 Good morning and welcome. I want to request one of us to lead with a word of prayer. Could anyone please do that for us? Thank you Jesus for this time we have to come to know more of you, more of your word. And Lord thank you Lord that you would empower a pastor and Nancy to share with us what you have to say and that our hearts are going to be open in the Father to receive and thank you Jesus for having a good time together and that are knowing the Father God of you and how to overcome the works of the devil or Jesus that we will be strengthened and thank you Jesus for everything in name of prayer. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So I'll continue from where I stopped in the last class. We were talking about the victory of the cross and how Jesus has completely defeated the devil. Sometimes this is not cognized by believers maybe because they have not been taught these truths from God's word and which is why you know we are not able to, we are not able to apply it. We said that for lack of knowledge God's people perish as scripture from Hosea 4 and verse 6 tells us that so the truth is that we have completed masterly over the devil. We have been given authority, we have also been given power over the enemy, we have been given the keys of the kingdom you know that Jesus commissioned us gave us all. He said all authority on heaven and earth is mine I give it to you and then you know that when we operate we are actually going against a defeated enemy. Now a couple of things in continuation right in continuation of this concept that I wanted to bring to us it is there in our notes. You please follow along in chapter 5 together with me we studied that we have complete protection. I shared bits and pieces, examples in the last so you can connect or relate with that. We said that you know when Jesus commissioned his disciples to go and minister in part of the Holy Spirit he said nothing by any means shall harm you. We also talked about the scripture in 1 John 5 verse 18 where it says that when one walks in the ways of God or in other words without the open doors or entry points to the devil then what happens we the enemy cannot touch us. Okay now there are other scriptures like Isaiah 54 verse 17 where it says no weapon formed against you shall cross every tongue that rises against you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord other scriptures the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and deliver them. Psalm 91 we said that that God keeps the one who you know dwells in the presence of the Lord God protects such a person. So we have protection and we don't really have to worry that there will be some sort of an attack by the enemy. So here are these additional thoughts that I wanted to share. One is that because Jesus has done the work and we have complete mastery on the devil there is this concept where you know it just said that Jesus is fighting for us in heaven you know because he is in heaven as part of his ministry in heaven there is a concept that says that there are cases so every allegation that comes against us Jesus is an advocate scriptures only tells that that Jesus is an advocate and that he is fighting each and every accusation and shaking it down for us. Now the reality is the book of Hebrews tells us that the Lord Jesus has come the sacrifice for us paid price for us in such a way that even though he left to him as an advocate the work which he needed to do to make us righteous he already did it through the cross so he was 914 it says that he has perfected us once for all so and forever so when he has perfected us it's not like every time he has to fight on our behalf as our advocate so when we say he's an advocate we must understand that he has already completed that whatever legal work against the devil it's done there is no need for him to something like up before God you know like like something in a court setting that each time fight every small case for us against the devil so that is not there in the scriptures because we read Jesus has already done it all to make us righteous. Now legal rights we said that the enemy cannot touch us so we must remember that now that we are in the mastery or the completed work of Jesus the enemy we are in the kingdom of of Jesus isn't it so but we are in the kingdom of God different legal rights up to us okay and the enemy no longer is our owner or we don't belong to him anymore we are redeemed and we are part of the kingdom of God and because of that he has no legal rights over us if he says no you are still my slave you are still you should continue in sin and all you can say hey no devil I don't belong to you you have no legal rights over my life deepens you have no legal rights over my life but we must remember some of the earlier things we said which can cause the enemy to influence us such as you know practices, dedications, sacrifices, words so if you have given entry points then yes you know he can intrude but if we have haven't given entry points then he has no legal rights so we can always ask him to leave and not interfere in you know our in what God is doing in our lives so that is another thing no more backlash is backlash is something like you know you go against a certain enemy the enemy will attack you because you did this he will do it and I discussed that last time in our class and I said that there is no such thing we don't have to be afraid now does the devil do things against people and particularly believers yeah that is job whether we like it or not whether we are doing something for the kingdom of God or not he will still do that so we must not let that put us in fear inside we must do what God is calling us to do so what we are actually saying is don't live in the fear that there will be a backlash Jesus said you know go cast out demons go deliver people set them free we just go and do it out of faith because we have complete mastery over the devil and satan is completely defeated now in the book of Job okay there is a a passage which we read that Job says what I feared came upon so it gives us a clue you see fear is an open door when we start thinking the wrong way the wrong tons of thinking or we are entertaining things like fear and anxiety what happens it's an open door okay and when I fear that this could happen and it happens if I say see I told you the devil is going to do this and he has done it why did it happen because fear gave the opportunity for the devil to do it but when we don't fear let me go by the word can he bring in a backlash no he can't because we cannot allow him but we fear and worry that gives him an entry point okay so let's remember that and also there is a saying I don't know how many of us have heard it he generally say that saying goes something like new levels new devils okay that is to tell us that as we progress in our journey with law there can be challenges which are greater which are bigger and that we should not become too comfortable and say oh I won at this level in this position in this capacity in my call I have done very well so I'm going to be fine all the time but as you go to the next level in Christ you will see new challenges and so somebody coined this this statement new level new devil okay meaning you'll have more attacks you'll have more challenges however you know one thing we have to remember is we proceeded with Christ in the heavenly places and that's the highest level okay and we are functioning in authority from that level the highest level which oh a demon can get to and so why do we worry about new levels and new devils whatever whoever the devil is whichever principality whichever power of darkness of course you know the long Jesus has conquered over every devil so we must not worry too much that oh I'm going to face a bigger devil what will I do right because now we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places and Satan is under the feet so any more things to talk about you know these truths or shall we proceed feel free both online and in-person students you can ask questions right assumption is we have no questions yet oh you have no questions okay that's fine okay we'll continue then let's move on to chapter six and this talks about the authority and the dominion of the believers we will look at you know the different like we have authority but authority and its dimensions can be looked at in various ways that's what we are going to discuss here we will look at at least four dimensions here we could also add another dimension called as empowered authority potential four are given so one is redemptive authority second is inherited authority third is positional authority and fourth of course is delegated authority so we must recognize that we have authority and on the basis of you know all these things so how does it work coming to redemptive authority I've been talking so much about redemption Jesus uh paid the price for us on the cross and by now we're in the kingdom of Lord Jesus in revelation chapter 12 verse 11 it reads they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives to death so when we say the blood of the Lamb what does it mean the blood of the Lamb signify that a work has been done to deliver us from clutches of Satan forever okay put us into the kingdom of God so that is redemption isn't it Jesus paid a ransom and he brought us into his kingdom so we are now redeemed every part of us is redeemed because of cross of Calvary and I remember telling us in the last class that therefore Satan cannot put his works on our lives anymore okay unless we give him an open door like let's say you know sin or some sort of an action or anything that classifies the curse right so many things are there in scripture he cannot forcefully put those things on us anymore because he just has no legal rights on us and so we can look at it this way whatever Adam and Eve they lost in the garden of Eve okay through that tree which they accessed and they ate the fruit from Jesus has nullified that through the tree okay of Calvary on will be hung for us any price for us and so we look at what the blood of Jesus has done for us thankful and we recognize that what is the blood done for us the blood has redeemed us the blood has redeemed us so when we are coming against the devil we are coming against the basis of our redemption we are saying hey devil I am now redeemed how can you you know touch my bond with sickness or my possessions with the calamity destruction cannot you just cannot because I have redemptive authority the blood of Jesus was shed for me and what does that blood say the blood says I belong to Jesus I don't belong to you anymore I belong to Jesus that is redemptive authority where I I stand with authority and say I now am part of the kingdom of God so whatever is legal or whatever is applicable in the kingdom will be operational in my life so the blessing on our operational you know victory is now operational because of what Jesus has done not the bondage of the kingdom of darkness so that's how we are that redemptive authority moving on I just go on the others you know I'll give you some time in case anybody has questions inherited authority okay inherited authority that simply means that we are now sons and daughters of the Lord Jesus Christ see scriptures that tell us that you know in Colossians 1 and verse 12 we reminded that we are partakers of the inheritance of the saints so what has God done he has made us sons and daughters so John 1 12 when we believe them we become a child of God so I become a child of God I become a daughter and a son of the Lord right now and in Romans 8 verse 16 and 17 over there we see that the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God so who have we become now we are children and we know that it goes up to say and if children then as as of God and join 7th Christ so even in the natural when parents children what happens the children when they grow up they are the as right or even when they are young if something happens to the parents they are the ones who will inherit what the parents have left behind for them so the same thing is applicable for us now now that I am in Christ and I am a child of God I am the authority Jesus said he's giving me the authority and so when Satan comes against us as a child of God I can say no no devil you can't do this because this is not my inheritance what you're putting on my life is not my inheritance right discouragement or some sort of a sense of failure I can say no not at all because I'm blessed you know with with Christ with all blessings in the heavenly place there's a lot leading triumph victory in Christ Jesus we don't have to go by what the devil is doing that is inherited authority okay now coming to the next aspect here which is positional authority positional authority we have talked about this we said that we are seated with Christ and Christ is seated where at the right hand of God so my position itself shows that I'm above you know the devil he's defeated he's been crushed so I can function from that place each time now Satan question me and say you know how how dare you come against me or stop me but I go by the spiritual reality and what's the spiritual reality the spiritual reality is that I have authority I'm seated with Christ in the heavenly places right now okay so that is positional authority then there is delegated authority delegated authority is we understand in the sense of you know when Jesus sent out his disciples they came back and said in your name you know cast out demons we saw that passage right and what happened they became representatives of Jesus they went to do the works of Jesus Jesus didn't go but when they went they were representing Jesus okay so in other words you can also say that whether Jesus went or they went same kind of authority was demonstrated and the work got done isn't it so delegated authority is understood as we as God's people even today when scriptures tell us that we have the keys of the kingdom or all authority heaven Jesus gave it to us he now tells us go into all the world make disciples baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son the Holy Spirit or you know he says that you lay hands of the sick and will recover okay so what happens he is sending us it has to do with us being commissioned okay we are now representatives we have been commissioned we have been given the authority of Christ and we can use that and also we would notice that you know Jesus said that in my name my name you will cast out demons in my name you know you lay hands on the sick so in his name it's it's like we are going but he also gives us a badge or something to represent him with and that would be the power of the name of Jesus so we could look at it as something legal right but he has given us and say that we don't have the power of authority we can go in the name of Jesus and we can work against the devil and his kingdom so that would be delegated authority okay empowered authority another concept it's not here in our notes but you know that's also some we can we can add empowered authority is to say that we now have the empowering of the Holy Spirit isn't it so when the believers are baptized in the Holy Spirit they went ahead and did the ministry just the way Jesus did it and today I believe us we are baptized in the Holy Spirit the power of the Holy Spirit is operational in our lives and therefore we can be victorious against the devil so these are all the dimensions authority authority in general yes we have been given that authority we are understanding that authority on the basis of these things one is that I am now redeemed the devil has no legal rights on my life I am a child of God so I've inherited blessings and victory you know not his works and so I'm supposed to walk free I have positional authority in Christ you know I am above the works of the enemy so the devil is under the feet of who Jesus isn't it so Jesus is head and we know that who has crushed the devil Jesus has crushed the devil but Jesus is the head of the body so think about this Jesus is the head we all have a head we have a body now the head has crushed something it also means that the body has crushed something isn't it so it's not like the head is separated from the body it's together so Jesus has crushed the devil the head of the body has crushed the devil which also means I have crushed or we have defeated the devil in that sense okay we are not putting making less of what Jesus has done but we are saying we derive from it we receive the goodness what he has done and so the that Satan is now under our feet or he is defeated that is positional authority which we have then delegated authority delegated authority is since he sent us he commissioned us you know we have the name of Jesus as the badge of authority we have the power of attorney attorney we go against the devil and when we go it's somewhat like saying you know Jesus is going and if Jesus's command is expected to uh bring deliverance if our command is expected to bring deliverance because it's we are not doing it in our power you're doing it in his name with his power okay so that's how we are an empowered authority of course by the power of the spirit so why are we learning about all these things we are learning about all these things so that we can be victorious we can use our authority in our everyday life so in our everyday life you know we're facing many challenges some of them come because Satan is trying to interfere and so we can take whatever we are learning the knowledge of this and we can say no I have the authority based on all these dimensions and so I will not let Satan touch my family my health or you know my ministry my church you can go on and on you know whatever belongs to you is now part of the kingdom of God and so Satan cannot do it so we can exercise and we can use our authority in this way so how do we go ahead and release this authority one key is the words that we speak so when I speak words in line with God has spoken what God has spoken of my life then I'm releasing you know that authority so the words are one of the primary ways in which I can release the authority so even saying something like I declare you know that wholeness and health is my portion I declare that I have not received a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind or to say that what else you know so based on that you're talking to talking regarding your health talking regarding emotions if we are battling fear or let's say the enemy is just put a lot of fear about hey you will not have the wisdom to do this you say no God said in his word that if anyone lacks wisdom they can ask and God will give it to them and he is a God who gives it abundance so I'm asking for wisdom God is going to help me God will give me the wisdom I can do this so what am I doing I am releasing my authority how is the devil trying to affect me accusation temptation confusion right he's trying to put it in my mind but I'm saying no I have always dimension of authority so I'm enforcing you know use that term enforce the authority okay so uh I'm going to pause now any any thoughts anything to add anything to clarify please go ahead okay so today seems very silent so as as they say right only two two possibilities either everything is understood or nothing is understood I hope it's the former right so with that I will proceed to what we have next here okay okay okay that's great yeah I was seeing the same thing I was saying of course you all understood everything so nice let's now move on to next chapter here this is uh uh chapter seven where we learn about all things that we have authority over so so far we have recognized that you know God gives us the authority so what are all the elements or if you want to just tell me things that we can exercise our authority on we could look at this in broadly like two realms one is in the spiritual realm and the other of course is in the natural realm okay we would we would notice that some of the spiritual things that happen we can exercise our authority on that even in the natural we can exercise authority okay we will talk about so talking about the spiritual realm sometimes there is the demonic influences isn't it satan and demonic influences we talked about that we said when our open doors satan does many things even there are no open doors he can try to oppose right the word God so in this way he comes against us what this is happening in the spiritual realm now that we know we have a glorious the schemes of the devil the vials of the devil remember the working the the thirds of working of the devil the parts the schemes we can go against that okay and and that's what Jesus said see whatever the enemy is doing in 1019 he said I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions this is kind of representing demons demonic powers satan okay and he said all the power of the enemy so what is demonic realm doing okay I give you authority on all of that so we can exercise our authority against demonic powers so if anything we identify as a demonic work instead of you know just getting scared and saying oh now what shall I do we can say hey no I have been given authority to trample serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy and not by any means I'll hurt me so I am going to resist what satan is doing and you know Jesus said in the name you shall cast out demons what is that same demonic realm influence of demons in the form of you know in maybe early influence oppression remember possession so many things happen so at whatever level we recognize that we can actually come against the demons we can be in that place to cast them and that's we exercise authority over demons how demons they have they do their work okay they have an agenda and they work what do they generally do so in the life of Jesus that he came to destroy the works of the devil and Jesus in acts 10 38 he says that he healed all were oppressed of the devil for God was with him so what does the devil do oppression okay we know that he brings oppression in various ways it can be a mental thing in our mind it tries to press us or he could try to oppress us in a in our physical health right so sickness disease is something that he can try to put on us or he can oppress us in our situation let's say he's not able to get to our mind or he's not able to get to our bodies then what happens he'll try to do something outside us so he finally pulls somewhere and you know try to make that problem in our situation he tries to be an issue that could be you know a delay or a hindrance or a lack of clarity confusion disturbance many things can happen so these are things when they come against us remember we said when the storm Jesus was in the storm and his disciples were afraid Jesus recognized that hey this is not a work of God what did he do he went against it he then took the storm okay so the same applies our lives identify that this is not God's work God is not doing this God's not oppressing me God doesn't make me sick or you know God is not putting all this confusion in my life then what do I do I go against it right so I take authority against it and I say no devil I resist I rebuke you know I cast you out so that's how we would respond use your authority against these spiritual oppositions so you know and this demonic oppression sometimes could come through people as well so remember in progression we said that people can be possessed but they can also be empowered right they come to a position where they now have so much of power which they have gained from demonic from demons that they are influencing lot of people they could be influencing an entire region okay our communities so in such instance we can still go against you know the demonic work so a good example is an act chapter 13 where we see in the island of Paphos where there is this sorcerer by the name of Elimus Kebar Jesus Paul and Barnabas they go to minister to a very learned man but because this Elimus sorcerer is there what is happening is he is he is creating some spiritual hindrance to the acceptance of the gospel so what does Paul do he understands that he goes against the demonic work through this sorcerer and you know he rebukes them and you know we know the story he goes blind and once this person is no longer hindering the work of God in the in the life of that man a Sergius Paulus I think his name is and so then what happens that person actually is willing to hear the gospel there is no hindrance by demonic power so there can be certain people who have now become the source of demonic influence when we encounter such situations we can overcome you know demonic influence to people as well now earlier we said that influence through demons can happen in the systems isn't it so there are systems such as politics business arts entertainment you know a family so even in all these realms you know we find that can influence but people of God can overcome that so we have seen in the past also in scripture we've seen people like Daniel who are so powerful during his times there were certain systems but what about Daniel he functioned the knowledge of God in the wisdom of God in the you know whatever his understanding of God's authority was in his generation he used it what about Elijah remember his time was a very difficult time because there's a lot of black magic sorcery witchcraft demonic powers at work but he overcome them there can be systems political system you know religious systems but we don't have to be afraid of Satan can try to work through all this but we can overcome you know Moses also was a he's known as a prophet and a deliverer he worked with the power of God to lead the people and the power of Egypt okay and the people of Egypt the oppression that was in the land of Egypt God helped break out for that okay that that's a spiritual thing to be able to break out of the demonic strongholds is that a possibility it is the possibility because now we have complete victory or mastery over the devil so these are all areas where we can use our authority so there are a few more places which are enlisted I'll go to that but I'm looking at Dina here and Dina says how do we recognize that the problem sickness like autism is demonic how do we go about bring devils use the authority given to us okay that separate questions so the first one how do we recognize that a problem is demonic I think we have to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit because it's really hard to tell how a sickness the origin of that can be just a physical one in that situation if we try to cast out demons one it will not work second it is very frustrating for the people because that's not the solution it will not give us a solution so constantly trying to you know command the devil and all in that situation will not so it's okay by the leading the Holy Spirit Nina I would say we can recognize that a problem is a demonic problem and not really a physical problem now having said that a few indicator we could look for we will come to we are going to be talking about a little later something like see if problem has been or is being adequately addressed in the natural okay and there is no solution to that we are doing best let's say there is a disease and it is being treated it is being you know we're dealing with it but in the long run it it gets very confusing even for the doctors they're like hey it's not happening that there's no logical conclusion there's no logic left anymore you know in in that disease process that could likely be an influence from the T-bombs world so it is an indicator we would say sometimes you know along the same lines when sickness you know you address it it comes back you addressed it adequately in all the natural ways and again it comes back it's just recurring and recurring and recurring it could be that there are some open doors and there is some demonic work so in all these ways you kind of recognize that something is not okay here okay so these things will lead us to identify are they coming to you I'll just answer Nina's questions is that okay Nina does it make sense okay well I don't see the response any have no problem so Nina second question yeah sensitive to the Holy Spirit that's the first and foremost thing and observation of the situation that also will give us some clues now your second question how do we about bringing deliverance use authority given to us primarily of course we have faith but release the faith through our words words okay we release the authority through our words so that would be one of the primary ways which we do it Nina so our words okay so is that okay any follow-up questions all right sure thank you because you know that's what Jesus did it he commanded he should but yes sometimes that authority also was led in a release in other ways prayerfully you know he touched people or something like that and the sickness left then so but as I said primarily that's I use the term primarily through the words but through command he should come out beast or the tree commanded it with her so that's how he got spoke and and the heavens and the earth came into existence so the words we speak carry authority other yes go ahead ma'am I have a question that I was not able to understand as to how positional authority and the dedicated authority are like different it like what is the main difference can you stand like a simple manner okay so Sean I was just taking how to clarify this to you it's not that is different from the other that's not the point I was making for example okay so I have this phone with me right so it's the same phone okay but then what happens is you know this is the back of the phone this is the side of the phone so these are the dimensions of the phone so in that sense we have been given the authority and what to explain to us today is the dimensions so it's not different you know this authority is different from it's the same authority or in other words in a simple way on different sides of same authority okay did you did you understand ma'am so basically what I'm telling is that this authority that how we use in different ways the same authority but user in different ways okay so partly partly yes or rather let me put it this it's not that we use it in different ways we may use it in the same way but I'm saying the base is different okay so when I when I talk about delegated authority I'm using authority on the basis of the fact that Jesus has sent me or let's say once I'm fighting with the devil I'm saying you cannot do this because I'm a child of God so I'm fighting on the basis of I'm using my authority on the basis of the fact that I'm a child of God but it's a same authority I'm using it in the same way right by resisting the devil by aligning to the word of God by speaking the word of God so the ways are the same but by understanding that moment is you know a different basis each time maybe so that's how it is the origin or the basis is what is different so we are saying that based on different origins that we have this authority the same authority but we have it from different origins yes yeah so like is it like you see authority in like different situations like yeah of course just but their thought is the same authority is the same okay so the environment the environment changes but their thought is the same as what I'm saying is that right that's true yeah okay yeah thank you yeah sure uh okay I think of a you know very appropriate example which will give you a still better understanding hopefully next class I think we've just run out of time here so uh shall we wrap up is would that be fine if there are no more questions yes ma'am okay all right so let's create those then and I leave it open for anybody to lead and pray uh have any father thank you for getting us here today in class any father heavy father thank you for helping us understand about that thought you are any father and have any father please bless all those present here in this class any father and please help understand more more about your authority any father and more about other subjects I avoid any father in Jesus I pray amen thank you everybody god bless you have a very blessed day and today is the first of March when our prayer in the evening is going to begin so I encourage those who can make it in person for the prayer sessions to please do that those who cannot you can always connect online so have a blessed day and we will come back to our teaching session on Friday god bless bye for now