Power and Authority
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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When things are proceeding as they should, when matters are rightly organized, power and authority are virtually synonymous, and they are at least reposed within the same men. But things in this life do not always proceed as they should. A king may lack the power to exercise his authority or he may abuse his power by exceeding his authority, and the same sort of problems may occur in the Church — a teacher or a cleric who was once faithful may turn from the truth and begin to teach falsely.
Unlike the prince or the magistrate who does possess some authority by virtue of his office, the teacher or the cleric possesses no authority with regard to the things of God simply by virtue of his office; rather, within the Kingdom of the right hand of Christ, authority is a matter of truth — the man who repeats God’s truth after Him wields authority when he does so, but only insofar as he does so. The words of a faithful teacher must be heeded because they are the very words of God, but the words of a false teacher must be rejected and the teacher shunned if he does not repent. It is not the office that commands authority, but the Word of God.
This is a necessary wisdom call that Christian men must make; we must assess whether a teacher or a cleric is holding true to the Word of God. Similarly, we must assess whether a prince or a magistrate has exceeded his authority and become a tyrant. With regard to the kingdom of the left hand of Christ, we may bear with error or even some level of wickedness, but no such thing may be tolerated with regard to the right-hand kingdom, for false teaching is an affront to God and must never be permitted to continue.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:44.8 | On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing power and authority. |
| 0:49.8 | Before we get into the subject today, I apologize to everyone who listens regularly that we didn't have an episode last week. |
| 0:56.9 | I had some clam chowder the day before we recorded, and I paid the price for it for the next 24 hours. |
| 1:03.0 | So the day we normally record, I was in no condition to do anything. |
| 1:06.6 | It felt better the next day. |
| 1:07.7 | So we had planned to push the episode back by one day. And then when we tried to record, we were almost ready to record the following day and everything broke. |
| 1:17.9 | My internet started dropping. We couldn't talk to each other anymore. And after fighting it for like 30, 45 minutes, we just gave up. And so we both updated to Sequoia, the new Mac OS 10, hoping that it would fix the technology reason to talk to each other. And it did. So everything's working today. So apologies that we didn't have an episode out for you. We really, we tried as best we could. It just was not happening. When that happens, a couple of people commented on X, and it's a good plan. |
| 1:46.0 | If we don't put out something, go back and listen to an old episode of your Jonesing. |
| 1:49.7 | They're always worth re-listing to. |
| 1:52.6 | Today, as we talk about power and authority, a couple key points up front just to kind of lay the framework for what we're doing today. |
| 2:01.7 | This is not going to be a discussion of linguistics. We are not trying to set power against |
| 2:07.7 | authority in most languages and when everything is working correctly. They're basically synonyms. |
| 2:14.1 | Power and authority you can pretty much use interchangeably. And apart from a few variations |
| 2:18.6 | and shades and connotation, you're probably going to be pretty much right, whichever one you pick. |
| 2:23.9 | The reason for today's episode is that we are increasingly faced with situations where our |
| 2:30.6 | institutions are not working correctly. They're not working towards the purpose for which |
| 2:36.7 | they were instituted. And so as a result, what we have is men who are exercising power under |
| 2:44.9 | color of law, under authority, and they may no longer actually have the authority to be exercising that power. |
| 2:53.0 | So today when we're talking about power and authority, we're going to give a number of biblical |
| 2:56.9 | examples and some examples from the real world. Not that the Bible is not the real world, |
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