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The Authority Struggle  We’re talking
about authority today, and authority is something that we
struggle with all of our life. Who hasn’t as a child
said something like this to their parents: "I
can’t wait till I’m old enough to leave."
Right? "Let me off your leash. Don’t fence me
in." Authority. It’s why some people freak
about Promise Keepers, right? What’s it about?
It’s about an issue of authority. And sometimes, for
good reasons, we’re kind of skeptical about
authority because we’ve seen abuses of authority -
especially in relationships of men to women, many times.
We have been taught that freedom is the highest ideal.
"I don’t want to be anybody’s slave."
Right? " I want to reign, I want to rule. I want to
win, I want to be in control." We sometimes
don’t really understand the consequences or effect
that has on our relationship with God.I. Attitude of Posture |
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| Psalm 123:1 1: A Song of Ascents. To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens! |
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see, a relationship with God is about what I call an attitude
of posture. Turn with me to Psalm 123. An attitude of
posture. First verse: (now remember, these are songs of
worship, they come from fifteen psalms that we’re
looking at week-to-week that the Jews sang on their way,
songs of ascent, as they walked up the mountain on their
way to Jerusalem to worship.) To you I lift up my eyes,
to you who are enthroned in the heavens! I lift up my
eyes to you. I look up. It’s a posture, isn’t
it? It is the posture that I assume in my life journey. I
look up.I Look Around - horizontal  Now,
Church, it’s time to get honest. This is not the
posture that we assume through most of our life. I lift
up my eyes to you. Here’s the posture that we assume
in most of our days. We don’t look up, we look
across. It is a horizontal look, right? Hey, spirituality
is hot right now. It is in to be spiritual. Turn on the
TV - you know there are eleven TV shows - who would think
that there would be hit TV shows about ministers or
priests? Like "Soul Man" to "Nothing
Sacred." The last three weeks the weeklies -
"Newsweek" and "Time" - the covers of
the last three weeks have all dealt with spiritual
things. From Buddhism to the Promise Keepers to one of
the latest gurus. Spirituality is hot, but listen to
this. It is a spirituality without authority. |
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