Driving Out Demons

By the Spirit of God

Matthew-12v28

Matthew 12:28

But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

• NOTE - this is the context in which Jesus referred to the unpardonable sin. (See Matthew 12:22-32). The Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out demons by and through Satan; thus blaspheming the Holy Spirit who was the power through which demons were being cast out.Unpardonable-Sin

• NOTE - Jesus also said that because He was casting out demons by the Spirit of God, that it meant that the Kingdom of God had come upon them.

  • G1909 - epiG1909-epi
    • HELPS Word-studies\
      • 1909 epí (a preposition) – properly, on (upon), implying what “fits” given the “apt contact,” building on the verbal idea. 1909 /epí (“upon”) naturally looks to the response (effect) that goes with the envisioned contact, i.e. its apt result (“spin-offs,” effects). The precise nuance of 1909 (epí) is only determined by the context, and by the grammatical case following it – i.e. genitive, dative, or accusative case.

• drive out - G1544 - ekballoG1544-ekballo

  • Strong’s Concordance
    • throw, cast, put out, banish, bring forth, produce
  • Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
    • bring forth, cast forth, drive out, expel.
    • From ek and ballo; to eject (literally or figuratively) — bring forth, cast (forth, out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth (out), send away (forth, out).
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
    • the kingdom of God is come unto you—rather “upon you,” as the same expression is rendered in Luke (Lu 11:20):—that is, “If this expulsion of Satan is, and can be, by no other than the Spirit of God, then is his Destroyer already in the midst of you, and that kingdom which is destined to supplant his is already rising on its ruins.”

• Luke 11:20 - “by the finger of God …”