By What Authority?
01/05/2007
Several years ago I worked for a major department store as a store detective.
That was before store security guards. My job was to wander the
store, carrying a bag and a walkie talkie...looking for shop lifters.
When I did catch a "lifter"....they would say " by what authority to do you
have to arrest me?" I didn't respond because the authority was
given to me by the laws of the land and of God. Thou shall not steal.
I thought of our authority as believers in Christ. To do
something in the "name of the Lord is to do it in the place
of God Himself...or do it with the full weight of His
presence & command.
In the Old Testament "the NAME" referred to God. In the
New Testament...Jesus is called "the Name". If the name
is God's & Jesus also....then we have HIS given authority
to use.
And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved. Act 2:21
But all who ask the LORD for help will be saved. As the LORD has said, 'Some in Jerusalem will escape; those whom I choose will survive.' " Joe 2:32
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