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*The Authority of the Believer*
March 20th, 2004 and march 21st, 2004
*Review:*
Several weeks ago I spoke about discipleship and beginning in Christ.
I mentioned that being a disciple is:
· *Publicly identifying with Jesus*
· *Learning to obey Him*
Matthew 28
*/18 /**/Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in a the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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Then the following week we looked at authority.
In order to be disciple of Jesus you have to follow His example and submit to authority.
Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient even to death on the cross.
Authority is from God and that really is the whole sin issue.
It all comes down to who is in charge.
I didn’t want to give my life to the devil.
That came as a by-product of wanting my own way and wanting to serve myself.
Luke 7
*/When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered /**/Capernaum/**/.
2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.
3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
6 So Jesus went with them.
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*/He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
7 That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you.
But say the word, and my servant will be healed.
8 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.
I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes.
I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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*/9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in /**/Israel/**/.”
10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
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Authority is the umbrella of discipleship.
We must submit ourselves to the authority of God but also to the authority of His delegated authority.
1 Corinthians 1
*/11 /**/My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
12 What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas a”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
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*/13 Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Were you baptized into b the name of Paul? /*[3]
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Some say they just follow Jesus and no man.
Paul said follow me while I follow Christ.
Delegated authority represents God.
Now we get to the next part:
*YOUR AUTHORITY IN CHRIST*
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*-In Matthew 28 *Jesus said all authority has been given to Me, you go.
-He is saying, you represent Me.
Go instead of Me.
Use My name and you have My authority.
-I tell the story of when my parents would give me their credit card to go buy clothes for school.
The people didn’t care about me, they just wanted to make sure the card was good.
-In the same way, we have power of attorney to use His name.
You represent Him.
Demons and circumstances have to obey you as they would Jesus.
-The Centurion believed that Jesus didn’t have to be physically present to heal.
His authority extended beyond His physical presence.
His power is in His Word and His Name.
-When we speak His Word in faith, it is as if He is saying it.
It carries the same weight if you are a believe it.
-We have probably all experienced those times when we sensed God rising up in us and we spoke with authority knowing it was going to happen.
I think we should live in that place and not just occasionally reach that place.
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*1. **Who is responsible for your life?*
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-Doris Day theology is que sera sera, whatever will be will be, the future’s not ours to see, que sera sera.
-That is sometimes known as Calvinism or extreme belief in the “sovereignty” of God.
-This is when we blame all circumstances good, bad, or ugly on God.
-If something bad happens we just say God is teaching me something.
-This absolves me of all responsibility because God does everything.
-We see in part all right, but some things we know.
-God works all things together but He doesn’t cause all things.
James 1 NLT
*/13 And remember, no one who wants to do wrong should ever say, “God is tempting me.”
God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else either.
14 Temptation comes from the lure of our own evil desires.
15 These evil desires lead to evil actions, and evil actions lead to death.
16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters./*
*/17 Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God above, who created all heaven’s lights.~*
Unlike them, he never changes or casts shifting shadows.
18 In his goodness he chose to make us his own children by giving us his true word.
And we, out of all creation, became his choice possession/*.[4]
-We are wrong to blame God for bad things.
-Anything we put men in jail for we shouldn’t blame God for.
-Imagine if I infected my child with a disease and then said it will make him strong.
-When the man infected his child with aids the world went crazy.
How could a father do that to his own child?
Yet we will accuse God of that very thing and then assign some noble cause to it.
-Don’t spiritualize and romanticize evil!
It is evil!
Period.
*EXAMPLE*
-Someone sent me an e-mail about a barber cutting someone’s hair and the man said “I don’t believe in God because of all the evil in the world.”
The barber didn’t know what to say until he looked out the window and saw people with scraggly hair.
He said, “I don’t believe in barbers.”
Of course the man was surprised and said “You just cut my hair.”
The barber said, “Yeah but look at all of the people with bad hair.”
The man said they could fix that if they would just go to the barber.”
To which the barber replied, “DITTO for God.”
-If I am not responsible for my life I can just hold on to the roller coaster and ride or I can look for a steering wheel.
*EXAMPLE- Seinfeld-roller coaster*
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*-Who is responsible for your life?
You are.*
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