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Glory to the Lord. I am very happy to be here this morning and to be able to share the word of God with you all.
A sermon exploring the concept of authority from a biblical perspective, focusing on Jesus' unique authority and its implications for believers.
Key Takeaways
- Authority is a divine qualification granted by grace, not just a social or organizational role.
- Jesus exemplifies true authority by teaching with confidence and commanding spirits directly.
- Believers have authority over all creation, restored through Jesus and exercised through relationship and position.
- Spiritual authority requires knowledge, faith, communication, and sometimes fasting and prayer.
- Understanding and exercising authority is essential for spiritual growth and overcoming opposition.
What the video covers
- The speaker opens with a community-building exercise to learn neighbors' names, setting a relational tone.
- The sermon centers on the theme of authority, particularly as demonstrated by Jesus in Mark chapter 1.
- Jesus teaches and acts with authority, unlike the scribes, commanding even impure spirits without negotiation.
- Authority is defined as a qualification by grace to exercise power conferred by position over all creation.
- The speaker distinguishes between exorcism and prayers of authority, emphasizing Jesus' direct command over spirits.
- Authority is not merely positional but relational and meant to be exercised actively by believers.
- The sermon discusses the impact of sin on creation's response to humanity and Jesus' role in restoring authority.
- The concept of adoption is introduced as a Greco-Roman idea illustrating believers' new position in God's family.
- The message includes practical encouragement about spiritual authority, prayer, fasting, and prophetic wisdom.
- The sermon integrates biblical teaching with personal testimony and practical application for the congregation.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Community Exercise
- 03:47Jesus' Authority in Mark Chapter 1
- 07:43Exorcism vs. Prayers of Authority
- 11:32Definition and Nature of Authority
- 15:13Authority Over All Creation
- 19:47Impact of Sin and Restoration of Authority
- 23:31Adoption and New Position in God's Family
- 30:17Practical Aspects of Exercising Authority
- 37:16Spiritual Growth: Knowledge, Faith, and Prayer
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Uh, I am going to ask you for a favor. Even if it's true that it's not a great start, I'm asking for a favor, perhaps because it's Christmas.
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Uh, it is the time to ask for gifts. I just want to ask you a favor if you can find someone in the congregation whose first name you don't know.
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Someone in the congregation this morning whose first name you don't know who isn't far from you there.
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Someone whose first name you don't know at all? Go greet them. What is their first name? Ask them. It might also be the right time to ask them, for
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them to ask you what your first name is too. That's good. If you know everyone around you, maybe that's not normal.
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No, I'm just, I'm laughing. It's just great. If you learned the name of your first name, we're going to of your of a
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new person. We are going to shout that out in unison. I will give a signal; on my signal, you will shout out the name of the person you just asked about earlier.
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Attention. In 3, 2, go. There are some who cheated, they just said "Oh!"
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Since the beginning of this month, we have been talking about authority, and today I would like as a theme or subject within this main theme, I propose: questions about authority.
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I put it in the plural, telling myself there were many questions because I asked myself quite a few questions anyway.
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Uh, but I cannot answer them in one single session. Uh, unless I plug you all into artificial intelligence and I do it in But there are indeed
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many questions one can ask about authority. I won't ask myself all the questions today, but I will be able to ask myself more than one. That will be: what is authority?
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But before that, let us read this text in Mark chapter 1. In
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Mark chapter 1, the Bible says: "They were all amazed, so that they asked each other: 'What is this?' A new doctrine. He commands with authority even the impure spirits. And they obey him."
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And his fame spread immediately throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee. The book, the Gospel according to Mark, starts right away with a Jesus who is a servant.
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It is a certain gospel, besides, it is written on the basis of a sermon. It was Peter preaching and Mark who was able to
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summarize those sermons. So, there aren't many temporal markers within it. They don't say after 24 days or 5 days.
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No, they say immediately Jesus is there, immediately Jesus, immediately they are telling of Jesus in action, fulfilling the servant's role.
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It starts right away by speaking of Isaiah's prophecy regarding a certain John the Baptist who was to come as the
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voice of one crying out in the wilderness. And then we start talking about Jesus. Jesus appears in Mark right away, surprising people; why does it seem like he has a new teaching?
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What is this new teaching? He already speaks as one having authority, not like the scribes. You know, if you've ever followed scribes teaching,
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uh, they have this excessive intellectual honesty, meaning they never say what they think. They say Rabbi so-and-so
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thought this, Rabbi so-and-so thought that, this one thought this, that one thought that; they affirm nothing. And Jesus was not like that. Jesus, he said exactly what needed to be done as if he were the author of the scriptures. And
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he had this authority, and he goes further; he doesn't just speak with this assurance. There was someone there who had an impure spirit. Everyone had noticed that it wasn't normal. And we see his confrontation with Jesus; we feel he has this authority, and it's
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not just in words; he commands impure spirits, boom, it comes out, and everything returns to order. You should know that back then, it didn't happen like that at all. Today, we talk about prayers of authority. We used to talk
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about exorcism, and exorcism and prayers of authority aren't really the same thing. In exorcism, you make a list of incantations, magic formulas, ways of calling upon a spirit to pressure another spirit. Sometimes in exorcism, in Judaism, you would
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negotiate with the spirit. It was the spirit who told you what to do to get it to leave. It would say, "Well look, I entered because he went into the desert somewhere, burn this, this, and that, and then I will leave." So those
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were long negotiations, and Jesus did not negotiate. He didn't have time to waste. There was no communication. And in exorcism, they perform what are called evocations, meaning conjurations. They apply pressure by citing another spirit. They do not commit themselves.
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That is what the sons of Sceva will try to do. You remember in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches, and the spirit makes them understand, and you, in all this, who are you? And here, Jesus was not going by anyone’s name.
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He was straightforward, he gave an order and the spirit left, but what authority! And everyone called that a new doctrine. I would have liked it if they read it as a new way of doing things, but they called it a new
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doctrine. They understood that it went beyond mere actions. It is a teaching, it is a lifestyle. Jesus appears astonishing in the Gospel. His teaching dazzles everyone. Not because he is a good philosopher, not because he reflects very well, but because he has
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authority. Not only because he teaches with authority, but because he manifests authority. So, this morning, the big question we will try to answer is: what is authority? So, look for the neighbor whose name you just learned.
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That is what that was for. Ask them, what is authority? Let’s go. But start with their first name, mind you, that’s how they’ll know if you remember their name. If you have a neighbor who starts directly with "what
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is authority," it means they didn't remember your name. Yes, we know well what authority is. I will suggest a definition to you shortly, and this definition is intentional because it is filled with the words I will use for
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the rest of the time. What is authority? We would like to start by saying it is this and that in society. There are several ways to talk about authority.
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There are several analogies for authority. In just one morning like this, I cannot really explain everything. Unless we come here on Christmas day. Then, I could teach it all. But what is authority? Here is what I propose as a definition.
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Authority is the qualification by grace to exercise the power that position confers over all of creation. Let’s take the time to digest that a little.
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When I read that, I asked myself, what does that mean? You know when you say something and then even you say, what does that mean? But each word is chosen to bring together strong concepts regarding authority. Authority, therefore, is a qualification by grace.
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That is to say, the grace of God gives you the quality of the grace of God qualifies you. It's not just because you were given authority, it is God who does these things. But it is the qualification by grace to exercise it.
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At the end of the day, authority isn't something you just hold onto saying "I have authority," it's meant to be exercised. "But what exactly are you exercising? What you exercise is called power. You will see in a moment why
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there is that word 'power' and not 'might.' Power comes from where? Power comes to us from position, not function — position. Position through relationship. What are we in the hierarchical order? I will explain that in a moment. And it's not just over
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evil spirits. Actually, that is all I will attempt to explain today. Authority is over all of creation. Oh yes, I would like you this morning, before leaving here, to understand that the authority the Lord placed on you is
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over all of creation. This is what we are going to do this morning. I won't really wait until the end for us to pray for one another. Right in the middle of the message, I will stop, I will pray, and then we will move
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forward. Is that okay? So, if you have a neighbor who asks, "What is he doing there?" He stopped, he actually started praying. Is that nor
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must rule over it." Genesis chapter 4, verse 7. Or when God says to the woman, "Now your desire will be for your husband and your husband will rule over you." God created human beings from the start by giving them an order. No
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collaborating, no having participatory meetings, no using community leadership or asking creation what they think. And that does not make man a tyrant, but the verb used from the moment of creation is "to dominate" over all of creation. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know
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that the verb "to dominate"...Many people are not very comfortable with it . Who would want to be dominated? See, nobody is ready to receive that. But yet, we received the mandate, according to God's thought, to dominate over creation. It is for this reason that I
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said that authority—let's go—the authority of the Christian is a restoration of man's dominion over creation. That is all I am going to demonstrate to you now in the remaining minutes. What we call authority in the Christian is the process by which Jesus
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Christ has restored in us completely the power of dominion that had been given to us from the start. You are beginning to understand why, when the devil is tempting Jesus—do you remember that? Matthew chapter what? 4, isn't it? He tempts Jesus, he says to
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him, "You see this earth, you see all this, I will give it to you if you bow down before me, because it has been given to me." Have you ever—do you remember that? Have you ever asked yourself the question, who gave it to
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him? It wasn't God who said to the devil, "Here, I give it to you." He is talking about a transaction that took place when man lost his authority. And it is not in vain that Jesus goes through this as a temptation because
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the three temptations of Jesus are the three great temptations of humanity from Adam to the people of Israel in the desert. Jesus started there. He began to defeat the devil before the cross. He first began by defeating him
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in the desert. It is not in vain that Jesus is already reclaiming that authority he had over all of creation.
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And when he leaves, Jesus is about to depart. He repeats this phrase. He says "All authority has been given to me.
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Behold, I am sending you." It is not for nothing that he is saying these things, but look with me. I just gave you a definition earlier of what authority is. Authority is very well stated. I cited four words.
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Do you remember? I said it was the qualification, the power, the position, and all of creation. While putting it like that, we see it very clearly, we remember it. These four things are qualification, power, position, and creation. Okay. I am going to explain
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all of that. Normally, this is where we say "teach," but I am not allowed to say that here. But let's explain all of this. Before I explain each of these words, let's look closely at how it all began. What really happened here? What
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happened is that the enemy sowed doubt. That is how everything began in the Garden of Eden. Man was there, he had no reason to doubt God, nothing. But for the enemy to destroy all of humanity, he started with doubt. Did
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God really say? You will understand all this, it will make sense. When he succeeded in putting into man's head the possibility that God could say one thing and not mean what He said, I mean , you know that at the starting point,
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it is man who accused God of being a liar. That is what the devil tried to do to him. He said God said, but He didn't really say it. Moreover, that was the devil's argument. God lied to you. He is hiding things from you.
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Besides, that tree there, that is what is inside it. You will see, there are plenty of things. When the enemy succeeded in making man doubt, that was his starting point. Secondly, sin came to do another work. Sin caused the loss
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of position. When man sinned, doing what God had not permitted, his place, literally and even physically, was no longer the same. God told him, "From this moment on, you can no longer stay here. This is the garden of the divine.
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We cannot, we cannot tolerate that here ." He lost his position. The Bible says God placed cherubim to protect the tree . He said, "Go away, you can no longer stay here." Sin caused man to lose a rank, a position. Remember, there was
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that other story, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. Do you remember? The forbidden fruit came to plant something quite strange within us. It is ignorance. It is very contradictory because it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But in
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reality, what it did to man, it did not reveal the truth to him. It veiled his true knowledge. Man turned toward information rather than toward a relationship. He thinks that by knowing more, he truly knows. Paul rightly says
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that knowledge puffs up. That the one who thinks he knows does not know as he really ought to know. Man took a wrong direction. What he thought was knowledge became his true ignorance. He does not actually know. Doesn't the
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Bible say that Jesus came to his own, and his own did not receive him? Man has no revelation even of the presence of God. He no longer knows how to recognize Him. But then a 4th thing happens. The 4th thing is that the
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curse brought about opposition. When God saw what happened, He then pronounced a curse. Do you remember what curse God pronounced? He saw man, and He began to pronounce the curse. It is God who pronounced the curse. The curse, in a word, is the fact that God
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ordered certain powers of nature to oppose us. I will repeat that. Since we have lost our rank, our degree of dominion is no longer the same.
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Everything does not respond to us as before. Because of sin, God literally gave the order. to nature not to respond to us as before. Listen, it was man who sinned. But God tells him this: "The earth will not give you its fruit
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without you having to labor, and it will produce thorns and thistles." Listen to what He says to the human body. "Woman, well then, you will give birth to children with pain." Everything that God is cursing is all these other forces of nature that were
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supposed to obey naturally. Before God told them that, these forces of nature responded to man differently. The curse that God pronounced upon man because of sin, I would almost say, rebelled nature against man. But when Jesus came , are you still with me?
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Are you doing okay? OK. The bad thing is, if I’m a bad channel and you don’t want to follow me, you can’t change the channel.
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You’re stuck watching, you can’t zap me away. Now, when Jesus arrived, what did He start doing? Look at how it gets interesting. Jesus Christ restores faith.
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Everything happens there. It is not in vain that Jesus speaks of faith. Faith is not just a nice thing for a Christian to have. And my friends, if you only knew what faith really is.
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Faith, my friends, is perfect reconciliation with God. Where everything began that changed our relationship with God was when doubt was sown into someone’s heart. That is why you must believe in all those who have received, in those who believe
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in His name. Everything starts right there. Jesus comes to preach to us to reconcile with God, to trust Him once again. Listen to how He says it. He says, "If you have faith, you will tell this mountain, move from here and go
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there." I will repeat that sentence, maybe it will be a little clearer. He says if you have faith, meaning if you take back the restoration that allows you to recover your former position, you will be restored in your authority
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to speak to nature and command it as you should. Maybe I will repeat that.
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If you reconnect to the God who gave you all authority and all power, if you trust Him again, you will reposition yourself to stand above nature and give it orders according to what is placed in your heart.
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OK? Maybe you don’t quite understand me yet. I will repeat it now. If you still believe in God, if you no longer doubt, Jesus is clear; He says if you believe and you do not doubt, He specifies that. If you don't
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doubt, you will say to this mountain: " This morning, I told all these mountains that are all around you, that keep you from seeing God's plan for you , to move, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."
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You know who you are. The second thing, the second thing that happens, is that through Him we are children of God. Do you know what this "child of God" story really means? Wow!
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It's good, it's with that that Jesus comes to restore our position. Do you know that the concept of adoption is a Greco-Roman concept? People at the time took the notion of adoption to bring someone into a new family they weren't
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part of. And at the time, when the adoption process took place to express the peak of that inclusion, instead of saying a child was adopted into a family, they said he was born again.
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That's why you find that biblical expression that says "You are born again," meaning you are grafted into the family. It is to give you exactly all the same rights as those born of the blood. So that no one says you're
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just born on paper. They say no, you are completely born again. It is not in vain, my brothers and sisters, that Jesus Christ, upon arriving on earth, ensured that we would recover our position. And Paul is clear, he says "
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We are in Christ, Christ in the Father, and all that where? In the heavenly places. Brother, even when we walk on the earth, we are not of this level.
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No, I don't know if you understand what I'm talking about. I mean, you can't come into a boxing ring where, to box, they put a heavyweight and a lightweight together. It's no match.
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You can't referee that. It's not possible. They can only put your own category against you. I'm going to repeat that. They can only put your own category against you. Don't think that the devil and the battles you face are
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stronger than you. These are things that are tied to the size of the person you truly are. It's not your face. It's not how they see you outside. It's not what they call you. If spiritually you are a giant, you will fight with giants
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. And the good news is, you are more than a conqueror through Him who loved you. Brother, we are not of this world.
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Even when we walk with everyone else, we do not have the same rank. Jesus gave us back our rank, not that of servants. Jesus gave us back our rank, not that of mere creation. Jesus gave us back the rank of the very
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nature of God. Listen to what happened next. What happened was that His knowledge set [us ] free.
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There was a problem. There was a certain tree we ate from that told us we now had much knowledge. But in reality, it was ignorance. Jesus demonstrated to us that information, knowledge, and data do not really change a person's life. We can talk all
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we want, explain all we want, but it doesn't work. That kind of information does not transform. Jesus came to teach us that the true knowledge that transforms is relational knowledge, not scientific knowledge. It is not about information, but about contact. You
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must know what is, not what is being done. You must know God to become close to Him, not understand how He functions . And He said it in one word:" You will know the truth and the truth will set
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you free. "He shows us that when you become aware of the right knowledge, it frees you from the ignorance in which the devil has held you for so long.
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Brother, there are things, if you only knew, if you only knew, imagine, imagine that man who was blind and that day, he goes to see Jesus—he didn't see, he was blind, but he went toward Jesus. He arrives at Jesus and Jesus is
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going to perform a miracle on him. The Bible says that Jesus takes him, goes out of the village, he arrives, and then actually, what does Jesus do? He takes His saliva, He throws it on the sand, He makes mud out of it, yuck, but
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He takes it and He puts it on his eyes then says," Go wash yourself. "He goes to wash in the pool of Siloam. He is healed. Do you know what that means? It means that all that time, this guy was
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walking on his healing. If he knew that the formula was just the sand, he would have searched everywhere for Jesus ' saliva. If he had known—Jesus saw it immediately and He knew it. There is no spirit to cast out, there is no laying
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on of hands. What you need is something that is walking under your feet every day. I pray for you this morning, that for the part you are walking on without knowing it is truly your solution, God opens your eyes through His word and
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that you recognize how to practice it in the right way. What happens is that, ultimately, the blessing has given us ascendancy. The same God who cursed man and caused nature to respond negatively has blessed us in Christ. Listen to how
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Jesus blesses. He says to his disciples :" These are the miracles that will accompany all those who have believed; in my name, they will heal the sick. " He is bestowing the blessing upon them.
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Perhaps you do not understand very well . In Jewish culture, the great Day of Atonement, when the high priest enters the Holy of Holies, is a risky day because sometimes they came out dead if they had sin. But when he arrived, came
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out, and performed his service, and God had forgiven the people, he would come out and say to everyone" Shalom Aleichem, "which means" peace be with you. "Exactly the phrase Jesus said to his disciples when he was resurrected; every time he appeared before them, he
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told them" peace be with you. "It is done. I entered where you were to have your forgiveness. I did what was necessary, and you have been forgiven.
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Once done like that, one could then pronounce the blessing of the Lord upon the people. May the Lord be with you.
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May He show you His peace. And Jesus Christ, when he pronounces his blessing while finishing his priesthood, tells us:" These are the miracles that will accompany those who have believed. " Listen clearly, he says. In my name, you will cast out demons—one category
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. You will heal the sick—another category. And then he tells them, if you happen to drink any deadly thing, you will not die from it. Another category. Oh, he even gives power over scorpions—another category. Over snakes—another category. Jesus
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blessed us with a blessing that did not cancel the opposition of nature, but granted us ascendancy. Amen.
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Jesus did not come to tell nature," Listen, now that I have blessed them, they will give birth without any problems. "I will not insist on that.
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Oh, now that I have blessed them, listen, they will work the soil and the soil...they won't even need to work.
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The earth will yield even in winter. No , he said I gathered them to teach them to live above that and to command at a higher level than where I had left the authority of that curse. Oh my goodness
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! Oh! My friends, you didn't help. I mean, Jesus arrives, he sees a tree and sees that it gives him no fruit, and without transition, he says to the tree ," You will bear no more fruit. "And that is what happens. The tree bears no
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more fruit. Jesus, there was a whole principle before this tree arrived, it was sown. You, you just come along, you say a word and all that brother, don't let appearances fool you. The one who is in us is more powerful than the one
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who is in this world. The rank in which we have been placed and the blessing we have received has brought us beyond everything you could have read in Genesis. Don't you believe me? I assure you it's true because even
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the thorns that were to be produced for man in his toil, that is what he placed on his head at the time of the cross.
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And the pain that the woman was to feel for her childbirth. It is through there that his side was pierced to be able to accomplish that. By dying on the cross, he took upon himself the curse that hangs over all humanity. The one who is
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in Christ, my brothers, is placed very high. Now, you must look at your neighbor differently. The same neighbor as just before. So, let's get into our four terms of qualification. When we say qualification, we speak of the legitimate right by adoption, obtained
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by adoption or new birth, that is to say, how legally you became what you are and you are not it by yourself.
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When I say that authority is a qualification, it means that you have been qualified. And how did we get it?
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It's not because, listen to me, authority is not qualified by fasting. Authority is not qualified by the amount of time in prayer. Authority is not qualified by seniority. Moreover, I have seen many old Christians who are incapable of casting out demons. They
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have stayed with them too long that they have become tolerant. They have found agreements with evil spirits. You don't bother me, I don't bother you?
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I've even heard some say," If you look too much, spirits will come back to your family. "Once, people even felt sorry for me, and it was a time when there was a lot to be done. We were casting out demons, it was really a
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ministry, and they came to pray for me. " No, no, Pastor, we really want to pray for you because when you do things like this, there’s a backlash and the devil comes to destroy. "Wait, wait.
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What you are trying to tell me is this. The God I serve is capable enough to beat the adversary in the ring. But when we step out, He isn't capable of fighting. Meaning, while I repelled the devil in the name of Jesus with this
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authority, as soon as I get home, I no longer have the same authority, as if God tells me:" You have protection for 25 minutes, manage on your own, finish up there, because after that, know that there is nothing. "" You, I won't be
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able to cover you, you're on your own. "So, you see it like those American movie missions, where if you get caught , they abandon you. No, I'm not saying he won't come back, he will come back.
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I'm not saying he won't pursue my children, he will pursue my children. I am aware of that. I'm not saying he doesn't have plans to destroy me, he does. But that hasn't changed. He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing
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over them by His death. That hasn't changed, my brothers. It hasn't changed because back there we were at church.
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Here we are at home. At home, I still strike. At work, I still strike. On the road, I still strike. If I am a victor, I am a victor everywhere. Look, my friends, this text from John shows how
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we were qualified. John chapter 1, starting from verse, uh, 10. John chapter 1, starting from verse 10.
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It’s true that I had chosen the Living Word version at first, but I don't know. She was in the world, and the world was made through her, and the world did not know her. 11. She came to her own, and her own did not receive
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her. 12. But to all who received her, to those who believe in her name, she gave the power to become children of God. 13. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
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the will of man, but of God. Brothers, we were not qualified by any other will . We are victims of grace. I don't know if I can make you understand that well.
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If you don't like my face and I'm not very, very handsome to be authoritative , it's not my fault. I may not be very good, not very, very not very pleasant, not very, very me, but as I am, it is
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neither by the will of man, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by human need.
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But God himself decided that despite my strange form, he had qualified me to become who I must become. Ah, OK. You didn't understand. This is not about elections where we campaigned to see if we have, you know, a, a, a, a candidate
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who is attractive enough to bring everyone together. We make, we make, we make speeches while rolling up our sleeves to show we are close to the people. We loosen our ties so we can better tighten those of the people. But
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we didn't win the votes. Not everyone said," No, he's really okay. "No, plus he didn't even take my sins into account. Amen.
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He didn't even say," He was very bad at doing evil. "" He cannot have such authority. "" He was, he was, he was too close to the edge. "" He cannot have power over the devil. "" He has
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done so many foolish things. "" The devil is hurling insults at him. "" He has made so many mistakes. "You know, when you know your opponent knows your life, you don't attack. Otherwise, they'll tell you," If you do, oh, I'm
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going to put it all on YouTube. "But tell the devil this. If you want to put them somewhere, put them on the cross of Golgotha. Over there, he took all the sins and the acts that condemned me . Listen to me, brothers and sisters, I
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don't know if you believe in yourself, but Jesus believes in you. Amen. And he said," Him, I want to qualify him. "" You have been qualified. "Ah, you don't understand" qualified, "do you? Ask us what it means to qualify in
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the African football soccer cups? You will know what it means to qualify? It's the whole nation jumping because you have qualified. Everyone, even you know that you were qualified by a miracle at the last minute in a way
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that no one expected, but there is no problem. Even if the goal that was scored was scored with your back while sliding on the ground, a goal was scored and at the end of the match, I won. I won, that's what matters. I am
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qualified. Listen to me brothers and sisters. It is not about what you have been able to do. It's just not about how aware you were of your own evil.
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You aren't even aware of how much you have been forgiven. You don't even know the gravity of your faults. It is just that His love is great enough. He who looked at us and said," You, I give it
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to you. "You give me what?" I give you all power over the power of the enemy, to be able to crush the serpent's head.
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"Say with me, oh yeah, yeah. You know when you come from the same camp forces . And you know your weaknesses and you look to meet those who a drinker is that who they are sending to me? That
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is the beauty of Jesus. He sends the devil back his own instrument. He says if you try to threaten the church through Paul, I will take Paul, I will take Saul, I will make him Paul and I will send him back to you and he will
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slaughter your camp until that is the good news. The Lord took you to slaughter the camps of the enemy that were about to destroy your life.
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Brother, you have no time to lose. God has qualified you. Listen again to what is coming. It is not only qualification, but it is power . Power. Power is the ability to condition an autonomous will. What do words like that even mean, Thoms? It
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means this. In the idea of power, there is always the idea of two entities.
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Power is exercised, meaning I have another entity that is autonomous. It is free, it can do what it wants. When I have power over this entity that is free, I influence it in a certain direction. I condition it to do a thing
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. Listen to me. God does not have authority over the universe because no one can do what they want. The proof is the devil rebelled. like that, an autonomous will. But despite the fact that the devil rebelled, God continues
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to have power over him. The meaning of power is the ability to condition another entity, another autonomous will . It can do what it wants but it doesn't manage to because you have power over it.
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I don't know if you see what I am talking about here. It is not as if he doesn't have, he doesn't have the arms to fight. He has the arms to fight, but every time he gets up, he gets knocked
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down. That is what God has given us. Look at this biblical text. Can you give us the biblical text that is there ? Ah, listen to what the Bible says.
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Luke 9: 1. Jesus gathered the twelve and gave them strength and authority over demons, with power to heal the sick. It is very—each of these words is very carefully chosen. I —I don't have time to talk about that
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. Jesus did not just give them power over demons. He gave them strength and authority over demons and the power to heal the sick. Two. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He told them," I have given
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you this. Go there, heal the sick. " Listen, Jesus gave them strength and authority. Let's read Luke chapter 10.
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Luke chapter 10, verse 17. The seventy returned with joy, saying:" Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. "18. Jesus said to them," I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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"19. Behold, I have given 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. He said nothing shall by any means hurt you. Why would you want it
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to be possible for me to be harmed? But every time, Jesus says He has given them authority. The Greek term there is the word exousia. He gave them exousia over all the enemy's dunamis. This means the following. Jesus gave them
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the capacity, and in these two passages , He gave it first to the twelve. Then, He gave it to all the disciples. That means that even we have it too, the power to condition the adversary even when he wants to. Even when he doesn't
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want to, meaning the demon that is there, when I tell him to leave, he doesn't want to leave, but he will leave. Not because he wanted to, but because my authority is sufficiently capable of conditioning an autonomous entity. That is to say, I impose myself
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upon his personal will. An evil spirit never leaves because he wanted to; it is because the pressure on him is such that there is a weight that forces him.
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And okay, maybe you didn't know; you know that demons don't die, right? You didn't know that? So stop burning them in the fire like that; they don't die.
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In any case, they are spirits without bodies. What are they going to fear? Do you think they fear death? So they don't fear when you shout very loudly because they don't fear death. But in the spiritual world, there is another
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way to apply pressure and they feel that pressure, and it is harder than death. It is not for nothing that God will create hell to punish him. Hell, not just because you see the fire of hell. Hell holds something punitive. I
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don't have time to explain it here. The power that conditions the devil when he is thrown into hell, he knows nowhere to get out. Do you think anyone really wants to stay there? What prevents him from getting out? You know, when you
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tell your child to stay in the room and not go out, does he not have the key?
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The door is even open, but a word has been declared that makes the door a barrier. But I was told, and who is the one who told me? His word ordered that I must limit myself there. And he said
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it, and he left. Dad, before leaving, had said," Do not leave your room. "" But Dad isn't even here. "He left. But the word he declared watches over the boundaries. Brother, you don't need to make a big scene. You only need to
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declare the word from your mouth, and the boundaries will be drawn. I would like to pray into someone's life. It is time to set boundaries. He does not enter your family in the name of Jesus.
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He does not enter the circle of your children in the name of Jesus. He does not enter your health. In the name of Jesus, you have the power to condition these autonomous entities and that is power. What is wrong with
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Tom today? If he is shouting loudly, it's not me, it's just, it's just right there. Look, look at the power. Next comes position. Jesus Christ did something fantastic. Position is simply the ability—or rather, position is not the ability to condition. Position
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is rather the location of our place in the hierarchy of authority. Authority, my friends, has a kind of hierarchy.
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That is to say, there is one who is higher than the other. That is how authority works. There is one who is lower, there is another who is higher, and so on. Do you remember what the centurion said to Jesus? He said to him
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," I have servants to whom I say go, and they go, and I am given orders, and I obey as well. "He said," You, I know that if you just say a word from where you are, my servant will be healed. ""
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Do you know why Jesus said it was faith that was incredible? Do you remember the first thing that made us lose our authority? In the beginning, doubt. " And Jesus saw in him no doubt regarding the capacities of authority. He says,
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he believes it perfectly, long before Bluetooth. That is, we are strange, we humans; we believe in Bluetooth. We think there is a space here that allows two devices to connect, but we don't believe in the power of God to operate
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like that from such a great distance. And listen to what the man is trying to say to Jesus; he tells him," I know how authority works. I am a man of authority. I am obeyed when I say' do
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this, 'and you, I have seen you. You have that kind of authority over these sickness matters. You can just say from where you are, don't even come. Say it, and it will authenticate your authority . It will show that Satan obeys you. "
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Jesus looks and says," Faith like this, I have not even found in Israel. "" I would have really liked it if I found that in Israel, but in Israel, I didn't find it. "Look at this next text.
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That's how it stresses people out, when you say,' look at this text. 'It was in the world and the world was made by it.
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The world did not know it. We read it just a moment ago. It came to its own and its own did not receive it. But to all those who received it, to those who believe in its name, it gave the power
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to become children of God. We have become children of God. That is our new position. Brother, you are not just a friend of God. You know, a friend is another entity that has no blood relation. It is a relationship
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contracted with a different entity. You are a child of God; it is his nature.
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Do you know why the devil pursues us? Because the devil is a loser who, after losing in the ring, goes after our children. He thinks that by hitting what resembles us, it will give him the feeling of having beaten us. So the
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Father said this:" Take my gloves; even if you meet him along the way, go and beat him up properly. " Look at that head, there's a mark there . I had crushed that stupid head, as soon as he wants to provoke you, put
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the gloves on. Put the gloves on. As soon as he sees those gloves, he will remember it. And him, you know, I like what a man of God used to say sometimes when you cite the name of Jesus, there
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are demons who don't understand what you're talking about. But Satan knows what we're talking about because he has a mark. Him, him, we have greased his head. The others don't know before you start, they don't know yet what you're
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talking about. My brothers and sisters, the powers we have received, we have received the necessary position for them.
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Meaning that your signature carries weight. You know, when you have the position, your signature carries weight . The same signature you have today is worth nothing. You sign. I tried to make my signature very complicated, telling myself I was going to have a
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lot of money. I still believe it, but sometimes I forget it myself because it's so complicated. The same signature , how many people will wait for you to put down your signature? What is it?
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There is a position that comes with it. The last of things is creation. It's all of creation, my friends. The authority that God has placed in us is not just over demons and the powers of the enemy. No. It is over all of
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creation. Listen to what Matthew is saying. Jesus in the book of Matthew, he comes to see a fig tree. In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it. But he
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found nothing on it except leaves, and he said to it," May no fruit ever come from you again. "And at that instant, the fig tree withered. The disciples who saw this were amazed and said," How did this fig tree become dry in an
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instant? "Continuing, Jesus answered them:" I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to this fig tree, huh, not only, but when you say to this mountain,' Go, throw
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yourself into the sea, 'it will be done . "Continuing, if you ask for anything with faith in prayer, you will receive it. Look at this second other passage, still in Matthew. Matthew, I think 18 if my memory serves me right. I think
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my memory isn't good. Don't trust it. 17. See? Then the disciples approached Jesus and said to him privately, why could we not cast out this demon? 19 20 It is because of your unbelief. Do you remember how it all started, eh? There
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it is. Jesus said to them, truly I tell you, if you had faith as a mustard seed , you would say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it would move.
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Nothing would be impossible for you. OK ? If we were in two Gospels, we would think we are facing the same event, but told in two ways. But I stayed within Matthew. So we see that on two occasions, Jesus makes the same
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reference to them, that of saying something to a mountain so it can leave here and go over there. What are the two occasions? The first occasion, Jesus showed his power over nature. He withered the tree. The second occasion,
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Jesus showed his power over spirits. He cast out a demon that they couldn't. My brothers and sisters, God has given us power, not just against demons. God has given us power over all of nature.
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The problem we have is this matter of knowledge that we think is knowledge, but is only ignorance. When we begin to know God and know his will and know how he wants things, we will apply a divine wisdom called prophetic wisdom. We will
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take the right action in the right way, and our power over nature will be demonstrated. Oh, Jesus knew it. He knew that to multiply the loaves and fish, you just have to give thanks. Oh, Elisha knew it. He knew that if iron
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fell into the water, the way to make it rise is to throw in wood. Incredible.
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What formula is that? It doesn't resemble Archimedes' principle because above Archimedes 'principle, there is another principle. Do you really think God calls that the law of gravity? God.
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Think God has called it Newton's principle since he created Adam? He waited. Newton isn't here yet, we're waiting, uh...When Newton sees the apple fall, he says, finally someone who understood everything. No, he is the one who created it. Everything men
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discover is only the awareness of their ignorance, not true knowledge. True knowledge is in our relationship with the Creator.
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What I am trying to tell you is this, to conclude. The authority we have received implies five things. One: dominion. You cannot express your spiritual authority if you are afraid of having within you an aspect that I will call—I'll find a better word—
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an aspect that I will call aggressive. I will call it that. Listen to me. You cannot be authoritative while being sweet and soft with everyone. Every time authority wants to express itself, you feel a kind of adrenaline rush,
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don't you? When you want to express it, you change your voice, you feel everything inside you tense up. That's normal. Because you can be a good God, yet create hell, and be capable of managing both within you. God is not
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corrupted in His love because He made hell, because authority requires a degree of dominion. It is an opposing entity. We are not playing games. We are not playing hide-and-seek. When we express authority, we are firm. Even with your own dog when you want to give
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it an order. In the pet shop, we insist . You must be firm. If you want him to do it, and Milou is the only dog name I know. Wondering why Tintin and Milou?
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Milou, get up! Even with a dog, why are you firm? Because without firmness, the echo of dominion cannot be felt. When we cast out demons with firmness, it is not that the Christian faith has become aggressive; if you refuse to be
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aggressive to that point, you will get slaughtered. There are moments when you don't wake up to say" Oh my God! Oh my King! "No, it is" All power has been given to me in this house. "I do not
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permit you, Satan, to continue taking any space. This is not an African way of praying. It is dominion against the power of the enemy. And it is expressed with firmness. Don't shout loudly. The neighbor might complain. But just a bit
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of firmness. But that means 1: dominion . That means 2: communication. You cannot express authority if you lose all contact with that entity. This will seem strange to you. But when we cast out spirits, we communicate with the
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spirits. Listen very carefully, I am not saying to enter into a relationship with spirits. No. I am saying that if we cannot speak to the spirit and ask" Who are you? "and have it answer, and then give a precise order, the
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authority has no way to pass through. That is why even when the devil has reigned, God, God continues to maintain a connection with him through which He exerts His authority. So much so that when the sons of God assemble and Satan
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assembles, God says to him," Have you considered My servant Job? "If you aren't aware that it’s not just Satan trying to send you bad dreams at night, that it’s not just the enemy trying to touch you, that you can fight back,
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if you aren't aware that a two-way channel exists, you will always go to God to complain like a child who has been beaten. Saying," Papa, Papa, the devil hit me there, "and the Lord says, " Go back there, don't come telling Me
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what you should be saying to Satan. " That is the prayer of Christians today.
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" Oh my God, my King, look at all the problems I have. "The enemy makes me," Lord, deliver me from the power of the devil. "" He says,' Go back there. '"Is there anyone who hears me very well
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today? God says," Do not come to complain here. "" Go back there. "All authority has been given to you.
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If you do not believe that a communication exists, you will not be able to express your authority." 3, there is the declaration; it must be spoken, my friends, you have to speak it. "You must not only think, you must
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speak. Remember what Jesus said. If you have faith, you will say to this mountain, you will not just do. No, you will say. How is God authoritative in the universe? In the beginning, God said," And nothing that has been made
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was made without it. "Brother, you will have no authority if you do not speak.
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You will eventually have to speak, not whisper, speak. When you pray, say, do you really think Jesus cast out demons by whispering? How would we have known what He said? And then we say," No, Jesus is a bit like Annabelle
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interpreting the words of Jeremiah, you see, "and then say," Jesus is telling the demons to get out and the demons told Him where they wanted to go. "No, it was a clear declaration, and then 4, knowledge. If you do not grow in the
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Word of God, if you do not know what needs to be known, you will not express authority well. The disciples said to Jesus," Why didn't we succeed with this demon? "He said," Listen, you are unbelieving; this kind comes out by
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prayer and fasting; if you want to go up a rank, you must increase in knowledge, "and finally 5, faith. This matter is an invisible matter. If someone filmed you doing it, you would look like a madman. If someone came
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into your room, filmed you, and sent it to your psychiatrist, they’d summon you right away. They'd say," Ma'am, sit down, tell me, how have you been lately ? "" They said you see spirits at home and you shout here and there, and
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sometimes you're stiff. "What is that? What is going on? And well, there is more than what we see. I believe that what is visible is controlled by the invisible, and I am going to have power in the invisible. There are not
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thirty-six ways to do it. You must believe first. That is the foundation of all the lies. Maybe you are here this morning and this story about Jesus and church is nice for December.
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Besides, it's cold, so I might as well warm up with people. But this morning, Jesus called you here for a purpose.
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Start by correcting the foundation. The devil is lying to you. He is lying to you. That life is not yours. The devil is lying to you. Coming back every night tired, exhausted, and you said it was pleasure. Why does it hurt so much
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in the morning? It’s because somewhere, something is wrong. What if this morning was the day of your salvation? What if this morning was the day you stop suffering, and Jesus takes the same person whose weaknesses they know, and says," Leave him to me, I
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want to change him and send him back to destroy the enemy's power. "Amen. If this morning was the day God called you to completely turn your story around, I would like us to start there by just bowing our heads. Soon, we will
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leave this place. And maybe you are here this morning because God wants to restore you completely. And for that, He first wants you to give your life to Jesus, to start believing. Oh, these church stories, it's fine, it's fine,
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it's nice, I see. But me, I don't believe in your things. These are not our things, it is God's love for you.
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And this morning, somewhere, you realized that the Lord loves you just as you are. And this morning, you could tell me," Yes, preacher, I want to give my life to Jesus. "I always like to believe that it is not us giving life
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to Jesus, but it is Jesus giving us His life and we choose to accept it. This morning, Jesus has a life to give you in the midst of your pain, in the midst of your dryness, a life that will place
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you above the enemy and the forces of evil. But for a long time, you have lived your life as you wanted, as you thought best, but you know it is not working. This morning, the Lord is stirring you deep within your heart.
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You must put your life in order. Things must change. You cannot live like this anymore. You need help. You need Jesus in your heart. Here is what I am asking of you right where you are. Stand up if
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you want to answer this call and come forward here to the front. So we can pray together for you to give your life to Jesus forever. If I have been speaking to you in this assembly, in this sermon, if I am talking about you,
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if this concerns you, that you want to give your life to Jesus, you want to receive this life of peace that Jesus gives, this eternal deliverance, stand up right where you are. Thank you for doing so. Welcome. Come here to the
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front where Jesus Christ qualifies us, where Jesus Christ transforms us. Thank you. He will qualify you. He will qualify all those who have received Him , all those who believe in His name. He gave them the power to become children
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of God. We will not prolong this any further. I just want those for whom we have spoken and to whom we have spoken, those we have spoken about, take those steps forward. Come forward. Thank you to those who are coming. There is
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enough room for everyone, for everyone who makes the decision this morning, there is room. Glory to God. It might be this morning, there might not be a second one, there might not be a third.
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Next Sunday, perhaps you will not come. You do not know what the future holds for us. You do not know what winter holds. I beg you, do not miss this opportunity today. It is today or perhaps it will never come back again.
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I am going to ask my brother Pierre Marc to come and pray for you and lead you in this faith. I, for my part, will just pray for the assembly. But for all of us still here, if this morning you
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said to yourself," Pastor, I believe I am going to reclaim my place of authority, "stand up. Just from where you are, you don't need to come forward . If you think that by listening to this message, you said," I believe I
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must reclaim my place of authority and exercise it as I should. "I believe I must have believed a lie. The enemy lied to me about that. It wasn't like that. I would like to reclaim my place of authority. Glory to God. Glory to
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God. Glory to God. And I would like to ask all of you who stood up just now to raise your hands slightly, and I would like to offer this prayer before we finish. Just raise your hands slightly, and I would like to pray with you. To
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all those who received Him. To all those who received Him, to those who believe in His name. To those who believe in His name, He gave the power to become children of God. It is not by might, nor by power, but it is by His
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spirit. Listen to me well this morning. You have been forgiven, redeemed, washed, equipped, trained, and sent to be a conqueror, and nothing can harm you. I declare it this morning, nothing will harm your health, nor your well-being, neither your physical
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health, nor your mental or psychological health. I say that nothing will harm your finances or your family because you have received the power to destroy the enemy's forces, and nothing will be able to harm you.
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May everything that was harming your life from today on cease as you reclaim your place of authority. It is no longer the time to endure, it is the time to dominate in the name of Jesus.
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It is no longer the time to endure, it is the time to dominate today in the name of Jesus. As you leave this place, go as someone who knows they are dominating in the name of Jesus, who is
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not enduring, may this victory of Golgotha be your portion, and shout very loudly with me. Amen.
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God bless you, have a very good Sunday. See you next Sunday.
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