Let's Hear What The Devil Had To Say

Mark 1:16-27 8/3/25 a.m.

“Let’s Hear What the Devil had to Say”

I really find it interesting how that the four Gospels really compliment each other. How that each book tell us MORE of the story of Jesus. Each Gospel even start differently.

A. Matthew Chapter 1 gives us the lineage of Jesus all the way back to Abraham. And it gives us the most detail when it comes to the actual birth of Jesus.

B. The Book of Luke, Chapter 1, goes into Zacharias the Priest and his wife Elisabeth. How that they were blessed with a son at an old age, who became John the Baptist. And then Luke goes into how the lives of Mary and Elisabeth were intertwined even before their babies were born. In the 41st Verse of Chapter 1 it tells us that John LEAPED in the WOMB of his mother when Mary, carrying Jesus, spoke to Elisabeth.

C. And then the first five Verses of John, Chapter 1 goes straight into who Jesus was and still is today.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Jesus was “The Word” that spoke the world into existence before He became the Son of God.

He has always been a part of the TRIUNE GOD.

And He is the GIVER of LIFE.

Most scholars believe that the Book of John was written at least 10 years after the other three Gospels. And so that was plenty of time for John to read what the others had to say concerning Jesus and that gave him the ability to answer some of the questions that the other Gospels had brought up.

D. And so that gets us down to the Book of Mark. Mark Chapter 1 refers back to the prophecy of John the Baptist. Isaiah 40, Verse 3 and Malachi 3 Verse 1 tell of a forerunner of Jesus. And John the Baptist was that forerunner. And John the Baptist preached JESUS. The COMING MESSIAH. Get ready, He’s coming.

And so going on THROUGHOUT each Gospel, we see what Jesus SAID. We see what the Disciples of Jesus had to say. What they thought about Jesus.

But in Verse 24 of Mark Chapter 1, we’re going to see what a DEMON, a DEVIL, had to say about Jesus. So let’s go ahead and turn to Mark 1 and we’ll begin reading at Verse 16 and we’ll read down through Verse 27.

“Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.

23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.”

So we see here that Jesus has begun His earthly ministry. We see that He has begun calling His disciples. He is doing His Father’s business. He is going into the Synagogues TEACHING the people. People are ASTOUNDED at what He has to say. The way He is TEACHING. He is TEACHING THE WORD with authority. As a man who really understood it. And of course he did UNDERSTAND IT because He was the One who wrote it. And I would also imagine the way He spoke was down on the level that people could really understand and GRASP what Jesus is saying. What a wonderful thing. But then, something happened. One of the people there that day wanted to speak. And that’s what I want to talk to you about today. We’re gonna hear what the DEVIL had to say about Jesus.