No one has any Authority over anything unless it was first given to him from that thing's Original Author. If Cesar considered himself the "author" of the Roman Empire, it'd from the integrity of this claim that his authority would be recognized. Many submitted to the authority of his claim, as he'd demonstrated superior military, economic and political prowess to that of many nations. In that empire, it would have been our association with Cesar's name that would have determined how much rights we had in the empire. Of course, Cesar could never empower anybody with a right that he himself could lay no legitimate claim to, for instance, he couldn't empower someone with divine favor or eternal life, but for as long as Cesar himself lives, and your association with him remains active and in good standing, the empowerment of his name continues to sponsor your dominion over the other names in the region. To remain associated with him is to preserve your own lives.
So in the great Roman Empire under Cesar, the kind of life you lived would depend solely on the kind of association existing between Cesar's name and your own. In his empire, whatever he believes about you goes! Of course, his calling a penguin an elephant would do nothing but change the spelling and pronunciation of it's name, but in areas of personal empowerment, if he were to call you the executor or overseer of some aspect of what he owned, you would be as he said you were. And if he were to call you a criminal, unrighteous citizen in poor standing, rebel to his throne and zealot to his cause, you'd be, in his eyes, as he said you were. Scary thought though. What we'd prefer would be a relationship of perfect equality with our ruler. Consider having a relationship with the Emperor somewhere along the lines of royal sonship or heirdom for instance; that standing in his eyes would afford you the highest authority in his empire, second to himself only in name! But as history has proven, kings have proven well able to usurp even their own rightful heirs of their over guarded thrones. Military and political leaders were pretty well protected, as the Emperor relied on these functions, but by the time you get to Pilate, the one who Cesar associated as King of Israel, one must ask, by what authority would Cesar consider himself, or anything in his name as having the right to name the King of Israel?
Jesus replied to Pilate's boasting regarding the authority he exercised over Israel, the body of Jesus at that certain moment in time, and in reminding him he reminding us all that no human person has any right to do anything to him, or his body, outside of what authority was given from the one who's ruling from above.
So when people discover God's Authority in them, The Way the Giver of their Authority personally weighs and interprets them in His eyes is the Source of how they see themselves. The Way they see themselves is the Foundation from which their every initiative is launched and becomes the boldness in which every step is taken. A sturdy and secure relationship foundation with the One who is our Authority inspires sturdy, secure actions themselves producing secure results. Meanwhile shakable foundations, inferior relationships with God based not on Jesus' sonship would only inspire demoralizing conditions, paralyzing potential for progress as an uncertain cry rouses no one.
Our assurance of the sufficiency of what has to be relied on by us in order for us to successfully accomplish what our Authority has tasked us is simple faith.
So in the great Roman Empire under Cesar, the kind of life you lived would depend solely on the kind of association existing between Cesar's name and your own. In his empire, whatever he believes about you goes! Of course, his calling a penguin an elephant would do nothing but change the spelling and pronunciation of it's name, but in areas of personal empowerment, if he were to call you the executor or overseer of some aspect of what he owned, you would be as he said you were. And if he were to call you a criminal, unrighteous citizen in poor standing, rebel to his throne and zealot to his cause, you'd be, in his eyes, as he said you were. Scary thought though. What we'd prefer would be a relationship of perfect equality with our ruler. Consider having a relationship with the Emperor somewhere along the lines of royal sonship or heirdom for instance; that standing in his eyes would afford you the highest authority in his empire, second to himself only in name! But as history has proven, kings have proven well able to usurp even their own rightful heirs of their over guarded thrones. Military and political leaders were pretty well protected, as the Emperor relied on these functions, but by the time you get to Pilate, the one who Cesar associated as King of Israel, one must ask, by what authority would Cesar consider himself, or anything in his name as having the right to name the King of Israel?
Jesus replied to Pilate's boasting regarding the authority he exercised over Israel, the body of Jesus at that certain moment in time, and in reminding him he reminding us all that no human person has any right to do anything to him, or his body, outside of what authority was given from the one who's ruling from above.
So when people discover God's Authority in them, The Way the Giver of their Authority personally weighs and interprets them in His eyes is the Source of how they see themselves. The Way they see themselves is the Foundation from which their every initiative is launched and becomes the boldness in which every step is taken. A sturdy and secure relationship foundation with the One who is our Authority inspires sturdy, secure actions themselves producing secure results. Meanwhile shakable foundations, inferior relationships with God based not on Jesus' sonship would only inspire demoralizing conditions, paralyzing potential for progress as an uncertain cry rouses no one.
Our assurance of the sufficiency of what has to be relied on by us in order for us to successfully accomplish what our Authority has tasked us is simple faith.
Whatever has to be relied on in order for anybody to do anything IS their "Authority"! The Authority of the man of the Earth is from the Earth, and the Earth only has sowing and reaping authority. However, God didn't define our beings as dependent upon sowing and reaping. Even the birds rely not on sowing and reaping nor gathering into barns and store-houses. The Earth serves us, and it does produce the harvest of what seeds we sow in it, but this was not the means by which we were to sustain ourselves otherwise, God would have approved Cain's sacrifice as reflective of His idea for us. He accepted the lamb, proving that the sufficiency of reliance on our innocence in His eyes is what's designated as our complete source for our every need and want. Why go to the tree of knowledge of good and evil for how to potential acquire something when by the fruit of the tree of God's idea of life, your simply desiring or asking it of him entitles you to it because He is the Father and life is Sonship and Son's effortless inherit gifts from their Father and have no need for works.
People who depend on human experiences, tradition, the sense realm, physical knowledge, genealogies, religious beliefs, morality basically stand on the shoulders of the ones who've come before them. They appear like giants as a result of this. However, we see ourselves wrapped in another skin, a dry, cracked, useless skin but not unlike our own before the regenerative treatment of the oil of His Joy and the new wine-skin of our relation to Him! Anybody's authority comes from their awareness of having been counted "pleasing" by their master for doing whatever it is they do. Innocence endorses righteousness. Regarding servants, for as long as they're counted as "pleasing" by whatever ruler or authority empowers their action, His master's pleasure becomes his own strength. This is why the Son of the house has unlimited strength! Because His master is unlimitedly pleased with him, because he sees in His son His own image and likeness, the successful execution of His own intentional will for you. Meanwhile, the servant's freedom is measured according to the degree to which his master recognizes Himself in him in any given moment. No longer recognizing himself in His servant, the right to execute judgement the servant is surely His!
It is the "I-Am-ness" of the Master that itself sustains and endorses the servant's freedom in it's master's house; a master with no specific authority over his house would be unable to endorse or exercise any authority. A thief, having no authority, cannot authorize authority but only likewise make others "thieves" by association with him. Allegiance to the one who endorses complete authentic Authority in you through His truth-backed ownership right to absolute authority is to yourself BE authority over that house and have supreme control over it. The Son is the master of the Fathers household! The Authority of the Father in Jesus endorses the Authority of His Son in YOU! As for things you used to be subject to the pleasure or displeasure of, they are subject now to your pleasure or displeasure, and must do as you please as surely as local officer must obey federal officials. You were upgraded to a higher class of executive administration by your awakening to the I Am-ness in you.
In reference to persons, they know themselves the way they do because that's how they've come to know themselves according to their Authorities' knowledge of them. Their own authority to move, act, and speak as they do is only sustained to the measure of their accordance with the rulers will. To use another measure outside of said ruler, say a thermometer or odometer for instance, would produce results as uninterpretable as a coded message. The servant of a foreign master can never understand or interpret the content of the messages between masters; the power to interpret as they do having come in reliance upon the Authorities measure of him. Ouch. -f
People who depend on human experiences, tradition, the sense realm, physical knowledge, genealogies, religious beliefs, morality basically stand on the shoulders of the ones who've come before them. They appear like giants as a result of this. However, we see ourselves wrapped in another skin, a dry, cracked, useless skin but not unlike our own before the regenerative treatment of the oil of His Joy and the new wine-skin of our relation to Him! Anybody's authority comes from their awareness of having been counted "pleasing" by their master for doing whatever it is they do. Innocence endorses righteousness. Regarding servants, for as long as they're counted as "pleasing" by whatever ruler or authority empowers their action, His master's pleasure becomes his own strength. This is why the Son of the house has unlimited strength! Because His master is unlimitedly pleased with him, because he sees in His son His own image and likeness, the successful execution of His own intentional will for you. Meanwhile, the servant's freedom is measured according to the degree to which his master recognizes Himself in him in any given moment. No longer recognizing himself in His servant, the right to execute judgement the servant is surely His!
It is the "I-Am-ness" of the Master that itself sustains and endorses the servant's freedom in it's master's house; a master with no specific authority over his house would be unable to endorse or exercise any authority. A thief, having no authority, cannot authorize authority but only likewise make others "thieves" by association with him. Allegiance to the one who endorses complete authentic Authority in you through His truth-backed ownership right to absolute authority is to yourself BE authority over that house and have supreme control over it. The Son is the master of the Fathers household! The Authority of the Father in Jesus endorses the Authority of His Son in YOU! As for things you used to be subject to the pleasure or displeasure of, they are subject now to your pleasure or displeasure, and must do as you please as surely as local officer must obey federal officials. You were upgraded to a higher class of executive administration by your awakening to the I Am-ness in you.
In reference to persons, they know themselves the way they do because that's how they've come to know themselves according to their Authorities' knowledge of them. Their own authority to move, act, and speak as they do is only sustained to the measure of their accordance with the rulers will. To use another measure outside of said ruler, say a thermometer or odometer for instance, would produce results as uninterpretable as a coded message. The servant of a foreign master can never understand or interpret the content of the messages between masters; the power to interpret as they do having come in reliance upon the Authorities measure of him. Ouch. -f
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