The sons of Sceva narrative serves to illustrate the key truth revealed in Luke-Acts that deliverance from demons and the power of Satan is relational, not technological. There is no secret name, utterance, or technique that will give power of demons. To show this, we do an overview of material in Luke that reveals the true power of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Luke shows this through the accounts of the calming of the raging sea (Luke 8:22-25); the deliverance of the Gentile demoniac (Luke 8:26-39); the healing of the woman with an perpetual hemorrhage (Luke 8:43-48); and the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Luke 8:40-42 & 49-55). The intended implications of this is that Jesus had the power over everything that people feared, even the most horrible conditions. The danger that lurked behind all of this is pride, not merely the conditions themselves. To trust Christ and alone and find true healing and freedom required humility and repentance. Pride would derail all of this. The passage in Act 19 with the sons of Sceva should be seen in this context. Humans want power and the ability to cash in on it. True deliverance is when we receive Messianic salvation by faith in Christ alone and are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God.