All Authority

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All Authority

• And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,
• All authority has been given Me
• in heaven and on earth.
• (Matthew 2818 NASBU)

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Authority Defined
English The power to command, enforce laws,
exact obedience, determine, or judge (AHD,
142) Greek (EXOUSIA) Power of rule or
government, the power of one whose will and
commands must be obeyed by others e.g. Matt.
2818 (Vines I89)

• Inherent
• Because of who one is
• God
• I have over my money

• Delegated
• Received from one in authority
• Given to man by God
• You spend my money

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Hermeneutics

• In contemporary usage in religious studies,
  hermeneutics refers to the study of the
  interpretation of religious texts.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

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CENI

• Command
• Example
• Necessary Inference

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Jesus Hermeneutic

• Example (Deuteronomy 83)
• Inference (Deuteronomy 616)
• Command (Deuteronomy 613)

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Jesus Hermeneutic

• Example (Acts 1512)
• Inference (Acts 157-9, 13-14)
• Command (Acts 157-21)

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Jesus Hermeneutic
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Generic Specific Authority
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Aids Are Authorized, Additions Are Not
An Addition Involves Another Element Being Added!
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GODS Silence Is Not Authority
Permissive At liberty to do what is not condemned
Prohibitive Forbidden to act Without authority
Heb. 714 For it is evident that our Lord arose
from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing
concerning priesthood
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Jesus Hermeneutic

• Interpreting the world around us is a matter of
  common sense.
• All human beings make judgments based on
  observation and rational testing.
• One does not need to understand any hermeneutical
  model to use his or her powers of observation and
  logical reasoning.
• Throughout our lives we learn by instruction,
  example, and inferences.

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Jesus Hermeneutic

• If you ask a good question about GODS will, the
  way to find the answer is to listen to all that
  the Scriptures reveal on that matter.
• Interpreting the Scriptures is a straightforward
  matter of using our common sense in the same way
  that we use it throughout life to make decisions.
  
• When you ask an important question, you act on
  the basis of the best evidence you can gather.
• The issue, then, is whether we are asking good
  questions.

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It all comes back to Jesus.

• And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,
• All authority has been given Me
• in heaven and on earth.
• (Matthew 2818 NASBU)