1 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,240 Mark chapter one, verse 21 to 22. 2 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,400 It says this. They went into Capernaum and 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,760 immediately on the Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and began 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,640 to teach. And they were amazed at His 5 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,800 teaching, for He was teaching them as one having authority, 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,800 not as the scribes. You can be seated. 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,360 Now, a couple things I want to point out about this passage of 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,680 Scripture. Number one, you'll find that 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,960 Jesus went to church. I mean, if Jesus is the one 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,920 we're supposed to follow and you're not going to find the 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:51,120 scripture that Jesus avoided a synagogue on the Sabbath even 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,400 when they wanted to kill him, He's not avoiding it. 13 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,920 He's going to show up to church, right, because he is the head of 14 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,480 the church. So this notion, you know, that 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:01,960 church is really kind of irrelevant. 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,760 What Jesus goes to the synagogue and he could have say, well, you 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,920 know, they're not pre. They have the scrolls, they have 18 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,560 the things written. And if anyone can explain this, 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,760 he can. And when he begins to preach, it 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,240 sounds different than everyone else that has stood and in the 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:24,720 pulpit for a modern vernacular, OK, it was noticeable that this 22 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,040 is different, OK? And I'm bringing the Scripture 23 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,880 go, this is the one we brought last week. 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,680 We're talking about authority in God's Kingdom, OK? 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,960 And so Jesus spoke in such a way that it was recognizable that he 26 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,160 possessed authority in Matthew chapter 15 verse 7, and not 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,480 through nine, it says is Jesus again when addressed by 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,800 Pharisees and scribes of which she's, you know, doing a little 29 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,280 correction to them at this part in Matthew 15, he says, you 30 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,400 hypocrites rightly did Isaiah prophecy of you. 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,560 These people honor me with their what? 32 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,480 With their lips, but their heart is far from me. 33 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,759 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the 34 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,840 precepts of men. So again, if you were to talk to 35 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,160 them, you would think, man, these people love God. 36 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,800 However, they had no heart to do this. 37 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,480 In fact, it goes even deeper because Jesus actually says this 38 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,920 at another time to to the crowd. He says do what the Pharisees 39 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,200 say, just don't do what they do because they don't live what 40 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,480 they preach. So in essence, he says they 41 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,680 honor me with their lips, which means they're saying things that 42 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,960 are truth from my word. They're meaning scripture. 43 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,040 They're saying things, but these things they're saying, then they 44 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:52,280 turn them so that it becomes a doctrine of men's precepts. 45 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,920 And let me tell you, that can sound awesome. 46 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,920 It can sound right on, you know, because when you're in the 47 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,800 atmosphere of man, which is there's a way that seems right, 48 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,360 you can preach ways that seem right. 49 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200 You can preach them. You can preach them like man, 50 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:09,880 That's right. Why? 51 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,320 Because I could preach in ways that identify with your 52 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,960 humanity. I can preach in such a way to 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,640 identify with your struggles. Now I can preach that way. 54 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,760 So we can identify, but never really give you a way out. 55 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,400 Just say, well, God's in control. 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,600 Whatever will be will be, you know, we're all going through it 57 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,240 together. God probably sent it anyway, 58 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,360 right? Hold on. 59 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,200 You know, the little ambiguities out there. 60 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,200 And then, you know, let's do this. 61 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,080 And I, I would conclude that the precepts of men, if you don't 62 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,440 watch out, and I'm going to say this because a lot of churches 63 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:50,200 fall into this category or even, you know, well intended people 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,040 who love people fall into social services alone, Meaning you're 65 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,360 helping someone, but you got to make sure you're the reason why 66 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,920 you're helping someone is there because all of us can get, I 67 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,200 mean, you understand how many nonprofits when I say that I'm 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,280 not talking church nonprofit, I'm saying nonprofits, 69 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,200 corporations have nonprofits and they do very charitable things, 70 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,560 but their hearts not in it, their hearts not there. 71 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,680 Why do they typically do it? Taxes. 72 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,560 So their motive for giving is not really to help them as much 73 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,200 as it to help themselves. Now again, I don't know people's 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,960 hearts. You know, I'm not Jesus 75 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,160 listening to it talk. I'm just saying when we're 76 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,720 helping people, we have to make sure our hearts right so we get 77 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,200 dining with dignity. When you go out, why are you 78 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,080 going? Don't go just cause. 79 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,080 Well, I feel sorry for them. Don't that is not good enough. 80 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,840 That doesn't help them. They don't want you to feel 81 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:50,240 sorry. God don't want you to feel sorry 82 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,280 for them. God wants you to have 83 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:53,760 compassion. That's different. 84 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Here's a different motivation for our doing and why we do so. 85 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,160 You always have to tell them. Why do we go to the prison for 86 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,760 those who go to the prison system because we feel bad for 87 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,360 them? No, because we want to bring a 88 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,120 light. We want to see real change and 89 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,720 rehabilitation. So when they get out, they never 90 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,280 go back because they are a different person that 91 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,640 technically they could say the man who walked into this place 92 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:26,400 or woman is dead because I made Jesus Lord and that person's not 93 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:31,200 going back out. Now I may look the same right on 94 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,120 the outside, but on the inside, both in my heart and my mind, 95 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,040 I'm a totally different person. The way I think and process 96 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,880 because I've been delivered. I said I've been delivered, 97 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,320 glory to God. So Jesus challenges these guys 98 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,920 and he says, listen people, when they are ministering the Word 99 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,200 without authority, it really just turns into precepts of men 100 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:58,360 and it's honorable in lip service, but it doesn't have the 101 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,480 capacity to really change people's lives because it's the 102 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,440 spirit alone that really brings change. 103 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,960 This is why Jesus said earlier in the same chapter, verse 104 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,800 three, he said in the answer and said then why do you transgress 105 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,680 right. The commandment of God for the 106 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,040 sake of your tradition. You know what all of us have 107 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,880 been associated with tradition and I'm going to tell you as 108 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,280 I've grown in the Lord specifically since I've planted 109 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:31,120 anchor faith church. Now that does not mean that I I 110 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,080 was totally grown way before them. 111 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,840 You know, because I was raised in denominational church and 112 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:40,640 only taught that you how to go to heaven when you die and Jesus 113 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,960 is the only way and I was born again in that. 114 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,080 But that was what all that's all I was taught. 115 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,760 Then I ended up going to another denomination that introduced me 116 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,240 to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 117 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,560 Well, I didn't even know that was even available. 118 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,520 Now I have to admit I was taught that because I've asked I'm in 119 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:09,720 since since I'm in studying wasn't on the top of my list and 120 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,720 the examples of that in you know, my churches were that way. 121 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,880 Now I was still wrong. I should have done something 122 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,240 different, but I didn't. I just kind of flowed with the 123 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,560 traditions of that church because it's easy to flow with 124 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,040 the traditions that are being taught. 125 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,640 Just kind of go there, right? I would get sick every year, 126 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:36,000 every year around November, especially Thanksgiving, because 127 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,720 as you all know, my testimony, I was just a skinny guy. 128 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,400 Skinny guy. I graduate 123 pounds. 129 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,560 I was a skinny guy, so Thanksgiving was a big deal to 130 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,400 me because I needed the extra calories. 131 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,720 But for some reason, I would get the flu, you know, And there's 132 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,600 always, well, you catch the flu where everybody catch the flu, 133 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,560 and that's the tradition. You just catch it. 134 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,560 Go ahead and catch everybody else is nobody else has shown me 135 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,600 anything different. That's just the traditions of 136 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,000 me. Come on, I'm not studying 137 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,760 myself. Then I find out about the 138 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,640 baptism of the Holy Ghost. That was boom lights on, totally 139 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,120 different, better lifestyle, way better powers. 140 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,560 Awesome. I mean, power plus being with 141 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,600 the Lord for it is way better than just knowing I'm going to 142 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,000 be with him when I die. Powers way better, right? 143 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,880 But then I went off to Bible school and then I found out that 144 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,840 there was things that you could access with faith, not just 145 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,360 salvation and baptism, the Holy Ghost. 146 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,039 And there were benefits associated with God and all 147 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:45,160 kinds of things. I'm like, wow, what is 148 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,480 happening? But I had to break tradition. 149 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:55,200 And because of that three, those three things, it put in me where 150 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:05,040 I seek, I seek now seek to where I'll say, is that true? 151 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,760 I've heard, I hear that in every circle. 152 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,720 Is that true or is that a tradition? 153 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,400 Now, here's the cool thing. When you begin to go to the word 154 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,080 over something you've heard, if it's truth, you'll just get 155 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,480 stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. 156 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,480 Even if you have the intent, I'm going to prove it wrong. 157 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,440 You can't you, you wouldn't be able to. 158 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,440 But if it's a tradition, all of a sudden cracks to start showing 159 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,840 up and you're like, man, I've thought this way for a very long 160 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:50,480 time and I realized it's wrong. It's a tradition and I need to 161 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,200 adjust. Are you hearing me? 162 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,640 So when biblical truths are replaced with traditional 163 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:03,280 truths, then authority is lost when biblical truths are 164 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,040 replaced with traditional truths. 165 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,240 Now, why do I say truths? They're not technically the 166 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,680 truth, but to them it's truth. I mean, you can get around some 167 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:17,760 places that have not grown or believers, let's say that have 168 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,920 not grown in certain layers of revelation. 169 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,760 And I can't give you the answer why that is. 170 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,680 But if you can get around some and you can begin to try to show 171 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:29,280 them. Have you ever tried to show 172 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,200 somebody another side of the word? 173 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,600 And they're like just resistant? I mean, I'm almost mad at you. 174 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,800 You know, you think you're better than me. 175 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,360 I do not. But I happen to know something 176 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,720 that is liberating for you should you want to listen, but 177 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,680 for some reason you don't want to. 178 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,800 And they hold that tradition like it's the truth. 179 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,960 And by holding it, they lose their authority. 180 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,360 They lose their authority. And we said this last week, the 181 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,600 difference between precepts of men or we could say religion and 182 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,080 the and the Kingdom of God is authority is authority. 183 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,800 Now, Thayer's authority, again, we've said this and we're going 184 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,720 to talk about and use that word today. 185 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,640 But Thayer's has a definition that is extremely accurate 186 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,160 concerning authority because when I went to school I was 187 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,880 taught this. And yes, the Greek word has this 188 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,200 in their definition and in the right setting it is reality. 189 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,560 OK. And what took me on this 190 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:28,600 journey? Tradition. 191 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:35,680 Now when I say tradition, it is. Is the word authority only this 192 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:40,360 by definition? Because I was trained in a 193 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,640 location that when you said this word, the proper response is 194 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,960 delegated power. Now is authority delegated 195 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,240 power? That's one definition. 196 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,080 So I did this. I said OK, because I went to 197 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,200 Scripture and I saw that the Holy Spirit in John chapter 16 198 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,440 does nothing on his own initiative, but he only says 199 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,200 what he hears, which means he's operating in delegated 200 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,440 authority. So I popped up to Jesus, found 201 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,240 out what same. You know, in the Gospel Jesus 202 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:16,080 said I speak nothing on my own initiative, only what I hear. 203 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:21,320 I say that's called delegated authority, meaning they received 204 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,480 authority higher than themselves. 205 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,720 So now I pop to the Father. If authority literally means 206 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:37,200 delegated power, who gave the Father his who gave the father 207 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:46,920 is now it doesn't work. OK, that doesn't work. 208 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:53,280 So then what is authority? So is authority delegated power? 209 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,760 Or is authority something that can be delegated? 210 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,040 Is it a power that can be delegated? 211 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,160 Because again, if we're like, what's delegated power? 212 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,840 I have delegated power, OK, That's authority, OK, But that's 213 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,040 not because the father doesn't have something that was 214 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,240 delegated to him. He's the source. 215 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,200 He's the source. He is the seat. 216 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:27,120 So I was able to conclude will authority is the final say? 217 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,240 It's the final say. It means that is the ruling and 218 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,080 there can be no higher ruling. But because Jesus has been, you 219 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:45,040 know, put more in a religious atmosphere and not the Kingdom 220 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:52,440 atmosphere, right? Because of that, we struggle 221 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,040 sometimes with that. Why do we struggle? 222 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,160 Because, well, God said this, but you know, he, what's the 223 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,200 final say? See, that takes your faith to 224 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,440 another level, that the minute you know, the King says 225 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,160 something, well, that's the final say. 226 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,600 In our own natural world, if there is an issue in law, you go 227 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,000 to a judge. Well, who's the highest judge? 228 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,760 The Supreme Court. And when they make a ruling, it 229 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:32,000 becomes the final say on that with those justices. 230 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,880 But you understand our judge King is higher than all of them. 231 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,240 I said he's higher than all of them. 232 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:45,360 So in essence, authority is God's final say on a situation 233 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:53,080 that then He delegates for you to receive, so that it becomes 234 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,200 your final say 'cause it's His final say. 235 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,640 Now Thayer, say it this way, it's the power of rule or 236 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,520 government, the power of Him whose will and commands must be 237 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,200 submitted to by others and obeyed. 238 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,840 Now you can say, well, I don't know, I can believe that because 239 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,160 I don't have to do what God says. 240 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,600 No, you do. It's just that God's merciful 241 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,920 and will allow you to not because he's trying to show you 242 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:30,040 he is the way he is the truth. He wants you to yield to Him who 243 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,040 is life. But if you reject it, then 244 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:39,360 eventually one day you'll find that His will is the only one 245 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,640 that's going to be obeyed. And when he says depart from me, 246 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:49,240 there's no appealing. Come on, you'll help me out 247 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,080 Wednesday night. Y'all are teachable people. 248 00:15:52,400 --> 00:16:00,400 When when the Great White throne judgment occurs, that verdict is 249 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:07,920 final. There's no plea bargain cuz down 250 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,800 here there's no plea bargain. You're you're not born again cuz 251 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,480 you made a plea bargain. Now, Lord, I'll, I'll follow you 252 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,160 if you do this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 253 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,400 You're going to love me with all your heart, your soul, your mind 254 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:19,720 and your strength. That's how you're going to love 255 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,600 me and I, and that's the only way you're going to love me. 256 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,480 And because my way is life, I want you to have life. 257 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,680 I want you to be a partaker life. 258 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,160 Anything you do outside my word is death because it's the 259 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,960 opposite of me. And I don't want you to choose 260 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,280 that because I'm life. I mean, I just want you to have 261 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,280 life. But at the end of the day, you 262 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,360 can do whatever you want to do, but you will be held accountable 263 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,160 to that. The only way you get out of that 264 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,760 accountability is that all that you've done wrong that must now 265 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:53,280 be reckoned with has to show up on your book as paid in full 266 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:59,880 because of the blood. Because what you do wrong is not 267 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,760 under a rug or disappears or like poof is gone. 268 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,160 No, God said my blood paid for that, my blood paid for that. 269 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:10,640 No, my blood paid for that and my blood paid for that. 270 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,960 No, it didn't go unnoticed. I paid for that. 271 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,000 No, I paid for that. I did that wrongdoing. 272 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,160 I paid for that wrongdoing. So when we say we put him on the 273 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,200 cross, it's true. Because if Adam had never eaten 274 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:33,000 the fruit, if man had never disobeyed, then we wouldn't know 275 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,240 a person, we wouldn't know a savior. 276 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:45,960 But we did, and he did. And we can be changed if 277 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:52,000 conditional statement we choose to obey and submit and yield and 278 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,040 say Lord, I can't do it. You do it. 279 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,880 I I take your way. Aren't you glad you take his 280 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,680 way? So we concluded last week with 281 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,760 Matthew 2818 and said that Jesus came up and spoke to them saying 282 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,440 all authority. How much come on, how much has 283 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:13,480 been given to me? Where who? 284 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,280 How much does he have? Where, where are you going to go 285 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,000 that he doesn't have the final say? 286 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,040 Come on, where you going to go? Because Jesus's word is the 287 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,680 Father's. He said we're one. 288 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,240 So what I'm saying came from the one who has the final say. 289 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,680 I mean, it's not like I can tell you something the Father's like, 290 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,200 but I didn't say that I'm not doing that. 291 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,960 So you should never said that. Now some people say they hear 292 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:49,480 the Spirit who only speaks by the word called Jesus that only 293 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,720 then speaks by the Father. And some of the things people 294 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,280 say they heard by the Spirit is not what the Spirit saying. 295 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,960 It's definitely what they want to because in the atmosphere of 296 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:06,760 seems right personal motive, we want it to be this way. 297 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,200 But really, what does he say? Because what he says always 298 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,240 comes to pass. Glory to God, I said glory to 299 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,040 God. Amen. 300 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,160 Amen. You know, and sometimes the Lord 301 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,680 say this is going to happen unless this happens, which means 302 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,440 now he's giving you a fork in the road. 303 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,600 And that doesn't mean what he said is a lie. 304 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,080 He's saying if you continue the course, this will occur. 305 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,440 And there's no doubt, however, if you do this. 306 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,800 Thank you Jesus, he says I set before you life and death choose 307 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,880 and that's a daily choice every day, say every day. 308 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,120 Ephesians chapter one verse 17 to 23. 309 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:53,600 This make you want to run around the building. 310 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,320 Not that you have to. I'm just saying it should get 311 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,640 your spirit man really excited. It says that the God of our Lord 312 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,160 Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you. 313 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,720 A spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of 314 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,680 Him. I pray that the eyes of your 315 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,200 heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the 316 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,280 hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of 317 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,920 His inheritance in the Saints. And what is the surpassing 318 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,720 greatness right? The surpassing greatness of His 319 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:27,880 power towards us. Who believe these are in 320 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,800 accordance with the working of the strength of his might which 321 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,560 he brought about where in Christ when he raised him from the dead 322 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,160 seated him at the right his right hand in heavenly places 323 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:51,080 ready far above how much all rule and and and just in case 324 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,800 you don't know what he's got covered. 325 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,480 He's not just have a he did he's not just over all rule. 326 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,600 He's over all authority, he's over all power he's over all 327 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:06,800 dominion he's over all. So what we doing running around 328 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,360 here acting like we got our own little Kingdom going on and we 329 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,200 do what we want to. He's like, you better learn that 330 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,920 I have. I'm over it all. 331 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,800 I'm over at all. And I'm doing everything I can 332 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,400 to rally you back into my household, into my family, 333 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,360 because if you come into my family, you can rule with me. 334 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,520 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So he's far above. 335 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:38,160 It's not even close. I mean, this is not like a Cold 336 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,440 World War situation. You got to get it out of your 337 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,520 head that the devil has all this power, dominion, authority, 338 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,280 rule, and it's pretty close to God. 339 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,880 And they're kind of like in a Cold War. 340 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,840 It's like this back and forth. It's so the struggle's real 341 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,920 people, the Lord's like struggle ain't real. 342 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,360 It's only real to your flesh. But if you get over in the 343 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:02,800 spirit, you'll find out it's not even real. 344 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,360 It's not even a contest. It's not even worth mentioning. 345 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,040 It's like, I'm so far above all this stuff. 346 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,480 I mean, it's all it is a mound. It's a heap of junk compared to 347 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:19,160 the rule that I have Whoo, glory to God. 348 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:25,640 Not only that, but and so he's far above all names and and 349 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:36,640 every name that is named not only in this age, well, what 350 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,320 name can you have cancer? That's OK, He's above cancer. 351 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,720 Tuberculosis, he's above it, right? 352 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:49,480 I mean, name a disease. He's far above all of those 353 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:56,160 names and all of that power. I mean, the father saying I got 354 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,080 a final say on this deal. I have the final say on this 355 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,240 thing. Now the power works because you 356 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,960 believe that. But if you believe the names 357 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:13,480 have more and the dominions have more, and they're the other 358 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,640 powers and the other authorities and the other rules have more, 359 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,280 the principalities and powers have more, well, then you're 360 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:27,960 going to live sub because you're not convinced my father has the 361 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:35,560 final say, Period. And circumstances mean nothing. 362 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:42,480 I do not use people's personal testimonies to have more weight 363 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,760 of truth than God's words. Well, you know, I prayed, you 364 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,520 know, but the Lord didn't answer it, you know, And I just 365 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,280 realized now the Lord was trying to teach me that. 366 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,160 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 367 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,480 The Lord does what he says. Yeah, but I had someone believe 368 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,240 him for this man, and it didn't happen. 369 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:58,880 You know, I'm not sure why. The Lord. 370 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,920 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 371 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,600 What you're not sure of is what was going on so that that final 372 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,280 say didn't come to pass in their life. 373 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,440 But something was happening that you're just unaware of. 374 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,160 So don't blame God. And don't think your aunt, your 375 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,560 grandma, your Mama, your auntie, which I said aunt, but I use the 376 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,360 other one. I don't think that your daddy, 377 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:24,760 your grandfather, had more faith than God, that they will believe 378 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:30,520 in God. And he could not do it right. 379 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,120 I mean, if we listen to the testimony of some people, we 380 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,120 think, thank God's getting it. He's missing, missing a lot. 381 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,320 I wish he had power. And what do we do? 382 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,520 Here's our tradition. Yeah, but at least we're going 383 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,160 to heaven. That's all that matters anyway. 384 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,440 Well, the King's not saying that's all that matters because 385 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,120 if that's all that matters and you say, son, I just want you to 386 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,560 go to cross. We're not going to put you 387 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,880 through the beating. No reason for the scourging. 388 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,320 Really no reason. No reason for that because it's 389 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,120 by his year, right? It's not by his cross. 390 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:07,240 Oh y'all don't want to hear that? 391 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:14,040 So there's no reason for stripes if healings not in the covenant 392 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,200 or it's it's not the healthcare system of the Kingdom. 393 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,240 People look at me sometimes like man, do you have any healthcare? 394 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,760 I'm like, I have the greatest healthcare. 395 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,040 Who's it with Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Humana. 396 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:34,840 I'm like, no, Jesus Christ, man, oh brother, man, I wouldn't bank 397 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:40,160 on that. You don't know my daddy. 398 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,880 My daddy has the final say. Oh, just steal. 399 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,640 My daddy created the doctors that are telling me what I'm 400 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,560 supposed to do. My daddy made the DNA that's in 401 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,560 their bodies. He knows more about their bodies 402 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:04,840 than they know about my body. And I'm supposed to believe 403 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,240 their report? Now, whose report will you 404 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,680 believe? I will believe the report of the 405 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,680 Lord. Hey, all right, let's go on. 406 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,040 Don't get me fired up. Get me fired up. 407 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,960 OK, so let's read 21 again for fun. 408 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,760 Woo. All right, 21, go back 21. 409 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,840 Let's go 21. Go 2121. 410 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,040 There you go. Far above all rule and authority 411 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,040 and power and demean in every name that is named, not only in 412 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,080 this stage, but also the one to come. 413 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:46,800 And he put, so he's not just above it, he put it somewhere. 414 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,520 He said I'm above 'cause I put it somewhere. 415 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:58,880 And he put all things in subjection under his feet, under 416 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,280 it. So all those bow to him and gave 417 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:12,000 him as head over all things. Oh Jesus 2 to the Church. 418 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,400 How can the Church of Jesus Christ on planet earth not be 419 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,880 functioning with great authority? 420 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,480 It's because we believe the precepts of men. 421 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:35,040 It's the only reason we accept the precepts of men as doctrine. 422 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:44,120 Because He is head over all things to the church, which is 423 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,560 his body, the fullness of him who feels All in all. 424 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,560 Oh my goodness. So here's a crazy thing. 425 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,600 Our Father is full is the final say. 426 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,040 He delegates his final say to Jesus. 427 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,480 Jesus in the earth. As we saw last week, whatever he 428 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,560 said, it happened now. He didn't just go through on a 429 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,000 power trip. You got to understand this is 430 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,480 the difference between the traditions of men and selfish 431 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,280 ambition, Christians and Jesus. Because a lot of times 432 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,760 Christians are saying, oh, Lord, we want to see your power. 433 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,480 We want to see the miraculous. I want to be able to raise the 434 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,560 dead. I want to be able to cast out 435 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,760 devils. Lord, I want to see the blind 436 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,680 eyes, the deaf ear. I want to do this. 437 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,080 I want to, but their motive is the issue. 438 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,200 Jesus only did what the Father said, so he didn't have a 439 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,280 personal motive. Which means when pressed at 440 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:54,600 times, show us a miracle. He did not take the delegated 441 00:28:55,480 --> 00:29:02,240 authority to perform. Didn't do it. 442 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,680 He said no. The only sign you'll get now is 443 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,360 my word, because my words powerful enough that my word is 444 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,800 what's powerful. So here's the thing, The Father 445 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,080 has a final say. He delegated his final say to 446 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,080 Jesus when he walked on the earth. 447 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,480 He obviously functioned that way. 448 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,120 And that final say was directly connected to the final say He 449 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,560 said about man in Genesis 1. He said let us make man in our 450 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,240 image. Who said this? 451 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,040 God the Father let us make man in our image corn our likeness 452 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:37,720 and let them have dominion rule over the fish of the sea, over 453 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,800 the birds of the sky, over all the cattle, over all the earth, 454 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,440 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 455 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,200 So man had dominion on the earth. 456 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,040 So when Jesus comes in, he says, just walk in the dominion. 457 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,960 I gave Adam. This is why fish are 458 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,280 multiplying. This is why fish jump in Nets. 459 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,040 This is why fish get on fish hooks. 460 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:02,560 This is why trees listen to him. This is why bread multiplies, 461 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,400 because it's a plant from the earth. 462 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,040 This is why winds and waves obey him. 463 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,760 These, this is the authority Adam had that he gave to the 464 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,640 devil, that he gave to the devil. 465 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,120 And so Jesus functions, but he only functioned that way when he 466 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,920 was in the earth because the Holy Spirit was the one telling 467 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:34,760 him what was Dad saying? So again, the Bible is about 468 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,760 God. There's a lot about God. 469 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,960 It's amazing. But it's also about man, God's 470 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,440 children. And you cannot go to one side 471 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,120 and only make it about God because God's like, yeah, but I 472 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,680 got a lot to say about you, but you can't make it just about us. 473 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,760 He came to save me. He came to take care of me. 474 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,480 You know, it's about me. Look what God did for me. 475 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,040 I'm so excited for what God's done for me. 476 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,720 Look what God did. Look, I was here and he did 477 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,720 this. Next thing you know, we're just 478 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,480 talking about us, right? Will he save me? 479 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,000 I don't have to do this. I don't have to do that. 480 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,240 I don't need to go there yet. He's saying hey, it's not just 481 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,080 about you, it's about you towards me. 482 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,440 So our stories are here together. 483 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,440 Are you hearing me? Luke Chapter 9 verse one, one 484 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,360 and two says this. And he called the 12. 485 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,200 Y'all know who the 12 are, right? 486 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,040 Says 12 disciples. OK, that includes Judas, the one 487 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:38,760 who portrayed him and and gave and what what he do. 488 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:47,000 He gave them power and authority over the demons and to heal 489 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,800 diseases. He sent them out to proclaim the 490 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,160 Kingdom of God and to perform healing. 491 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,760 And that's he says I need you to I'm giving you delegated 492 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,320 authority power. I'm giving you my authority. 493 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,840 I'm delegating it to you to represent My Kingdom to these 494 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,240 places. And when you go preach the 495 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,000 Kingdom, let them know everything you're doing comes 496 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,600 from My Kingdom because My kingdom's not like the kingdoms 497 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,560 of this world. They need to see it's different, 498 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,320 and I need you to go do it. Now let's drop down to this 499 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,800 verse a little bit later in Luke Chapter 9. 500 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,400 Let me see what verse it is verse 6 and it says this 501 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,160 departing they began going throughout the villages 502 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,840 preaching the gospel and healing everywhere was Jesus their 503 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:46,720 healing not physically, but he was there with authority. 504 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:54,240 In essence, this means that God gave them the power of attorney, 505 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,800 and power attorney means you represent me as if it is me 506 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,080 where I send you. Now the gospel. 507 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,920 What's the gospel? Oh, this is really good right 508 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,160 here because I help with tradition. 509 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,880 What's the gospel here? Can somebody tell me what the 510 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,960 gospel is? Good news, It can't be. 511 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,160 Jesus died on the cross for your sins. 512 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,680 Because Jesus has not died on the cross for their sins. 513 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,960 This is that's what gospel. Well he told us in verse 2. 514 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,440 He said go preach the Kingdom of God. 515 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,880 That's the gospel and heal the sick. 516 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,120 So when they went to preach the Kingdom, that's why Jesus only 517 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,400 preached the Kingdom. Everyone went, the Kingdom of 518 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,160 God is like this and the Kingdom of heaven is right there. 519 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,960 He didn't say I'm going to die for you. 520 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,360 Believe on me when I die so that when you die you can go to 521 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:03,960 heaven. That was not his gospel. 522 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,880 Now believing that he died in rows because he did die and was 523 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,199 raised was for the payment of your trespasses, sends your 524 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,560 treason against his Kingdom so you could become a child of God. 525 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,560 It is the doorway into His Kingdom. 526 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:21,960 He wanted everyone to know it's more than just getting born 527 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,639 again, born against the beginning of your Kingdom life. 528 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,120 So go show my Kingdom. Because when you show my Kingdom 529 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,040 and you show my nation, then people are going to want to come 530 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,880 to my Kingdom and want to be a part of my nation, just like 531 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,360 people want to be a part of the US because they think it's 532 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,760 better opportunities. Well, there's the best 533 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,480 opportunity to be in the Kingdom of God. 534 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,679 It's the great, it's the Kingdom that has no end. 535 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,440 Whoa, you know what it is? You ready for this? 536 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,520 This always ruffles the little feathers when I say it, but I 537 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,200 say it anyway. It's a global takeover. 538 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:07,680 It's world domination and not by dictator mean narcissistic. 539 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,240 It's I'm life. The earth is mine because I made 540 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:14,600 it. It's not like I had it. 541 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,000 So I'm taking it back. I'm taking it all back, 542 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,120 Hallelujah. And we're causing the earth to 543 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,000 be like I originally planned it to be. 544 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,200 That's why they'll be a new heaven and a new earth. 545 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,760 Glory to God. So you see here, all authority 546 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:41,520 that Jesus has, He can give. And it's not like, how do I want 547 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:55,050 to say it less? His word is final because it's 548 00:35:55,050 --> 00:35:59,880 His Father's word that's final. So when you say it, it's as if 549 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:05,360 Jesus said it. Well, I'm saying what Jesus 550 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,280 said, but it won't have the same effect because it's coming 551 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,840 through me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 552 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,480 no, no, not at all. It's the same. 553 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,520 Let's go on Luke chapter 10 verse one. 554 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,760 Now after this, the Lord appointed 70 others, so we can't 555 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,720 say this was only for the original 12. 556 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,400 He pointed 70 others, sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every 557 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,440 city and place where He himself was going to come. 558 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,600 And he said, well, this says nothing about him delegating 559 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,520 power or authority. Nothing. 560 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,960 Oh, or does it not? Now drop down to verse 17. 561 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,800 Verse 17 of this chapter says the 70 returned with joy, 562 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,440 saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. 563 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,720 So when he said, I want you to do this, Luke does not 564 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:07,080 communicate the same thing that was spoken to the 12, although 565 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,560 it obviously was spoken to them as well because how could they 566 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,360 have the results? And he said to them, I was 567 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,320 watching Satan fall out lightning from heaven. 568 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,080 Behold, I have given you authority. 569 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,600 So here it is. He doesn't say it in verse one, 570 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:27,160 but he tells us in verse 19 what he said, what he gave them. 571 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,640 Behold, I have given you, which means Jesus can give it. 572 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:38,480 Why are we resisting it? I want you healed. 573 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:46,280 Oh Lord, I'm not worthy. What Sing about your worthiness? 574 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,720 It's about His word. Now again, if you are in Christ, 575 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,040 you've been made worthy. You've been made righteous. 576 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,600 Now your mind still may not be worthy because you're renewing 577 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,040 it, trying to get some things together. 578 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,040 But as far as your spirit, man, it's been made worthy. 579 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,000 Remember, we're not sorry sinners saved by grace. 580 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,360 I'm just a Sinner saved by grace. 581 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,520 That's tradition. That's not true. 582 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,840 That's traditional truth. It's not truth, not biblical 583 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,720 truth. Biblical truth is I was a 584 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,400 Sinner. I've been saved by grace through 585 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,640 faith and now I'm a believer in covenant with God. 586 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,760 I'm a child of God. So a child of God is not the 587 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,480 same species of being as the Sinner. 588 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,520 The Sinner is dead, his spirit is dead. 589 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,920 The the Christian or the in Christ believer, the new 590 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,720 creature is alive to God. So I can't say I'm the same 591 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:40,680 person. I'm not now. 592 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,320 I may be still thinking like the old person, but if I would 593 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,320 actually make him Lord, then he would clean up my mind in my 594 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,400 participation of renewing my mind to His word. 595 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,760 And I begin to say, wow, I'm this now and I'm this now and 596 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,040 I'm this now. OK, Lord, I'll accept what you 597 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,920 say about me 'cause Your word is the final say because you're not 598 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,680 telling me just 'cause you like me and I'm just special one and 599 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,160 there's many believers like I think I'm Jesus is special. 600 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,600 Go ahead and think all you want to, but you're not We're all 601 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,520 we're all in fellowship with the Lord and I accept what he So 602 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,600 let's go on verse 19. I've given you authority to 603 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,960 tread on serpents and scorpions and over come on, help me out 604 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:35,000 and over how much all the power of the enemy. 605 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:41,560 My gosh, man, why, why do we reject the obvious acts chapter 606 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,920 10, verse 38. Look how God anointed Jesus of 607 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,960 Nazareth who went around doing good and healing all who were 608 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,800 oppressed of the and yet here he said. 609 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:57,640 Now listen, I've given you this authority over all the power of 610 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,280 the enemy, and nothing will injure you. 611 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,840 It's because we'll accept a tradition about our situation 612 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,200 instead of biblical truth about it. 613 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,720 Come on, say to yourself, Lord, help renew my mind that I will 614 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:23,600 believe that I am exactly what you say I am and whatever you 615 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:31,040 say is the final say because you have all authority and He has 616 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,920 all authority. I said he has all authority. 617 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,560 The problem is a lot of times we allow our emotions to rule over 618 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,840 God's word. We allow our situation to a rule 619 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,960 to rule over God's word. We allow our condition to rule 620 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,320 over God. Other people's words to rule 621 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,280 over what God has said. All right, don't let it happen. 622 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,320 Verse 20. Nevertheless, he said do not 623 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,600 rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but 624 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,880 rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven. 625 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,120 Now what's important about that? What is greater than having the 626 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,000 authority of our King is that we are sons and daughters of his 627 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,840 Kingdom. That's greater, that's greater, 628 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:18,160 which tells us if you have authority without relationship 629 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,240 with God or sonship, it's nothing. 630 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:25,440 And this is the problem again. People want to function in the 631 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,280 power of God without actually being submitted in a 632 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,360 relationship with God. That's the problem. 633 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:39,560 That's never what God intended. Again, He has all authority, and 634 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,600 He had. He has not intimidated to give 635 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,680 you authority. You just have to use it fully 636 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:51,880 submitted to Him because you couldn't do it without Him, and 637 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,200 if you do, it will cost you. Now what do I mean by that? 638 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,040 Moses hits a rock, water comes out. 639 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,720 Why does the water come out after he hit the rock? 640 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,360 Because God said hit the rock son. 641 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:10,320 But there was another time later on in his walk with the Lord, 642 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,640 after he had been face to face with God and been on the been in 643 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,640 his glory and had to cover itself with a veil, all kinds of 644 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,840 stuff. But yet now we got some issues 645 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120 going on the camp. He's pray for this bunch so 646 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,600 much. He's watching them drop off 647 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,440 dead, you know, because they've been disobedient. 648 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,520 They are exactly what God said, a stubborn and stiff neck bunch. 649 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:31,960 And so the Lord said, just speak to the rock, 'cause he's 650 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,560 merciful. And as you like they, these 651 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,640 people are dying anyway. I've already pronounced judgment 652 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,480 all all those that rejected me at my word, they're not getting 653 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:45,120 down. So he comes down in his emotions 654 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,720 once again, Maybe you saying to himself, I should have took the 655 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:53,360 first deal, should have took the first deal. 656 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,800 When the Lord said I'll get rid of them all, I'll start a whole 657 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,880 new nation with you. I really should have took that 658 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,160 deal when I had all these problems, wouldn't have been 659 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,360 wandering around all these doggone years. 660 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:08,840 Here we go again, right? But what the Lord say? 661 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:12,560 Speak to it. But what did he do? 662 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:16,640 Hit it? How many times did water come 663 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:24,120 out? Oh, but what came after that? 664 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,280 He said you didn't honor me in front of the people. 665 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,000 I mean, how can we come to church and not be honoring him? 666 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,120 You didn't honor me in front of the people. 667 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,640 I won't let you in now. You can't. 668 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:50,160 And he listen, this was so, so serious to God. 669 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:55,080 After all he has seen with God and been in conversation with 670 00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:00,320 God one-on-one that when he day after day, potentially month 671 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,360 after month, whatever the Lord takes him to the heel where he 672 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,440 could see it and he says see it OK don't ask me again. 673 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:14,720 You're not getting in knowing what you know acting like that 674 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,320 it's not happening same in anyway. 675 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,360 So we are not here to get born again to have his power so that 676 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:30,200 we look at us. No, when we demonstrate power, 677 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:38,120 it should be saying look at him, look at him, look at him, look 678 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,720 at him. This is why honestly, I am a 679 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:49,880 little more cautious and don't a lot of times openly testify of 680 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,640 certain things that have occurred because, you know, in 681 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,760 today's society, they're videotaping everything and then 682 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,600 what happens? People flock. 683 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,120 Y'all don't want to hear they're doing 'cause they're trying to 684 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,520 draw. They don't have nothing. 685 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,760 All they should have is a ear to hear what God said, do what God 686 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,920 said. It performs, it happens, and it 687 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,880 should be glorifying God. People are not running to these 688 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:28,600 meetings to meet God, they're running to see the person that 689 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,720 power went through. Now I will give you 1 little 690 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:38,480 testimony years ago in Nicaragua, because This is why I 691 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,680 know this is true and I don't talk about this one a whole lot. 692 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:49,240 We read Nicaragua in a meeting. There's no walls, we're outside. 693 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,120 And so I'm preaching on the Kingdom of God and His authority 694 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,960 and it starts raining. It's a rainy season anyway. 695 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,560 It starts raining and man, it comes down and it is so loud 696 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,840 under the tin roof that I know man, they're not. 697 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,600 They're not hearing me now because I'm going through a 698 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,400 translator. And so the person that ran the, 699 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,920 the ministry or the mission was, you know, over here to the side. 700 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,800 And I heard the Lord say to me, tell the rain to stop. 701 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,120 So I said, in the name of Jesus, I command that rain to stop. 702 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,280 And then I just went on, kept preaching. 703 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:32,760 Within 60 seconds, the rain got super light, almost gone. 704 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,000 Now, the ministry leader, when I said that, he said, oh, he's 705 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,040 lost them. They're never going to listen to 706 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,720 this guy now. But then all of a sudden, right 707 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,680 or no, you were there, right? Were you at that one? 708 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,080 No, You you missed that one. Too bad. 709 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,080 Who? I wish I knew somebody that was 710 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:49,840 here. You were there. 711 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,320 You were at that one. Who else was there? 712 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:56,600 We had other people there. Were you there at that one, 713 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:57,760 Brandon? No. 714 00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,760 Too bad. It was awesome anyway. 715 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,280 Yeah, Wayne Norman was Wayne, were you at that? 716 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:08,720 No, that was another one. We've got been there so many 717 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:15,880 times people anyway, so we're ministering and it's goes and it 718 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,600 get and everybody's kind of looking around right and then 719 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,920 all of a sudden a little bit more comes and Lord said tell 720 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,040 them that was already falling. I said, well this app was 721 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,240 already falling when this hits the ground had to be done and 722 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:30,560 then I kept preaching and then it quit done. 723 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,960 So people are a little, you know, like what just happened, 724 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,400 right? So there's a river we have to 725 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,960 cross to get to this camp, no bridge, a river and it's low 726 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,080 Creek. We were able to get through. 727 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,800 Well, when this much rain fell as it did, it ran rain for maybe 728 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,680 10-15 minutes before the Lord says, say something, the river 729 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,760 had risen and they were like, well, you're not going to be 730 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,760 able to go because it's too high. 731 00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,800 They went down to look, you're not going to be able to go. 732 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,320 It's going to take at least 8 hours. 733 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:04,800 Like man, we don't have. I said we don't have 8 hours. 734 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,200 I'm supposed to be at a university and preach tonight. 735 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,960 I said we have to go. I said man, in the name of 736 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:16,320 Jesus, that river has to go down Within 15 minutes. 737 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,080 Some people showed up and this place went crazy. 738 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,840 Now, I don't understand anything in Spanish, so I have no idea 739 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,400 what's going on, but they're like running around like crazy 740 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,520 people around this vehicle, you know, I mean, everybody's 741 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,520 running, they're talking and everybody's loud, right? 742 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,040 Come to find out that what they're asking is how did you 743 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,520 get here? How did you arrive the waters to 744 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,040 and they're like, it was down, it was low. 745 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,840 I could pass. They said it's never happened 746 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:47,360 ever. Well, what happened after I left 747 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:53,880 the country, it didn't rain the rest of the rainy season. 748 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,680 Four months later, six months later, I come back to and the 749 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,120 camp was telling their, 'cause these guys were drug addicts, 750 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,160 you know, alcohol is a place where they could come and try to 751 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,320 get restored, a retreat place, you know, And so they had fault, 752 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,200 called their parent, their family members, and say the guy 753 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,600 that made the rain stop is coming. 754 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,080 Well, unfortunately there's always a communication issue 755 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:30,600 because I tell them that I'm coming on this day, but it 756 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,680 happens to be 1:00 in the morning. 757 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:38,080 So I said we're coming this day at night at 1:00 AM, but they, 758 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,360 they got thought it was later that night. 759 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,360 So we get an airport. No one's there to pick us up. 760 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,320 No one. So someone else that we end up 761 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,760 knowing country picked us up, we end up going their house and 762 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,760 then we end up getting to the camp late on Sunday. 763 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,720 Well, about 6 to 800 people they said were there waiting, but 764 00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:00,560 they couldn't wait because they had to go back to all their 765 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,200 little towns and stuff. And I'm like, what happened? 766 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,840 They're like, well, they came to find a guy. 767 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,600 Wanted to hear from the guy that stopped the rain. 768 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,120 Well, you know, I don't stop rain. 769 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:16,760 The Lord does, but this is what happens in our Western culture 770 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,560 is that when these things are occurring, if you don't watch 771 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:28,520 out, you start people start following signs that come with 772 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,840 our authority and not him who has the authority. 773 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,720 It's a very important lesson because Mark Chapter 16, last 774 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:41,120 Scripture, here it is, Mark 1617 to 20 says this. 775 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,640 These signs will accompany those who have believed in my name. 776 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,040 They will cast out demons, they'll speak with new tongues, 777 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,920 they'll pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it 778 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,080 will not hurt them. They'll lay hands on the sick 779 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,080 and they will recover. So then the Lord, when He had 780 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:03,680 spoken these, he was received up Hallelujah into heaven, and sat 781 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,920 down at the right hand of God. Verse 20 And they went out and 782 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,640 preached everywhere. Here it is while the Lord worked 783 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,240 with them and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. 784 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,520 Notice the Lord worked with them, not for them. 785 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,080 This is one of the greatest misunderstandings of His 786 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:28,880 authority is that believers want to have God work for them. 787 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,000 Will you have all the power do this for me and do this for me? 788 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,560 And I'm praying that you'll do this. 789 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,520 And I'm asking you, you'll do this. 790 00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:42,440 In essence, we're commanding Him to give us from His authority 791 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,760 what we want. And the Lord's like, doesn't 792 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,320 work that way, don't work that way. 793 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,600 I'm giving you my authority so that you can say what I say, 794 00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,920 Yes, that's right. And then I'll perform it right 795 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,840 and work with you so that my word is confirmed wherever you 796 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,240 go. Because you're saying Jesus said 797 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,440 that's why we say in the name of Jesus be healed. 798 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,000 Not in the name of Apostle Earl, not in the name of Apostle 799 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,840 Marcy, not in the name of Pastor Mike, not in the name of Pastor 800 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,480 Angie, not in the name of Eloise, not in the name of 801 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,160 Brian. No, in the name of Jesus. 802 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,120 So when we pray or lay hands on you, you're right. 803 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:28,920 And if you're like, well, I hope, I hope they got we never 804 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:33,600 had anything We're anointed, but that anointing isn't our 805 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,080 anointing. It's his anointing. 806 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,280 And yet people will go to the ones that have gotten something. 807 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,360 But the reality is they're pulling from the same location 808 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,840 and people can receive because they have more faith that they 809 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:54,520 are harnessing God's power. Then the person next to you who 810 00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:59,800 is harnessing God's power. What did it say? 811 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,240 These signs shall accompany verse. 812 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,400 Go put at verse 17 and I'll close with this so you can get 813 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,840 this thought in your head, 'cause this authority's been 814 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,200 delegated. These signs will accompany those 815 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:19,000 who are those who have that's not the apostle only that's not 816 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,640 the prophet only that's not the teacher only that's not the 817 00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,600 pastor only, that's not the evangelist only that's are you a 818 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,440 believer? Come on, are you a believer? 819 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,760 That means you could look to your neighbor in front of you 820 00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,200 and say, look, I'm not feeling real good. 821 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,840 Will you lay hands on me so I'll be healed because I know that 822 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,240 you have delegated authority from our king and he says lay 823 00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:41,120 hands on the sick and I'm touching myself believing, but I 824 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,520 haven't seen results. Will you? 825 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,680 And it's not like, oh, I don't think you have some. 826 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,120 We never had something, He gave us something and now we freely 827 00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:58,520 give it away in His name. Delegated power, which is the 828 00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:03,600 final say on the matter. And the only way that final say 829 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:08,080 will not come to pass in your life is if you don't believe the 830 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:12,960 final say that is spoken over you or said to you. 831 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:21,200 You resisted and you put your rule above his and it'll look 832 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,280 like it's there till you find out it's not there.