us pray father we come to you lord god i thank you for your word i think the promises of your word i like you for the power that send your word i'd thank you god that you give us principles to live by that father god you give us a formula and the formula you to honor you to be a follower of jesus christ and there are rewards in their benefits that come with that lord today we're going to be talking about the ultimate power that you give us power and that spiritual authority and father i pray for each person have a greater understanding of the story they have if they're a follower of jesus christ we pray this in jesus name amen also meant power you know everybody wants power in our world today and there's leaders role leaders that want out as governments that want power to dent of it they want power we have now in our most of the time hopefully not willfully but sometimes even willfully that we can sin and god turns around and says if you'll be committed to my son if you become it allow me to transform and change your life the more that you allow me to change the more authority and power i'm going to give you as a believer to me is just amazing that god is going to trust as human beings it is really amazing because how you see in human beings abuse authority how many have seen church leaders abuse authority god still gives a spiritual authority when he knows the ties were going to be use it that's his love and he says you know what all i have to work with is you guys and it gives us the already so every human beings in a spiritual battle you know that every person is in a spiritual battle whether you believe in jesus not whether you're a christian or not whether you believe in god or not you're still in a spiritual battle those who do not know jesus christ as a sort of savior of fighting the battle in their own strength followers of jesus christ of a streng beyond themselves that if you don't know jesus christ as your lord and savior you're going to find a spiritual battle on your own or here's the sad part if you don't rise as your lord and savior you can be food for the me and you think you're fighting against the days of darkness that you're actually part of the darkness where the great example of that is the whole concept of wicca and whatever and white magic and other names guess well let me tell you something they think they're finding against the evil days but  they're practicing witchcraft as they're doing that and so are they really fighting against evil days are they be part of evil things and the people of wicca they love to talk about karma on the talk about you know and things come around well if you're hoping for things to come around you do evil to me back to you i was that good so you're actually speaking a curse upon yourself because if you take karma all the way karma says what karma says if you do good things good things come bad things you do bad things come so you do the wrong to me i say i hope you're cursed because you do something wrong on me to me guess what happens the goes around circling the curse goes back on you that's crazy but then the things of the going to break that down we're going to look at if you're born again christian you have god living within you if you're born again christian it says that you're seated at the right hand of god why we're going to take a look at that because if we're seated at the right hand of jesus there were see it's right in and of god over the devil and demons so the reality is we're in a spiritual battle we need to fight the battle in the spirit and not in the flesh too many times we think our battles are fleshly battles when they're not their spiritual battles if you're having conflict with somebody do you think it's all them beyond that conflict or can the enemy be behind that conflict if there's a conflict is not god god doesn't want conflict if you have a brother and a sister laura there's conflict there's somebody else that's a volved and not just able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil that's telling me i could stand firm against the schemes of the devil schemes means there's trickery going on schemes means there's the septic going to the bible same when i put on the full armor got for  people is not against governments what is it against is against spiritual forces of wickedness that are in the heavenly places that means there is a war that's being planted design to end the heavenly by the enemy and his cold hearts and the find every way they can a trip of christians a non christian anybody they can they're doing strategy they're sitting down in their planning strategy now we can hear them to get oh my goodness whoa my goodness what's going to happen we're going to do  but on the former god i could stand against whatever they're going to do whatever it is it's amazing to look at scripture the bible says stand firm but there's times we don't stand firm stand firm what you're in a defensive mode we're standing zero fits and there's a defense than a soccer they have the same thing and baseball basketball every sport there's the sense of side in the fence of side ok and i also understand i didn't know this for a long time but the actually is players of that it like in football i understand give me right if i'm wrong but in football if you're a defensive linebacker is that the right word ok you're not a rusher ok you're not a catch or whatever you call that receiver a time that we need to resist we need to fight to says that resisting the evil day and the evil days talk talking about the future there's going to be a day in a time of the evil day but guess what does anybody think we live in evil days today do you think that today is a little more wicked than it was last week if not i don't know what papers are read i don't know do you watch t v do you do you live or in the neighborhood you live in because it's getting worse and worse and worse and it says we can resist the evil day and after done everything do what stand firm so i ask you fought you stand firm here is that people do they get in a spiritual warfare battle and you know what they're in a struggle maybe there's a temptation going on and they win that over the temptation and after one of the temptation what do do they  they lay down and go to sleep so instead of having the bible here taking a stand the whole time they lay down they put their head in the bible as though they sure hope it works don't work by laying your head on it it works by applying as after we got through a battle what do we do we still stand firm we continue to stand firm why do we stand firm because i'm going to guarantee you there's a battle around the corner so you shouldn't get lackadaisical we didn't walk in that twenty four hours a day seven days a week we never know when something's going to come our way we need to be a little we need to be aware we stand firm we do not give him we fight the battle till we've won the war what's the war the war is all to me to enter into heaven so how long we fight we fight until we see jesus face to face so guess what christian he is not for wimps as for warriors if you're a wimp if you're a wimp if you're a wimpy christian guess what you could probably be did pressed a lot you're probably not going to have much finances you're probably going for relationships don't go right god doesn't want wimps he wants warriors want a woman i can't be a  in the spirit you can be a wire because guess what there's neither male or female in the eyes of god we're all supposed to be warriors are all supposed to fight where if you're a little kid when you're a little kid at seven years old you accepted jesus are you supposed to be a  absolutely whoever you are if your believe in christ were to be warriors shit is are you a warrior for jesus or you're a fighter for jesus a warrior for jesus does that mean you have to be on the frontlines i don't know it's about the military either s my probably do some things wrong correct and this i won't have any the terms right or anything else but i know that there are soldiers that go out in the field and they're on the front lines and there's guys that are in what law just takes that take care to make sure the soldiers get f accurate make sure that they get the vehicles to them in the weapons to them and all that and then there's people that are the used to be the old days the radio man i don't know what you call them now but they go on the radio say sin that bomb over here they've got some other name for that so they're not the thing christians have the holy spirit within them i like to emphasize what kind of spirit is holy spirit some christian i wonder if they have the holy spirit in them some tell you one of which is have a spirit in them but the bible says we're to have the whole we have the holy spirit within us and romans eight eleven is says but of the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead whales and you he raised christ jesus from the dead well also give life to your mortal bodies through you're living in the midst of sin you're living a rebellion to god you're doing whatever senate is that you love doing and all of a sudden a drinks conviction your heart to accept christ and the holy spirit enters in you to search except christ it doesn't wait to get cleaned up believe that verse john for three and four and every spirit that is not confess jesus is not from god this is the spirit of the anti christ which you have heard that is coming and now is already in the world verse for you are from god little children and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he use in the ruled verse for you are from god little children have overcome them overcome who  spirit those who are of the enemy you have overcome them how have you overcome them because you turn around you got a big argument you won is that you overcome them you overcome a because you know what you showed them know you overcome them because greater is he that is in you he is in the room that means sometimes when somebody when you want to turn around and and you argue with them and debate with them and hate them that what you're able to do because he that sin is greater than the rule you are able to african american gentleman he's talking about death and he was a kid he grew up in louisiana eat and have a dad he showed the house that he lived in there was no water there was no lights he was actually a cotton picker and out of it he talked about you was t thing just keep on fighting the good fight keep doing you're supposed to be doing don't quit don't quit reach your goals desire you want to do you know what he overcome every single obstacle was it becomes a sheriff is up to you to be a be a city council man he's been all kinds of different things and he's in this is what he said is i knew that god's spirit was within me and that no matter what i could add the victory and then journey around and there was another person that was an officer he's turned around and he works at university what is it called kirtland university something university is a christian college synagogue college a different name now the best university and it was a police officer now teaches criminal justice and he talks officers and different people and i'm going to sit there and i think i got a degree in criminal justice to lock everybody up and i lock them inside my houses that's kind of crazy doing the opposite of what i would have done by because he that is in me is greater than  say yes i would say no and why would i say that because every single one of us in this room every single one of us nobody is an exception i don't care if you've been a christian for a day or one hundred years there's been times when god tyler just to do something and we were not obedient because it was stretched as a little too far because we didn't have the faith to believe it and i wonder how many times that god wanted to use each of us in a certain situation and because our lack of faith he didn't get to accomplish is will through will through us because you know god can companies will without us is somebody stealing depend upon me praying for absolutely not god to raise somebody else up but what about having the privilege of the honor to be used by god whatever baby i say healing would be great if you tell me you're going to tell me that you want to be excited that i want to be a blessing to turn around and somebody is dying of cancer and they have the doctors say they have one day to live and you pray for them and they live six months later you're going to tell me what not being an experience if you think it's about you you know what got to let you know it wasn't about you but want to be great to be used by god but to be great to be used by god that god speaks you know what give a thousand dollars to ministry and the holy spirit within you says give it and you give it and turn around thousands and thousands of people want to christ because you gave to that ministry and you had a little bit to do with is at the right end of the father and it says that he has authority if it comes to angels and powers and everything's been made subject to jesus any debate on that any question about that ok just look at ephesians two six and seven and raised as up with him who is the him jesus raises up with him and seen us with him in the heavenly places in christ jesus so that the age of the coming might show the surpassing riches of his grace and quite kindness toward us in christ jesus so scripture says and what is speaking is speaking here now is not talking about the future is says that he's any raised us up with him it doesn't say he will raise us up with them it doesn't say he's going to raise us up with them is talking about and father where are we spiritually right out of the father so spiritually we're right in the father i know that we're not there to day we're here on this earth but we're too earthly minded sometimes that we forget about there's a spiritual r grace is favorable regard good will divine favor and the power and equipment for ministry the power and equipment for ministry i never hear that definition all i ever hear is grace is unmerited favor i hear is grace is that god gives you  favor but why does he give us ever does he give us favor just for salvation so we can be saved and go to heaven no he gives us favor for many more reasons to that he gives us favor to rebuild his glory israel is power he gives us favor so that as our life  changed other to see that they can have hope to gives us favor he gives us divide favorite gives us the merit of favor and he it gives us favor it gives us grace to equipped us to do ministry if you know the about minister if you're going to do ministry you need god's spirit to do it by because as so warfare you're in if you think you can be involved in ministry i don't care if it's to be a warship leader i don't care is to work in the sound system i don't care if you're a us or i don't care if you're doing the genitalia work whatever minister do i don't care if you're doing ministry at your job place it's going to be at all there's going to be warfare that takes place and god is grace he says that the right hand of the father he says is with jesus why so we can have authority and so we could have power to walk out in the ministry that god has us to walk in the first few features to seven it says so then the age that come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kind as towards us in christ jesus god shows his kindness toward us by give us eternal life through grace and a given us the ability to overcome sin through grace isn't that kindness if i give you the ability if i say here to spill and you don't have to sin anymore isn't that kind is from you or from me if i did that but god doesn't give us a pill he gives us his holy spirit i'd rather have the holy spirit than a bill so he gives us his holy spirit so that we can walk in his grace we can walk in his annoying thousand so we can have spiritual authority so we can live overcoming lives or selves because i believe this if you haven't learned overcome sin you're not going to be much of a power when it comes against the enemy come against the devil which you're going to be taking a look at to encourage christians or sit at the right hand  that the right hand the father not at the left hand the reason says right hand is because the right hand represents power on or favor i'm sure but he said he's my right hand man anybody ever hear that now you know where that comes from a cuz from a hebrew tradition because from other cultures the left hand had some bad connotation if you come from other cultures i won't say what that that left hand was used for ok but it was used for things that you don't want to talk about in church that's why there was a right hand at the right hand of god so at the right hand of god hebrews four sixteen says this that is therefore boley to the throne room of grace that we may tame mercy and find grace in a time of need is that interesting if you are in like spiritual authority because of people do back in things spiritual not a god is wacky i'm not trying to teach wackiness all we got spiritual authority and we can name and claim it but there are because of the false we've seen on the pendulum where we don't believe in a spiritual for me this is that sin the paul talks about this so easily entangles me and i meant our time what if we really believe that we see at the right hand of the father what would we do i look over at say father i got this problem when you take care of it and as a father god said no i don't take care of it today but what happened we would get out of the way and let god take care of it today if you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v dot or as there is hope t v or and we have 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