Your Authority
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: A major key to walking
free from fear is to understand the authority
and power that you have as a
believer because that which you believe you are superior to and have power and
authority over you will not fear; while that which you believe you are inferior
to and don’t have authority over you will fear
I.
Jesus delivered you from
fear and he did it by giving you authority/say over your life
A. In the beginning God gave
Adam dominion over the whole Earth (Genesis 1:28)
1.
Adam
didn’t have to fear anything in the Earth b/c he had authority & power over
it
2.
When
Adam sinned he forfeited that power into the hands Satan (Luke 4:5-7 (AMP)
a.
Fear
ran ramped in the Earth because there was a devil running loose looking to
steal, kill, and destroy that mankind didn’t have authority over him
3.
If
a man would come into covenant w/ God and do what He said, he’d open to the
door for God to come into his life and do things with His power that was
greater than the power of the devil; but man himself didn’t have authority over
the devil
a.
God
never lost authority over the devil, man lost it
b.
That’s
different than the NT because now we authority over the devil
4.
1
John 3:8-The power that Adam lost, Jesus came to get it back for believers
B. Jesus came to Earth, went
hell, ascended to Heaven and came back to Earth
1.
Matthew
12:43, Acts 2:27-He spent three days and nights in the heart of the Earth
2.
Isaiah
53:9-He made is grave with the wicked
3.
Acts
2:24-There was no pain in sheol
4.
Matthew
27:46-God, who is life, left him
5.
2
Corinthians 5:21, Romans 6:22-He did spiritually with our sin
6.
1
Timothy 3:16, 1 Peter 3:18, Colossians 1:18, Hebrews 1
C. Hebrews 2:14-15-Jesus
Destroyed Satan
1.
Destroy-To
deprive (take from) of force, influence, and power; put and end to; to render
in operative, do away with, to cause a one to have no efficiency
2.
In
depriving Satan of power, he delivered you from fear because you don’t have to
fear something/someone that has no authority or power over you
a.
“And”
is a conjunction that means it connects one thought to another
b.
There’s
a connection between Jesus taking Satan’s power & you not having to fear
D. Colossians 2:15-Jesus
stripped Satan and made a show of him openly
E. Your authority
1.
Matthew
28:18-All authority-There’s none left for the devil to have
2.
Philippians
2:9-11-All names/authorities must
bow to this authority
3.
Luke
10:17-19-Jesus said I give you authority over the power of devil
4.
John
16:33 (AMP)-You can be of good cheer/fear not because I have deprived the world
of power to harm you
F. As a believer is there
any situation on that you’ll ever face in which you are inferior?
1.
The
potential of God’s power-Genesis 18:14, Numbers 11:23, Jeremiah 32:17
2.
The
power that’s in us-Ephesians 1:16-22, Acts 1, Mt 3:19, Jn 14, 1 John 4:4
II.
With a heart full of fully
persuaded faith and the Word of God coming out your mouth there’s no situation
you’ll ever been inferior to
A. What kind of authority
and power do you have?-Mark 11:22-24
1.
22-The
kind of faith was God spoke it, it was so, and he saw it
2.
23-Verily-I’m
telling you the truth
3.
Words
have two functions 1) Change the inside 2) Change the outside
4.
23-When
you’re heart gets fully persuaded in faith and you speak, faith will activate
the anointing & the your words will carry that power & change the
natural
a.
If
words are moving “this” mountain they must be filled w/ the anointing
b.
If
you’re heart isn’t full of fully persuaded faith, the words you speak will
continue to work to change the inside, but they will not change the outside
B. Your words will transmit
the anointing to your problem
1.
The
power working in and through the words is the anointing and faith activates it
a.
Mark
4:40-The anointing that stopped the storm was released through words
1)
Jesus
was fully persuaded in his heart that this storm will do what I say
b.
People
speak words that are void of faith and that’s why they see no impact
1)
When
you get full of faith and speak the anointing is in those words and will move
the mountain
2. Proverbs 16:24-Healing; Health-Healing, remedy, calmness,
composure, cure
a. Bones-The whole body, any
part of the body, limb, one’s bone and flesh
3. Proverbs 13:3-He that
keeps his mouth keeps his life:
a. Keeps- To guard, be
secured, be set aside, preserve, to keep oneself
4. Proverbs 12:6-Your words can
deliver you and rescue you
a. Deliver-Saved, delivered,
rescued, preserve, escape, taken away, taken out, defend
5. Proverbs 18:7-A fool’s
mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul
a. Destruction-Ruin,
undoing, dismaying, terror
6. Proverbs 11:11-By the
blessing of the upright the city is exalted
a. Overthrown-break down, to
be in ruins, destroy, pull down
7. Proverbs 12:14-A man
shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth
a. Satisfied-To be
satisfied, to have enough, the filling and even overfilling of appetites and
desires, have plenty, filled fill, fill
b. Good-Pleasing, desirable,
better, best, prosperity, wealth, anything better
C. The word of God is the
power of God; it’s zoe life; when you get full of
faith where God’s Word is concerned, your faith will activate the power of His
Word and then when you speak words that are in line with His Word, that power
in His Word will jump into your words and your words will move mountains