That man in the synagogues had never known that healing was possible. He lived in the world in which he experienced his life. Indeed like far too many in the church are just as comfortable in their beliefs instead of the power of God, which even worse, most have never experiences. Dead most are at worse, perpetual babes at best. It is very sad they don't believe the word of God.
"Ye have by your traditions made the Word of God of none effect " That is what Jesus said.
It is" the annointing that destroyeth the yoke" that "opens the eyes of the blind"
This is what is sadly lacking in the pulpit .
But we cannot go from one extreme to the other .
and neglect the Word of God and go and seek POWER !!!!!!!!!
For the eternal resting place of the Holy Spirit of God is the Holy Word of God .
You cannot excercise authority unless you are in submission to authority . (see Roman centurian)
People want POWER!!!!!! but are not in submission to God .
Others want POWER!!!!! but only to "lord it over the flock" and to perform and seek but their own glory .
Jesus had both the power and the authority because he came from God and not in His own name .
"He that speeketh of himself, seeketh his own glory,but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true and there is no unrighteousness in him " John 7:18
He had authority and was able to excercise that authority because he was himself subject to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
If any man today wished to have authority if eh is a true BORN child of God he already has authority ,But the power to excersise it he must needs be also subject to the Holy Spirit and be filled and led by Him.
That the man with the unclean spirit was able to sit in 'church' for so long and nopt be too much if at all 'troubled' was the fault of the church and any unclean spirit or person that is comfortable in church says much about the 'temprature' of the church .
A church is not to be user friendly of the wicked .
Where they may feel right at home.
The gospel does not make bad men good .It makes dead men live .
Nor is the church a haven for the weak.
The church is or should be where the weak are made strong. The blind to see (spiritually above all else) and the lame to walk .
and where GOD has HIS needs met FIRST .
For is it not written "seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and HIS righteoeusness...."
What is called the Lords prayer has our needs over half way down the prayer list!
But the church has the idea that it is 'after me you can go first'
The man with the unclean spirit did not know about healing or deliverance but then there is no indication that he wanted it .
An unclean spirit is an offence against the Holy Spirit of God .
as it is against the will fo God for any man to have in them.
The whys and the where fores of that situation is pure conjecture . The thing to focus on is that as soon as the annointed man came in the unclean spirit had to go .
in Christ
gerald