Series: “Open House”  Sermon:  “We Operate In Authority”

Series: “Open House”  Sermon:  “We Operate In Authority”

Mark 1:37  “Everyone is looking for You.”

Proverbs 9:1  “Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;”

Matthew 16:18 “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

Hebrews 3:6 (NLT) “But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, …”

Mark 11:17 “Then He taught, saying to them, ‘Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”

If we don’t pray, we serve no purpose in God’s framework of eternity.   Charles Stanley

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His name and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.  Charles Spurgeon

Dear God, my prayer for 2025 is a fat bank account and a thin body. Please don’t mix it up like you did this year.

Jesus is teaching His disciples about a shift in how the world is governed spiritually.

They will walk in whole new realm of power and authority. 

I am going to restore to you the open deed, the right to rule and reign on earth, through redemption in my blood!!!

It isn’t going back to the way it was with Adam. 

They will be taken into a new realm of Kingdom privilege that never existed before. 

Hours before He is arrested He teaches a new way to interact with heaven.

John 14:13-14 “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”

John 15:16  “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”

John 16:23-24 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now (NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE) you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”

John 16:24 (CEV)   “You have not asked for anything in this way before, but now you must ask in my name. Then it will be given to you, so you will be completely happy.”

The NEW COVENANT moves us from the realm of:   Beggars   TO   Commanders

ACTS they understood their authority and the use of the Name!!!

Acts 3:16  “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know.”

Acts 4:18 “So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.”

Acts 5:40 “…they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”

Acts 8:12 “But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ…”

Acts 19:13-15 “’We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.’ Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, ‘Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?’”

Let me show this spiritual principle in the Old Testament and show you how it applies to your current authority and prayer “in the Name Of Jesus!”   INHERITANCE … REDEMPTION

Jeremiah 31:31-34 “‘The day is coming,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah … ‘I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people … ‘And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.’”

Jeremiah has this great word!!!

Jeremiah 31:38-40 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the city shall be built for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. …shall be holy to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.”

God makes him perform this prophetic act of redeeming property that was temporarily sold to his uncle.

Put your money where your mouth is. An act of faith!

Jeremiah 32:6-9 “…the right of redemption is yours to buy it.’ Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field … for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours;…” 

Jeremiah 32:11-12 “So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open; and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch…” 

Jeremiah 32:25-27 “And You have said to me, O Lord God, ‘Buy the field for money, and take witnesses  — yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’  Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, ‘Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?’”

This is a system established by God. It has spiritual implications

An uncle had purchased the land to get money to Jeremiah’s family … Jeremiah had the right to get it back both by redemption and by Inheritance.

The word of the Lord was, Redeem the land, it is yours by inheritance but I want you to redeem the land. 

2 Rights: Right of Redemption — Right of Inheritance

2 Deeds:  Sealed Deed — Open Deed

Psalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.”

Nothing good happens without prayer. Man has a responsibility to exercise dominion.

Luke 4:6-7 “And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

Revelation 5:9-10 “And they sang a new song, saying: ‘You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.’”

Jesus had the right of inheritance but He exercised the right of redemption.

 You have now been restored with the open deed. DOMINION

You get the right to what belongs to you when you pray in His NAME.

You have the legal right to move the good things of God from heaven to earth when you align your will with Gods will.

Your will moves God’s will from heaven to earth.
Nothing good happens unless you pray.