Pastor Mike – The Authority of the Believer (11-09-2025)
- 2 Timothy 3 (Difficult & Dangerous Times Ahead)
- Golden Nugget: “There are no Triumphs without Troubles!”
- 2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 1. profitable for doctrine, for 2. correction, for 3. instruction in righteousness.
- Profitable for doctrine: 1. beneficial, conferring advantages. 2. Correction: Improvements. 3. Instruction in righteousness: Impartation of Knowledge.
- Romans 8:1 AMPC Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
- JUSTIFIED | JUST – IF – I’D NEVER SINNED!
- THE AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER
- Luke 10:19 AMPC “The Believers Authority”
- Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. GREEK: To be able to have the power to act.
- Luke 10:20 AMPC Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven.
- 1 Samuel 16:1 NKVJ “The Lord has a firm word for Samuel.”Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go…
- Golden Nugget – “Get over your Saul.”
- After David became King, he approached his problem based on his relationship w/God.”
- 45 …I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head… 1 Samuel 17:45 NLT
- GOLDEN NUGGET: “Don’t leave the head on a situation because you see a little relief.”
- GOLDEN NUGGET: “Faith is constant, it stays the same, yet the circumstance changes.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:9 AMPC “Don’t Trust in Yourself.” Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the [very] sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead.
- 2 Corinthians 1:10 AMPC “As Many Times As We Need Rescuing.” …and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us [from danger and destruction and draw us to Himself],
- “God uses Broken Vessels.”
