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Discipleship Focus: Authority
- Authority: Our calling. This comes from God as king. Because He calls us as His representatives, He gives us authority to go and do His will.
John 5 is
all about authority. This story begins
with Jesus healing on the Sabbath. Of
course, that sets up a huge conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders
around Him. But this conflict is all
about the idea of authority and where Jesus is getting His authority. Jesus claims His authority is coming from the
Father – which makes the religious leaders even surer that Jesus is
blaspheming! However, Jesus also makes
sure that He asserts that the authority of the religious leaders is coming from
Moses, not the Father. Of course, this
doesn’t sit very well with them, either.
Jesus
makes it very clear that the only authority for Him is the authority that comes
from the Father. This is a fundamentally
huge point. There are many sources of
authority out in the world. We often try
to be our own authority. We often have
authority based on someone else.
Sometimes we try and make authority out of a position or title that we
hold. But Jesus is right. The only legitimate authority is the
authority that comes from the Father.
All other sources of authority will fade, pass away, or diminish.
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