Gearing up for Sunday's Battle with the Demons

He taught them as one having authority...just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit... Jesus said, "Be silent, and come out of him!" Thinking about Sunday's sermon, very easily could talk about the "authority" of Jesus - the voice which in the beginning made all things still has authority over all things... But what about the fact that Jesus wasn't turned off by this demon-possessed man - that in fact he in a way refused to even acknowledge the demon, because he was so focused on the man? Be silent he says - as if to say don't bother me, don't waste my time, don't distract me from the one - the person - the bearer of my image - in whom you have taken up residence. Just shut up and get out! That this one - my one - might be made whole again. Question: what does Jesus notice when he looks at us? Our demons? (Many of which we see when we look at ourselves.) Or is his plan to cast these out and away because what he sees is us - as we truly are - as we were designed to be?