Dave Edlers Ramblings

The Super Bowl was a great game this year. My team won. The Saints beat a better team and did it in dramatic fashion. The on side kick was a gut-sie call. What a great game. But what about that half time show? The Who. Man are those guys just a shadow of who they used to be. The light show was incredible but the singing in particular was not that good. And that is saying it nicely.
A shadow of who they used to be, a shadow of who we are supposed to be. That could be the theme today. It comes from the story in Acts of the “seven sons of Sceva”. They are casting out demons and doing it in the name of “Jesus who Paul preaches”. A demon makes the statement, “I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” (see the tie in, The Who’s song ‘Who Are You’) Here is what I believe is for us, they know about Jesus but are not “in Christ Jesus”, which Paul writes later to Philippi about himself and Timothy. They are “in” Christ Jesus and the demons are fleeing. These “sons of Sceva” just know about him and the demon beats the you know “who” out of them. They are just a shadow of who they could be and who we should be.