Unity Brings Authority

Pastor Hope Flask

November 24, 2024

Main Scripture: John 16:13-19

Additional Scriptures: Isaiah 9:6, Matthew 5:23-24, 6:33, 18:19, 28:18-20, Luke 4:18, Hebrews 10:24-25, Exodus 17:10-13

POINTS:

• Kingdom Authority: the divinely delegated right and responsibility of believers to act on God’s behalf over spiritual creation under the lordship of Jesus Christ.

• To Bind: to restrict, lock, restrain, or hold something so that it cannot do what it wants to do.

• To Loose: unlock, release, permit, free something up.

• The church has been given authority to bind and loose by legislating heaven to earth.

• When we are disconnected from the church we are disconnected from its legal authority in the spiritual realm.

• Gates: we should be praying in such a way that we are binding the enemy's scheme before it even gets out of the gate.

• Hell doesn’t defeat us with power; hell defeats us with legality.

• The church has been given multiple keys for multiple gates.

• We should bind what comes out of hell.

• We should loose those held captive by hell.

• We bind and loose through agreement, there is no authority in division.

• If you seek the church first, you may miss His kingdom. But if you seek His Kingdom first, you will always be drawn to the church.

• OTW Vision: We are building a Kingdom Community where the Poor, Captive, Broken, and Oppressed find a Future and Hope in Jesus Christ our Victor.