SPIRITUAL
AUTHORITY, CONCEPT OF

WHEN a policeman stands and directs traffic, as they put up a hand, cars will stop. But the cars do not stop because of the policeman’s power. They stop because of the policeman’s legal authority. That blue uniform makes him superman. He can’t put out his hands and physically stop a line of cars from running over him, but when he puts out his hands, cars stop because the blue uniform, with the badge, gives him legal authority. That legal authority does what personal power can’t. He doesn’t have the power to stop the traffic, but he has the authority to stop the traffic. The officer is backed up by a department that backs him up.888

[God, Authority of; Spiritual Authority, Power of]

1 Tim. 4:12