Authority

DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agent comes to farmer to find illegal crops.
** Man has always wanted to be boss, because we were created to be authorities.
** Sin is our taught evil nature that wants to disobey authority.
Cluster experience pastors organized, everyone wants to lead (AD, Baptist, Reformed,
Foursquare, Philadelphia). Hard to organize.
Authority types:
Formal / por derecho / delegada more related to power enforcement.
Moral / por aceptacin / adquirida gained by experience and righteousness (rectitud).
There is no absolute moral authority by man, only Jesus.
Where do we find our authorities:
1. Home parents Ephesians 6:1
2. Work / School teachers, bosses Tito
2:9-10

3. Community leaders, Country political, civil, military - Romans 13

4. Church NON-FORCED AUTHORITIES Heb. 13:7

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6. Risks in exercise of authority
1. Despotism, a person can be so authoritarian, he seeks his own benefit (material,
popularity). Tyranny, Cruelty.
a. Example: Hitler
2. Anarchy, no one knows who authority is, and there is no order. Chaos, Pandemonium.
a. Example: Honduran government?
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8. Risks in following authority
1. Anger this can lead to many consequences, since ultimately obeying, with bad attitude,
until rebellion
a. Acts 7:54 Oyendo estas cosas, se enfurecan en sus corazones, y crujan los dientes
contra l.
b. Context since acts 6, authority in the Bible, people upset they had no argument
against him,
2. Indifference - doing what we want, not necessarily opposed to authority
a. Gen 19:14 Entonces sali Lot y habl a sus yernos, los que haban de tomar sus
hijas, y les dijo: Levantaos, salid de este lugar; porque Jehov va a destruir esta
ciudad. Mas pareci a sus yernos como que se burlaba.
3. Selective obedience I choose exactly what I want to obey. Not everything, just what is
convenient to me.
a. 1 Samuel 15:3, 7, 7-9, 12-14 chose not to destroy everything and kept a few
things.
b. Also considered by God as TOTAL DISOBEDIENCE
i. Choose which commandments to obey, which days to attend church,
which people to help, which leader to obey, which bible Scriptures to
read, which sins to leave, which not
1. Think of having a job, and choosing which tasks to fulfill, which not.
c. Some people choose serving, giving time, helping others, but leave out offerings,
tithe, fornication, parties, music, pornography, vanity, greed, etc.
4. Total opposition - rebellion
a. Whatever authority says, I do opposite.
b. Gen. 3
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10.Right thing to do:Someterse: "ceder o rendirse uno mismo ante la voluntad o autoridad de
otro."
1. La mansedumbre "es aquella disposicin de espritu con la que aceptamos [los] tratos [de
Dios] con nosotros como buenos, y por ello SIN DISCUTIRLOS NI RESISTIRLOS"
2. ENDING LINE Submission is absolute, internal. Obedience is relative and external.
Submission is an attitude, obedience is a behavior. You can obey without submitting, but
cant submit without obeying.
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