Known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to everyday life.

Adrian Rogers was one of the most effective preachers, respected Bible teachers, and Christian leaders of our time.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Be finding Ephesians chapter one.

And today we want to talk to you on this subject, kingdom authority.

We want to help you to discover kingdom authority, to enjoy kingdom authority, to exercise kingdom authority.

And my heart is so full because I'm afraid that you're going to miss the blessing,

miss the truth if you do not listen.

But my prayer is that God will impregnate your heart with this great dynamic,

life-changing truth of kingdom authority.

Back in 1940, Enrico Fermi and some other men in a makeshift laboratory, actually a handball

court at the University of Chicago worked,

and they took Einstein's theory of relativity,

and they began to apply it,

and they said, we can divide, we can split the atom and release power in a ratio of one to six million.

That's what they did. And the atomic age

began. Now that power was there all the time, but it was unknown, undiscovered, therefore unapplied.

Folks, there is a power that exceeds atomic power so incredibly it's not even worthy of comparison,

and that is the power that God wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and has given

that power to us. That power is called kingdom authority, and we read about it in the book of

Ephesians, and I want you to begin.

In chapter 1 in verse 15, Paul learned that the Ephesians had given themselves to Christ.

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