Question:
What does Luke 11:15-28 mean?
Answer:
If a “strong man” tries to clean up his own life in his own strength, he only opens himself up for more evil. “And the last state of that man is worse than the first” (verse 26). Let us “hear the Word of God, and keep it” (verse 28), and thus have victory in our lives.
(1) In John 12:20-27 we have the first step if we are going to see Jesus. The Lord tells the Greeks that wanted to see Him that they must first see Him as dying on the cross for them (verse 24). Until we see that He died for our sins, we will never see Him.
(2) After we see Him as our Saviour, “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor” (Hebrews 2:9-11). We see Him by faith in His Word in the glory.
(3) In the coming day when we are in heaven, “We shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2). So the believer sees Jesus in the past, present, and future. Past—When we were saved we saw Him dying on the cross for us. Present—We see Him through faith in His Word in heavenly places making intercession for us. Future—We shall see Him in the glory in the soon coming day, “as He is.”