AUTHORITY - Part 4

Bad authority and good are the same

Submission to authority, good and bad, spiritual and secular is all the same to God. If we understand authority we understand God’s heart and the way He works.

Romans 13:1-2
[1] Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. [2] Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
There is no exception to submission.

1 Peter 2:18-20
[18] Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. [19] For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. [20] But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

In essence, there is no good authority in the world anyway because it all falls short. So if God did not want us to learn about authority He wouldn't have left us to live out our natural life before going to Heaven.

Submitting to authority is submitting to God! I know it's tough. It took me 10 years to understand it but oh what freedom there is in it now! Do it brothers and your life will change.

God respects authority

1 Corinthians 2:6 AMP
Yet when we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding), we do impart a higher wisdom (the knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden); but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away.

Ephesians 3:9-10 AMP
Also to enlighten all men and make plain to them what is the plan regarding the Gentiles and providing for the salvation of all men of the mystery kept hidden through the ages and concealed until now in the mind of God Who created all things by Christ Jesus. The purpose is that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere.

God has authority over the cities, not Satan. The reason the cities have the depravity that they have is because churches do not stand on the authority of this verse.
For instance, it is useless to bind Satan in a church. Only the pastor can because only he has authority. We can bind lying spirits or spirits closing the pastor's ears but we cannot rebuke other spirits from acting against the church. God does not violate the rule of authority chain of command.


NEXT TIME: during this season of Easter and Passover, we'll start a new series: SALVATION!

Andy De Campos

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