GOD HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS, AND THE BIBLE SAYS, “THANKS BE UNTO GOD WHO CAUSETH US ALWAYS TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST JESUS.” BUT THERE CAN BE NO DOMINION, THERE CAN BE NO REIGNING IN THIS LIFE, UNTIL WE SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAS PLACED OVER US, AND THAT AUTHORITY IS SUMMED UP IN THESE WORDS: JESUS IS LORD.
[MUSIC] WOULD YOU FIND PLEASE IN THE WORD OF GOD, ROMANS CHAPTER 14, AND IN A MOMENT WE’RE GOING TO BEGIN READING IN VERSE SEVEN. ROMANS CHAPTER 14, KINGDOM AUTHORITY, AND IT BEGINS WHEN THE KING IS SUPREME. NOW EVERY CHILD OF GOD WHEN HE WAS BORN AGAIN WAS BORN TO WIN, AND GOD WANTS YOU TO LIVE WITH AUTHORITY, KINGDOM AUTHORITY. THE WORLD, THE FLESH, THE DEVIL ARE NOT TO HAVE DOMINION OVER A CHILD OF GOD.
GOD HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS, AND THE BIBLE SAYS, “THANKS BE UNTO GOD WHO CAUSETH US ALWAYS TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST JESUS.” BUT THERE CAN BE NO DOMINION, THERE CAN BE NO REIGNING IN THIS LIFE, UNTIL WE SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAS PLACED OVER US, AND THAT AUTHORITY IS SUMMED UP IN THESE WORDS: JESUS IS LORD. AMEN? JESUS IS LORD.
KINGDOM AUTHORITY IS NEVER GIVEN TO REBELS, AND IF YOU REBEL AGAINST THE KING, YOU’LL NEVER KNOW THE KING’S AUTHORITY IN YOUR LIFE. LET’S READ HERE IN ROMANS CHAPTER 14, AND I BEGIN IN VERSE SEVEN, “FOR NONE OF US LIVETH TO HIMSELF, AND NO MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF.” THAT IS, WE’RE NOT INDEPENDENT. WE’RE NOT AUTONOMOUS. HUH, WE DON’T LIVE AND DIE ALONE, BY OURSELVES, TO OURSELVES. “FOR WHETHER WE LIVE, WE LIVE UNTO THE LORD; AND WHETHER WE DIE, WE DIE UNTO THE LORD: WHETHER WE LIVE THEREFORE OR DIE, WE ARE THE LORD’S.
FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED AND ROSE AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING. BUT WHY DOST THOU JUDGE THY BROTHER? OR WHY DOST THOU SET AT NAUGHT THY BROTHER? FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, ‘AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.’ SO THEN EVERY ONE OF US SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.
