Authority: Heaven or Men

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Authority Heaven or Men

• Isa 2215-21
• Matt 2123-27

2
Authority Essential and Inescapable

• Gods nature possesses it
• (Neh 96 Rom 920-21)
• Mans nature requires it
• (Jer 1032 2 Thess 33-5 Acts 2617-18)
• Rejecting it there is disorder
• (Judg 175-6)
• Accepting it there is salvation
• (Heb 58-9)

3
Authority Faulty Sources

• Human Reason (Jer 1023)
• Doctrinal Statements (Matt 159)
• Desires (Majority rule)
• Long Standing Practice (Matt 156)
• Elders or Preachers (Its their call)
• Silence of Scripture (1 Cor 46 Heb 712-14 2
  Jn 9)
• Results (Num 207-12)

4
Authority TrueSources

• God
• (Gen 1825 Heb 1223)
• Jesus
• (Heb 11-2 Matt 2818)
• Holy Spirit
• (The Spirit of Truth John 1526 1613)
• Apostles/New Testament
• (Luke 1016 John 1613 2 Pet 121)

5
Authority TrueNature

• Objective having to do with a known object as
  distinguished from something existing only in the
  mind (Websters).
• (Jude 7 1 Cor 110)

6
Authority Understanding Applying It

• Direct Statement or Command
• (Acts 238 1731 1 Pet 211 Col 39 Gal
  516-21 1 Cor 1122)
• Examples
• (Phil 317 49)
• Necessary Conclusions
• (Acts 157-21 1 Cor 1126 Acts 206-7)

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Gods AuthorityHis Word

• The New Testament
• The basis of everything we do as individual
  Christians as a church