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Discipleship Focus: Authority, King
- 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.
- King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle. When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king. Authority comes from Him. Power comes through His authority. He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.
As Jesus
prepares His disciples for the time to come, He takes some time to make sure
that they understand the world. Jesus’
opening words in this chapter are haunting.
There will be people who think that by persecuting the disciples that
they are doing the work of God. In other
words, human beings can become so twisted in their thought process that they
become convinced that they know what the will of God is and they stop checking
with Him.
This is
both an issue with authority and King.
We will start with God as King. If
we truly believe that God is King, we will continue to check in with Him. We will continually study God’s Word. We will always approach life with a
perspective that I might be wrong – which will keep us humble. We will always approach life with a
perspective that we have something to learn.
All of these attitudes in a Christian come from believing that God is
King, not me.
When we
are humble before the King, we will then be able to work out of God’s authority. When He is King and I realize that I may make
mistakes, I realize that my authority isn’t worth much unless it comes from
Him. When I am always pausing to make
sure that what I am doing is from God, I’m truly working out of His authority
rather than out of my own.
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