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Authority: Heaven or Men Isa 22:15-21 Matt 21:23-27

Authority: Essential and Inescapable God’s nature possesses it (Neh 9:6; Rom 9:20-21) Man’s nature requires it (Jer 10:32; 2 Thess 3:3-5; Acts 26:17-18) Rejecting it there is disorder (Judg 17:5-6) Accepting it there is salvation (Heb 5:8-9)

Authority: Faulty Sources Human Reason (Jer 10:23) Doctrinal Statements (Matt 15:9) Desires (Majority rule) Long Standing Practice (Matt 15:6) Elders or Preachers (“It’s their call”) Silence of Scripture (1 Cor 4:6; Heb 7:12-14; 2 Jn 9) Results (Num 20:7-12)

Authority: True Sources God (Gen 18:25; Heb 12:23) Jesus (Heb 1:1-2; Matt 28:18) Holy Spirit (The Spirit of Truth – John 15:26; 16:13) Apostles/New Testament (Luke 10:16; John 16:13; 2 Pet 1:21)

Authority: True Nature Objective: “having to do with a known object as distinguished from something existing only in the mind…” (Webster’s). (Jude 7; 1 Cor 1:10)

Authority: Understanding & Applying It Direct Statement or Command (Acts 2:38; 17:31; 1 Pet 2:11; Col 3:9; Gal 5:16-21; 1 Cor 11:22) Examples (Phil 3:17; 4:9) Necessary Conclusions (Acts 15:7-21; 1 Cor 11:26; Acts 20:6-7)

God’s Authority: His Word The New Testament: The basis of everything we do as individual Christians & as a church