How can Satan drive out Satan?

Heb 9,15.24-28; Ps 97; Mk 3,22-30
28 JANUARY
Every man must know that the more he grows in the knowledge of God, the more he might see the whole of created reality with a truth that is ever purer and clearer. But when he dies in the knowledge of his Creator and Lord, darkness envelops his mind and falsehood lurks in his heart. Everything in him will become a great confusion. Today man has decided to banish the true God from his history. With which results? He no longer knows the truth of man, made by God in his image and likeness and not even the truth of an animal. He knows neither the truth of time nor the truth of eternity. He calls good bad and calls evil good, darkness is declared light and light darkness. When there are false statements about essential truths of revelation it is the sign that neither God nor his Word is known. But if God is not known and not even his Word, then there will be no truth for anything else that comes from God and that is manifested in His Word. The scribes say of Jesus that He is possessed by Beelzebùl and that he drives out demons through the head of demons.

Where is the falsehood that lurks in this statement of the scribes? In not wanting to consider that when Satan takes possession of a man, the government of himself ends for that man, he is incapable of doing any good, no word of truth will come out of his mouth. He might not even make the signs that Jesus did among the people. In addition, no one has ever rushed to listen to a possessed by Satan. There are many other reasons to testify that the evil words of the scribes are the result of their evil heart. A man is either all of God or is all of Satan. He cannot be now of Satan now of God. Jesus defends himself from this infamous accusation, saying that the scribes do not know Satan. They do not know that he does not give his power to anyone. When a prey is his, it is his forever. Unless a strong man comes and takes off his armour in which he confided. Only after having tied him up he might plunder his goods. The strong man is Jesus. A single word is enough for him, only one command and the unclean spirits owe him all obedience. Even if wicked creatures, they are his creatures. He is their God and they must immediately listen to him. He says to leave and they leave. He imposes silence and they keep silence. They become mute. The command is not transgressed.

The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.” Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.” For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Jesus does not stop to say that He is the strong man, come to bind Satan and to deprive him of his kingdom and his house. He says more. The scribes, contesting the known truth, run the risk of falling into sin against the Holy Spirit, which is no longer forgivable. Why is this sin so serious and without forgiveness for eternity? Because out of hatred against Christ, deliberately, with conscience and science, they transform truth into falsehood, they apply to Satan what comes from God, to remove men from salvation. As long as the falsehood about Christ Jesus remains in one’s heart, there is always the possibility of forgiveness. But when it comes out of the heart and one makes it become fire to erase Christ in every other heart, then sin against the Holy Spirit is committed. Our falsity deliberately becomes a cause of perdition for many others. Whoever kills the truth of Jesus, because he wants darkness to rule the earth, will never be immune from this sin that generates eternal sadness. May to no one happen to fight against Christ the Lord. He risks walking with hell under his feet.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, do not allow one to fall into this horrible sin.