WEBVTT 00:02.521 --> 00:03.901 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:03.941 --> 00:10.604 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.624 --> 00:15.625 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.125 --> 00:20.027 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.427 --> 00:24.328 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:26.091 --> 00:37.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Joshua began a series last week and if you weren't here last Sunday, you need to listen to that message to go back and listen to it on our streaming, on Facebook. 00:37.303 --> 00:40.527 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it is and on other, I don't even know what all we're on right now. 00:40.547 --> 00:44.871 [SPEAKER_01]: But nonetheless, there are different areas of streaming that you can actually hear that word. 00:44.911 --> 00:46.873 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a great message and it was sort of a 00:48.695 --> 00:56.846 [SPEAKER_01]: A series on the authority of the believer, would you look at somebody this morning and say, you got authority, come on tell them, you got authority. 00:57.587 --> 00:59.490 [SPEAKER_01]: Tell somebody I have authority. 01:00.631 --> 01:03.035 [SPEAKER_01]: Then look at somebody and say, we have authority. 01:04.493 --> 01:13.460 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, one of the things that we really need to grasp hold of today is that God has given us authority as believers. 01:14.261 --> 01:20.787 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we begin to use that authority, we can begin to reshape things that are happening within our lives. 01:21.347 --> 01:22.488 [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody can hear this. 01:22.968 --> 01:30.315 [SPEAKER_01]: The things that are happening in your life, if it's not from the Lord, you don't have to put up with it and it doesn't have to continue in your life. 01:30.935 --> 01:33.677 [SPEAKER_01]: You have authority to see those things change. 01:33.697 --> 01:35.699 [SPEAKER_01]: You have authority to see those things. 01:35.939 --> 01:41.283 [SPEAKER_01]: You have authority begin to speak to the mountain and see it be cast into the sea, man. 01:41.744 --> 01:42.885 [SPEAKER_01]: So look 10 19. 01:42.945 --> 01:45.186 [SPEAKER_01]: I love this passage of Scripture this verse here. 01:45.587 --> 01:46.828 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Jesus speaking. 01:46.848 --> 01:50.391 [SPEAKER_01]: He said behold, I give you the authority. 01:50.411 --> 01:51.411 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody say authority. 01:52.252 --> 02:06.817 [SPEAKER_01]: to trample on serpents and scorpions and get this and over all, say, over all, over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 02:07.577 --> 02:16.699 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we're going to read Mark 16, starting with verse 15, and he said to them, and this is after he said, all authorities have been given to me. 02:16.719 --> 02:22.000 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, and he said to them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 02:22.741 --> 02:25.741 [SPEAKER_01]: He who believes in His baptized will be saved. 02:26.441 --> 02:28.862 [SPEAKER_01]: He does it, who does not believe will be condemned. 02:29.582 --> 02:35.604 [SPEAKER_01]: And these signs will follow those who believe in my name. 02:35.684 --> 02:36.684 [SPEAKER_01]: Shout in my name. 02:37.684 --> 02:39.787 [SPEAKER_01]: They will cast out demons. 02:40.328 --> 02:42.470 [SPEAKER_01]: They will speak with new tongues. 02:43.011 --> 02:45.094 [SPEAKER_01]: They will take up serpents. 02:45.654 --> 02:49.159 [SPEAKER_01]: And if they drink any deadly things, it will, by no means, or somewhere in there. 02:49.499 --> 02:51.081 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it says that you- Oh, here it is. 02:51.241 --> 02:53.003 [SPEAKER_01]: And they will lay hands on the sick. 02:53.584 --> 02:54.705 [SPEAKER_01]: And they- What? 02:55.793 --> 02:56.854 [SPEAKER_01]: they will recover. 02:57.555 --> 03:16.092 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, one of the first things again that we really need to grasp hold of today, and I hope it started with most of you even last week, we're here to re-inforcise that, because I really believe that God is warning to raise your faith level and raise your authority level to begin to operate in the earth in the way that He designed you to operate. 03:16.709 --> 03:23.676 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, a lot of times people and believers begin to think that just, you know, whatever happens in my life, that just must be the will of God. 03:24.136 --> 03:30.343 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, okay, sarah sarah, whatever it would be will be the futures, not ours to see, case sarah sarah. 03:30.863 --> 03:37.270 [SPEAKER_01]: But I want to say this once again, just because something happens in your life, there's not mean that that's the will of God. 03:38.481 --> 03:44.685 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because your kids aren't serving God today, that doesn't mean that just must be God's will for them at this given moment. 03:44.745 --> 03:45.966 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not the will of God. 03:46.406 --> 03:52.631 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because you're sick in body right now, there's not mean that that's the will of God and God's attempting to teach you something right now. 03:52.991 --> 03:59.395 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because you don't have the financial wherewithal to pay your bills right now, it does not mean that that's the will of God. 04:00.176 --> 04:06.020 [SPEAKER_01]: My Bible says, my God, we'll supply all your need according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 04:06.783 --> 04:17.475 [SPEAKER_01]: The issue is this, we as believers many times have put up with things that the enemy has brought our way, rather than using the authority that we have been given in Jesus' name. 04:18.123 --> 04:20.584 [SPEAKER_01]: We have put up with things and tolerated things. 04:20.644 --> 04:27.949 [SPEAKER_01]: And again, it happens because people begin to, they begin to get accustomed to what's taking place and what's happening around them. 04:27.969 --> 04:32.451 [SPEAKER_01]: And they just begin to kind of live with it and put up with it and tolerate. 04:32.671 --> 04:40.456 [SPEAKER_01]: I really believe that God wants you to rise up today in a place where you say, my house is a no toleration zone. 04:40.856 --> 04:46.399 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to tolerate anything that the devil wants to do, anything that devil's doing, anything. 04:46.779 --> 04:53.064 [SPEAKER_01]: Any area in my life that doesn't look like Jesus will, then Burgundy will see it change in Jesus' name. 04:53.704 --> 04:55.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Get everybody say amen. 04:55.746 --> 04:58.608 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say things are changing in Jesus' name. 04:59.489 --> 05:04.773 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Joshua said that this morning, there's a restoration of hope, a restoration of hope. 05:05.073 --> 05:08.256 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like you begin to believe that things will change. 05:09.076 --> 05:11.097 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not, this is not your Lord in life. 05:11.357 --> 05:16.240 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the way that God designed for you to live from here until the day that you go on the glory. 05:16.560 --> 05:18.801 [SPEAKER_01]: My friend, God has a great life for you. 05:19.021 --> 05:20.802 [SPEAKER_01]: God has good things in store for you. 05:21.062 --> 05:21.763 [SPEAKER_01]: God has help. 05:21.963 --> 05:22.943 [SPEAKER_01]: God has deliverance. 05:23.163 --> 05:24.544 [SPEAKER_01]: God has a whole family. 05:24.764 --> 05:28.086 [SPEAKER_01]: God has prosperity and God has blessing in store for you. 05:29.275 --> 05:29.635 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 05:30.216 --> 05:32.819 [SPEAKER_01]: We have to begin to use the authority that we have been given. 05:33.580 --> 05:38.565 [SPEAKER_01]: So the first thing that we have to understand is Jesus has given us all authority. 05:38.605 --> 05:41.728 [SPEAKER_01]: Tell somebody, Jesus has given me all authority. 05:42.569 --> 05:45.432 [SPEAKER_01]: See, I want you to take this personally today. 05:46.059 --> 05:50.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't let this just be a word that you know, you get maybe even excited about for a moment. 05:50.943 --> 05:55.627 [SPEAKER_01]: But I want you to make a personal application of everything that is being taught this morning. 05:56.068 --> 06:01.032 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything that's being proclaimed this morning, you need to make a personal application. 06:01.352 --> 06:05.336 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it's not that Jesus gave care, pastor, Garrett, all authority. 06:05.516 --> 06:07.798 [SPEAKER_01]: No, Jesus gave me all authority. 06:08.619 --> 06:11.705 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not that Jesus gave Pastor Robert all authority. 06:11.905 --> 06:14.650 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's Jesus gave me all authority. 06:15.131 --> 06:17.315 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm the one that's been given all authority. 06:17.335 --> 06:20.481 [SPEAKER_01]: Tell somebody I have been given all authority. 06:22.000 --> 06:25.081 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we know that Jesus gave us all authority. 06:25.101 --> 06:26.762 [SPEAKER_01]: He said it, they're in Luke 10. 06:26.922 --> 06:30.383 [SPEAKER_01]: I give you authority over all the power. 06:30.403 --> 06:32.904 [SPEAKER_01]: Notice he said all he didn't leave out anything. 06:32.944 --> 06:38.687 [SPEAKER_01]: That means anything that devil is doing God has given you authority over the power of Satan, amen? 06:39.427 --> 06:44.671 [SPEAKER_01]: So he to understand this, Jesus didn't come to just provide forgiveness of sins. 06:45.212 --> 06:48.314 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't come to just give you a ticket to heaven. 06:48.835 --> 06:59.023 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of times in pinnacles to full gospel circles, why has been preached, at least in the church I was going up, the primary purpose of salvation was just to miss hell. 06:59.343 --> 06:59.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 07:00.043 --> 07:03.285 [SPEAKER_01]: The primary purpose of salvation was to give you a ticket to heaven. 07:03.705 --> 07:06.906 [SPEAKER_01]: But how many of you know that Jesus has so much more for you than just heaven? 07:07.466 --> 07:10.627 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you know he has some heaven right now that he wants you to experience? 07:11.127 --> 07:13.308 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just about escaping the hot spot. 07:13.348 --> 07:15.349 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just about escaping hell. 07:15.669 --> 07:23.812 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about living in a abundant life right now in the where we live in Panama, city and bake county or whatever county you may reside in. 07:24.052 --> 07:26.813 [SPEAKER_01]: God wants you to have a taste of heaven right now. 07:26.873 --> 07:27.554 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 07:27.934 --> 07:28.274 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 07:28.874 --> 07:34.975 [SPEAKER_01]: So he came to give us authority in this life to regain everything that Adam lost. 07:34.995 --> 07:35.835 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me say it this way. 07:36.296 --> 07:39.256 [SPEAKER_01]: Adam lost a lot in the Garden of Eden. 07:39.696 --> 07:41.417 [SPEAKER_01]: He lost eternal life. 07:41.437 --> 07:43.357 [SPEAKER_01]: He lost so many different things. 07:43.897 --> 07:48.238 [SPEAKER_01]: He made a way, man, fell and made a way for sin to come into the world. 07:48.298 --> 07:53.259 [SPEAKER_01]: And as a result, there was sickness, disease, poverty, lack, all these other terrible things. 07:53.599 --> 07:56.880 [SPEAKER_01]: Came into the world as a result of Adam's sin. 07:57.660 --> 08:01.723 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus came back to regain everything that Adam lost. 08:02.644 --> 08:03.385 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't say that again. 08:03.945 --> 08:07.168 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus came to regain everything that Adam lost. 08:08.148 --> 08:15.254 [SPEAKER_01]: Because Adam lost his authority whenever he sinned but here this, Jesus came in order to give you that authority back. 08:15.994 --> 08:19.317 [SPEAKER_01]: The original commission of man was to go and take dominion. 08:19.537 --> 08:23.420 [SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't do it because he didn't have the power any longer because Adam fell. 08:23.660 --> 08:25.682 [SPEAKER_01]: But I've got some good news for you today. 08:27.183 --> 08:34.632 [SPEAKER_01]: and has now given you authority to fulfill what Adam was originally commissioned to do, which is to go and take dominion in the earth. 08:34.872 --> 08:38.156 [SPEAKER_01]: Now understand this, it doesn't mean you're taking dominion over people. 08:38.456 --> 08:43.942 [SPEAKER_01]: It means that you take a dominion and you take authority over all the power and all the work of hell. 08:44.603 --> 08:44.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 08:45.904 --> 08:47.685 [SPEAKER_01]: It does not have a ride in your life. 08:47.725 --> 08:51.146 [SPEAKER_01]: The devil has no rights in your life, amen? 08:51.867 --> 08:57.609 [SPEAKER_01]: So this morning, I want to quickly give you some different understandings that you need to have. 08:57.649 --> 09:00.050 [SPEAKER_01]: I need to possess about authority. 09:00.210 --> 09:01.251 [SPEAKER_01]: Are y'all with me today? 09:01.891 --> 09:03.172 [SPEAKER_01]: So the first one is this. 09:03.572 --> 09:05.833 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority is delegated and given. 09:06.193 --> 09:07.313 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not earned. 09:08.314 --> 09:10.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority is delegated and given. 09:10.855 --> 09:11.495 [SPEAKER_01]: Not earned. 09:12.095 --> 09:15.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus didn't say, you've earned all authority. 09:16.001 --> 09:18.062 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, I give you authority. 09:18.742 --> 09:19.642 [SPEAKER_01]: I give you authority. 09:19.662 --> 09:30.406 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you look at the lives of Peter and you see all the flood ups and Peter do you realize that Jesus was talking to Peter when he said, I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. 09:30.786 --> 09:33.287 [SPEAKER_01]: But how many of you can recognize it? 09:33.327 --> 09:34.847 [SPEAKER_01]: Peter made a lot of mistakes. 09:35.387 --> 09:43.030 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand this, don't allow the mistake that you made yesterday to keep you from believing that you don't have any authority today. 09:43.642 --> 09:51.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Here that you still have authority, even though you made a mistake yesterday, you can still operate in the authority of Christ right now, amen? 09:51.824 --> 09:53.064 [SPEAKER_01]: So authority is given. 09:53.124 --> 09:54.004 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not earned. 09:54.404 --> 09:57.285 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, Jesus said, all authority is given to me. 09:57.885 --> 10:05.866 [SPEAKER_01]: And then as a result of being given authority from the Father, then He said, I give authority to you over all the power of the enemy. 10:06.006 --> 10:09.147 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand this, you cannot earn authority. 10:09.787 --> 10:11.348 [SPEAKER_01]: It is delegated and given. 10:11.908 --> 10:14.870 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter what you do, you cannot earn authority. 10:15.250 --> 10:20.473 [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing that you can do to put yourself in a place necessarily to earn authority. 10:20.814 --> 10:25.817 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't think that what God wants to do in your life is determined by what you can earn. 10:26.177 --> 10:28.278 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you didn't earn salvation? 10:29.279 --> 10:29.519 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 10:29.539 --> 10:30.559 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of that you wouldn't earn? 10:30.720 --> 10:32.901 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and said, you're never good enough anyway. 10:37.831 --> 10:41.272 [SPEAKER_01]: Now don't start, you don't start fighting between husbands and wives. 10:42.532 --> 10:43.653 [SPEAKER_01]: None of us were good enough. 10:44.793 --> 10:45.974 [SPEAKER_01]: None of us were good enough. 10:46.774 --> 10:50.495 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the reason it comes by grace salvation, because you didn't earn it. 10:50.875 --> 10:53.196 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, you didn't earn your healing ether. 10:54.576 --> 10:56.937 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, you didn't earn your prosperity ether. 10:57.917 --> 11:00.018 [SPEAKER_01]: And you didn't earn the blessing of the Lord ether. 11:00.913 --> 11:02.394 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you who earned it. 11:02.494 --> 11:06.755 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus earned it for you whenever he went to the cross and he shared his blood. 11:07.376 --> 11:08.816 [SPEAKER_01]: His blood paid the price. 11:09.016 --> 11:12.258 [SPEAKER_01]: He paid the price for something that you could never earn. 11:12.858 --> 11:15.839 [SPEAKER_01]: But no matter if you would have went to the cross, it would not have earned it. 11:16.079 --> 11:20.281 [SPEAKER_01]: It took the spotless blood of the Lamb of God to earn for you. 11:20.841 --> 11:22.762 [SPEAKER_01]: what you could not earn yourself. 11:23.062 --> 11:41.806 [SPEAKER_01]: So understand this, the authority that you have, it's not earned, it's not because you're so good, it's not because you get wonderful enough, it's not because, you know, you're, you get more anointing or anything like that, it's solely because Jesus received it, and now He has given it to you, amen? 11:42.526 --> 11:44.227 [SPEAKER_01]: You ever given somebody a gift? 11:45.156 --> 11:46.317 [SPEAKER_01]: probably all of us have. 11:46.817 --> 11:49.800 [SPEAKER_01]: You haven't certainly there are not a lot of senior people in here. 11:49.820 --> 11:51.561 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you have forgiven somebody again for? 11:52.182 --> 11:53.763 [SPEAKER_01]: You're giving somebody a gift, right? 11:54.504 --> 11:59.508 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, whenever you give it to them, you give it to them because of this. 11:59.948 --> 12:03.251 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not necessarily because they did something to earn that gift. 12:04.132 --> 12:09.877 [SPEAKER_01]: You that give your children gifts on Christmas or on their birthday or whatever. 12:10.637 --> 12:13.520 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand, it's not because they did anything to earn it. 12:14.299 --> 12:19.335 [SPEAKER_01]: We went over yesterday to, I don't know what that was about, but it praise the Lord. 12:20.307 --> 12:25.131 [SPEAKER_01]: We went over yesterday to crest view, and by the way, I want to commend our all of our staff. 12:25.151 --> 12:27.573 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Joshua took the entire staff over there. 12:27.954 --> 12:31.577 [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle, and I've never seen Kyle work so hard in my life. 12:31.697 --> 12:34.479 [SPEAKER_01]: I tell you, I don't know what's up in magical over there happened. 12:35.160 --> 12:36.961 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like he became Sam Senna. 12:37.602 --> 12:40.444 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've never seen, you know what, he worked really hard. 12:41.024 --> 12:44.287 [SPEAKER_01]: And Amber was over there with him also working. 12:45.521 --> 12:51.703 [SPEAKER_01]: And we had, and Pastor Garrett, and Pastor Steve, Pastor Steve was there working, too. 12:52.463 --> 12:54.804 [SPEAKER_01]: And Keith was over there. 12:55.064 --> 12:57.325 [SPEAKER_01]: And the staff was working very diligently. 12:57.345 --> 13:00.326 [SPEAKER_01]: As you know, we're getting things where I'm going somewhere else with this. 13:00.386 --> 13:08.589 [SPEAKER_01]: But the good news is we are on schedule for Crestview and first part of September, we're looking at moving into the new building. 13:08.809 --> 13:09.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 13:09.890 --> 13:10.530 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 13:11.978 --> 13:13.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you to all the staff too. 13:13.438 --> 13:17.980 [SPEAKER_01]: They worked, I mean, they left early in the morning, and got back out on about six o'clock last night. 13:18.480 --> 13:23.301 [SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, and then they're back here today and gonna be pulling the all day or today also. 13:23.641 --> 13:34.984 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, somebody who thinks that people go into ministry just so that they can walk around with their hands in the air, worshiping the Lord and studying their Bible all day, don't have a clue as to what actually goes on, right? 13:35.544 --> 13:38.905 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know, Cassidy might be doing that, but the rest of them, they're not doing that. 13:46.679 --> 13:49.581 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kidding Castle, kind of. 13:49.701 --> 14:12.753 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, so afterwards, we stayed later than everybody else in, you know, I stayed there for dinner and had dinner with Pastor Mockett and Chelsea and our three grand sons, and our youngest grandson, Regan, excuse me, he said, can we go to five below? 14:13.513 --> 14:20.058 [SPEAKER_01]: We're eating at chillies, and five below is just, I mean, it's just right there, you know, we didn't have to move our car or anything. 14:20.078 --> 14:21.699 [SPEAKER_01]: You're sitting the same shopping area. 14:21.719 --> 14:22.799 [SPEAKER_01]: See, we go to five below. 14:23.480 --> 14:28.643 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, asking him asking Papa, can he go to five below? 14:28.724 --> 14:30.044 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think I'm gonna say? 14:31.125 --> 14:31.946 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 14:34.449 --> 14:46.899 [SPEAKER_01]: And so what we did, we took him to five below, and we also took his two brothers to Gideon, we took Levi, and we took him down to five below, and they said, what's our budget? 14:47.659 --> 14:49.360 [SPEAKER_01]: They've got this down to a science. 14:50.862 --> 14:52.243 [SPEAKER_01]: They've got it down to a science. 14:53.043 --> 14:53.884 [SPEAKER_01]: What's our budget? 14:59.869 --> 15:01.470 [SPEAKER_01]: And as Papa, you know what I said? 15:04.925 --> 15:08.806 [SPEAKER_01]: Just tell me what you want, right? 15:10.926 --> 15:11.826 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand this. 15:13.107 --> 15:22.069 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not because they did anything to earn anything that I wanted to buy them, purchase them, purchase for them, or give them. 15:23.509 --> 15:25.429 [SPEAKER_01]: It's solely because of one thing. 15:26.710 --> 15:28.110 [SPEAKER_01]: They are my grandsons. 15:29.808 --> 15:37.710 [SPEAKER_01]: We are family, and I've told everyone if I grant you to have told it to our children, I said, anything I've got, it belongs to you. 15:38.750 --> 15:50.172 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, they might not have, you know, we got 17 of us now, you got to share it all now, but nonetheless, it gets chopped up, keeps getting smaller, but anyway, but the reality is whatever I have belongs to them. 15:51.012 --> 15:55.113 [SPEAKER_01]: And we purchased that for them, not because they earned it. 15:55.673 --> 15:57.714 [SPEAKER_01]: It's solely because I love them. 15:58.694 --> 16:02.596 [SPEAKER_01]: They're my family, and any of you would be the exact same way. 16:02.796 --> 16:17.764 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand this, if you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will you Heavenly Father give good things to those who ask, understand you've been given authority. 16:17.784 --> 16:17.884 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 16:19.765 --> 16:21.246 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not because you earned it. 16:21.286 --> 16:26.429 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't think you, I just, whenever I can get good enough, then I'll be able to use my authority. 16:26.469 --> 16:29.270 [SPEAKER_01]: No, my friend, you can use your authority right now. 16:29.590 --> 16:32.972 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're a part of the family, you can use the authority right now. 16:33.392 --> 16:36.594 [SPEAKER_01]: How many family members do we have here this morning? 16:36.614 --> 16:38.395 [SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of wave your hand. 16:38.795 --> 16:41.797 [SPEAKER_01]: How many part of the family of God, come on, wave your hand, that being. 16:42.357 --> 16:44.819 [SPEAKER_01]: See, you have authority every single one of you. 16:44.839 --> 16:48.401 [SPEAKER_01]: We've all been given authority by Jesus, amen? 16:49.161 --> 16:50.723 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's given, it's not earned. 16:50.743 --> 16:52.285 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do anything to earn it. 16:52.905 --> 16:53.246 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 16:53.847 --> 16:56.510 [SPEAKER_01]: So understand this, I want you to get this picture. 16:56.610 --> 17:01.976 [SPEAKER_01]: A thwarty given is a manifestation of God's love to us. 17:01.996 --> 17:04.999 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times we haven't seen it in that manner. 17:05.967 --> 17:11.869 [SPEAKER_01]: But actually, authority that is given to you, it is a manifestation of God's love towards you. 17:12.289 --> 17:13.870 [SPEAKER_01]: I love you so much, Larry. 17:14.150 --> 17:15.631 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm giving you authority. 17:15.951 --> 17:17.711 [SPEAKER_01]: Serena, I love you so much. 17:18.051 --> 17:19.512 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm giving you authority. 17:20.012 --> 17:20.372 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 17:20.832 --> 17:22.373 [SPEAKER_01]: Steve, I love you so much. 17:22.713 --> 17:24.114 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm giving you authority. 17:24.494 --> 17:26.495 [SPEAKER_01]: Christy, I love you so much. 17:26.615 --> 17:27.715 [SPEAKER_01]: And you put up with Steve. 17:27.735 --> 17:30.336 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm giving you authority, hallelujah. 17:30.876 --> 17:33.017 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you earned your authority, hallelujah. 17:34.752 --> 17:35.673 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't get the picture. 17:37.395 --> 17:39.398 [SPEAKER_01]: He loves us so much and he gives us a third. 17:39.418 --> 17:41.000 [SPEAKER_01]: The second thing about authority is this. 17:41.300 --> 17:43.503 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority gives you power of attorney. 17:44.658 --> 17:51.181 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, when someone is given authority, they can use the name of the authorizing agent in their dealings. 17:51.921 --> 17:58.784 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason we can use the name of Jesus is because he gave us his power of attorney. 17:58.804 --> 17:59.644 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he said. 18:00.325 --> 18:03.566 [SPEAKER_01]: He said authority, all authority is given to me and heaven and earth. 18:03.866 --> 18:07.468 [SPEAKER_01]: Now go there, go there, go there for, preach the gospel. 18:08.368 --> 18:12.070 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he says, and these signs will follow them that believe in my name. 18:13.247 --> 18:26.812 [SPEAKER_01]: In a lot of times, I want you to give you a little bit different understanding, because the punctuation marks that we find in our Bibles, those were actually placed there by the translators. 18:27.293 --> 18:30.354 [SPEAKER_01]: They were not in the original Greek or the original Hebrew. 18:31.303 --> 18:37.485 [SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of times what we've said, these signs will follow them that believe in my name, they will, and that's correct. 18:38.185 --> 18:42.547 [SPEAKER_01]: But don't you take the comma here for a moment and put it after in my name. 18:43.167 --> 18:47.028 [SPEAKER_01]: So these signs will follow them that believe in my name. 18:48.149 --> 18:48.609 [SPEAKER_01]: You see that? 18:48.929 --> 18:51.530 [SPEAKER_01]: These signs will follow them that believe in my name. 18:52.350 --> 18:58.072 [SPEAKER_01]: Part of the part of what gives authority, power within your life and activates it, 19:01.559 --> 19:12.064 [SPEAKER_01]: It had, the power that the name of Jesus holds is what gives you the authority to get out there and step out there and see mighty things happen. 19:12.084 --> 19:12.865 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 19:13.405 --> 19:15.626 [SPEAKER_01]: But you have been given this power of attorney. 19:16.086 --> 19:21.229 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason we can use the name of Jesus is because he gave us his power of attorney. 19:21.469 --> 19:29.053 [SPEAKER_01]: Power of attorney means this, that you can sign for someone else as if they are doing the signing themselves. 19:29.673 --> 19:37.319 [SPEAKER_01]: So whenever I begin to say in Jesus' name, it's not some lucky rabbit's foot that I'm waving over a situation. 19:37.799 --> 19:40.261 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm operating in the power of attorney. 19:40.601 --> 19:44.484 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus told me to go, Jesus told me to lay hands on the sick. 19:44.725 --> 19:48.627 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus told me to cast out devils, and I'm doing it in his name. 19:48.868 --> 19:51.189 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing it with his power of attorney. 19:51.209 --> 19:56.554 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it's just like Jesus himself is right here, right now, doing the act. 19:57.314 --> 20:03.439 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what happens whenever you begin to walk in the authority that you have been given in the name of Jesus. 20:03.739 --> 20:10.844 [SPEAKER_01]: When you operate within the boundaries of authority, you represent the person who gave you that authority. 20:11.284 --> 20:15.327 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just as if you are them. 20:15.988 --> 20:16.848 [SPEAKER_01]: That means this. 20:16.949 --> 20:18.590 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to get this. 20:19.030 --> 20:22.733 [SPEAKER_01]: We are Jesus in the earth. 20:24.223 --> 20:27.106 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say it again, we are Jesus in the earth. 20:27.807 --> 20:33.192 [SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think that the Word refers to us as the body of, why? 20:33.252 --> 20:35.594 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we are Jesus in the earth. 20:35.814 --> 20:38.137 [SPEAKER_01]: We are Christ in the earth. 20:38.557 --> 20:42.941 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, do you realize that you are the only Jesus that many people will ever see? 20:43.682 --> 20:46.425 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the only Jesus that many people will ever hear. 20:47.190 --> 20:56.596 [SPEAKER_01]: As a matter of fact, you're the only one that will actually have the opportunity to exemplify what Jesus did while he walked the face of this earth. 20:56.616 --> 21:07.343 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what, that's one of the reasons why it's important for our behavior and the way we act and the way we talk and the way we pose to reflect the heart of Jesus. 21:07.904 --> 21:12.947 [SPEAKER_01]: If what you're posting isn't reflecting the heart of Jesus, then you need to stop posting it. 21:14.848 --> 21:15.328 [SPEAKER_01]: Say it again. 21:15.629 --> 21:20.592 [SPEAKER_01]: If what you're posting isn't reflecting the heart of Jesus, you need to stop posting it. 21:21.373 --> 21:26.317 [SPEAKER_01]: It's if it's full of hatred, if it's full of vitriol, then you need to stop posting it. 21:27.318 --> 21:27.678 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 21:27.998 --> 21:29.519 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, well, that's a free country. 21:29.539 --> 21:35.224 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's a free country, but just because you have a right to do something, doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. 21:36.330 --> 21:45.637 [SPEAKER_01]: And understand this, you can't say you're a Christian, people, and then begin to do things that are hateful and full of vitriol, and then come to church and shout on Sunday. 21:46.298 --> 21:52.262 [SPEAKER_01]: My friend, we believe in 24, 7, living like Jesus every day of the week, amen? 21:53.103 --> 21:56.746 [SPEAKER_01]: So that means this, we are going to do things that represent Him. 21:57.668 --> 21:59.130 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm fully convinced of this. 21:59.771 --> 22:07.341 [SPEAKER_01]: There are many people that end up sacrificing and forfeiting their authority because they stop acting like Jesus. 22:08.819 --> 22:10.740 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll thank you for that overwhelming response. 22:11.520 --> 22:15.161 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority gives you the ability to act on behalf of somebody else. 22:15.681 --> 22:18.182 [SPEAKER_01]: We are here to act on behalf of Jesus. 22:18.622 --> 22:22.604 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you go to Walmart, you're here to act on behalf of Jesus. 22:23.024 --> 22:29.026 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you go to job, you're job on Monday morning, hear this, you are there to act on behalf of Jesus. 22:29.706 --> 22:35.134 [SPEAKER_01]: You're there to exhibit the same things that Jesus did in the way that He walked this earth. 22:35.175 --> 22:35.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 22:35.936 --> 22:37.398 [SPEAKER_01]: Are y'all getting anything out of this? 22:38.059 --> 22:41.625 [SPEAKER_01]: The third thing is this, with authority comes responsibility. 22:42.586 --> 22:45.328 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say it again, with authority comes responsibility. 22:46.028 --> 22:49.110 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority means that you are authorized to do something. 22:49.711 --> 22:56.955 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't give it authority so that you can stick your chest out and begin to brag to everybody how you're the big cheese, right? 22:57.435 --> 23:00.017 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not so that you can dominate. 23:00.357 --> 23:02.058 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not for the purpose of controlling. 23:02.419 --> 23:07.302 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority is for the purpose of doing what Jesus has called you to do, even? 23:07.842 --> 23:14.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus told the disciples this, in my name, and this is, I want you to get this, in my name, you will, everybody say you will. 23:16.005 --> 23:18.546 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you will means that you're doing something. 23:19.287 --> 23:21.768 [SPEAKER_01]: In my name, you will cast out devils. 23:22.168 --> 23:24.749 [SPEAKER_01]: In my name, you will speak in New tongues. 23:25.149 --> 23:29.011 [SPEAKER_01]: In my name, you will lay hands on the sick and see them recover. 23:29.620 --> 23:37.326 [SPEAKER_01]: So the purpose of authority is to take upon yourself the responsibility to do what Jesus called you to do. 23:37.846 --> 23:43.470 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just so we can go around and we've got songs about authority and I love singing about the authority that we have. 23:43.811 --> 23:45.492 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's important to do so. 23:45.892 --> 23:46.933 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason I believe it. 23:47.313 --> 23:55.546 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because what Paul actually said over there in Ephesians that we're to teach, and it managed one another with Psalms, hymns, and spiritual Psalms. 23:55.887 --> 24:00.954 [SPEAKER_01]: There are the truths of the Word of God that need to be reinforced in our singing. 24:02.325 --> 24:03.286 [SPEAKER_01]: in our worship. 24:03.966 --> 24:07.548 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, see, worship isn't this designed to be vertical. 24:07.628 --> 24:09.469 [SPEAKER_01]: It's also designed to be this way. 24:09.730 --> 24:18.595 [SPEAKER_01]: We are teaching and it monech every say teaching, say it moneching, one another in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual Psalms. 24:18.975 --> 24:21.696 [SPEAKER_01]: So whenever we sing, we're to sing about our authority. 24:21.896 --> 24:24.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever we begin to sing about our authority, what happens? 24:24.618 --> 24:26.038 [SPEAKER_01]: Our faith begins to rise. 24:26.318 --> 24:28.659 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever we begin to sing about healing, what happens? 24:28.940 --> 24:30.620 [SPEAKER_01]: Our faith begins to rise. 24:31.101 --> 24:35.603 [SPEAKER_01]: And we begin to appropriate and receive everything that God has for us. 24:35.903 --> 24:39.805 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I said all that to say this, it's wonderful to sing those songs, right? 24:40.245 --> 24:44.727 [SPEAKER_01]: But understand this, having authority isn't about just singing songs about authority. 24:45.387 --> 24:47.549 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about using the authority that you've been given. 24:47.749 --> 24:51.431 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about taking responsibility to do something in the earth. 24:51.911 --> 24:53.432 [SPEAKER_01]: I've always made this my practice. 24:53.453 --> 24:57.695 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever somebody tells me, I don't feel good, I'm hurting or whatever. 24:57.735 --> 24:59.196 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't say, but I'll pray for you. 25:00.878 --> 25:01.238 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what? 25:01.258 --> 25:01.938 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of time. 25:01.958 --> 25:09.763 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the reason I did that, I'll share this, there was a lot of times people would say this in the early days of our ministry, they'd say this, and they'd say, I'll pray for you. 25:09.824 --> 25:12.045 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, thank you for letting me know, we'll pray for you. 25:12.866 --> 25:14.827 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, I'd forget to pray for you. 25:15.831 --> 25:16.753 [SPEAKER_01]: Is anybody ever done that? 25:18.035 --> 25:20.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Getting a little quiet here in this Presbyterian church, but done the last. 25:20.960 --> 25:27.151 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to make a practice of doing, whenever somebody says I'm sick, hang on just a second, we want to pray for you right now. 25:28.508 --> 25:33.711 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I will lay hands on the sick and they will, Ricka, I will do something. 25:34.111 --> 25:44.397 [SPEAKER_01]: So understand this, the authority that you've been given, the authority polls have been given, the authority and the authority has been given, the authority that everybody here doesn't matter. 25:44.417 --> 25:48.899 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, the authority that they have been given isn't any greater than the authority that you've been given. 25:49.908 --> 25:53.790 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, but the authority that had been given is for the purpose of doing something. 25:54.370 --> 26:02.693 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's every single one of us probably this week will run into at least one person that's complaining about some kind of ailment in their body. 26:03.334 --> 26:10.357 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you find that you usually during the week, at least run into one person that's talking about the ailments that they have in their body, come on. 26:13.118 --> 26:17.319 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you know people that are running into you and you're complaining about the ailments in your body? 26:18.240 --> 26:18.480 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 26:19.813 --> 26:24.058 [SPEAKER_01]: See, listen, what we've got to do is we got to begin to use the authority that we've been given. 26:24.679 --> 26:25.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm myself, which I hear this. 26:26.341 --> 26:26.901 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm myself. 26:27.081 --> 26:32.668 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have any power to see sickness and disease healed. 26:33.793 --> 26:40.317 [SPEAKER_01]: But what I do have is authority over sickness, and authority over disease. 26:41.157 --> 26:44.539 [SPEAKER_01]: That is what I can use, that is what I can release. 26:45.100 --> 26:50.003 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why people can be healed and set free by the power of God, amen? 26:50.583 --> 26:50.763 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 26:50.823 --> 26:55.507 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the authority that I have in the authority that you have is backed up by Almighty God. 26:55.707 --> 27:02.352 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you begin to use the name of Jesus, it's just like Jesus Himself is there, commanding the thing to be done. 27:02.372 --> 27:04.614 [SPEAKER_01]: Can everybody shout, Hallelujah today. 27:05.234 --> 27:05.675 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 27:06.816 --> 27:09.538 [SPEAKER_01]: So it means authority means responsibility. 27:09.618 --> 27:10.598 [SPEAKER_01]: You only need authority. 27:11.039 --> 27:12.100 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're going to do something. 27:12.875 --> 27:15.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority is not for personal exaltation. 27:15.376 --> 27:16.557 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not for your ego. 27:16.917 --> 27:18.417 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just so we can talk about it. 27:18.918 --> 27:20.778 [SPEAKER_01]: It's for accomplishing a job. 27:21.459 --> 27:25.641 [SPEAKER_01]: Those who are unwilling to do anything need no authority. 27:26.481 --> 27:31.483 [SPEAKER_01]: And they usually end up forfitting the authority they've been given because of this principle. 27:31.683 --> 27:33.764 [SPEAKER_01]: You lose what you do not use. 27:35.105 --> 27:36.645 [SPEAKER_01]: You lose what you don't use. 27:37.846 --> 27:40.127 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you look at somebody say, you lose what you don't use? 27:41.833 --> 27:43.654 [SPEAKER_01]: That means you've got to use what you have. 27:44.374 --> 27:48.917 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, what you have isn't just limited to being used right here in the house of a Lord. 27:49.637 --> 27:51.658 [SPEAKER_01]: It can be used where you go every week. 27:51.718 --> 27:53.439 [SPEAKER_01]: It can be used where you go every day. 27:53.939 --> 27:56.921 [SPEAKER_01]: It can be used whenever you're, again, at Walmart. 27:57.061 --> 27:59.342 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I pray for people at Walmart before. 27:59.643 --> 28:02.064 [SPEAKER_01]: I pray for cashiers, people behind this waiting. 28:02.444 --> 28:04.065 [SPEAKER_01]: They said that they would suffer wrong with it. 28:04.085 --> 28:12.171 [SPEAKER_01]: They recognized it, you know, they'd seen me before and said, and I didn't know who they were, but they'd said, this is going on, I said, okay, you know what we're gonna do? 28:12.191 --> 28:13.251 [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna pray right now. 28:13.972 --> 28:15.973 [SPEAKER_01]: They can wait, we're gonna pray right now. 28:16.834 --> 28:18.915 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna just, can I pray for you right now? 28:20.056 --> 28:20.897 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, thank you. 28:20.917 --> 28:21.577 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 28:22.338 --> 28:22.618 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 28:23.870 --> 28:31.114 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have this activation that we do, and it's like, it's a two-step activation. 28:31.194 --> 28:32.314 [SPEAKER_01]: It's where you stand still. 28:32.794 --> 28:36.156 [SPEAKER_01]: You take one step forward, and then you put your arm like this. 28:37.897 --> 28:42.059 [SPEAKER_01]: Get everybody just to do that right there where you're at, just put one step forward, and then do that. 28:42.899 --> 28:44.960 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how easy it is to pray for somebody. 28:45.961 --> 28:46.741 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like that. 28:47.841 --> 28:48.322 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sick. 28:49.182 --> 28:50.323 [SPEAKER_01]: In the name of Jesus, 28:54.116 --> 28:58.380 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not kidding, this is the way we got to begin to function to begin to operate. 28:58.700 --> 29:00.061 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they'll think I'm crazy. 29:00.441 --> 29:05.345 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they won't think you're so crazy once they receive their healing and they're not hurting any longer. 29:05.785 --> 29:07.006 [SPEAKER_01]: But what if they don't get healed? 29:07.127 --> 29:08.107 [SPEAKER_01]: But what if they do? 29:09.468 --> 29:10.709 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you hearing what I'm saying? 29:11.770 --> 29:18.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we just step out there in faith and be bold as a lion and believe God to do what? 29:18.295 --> 29:20.097 [SPEAKER_01]: We cannot do ourselves. 29:20.757 --> 29:21.158 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 29:22.209 --> 29:23.350 [SPEAKER_01]: The next principle is this. 29:23.610 --> 29:26.832 [SPEAKER_01]: To have authority, you must know the one who is authorizing you. 29:27.173 --> 29:28.353 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you all getting anything out of this? 29:29.465 --> 29:31.466 [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to know the one who's authorizing it. 29:31.486 --> 29:34.047 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got to read the scripture Acts 19 verse 13. 29:34.527 --> 29:38.028 [SPEAKER_01]: There's some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists, okay? 29:38.548 --> 29:43.630 [SPEAKER_01]: These were the itinerant ministers, Jewish ministers, who cast it out devils. 29:44.150 --> 29:45.651 [SPEAKER_01]: Took it upon themselves. 29:46.311 --> 29:47.831 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's so many things you can say about this. 29:48.312 --> 29:57.675 [SPEAKER_01]: To call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits saying, we exercise you by the Jesus who Paul preaches. 29:59.296 --> 30:04.457 [SPEAKER_01]: Also, there were seven sons of Skiva, a Jewish chief priest who did so. 30:05.278 --> 30:08.379 [SPEAKER_01]: And the evil spirit answered, again, seven sons. 30:08.419 --> 30:09.559 [SPEAKER_01]: They're all doing the same thing. 30:10.679 --> 30:14.600 [SPEAKER_01]: See, again, the dynamic Jesus is not a lucky rabbits that you can waver around. 30:15.340 --> 30:16.581 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a magic potion. 30:17.341 --> 30:19.682 [SPEAKER_01]: The evil spirit answered and said, Jesus, I know. 30:20.782 --> 30:21.762 [SPEAKER_01]: And Paul, I know. 30:23.543 --> 30:24.283 [SPEAKER_01]: But who are you? 30:26.398 --> 30:29.539 [SPEAKER_01]: Who in the, whatever are you? 30:31.420 --> 30:42.163 [SPEAKER_01]: Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them overpowered them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 30:42.183 --> 30:49.145 [SPEAKER_01]: The seven sons of Skiva said, we cast you out in the name of Jesus that Paul breaches. 30:50.553 --> 31:01.362 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, they had heard Paul preach, they had seen the miracles that Paul did, but they didn't know the Jesus who Paul knew. 31:02.463 --> 31:08.508 [SPEAKER_01]: They were not saved, they were not Spirit Field, they were not in covenant with God whatsoever. 31:09.249 --> 31:14.353 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand this, you can't use the family name if you're not a part of it. 31:16.855 --> 31:17.156 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 31:18.225 --> 31:21.991 [SPEAKER_01]: Can't use the family name if you're not a part of it, right? 31:23.193 --> 31:25.256 [SPEAKER_01]: But I got some good news for you that are saved. 31:26.117 --> 31:27.580 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been given a family name. 31:27.600 --> 31:28.281 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, ho ho. 31:29.368 --> 31:31.949 [SPEAKER_01]: I said, you've got a family name that you can use. 31:32.590 --> 31:34.030 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been authorized to you. 31:34.190 --> 31:35.051 [SPEAKER_01]: You know him. 31:35.631 --> 31:37.572 [SPEAKER_01]: I know my elder brother, Jesus. 31:38.012 --> 31:40.053 [SPEAKER_01]: I know he's King of Kings and Lord of Lord. 31:40.353 --> 31:42.994 [SPEAKER_01]: I know Jesus, he saved me and he delivered me. 31:43.295 --> 31:45.756 [SPEAKER_01]: And the good news, if he did it for me, he'll do it for you. 31:45.936 --> 31:47.897 [SPEAKER_01]: Now in the name of Jesus be healed. 31:48.137 --> 31:50.258 [SPEAKER_01]: In the name of Jesus, to be delivered. 31:51.198 --> 31:57.641 [SPEAKER_01]: See, whenever you, in order to exercise authority, you've got to know the person who's authorized you. 31:58.422 --> 31:58.742 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen? 32:00.078 --> 32:03.442 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, we know, and Paul, we know, but who are you? 32:03.802 --> 32:08.226 [SPEAKER_01]: These men did not possess any authority to use the name of Jesus. 32:08.487 --> 32:14.012 [SPEAKER_01]: The demons were saying that these men, they didn't know Jesus, and they didn't know Paul either. 32:14.853 --> 32:16.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Here, I want you to write this down. 32:16.575 --> 32:20.939 [SPEAKER_01]: The more of Jesus you know, the greater your authority grows. 32:22.232 --> 32:26.834 [SPEAKER_01]: The more of Jesus you know, the greater your authority grows. 32:27.494 --> 32:38.219 [SPEAKER_01]: If you want to see your authority increase, what I mean by that is see it release in your life at greater and greater levels, then get to know Jesus more and more. 32:38.879 --> 32:46.202 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not talking about knowing him and worship, and that's wonderful and great, but I'm talking about knowing what he said in his word. 32:46.842 --> 32:50.983 [SPEAKER_01]: Because listen, the first way you get to know Jesus is you get to know Him by His Word. 32:51.423 --> 32:53.403 [SPEAKER_01]: You get to know Him by what He said. 32:53.703 --> 32:55.624 [SPEAKER_01]: You get to know Him by His promises. 32:55.944 --> 32:58.064 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the way that we get to know Jesus. 32:58.604 --> 33:01.385 [SPEAKER_01]: And, listen, if anybody's a worshiper here, I'm a worshiper. 33:01.745 --> 33:05.805 [SPEAKER_01]: I taught him praise and worship for years and years, traveled around the nation, traveled internationally. 33:05.845 --> 33:06.926 [SPEAKER_01]: I did all of these things. 33:07.366 --> 33:11.666 [SPEAKER_01]: But understand this, worship by itself does not build your faith. 33:11.947 --> 33:14.367 [SPEAKER_01]: However, the Word will build your faith. 33:15.239 --> 33:19.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, just having an intimate moment with the Lord, that will not build your faith. 33:19.501 --> 33:24.524 [SPEAKER_01]: However, if you get to know Him through His Word, you'll see Your authority begin to grow, man. 33:25.304 --> 33:26.424 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's the last thing. 33:27.485 --> 33:29.106 [SPEAKER_01]: Authority is greater than power. 33:30.272 --> 33:34.835 [SPEAKER_01]: Now Pastor Joshua alluded to this last week, it actually shared quite a bit about this. 33:34.855 --> 33:36.637 [SPEAKER_01]: So I just want to kind of tag on this. 33:37.117 --> 33:39.739 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the last thing I'm sharing this morning. 33:40.259 --> 33:44.202 [SPEAKER_01]: But you got to understand that authority is greater than the power of the enemy. 33:44.242 --> 33:53.028 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the reason that Jesus says, I give you, I give you what, authority over what, the power of the enemy. 33:53.709 --> 33:57.912 [SPEAKER_01]: I get, you know this, I give you authority over power. 33:58.915 --> 34:01.341 [SPEAKER_01]: I give you authority over power. 34:02.002 --> 34:06.091 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, the authority that I'm giving you is greater than the power of hell. 34:07.177 --> 34:14.360 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that I give you is greater than the power of the enemy that's working in your children right now. 34:15.101 --> 34:18.863 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that I give you is greater than sickness or disease. 34:19.483 --> 34:23.825 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that I give you is greater than poverty and lot. 34:24.005 --> 34:27.567 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that I give you is greater than oppression and depression. 34:28.087 --> 34:34.030 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that I give you will supersede anything that the enemy is doing. 34:34.710 --> 34:41.132 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's two words that are used here, even in the opening scripture that we use in Luke chapter 18 or 19. 34:41.992 --> 34:43.133 [SPEAKER_01]: And the first one's authority. 34:43.633 --> 34:45.734 [SPEAKER_01]: Authorities, the Greek word, Exusia. 34:46.194 --> 34:50.635 [SPEAKER_01]: It means this right, privilege, and delegated influence. 34:51.095 --> 34:52.476 [SPEAKER_01]: The root word means this. 34:52.696 --> 34:53.576 [SPEAKER_01]: It is lawful. 34:54.597 --> 34:55.357 [SPEAKER_01]: It is lawful. 34:56.092 --> 34:56.913 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to hear this. 34:57.313 --> 35:03.578 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever you begin to use authority, you are operating in spiritual laws and spiritual principles. 35:04.319 --> 35:08.042 [SPEAKER_01]: And here this, spiritual laws and principles always work. 35:09.123 --> 35:10.904 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody say, they always work. 35:12.266 --> 35:14.688 [SPEAKER_01]: As a man of advice, they work whether or not you believe it or not. 35:15.909 --> 35:18.291 [SPEAKER_01]: Spiritual laws and principles work regardless. 35:19.131 --> 35:23.355 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, do you realize that the law of gravity works whether or not you believe it or not? 35:24.920 --> 35:33.742 [SPEAKER_01]: You can get up on the top of the building and say, I don't believe in gravity and start flapping your arms and you're still going to fall down if you jump off, right? 35:34.182 --> 35:38.043 [SPEAKER_01]: Because this is going to work regardless of what you think, regardless of what you believe. 35:38.223 --> 35:41.624 [SPEAKER_01]: Hear this, spiritual laws and the laws of the kingdom of God. 35:41.784 --> 35:45.925 [SPEAKER_01]: They operate and they work regardless of what you think and regardless of what you believe. 35:46.638 --> 35:55.381 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, they might not work for you in a positive manner if you don't understand them and receive them and embrace them, but they're still in action all the time. 35:55.841 --> 35:57.941 [SPEAKER_01]: So, authority means it is lawful. 35:58.361 --> 36:03.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Understand, the authority that Jesus has given us, it is lawful for you to use. 36:03.783 --> 36:04.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me say it another way. 36:04.903 --> 36:06.564 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the right thing for you to do. 36:07.204 --> 36:10.925 [SPEAKER_01]: The right thing for you to do is lay hands on the sick and see them recover. 36:11.394 --> 36:16.576 [SPEAKER_01]: The right thing for you to do is to lay hands on people and see demons flee, amen? 36:17.436 --> 36:28.619 [SPEAKER_01]: And the other word, power, it's the Greek word dunamis, which we spend to call those our familiar with, the understand this word dunamis is used for the power of God, but also for the power of the enemy. 36:29.239 --> 36:37.062 [SPEAKER_01]: But what Jesus says is that the authority that we have been given is greater than the dunamis, 36:38.385 --> 36:41.507 [SPEAKER_01]: of the enemy, of course there's word due to miss means force or strength. 36:41.707 --> 36:45.749 [SPEAKER_01]: So again, authority is greater than the ability of Satan. 36:45.769 --> 36:46.250 [SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean? 36:46.270 --> 36:46.750 [SPEAKER_01]: That means this. 36:46.990 --> 36:51.193 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care what the devil might be doing and what kind of havoc he may be wreaking in your life right now. 36:51.453 --> 36:54.875 [SPEAKER_01]: The authority that you've been given is greater and will change the situation. 36:56.336 --> 37:06.742 [SPEAKER_01]: You ever seen these movies, the movies where there's like maybe some bad guys, some crooks, some people, 37:07.625 --> 37:15.567 [SPEAKER_01]: that are doing things that are wrong, maybe they're robbing a factory or a bank or something like that. 37:16.187 --> 37:25.769 [SPEAKER_01]: And then all of a sudden, you get the police call and then there's a police cars that we get to show up and there's blue lights that are flashing. 37:26.649 --> 37:30.130 [SPEAKER_01]: What usually happens to the guys that are trying to do the bad deeds? 37:31.270 --> 37:32.350 [SPEAKER_01]: But it'll do it typically. 37:33.631 --> 37:34.791 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not a trick question. 37:36.289 --> 37:37.070 [SPEAKER_01]: what are they going to do? 37:37.930 --> 37:39.351 [SPEAKER_01]: They begin to run, right? 37:40.092 --> 37:46.336 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, the police haven't done anything other than just showed up with some blue lights flashing. 37:47.257 --> 37:54.082 [SPEAKER_01]: And just the presence of the blue lights flashing causes them to be afraid and begin to disperse. 37:55.043 --> 37:57.324 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got some really good news for you today. 37:58.025 --> 37:58.725 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is this. 37:58.845 --> 38:00.827 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus has given you some blue lights. 38:02.320 --> 38:25.108 [SPEAKER_01]: And in any area of your life, for the enemy is wreaking havoc, the only thing you've got to do is just begin to show up there and turn on the lights because you are the authorized agent, you are the authority in the earth and it's going to cause the guys that are bad, the enemy that's doing things that she should not be doing in your life, it will cause them to begin to run and cause them to be dispheld in the name of Jesus. 38:32.148 --> 38:35.269 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you turning on the likes of your authority? 38:35.829 --> 38:38.209 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can use whatever color you want to. 38:38.429 --> 38:39.730 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not about it being blue. 38:40.030 --> 38:41.210 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just about, are you? 38:41.430 --> 38:47.432 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you turning on your, because there's a light that God has given you a lot of authority that you can begin to shine. 38:47.752 --> 38:51.873 [SPEAKER_01]: And whenever you begin to do that, that's the enemy's clue I've got to exit. 38:52.633 --> 38:52.993 [SPEAKER_01]: Because, 38:53.954 --> 38:59.378 [SPEAKER_01]: The authorized agents are here to actually put me in jail to take me away. 38:59.898 --> 39:03.881 [SPEAKER_01]: My friend is time for us to begin to use the authority that we've been given. 39:03.901 --> 39:05.002 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you stand to your feet? 39:05.502 --> 39:08.284 [SPEAKER_01]: It's time to rise up in our authority. 39:08.804 --> 39:11.306 [SPEAKER_01]: It's time to take back what the enemy has stolen. 39:11.867 --> 39:15.289 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, this message this morning is here to encourage you. 39:15.969 --> 39:20.513 [SPEAKER_01]: It's here to inspire you to begin to take the authority that you have been given. 39:21.315 --> 39:25.639 [SPEAKER_01]: Many of us have not been using the authority and taking the authority that we've been given. 39:26.159 --> 39:34.206 [SPEAKER_01]: We've been allowing life to happen, but we haven't been using the authority that we've been given over the power of the enemy. 39:34.626 --> 39:36.467 [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you this morning is safe pastor? 39:36.888 --> 39:38.569 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna begin to use my authority. 39:38.589 --> 39:40.010 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna sit back any longer. 39:40.271 --> 39:42.673 [SPEAKER_01]: See, that's what the Holy Spirit's really wanting us to do. 39:43.577 --> 39:46.320 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to put up with what the devil's doing any longer. 39:46.340 --> 39:51.786 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to put up with what enemies trying to do within your life, within your family, within your marriage. 39:52.327 --> 40:04.821 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you need to go into your household and just put your foot down and say, devil, you can't have my household, you can't have my marriage, you can't have my kids, you can't have my family, and the name of Jesus, I command you to go. 40:05.001 --> 40:14.827 [SPEAKER_01]: See, sometimes we think Cassie out devils is just limited to somebody laying hands on somebody else and say in the name of Jesus come out or be released or be delivered. 40:15.067 --> 40:20.650 [SPEAKER_01]: But understand this, there's a lot of people that need to go into their households and see household deliverance. 40:20.890 --> 40:23.452 [SPEAKER_01]: And you are authorized to do that where you live. 40:23.672 --> 40:27.154 [SPEAKER_01]: You can do it at your address, doesn't matter where you're at. 40:27.394 --> 40:31.200 [SPEAKER_01]: You can be going to take your authority and see deliverance and see freedom. 40:31.220 --> 40:32.202 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you say amen? 40:32.523 --> 40:35.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you lift your hands today and don't you to pray this with me? 40:36.088 --> 40:38.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 40:38.132 --> 40:41.898 [SPEAKER_00]: We trust that this message has blessed and encouraged and identified you. 40:42.396 --> 40:46.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe so you never miss a message here from High Braise. 40:46.579 --> 40:54.504 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you can follow us on social media, on Facebook and on Instagram, and don't forget to go subscribe to our YouTube channel. 40:55.144 --> 40:57.386 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back soon with another incredible 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