Paul's Healings and Exorcising Without Jesus
We have seen Paul uncover idols and heal people in the name of the Lord. We have seen him drive home the point of faith in Christ over Mosiac Law in terms of salvation. But in this chapter we see the Holy Spirit so infused in Paul that even Paul touching items of cloth allowed for him to have healing powers. People were being healed of sicknesses and evil spirits came out of people (Acts 19:11-12).
When
seven traveling Jewish men sought to exorcise a man who had been
overcome by evil spirits, they referred to the Jesus that Paul spoke
of. That was their mistake, it was not the Jesus that they knew, but
someone else's relationship with Jesus. The evil spirit did not know
who they were but it knew Paul and Jesus. The evil spirit made the
man attack the seven men and left them fleeing, naked and wounded.
Many people found out about this and around the same time those who
had become believers came forward to admit doing magic arts. In an
attempt to rid themselves of those ways they burned their books that
were altogether worth 50 thousand pieces of silver (Acts 19:13-20).
Without the Holy Spirit what can you do? You can do things on your own power. There are people who are very successful in life and do not have the Holy Spirit. They do not know Jesus. Do you see how Paul's faith in the Holy Spirit and God using him allowed for pieces of clothing and cloths to be used as healing agents as long as Paul touched them? Yet, with the 7 men that tried to exorcise an evil spirit without them having Jesus as their personal Lord became useless. See the difference? With Jesus/God/the Holy Spirit you can work wonders. Without either of them it is a wonder anything would ever work.
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