THE NATURE OF HIS GAME

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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.""Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"—
Mark 3:22, 28 ,29 ESV

The infection man has is grave, and the cure is singular. To the scribes, the rule of sin, and the reality of demonic power to destroy lives, seemed commonplace, and easy to accept. For them, the reality of Jesus's rule over sin and death was inconceivable. For them there was no reality of the Holy Spirit. Power was only the domain of evil spirits. When Jesus came, He did not accept the higgledy-piggledy set of rules they had assembled against the power of sin. Instead He offered Himself. Considering the uniqueness of His coming, as rare, as singular, as were His actions, it is easy to understand the confusion, the misattribution, about the "nature of His game". But still, there remains no other name in heaven or on earth by which men can be saved, or the eternal consequences of denying Him.

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