Adrian Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith. He was also passionate

about presenting scriptural application to everyday life circumstances, and you'll hear that in today's

message. Now, let's join Adrian Rogers. Take God's word and turn to 1st Peter chapter 1. And in a moment we're going to begin reading

in verse 23. We've been talking about kingdom authority. And God put you into his kingdom. He has

given you back the dominion that Adam lost. And he wants you to have authority in your life. You're not to be a slave of the

world, the flesh, and the devil. You're not to be a victim. You are to be a victor. You are to be living

in this life, reigning in this life in authority. But we have taught you that in order to have authority,

you must submit yourself to authority. You can never be over those things that God wants you to be

over until you are under those things that God has set over you. Does that make sense to you? You must be under in order to be

over. Now, God does not give his authority to rebels. If you have a rebellious spirit, if you

rebel against the authority that God has set over you, then God is not going to give kingdom authority to you.

And if you live without kingdom authority, what a tragic loss?

Today we're going to talk to you about the authority of the word of the Lord.

Because when the king is supreme, then his word is supreme. So we're talking to you today about the word of the king,

and the word of the king is the word of God. Now let's read what the scripture says about the

word of God, and we're going to break in in verse 23. It tells us how we are saved, being born again,

not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth

forever. For all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass, the grass withereth, and the flower thereof

falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word by which the gospel

is preached unto you. Now, it's very obvious that the theme there is the word, the word of the Lord, the word of the

king. What can you do with the Bible? Well, there are some who despise the Bible. They hate Christ,

they hate the Bible, they hate churches, they hate you, they hate me, and they despise the word

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