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- What Does the Bible Say About Exposing Evil? - OpenBible.info
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an...
- What Does the Bible Say About Exposing Evil? - OpenBible.info
Jul 13, 2023 · Jesus commanded the demons to be quiet and did not allow evil spirits to speak about His identity as the Son of God because He would not allow God’s purposes to be thwarted or distorted by demons. Jesus came to do the Father’s will (Matthew 26:39; John 4:34; 6:38; 14:31; Hebrews 10:9).
- Amos 3:7 ESV / 111 helpful votes. “For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
- Proverbs 25:2 ESV / 97 helpful votes. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
- Luke 8:17 ESV / 96 helpful votes. For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
- 1 Corinthians 2:10 ESV / 95 helpful votes. These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4,797 helpful votes. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
- John 3:20 ESV / 4,221 helpful votes. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
- Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 3,342 helpful votes. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
- Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 3,234 helpful votes. The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
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To begin, it’s important to note that Jesus’s commands for silence form part of a broader pattern of simultaneously revealing andconcealing who he is. On the one hand, Jesus doesn’t appear secretive at all. He is visibly anointed by the Holy Spirit and declared “Son” by the Father (Mark 1:9–11); proclaims the kingdom/gospel openly in Galilee (1:14–...
With evil spirits, Jesus’s commands to “be silent” and “not to make him known” (Mark 1:24; 1:34; 3:12) come on the heels of the spirits’ crying that he’s the “Holy One of God” (1:24) or “Son of God” (3:11). Jesus forbids them from speaking, then, “because they knew him” (1:34). Apparently as supernatural beings they have insight into who Jesus real...
With Jesus’s disciples the commands to silence take a different shape. The first instance comes after Peter proclaims Jesus to be “the Christ” (Mark 8:29)—at which Jesus “charged them to tell no one about him” (8:30). The second comes after the transfiguration scene (9:2–8)—at which Jesus “charged them to tell no one what they had seen” until after...
In sum, Jesus’s commands to silence seem aimed at controlling the spread of information about Jesus as well as its timing: he is the Messiah and divine Son, but that is only fully revealed at his death and resurrection. Until then, the misunderstandings result in shrieking demons, spiraling crowds, and obtuse statements by the disciples. But what a...
- Greg Lanier
Jul 3, 2020 · Nevertheless the general rule applies, which is that God loves us and what he chooses to reveal to us or not, he does so because he loves us. In the particular case of Matthew 11:25-27, God reveals himself to those who are humble and open, not to the prideful and arrogant.
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For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding]. Christian Standard Bible.
