GODLY AUTHORITY 13APR25 PART ONE

• ​Market place value
• ​Made made man
• ​Strong Authority
• ​In Christ Jesus we are made men and women with power, authority and backing
• ​Mafia principles— you can’t touch a made man
• ​We got it made in Jesus
• ​We are truly made from the Boss of all bosses
• ​We can speak to creation
• ​We are called to speak
• ​To depressed neighborhoods
• ​Repairers of the breach
• ​Revitalize communities
• ​It can be a struggle in the natural to restore a community
• ​It starts in the spirit first
• ​We are like a Word of Faith Mafia
• ​Yes I’m a capitalist
• ​All poverty stricken areas and people groups with a lack of family values — you will have high crime
• ​In the church, we have it made with delegated authority in the Body of Christ
• ​However, misapplied ministries birth rebellion toward authority
• ​Stewardships of authority who do not live up to their responsibilities birth rebellion toward godly authority
• ​Jesus didn’t just give alone the authority— He gave 12 other Special Messengers (Apostles) power and authority to plant churches
• ​Since Pentecost the church doubled almost on a daily basis
• ​The Church became a powerful movement to the degree that Gamaliel said if this is God we cannot fight this — if it’s not God it will fade away on its own
• ​The Sanhedrin declared Jesus capital punishment 40 days earlier but they feared the people SOURCE: Sanhedrin 43a, a passage in the Babylonian Talmud,
• ​What is Covenant— a Covenant of love with God
• ​People don’t hear the heart of love in SUBMISSION
• ​Most submission doctrine neglect love and it’s about submission to egocentric people
• ​They use submission for selfish purposes
• ​Not anti-prosperity — love wants our elders to be blessed