Eph 2:6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

1 Authority as Children of God – 1.1 No More Orphans

• Joh 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right (exousia = authority) to become children of God,
• No more orphans – adopted into God’s family for re-parenting – power of being born again. Trusting, believing, faith hope love
• Belonging – love
• Worth – hope – good to perfect gift
• Significance – faith – Heb 11:1

 

Jesus in Us is Able

• Heb 12:1-2 and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (2)  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Heb 7:25 Therefore, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

 

1.2 No more servants

• Rom 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  (24)  and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
• No more servants – we don’t live a shortfall, but the gift of God. No more perform for approval – religious work & wages no more
• Joh 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

 

1.3 No More Slaves

• No more slaves in bondage & addictions, pride & ego
• Rom 8:14-16 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.  (15)  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”  (16)  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

 

 

1.4 No More Pharaoh

• We are no more little dictators of our little power
• Fighting to protect the plot

 

1.5 No More Rebels but Jesus Revolutionaries

• No More Rebels – it’s finished
• No more fights – all rights granted – Rev 12:11
• Eph 2:3-5 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.  (4)  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,  (5)  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved– 1 Tim 6:6

 

1.6 No More Vagabonds

• We get on a God scripted life
• Cain’s Cry – Gen 4:14 Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
• Eph 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,  (9)  not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  (10)  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

 

Love & Power – I am Loved – I am Able

• Gen 3:10 He said, I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, & I was afraid because I was naked; & I hid myself.
• Seeking approval from man & making my own effort, will be healed when I know who I am in Him.
• Adam lost his belonging & he said – I am afraid
• Adam lost his worth & he said – I am naked
• Adam lost his significance – I am hiding (I am of no use) – Fear Overcome
• God has not given to us a spirit of fear but of love, of power & a steadfast mind. 2 Tim 1:7
• 2 Authority of New Creation
  Before the Cross & After the Cross
• 2Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
• Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
• Old flesh is crucified – don’t empower the old self

 

3 Authority of Jesus’ Blood

• 1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Old sin has no dominion over me
• No more condemnation – Heb 2:24
• Cleanses conscience – no guilt
• Forgiven to forgive – Power to forgive
• Heb 10:32 – no more court case

 

Blood of Jesus Speaks for Better Equip you With Good

• Heb 12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
• Heb 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,  (21)  equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

 

4 Authority of the Word of Christ

• Act 20:32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
• Rom_10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
• Col_3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

 

4 Authority of the Word of Christ

• Joh_6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
• Joh_12:48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
• Words of Christ we obey, have executive power over all we do
• 5 Authority of the Great Commission
  Lamp on a stand, City upon a Hill
• Mat 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.  (14)  “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.  (15)  Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.  (16)  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

 

Nation within the Nation

• 1Pe 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.