Article August 2, 1969 Issue

The "word...with authority and power"

ROBERT J. HILL

Luke records that people were astonished at Christ Jesus' doctrine, saying, "What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out."^{Luke 4:36;}

It was natural for Jesus to conduct himself with authority because he recognized no power other than God, whose will he expressed in carrying out the dictates of divine law. As the representative of omnipresent Truth, he was supremely aware of the validity of the Truth he was expressing. This status of Truth's representative, to the degree that it is realized, will always be with power in the practice of Christian healing. By a law of exclusion it rules out the mesmeric suggestion of mortality claiming reality for a counterfeit power.

Jesus saw the perfect man, and only the perfect man, as the reality. His consciousness was full of Truth; he gave room to nothing else. Although aware of situations that needed healing, he acknowledged only the spiritually perfect man as factual. This gave authority to his word as he told the crippled man to get up and walk, the demons to leave the consciousness of the troubled one, and the dead to arise.

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