17 Nov Badge (discovering that authority is the channel through which God’s power flows): Part 13

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Over the last number of months we began our discussion with “Six Submit Standards”:

  1. There is a difference between submit and surrender. (Mark 8:34-35)

Remember this:  Always submit yourself to God, but never surrender to the devil!

  1. You must get under what is over you, in order to get over what is under you!  (James 4:7)

Remember:  If your “resister” isn’t working….check up on your “submitter.”

  1. There are certain things you should submit to and there are certain things you should resist. (John 10:10)

“3 Resist Reasonings”:

  1. Anything that steals, kills or destroys…resist!
  2. Anything Jesus bore FOR you on the cross…resist!
  3. God is good….He does good things.  The devil is bad…he does bad things.  They never swap jobs.  They never work together.  PERIOD!  (see James 1:13-17)
  1. Just because it happened, does not automatically mean it is the will of God.  Just because it is the will of God, doesn’t automatically mean it will happen!
  1. If you believe everything that happens is the will of a sovereign God, it will put you in a state of non-resistance to the devil.  (James 3:13-17)  
  1. You can’t leave up to God what He left to you. (Mark 16:15-20)

Trust is relinquishing to God what you can’t control.  Delegated authority is taking responsibility for what you must control.  

Remember this:  Many people are waiting on God, what if God is waiting on you?  

Then we began to talk about that delegated authority.  “Six Authority Aspects”:

  1. God works through representation. (John 13:20)

When God wants to bless you, He will send someone to you!  If you don’t receive who God sends, you won’t receive what He intends!

  1. Once God delegates something to you, He will not do it for you. (Luke 10:16-20)

This month let’s continue our series….

  1. Authority is the channel through which God’s power flows. (Eph. 1:15-23)  

Here the Bible tells us. “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you,  making mention of you in my prayers: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened: that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.  Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church.  Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.”

Now that you have seen these verses, I am going to say something that you may initially recoil from…but please hear me out!  Jesus is not the head of the devil…you are!  According to these above verses, Jesus is the head of the church and He has put all things under His feet. Feet are in the body and you are the Body of Christ.  Therefore Jesus is the head of the church and you are the head of the devil!  

Authority is the channel through which God’s power flows.  Think of it this way:  when you go to turn on the lights in your home you don’t call the power company and ask them to turn on the lights for you.  The power comes from the electric company but they expect YOU to “use your authority” and turn on the power by flipping the light switch!  If you don’t use your authority, all that power will be wasted and you will sit in the dark!

God has given you the name above every name (see Phil. 2:8-9) and therefore the authority the name represents…but God is waiting on you to use it.  The reason the devil backs down from that name is because he does not want to taste the power again.  He tasted that power in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 when he tried to overthrow God and fell to his defeat (see Luke 10:17-19, Rev. 12:7-9).  

We understand this concept by looking at our police.  If a police officer comes to your door and says, “Open up in the name of the law, we have a warrant for your arrest”…you will immediately respond to his authority because you don’t want to taste his power.  He has a night stick, mace, a Taser, a gun and lots of reinforcements!  You respond to his authority because you don’t want to taste his power….so will the devil!

Join us next week as we continue our series…