Exciting Bible Stories - The Acts of the Apostles -The Seven Brothers and the Demon

An exciting bible story for kids is the story of the seven brothers. My kids loved the story. It was very funny for them. This story teaches one to be humble, to be dedicated and to be firm in your faith. There is power in the name of Jesus, but only for believers. This does not say that one cannot be a Hindu and then acknowledge Christ and convert. This says that if that conversion takes place, one cannot reclaim ones hindu faith and expect that there would be Power in the name of Christ for that person.

Keep the lamp lit.

ACTS 19: 11-20

¹¹ So remarkable were the miracles worked by God at Paul's hands

¹² that handkerchiefs or aprons which had touched him were taken to the sick, and they were cured of their illnesses, and the evil spirits came out of them.

¹³ But some itinerant Jewish exorcists too tried pronouncing the name of the Lord Jesus over people who were possessed by evil spirits; they used to say, 'I adjure you by the Jesus whose spokesman is Paul.'

¹⁴ Among those who did this were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest.

¹⁵ The evil spirit replied, 'Jesus I recognise, and Paul I know, but who are you?'

¹⁶ and the man with the evil spirit hurled himself at them and overpowered first one and then another, and handled them so violently that they fled from that house stripped of clothing and badly mauled.

¹⁷ Everybody in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, heard about this episode; everyone was filled with awe, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in great honour.

¹⁸ Some believers, too, came forward to admit in detail how they had used spells

¹⁹ and a number of them who had practised magic collected their books and made a bonfire of them in public. The value of these was calculated to be fifty thousand silver pieces.

²⁰ In this powerful way the word of the Lord spread more and more widely and successfully.