Authority

And so I want us to pay attention as I set the stage for the mighty things that God is going to be doing tonight.

I'm teaching on authority, power, and jurisdiction.

Authority, power, and jurisdiction.

It's going to be a brief charge and then we'll pray.

Authority, power, and jurisdiction.

Please lend me your attention.

The average Christian's understanding about power and authority is vague and largely inaccurate.

Capacity to influence outcomes and the force that compels compliance is my definition of power.

Yeah.

um in Leo again it speaks to Authority figures because the sun is Authority okay uh prominent peoples okay um men in general right but obviously women have the soul of power as well so these would be executive women women in charge as well right so anybody in that and there's kind of like a um a decision that needs to be made before they can kind of continue there needs to be an adjustment that needs to be made right I would imagine both of those would be something along the lines in the military conflicts they're like okay something needs to shift here okay that's how it would see that in the externalized world in our own personal world okay it's the same Dynamics we're needing to shift around wherever Leo is in your chart Okay.

If anyone remembers where Leo's in their chart, anyone kind of...

I can't wait.

So we're going to start this off because we're going to open up a whole new chapter of what Mythic Bachelorland offers as a game.

It's very similar to a chapter of old-school classic D&D, which very few people actually attain, which is Dominion and Authority.

Welcome, everybody, to the late-stage game.

All right, so Dominion.

Exactly

right.

OK, so the next chapter in the book is called Authority, which kind of keeps following on from the Dominion sort of thing.

And it tells us that.

So preference wasn't part of the New Testament church.

Authority was, and because that authority was intact and theonomous, people came to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Have you ever heard of Paul? Yep.

Do you realize that Paul went from Saul to Paul immediately? He also went from murderer to minister overnight.

Number two, his omnipotence, the ability to be all-powerful.

and then number three his ability to be omniscient no all-knowing these three dimensions of God he did not share with man they brand him in a class all by himself are we together now so man is not all powerful our power is derived that's why we have Authority Authority is the legitimacy to use power God does not have Authority because Authority demands that you must be regulated every time you give a man Authority there must be a system above that man that supervises the management of that power and Authority are we together now yes I know the Bible says all authority has been given.

Notice Jesus is speaking as a man.

All authority.

Authority is given.

It is not derived.

It is given.

And part of the challenge is that my opponent has worked very closely, was actually counsel for Senator Paul Betancourt.

And you know that the senator has time and time again um proactively attacked Harris County right tried to take away that Authority tried to do things to diminish the power of what is the third largest County in the nation an economic driver for this country there's a lot at stake that's what that's the point and one of the challenges with our elections in Harris County is we have the longest ballot in the country.

So where the county attorney's office position is on the ballot is right there with the county judge, county commissioners, but guess where that is? all the way at the very bottom of the ballot.

So while we have this excitement, this engagement, this interest at the top of the ticket, and I'm right there with everyone, the challenge is educating voters, getting the word out and making sure that folks vote all the way down.

Right.

Authority is for protection.

Right.

It's not for control or domination.

The tablets do not.

Authority is built through spoken transmission, and the very act of repeating a command before witnesses helps make it public and binding.

Marduk enters this chain at the moment when

the divine household can no longer pretend that the old hierarchy will save

resolved the probe into its innermost secrets.

First,

Authority is made visible through

forms people already understood.