Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Believers do not need authority to live faithfully.
Mark 11:28: “And they said to Him, by what authority are You doing these things?”
Matthew 7:28-29: “And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”
With our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution includes what is referred to as the Bill of Rights. It says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is this idea of unalienable rights? Well, the word means something that is inherent to the person. It cannot be taken away or denied. It cannot be transferred; it cannot be refuted with human facts. Unalienable means it’s just you. Life, liberty and happiness are inherently ours. No one can give them, and no one can take them away.
When God said to Moses tell them “I Am” sent you God was saying I am unalienable. God spoke as God about God. Jesus revealed to the people His unalienable Being. He spoke of himself more than He taught what He knew. Jesus revealed Himself; the scribes taught what they learned about the Law.
A chemistry teacher may teach you about chemistry, but a chemist would reveal himself to you and by that you would learn chemistry. The chemist has unalienable authority because he shares himself so that you learn about what he knows. The chemistry teacher has learned about chemistry. So, this gives the teacher knowledge authority.
The teacher could be a bar tender who shares what he has learned about chemistry as a teacher. We don’t know what the scribes were who shared what they had learned. Jesus was not bartender.
It is important to understand this difference. There is a spiritual battle that goes on between the things that are unalienable or inherent and the things that are learned and man promoted. It has been this way since Jesus’s time here and it’s that way today.
Since there was no law to argue against the things Jesus said and did, the scribes and the pharisees wanted to know who gave Jesus the authority to do the things He was doing. They questioned Him so they could find reason to take away His authority. You see, authority and power and status always want to keep authority and power and status.
You must learn to recognize the thoughts and ways of the scribes and the pharisees around you today. They would have you give up what is inherently right for you so you can buy into what they promote. You are a child of God because of your belief and faith in Christ. That is now your inherent nature.
To prove obedience to the law, the pharisees made it unlawful to carry your bedding on the sabbath day. You do not need to prove your faith to man by buying into what man says would accurately show your faith and life of a believer. To do that would be contrary to what is unalienable to us. The authority to be a believer is inherent in who you are.
When you were born, the first words spoken to describe you were probably “look, you have a son or daughter, a boy or a girl.” Doctors knew this because they saw some unalienable things about boys and girls that are unchangeable. You were given a name based on these unalienable characteristics that were clearly visible the moment you were born.
Man wants to promote the man-view on many things that are inherent to us. They do this, just as the scribes and pharisees did, because it gives them status over others. Believers want to be like Jesus, but we don’t know how to react to man’s ways when it comes to our inherent rights and character given to us by God.
We want to be like Jesus, but we learn to live like today’s scribes and pharisees. Instead of knowing who we are, we allow the worldview to define and describe how we as believers ought to act and to behave.
If you are a believer, you are a child of God. You don’t need any other validation to make that true. A nonbeliever can walk like you; can talk like you; can sing like you; and many other things they can do like you. But being a believer should be the inherent and unalienable reason you walk the way you walk.
Learn to recognize the battle that is going on in and around you. Fight the ways of today’s scribes and pharisees with the inherent unalienable things that make you a child of God. Don’t be taught to believe what is not inherent by those who challenge what is inherent to you.
You don’t need to come to believe that we have progressed to the point where we can believe marriage can be between anything other than a man and a woman. There are many things that will change over time, but there are many inherent things that time solidifies. Even if you have friends who may think otherwise, you must fight within yourself to stand for what is unalienable and never for authority.
God has given you many unalienable characteristics that make you like Him. Don’t throw these away for something that makes you more like man. We can be sensitive and caring about how others feel even if they are confused. But we must not be confused by what others say and feel thereby giving up our unalienable and inherent nature that God has given us.
We need no authority from man to be the children of God He wants us to be.
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