Stand for the reading of the word.
We are in a a Wednesday night series on Kingdom authority and
we're going to lay hands on people tonight.
Amen. And so we want to, we want to be
able to administer the word, but then be able to minister to
people as well. And so in Mark chapter one,
verse 21 to 22, it's kind of been our key text here.
It says they went into the Capernaum and immediately on the
Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and began to teach.
And they were amazed at his teaching, for he was one, for he
was teaching them as one, having authority and not as the
scribes. You can be seated.
So we see here that Jesus, when he began to speak, there was
authority in the word that he spoke.
He is the word. You can speak the word without
authority because the scribes, you know, who wrote the word
out, they had, you know, they're connected with the priest and
the the Pharisees that are the ones that are delivering or
teaching the word. But yet when they speak, it
sounds like tradition. It just doesn't have the same
power associated with it. However, when Jesus speaks,
there is authority as if what he's saying will take place.
That's why Jesus addressing them in Matthew chapter 15 verse 7
and 9 says you hypocrites rightly did Isaiah prophecy of
you. These people, this people honor
me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Does God know your heart? Yes, He does, always without
exception. OK, so just because, you know, a
lot of people are saying scriptures and singing songs and
posting things, that doesn't mean their heart is there.
OK, But God could identify that, He goes on to say, but in vain
do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.
I was reminded of a time when I was in youth ministry and I had
taken our teenagers to a particular camp and, you know,
there was like a wall. We were in AI guess in an
auditorium, and some teenagers from different churches were up
against the wall. And man, they were just crying
out to God. I mean, really emotionally
crying out to God. It was very obvious.
And yet our teenagers, you know, didn't seem as emotionally
connected. And I remember kind of feeling
like, man, I wish our teens would respond this way.
You know, I mean, they would raise in their hands, don't get
me wrong, but it just seemed like there was something.
And I'll never forget the voice of the Lord say to me, he says,
I really don't even hear them. Now that can sound offensive and
probably some people would take that offensive, right?
But again, it's what the spirit of the Lord said.
And you know what, it's not offense when the Lord says they
worship me in vain. He says this.
So if he knew that they were doing something out of a vain
scenario, well, he knows it. I didn't think it.
I'm thinking they're really doing something.
But he tells me not really hearing them.
He says they're, they're trying to get to me through their
emotions, but you have to worship me in spirit and in
truth. He says you got to teach them
how to connect with the Spirit because I'm not moved by a
person's emotions. He's not.
Now that doesn't mean he won't do something for you out of
kindness. I'm not saying that that if a
person could only and that's the only way, they haven't even
engaged God and they're crying out from an emotional soulish
perspective. God is gracious, he's
compassionate, He's merciful and he can do something, but that's
not how we live. We live by faith.
We live to be led by the spirit. So what you have to watch is
that if you have an experience with God through an emotional
response, that's just God being kind to let you know he's there
and he wants to train you how you can do it a better way.
But a lot of times when people have a are touched by God in
their infancy as they're beginning with God because
again, God will start with you where you're at, but what's he
do? He's going to take you
somewhere. And if you want to stay in
preschool how you first felt him, he's like, well, I was just
letting you know I'm there and I want to take you somewhere.
Why you keep trying to come? This isn't the best living, but
I want to feel you like that feeling is not what you need
from me. What you need is my word, are
you hearing me? And so there's plenty of times
we don't watch out. We can have.
That's why events can be a little troubling because you can
have an experience with God. Will you feel him?
I mean, how many times you heard this?
And please don't be upset if you've said this to me, but
something like, oh, I'm getting goosebumps.
Goosebumps. There's not an indicator that
that is the Holy Ghost. It can happen, but don't think
every time goosebumps come that that is a manifestation of the
Holy Spirit itself. And then don't be looking for
that. Well, I need to get in the room
so that my hair can stand on on edge, you know, on the back of
my neck, you know, or I that's see now that's being led by your
feeling. No, I know he's in the room
because he inhabits the praises of his people.
He lives in me. I am the temple of the Holy
Ghost, so I know he's in the room.
I know he's here. I don't need any other
demonstration. If he allows it, I don't have a
problem. If he his power came so much in
that I fell on my face and I couldn't get up, great.
But I don't think God wants us to live where his power presses
us on the floor for 5 to 11 hours.
That then that's all we want. I remember that service.
I was down for 11 hours. Well, did he talk to you?
Was there some things you were supposed to do not do?
Did you need some rest and he needed you to stay out for a
little bit because you've been run too?
I don't know. But at the end of the day, we're
not led by being slain in the spirit for hours on end, right?
So again, he's dealing with individuals that give this
impression and their conversation lacks no authority.
That's good. None at all.
That's why Jesus preceding in Matthew 15 three this little
statement. He says to them, He says, and he
answered and said to them, why do you transgress the
commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
And we said this when biblical truths are replaced with
traditional truths, then authority is lost.
Now, again, when I say traditional truth, I don't mean
they're actually truths. I just mean they're traditions
that we formed as truths because we've made doctrine the precepts
of men. But we, they consider them
truths. Biblical truth is what has
authority. It holds real power.
All right. And we function with power.
You know, the church is powerful.
It is powerful. It is the most powerful thing on
the planet. I mean, just knowing that when
you come in this room should make this room electric in the
spirit that you're not like we have power when we have some
power. The Holy Ghost has given us
power through the name of Jesus. We have power.
We are not a dead head waiting to get along.
You know, a subject to everything like everybody else.
And again, this kind of teaching, people say all they're
talking about a little God complex.
We are children of God. I didn't call myself that.
And if I'm in Christ, then I can function as God has ordained us
by faith and do some pretty amazing things.
I do not want my conversation to only sound like quoting
Scripture with no power. Well, you know, I'm going to
pray for you. Please don't.
Because if there's no power, don't pray.
This is why we say we don't want to be known as a church that
prays every religion, false religions pray.
We want to be known as a church that has answered prayers.
Are we going to pray? Yes, but they will be answered
because God's not withholding from his church when you ask
according to his will Woo you have it Hallelujah.
So you got to have a firm persuasion.
So the difference between the precepts of men we could call
religion and the Kingdom of God is authority is authority.
And again, the precepts of men sound good.
You know it. It tends to touch us where we
feel, you know, when there's a plenty of of, of people that you
can connect to on a personal emotional level of things you've
gone through. And I was talking to Anna when
she was making my coffee tonight and you know, about the ladies
that she's helping that in the ministry.
And I'm, she said, I just want him to get it.
Well, she can provide a place. She can give them clothes, feed
them, you know, have food and all this stuff can start to
function. She may even be able to say, I
know how you feel, I've been in that place before.
She may even have personal testimony with some of them.
However, none of that change. She could cry with them, but
none of it changes unless the word shown in their heart
springs forth in a renewal of their mind that they then begin
to walk out that which they've been redeemed and made in the
likeness of and function in. And that's what she's doing,
endeavoring. Let's catch it.
Let's get the Spirit of God. Then there's power with God.
It's not like some please transition and just keeping
your, you know, routine. It's like we're bringing you
out. You're going somewhere else.
I placed you in a place of power, a place where there's
authority, a place where you can overcome, right?
We should be living that when we are at work.
People like Mandy, it's like what you say and do happens.
Come on, come on, How come you have this kind of authority?
Well, Jesus gave it to me. And Thayer's definition of
authority, which we described, says this, the power of rule or
government, that is the power of him whose will and commands must
be submitted to by others and obeyed.
So again, you know, most of the time, because of the Greek word
authority that seen most mostly within the New Testament, is
considered through by definition, this delegated
power. But this delegated power is the
word of a government of which its will is commanded to be
obeyed because it will come to pass.
And again, as we said, if the simple definition of authority
is only delegated power, it it ends up losing its meaning
somewhere. Because I've received power from
God, because God gave it to me, it was delegated.
The Holy Spirit has power because it was delegated to him
by Jesus. He said he's not going to speak
on his own initial, but whatever he hears from me, he'll say
Jesus himself has delegated power.
He says, you know what, I don't speak on my own initiative, but
what my father says is what he says.
That's why the centurion says, man, I'm a man like you under
authority and in authority. What you're functioning in is
delegated authority. And I have that.
And Jesus, like I've not seen such great faith.
No, not in all Israel. However, if delegated authority
is a delegated power is authority, and the Father has
authority, well then who gave him his?
So really authority is the final say on anything.
It is the final verdict, and the Father holds that glory to God,
He holds the final say. So when we say delegated power
is really the delegated final say, he's saying Jesus say this
Jesus. The word speaks.
The Holy Spirit tells us. So when we hear what the Father
has said, when we speak, we're really speaking the final say.
It is the final verdict. It's like the Supreme Court
hitting the gavel. It is now the law of the land.
It is as the King has declared, and everything must align with
that word. Hallelujah, now you can 'cause
that final say to not perform in your life if you do not believe,
and you will make it null and void based upon unbelief,
meaning you just won't see it function in your life, although
the power for it to come to pass is still available nonetheless.
That's why a person can receive healing and someone beside them,
not the difference between the two is their firm persuasion
that what the father just said. That's it cannot be any other
way period. And when you have a firm
persuasion like that cause again, your your faith life
depends on understanding the authority of the words you're
believing. And This is why in our and you
know, it's so important to teach the word because if you're a
person, you know that knows where you're going to go when
you die, but you don't study and understand God's authority now,
then you know you'll delay the belief.
And the reason you'll say I have faith but nothing happens is
because it's really become a precept of man, your faith and
not really the word of God, the power of God.
I'm telling you, people are going to go to go to heaven one
day and realize what they could have done.
That's going to happen. And again, Jesus has no problem
telling you he loves you. I mean, he gets in a boat.
He says, hey, let's go to the other side.
What did he say? What did he say?
He is the Lord supreme and
authority. He said, so he goes to sleep,
but what happens? A storm comes.
Does the storm hinder his word? Not at all.
Only if you look at it, if you give power to it, if you
believe, that's more power. And Jesus never believed that,
but the disciples did. So much so that they wake him
and say, do you not care that we are going to die?
Basically, you're liar or you said to go.
So we are going in our strength and not your word.
Well, I'm trying to go to the other side.
I want to go to the other side. You said to go the other side,
but I can't get to the other side because of the storm and
because of this storm. It's so bad.
Now we're probably going to die and I need to wake him up
because what good you know, we need to help.
He needs to know his life set danger.
I mean, a person who cares about something's going to tell them,
don't you? But he didn't say we're we're
concerned you'll die with us. They said, aren't you?
Aren't you concerned? I mean, don't you know we were
going to die? And Jesus is like what he
rebukes the winds and the waves. They're blown away and then he
corrects them is why you have no faith, why you have a little
faith? Why'd you let the storm become a
doctrine to you? And there's many that get the
storms of life and say, well, the Lord sent this storm.
He's trying to teach me something.
You know, I was trying to get there, but I didn't.
But God knows what he's doing sounds good, sounds holy.
We post about it, but the Lord's like, yeah, but you're not
telling them the whole story. I mean, again, if we were
interviewing Peter and them, they would be like, man, we the
Jesus was Jesus, man. He was in the boat and we were
really concerned for his life. We were just praising him.
We were like taking a nap and we're going to do this.
We we're with you. But man, that storm hit.
It was rough and I don't know why God did that to our lives.
I don't know. But you know, I think he was
here to help us build camaraderie, teamwork.
He wanted to see our compassion for the ones that are sleeping
in underwear, you know. So again, what did we do?
We woke him up. We're like, hey, we're going to
die. You should get up that way.
Maybe we all won't die. Try to figure something out
because I don't know why God does these things and brings
these storms a lot, but he helps build my character.
And Jesus all around said, well, tell him what I said.
Oh, y'all don't want to hear this?
OK, that's all right. It preached better in the
Pentecostal church, I guess. Now we're not giving a whole
story because you don't know what God has said in someone's
spirit. Don't take the job.
Well, I took that job, man. It seemed like promotion.
I just knew the God was blessing me.
But then everything went crazy, you know, and I, you know, I
don't know why God. And they're not saying, well,
you know, he did say, or he said take this job, but I didn't want
to move. That's good.
I didn't want to do something different.
He did tell me to go to that church.
He said don't marry her. Oh, yeah, I'm.
We're not getting that story. I mean, all of you could say,
yeah, you better watch out because you're posting on social
media. Be honest.
I love to say that the Lord did all this to teach me something.
You know what I can learn? Because what the devil meant for
bad got a term for good. But just let it be known.
He told me before I ever got in it, and I disobeyed.
Can I just be honest? I disobeyed.
But he's so gracious and you know, when I got in this
calamity and I said, Lord, I didn't believe you had your
word, please forgive me. That man, he calls the winds and
the waves to stop. He told me, next time believe.
Quit being a slacker. I mean, be honest.
But what we want to make sure everybody knows that we are the
spiritual elite and we're going to help them through their
trial. I don't want you helping me
through a trial that you never should have got in.
Be honest with me and tell me I didn't listen.
OK, thank you. So now let's dissect your
problem because I'll learn what to avoid when you do not listen.
Because you know what? This is what we'll do.
Somebody's been through some calamity in your life, and then
you're in it. And you're like, Lord, Yeah.
You're not a respecter of person.
What you different Lords like, look, this is a totally
different scenario. You can't use theirs.
They should have never been in that.
OK. Oh, Hallelujah.
Now just stay with the word, OK? Jesus.
Matthew 2818 says this. And Jesus came up and spoke to
them saying, come on, how much? Come on.
I'll let you go earlier if you if you interact with me.
OK, if not, I'll stay till 10. I have no wife at the house.
I just forewarn you, there's no rush for me to go home. 0 So me,
I feel like a Paul preaching coming on till midnight is
what's about to come on me. If I don't get a little response
up in this place right here, we'll preach till midnight and
I'll preach myself happy and believe God.
You'll be awake in the morning to go to work.
No problem. OK?
Jesus came and spoke to them. How much authority?
Come on, how much? How much is all?
All authority has been given to
me in heaven. And man, you're on the earth.
What could possibly happen to the church that the head of the
church does not have authority over?
You got to get down your spirit. What in the world can happen in
the earth that our king, his name is not above it?
Oh Mama, all authority. Nothing should strike fear in
you. Ever when bad news comes,
calamity hits. You're like you're on the
throne. What's the word king?
You've not given me a spirit of fear, but of what power?
Why? You have power 'cause you have
his authority. You just need to know what the
king says about the situation so that you can declare the King's
words. Hallelujah.
John chapter 14, verse 10. The 14 says this.
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me? The words that I say to you, I
do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father
abiding me does his works. Man, that's a lesson.
If this is not like a page that every believer in the globe,
especially in the United States, needs to put on their every
round everywhere around their house and keep this quote in
front of them. I do not speak on my own
initiative. You have to kill your
independent opinion. Got to kill the spirit of
independence because in the Kingdom is that it is the most
dangerous word. Because the minute you start
thinking independent, you are going to rebel against His word.
And when you rebel against His word, death enters in.
He's life contrary to His word is death.
And if the head of the church doesn't speak on his own accord,
why do we think we have the right to do it ourselves?
Why does this happen? He said, believe me that I am in
the Father and the Father is in me.
Otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Then he goes on and says his verse 12.
This is so powerful. Are you ready for this verse?
Are you ready for it? Truly, truly, I say to you, he
or she, the person who believes in me, the works that I do, He
might sometimes when you get to heaven will do, will do because
I go to the Father, right and then he goes on said ain't
greater worse than these he will do because I go to the Father.
Why? Because this miraculous is not
being independently put within Jesus himself.
He is about to deploy it among his children.
He goes on and says whatever, and we know this in connection
to 1st John chapter 5. It's anything according to his
will, not you telling God what you want.
He's not a genie. Come on not a genie now Jesus
I'm praying that you do this for me and the Lord's like you're
not even listening before you're talking.
Be quick to man got to be quick to hear money of we just give
them petitions without even what should we say because when I say
what you say it is forever settled.
OK, whatever you asking my name that I might I could on some
occasions I don't most of the time I won't because I just want
to see if you trust me without it.
No, he said that. I mean, I don't understand how
you how do you rectify these statements?
Jesus is not a liar, right? Right.
Amen. And people get combated.
Why? Because the precepts of man will
get competitive, combative with the simplicity of the authority
of God that he has given to us. Here's the thing.
We don't want any responsibility.
Yet you cannot read the Bible and say it's just about God
because it was just about God. Then it'd be nothing about man.
No, he's got a lot to say about man and his responsibility.
God will do his part. You must do your part, and your
part is simply believing, believing in his part.
That's that's we've got it easy. All we have to do is believe.
And again, what is believing?
How do you know that? You know 3 + 2 = 3 + 2 equals.
I mean, are you confident? If you don't sense that same
confidence with what God's saying about any situation in
your life, then you're not in faith.
And if you're like, yeah, but that's precepts of man.
You're trying to create a doctrine around your feelings
and situation instead of saying, Lord, what don't I know so that
I can get to the place five. It's this way, and there's no
other way. Whatever you ask Him, I name
that I will do so that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. If you ask anything, how, how,
how? In my name, I will do it.
Will He do it? Come on.
Will He do it? Will He do it?
All you got to do is ask in His name.
Now look at this in Acts chapter 16, In the name of Jesus, OK?
And I'm going to give you a case and then we're going to talk
about this for a minute because if you ask anything in my name,
I will do it. In Acts chapter 16, verse 16 to
18, we've already read that all authorities have been given to
Jesus in heaven and earth. And he says go therefore.
And he says those that go and believe these signs will follow.
One of those signs is that you can cast out devils, OK?
And so here's Paul in a particular community, and it
happened as we were going to the place of prayer, this slave girl
having a spirit of divination, which means she had a spirit on
her, an evil spirit, not from God, not an Angel.
OK, met us who was bringing her Master much profit by fortune
telling. In essence, she had a familiar
spirit on her in her OK. At minimum, she was oppressed.
It was in her mind, could have been possessed.
It definitely was attached to her.
And this familiar spirit could go out because it's a spirit.
It's in the spirit realm. It can go out and follow you.
Find out where you went, what you were wearing yesterday, what
you ate. Go back to the girl.
That way when she comes of art, she can say yesterday you were
at that's good. So again, you say, well I'm a go
to fortune teller, so you're going to go to demonic people.
Well, and I've heard people post this now, if your child was
kidnapped and you knew a fortune teller could, would you not go
to her? My answer is emphatically
absolutely no, because I do not need the devil to help me find
my child Jesus. If I'm going to the fortune
teller because my child is kidnapped, it's so I can rebuke
that demon out of that one and go to Jesus about where my child
is. That is the silliest question
ever, But Christians will pose that anyway.
She's a fortune teller following after Paul, and she kept crying
out. These men are the bond servants
of the Most High God. Now, is that a true statement?
It is a true statement Who are proclaiming to you the way of
salvation. Is that a true statement?
That is an absolute true statement.
And she continued doing this for many days.
But Paul was greatly annoyed and Turner said so.
In essence, he's like, this is not the Spirit of God-given an
announcement on my behalf. Now let me tell you why he has
to do this. Paul has come into the
community. He's here to set up a church.
Are you hearing me and he is proclaimed.
He is there sent by the most High and he is proclaiming the
way of salvation. If he doesn't deal with this
when he leaves, then that spirit can come into the church because
I say, did I not tell you that Paul was doing this?
They're like you did my life's changed.
Did I not tell you that he was a he did thus saith the Lord.
This is a problem. So Paul's annoyed at this.
He says I command you. He turned and said to the
Spirit, not to the girl. Now if you were in the crowd, it
would look like he's talking to the girl, but he's not.
He's talking to the Spirit. He says, I command you how in
the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of
her and he came out. When did it debate?
No. Did it argue?
No. Did it fight?
Well, let's turn to Acts chapter 19 and Acts chapter 19 verse 13
to 6 and it said but some also Acts chapter 19 of the Jewish
exorcist who went from place to place attempted to name over
those who had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying I
adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches seven sons of 1 Skeeva.
This is he was a left-handed Jew, a Jewish chief priest.
We're doing this next verse. The evil spirit answered
answered not come out but answered and said to them, I
recognize Jesus and I know about Paul.
But, but, but, but, but who are you?
And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them.
Now the spirit didn't come out. The spirit stayed in the man
and, and then supernaturally gave this manpower, leaped on
all of them, overpowered all seven of them, and stripped them
naked, beat them up and send them out the house.
Now we said this last week, 70 come back Jesus, even the demons
are subject to us in your name. He says, I saw Satan fall out
lightning from heaven. I said don't rejoice over this
as much as know your name is written in the Lamb's book of
life. The relationship is the most
important thing. Here's what these two passages
lets us know. If all you want to do is invoke
the name so that you look powerful, come on then.
He's not Lord. He's not your Lord.
This is what happened with Simon the Sorcerer.
They, the Peter and John, came down to lay hands on people
after Philip had been preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and
people were being healed. And then Peter and John came
down because he said, hey, people are getting saved.
We need to come start a church. Apostles come plant a church
here. So they came and they begin to
lay hands on people. Now it doesn't say they laid
hands. You have to break down the word
Saul. The word Saul means seeing
something spoken. So they laid hands on them and
they were he saw that they were baptized in the Holy Ghost.
It's seeing something spoken. They began to speak in other
tongues and psalmist like give me what can I pay because he was
a sorcerer. He did tricks sleight of hands.
He said what can I do to get this power?
And he says you're cursed. If this is your position, you
have no lot to play with this nothing, right?
Because again, it's very dangerous when the believer
wants authority and to function in the name just so they can
walk and say, well, I laid hands on people that got healed and I
did this and I did that and I did this and look how God's
using me. That's good.
And again, it's happening all over our world because again, a
lot of times these things get posted on on Instagram and
honestly, I cannot figure out with some of them whether it's
just truly trying to glorify God or for you to think, wow,
they're anointed. OK.
However, this in the name is is a term that when EW Kenyon was
talking about the the the name of Jesus and in Christ reality
and an attorney came to him and he says, wait a minute, what did
you say? He says that you can ask
anything in his name. He said yes, So he went looked
it up. He said that statement is what
we do called power of attorney. I have right now a legal
document. I probably should get my glasses
so I can read it better. This is a legal document right
now filed in our state in particular county and it says
Durable Power of Attorney of Peggy A Glisson under Section
709.2101 ETSEQ Florida Statue known know all men by these
present that I Peggy A Glisson of Clay County, Florida, here
and after refer to as principal designate, constitute and
appoint my children Earl W Glisten and Kimberly Joyce Till
or the survivors of them to be my attorney in fact.
And agents here and after refer to jointly and severally as
agents to have an exercise all powers, authorities and
discretions granted or conferred here upon under to my agent.
And And in that event, my said agents need not act jointly, but
rather each agent shall have the power and authority to act
independently of the other agent without the need in any case to
obtain the joinder, consent or approval of the other agent.
She says general grant of power. I hereby grant to my Agent, as
of the date of my signature set forth below, all power and
authority to exercise or perform any act, power, duty, right or
obligation whatsoever that I now have or may hereafter acquire
relating to any person, matter, transaction or any interest in
property owned by me, including, without limitations, my
intangible. All property held in any type of
joint tendency, including a tendency in common joint
Tennessee with right of survivorship or a tendency by
the entirely all property over which I hold a general, limited
or special power of appointment chooses an action and all other
contractual or statutory rights or elections, including but not
limited to any rights or election in any probate or
similar proceeding in which I am or may be entitled.
All as to such property now owned or hereafter acquired by
me. Yeah, that's legal.
Let me tell you the blood of Jesus Christ when he wrote your
name in the Lamb's book alive, and he said go therefore in my
name, which means I do not have to get Pastor Angie to consent
with me to be able to invoke the name of Jesus in a situation in
my life. He has given me this power to
pull heaven's authority into the realm of the earth.
And the devil sure has to listen.
But not only the devil, sickness and disease has to listen.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Poverty and lack has to listen
because I have the power of authority.
I just sold my mom's car to a dealership.
Walked in, They said, is this clean title?
Yep, it's clean. Send my mom's name.
Oh, is it? Yep, I said, but she's in
assisted living and I have power of attorney.
Come on, I said. I called the county already to
see, do I need to get into my name before I sell it?
They say it's not necessary. If you have power of attorney,
just have them make a copy of it, send it in so that when the
title's changed over, we know you're acting in full authority
on her behalf, making decisions as if she was personally
present, doing it herself. So when you invoke the name of
Jesus, it's as if Jesus, who's seated at the right hand of the
Father, comes up off the throne and comes down into the earth
and gets inside your body and is speaking right then.
That's the power of attorney. That's what we have.
So how in the world can the Church of Jesus Christ that
Jesus is building? We are wanted.
Come on, crime begging. I mean for me to say mom, mom,
mom, Mom, I need you to come back.
I need you to come back into my time zone.
I need you to quit having these conversations with people have
been dead a long time ago because of dementia.
Mom, I need you to be able to come with me so I can.
I need you to come. I have power.
That's like Jesus. I need Jesus.
Like I've given you power. All right?
I mean, what else? What?
There's nothing great. I've given you my name.
I've given you my name and you're wanting me to literally
show up. I've given you my name.
See, This is why when we have made the Bible a religious book
instead of a Kingdom book and we get upset about words like
legal. Now legalism is defined
religiously as I am doing something independent of God
according to his word, and it will be good enough that God has
to accept me. But we know that can't happen.
But yet God is a legal God. And legal is not a bad word in
the church. In fact, it is an empowering
word. Because when I show up and
someone said, well, you can't, Oh yeah, I can.
Yes, I can. I mean, it's amazing if we
function in the world like we do with God.
Give me your keys because I want to take all your cars to my
house. You say, well, that's mine,
doesn't matter. I'll take him.
So well, I guess the Lord wanting him to have it.
But you're going to pay your car payment.
I'm not paying it. You're paying the car payment.
You're going to get it. Oil chain.
I'm just going to use it whenever I want to.
You're like, no, no bro, you're going to take your own.
You're going to buy your own stuff, right?
Because again, just like, well, that's my car.
I'm taking it today. We were like, you're crazy, like
I'm going to come live in your house.
I'm going to come paint your house.
I'm going to put it, change it like I want.
You're like, what are you doing? This is legally mine.
I mean, you would you let someone who had no home come
squat in your house? You'd be like, what are you
doing here? But yet we're like Jesus and
he's like, what are you doing here?
I've already given you the authority.
I've given it to you. Just pull out the paper, which
is the word of God, and speak it.
Speak it. I can't get off these drugs.
Name it. Name the drug.
Please. Just give me a name.
Give me any name. Someone throw out a drug name.
What? Adderall.
Give me another one.
Cocaine. Give me another one.
Yes, speed marijuana, although they're trying to make that
legal. Nick tobacco, Barleys and hops,
right? I mean, we just name it.
All those names are still under his name, which means he has
authority over them. So they can't tell you.
You got to put me in you. You, you need to go buy some for
so you need it. You're like, no, you have no
authority over me. In the name of Jesus I am free
from addiction. I remember I have prayed for
people that had smoked for years and they would come down and I
begin to pray for them like I want to quit.
I said OK great. And I said, I In the name of
Jesus, I rebuke the effects of tobacco and nicotine in their
body. And I command it in the name of
Jesus to come out of their body. It must not reside in their in
their cells. It can't hang out on their
epidermis on the ends of their nail.
And I'm telling you, it would smell so bad a few times I would
gag of the smell of nicotine coming out of their pores.
No side effects because the name of Jesus will do that.
I said the name of Jesus. We'll do that.
I mean, if a person, I don't care how bad you are, how far
strung out you are, how far gone you are, it with lust, you know,
pornography, I don't care. His name's above it all.
Are you hearing me? I mean, you do not have to allow
any spirit of lust to keep trying to show up in your life.
You can rebuke it, bond it. It has no way to get through
your house. And in your doors you have the
power of attorney. Oh, Lord, take this for me.
The Lord's like, Say my name. Say my name, man.
Say my name like I took it. I've already done this.
I did it on the cross. I have done it.
It's done. That was the day I signed the
document. Gave you power of attorney on
the earth. I gave the dominion back to you
so that you can rule and reign over all your circumstances.
No problem. No problem.
It's a power of attorney, yet we made it a religious book instead
of a legal binding covenant where the name of G and when you
believe it like that, you'll get exactly.
And I didn't go into the dealership afraid.
I did not go into the dealership ringing my hands and hoping I
didn't say, well, I hope this works.
So I'm selling a car. OK, Great.
We'd love to look at it. Great.
OK. It's title and your name.
I hope this. No.
Oh, well, if it's not your name, we can't.
OK. And then we walk out.
Yet you have the power to say it's true.
But. But I said, but you know, you've
been redeemed from the law of sin and death.
So when the devil tries to say you're like, but I have this
document called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,
Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.
You know, I love it when people try to run from the law because
they have authority. You start taking off and then
they make a few calls and then they turn on the cameras.
Man. I've gone down to Saint Johns
County where they have all the cameras all over county.
It's like, it's like eagle. What was that one movie?
Eagle eye. Yes.
Eagle eye, bro. No doubt.
They got their eagle eye on my campus because I've given them
access to our cameras. Ain't nobody walking up in here.
Nobody's walking up in here. You driving on?
Guess what? We got you tag.
Yeah, right. We have a school.
We have a preschool. You're not rolling up in here,
right? You know, I just wish we could
do a little different with the ones running the little Donuts
in my parking lot. But we did catch 1 the other day
because again, the camera goes off, the call goes in, and while
they're still, you know, smoking in my parking lot, the authority
showed up. Hallelujah, right?
And again, I'm watching. I watched one where this guy had
a, they stole a car and they showed me this.
And so they found out where it was at.
Then they would go on the cameras and start tracking where
it was. And then they tracked him all
the way to a gate. He was getting gas.
Next thing you know, all the cops show up.
So he takes off. You know, I do encourage our
police officers. They really should stay in much
better shape, but they took off. But again, there was enough
there that it's kind of hard to outrun cars.
And ultimately they apprehended him.
But, you know, for a season he thought he was free.
Well, if man can track US that way, where do you think you are
that God doesn't see you? Where does his authority not
extend? Oh, I'm thankful for the name of
Jesus. Can we let me close with this
scripture and we pray for people, OK.
And Acts chapter 3, verse one through 8, it says now Peter and
John were going up to the temple at the 9th hour, the hour of
prayer and a man who had been lame from his mother's womb.
So how long have you got your problem?
Well, I found out I was diagnosed with cancer.
But you didn't have cancer before, right?
This guy's had a birth problem. Now I will qualify this.
There are things that God does that does require the gifts of
the Spirit and that's why he has them there.
OK. And those gifts of the Spirit
are things that God will do on occasions that are faith of
man's not required and he's demonstrating something, but yet
it's necessary. Come on, the simple laying on of
hands will not get the results of this.
It will require the gifts of the Spirit with the gifts of
healing. In this case, potentially the
working of miracles. Most likely because if you've
been lame from your birth, then you know you have what's that
call when your muscles are all yes, right?
Obviously his bones probably have no real depth or density to
them either because he's never put any, you know, walked on him
or anything. And so those two are definitely
in play and could be a third one called the gift of Faith, which
means it's something at another level, right?
You know, and again, we have those that are with us in our
church that are are deaf. And again, just because they're
deaf, how why are they deaf? You know, some can lose their
hearing. That's one thing.
Some are born without parts of the year, and if parts are the
of the ear aren't there, then we have to be in a position to
earnestly desire spiritual gifts because it's going to require
one of those as he wills to make those happen.
This is why I'm kind of convinced that Jesus with the
one blind man spit in some dirt and put it on his eyes and said,
now go clean yourself because man was made out of the so I
feel like he's like I'm putting on you what wasn't formed in you
in the womb. Now go wash it and it'll be
there and it was OK. So again, when we talk healing
all healings not in the same category, although God heals, he
is the healer and he sure isn't withholding.
So there are things that we have to hear.
OK Lord, you say earnestly desire spiritual gifts for
certain things that happen. So we need to do that.
You know what you should be praying that way you should be
able to Lord, we desire spiritual gifts.
Not so Apostle Earl or Pastor Angie would function in the
gift, but that we function in the gifts.
This has the Spirit moves on us because again, when the gifts
flow is God doing the work just through you.
In this case, this is a gift, but still he invokes the gift
with the name. So this man's been laying from
his mother's womb was being carried along whom they used set
down every day at the gate of the temple, which is called be
beautiful, in order to beg arms of those who are entering the
temple. Next verse when Peter, Saul and
John, When Peter, Saul and John about to go into the temple, he
began asking to receive when he saw them begging arms.
But Peter along with John fixed his gaze on him.
In essence, he started hearing something on the inside because
the Holy Ghost to talk to you and he said, look at us.
And he began to give attention to them expecting to receive
something. So again, did he have something
for him to put in a cup? Did he do some action with his
cloak? I don't know.
But Peter says this, I do not possess silver and gold.
That doesn't mean the man was broke, had no money.
It means I'm not carrying today like many.
You don't carry cash anymore yourself.
OK, but what I do have now, why does he have this?
Because all authorities been given to Jesus, then how has
given it to us? He said.
But what I do have, because if you don't know you have it and
you're not going to function from that concept of having
authority, then you can't give it.
You cannot give away what you do not know you have.
And if you want the traditions of man to only think all you
have is heaven when you die, then you're not going to
function in authority. But when you know you've been
given it, he said. But what I do have, I give to
you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene.
What's he say? Walk.
And he sees now he doesn't wait on a response.
He sees them by his right hand. That word means he snatches him.
He's like that's, that's how convinced Peter is of what he
just heard from heaven. He knows Jesus is not a liar.
I've seen him do this way too many times.
And now he just said, do it in my name, son.
He said the works that I do, greater works will you do
because I'm giving you my authority.
He snatched him up and it says and immediately his feet and his
ankles were strengthened. Now I will not say that he
snatched him up and Pastor Mike's legs popped out.
I'm not saying that probably mine.
However, he began to dance and went into the temple.
God has given us the power of attorney.
It's the name of Jesus. All is his, all authority is
his. And he says, now go in my name.
And if you'll say what I say in my name, I'm doing it.