Dimension 4 2Day

Dimension 4 2Day

Dimension 4 2Day 1000 756 Keir Tayler
From “The God of Miracles Lives Today” By Velmer Gardner  (Preached in 1950)
  1. Mark 13:34: “For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.”
  • He gave AUTHORITY to his servants and to every man his work.
  • Authority means the right to command obedience, the right to enforce obedience, and the right to act officially.
  • Christ had authority over sickness and the devil.
  • He had the right to command the sickness to leave and the devil had to obey.
  •  He had the right to enforce obedience, and He had the right to act in the official capacity as the Son of God.
  1. The centurion came to Christ, and said, “My servant is sick at home and I want you to heal him.” Jesus said, “I will go.” The centurion said, “Jesus, you don’t need to go and heal him, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but speak the Word and my servant will be healed.” He said, “I am a man of authority. The ones over me tell me what to do and I have to obey. I have authority over a hundred men. I will tell them to do this or do that and they do what I command them to do.” And he said, “Now Christ, you have authority. You don’t need to come to my home, all you have to do is say the Word and that sickness will have to leave because you have authority over it.” And Jesus marveled and said, “I have not found such great faith, not in all Israel.”
  • The thing that brought healing to that centurion’s servant was his faith in the authority there was in the Name of Jesus over sickness.
  • And dear friend, today, if you have faith in the authority of the Name of Jesus over sickness you will be healed.
  • The very moment that you appropriate that faith you will be healed.
  • Healing comes as you recognize that Jesus has authority over sickness–all He has to do is speak the Word and it shall come to pass.
Now Christ gave His disciples this same authority. 
  1. In Lk 9:1 it says, “He called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.”
  • He said they were to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
  • He gave them authority.
  • Christ did not need this authority, He already had it.
  • He gave this authority to His followers.
  1. In Mt 10:8 Jesus told His disciples, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.”
  • Some people say we shouldn’t preach on healing.
  • Jesus preached and practiced healing.
  • The disciples preached and practiced healing.
  •  The Word of God preaches healing, and I’m going to preach healing because God is a God of healing.
  • He gave His disciples this authority. They went forth, and He went with them.
  1. “Behold I give you authority over all the power of the enemy–over all the powers of the devil–over all the powers of hell–over every diabolical spirit or demon.” (Mat 10:1; Lk 9:1-2)
  1. In Ja 5:14 it says, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.”
  • That friends, is exercising POWER OF ATTORNEY.
  • Christ has absolutely given us the legal right to use His name.
  • He has given us authority to face the devil in the power of His name.
  • He is not here, but He has given us authority to carry on His work until He comes.
  • We can go forth using that power of attorney—using His name.
There is a difference between power and authority. 
  1. No one has the power to heal, but we do have the power to exercise His authority.
  • We have the authority to use His power.
  • Then that power will bring healing—the Apostle Peter said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk,” Acts 3:6.
  • It was the first apostolic miracle performed.
  • He recognized the authority there was in that Name, and he used that Name by faith.
  • There is power in the Name of Jesus, and we have authority to usethat power, to use that Name.
  • It’s not the power of man.
  •  It’s not the power of a church, but the power of Jesus’ Name that brings healing today.
  1. We have the authority to use His name.
  • A policeman can stand down here at an intersection; a little hundred and twenty-five pound policeman.
  • He holds out his hand, and the big logging truck stops.
  • A big two hundred and twenty-five pound logger is in the truck.
  • He says,“Hurry up policeman, I’m in a rush.”
  • And the policeman says, “You’ll go when I tell you to go.”
  • You’ll never move until I tell you you can move.
  • Then the logger glares at him, and says to himself, “I could get out there and with one hand I could whip you. You haven’t the power to stop me.” It’s true, he doesn’t. The policeman knows he doesn’t have the power, and the logger knows he doesn’t have the power. But THE POLICEMAN DOESN’T NEED THE POWER. He has been given the authority under the law to carry on and to fulfill the works of the law of the land. And there is only one reason that logger stays there—he doesn’t stay there because he’s afraid of the power that this man has, because he knows the man hasn’t the power to stop him. He knows that policeman has authority entrusted to him. If he violates that position of authority, and he runs past and resists the signals of that officer, he’s going to have the whole city, the whole county, the whole state, and the whole United States after him. That policeman hasbeen entrusted as an officer of the law and given authority to carry on the work ofthe law.
  • It is exactly the same thing in regard to God. God has not given any man the power to heal.
  • There is not a man in the world who can heal anybody of anything, but God has given men the authority to use the power of Jesus’ Name.
  • Every man that God has called and ordained to preach the Gospel is a servant of God, and to that servant God has given authority to carry on His works until He returns.
  • Every man will not have the same authority.
  • Every man will not have the same talent–the same gift, but all of us have authority to carry on the works of Jesus until He returns.
  • We can use the Name of Jesus with authority and it’s going to produce works—it’s going to produce the same works that Jesus produced when He was here.
  • Jesus said, “The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father,” John 14:12.
Oh, friends, the power is in the Name of Jesus. The devil trembles when he hears the Name of Jesus. We have authority to use that Name, to exercise it legally. Resist the devil. The devil has no claim upon a child of God. You can break every attack of the devil by the Name of Jesus. In the Name of Jesus,exercise the authority that God has given, and God will drive the devil’s power back.
As servants of God we are His ambassadors: 
  • An ambassador has no power, but he has authority to act in official capacities, and every nation recognizes the authority of an ambassador.
  • If they don’t treat that ambassador right, it won’t be just the ambassador that they will have to contend with but the whole country, the whole government that is behind that ambassador.
  • We are ambassadors of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
  • We meet the devil and say, “Devil, take your hand off that body. Take your satanic influence away–take your oppressing hand from that body.” And the devil says, “You haven’t the power to make me do it.You haven’t the power to cast me out.” Sometimes the devil speaks forth boldly.
It’s true, we tell the devil. We admit we don’t have the power. We have no power. We are weak human beings with no power in ourselves, but we are not depending upon our power. We are ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. We have the authority to command that the devil obey us. We have the right to enforce the devil to obey us because God has given us authority in the Name of Jesus to demand the devil to do it. When we boldly take that stand, the devil is going to flee. He will flee from you. The Bible says so.