-THE LIFE OF CHRIST - THE GALILEAN MINISTRY

  Jesus Demonstrates His Authority

-Jesus Demonstrates His Authority – The People are Amazed

-Authoritative Teaching and Authority Over Demons – Mark 1:21-28, Luke 4:31-37

-In Mark 1:22, we find that the people were astonished at Jesus’ teaching because “He taught them

  as one that had authority.”  There was a difference between Jesus’ teaching and the teaching the

  people were used to receiving from the scribes.

-When Jesus demonstrated His authority and power over the demon, the people were amazed once

  again.  Notice, the demon knew who Jesus was and submitted to His instructions.  See James 2:19.

-Even more now, Jesus’ fame grew and spread.

-Authority Over Sickness – Matt 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-34, Luke 4:38-41

-Upon leaving the synagogue, Jesus and those with Him, entered into the house of Peter and Andrew. 

While there, Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law who had been suffering from a “great fever”

(Luke 4:38).  Notice that it is stated in Luke’s account that Jesus “rebuked the fever; and it left her”

(Luke 4:39).  In this way the authority of Jesus is expressed.

         -Just imagine what it would have been like for Luke, a “physician” (Col 4:14)  to record this

          and other similar accounts.  Luke worked at treating illnesses.  But Jesus, with His words,

          could rebuke illnesses causing them to simply leave those who suffered from them.

-That evening, many people came to Jesus and throughout the night He healed them and cast out

  demons.  Once again, this was a fulfillment of prophecy – Isaiah 53:4.  “Isaiah’s vision is progressive;

  he sees, first, a man of sorrows; second, a man sorrowful because he bore the sickness and sorrows

  of others; third, a man who also bore sin, and healed the souls of others by so doing.  Such was the

  order of Christ’s life.  His early years were spent in poverty and obscurity; his days of ministry in

  bearing, by sympathy and compassion, the sicknesses and sorrows of others…and in the hour of his

  crucifixion, he became the world’s sin-bearer” (McGarvey, Pendleton, pg 171).