the believer's authority

THE BELIEVER’S AUTHORITY

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Wommack.Wommack. “The only fight the Christian is called upon to fight is the good fight of faith’. ‘If we are

in any other fight – we are in the wrong fight” – Kenneth E. Hagin

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OUR LEARNING OBJECTIVES

•To set us on a path to discover the authority we have in Christ as believers•To help us learn how to use our authority in Christ•To stir up the passion and consciousness to walk in our authority regularly as believers.•To help us understand our responsibilities as Christians.

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LET US PRAY

•Our Heavenly Father we thank You for your Grace and Mercy upon our lives. We acknowledge Your precious Holy Spirit as our Teacher whom will teach us all things (John 14:26). •We acknowledge that we can’t learn the truths of Your Word by our intellect but they have to be revealed to us by Your Holy Spirit in our hearts.


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LET US PRAY

•Father we ask that your Holy Spirit ministers to us and reveals the truths of your Word to us as we go thru these slides. This we ask Father, in the name of your only begotten Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.


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DISCOVERING THE BELIEVERS AUTHORITY

•The Question - Do we have authority that we don’t know about, that we haven’t discovered, that we are not using? • Response - Oh a resounding Yes! Yes!!

Yes!!!•The Path To Discovery – Understanding and knowing our authority is a function of the truths of God’s word that are revealed to us by His Holy Spirit in our hearts – Joshua 1:8


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•Asking For Wisdom: A Good Way To Start • Eph 3:17-19 – That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.


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•Asking For Wisdom: A Good Way To Start – • Eph 1:16-20 – I Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set him at His own right hand in the heavenly places.


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•Foundations For Our Authority – •Our Faith • 2nd Corth 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

•Where we are seated • Eph2: 5-6 – Even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.• 1st Corth 6:17 – But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.


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•Foundations For Our Authority – •Where we are seated • Eph 1: 20-21 – Which He worked in Christ

when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.


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•Foundations For Our Authority – •The Name of Jesus • Philip 2: 9-10 – Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.


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•Foundations For Our Authority – •Our Lord’s Mandate to us – • Luke 10:19-20 – Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.


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•Foundations For Our Authority – •Our Lord’s Mandate to us – •Math 28:18-20 – Then Jesus came and spoke to them saying “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen


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EXERCISING OUR AUTHORITY IN CHRIST

•Exercising Authority over Whom? • Eph 6:12 – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.• The Lord has delegated His authority to the church and we are to exercise that authority over the devil. Luke 10: 19-20, Math 28:18-20


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•Exercising Authority over Whom? •Mark 16:17-18 – And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.


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•Exercising Authority over Whom? •1st Peter 5:8-9 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.


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•Reigning as Kings •Rom 5:17 – For if by one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.•Math 18:18 – Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.


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•The Weapons of our Warfare•Eph 6:10-11 – Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, Put on the whole armor of God (Eph 6: 14-18), that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.


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•The Weapons of our Warfare• The Armor of God – Defensive weapons• Helmet of Salvation – Eph 2:8-9 – For by

grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.• Shield of Faith – Rom 10:17 – So then

faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God


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•The Weapons of our Warfare• The Armor of God – Defensive weapons• Breastplate of Righteousness – 2nd Corth 5:21 – For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.• The Belt of Truth – John 14:6 – I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. • The Gospel of Peace – Math 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.


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•The Weapons of our Warfare• The Armor of God – Offensive Weapon• Sword of the Spirit – The sword of the Spirit is the word of God. Hebr 4:12 – For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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•The Weapons of our Warfare•The Sword of the Spirit•Using the Sword of the Spirit – Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit; being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.


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•Offensive Weapon – Sword of the Spirit• Using the Sword of the Spirit –• Has to be done in Faith – Rom 1:17 –

The just shall live by faith. 2nd Corth 5:7 – For we walk by faith not by sight.• ***And Faith works by Love – Galtn 5:6

– For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.• 1st Corinthians Chapter 13, Romans 12:14,

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UNDERSTANDING OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS

CHRISTIANS• Responsibility To Society • The degree to which we understand the love

command (Luke 10:27) and God’s love (1st Corth 13) would determine how well we perform and appreciate our responsibilities as Christians.

• Responsibility To Society – Salt and Light (Math 5:13-16), Servant of all (Math 23:11, Mark 9:35), Prayers (1st Timothy 2:1-6) amongst others.


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SUMMARY

• In summary every believer is seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus far above all principalities and powers. •We have authority over the devil and all principalities and powers and are called to do the works Christ did.


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SUMMARY

•The journey is a continuous one of learning and growing in the knowledge of God’s word and the truth contained therein. And more importantly receiving these truths in our hearts.•Our ability to exercise our authority effectively is a function of both the level of our faith and how we exercise the love of God that has been shed abroad in our heart.


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SUMMARY

•We are called to reign in life as Kings with the love of God that has been shed abroad in our heart in service to all and in humility so that we may not fall into pride.


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RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SALVATION •Are you saved? Have you received God’s gift of salvation (Eph. 2:8)? I encourage you to accept the Lord’s precious gift of salvation which is freely available to the whole of mankind.•Faith in Jesus Christ is primarily what is required to be saved. The bible tells us for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23) and the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23). As a result, the whole of mankind deserves to be separated from God eternally (Rom 6:23).

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RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SALVATION •However, our Father loves us dearly and as such he sent His only begotten son to die in our place (John 3:16-17) so that we may be saved and has through Christ reconciled us back to Himself (2nd Corth 5:18). • It is not His desire that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2nd Pet 3:9) and accept His precious gift of salvation. If you would like to accept this gift please say the following confession.


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RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SALVATION •Father I come to You in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that He died for my sins and was raised from the dead for my justification according to the scriptures. I believe that because of His death, burial and resurrection, I am set right with God. So I receive Him(Jesus) in my heart as my saviour and confess Him with my mouth as my Lord. Thank You, Lord.


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RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SALVATION

•Welcome to the family of God. Next Steps •Cultivate your relationship with the Lord by studying your bible daily – A daily devotional is a useful guide. •Regularly listen to tapes and messages based on God’s word. Please see the file below.•Attend a bible believing church near you.

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RECEIVING THE GIFT OF SALVATION Welcome to the family of God. Next Steps •Useful links – •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikNbkFdt9A•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvGz0hMezA•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQgbQuvgNg•http://www.flcbranson.org/listseries.php?xml=rss/Humility.xml


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THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU – AMENSPECIAL THANKS TO THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ALL THE HUMAN VESSELS THE LORD USES TO TEACH US

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