Delegated - Kingdom Authority

Mark chapter one, verse 21 to 22.

It says this. They went into Capernaum and

immediately on the Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and began

to teach. And they were amazed at His

teaching, for He was teaching them as one having authority,

not as the scribes. You can be seated.

Now, a couple things I want to point out about this passage of

Scripture. Number one, you'll find that

Jesus went to church. I mean, if Jesus is the one

we're supposed to follow and you're not going to find the

scripture that Jesus avoided a synagogue on the Sabbath even

when they wanted to kill him, He's not avoiding it.

He's going to show up to church, right, because he is the head of

the church. So this notion, you know, that

church is really kind of irrelevant.

What Jesus goes to the synagogue and he could have say, well, you

know, they're not pre. They have the scrolls, they have

the things written. And if anyone can explain this,

he can. And when he begins to preach, it

sounds different than everyone else that has stood and in the

pulpit for a modern vernacular, OK, it was noticeable that this

is different, OK? And I'm bringing the Scripture

go, this is the one we brought last week.

We're talking about authority in God's Kingdom, OK?

And so Jesus spoke in such a way that it was recognizable that he

possessed authority in Matthew chapter 15 verse 7, and not

Matthew 15:7

through nine, it says is Jesus again when addressed by

Pharisees and scribes of which she's, you know, doing a little

correction to them at this part in Matthew 15, he says, you

hypocrites rightly did Isaiah prophecy of you.

These people honor me with their what?

With their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the

precepts of men. So again, if you were to talk to

them, you would think, man, these people love God.

However, they had no heart to do this.

In fact, it goes even deeper because Jesus actually says this

at another time to to the crowd. He says do what the Pharisees

say, just don't do what they do because they don't live what

they preach. So in essence, he says they

honor me with their lips, which means they're saying things that

are truth from my word. They're meaning scripture.

They're saying things, but these things they're saying, then they

turn them so that it becomes a doctrine of men's precepts.

And let me tell you, that can sound awesome.

It can sound right on, you know, because when you're in the

atmosphere of man, which is there's a way that seems right,

you can preach ways that seem right.

You can preach them. You can preach them like man,

That's right. Why?

Because I could preach in ways that identify with your

humanity. I can preach in such a way to

identify with your struggles. Now I can preach that way.

So we can identify, but never really give you a way out.

Just say, well, God's in control.

Whatever will be will be, you know, we're all going through it

together. God probably sent it anyway,

right? Hold on.

You know, the little ambiguities out there.

And then, you know, let's do this.

And I, I would conclude that the precepts of men, if you don't

watch out, and I'm going to say this because a lot of churches

fall into this category or even, you know, well intended people

who love people fall into social services alone, Meaning you're

helping someone, but you got to make sure you're the reason why

you're helping someone is there because all of us can get, I

mean, you understand how many nonprofits when I say that I'm

not talking church nonprofit, I'm saying nonprofits,

corporations have nonprofits and they do very charitable things,

but their hearts not in it, their hearts not there.

Why do they typically do it? Taxes.

So their motive for giving is not really to help them as much

as it to help themselves. Now again, I don't know people's

hearts. You know, I'm not Jesus

listening to it talk. I'm just saying when we're

helping people, we have to make sure our hearts right so we get

dining with dignity. When you go out, why are you

going? Don't go just cause.

Well, I feel sorry for them. Don't that is not good enough.

That doesn't help them. They don't want you to feel

sorry. God don't want you to feel sorry

for them. God wants you to have

compassion. That's different.

Here's a different motivation for our doing and why we do so.

You always have to tell them. Why do we go to the prison for

those who go to the prison system because we feel bad for

them? No, because we want to bring a

light. We want to see real change and

rehabilitation. So when they get out, they never

go back because they are a different person that

technically they could say the man who walked into this place

or woman is dead because I made Jesus Lord and that person's not

going back out. Now I may look the same right on

the outside, but on the inside, both in my heart and my mind,

I'm a totally different person. The way I think and process

because I've been delivered. I said I've been delivered,

glory to God. So Jesus challenges these guys

and he says, listen people, when they are ministering the Word

without authority, it really just turns into precepts of men

and it's honorable in lip service, but it doesn't have the

capacity to really change people's lives because it's the

spirit alone that really brings change.

This is why Jesus said earlier in the same chapter, verse

three, he said in the answer and said then why do you transgress

right. The commandment of God for the

sake of your tradition. You know what all of us have

been associated with tradition and I'm going to tell you as

I've grown in the Lord specifically since I've planted

anchor faith church. Now that does not mean that I I

was totally grown way before them.

You know, because I was raised in denominational church and

only taught that you how to go to heaven when you die and Jesus

is the only way and I was born again in that.

But that was what all that's all I was taught.

Then I ended up going to another denomination that introduced me

to the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Well, I didn't even know that was even available.

Now I have to admit I was taught that because I've asked I'm in

since since I'm in studying wasn't on the top of my list and

the examples of that in you know, my churches were that way.

Now I was still wrong. I should have done something

different, but I didn't. I just kind of flowed with the

traditions of that church because it's easy to flow with

the traditions that are being taught.

Just kind of go there, right? I would get sick every year,

every year around November, especially Thanksgiving, because

as you all know, my testimony, I was just a skinny guy.

Skinny guy. I graduate 123 pounds.

I was a skinny guy, so Thanksgiving was a big deal to

me because I needed the extra calories.

But for some reason, I would get the flu, you know, And there's

always, well, you catch the flu where everybody catch the flu,

and that's the tradition. You just catch it.

Go ahead and catch everybody else is nobody else has shown me

anything different. That's just the traditions of

me. Come on, I'm not studying

myself. Then I find out about the

baptism of the Holy Ghost. That was boom lights on, totally

different, better lifestyle, way better powers.

Awesome. I mean, power plus being with

the Lord for it is way better than just knowing I'm going to

be with him when I die. Powers way better, right?

But then I went off to Bible school and then I found out that

there was things that you could access with faith, not just

salvation and baptism, the Holy Ghost.

And there were benefits associated with God and all

kinds of things. I'm like, wow, what is

happening? But I had to break tradition.

And because of that three, those three things, it put in me where

I seek, I seek now seek to where I'll say, is that true?

I've heard, I hear that in every circle.

Is that true or is that a tradition?

Now, here's the cool thing. When you begin to go to the word

over something you've heard, if it's truth, you'll just get

stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger.

Even if you have the intent, I'm going to prove it wrong.

You can't you, you wouldn't be able to.

But if it's a tradition, all of a sudden cracks to start showing

up and you're like, man, I've thought this way for a very long

time and I realized it's wrong. It's a tradition and I need to

adjust. Are you hearing me?

So when biblical truths are replaced with traditional

truths, then authority is lost when biblical truths are

replaced with traditional truths.

Now, why do I say truths? They're not technically the

truth, but to them it's truth. I mean, you can get around some

places that have not grown or believers, let's say that have

not grown in certain layers of revelation.

And I can't give you the answer why that is.

But if you can get around some and you can begin to try to show

them. Have you ever tried to show

somebody another side of the word?

And they're like just resistant? I mean, I'm almost mad at you.

You know, you think you're better than me.

I do not. But I happen to know something

that is liberating for you should you want to listen, but

for some reason you don't want to.

And they hold that tradition like it's the truth.

And by holding it, they lose their authority.

They lose their authority. And we said this last week, the

difference between precepts of men or we could say religion and

the and the Kingdom of God is authority is authority.

Now, Thayer's authority, again, we've said this and we're going

to talk about and use that word today.

But Thayer's has a definition that is extremely accurate

concerning authority because when I went to school I was

taught this. And yes, the Greek word has this

in their definition and in the right setting it is reality.

OK. And what took me on this

journey? Tradition.

Now when I say tradition, it is. Is the word authority only this

by definition? Because I was trained in a

location that when you said this word, the proper response is

delegated power. Now is authority delegated

power? That's one definition.

So I did this. I said OK, because I went to

Scripture and I saw that the Holy Spirit in John chapter 16

John 16 · chapter mention

does nothing on his own initiative, but he only says

what he hears, which means he's operating in delegated

authority. So I popped up to Jesus, found

out what same. You know, in the Gospel Jesus

said I speak nothing on my own initiative, only what I hear.

I say that's called delegated authority, meaning they received

authority higher than themselves.

So now I pop to the Father. If authority literally means

delegated power, who gave the Father his who gave the father

is now it doesn't work. OK, that doesn't work.

So then what is authority? So is authority delegated power?

Or is authority something that can be delegated?

Is it a power that can be delegated?

Because again, if we're like, what's delegated power?

I have delegated power, OK, That's authority, OK, But that's

not because the father doesn't have something that was

delegated to him. He's the source.

He's the source. He is the seat.

So I was able to conclude will authority is the final say?

It's the final say. It means that is the ruling and

there can be no higher ruling. But because Jesus has been, you

know, put more in a religious atmosphere and not the Kingdom

atmosphere, right? Because of that, we struggle

sometimes with that. Why do we struggle?

Because, well, God said this, but you know, he, what's the

final say? See, that takes your faith to

another level, that the minute you know, the King says

something, well, that's the final say.

In our own natural world, if there is an issue in law, you go

to a judge. Well, who's the highest judge?

The Supreme Court. And when they make a ruling, it

becomes the final say on that with those justices.

But you understand our judge King is higher than all of them.

I said he's higher than all of them.

So in essence, authority is God's final say on a situation

that then He delegates for you to receive, so that it becomes

your final say 'cause it's His final say.

Now Thayer, say it this way, it's the power of rule or

government, the power of Him whose will and commands must be

submitted to by others and obeyed.

Now you can say, well, I don't know, I can believe that because

I don't have to do what God says.

No, you do. It's just that God's merciful

and will allow you to not because he's trying to show you

he is the way he is the truth. He wants you to yield to Him who

is life. But if you reject it, then

eventually one day you'll find that His will is the only one

that's going to be obeyed. And when he says depart from me,

there's no appealing. Come on, you'll help me out

Wednesday night. Y'all are teachable people.

When when the Great White throne judgment occurs, that verdict is

final. There's no plea bargain cuz down

here there's no plea bargain. You're you're not born again cuz

you made a plea bargain. Now, Lord, I'll, I'll follow you

if you do this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You're going to love me with all your heart, your soul, your mind

and your strength. That's how you're going to love

me and I, and that's the only way you're going to love me.

And because my way is life, I want you to have life.

I want you to be a partaker life.

Anything you do outside my word is death because it's the

opposite of me. And I don't want you to choose

that because I'm life. I mean, I just want you to have

life. But at the end of the day, you

can do whatever you want to do, but you will be held accountable

to that. The only way you get out of that

accountability is that all that you've done wrong that must now

be reckoned with has to show up on your book as paid in full

because of the blood. Because what you do wrong is not

under a rug or disappears or like poof is gone.

No, God said my blood paid for that, my blood paid for that.

No, my blood paid for that and my blood paid for that.

No, it didn't go unnoticed. I paid for that.

No, I paid for that. I did that wrongdoing.

I paid for that wrongdoing. So when we say we put him on the

cross, it's true. Because if Adam had never eaten

the fruit, if man had never disobeyed, then we wouldn't know

a person, we wouldn't know a savior.

But we did, and he did. And we can be changed if

conditional statement we choose to obey and submit and yield and

say Lord, I can't do it. You do it.

I I take your way. Aren't you glad you take his

way? So we concluded last week with

Matthew 2818 and said that Jesus came up and spoke to them saying

all authority. How much come on, how much has

been given to me? Where who?

How much does he have? Where, where are you going to go

that he doesn't have the final say?

Come on, where you going to go? Because Jesus's word is the

Father's. He said we're one.

So what I'm saying came from the one who has the final say.

I mean, it's not like I can tell you something the Father's like,

but I didn't say that I'm not doing that.

So you should never said that. Now some people say they hear

the Spirit who only speaks by the word called Jesus that only

then speaks by the Father. And some of the things people

say they heard by the Spirit is not what the Spirit saying.

It's definitely what they want to because in the atmosphere of

seems right personal motive, we want it to be this way.

But really, what does he say? Because what he says always

comes to pass. Glory to God, I said glory to

God. Amen.

Amen. You know, and sometimes the Lord

say this is going to happen unless this happens, which means

now he's giving you a fork in the road.

And that doesn't mean what he said is a lie.

He's saying if you continue the course, this will occur.

And there's no doubt, however, if you do this.

Thank you Jesus, he says I set before you life and death choose

and that's a daily choice every day, say every day.

Ephesians chapter one verse 17 to 23.

This make you want to run around the building.

Not that you have to. I'm just saying it should get

your spirit man really excited. It says that the God of our Lord

Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you.

A spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of

Him. I pray that the eyes of your

heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the

hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of

His inheritance in the Saints. And what is the surpassing

greatness right? The surpassing greatness of His

power towards us. Who believe these are in

accordance with the working of the strength of his might which

he brought about where in Christ when he raised him from the dead

seated him at the right his right hand in heavenly places

ready far above how much all rule and and and just in case

you don't know what he's got covered.

He's not just have a he did he's not just over all rule.

He's over all authority, he's over all power he's over all

dominion he's over all. So what we doing running around

here acting like we got our own little Kingdom going on and we

do what we want to. He's like, you better learn that

I have. I'm over it all.

I'm over at all. And I'm doing everything I can

to rally you back into my household, into my family,

because if you come into my family, you can rule with me.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So he's far above.

It's not even close. I mean, this is not like a Cold

World War situation. You got to get it out of your

head that the devil has all this power, dominion, authority,

rule, and it's pretty close to God.

And they're kind of like in a Cold War.

It's like this back and forth. It's so the struggle's real

people, the Lord's like struggle ain't real.

It's only real to your flesh. But if you get over in the

spirit, you'll find out it's not even real.

It's not even a contest. It's not even worth mentioning.

It's like, I'm so far above all this stuff.

I mean, it's all it is a mound. It's a heap of junk compared to

the rule that I have Whoo, glory to God.

Not only that, but and so he's far above all names and and

every name that is named not only in this age, well, what

name can you have cancer? That's OK, He's above cancer.

Tuberculosis, he's above it, right?

I mean, name a disease. He's far above all of those

names and all of that power. I mean, the father saying I got

a final say on this deal. I have the final say on this

thing. Now the power works because you

believe that. But if you believe the names

have more and the dominions have more, and they're the other

powers and the other authorities and the other rules have more,

the principalities and powers have more, well, then you're

going to live sub because you're not convinced my father has the

final say, Period. And circumstances mean nothing.

I do not use people's personal testimonies to have more weight

of truth than God's words. Well, you know, I prayed, you

know, but the Lord didn't answer it, you know, And I just

realized now the Lord was trying to teach me that.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The Lord does what he says. Yeah, but I had someone believe

him for this man, and it didn't happen.

You know, I'm not sure why. The Lord.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What you're not sure of is what was going on so that that final

say didn't come to pass in their life.

But something was happening that you're just unaware of.

So don't blame God. And don't think your aunt, your

grandma, your Mama, your auntie, which I said aunt, but I use the

other one. I don't think that your daddy,

your grandfather, had more faith than God, that they will believe

in God. And he could not do it right.

I mean, if we listen to the testimony of some people, we

think, thank God's getting it. He's missing, missing a lot.

I wish he had power. And what do we do?

Here's our tradition. Yeah, but at least we're going

to heaven. That's all that matters anyway.

Well, the King's not saying that's all that matters because

if that's all that matters and you say, son, I just want you to

go to cross. We're not going to put you

through the beating. No reason for the scourging.

Really no reason. No reason for that because it's

by his year, right? It's not by his cross.

Oh y'all don't want to hear that?

So there's no reason for stripes if healings not in the covenant

or it's it's not the healthcare system of the Kingdom.

People look at me sometimes like man, do you have any healthcare?

I'm like, I have the greatest healthcare.

Who's it with Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Humana.

I'm like, no, Jesus Christ, man, oh brother, man, I wouldn't bank

on that. You don't know my daddy.

My daddy has the final say. Oh, just steal.

My daddy created the doctors that are telling me what I'm

supposed to do. My daddy made the DNA that's in

their bodies. He knows more about their bodies

than they know about my body. And I'm supposed to believe

their report? Now, whose report will you

believe? I will believe the report of the

Lord. Hey, all right, let's go on.

Don't get me fired up. Get me fired up.

OK, so let's read 21 again for fun.

Woo. All right, 21, go back 21.

Let's go 21. Go 2121.

There you go. Far above all rule and authority

and power and demean in every name that is named, not only in

this stage, but also the one to come.

And he put, so he's not just above it, he put it somewhere.

He said I'm above 'cause I put it somewhere.

And he put all things in subjection under his feet, under

it. So all those bow to him and gave

him as head over all things. Oh Jesus 2 to the Church.

How can the Church of Jesus Christ on planet earth not be

functioning with great authority?

It's because we believe the precepts of men.

It's the only reason we accept the precepts of men as doctrine.

Because He is head over all things to the church, which is

his body, the fullness of him who feels All in all.

Oh my goodness. So here's a crazy thing.

Our Father is full is the final say.

He delegates his final say to Jesus.

Jesus in the earth. As we saw last week, whatever he

said, it happened now. He didn't just go through on a

power trip. You got to understand this is

the difference between the traditions of men and selfish

ambition, Christians and Jesus. Because a lot of times

Christians are saying, oh, Lord, we want to see your power.

We want to see the miraculous. I want to be able to raise the

dead. I want to be able to cast out

devils. Lord, I want to see the blind

eyes, the deaf ear. I want to do this.

I want to, but their motive is the issue.

Jesus only did what the Father said, so he didn't have a

personal motive. Which means when pressed at

times, show us a miracle. He did not take the delegated

authority to perform. Didn't do it.

He said no. The only sign you'll get now is

my word, because my words powerful enough that my word is

what's powerful. So here's the thing, The Father

has a final say. He delegated his final say to

Jesus when he walked on the earth.

He obviously functioned that way.

And that final say was directly connected to the final say He

said about man in Genesis 1. He said let us make man in our

image. Who said this?

God the Father let us make man in our image corn our likeness

and let them have dominion rule over the fish of the sea, over

the birds of the sky, over all the cattle, over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So man had dominion on the earth.

So when Jesus comes in, he says, just walk in the dominion.

I gave Adam. This is why fish are

multiplying. This is why fish jump in Nets.

This is why fish get on fish hooks.

This is why trees listen to him. This is why bread multiplies,

because it's a plant from the earth.

This is why winds and waves obey him.

These, this is the authority Adam had that he gave to the

devil, that he gave to the devil.

And so Jesus functions, but he only functioned that way when he

was in the earth because the Holy Spirit was the one telling

him what was Dad saying? So again, the Bible is about

God. There's a lot about God.

It's amazing. But it's also about man, God's

children. And you cannot go to one side

and only make it about God because God's like, yeah, but I

got a lot to say about you, but you can't make it just about us.

He came to save me. He came to take care of me.

You know, it's about me. Look what God did for me.

I'm so excited for what God's done for me.

Look what God did. Look, I was here and he did

this. Next thing you know, we're just

talking about us, right? Will he save me?

I don't have to do this. I don't have to do that.

I don't need to go there yet. He's saying hey, it's not just

about you, it's about you towards me.

So our stories are here together.

Are you hearing me? Luke Chapter 9 verse one, one

Luke 9 · chapter mention

and two says this. And he called the 12.

Y'all know who the 12 are, right?

Says 12 disciples. OK, that includes Judas, the one

who portrayed him and and gave and what what he do.

He gave them power and authority over the demons and to heal

diseases. He sent them out to proclaim the

Kingdom of God and to perform healing.

And that's he says I need you to I'm giving you delegated

authority power. I'm giving you my authority.

I'm delegating it to you to represent My Kingdom to these

places. And when you go preach the

Kingdom, let them know everything you're doing comes

from My Kingdom because My kingdom's not like the kingdoms

of this world. They need to see it's different,

and I need you to go do it. Now let's drop down to this

verse a little bit later in Luke Chapter 9.

Luke 9 · chapter mention

Let me see what verse it is verse 6 and it says this

departing they began going throughout the villages

preaching the gospel and healing everywhere was Jesus their

healing not physically, but he was there with authority.

In essence, this means that God gave them the power of attorney,

and power attorney means you represent me as if it is me

where I send you. Now the gospel.

What's the gospel? Oh, this is really good right

here because I help with tradition.

What's the gospel here? Can somebody tell me what the

gospel is? Good news, It can't be.

Jesus died on the cross for your sins.

Because Jesus has not died on the cross for their sins.

This is that's what gospel. Well he told us in verse 2.

He said go preach the Kingdom of God.

That's the gospel and heal the sick.

So when they went to preach the Kingdom, that's why Jesus only

preached the Kingdom. Everyone went, the Kingdom of

God is like this and the Kingdom of heaven is right there.

He didn't say I'm going to die for you.

Believe on me when I die so that when you die you can go to

heaven. That was not his gospel.

Now believing that he died in rows because he did die and was

raised was for the payment of your trespasses, sends your

treason against his Kingdom so you could become a child of God.

It is the doorway into His Kingdom.

He wanted everyone to know it's more than just getting born

again, born against the beginning of your Kingdom life.

So go show my Kingdom. Because when you show my Kingdom

and you show my nation, then people are going to want to come

to my Kingdom and want to be a part of my nation, just like

people want to be a part of the US because they think it's

better opportunities. Well, there's the best

opportunity to be in the Kingdom of God.

It's the great, it's the Kingdom that has no end.

Whoa, you know what it is? You ready for this?

This always ruffles the little feathers when I say it, but I

say it anyway. It's a global takeover.

It's world domination and not by dictator mean narcissistic.

It's I'm life. The earth is mine because I made

it. It's not like I had it.

So I'm taking it back. I'm taking it all back,

Hallelujah. And we're causing the earth to

be like I originally planned it to be.

That's why they'll be a new heaven and a new earth.

Glory to God. So you see here, all authority

that Jesus has, He can give. And it's not like, how do I want

to say it less? His word is final because it's

His Father's word that's final. So when you say it, it's as if

Jesus said it. Well, I'm saying what Jesus

said, but it won't have the same effect because it's coming

through me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, not at all. It's the same.

Let's go on Luke chapter 10 verse one.

Luke 10 · chapter mention

Now after this, the Lord appointed 70 others, so we can't

say this was only for the original 12.

He pointed 70 others, sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every

city and place where He himself was going to come.

And he said, well, this says nothing about him delegating

power or authority. Nothing.

Oh, or does it not? Now drop down to verse 17.

Verse 17 of this chapter says the 70 returned with joy,

saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.

So when he said, I want you to do this, Luke does not

communicate the same thing that was spoken to the 12, although

it obviously was spoken to them as well because how could they

have the results? And he said to them, I was

watching Satan fall out lightning from heaven.

Behold, I have given you authority.

So here it is. He doesn't say it in verse one,

but he tells us in verse 19 what he said, what he gave them.

Behold, I have given you, which means Jesus can give it.

Why are we resisting it? I want you healed.

Oh Lord, I'm not worthy. What Sing about your worthiness?

It's about His word. Now again, if you are in Christ,

you've been made worthy. You've been made righteous.

Now your mind still may not be worthy because you're renewing

it, trying to get some things together.

But as far as your spirit, man, it's been made worthy.

Remember, we're not sorry sinners saved by grace.

I'm just a Sinner saved by grace.

That's tradition. That's not true.

That's traditional truth. It's not truth, not biblical

truth. Biblical truth is I was a

Sinner. I've been saved by grace through

faith and now I'm a believer in covenant with God.

I'm a child of God. So a child of God is not the

same species of being as the Sinner.

The Sinner is dead, his spirit is dead.

The the Christian or the in Christ believer, the new

creature is alive to God. So I can't say I'm the same

person. I'm not now.

I may be still thinking like the old person, but if I would

actually make him Lord, then he would clean up my mind in my

participation of renewing my mind to His word.

And I begin to say, wow, I'm this now and I'm this now and

I'm this now. OK, Lord, I'll accept what you

say about me 'cause Your word is the final say because you're not

telling me just 'cause you like me and I'm just special one and

there's many believers like I think I'm Jesus is special.

Go ahead and think all you want to, but you're not We're all

we're all in fellowship with the Lord and I accept what he So

let's go on verse 19. I've given you authority to

tread on serpents and scorpions and over come on, help me out

and over how much all the power of the enemy.

My gosh, man, why, why do we reject the obvious acts chapter

Acts 10:38

10, verse 38. Look how God anointed Jesus of

Nazareth who went around doing good and healing all who were

oppressed of the and yet here he said.

Now listen, I've given you this authority over all the power of

the enemy, and nothing will injure you.

It's because we'll accept a tradition about our situation

instead of biblical truth about it.

Come on, say to yourself, Lord, help renew my mind that I will

believe that I am exactly what you say I am and whatever you

say is the final say because you have all authority and He has

all authority. I said he has all authority.

The problem is a lot of times we allow our emotions to rule over

God's word. We allow our situation to a rule

to rule over God's word. We allow our condition to rule

over God. Other people's words to rule

over what God has said. All right, don't let it happen.

Verse 20. Nevertheless, he said do not

rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but

rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.

Now what's important about that? What is greater than having the

authority of our King is that we are sons and daughters of his

Kingdom. That's greater, that's greater,

which tells us if you have authority without relationship

with God or sonship, it's nothing.

And this is the problem again. People want to function in the

power of God without actually being submitted in a

relationship with God. That's the problem.

That's never what God intended. Again, He has all authority, and

He had. He has not intimidated to give

you authority. You just have to use it fully

submitted to Him because you couldn't do it without Him, and

if you do, it will cost you. Now what do I mean by that?

Moses hits a rock, water comes out.

Why does the water come out after he hit the rock?

Because God said hit the rock son.

But there was another time later on in his walk with the Lord,

after he had been face to face with God and been on the been in

his glory and had to cover itself with a veil, all kinds of

stuff. But yet now we got some issues

going on the camp. He's pray for this bunch so

much. He's watching them drop off

dead, you know, because they've been disobedient.

They are exactly what God said, a stubborn and stiff neck bunch.

And so the Lord said, just speak to the rock, 'cause he's

merciful. And as you like they, these

people are dying anyway. I've already pronounced judgment

all all those that rejected me at my word, they're not getting

down. So he comes down in his emotions

once again, Maybe you saying to himself, I should have took the

first deal, should have took the first deal.

When the Lord said I'll get rid of them all, I'll start a whole

new nation with you. I really should have took that

deal when I had all these problems, wouldn't have been

wandering around all these doggone years.

Here we go again, right? But what the Lord say?

Speak to it. But what did he do?

Hit it? How many times did water come

out? Oh, but what came after that?

He said you didn't honor me in front of the people.

I mean, how can we come to church and not be honoring him?

You didn't honor me in front of the people.

I won't let you in now. You can't.

And he listen, this was so, so serious to God.

After all he has seen with God and been in conversation with

God one-on-one that when he day after day, potentially month

after month, whatever the Lord takes him to the heel where he

could see it and he says see it OK don't ask me again.

You're not getting in knowing what you know acting like that

it's not happening same in anyway.

So we are not here to get born again to have his power so that

we look at us. No, when we demonstrate power,

it should be saying look at him, look at him, look at him, look

at him. This is why honestly, I am a

little more cautious and don't a lot of times openly testify of

certain things that have occurred because, you know, in

today's society, they're videotaping everything and then

what happens? People flock.

Y'all don't want to hear they're doing 'cause they're trying to

draw. They don't have nothing.

All they should have is a ear to hear what God said, do what God

said. It performs, it happens, and it

should be glorifying God. People are not running to these

meetings to meet God, they're running to see the person that

power went through. Now I will give you 1 little

testimony years ago in Nicaragua, because This is why I

know this is true and I don't talk about this one a whole lot.

We read Nicaragua in a meeting. There's no walls, we're outside.

And so I'm preaching on the Kingdom of God and His authority

and it starts raining. It's a rainy season anyway.

It starts raining and man, it comes down and it is so loud

under the tin roof that I know man, they're not.

They're not hearing me now because I'm going through a

translator. And so the person that ran the,

the ministry or the mission was, you know, over here to the side.

And I heard the Lord say to me, tell the rain to stop.

So I said, in the name of Jesus, I command that rain to stop.

And then I just went on, kept preaching.

Within 60 seconds, the rain got super light, almost gone.

Now, the ministry leader, when I said that, he said, oh, he's

lost them. They're never going to listen to

this guy now. But then all of a sudden, right

or no, you were there, right? Were you at that one?

No, You you missed that one. Too bad.

Who? I wish I knew somebody that was

here. You were there.

You were at that one. Who else was there?

We had other people there. Were you there at that one,

Brandon? No.

Too bad. It was awesome anyway.

Yeah, Wayne Norman was Wayne, were you at that?

No, that was another one. We've got been there so many

times people anyway, so we're ministering and it's goes and it

get and everybody's kind of looking around right and then

all of a sudden a little bit more comes and Lord said tell

them that was already falling. I said, well this app was

already falling when this hits the ground had to be done and

then I kept preaching and then it quit done.

So people are a little, you know, like what just happened,

right? So there's a river we have to

cross to get to this camp, no bridge, a river and it's low

Creek. We were able to get through.

Well, when this much rain fell as it did, it ran rain for maybe

10-15 minutes before the Lord says, say something, the river

had risen and they were like, well, you're not going to be

able to go because it's too high.

They went down to look, you're not going to be able to go.

It's going to take at least 8 hours.

Like man, we don't have. I said we don't have 8 hours.

I'm supposed to be at a university and preach tonight.

I said we have to go. I said man, in the name of

Jesus, that river has to go down Within 15 minutes.

Some people showed up and this place went crazy.

Now, I don't understand anything in Spanish, so I have no idea

what's going on, but they're like running around like crazy

people around this vehicle, you know, I mean, everybody's

running, they're talking and everybody's loud, right?

Come to find out that what they're asking is how did you

get here? How did you arrive the waters to

and they're like, it was down, it was low.

I could pass. They said it's never happened

ever. Well, what happened after I left

the country, it didn't rain the rest of the rainy season.

Four months later, six months later, I come back to and the

camp was telling their, 'cause these guys were drug addicts,

you know, alcohol is a place where they could come and try to

get restored, a retreat place, you know, And so they had fault,

called their parent, their family members, and say the guy

that made the rain stop is coming.

Well, unfortunately there's always a communication issue

because I tell them that I'm coming on this day, but it

happens to be 1:00 in the morning.

So I said we're coming this day at night at 1:00 AM, but they,

they got thought it was later that night.

So we get an airport. No one's there to pick us up.

No one. So someone else that we end up

knowing country picked us up, we end up going their house and

then we end up getting to the camp late on Sunday.

Well, about 6 to 800 people they said were there waiting, but

they couldn't wait because they had to go back to all their

little towns and stuff. And I'm like, what happened?

They're like, well, they came to find a guy.

Wanted to hear from the guy that stopped the rain.

Well, you know, I don't stop rain.

The Lord does, but this is what happens in our Western culture

is that when these things are occurring, if you don't watch

out, you start people start following signs that come with

our authority and not him who has the authority.

It's a very important lesson because Mark Chapter 16, last

Mark 16 · chapter mention

Scripture, here it is, Mark 1617 to 20 says this.

These signs will accompany those who have believed in my name.

They will cast out demons, they'll speak with new tongues,

they'll pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it

will not hurt them. They'll lay hands on the sick

and they will recover. So then the Lord, when He had

spoken these, he was received up Hallelujah into heaven, and sat

down at the right hand of God. Verse 20 And they went out and

preached everywhere. Here it is while the Lord worked

with them and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.

Notice the Lord worked with them, not for them.

This is one of the greatest misunderstandings of His

authority is that believers want to have God work for them.

Will you have all the power do this for me and do this for me?

And I'm praying that you'll do this.

And I'm asking you, you'll do this.

In essence, we're commanding Him to give us from His authority

what we want. And the Lord's like, doesn't

work that way, don't work that way.

I'm giving you my authority so that you can say what I say,

Yes, that's right. And then I'll perform it right

and work with you so that my word is confirmed wherever you

go. Because you're saying Jesus said

that's why we say in the name of Jesus be healed.

Not in the name of Apostle Earl, not in the name of Apostle

Marcy, not in the name of Pastor Mike, not in the name of Pastor

Angie, not in the name of Eloise, not in the name of

Brian. No, in the name of Jesus.

So when we pray or lay hands on you, you're right.

And if you're like, well, I hope, I hope they got we never

had anything We're anointed, but that anointing isn't our

anointing. It's his anointing.

And yet people will go to the ones that have gotten something.

But the reality is they're pulling from the same location

and people can receive because they have more faith that they

are harnessing God's power. Then the person next to you who

is harnessing God's power. What did it say?

These signs shall accompany verse.

Go put at verse 17 and I'll close with this so you can get

this thought in your head, 'cause this authority's been

delegated. These signs will accompany those

who are those who have that's not the apostle only that's not

the prophet only that's not the teacher only that's not the

pastor only, that's not the evangelist only that's are you a

believer? Come on, are you a believer?

That means you could look to your neighbor in front of you

and say, look, I'm not feeling real good.

Will you lay hands on me so I'll be healed because I know that

you have delegated authority from our king and he says lay

hands on the sick and I'm touching myself believing, but I

haven't seen results. Will you?

And it's not like, oh, I don't think you have some.

We never had something, He gave us something and now we freely

give it away in His name. Delegated power, which is the

final say on the matter. And the only way that final say

will not come to pass in your life is if you don't believe the

final say that is spoken over you or said to you.

You resisted and you put your rule above his and it'll look

like it's there till you find out it's not there.