i really think and we've come back to it several times this week that human humility is the key to
divine power and so i think when we lay down that desperate desire to have the approval of others
that's when you get god's authority yes because it's not i'm not caring for people it's in order
for me to care for you well and pray for you well and pray for you with the authority god has given
us i've got to quit caring what you think of mine right yeah do you remember the story in
mark chapter 9 right after transformation you see tangible authority jesus is glowing yeah
and then i come down from the mountain and remember there's the man with a sick son
and it says the disciples can't heal him and it's not until the dad of the sick boy confesses
i believe but he'll be among believers i don't know how you're going to do it i believe but i
can't see it with my natural eyes there's something right after that because most of
us know that verse something right after that i think is so powerful
it says right after he confesses that it says and when jesus saw that a crowd came running together
he rebuked the unclean spirit saying to it you mute and deaf spirit i command you come out of
him and never enter him again and after crying out and convulsing him terribly it came out
and the boy was like a corpse so that most of them said he is dead and that's the end of verse 26
and there's a gap between 26 and 27 you stop and think about all those people who have come running
and they are like the first century peanut gallery well there you go that's what happens i mean you
got all crazy in your faith now your boy's dad he did just have epilepsy now he's dead
i mean you can just hear that essential oils i heard peppermint was really good i could just
hear him and i don't know it for sure because mark doesn't say it but you've got to imagine
that daddy is so preoccupied by the son of god he's just staring at the face of jesus jesus
has just come off the transfiguration he's probably still glowing and he's just like
i'm standing from the messiah yeah but he had to look at jesus because his son was on the ground
and so he trusted that god had all power even it looked like everything was lost they said your son
was sick now he's dead and it was after that jesus took him by the hand and raised him from what
looked like death back to life and i think that's kind of what separates people who have authority
from people who don't have you know jesus and still be like a dog that comes back from the
taxidermist or you can be like a dog that comes back from the veterinarian that is alive it's
a little messy yeah but you're alive you got a lot of stiff christians out there who speak
verses about power and authority but are walking in anemia spiritually and i think it's because
there is a place where you go even though i can't see it that's right your first scan yeah came back
and they said we're sorry alex the tumor is still there and you go okay whether he takes the tumor
or does it right whether hannah raises up in this that raises up next he is god and whatever he does
ultimately will be for our good and his glory moses didn't set foot in the promised land right
until the gospel of mark he's been dead for a long time who's there on the mount of transfigures
you know and you know everybody's like oh poor old moses he hit the rock he's dead
and it's like oh i stand there next jesus next to elijah and we forget our power is not but you know
our power isn't limited by time and space we are not
of this world you just go i may not be able to see it but i want to speak with authorities
because if we don't we're saying he can't right and that's what i refuse to do now his
ways are higher and better so much more different than we think that's right but i will not
lower my theology come on according to myself you don't lower your theology to fit human
philosophy exactly right i'm like i'm sorry this was not the word men were secretaries
god spoke the word this is a god's word and it's still true from cover together and he still parts
red seas yes it's just like you said earlier in the week sometimes we don't hear god's voice
because we're not listening i think sometimes we don't walk in the authority he has already
given us in his spirit if you put your hope in christ because we don't believe big enough
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