Date: October 14, 2021 (Midweek Service)
Bible Text: Matthew 28:1-20 | Aaron Rodgerson
Series: What it Means to be Baptist
- Defining Biblical Authority
- Bible - God's revelation to man
- Authority
- The power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine
- A power or right delegated or given; authorization
- A person or body of persons in whom authority is vested, as governmental agency
- Biblical Authority
- The revelation of God's power and control over all his creation
- The revelation of God's desire in the lives of those he delegates authority to
- The revelation of God's structure in whom authority is vested
- Declaration of Authority
- God has all authority
- Demonstration of Authority
- Delegation of Authority
- Since God has all authority, all other authority is delegated authority
- Delegated authority
- To man: self-government
- To the home: husband, wife, children
- To the church: pastor, assembly
- To the civil government
- To Satan: the power of the air
- All delegated authority is limited authority
- Design of Authority
- To protect
- Destruction of Authority
- Satan is doing all that he can to destroy authority
- Duty of Authority
- To serve
Topics: Authority,Christ,Christian Service,Christian Warfare,Responsibility
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