God’s Authority Over Us | Jude 24-25

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Introduction: All authority belongs to our God. ESV Psalm 47:2 For the LORD, the Most High, ais to be feared, ba great king over all the earth. ESV Malachi 1:14 Cursed be the cheat who has aa male in his flock, and bvows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For cI am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name dwill be feared among the nations. He has authority over us by virtue of creation. He has authority over us by virtue of His own person and nature He is God and we are not. He possesses all of the attributes that belong to God and we do not. -He is Lord -He is perfectly wise -He is absolutely holy -He possesses all power -He possesses all knowledge -He is always present -He had no beginning and has no end -He is dependent on no one – absolutely self-sufficient and self-sustaining He has authority over everything, and it’s RIGHT that He has authority over everything. We live in His world But in addition to all of this, if we are Christians, we belong to God by virtue of redemption. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or ado you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? bYou are not your own, 20 afor you were bought with a price. bSo glorify God in your body. What is going on at the present time? We live in a world that has turned everything upside down. The roles of men and women The reality of fixed gender Raging sexual sin – You name it: homosexuality, adultery, fornication, preying on children. What is going on can be captured by the word wickedness, but it can also be captured by the word REBELLION. This world rages against the AUTHORITY OF GOD. Men want to live as if no one has authority over them. THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO LIVE. YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT IS RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES, OR YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LOD. ESV Judges 17:6 aIn those days there was no king in Israel. bEveryone did what was right in his own eyes. ESV Judges 21:25 aIn those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. ESV 1 Kings 15:5 because aDavid did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, bexcept in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ESV 1 Kings 15:11 aAnd Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done. ESV 2 Kings 15:34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, aaccording to all that his father Uzziah had done. (in reference to Jotham)