Jesus was before the people healing and speaking truth to those listening to his words. The dumb/mute not able to speak began to speak when he was healed. No doubt people knew the man but still was willing to declare a devil had healed him. I often wonder why this would be then one has to realize that Jesus traveled much like the gypsies of our world from one place to another with not necessarily a place to rest his head except for followers in that area that offered him and his disciples a place to stay. If a gypsies what our first thoughts a traveling medicine show and fakery of the art of magic and no truth within what is scene. With Jesus people came to him to be healed and were healed, and Jesus used no tonic or medicine to heal those who needed to be healed. He used the power within him to heal the lame, the mute, the blind, and the deaf.

Now we know Jesus ministry grew and was a fairly large gathering at times. With that in mind, if people are more willing to see a magician, and even less likely to walk into a church if we know there is healing going on. We wonder why is that. We can see the fakery in a magic show, but with Christ there was no fakery but reality of healing. If God be truth, wisdom, knowledge and understanding then the devil(Beelezebub) is the opposite. A liar, a one the begins falsehood, one without knowledge and understanding. Now if we take that which divides the world but Satan himself, yet if he strives to hold his version of truth together so it will not divide his kingdom then an element of truth of who he is still reigns with lack of wisdom, knowlege or understanding with a pack of lies that cover all these things up.

Jesus did not come to divide a people but to unite them into one body of believers. The miracles alone should of spoken truth of His power, but instead they chose to say he is a liar, looking for fakery within the dumb ability to speak. Why? Because had the people seen miracles of God. Maybe they were blind to the miracles of even life being a miracle, instead they were looking at a healer not understanding his ability to heal. It the wow moment once truly realized that Jesus can and does heal.

If you go to a magic show you watch the magician do his trick, and hope your eyes are quick enough to figure how it is done, By age 12 most simple magic tricks are easy enough to debunk. Yet, the harder a magic trick is, it takes someone with either knowledge of craft of magic or the knowledge of technology to debunk it.

The crowd could not debunk the healing, so they began to claim satan gave him power, not ever giving heed to the fact it could of been God and yet Jesus began to declare who his Father was to them. Jesus kingdom is to be strong it has to be built on the foundation of God's word, his ability to heal and power to change lives. Satan only has to build a kingdom with trickery, fear, and evil, that can be quickly divided by all truth, miracles of God and so forth.

If we see Christ's kingdom as being built with truth, wisdom, knowledge, and miracles then we have to ask why is the church today not overflowing. It is because people are like this crowd that claim it must be a devil and not of God. It must be some trickery or deceit. When God uses prophecy in a group of people and begins to move through prophecy the deceit and trickery becomes more complex to try and deceive the church. Now if you remember Moses before Pharaoh the magicians and sorcers began to stop trying to imitate the plagues of God through Moses when it came to the plague of lice. Then God began to do more plagues to teach Pharaoh who he was. Christ did not come to condemn the world but to be condemned by the world and judged by the world. We have to ask, ourselves this question do we believe God's wrath is real, or do we only believe in the love of Christ. The second time of Christ return will be one of judgment to the world and love to the believer.

Jesus was lead like dumb sheep not speaking to his cross. He was judged not only by man, but by devils who sought for a reason to kill him. Yet all Christ claimed about himself was true, he was the Prince of peace, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Of late I have been teaching from the human side of what the people saw and understood as Jesus went to the cross. Leaving out that one part of his authority of being king of kings and Lord of lords. Why because if we can not see the crowd blindness, we can never see the blind healed or the lame walk.

Many people seek the magic, the pretend, the imitation, the sensation of what they desire, instead of filling the church, and/ study of scripture and facing the reality of God and who Christ is. People are blinded by the fakery, by the things seen and not understood. It like the church doors being slammed by the leaders and rulers of our land. A land of freedom of religion, and yet fear of what is called a pandemic hit society of our world? Did we need the protection of mask, washing hands and social distancing. The answer is what happened over fifty years ago in the last pandemic is still true today to fight disease, but it not full proof. The temple in Christ day was open through out the day for teaching and learning, yet the churches today are lucky to be open at the minimum of two times a week. And most say that is adequate to get everyone in for at the minimum of one message or one time of worship. Yet how much time is spent in front of the television in the evening, or even daytime for others. What are we filling our time with if it is not work.

My handicrafts always kept me busy until a computer. Yet computers are useful for communication, for meeting people and so forth. Of course everyone needs time to relax and think about their day, have a little fun, because why work if you can not have a little fun too. There is a point what are we filling our time with. If work is to the point you can not spend time with God. Ask God if this needs changing and let him show you how.

Let us not nail Christ to the cross by allowing the devil to divide his people or the enemy to build a strong tower, one that will fall. Things that are built for destruction will not stand. Those things built on the word of God will not perish. God living in us is not destructible. Our bodies may decay, but our soul will be forever in the New Jerusalem. Let us stand on the solid rock of Christ, let us build and be immersed in faith and not the things of this world. Let us remember our redeemer faced death, but was not destroyed, he rose to victory. He divided not the people of faith, but gather the sheep to him.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us to see Christ as Lord of lords, and King of kings of who he truly was and is. Let us cling to the hope he face death for the condemnation of being King, rose to victory to show his eternal power to be king of our eternal as will as earthly life. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Acts 8:32-33 KJV
32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.