Andrew Wommack: The Believer's Authority - Week 2 - Session 3

welcome to gospel truth with Andrew Wommack a teaching ministry that emphasizes God's unconditional love and grace and now here's Andrew welcome to our Wednesday's broadcast of the gospel truth today I'm halfway through my second week of teaching on the believers Authority and I have a brand new book study guide CDs DVDs out on this I tell you this is going to be a powerful series I've already covered a lot of things we've had a tremendous response to this and I know that people are being set free through this I think that this is an area that there's a lot of abuse in either people err on one side to where they don't recognize that there's a spiritual war that they're fighting demons and so by default Satan is winning because they're just fighting things in a human power not using their spiritual authority on the other hand there are a lot of people who've come to realize that there are demons and a spiritual warfare and they've gone to an extreme to where they actually are giving the devil too much attention too much credit I personally have done that I gave some examples of that already this week about some things that have happened and you know it's a miracle that God ever uses us it's a miracle that things have worked but you know God just hadn't gotten anybody perfect to use and even though I did a lot of things wrong when I first started casting demons out of people we saw some good things happen and I know that there are people who are abusing this and too far extreme in this and all I'm trying to do is bring some balance to this and show you that you need to not be extreme believing that Satan is on every single thing that happens is the devil but at the same time you can't go the other direction and just look at it is only a human cause there is an enemy and we've got to fight it what I want to do today is begin to show you where Satan God has a power in authority from and of course all power originally comes from God and most people just assume that Satan used his god-given angelic power to rural men and that as an angel he was superior in power and might there's many examples of how an angel could do things that a man couldn't do and there's many scriptural examples of this they have supernatural superhuman power and authority and so most people assume that God created Satan Satan when he rebelled retained his supernatural angelic power and authority what I'm going to do is show you from the word that Satan lost his power and authority as an angel and he took mankind's human authority and power and that's what he's been oppressing people with and if that be true which I'm going to show this to you from the word well then that means that all Satan has is a human Authority and power this is why he has to have some physical being cooperate with him to get anything done and once you understand this this brings him down to a manageable size that allows you to be able to be bold in your dealings with the devil you need to estimate your opponent and recognize where his strengths and weaknesses are and I tell you these are some major weaknesses in the devil that I think that most people have not seen so here in Genesis chapter 1 the very first book of the Bible it says in verse 24 and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature in verse 25 God made the Beast and in verse 26 God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea this word dominion here is talking about power and authority to use that power in other words rule control so he says let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them and God blessed them and God said unto them now later I'll be making a bigger point out of this but let me just make this point right here that every time God created something he spoke it into existence the way that God released his power and the way that God also released his authority and gave authority to people was by the words that he said and so it says in verse 28 and God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth and so God said that he had given them all of these all of this food to eat etc here's my point all authority all power everything comes from God there was nothing that existed without God God made the heavens and the earth he created the angelic beings God created all of these things so everything came from God and all power and authority comes from God so when God made the heavens in the earth he created Adam and even specifically said to them and by these words released his power you have dominion you rule you subdue you control this earth and you know when Jesus came on the scene in he quoted from Psalms chapter 82 and verse 6 let me get over here and find this verse but people were criticized and the Pharisees were always after Jesus and he quoted this scripture when they were criticizing him for saying he was God which according to their law was blasphemy and he possibly could have been taken right then and yet it wasn't his time so the way he deflected this criticism he went back to an Old Testament scripture and in Psalms chapter 82 verse 6 it says I have said Ye are gods and all of you are children of the Most High but you shall die like men and fall like one of the princes now this was God speaking to the nation of Israel and he was specifically saying I have said you are gods and Jesus quoted this verse and he said if the people to whom the Word of God came were called gods then how can you criticize me for saying I am the son of God and anyway momentarily this stopped their opposition but the point is that Jesus referred to this and the reason I'm bringing this up is to say that when God gave mankind authority over this earth in a sense he made men the god of this earth not God in the sense of capital G in the sense that he was Almighty or divine or any of those things but God in the sense that he had absolute control here's another scripture that would go along with that is in Psalms 115 and in verse 16 it says the heaven even the heavens are the Lord's but the earth hath he given to the children of men now this is saying that God by creation of course everything belong to him the universe everything came from God he spoke them into existence therefore it all belonged to him it was his he had power and authority over but when he created the earth this verse says that the heaven even the heavens talking about the realm beyond the earth belonged to the Lord but the earth hath he given to the children of men when did he do that when he said you have dominion over this earth you rule you subdue use of you control the fish of the sea the fowl of the air the animals are on the earth everything it is absolutely yours in a sense he made man that God the absolute dictator and ruler over the earth and here's the reason that I'm pointing this out and I think it's significant and that is because in Psalms 89 34 my covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone forth out of my lips now remember when God created the earth he said let there be light he said the earth bring forth he said you have dominion when God says something it's binding to him it's a covenant it's a contract you know people aren't like this we all kinds of things and if what we say comes back to haunt us we just say whoops I didn't mean it you don't have it in writing doesn't mean anything man's word today doesn't mean much but God the scripture says in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 that he upholds all things by the word of his power if God was to ever break his word well then the universe would self-destruct because the word of his power is what is holding everything together God cannot violate his word Psalms 138 verse 2 says that he has magnified his word above all of his name the Word of God is even greater than the name of God the name of Jesus every knee is going to have to bow psalms chapter 2 says and yet psalms 138 says he's magnified his word above his name God will never break his word he will never violate so here's my point when God said you have dominion you rule you subdue by saying that he delegated authority to physical human beings over this earth and God would not take it back God never intended for us to turn the rule of this earth over to Satan and make Satan the god of this world but he gave us that much Dominion that much power in authority that was not the way he wanted us to use it and again if God would have been a man if he would have been like one of us when he saw everything go contrary to what he wanted most of us would have just broken in and said timeout Kings ex do-over this is not what I intend we would have just come in we would have tried to fix the situation but see God bound himself by his word when he gave man authority over this earth then that mean it was meant he could give it to whoever he wanted to he could do whatever he wanted to and when we chose to obey the devil Eve was deceived it says in first Corinthians our first Timothy chapter 2 I believe it's around verse 15 somewhere in there it says Eve was deceived but the man was not deceived and he was the one that was in the transgression Eve was deceived by the devil but Adam went into the eating of the fruit with his eyes open and he was the one that had been given authority and rule over the earth and because of his love for Eve he didn't want to be separated he willfully plunged himself into the corruption that even experienced he submitted himself to the devil who had authored that temptation and transferred the authority over this earth to Satan and this is where Satan God his authority and power was from man the angelic power that he had as an angel is not what he used to oppress men he didn't come in the Garden of Eden you can turn to the third chapter of the book of Genesis and you can see that when Satan came against Adam and Eve he chose the most subtle animal he didn't choose the strongest animal animal or the are the meanest or the most vicious looking he didn't have a mammoth put his foot on top of Eve's head and say eat the fruit or I'll squish you he didn't have a lion come and try and intimidate them with his fangs and all of these kind of things he chose the most subtle animal the serpent because he had no power against Adam and Eve to force them to do anything all of Satan's power was delegated power from God for the benefit of his people in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 14 the scripture says all of the angels are ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation angels are ordained created by God to minister to those who will be heirs of salvation Satan was in the garden to serve Adam and Eve he had no power all of his angelic power and I'm going to go into more detail I won't be able to do it today but on our programs arrested this week I'm going to go into more detail and show you that all of Satan's power as Lucifer the angelic being that God created it was only to serve men was only for good he had no power for evil he couldn't do anything against God he was there to serve as God's messenger to serve Adam and Eve and what he did he didn't use this superhuman angelic power he submitted he got Adam and Eve to submit to him through deception like it says in Ephesians 6 verse 11 that you have to stand against the wiles the deception the cunningness the craftiness of the devil and it says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through subtlety so your minds might be beguiled through the simplicity that's in Christ there's a comparison here Satan came against Adam and Eve not with force but rather with lies and deception because he had no force no power against them I don't know if you're listening to this but this just makes me wanna jump up and down on the inside this changed my life to realize that Satan was absolutely powerless he had to come and deceive this is the reason that you know the truth and the truth set you free once you know the truth deception lies have no power the only power in deception is that if you don't know you're being deceived the moment you know it's deception all the power is broken Satan's only power is the wiles of the devil the deception of the devil and once you understand this that Satan didn't come in overpower Adam and Eve he had to get them to willingly cooperate with him and he took authority over this earth not from God God didn't give Satan the god of this world and lose him on Adam and Eve as this dish's demonic power down there just to see if Adam and Eve could withstand him I'm going to explain this more on our program tomorrow I just haven't got time to get into it today but that's not the way it happened rather Lucifer the anointed cherub that covered was down here serving mankind he had no power against mankind and he came against Adam and Eve and got them to submit unto him and Adam and Eve gave their authority that God had given them over this earth to the serpent and see now God was in a situation where because he cannot violate his word all the whole universe is held together by the power of his word Hebrews 1:3 if God would have said well that's not what I wanted so I'm taking this Authority back he didn't put that kind of qualification on it he didn't tell Adam and Eve now you have authority as long as you do what I want you to do with it no he gave them an unconditional authority no strings attached no fine print it was theirs they could do whatever he never intended for them to yield to the devil but they had the authority to do that and when they did it God would listen to what I'm saying this will shock some of you but God would have been unjust to come down and just kill the devil wipe him out remove him cast him into a lake of fire do something with him and just intervene in the affairs of men because he had given mankind authority to rule this earth to do what they wanted to he didn't play them like a puppet on a string where he pulled the strings and made them do things he gave us freedom of choice and we chose to give this authority to the devil so even though it was not God's intent even though it was a lie on the devil's part even though there was some things going on you know what God would have been unjust to break his word and come down and just fix things and so this is why God didn't just wipe the devil out take him out and come and redeem man immediately it took a long period of time for God to intervene and you know why because he had given authority over this earth to physical human beings and according to John chapter 4 verse 24 God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth God didn't have a physical body God was a spirit and he gave authority over this earth to people with physical bodies since God didn't have a physical body God did not have authority over this earth to really intervene the only way he could intervene was as a spirit he would speak to the spirit part of man and impress us and draw us and to the degree that people would submit to God God could flow through them and bring some godliness and righteousness back into the earth but he was dependent upon going through people and the problem was that no one person was completely submitted to God you know there's actually a passage of Scripture I'm sorry I don't know where this is right now but hopefully my television crew can find this and put it on the screen but the Lord was speaking and he said I sought for a man and wondered that there was no one to stand in the gap and then he goes on and says wherefore my own arm brought deliverance you know what that's doing is saying that God wanted to intervene he wanted to fix this problem that man had created by yielding the authority over this earth to the devil but he couldn't do because he was a spirit and so he sought for some man who would yield and let God's power flow through him and he sought but there was no person all of us were corrupted by our own sin all of us were separated from God we were dead in trespasses and sin so God became a man this is why God had to become Jesus it's why Jesus had to become a physical man and Jesus even said this over in the fifth chapter of the book of John I'll turn to this later and we'll study in more detail but he said that God the father had given him authority to execute judgment also because I am the son of man this term son of man every time you see it is referring to the humanity side of Jesus the physical body the term son of God refers to his divinity Jesus was God in the flesh son of God refers to his divinity son of may refers to his humanity so he says this is the reason I have authority to execute judgment is because of this physical body when God became a man now the devil was in big trouble because cease Satan had been having free reign because physical human beings who had authority over this earth had willfully submitted that authority to him and so he was reigning in a sense by right it wasn't ever god's intention but mankind gave him that power and authority and God would have been unjust adjust pull it back and violated his word and his promise to man he said you can do with what you want to man gave it to the devil so Satan was able to operate and God could not really intervene because he was a spirit and man was willfully yielded and submitted to the devil but when God became a man now the devil was in big trouble because now God wasn't just a spirit God had become a man and now God had authority in this physical earth and man Jesus took it to the devil and of course there was this opposition Satan thought he had won when he killed Jesus and and took him to the grave and yet that was the way that God gained entrance into the into the bowels of Hell and he just destroyed Satan and resurrected him and he came out with the keys of death and of Hell and after Jesus resurrection he says all authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth remember that scripture in Psalms 115 verse 16 where it says the heaven even the heavens are the Lord's but the earth hath he given to the son of men prior to the time of Jesus God had authority in the heavens but not in the earth he had given that authority to men but when Jesus became a man and he died and rose from the dead and he now had all authority in heaven and in earth and even under the earth in hell he now had the authority over hell Jesus bought back all of this authority I tell you the things that I've said right here today I know that this is a lot it took me decades to glean some of these things and get it all worked out and I'm going to be saying this over and over we got a lot more to share about this but this is really powerful if you understand this this answered so many questions for me it answered questions about why did God have to become a man why did God wait about 4000 years after the fall of Adam and Eve before he sent Jesus to this earth I didn't answer that specifically but I gave the the basis for that we'll be explaining that more and if you understand this it just answers a lot of questions and it shows you the authority that God placed in mankind and the authority that we now have back through Jesus God observes this chain of command Satan observes it it does exist and you need to understand and that's what we're talking about is the believers Authority and I tell you this is really going to help you now we're out of time today but we do have these materials I've got this tape that we're offering today or the teaching on CD is entitled who made Satan and we'll get into this tomorrow I think it's really going to bless you so listen is our announcer gives you that information call or write today and join me again tomorrow for the gospel truth the believers Authority is available for the very first time in book form you can receive your copy for seven pounds request book T 327 when you write or call or when you go to our website a Spanish version is also available request book T 735 the believers Authority companion study guide is available 417 pounds 50 request study guide T 427 when you contact the ministry Andrews complete teaching titled the believers Authority was recorded live at a recent gospel truth seminar it's available on DVD for 19 pounds request DVD album t 3205 d when you contact us you can also get Andrews teaching as seen on TV it's available on either CD or DVD when you send 19 pounds request CD album t 1045 C or DVD album t 1045 d when you contact us the 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is Andrew Wommack and I'd like to invite you to join me on May the 21st through the 23rd in Amsterdam I'm going to be speaking at the Euro spirit 2009 and we're going to have a number of different speakers I'll be ministering to each day the 21st through the 23rd of May we're going to be holding this at the Victory Outreach in Amsterdam it's going to be a great time and so all of you watching over god TV I'd encourage you to come and be a part of this May the 21st through the 23rd Victory Outreach in Amsterdam we're getting close to our summer family Bible conference it's going to be on June the 29th through July the 3rd and it's going to be a great time for the whole family we have children's ministry we have it set up so that there are our CBC classes in the morning but the afternoons are off and then evening meetings it's just a great time and I believe that it could be a vacation for you and your whole family the children will be blessed so make plans to join me June the 29th through July the 3rd for our summer family Bible conference

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2013