Luke Chapter 15, we're in a series called Sons Not Servants, and we're talking about the

Prodigal Son returned and when he returned, the father gave him three gifts and those three gifts represent something

that the father gives us when we are sons and daughters not servants and so last week we talked about the robe. This way we're going to talk

about the rings. So Luke 15 verse 22 says but the father said to a

servants bring quickly the best robe and put it on him and put a

ring on his hand and then next week will be and shoes on his feet and so what I

did was I took the robe the the ring and shoes, I went through

scripture and say to look at what they represent spiritually. And just showing you a few verses last

week that the robe represents righteousness righteousness that he robes us with

righteousness a ring represents authority so this week the message is

called the ring of authority God gives us authority and again I want to declare and make it clearer that it's by grace

through faith.

God gives us this authority.

But we're going to talk about can we even as sons and

daughters not walk in the authority that God gives us. Let me show you a couple of

scriptures to show you how the ring represents authority in

scripture. Genesis 41 verses. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand

and put it on Joseph's hand and he clothed in the garments of fine linen

put a gold chain around his neck and he had him ride in the second chariot which he had and

they cried out before him bow the knee so he set him

over all the land of Egypt. He gave him authority and the ring represented that.

In Esther 8, chapter 8, verse 8, the king, a heiress,

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