BEYOND THE CROSS / SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY I remember being warned, “Boy, if you ever read the Bible, you’d BETTER read between the lines!” I wonder if this is what they meant? HEBREWS 6:1,2,3 (Amplified) …let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God, with teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment. [These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.] If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching]. EPHESIANS 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. JOHN 1:12 …as many as received Him, to them He gave the (Power, Right, Authority) to become children of God… I JOHN 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God… I JOHN 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God… ACTS 17:28 …‘For we are also His offspring.’ Children of God are rescued from the powers of darknessCOLOSSIANS 1:13 He has delivered us from the (Power, Authority) of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom…EPHESIANS 2:5,6 God …made us alive together with Christ… and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places… COLOSSIANS 2:20 …died with Christ… COLOSSIANS 2:12 … buried with Him… COLOSSIANS 2:13 …made alive together with Him…. COLOSSIANS 2:12 …you also were raised with Him… MATTHEW 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All (Power, Authority) has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. COLOSSIANS 2:15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them… EPHESIANS 1:21,22,23 far above all principality (Rule) and power (Authority) and might (Power) and dominion… And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body… COLOSSIANS 1:9 …ask that you may be filled …in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; EPHESIANS 1:17,18,19 …that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation… the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know …what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe… REVELATION 1:6 …has made us kings and priests… ROMANS 5:17 …those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life… REVELATION …I have the keys of Hades (Lit. Unseen; the unseen realm) and of Death. MATTHEW 16:19 …And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven… Children of God have authority over the enemyLUKE 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing, nothing, nothing shall by any means hurt you. MATTHEW 18:18 “Verily,Truly, Assuredly, I (JESUS) say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven (spiritual realm), and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (binding and loosing have to do with forbidding or permitting). MATTHEW 12:29 …how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? EPHESIANS 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against …spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. II CORINTHIANS 10:3,4 …we do not war according to the flesh. …the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God …pulling down strongholds, LUKE 10:17 …Lord, even the demons are subject to us… LUKE 10:20 …the spirits are subject to you… (even angels; HEBREWS 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? PSALM 91:11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. II TIMOTHY 2:3 …as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. EPHESIANS 6:10,11 …be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. I TIMOTHY 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith… I JOHN 4:4 …He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. I wonder if this is what they were talking about? When they warned me, “You BETTER read between the lines!” Return from Spiritual Authority to Ouija Board
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