The Authority of the Believer !

THE AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER: (Ephesians 1:16- 20) "I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. For I always pray to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [Intimate] knowledge of Him, by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints [His set apart ones], And [so that you can know and understand] what is the inmeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come." The amplified Bible. That's why the enemy will do everything he can to keep Christians from learning the truth about authority; he will find us more on this subject than anything else. He knows that when we learn the truth, his heyday will be over. We will dominate him, enjoying the authority that is rightfully ours. (Ephesians 1:3) reads, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us [The Whole Church] with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." The American Standard version reads "all spiritual blessings" as "every spiritual blessing." This means every spiritual blessing that is. In Christ, all spiritual blessings belongs to us. Authority belongs to us whether we realize it or not. But just knowing this isn't enough. It's knowledge acted upon that brings results ! It's a tragedy for believers to go through life and never find out what belongs to them. Did you ever stop to think about it: salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has brought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as He did for us. However, he is more than just a Savior, you have to confess him as Lord. You can't serve two masters. Your self or the demon that is trying to operate in your life. That's the reason He told us to go tell the Good News; go tell sinners they're reconciled to God. But we've never really told them that. We've told them God hates the sin but love the sinner. Yet the Bible says God isn't holding anything against the sinner ! God says He has counseled it out. That's what's so awful: the poor sinner, not knowing this, will have to go to hell even though all of his or her debts are canceled in Christ Jesus ! (2 Corinthians 5:19) will tell you that. There is no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There's just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus and have them confess the Lordship of Jesus, and that the problem. Yes, that's a little different from what people have been taught, but it's what the Bible says. The sinner doesn't know what belongs to him or her, so it won't do him or her in a good. True and correct knowledge of God and of Jesus will set anybody free. By the same token, if believers don't know the things that belongs to them, they won't do them any good. They need to find out about what belongs to them. That's why God put teachers in the church. That's why God gave us His Word: to tell us what's ours.