Revealing Your Authority
Foundation Statement: This “God is sovereign
and in total control way of thinking” (1) strips the believer of
dominion/control, (2) blinds them to the revelation of their authority and (3)
leaves them in convenient place of no responsibility where they are (4)
actively passive, doing nothing because they believe there’s nothing they can
do
I.
God gave the dominion,
the control to the man because He wanted the man to have it; If God wanted the
dominion and control He would have just kept it
A. It sounds to me like God
is saying that we are in control and we are trying to say that He’s in control;
it’s never good to disagree with God
1.
Genesis
1:26-Let THEM have dominion
2.
Genesis
1:28-Subdue the Earth
3.
Psalm
8:4-God created man to have the controls, the authority, the choice in the
Earth
4.
Psalm
115:16-He gave the Earth to the children of men
5.
Deuteronomy
30:15-I am giving you the choice
6.
The
reason believers have no revelation of their authority is because they haven’t
heard this verse preached, they’ve heard we were created worship God so we have
a whole generation of people who know how to sing songs, cry and wail and be
desperate for God, but know little to nothing about exercising their authority
in the Earth
B. God is not controlling;
He chose in His sovereignty to never control men and He doesn’t want control;
In God’s sovereignty he chose to give you the controls
1.
Psalm
115:3, 135:6-What pleased the Lord was to let man choose; if it pleased Him to
be in total control of every man on the planet then he would have set this
thing up that way
2.
God
is not a puppet master controlling everything and everybody on the Earth in His
sovereignty
C. God doesn’t want control.
If He wanted control he’d have it.
He wants willful submission and obedience. He doesn’t want to control you; He wants
to work with you. – 1 Corinthians 3:9
1.
Genesis
2:15-17-This is what God wants in regards to their relationship with the tree
2.
Genesis
3:6,12-13-Who made them eat of this tree?
3.
Why
didn’t God stop this if this is not what he wants? He is not all-controlling
4.
Who
could have stopped this whole thing from happening? Who was in control in this
situation and had authority to stop this? Adam and Eve
D. God will not control you;
he will not make you think, do, or say anything; he won’t force something on
you that you don’t one even it’s something that would be a great benefit to you
--- That’s not how he functions, that’s not how the kingdom functions
1.
Psalm
25:12-The choice is yours to make; In regards to your choice God stops at
teaching what way to choose
II.
Satan has worked for
years to keep this revelation of the authority of the believer away from the
believer by blinding their minds to it
A. Genesis 3:1-Satan worked
to keep man from a revelation of his authority from the very beginning
1.
The
insulation is right now you are not “as gods” – you are not rulers,
judges, divine ones, godlike or mighty, but if you eat this you will be
2.
The
insulation is you don’t have authority, God does and He doesn’t want you to
have it and that’s why He told you not to eat of this tree because there’s
something He doesn’t what you to see, something He doesn’t want you to be, and
something He doesn’t want you to know
3.
The
already have this authority, but they think they don’t, and they are in
deception
B. 2 Corinthians 4:4-He
works to keep you from seeing the truth because that will keep you in a
position where you can be deceived
1.
If
you ever see the truth about the authority that you have as a believer you will
never be oppressed by the devil in any area of your life ever again
C. These religious
statements, “God is sovereign, God is in control,” while they may sound holy
and scriptural to the uninformed ear, they disarm the believer and leave him in
a powerless and impotent state
1.
One
of the main statements Satan has used to blind the believe from a revelation of
their authority is, “God is sovereign.
God is in control.”
2.
These
are demonic lies filled with false humility created to deceive the religious;
these statements were created to sound humble, religious, and holy but they are
not the truth
a. Any good lie/counterfeit
has the appearance of the real
b. Proverbs 14:12-Always
beware of the way that seems right; just because it seems right does not mean
that it is right and Satan likes to make his doctrine seem right
III.
If Satan can get you to
lay stuff in the lap of God thinking He was the one with the authority and the
responsibility & that you have none, then you will sit by passively while
he actively destroys your life
A. Through religion Satan
has tried to paint this type of picture in the hearts of believers to get them
to step into a place of spiritual passivity where they believe they have no
authority and in turn will not exercise that authority and resist Him
1.
Satan
wants you passive. He wants you
sitting back waiting on God, doing nothing in faith, sitting in your pew saying
God is in control because while you quote that religious colloquialism and sit
passively in unbelief he can continue to oppress you
2.
A
position of passivity is the result of believing you have no authority (waiting
on God even)
3.
Religion
has spent the last 500 years trying to put the authority and controls back into
hands of God and out of the hands of the believer so we have to look at verses
and take the time to put the authority back in the lap of the believer where
God laid it
4.
Babylonian
based religion likes to paint this picture that God is in total control of
everything that happens in your life and on the Earth and you have no say in the
matter because you are not sovereign like He is
a. Those statements lay the
responsibility for everything that happens in your life in God’s lap
B. Satan has tried for years
to push this idea over on believers that you have no control, authority, or say
about your life
1.
You
get what life deals you and just make the best out of it
a. Everything happens for a
reason paints the picture that you have no say about what happens in your life
b. This idea that you have
no say and you just have to put up with what you get and play the cards you’ve
been dealt --- He’s trying to push this sucker to get you passive and acceptant
of things you don’t have to accept
c. James 4:7-What you accept
you won’t resist and what you don’t resist will stay in your life
2.
Satan
doesn’t want you to see that you don’t have to be sick, broke, or defeated in
any area and that if you will exercise your authority you can get free
a. He wants you to think,
there’s nothing you can do and that it has to be the way that it is
IV.
If God is total control
the way some believe He is then that leaves the born again child of God who is
living on Earth with no authority whatsoever
A. The authority of the
believer
1.
Deuteronomy
30:19-The choice is yours, not God’s
a. Deuteronomy 30:15,19-Today
I am giving you a choice between good and evil, between life and death. I am
now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and
God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose
life.
2.
Matthew
16:19-We have the authority and power of the Kingdom of Heaven
a. According to God the
binding and loosing done on the Earth is done by you, not Him
b. When I peer into Heaven
by faith I find what God wants in the Earth and I am authorized to bind and loose
accordingly
3.
Mark
11:23-You get what you say, not what God says
a. God can say it about you,
but your words carry more weight in your life than His
b. It did not say, “He will
have whatever God wants Him to have, because God is sovereign and he is not.”
4.
Luke
17:6-You speak to the mountain and it will obey you
5.
Matthew
17:20-Nothing in inline with the will of God for your life will be impossible
for you
6.
James
4:7-You resist the devil and He’ll flee
B. God’s not real fond of
people trying to lay stuff in his lap, when he’s given them authority
1.
When
you don’t believe you have authority you will do nothing and instead go to God
and ask him to do something he’s already given you the authority to do
a. For years believers have
tried to make God responsible for things He has delegated to them
b. You cannot delegate to
God what He has already made you responsible for
c. Why didn’t God keep the
devil out of the Garden? He delegated that to Adam
d. For many Christians,
Christianity has become the practice of asking and begging God to do something
that He has given them the authority to do
2.
Mark
9:22-23-This situation was not going to be determined by Jesus might or
compassion, but rather by this man’s willingness to give Jesus the right
a. He’s trying to put in the
lap of Jesus’ ability/might and compassion
b. Jesus lays it right back
in the lap of his faith
3.
Mark
4:35-Jesus gave them the authority that they are seeing him exercise
a. When they came to Jesus
to do something that he authorized them to do it was met with a rebuke
4.
2
Corinthians 12:9-He has authority over the devil that he’s not exercising and
he goes to God to get God to do something that he has the authority to do
a. Is he resisting the devil
or begging God? God did not say beg me and the devil will flee; He said resist
him and He will flee
C. Most people believe God
has authority, but they don’t believe they have any
1.
If
there is two things that Satan has worked the most to keep the believer from
seeing it would have to be God’s will and their power (Their right and their
might)
a. Ephesians 1:19-The
Apostle Paul prayed that your eyes would be opened to this power
b. Colossians 1:9-Whatever
the will of God is, is what you have the right to do and be
2.
We
were created to rule, to reign, to have authority in the Earth-Psalm 8:6
a. Genesis 1:26-God gave man
dominion
1)
God
set man in authority over all the Earth
2)
God
told man to bring the Earth into subjection/bondage
b. Revelation 1:5-6, 5:9-10-We
are kings created to reign
c. 2 Corinthians 5:21-Born
again people are supposed to be reigning
V.
The moment people get a
revelation of their authority and start exercising it Satan will have somebody
there (usually somebody religious) to try to stop them from doing it because he
hates this teaching and he hates when people get a revelation of their
authority
A. Then when a believer does
get revelation of their authority this religious devil will rise up in people
and say, “Well who do you think you are?” – 1 Samuel 17:26-28
1.
When
people start talking in an authoritative matter Satan worked through Babylonian
based religion and called it pride
2.
Babylonian
based religion will always call faith and authority pride
3.
Satan’s
tried to hide the authority of the believer in false humility
B. Matthew 21:21-23-Jesus is
teaching on authority and he’s exercising his authority and Satan had somebody
religious there to rise up and say well who do you think you are
C. Acts 4:7-Peter and John
got the guy healed who laid at the gate and Satan had religious people there to
try to get them to stop by saying who do you think you are to do this