand (Mark 3:5), calms a storm on the sea (Matthew 8:26), heals a paralytic brought to Him by the man’s friends (Matt 9:6), and makes a fig tree wither (Matt 21:19). And this is just five examples.

We can come to Jesus with our desperate physical needs such as healing and restoration, for the miraculous in the natural world, because He is able to do the miraculous. We might feel sheepish in asking God for miracles, but why should that be? He’s literally the only One we can ask to provide the miraculous! And the beautiful thing is that He loves us and cares for us, so He will bless us at the proper time for His glory, according to Peter:

1 Peter 5:6–7 CSB

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.

Peter’s mother-in-law’s response to her miraculous healing was similarly instantaneous. She got up and began to serve Him and those who were with Him—at least Peter and his brother Andrew, along with James and John. A heart of gratitude and service is always a right response to experiencing the grace of God. Do we respond this way to God’s amazing grace in our lives? We should be using our skills and spiritual gifts to serve others both inside and outside the church.

Once the sun went down on Capernaum that evening (thus ending the Sabbath), many were brought to Jesus for healing, and Jesus touched them and healed them. As we saw earlier, many were demon-possessed as well, and He drove the demons out. Obviously, doctor Luke is able to differentiate between disease and possession, and he does not insinuate that sickness is caused by demonic forces. Can it be? Yes. Must it be? No.

Jesus heals people into the night, not charging people or asking for anything, because what we see in our last point is that Jesus wasn’t trying to build a name for Himself, wasn’t trying to develop a following. He used His authority to bless others.

4: Jesus uses His authority to bless others.

In our modern age, just about anyone can create some kind of platform on social media: a digital soapbox from which to shout our thoughts to the world. Maybe only our friends and our family see our platform, or we might develop a massive following of thousands or even millions (or even a billion… Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed person on social media currently, with 1 billion followers worldwide… even thought he doesn’t even have a TikTok profile… In case you’re wondering: Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande round out the top 5, but Selena Gomez isn’t even close to Ronaldo. Any of you follow any of those people?).

Anyway, Jesus’s “platform” was one thing and one thing only: The good news—literally the gospel—of the kingdom of God:

Luke 4:42–44 CSB

42 When it was day, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them. 43 But he said to them, “It is necessary for me to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.” 44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

Mark tells us that Jesus went out to that deserted place that day to spend time in prayer. He knew what He was about to do, and He was maintaining the relationship with His Father before He went out. As a quick aside here: If Jesus needed to spend time in prayer, how much more important must it be for us?

But the people of Capernaum didn’t want Him to go. How convenient would it be for them to have Jesus stay there? They could bring Him anyone who was sick or injured, anyone who was set upon by the demonic. They could have their own personal miracle man. They wanted to keep Him all to themselves.

But Jesus tells them that, “It is necessary for [Him],” —He MUST—, “proclaim the good news of about the kingdom of God to the other towns also.” This is the first use of the phrase “kingdom of God” in the Gospel of Luke, and we will see it 31 more times in the book, and five more times will just refer to it as “the kingdom.”

In the Bible, the word “kingdom” usually refers to the reign or rule of the sovereign, rather than to the territory that the sovereign controls. Jesus had come to declare the Kingdom of God because in His Incarnation, its King had arrived, and His rule had begun. His enemies were being bound, His authority was being shown, His power was being manifested. This was why He had come, according to the end of verse 43. At the arrival of Jesus, the Kingdom of God began an invasion of the kingdom of the world ruled by the devil. So the Kingdom of God is the righteous rule and reign of Jesus on Earth.

This Kingdom arrived with Jesus, and thus was (and is) a present reality.

Luke 17:21 CSB

21 no one will say, ‘See here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

Jesus came and used His authority to bless others: He laid down His life so we could be justified, and He rose from the dead so that we can have eternal life. He had the authority to lay down His life, and the authority to take it up again for our salvation, according to what He said in John 10:18:

John 10:18 CSB

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”

However, we can look around us and see that there is a sense in which the Kingdom of God is still a future hope—God does not reign in the hearts of everyone, everywhere. So in that sense, the Kingdom of God will be fully consummated when Jesus returns in His second coming.

Matthew 24:14 CSB

14 This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Are we like the people of Capernaum? Do we act like we have Jesus and want to keep Him all to ourselves?

We have been given the assignment of using the authority given to us—our platform, our voices, our actions—to proclaim the good news of the “now and not yet” Kingdom of God. We can love and reach others with the message of the Gospel, taking every opportunity that God gives us to share the Gospel in a clear and compelling way. We want God’s kingdom to expand, not our own. We want God to have more followers, not us. So we are to be a blessing to others in His name and in His way, blessing them in whatever way He leads us, pointing them to the One and only King of the eternal Kingdom, Jesus.

Closing

Jesus used the authority of His words and the authority that He possesses over the natural and supernatural worlds to bless other people. He never abused His authority, never manipulated others with it, and never used it for His own gain. In fact, He came and shared the most important thing with us rebels: He gave Himself. As we believers, as representatives of His Kingdom, are called to do the same.

But we can’t do that if we don’t belong to Him in faith. Will you believe in Christ today, surrendering to Him as Savior and Lord? One way that you can declare your surrender is through prayer. You could pray something like this:

“God, I admit that I have sinned and turned away from You. I don’t want to go my own way any more. I believe that Jesus died to pay for my sins and that He rose again, and that He is Savior and Lord. I surrender completely to You, turning from my old life and trusting in what Jesus has done for my salvation. Please save me.”

It’s not the words, it’s the heart of surrender that matters. Pour out yourself to God and be saved from this corrupt world. If you’ve just surrendered to Jesus, we want to celebrate that with you! Come and let us know in just a moment as the band plays our song of response. If you’re online and you’ve just surrendered to Jesus, please let me know by email.

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Bible reading (Ezekiel 47-48, Ps 75: finishing Ezekiel today, Daniel starts on Wednesday)

No Pastor’s Study tonight or next week. We’re going to start a series on apologetics on April 7.

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Benediction

John 17:20–23 CSB

20 “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. 21 May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. 22 I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.

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