By whose authority???,,,,,,,

Greetings!!

Once again we had an awesome bible study last night.  Marilyn sure is doing an incredible job!!

The study last night was about who has authority on this earth today, who had it in the past, how was it stolen, etc.  I will try to condense this down just to give you the general idea of our study and hope that you will conduct your own.

First, after God created the heavens and the earth, he created man.  We all know that, its pretty simple really.  His name was Adam.  God gave Adam dominion or authority over the earth.  See Genesis 1:26.  So the bible says Adam gave names to all the crawling things, the winged creatures and so on.  Basically, he, Adam, was in charge.  God told Adam he could eat the fruit of any tree in the garden of Eden except one.  Then he created Eve from Adam's rib.  See Psalms 115: 16

Then here comes Satan by way of a serpent and he tempts Eve into eating from that tree that God had told Adam not to eat from.  Adam also ate from that tree falling prey to Satan's tricks.  When Adam and Eve sinned, Satan basically stole their authority over the earth.  But wait, there is good news!!

The only way to take authority over the earth back from Satan was for a person, pure and without sin to take it.  Fast forward in time to a little town called Bethlehem.  There a baby was born unto the Virgin Mary.  His name was Jesus.  Hallelujah!!  Praise God, the King is born!!  This baby, the son of God, and part of God would raise up to bear the sins of everyone.  He would die on the cross a gruesome death, defeat Satan and ascend to heaven to be at the right hand of Father God.  See John 5: 26 & 27

Because Jesus lived a perfect and sinless life He had authority on this earth, but He gave that authority to us.   See Luke 10: 19 & 20

Did you know that you have the right as a Christian to command Satan to leave you alone by the authority that Jesus gave to you and he MUST leave you alone!!  Don't get me wrong, he will try to come back at another point and try to attack you again, but stand strong on the word of God and His promises to you which are written in the bible and Satan can not win in your life.

There are many other scriptures that could be listed here but I just gave you the highlights.  It is my prayer that you conduct your own study on your authority.  Keep in the word daily and it will not let you down.  Praise the Lord, we serve an awesome God!!!

Until next time,,,,,,,Blessings!