Quotes about Authority

Honor everyone. Lovea the brothers and sisters.b Fear God.c Honor the emperor.

Believing in Jesus didn't get the Christians hung or tossed to the lions for sport. Believing in Jesus as the rightful ruler and lord did. There's a difference.

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

Chrysostom at length expressed the need for the overseer of God's people to preach true doctrine and refute false teaching:

For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God" (Rom. 13:1). God

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.

If Jesus has all authority, that would mean that Satan has none! We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.

he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father" (John 14:12).

The devil and his demons no longer have the right to torment believers. But they are lawless criminals of the spirit realm. They will break God's laws whenever and wherever they see a lack of authority.

Christians have authority over the power of the demonic world, and we have power that is greater than the power of the devil!

In other words, one believer's righteous stand has the power to break the curses off anyone in their metron, or sphere of authority (see chapter 3).

we are moving from a hierarchical leadership model to an heir-archy, as we are heirs with Christ to the throne of God