This year I have been exploring Adolf Schlatter's devotional book Do We Know Jesus? In today's entry Schlatter reflects on Jesus' casting out of an unclean spirit from a man in Mark 1:23-26. His observations on Jesus' absolute authority over creation both natural and supernatural were particularly insightful. He writes:
"Through an encounter with those who were compelled by a hostile spirit to speak and act, Jesus was asked if he was able to issue also to them the liberating Word in the name of God. Did the spirits possess the power to resist the rule of God? Or were they, too, subject to God's creative power, and the demon-oppressed subject to his grace? God's Word is heard by all his creatures. Even natural forces obey him; supernatural spirits are likewise subject to him. Here as well, Jesus did not waver. 'Be quiet and come out of him,' he told the spirit" (Schlatter, Do we Know Jesus, 93).
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