#S3-017: Why Is the Name of Jesus So Powerful? [Podcast]

How to Use the Name of Jesus to Live a Miracle Life

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We have taken a look at the Name of Jesus already from several aspects in this series. Today, we are going to begin drilling down into Jesus one on one encounters with demons. It is yet one more reason why the Name of Jesus is so powerful in the realm of heaven and earth.

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Each week’s podcast contains a call to action. The Word of God will not produce in your life unless you put into operation.
This week’s call is:

Rise up with the authority you have in Jesus Name and resist the devil in all of his works. You will see God’s deliverance when you put pressure on the Name.

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Each week’s podcast also contains a question designed to encourage testimony. Testimony is vital to a believer’s life. We overcome by it (Rev. 12:11).
This week’s question is:

Question: How did you use Jesus Name to overcome a one of the works of the enemy against your life? Please share your comments, in the comments section below.

Episode Resources:

You can find additional information on the Name of Jesus in the resources listed below.

  1. #S3-011: What’s the Value of a Good Name? [Podcast]
  2. #S3-012: Why the Name of Jesus Works for Your Life [Podcast]
  3. #S3-015: How the Mighty Names of God Energize Your Life [Podcast]
  4. #S3-016: How to Obliterate Temptation in Jesus Name [Podcast]

About Emery

Emery committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ over 40 years ago and has served as both a full-time pastor and an itinerant minister. Both he and his wife Sharon of 35 years emphasize personal growth and development through the Word of God. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is both the focus and the hallmark of their mission. Read more about them here.

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Jesus Conquered Demons in Face to Face Encounters

Philippians 2:5–11 (Weymouth’s Translation)
 5 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus. 6 Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. 7 Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men. And being recognized as truly human, 8 He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross. 9 It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other, 10 in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld, 11 and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

  • We have been talking about how the victories of Jesus in His life and death and resurrection added value to His Name.
  • Our purpose is to help you see what authority there is in the Name.
  • So that when you use the Name of Jesus, you can have strong confidence.

Satan in the Old Testament

  • The Old Testament spans approximately four-thousand years.
  • Ussher, a 17th-century scholar, has the start of Genesis as 4142 BC.
  • Ask yourself this question about the Old testament.
  • How many times are demons and Satan himself mentioned in the Old Testament?

Satan

  • In Genesis three in the garden.
  • In the book of Job chapters one and two.
  • In the first two verses of Zechariah 3.
  • In 1 Chronicles 21:1.
  • In the famous fourteenth chapter of Isaiah verses twelve through seventeen.
  • In Ezekiel 28:11-19.
  • Six times in four thousand years.
  • That’s a little less than once every seven centuries.

Demons

  • In Deuteronomy 32:17
  • In Psalm 106:37
  • Familiar Spirits are mentioned in fifteen Old Testament verses but the majority of the cases are warnings against going to people who are wizards and deal in the occult.
  • That’s Seventeen times in four thousand years or approximately once every 2 and 1/2 centuries.
  • In over 4000 years of Biblical history, Satan’s mentioned a handful of times.
  • What gives?
  • Demons were involved in Old Testament times.
  • How do we know that?
  • There aren’t any new ones.
  • The same ones we have today are the same ones that have roamed planet earth since before creation.
    • Demons were behind the wars on planet earth during Old Testament times.
    • Demons were behind the Canaanite religions that caused Israel to sin.
    • Demons were behind human sacrificial rites connected with idols and images like Molech.
    • Demons were behind the oppression of Pharaoh which Israel experienced in Egypt.
    • Demons were behind the slaughter of the children in Bethlehem by Herod.
    • Demons have always been active.
  • They have always roamed the earth.
  • They have always been there but there is hardly any mention of them in the pages of the Old Covenant.
  • But, as soon as Jesus comes on the scene, what do we see in the pages of the New Testament?
  • You see them everywhere.
  • You see demons being cast out left and right.
  • Jesus shows up to a particular place and there are demons there.

Demons Are Connected to Sickness

Matthew 4:23–24 (KJV)
 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

  • See also these verses.
    • Matthew 8:16
    • Matthew 8:28–33
    • Matthew 12:24
    • Matthew 15:22

Demons Are Connected to Suicide

Matthew 17:15–18 (NKJV)
15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.” 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.

Demons Are Connected to the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

Matthew 9:32–33 (KJV)
32 As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. 33 And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”

Matthew 12:22 (KJV)
22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.

Demons Are Connected to Error

1 Timothy 4:1 (ESV)
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Demons Are Connected to Lust and Lying

John 8:44 (KJV)
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Demons Are Connected to Wickedness and Evil

Luke 11:26 (KJV) 26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Demons Are Connected with Fear

2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Demons Are Connected with Betrayal

John 13:2 (KJV)
2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;

Demons Are Connected with Persecution

Revelation 2:10 (KJV)
10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Demons Are Mentioned in Connection with Worldliness 1

1 Corinthians 2:12 (KJV)
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

  • So in four thousand years, we have a handful of references to demons and yet in a matter of a few recorded chapters demons are splashed all over the pages of the New Testament.
  • The gospels are inundated with demons.
  • You see them everywhere.
  • So, what gives?
  • What’s going on?

First: God Gave Man Dominion

Genesis 1:26-28 (KJV)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • The Hebrew word dominion is a verb.
    • It’s an action word.
    • It’s not a static state of being.
    • It’s not a title.
    • Authority is something you actively operate in.
  • The word means to rule, to exercise authority over, as in nations, as in other entities, as in the animal kingdom.
  • Man was equipped to rule.
  • Adding to the idea of dominion is the word ‘subdue’ in verse twenty-eight.
  • Man was to have dominion, to rule, to exercise authority and while doing it, subdue the earth.
  • The word ‘subdue’ means to subdue to make subordinate, to make dependent, or subservient. It has the idea of bringing something into bondage, keep something under, and or doing it with force. 2
  • Psalm eight adds some more to the picture of man’s authoritative statute.

Psalm 8:1–9 (KJV)
1 O LORD our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength Because of thine enemies, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, And hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

  • In this Psalm are some of the elements we have been talking about in this series.
    • We have the excellent name in verses one and nine.
    • We have God using the weak and foolish in the form of babes so no one may glory in His sight in verse two.
    • And we have man given dominion, given authority and having all things put under his feet in verse six.
  • This is a picture of God’s ruling man, Adam.
  • But, Adam fell.
  • And in his fall, Adam gave Satan the authority he was given to rule the earth.

Luke 4:5–7 (KJV)
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

  • God gave authority to Adam in Genesis 1:26-28, but in Luke’s gospel we see Satan with it.
  • He said, ‘It was delivered to him.’
  • The Greek word ‘delivered’ means to become one’s possession.
  • Satan possessed man’s dominion.
  • That’s why you don’t see demons being cast out in the Old Testament.
  • They are there.
  • In fact, it got so bad at one point, God sent a flood to clean house.

Second: With Man’s Authority Gone, What Do We See in the Old Testament?

We See a Ruling Council of Angels in the Old Testament

  • Hebrews chapter two references the exact quote in Psalm eight and ties it to the realm of angels.

Hebrews 2:5–8 (KJV) 5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

  • What does the writer of Hebrews mean by the statement ‘Unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come?’
  • We need to read Deuteronomy 32:8.

Deuteronomy 32:8 (ESV)
8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

  • But, who are the sons of God?
  • Some other translations help us here to identify them.

Deuteronomy 32:8 (NET)
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

  • God installed a heavenly assembly, a divine council at one point in time.
  • He has always been in the habit of sharing rule and authority.

Psalm 82:1 (ESV)
1 God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

  • These members of the divine council are special members of the angelic community.
  • Per Deuteronomy 32:8, when God divided the nations at the tower of Babel, He fixed the borders of these nations according to the number of members of this council.
  • That is, one angelic member of the council would be over a particular nation while another would be over another nation and so on.
  • So, we see these divine council angels ruling the nations.
  • But all this is going to change in the future because God raised man to sit in heavenly places with Christ.

Ephesians 2:5–7 (KJV)
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

  • And from this elevated position, man will judge angels.

1 Corinthians 6:3 (KJV)
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

  • When remembering that we are going to judge angels, consider that Satan is an archangel.
  • His realm falls under our dominion.
  • We are over Satan in terms of authority and over him as judge.
  • We lord it over Satan through the Name of Jesus.
  • But, there’s even more to man’s position and to this question of how things got done in the Old Testament in the absence of Adam’s authority.
  • But, that’s next week’s podcast.

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References:

  1. Dake, God’s Plan for Man, pp 88. ↩
  2. John N. Oswalt, “951 כָבַשׁ,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 430. ↩

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