Quotes about Authority

Meekness is not weakness. Meekness simply means submitting your power to a higher Control—it means submitting yourself to God's kingdom rule.

By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.

Only God gets to define Himself. And only God gets to reveal who He is and how He operates in history. He is who He is, not who you say He is.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!

Honor everyone. Lovea the brothers and sisters.b Fear God.c Honor the emperor.

Believing in Jesus didn't get the Christians hung or tossed to the lions for sport. Believing in Jesus as the rightful ruler and lord did. There's a difference.

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

Chrysostom at length expressed the need for the overseer of God's people to preach true doctrine and refute false teaching:

For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God" (Rom. 13:1). God

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.

If Jesus has all authority, that would mean that Satan has none! We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.

he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father" (John 14:12).