No one can perform these signs that you perform unless God is with him (John 3:2)

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Yomelijah

3 min readOct 13, 2023

The gifts of miraculous healings were divine accreditation that the person or group of people had the approval of God and the Holy Spirit:
“Rabbi, we know that you as a teacher have come from God; for no one can perform these signs that you perform unless God is with him”(John 3:2)
It was an honest and sincere teacher of the Law, named Nicodemus, who said these words. Likewise, when the apostles performed such signs, there was no doubt, to the observers, that they had the holy spirit: “Moreover, through the hands of the apostles many signs and portents continued to occur among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solʹo·mon’s colonnade” (Acts 5:12–16). However, some Pharisees, in the presence of Christ, went so far as to dispute this evidence. Let us read the response of Christ to them:
“Then they brought him a demon-possessed man, blind and dumb; and he cured him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. Well, all the crowds were simply carried away and began to say: “May this not perhaps be the Son of David?” At hearing this, the Pharisees said: “This fellow does not expel the demons except by means of Be·elʹze·bub, the ruler of the demons.” Knowing their thoughts, he said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself comes to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the same way, if Satan expels Satan, he has become divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand? Moreover, if I expel the demons by means of Be·elʹze·bub, by means of whom do your sons expel them? This is why they will be judges of you. But if it is by means of God’s spirit that I expel the demons, the kingdom of God has really overtaken you. Or how can anyone invade the house of a strong man and seize his movable goods, unless first he binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. He that is not on my side is against me, and he that does not gather with me scatters” (Matthew 12:22–30).
Logically, Jesus Christ turned this gratuitous accusation of the Pharisees against them with this simple question: “Moreover, if I expel the demons by means of Be·elʹze·bub, by means of whom do your sons expel them?”. However, Jesus Christ did not consider this accusation harmless at all, quite the contrary. He sent them this warning to be taken very seriously; be careful not to sin against the holy spirit: “On this account I say to you, Every sort of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven. For example, whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the holy spirit, it will not be forgiven him, no, not in this system of things nor in that to come” (Matthew 12:31,32).

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