All right, brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to 1 Peter 3. 1 Peter 3. Our subject is the authority
and power. The authority and power. 1 Peter 3. Verse 22 says, speaking of the
God-man, Christ Jesus, the Son of God, that He has gone into
heaven and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities
and powers being made subject unto Him. The God-man, the Lord
Jesus, is the authority and the power overall. The Spirit of
God has been teaching His people through Peter to submit to the
powers that be. He started back in chapter 2
and verse 13, and He said, Submit yourselves to every ordinance
of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the king as supreme
or unto governors as to them that are sent by him for the
punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well."
And he goes on, he includes servants to masters, he includes wives
to husbands, he includes the church to Christ's under-shepherd,
all these different offices that Christ has put into place. And
he says, submit yourselves, he said, for so is the will of God
that with well-doing you may put to silence the ignorance
of foolish men, as free and not using your liberty for a cloak
of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. In other words,
when you submit to the powers that be, you're submitting to
God. When you do whatever is commanded of the powers that
be, you're serving God. And he said, honor all, love
the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king. And you do this knowing
that in all submission we're serving the king of kings, the
Lord of lords. Because the God-man, Peter says,
has gone into heaven. He's on the right hand of God,
angels and authorities and powers being made subject, being made
to submit to him. Believers, by God's grace, by
the Spirit of God working in our hearts, submit to those in
authority over us because we know it's Christ we serve. And
we know Christ is the preeminent authority. He's the preeminent
power ruling every authority and power, visible and invisible. That includes all of them. Christ
is the preeminent angel ruling every angel, good and evil. Christ rules Satan himself. Christ
is the chief shepherd ruling every under-shepherd he sends
to preach the gospel. And he even rules those he didn't
send to preach the gospel. Christ is the husband ruling
every husband. Christ is the father ruling every
father. Christ is the king ruling every
king. He's the master, the employer
is how we would say it, ruling every employer in this earth. He made these offices of authority
and power and put put those, or that fill those offices, he
put them in place to glorify himself as the preeminent author
in power who's ruling over all. Let's see that again in Colossians
1, Colossians 1. He put them in power, he created
the offices, he put them in power to bring glory to Him as being
the preeminent power over all. Look here in verse 16. For by
Him, this is speaking of Christ, by Him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities, or powers,
all things were created by him and for him. And he's before
all things, and by him all things consist." That word consist means
they're held together by him. I have to tell you this, I didn't
have it in my notes, but I go to bed early on Saturday nights,
and I went to bed early yesterday, early evening. And right before
I saw a text that my mother sent, and it was quite a lengthy text,
it was something she'd copied out of a book, and so I thought,
I'll read it when I get up in the morning. want to get to sleep. So I got up early, early this
morning, and I worked on my notes, and I was reading, you know,
and when I got finished, I decided I'd read this text she sent.
Well, the text she sent was from a physician that, about a physician
who wrote about our hometown. And in this book, he quoted Colossians
1. And here's what he told. They
were sewing up a patient. And he said to his assistant,
he said, do you know how this wound will be held together?
And the assistant thought that the doctor was testing him on
the scientific all the reasons and also they started trying
to give him all these scientific medical reason and he said, no,
no, no, no. He said, and he quoted this scripture,
he said, by Christ all things were created by him and for him,
he's before all things and by him all things consist. And he
said, when we've sewed up this wound right here, he said, it
will be Christ that holds it together. He's the one that heals. He's the one that will hold it
together. And that goes, brethren, for everything in this world.
It says in Hebrews 1.3, by his word he upholdeth all things
by the word of his power. They're all held together by
him. They all consist by Him. Now,
I don't know of anything that gives a believer more comfort
and settles our heart more in the midst of a world of chaos
that we live in. I don't know of anything that
settles our hearts more than this, than the sovereignty of
God. There's one thing I bet you're
sitting there thinking, there's something that settles your heart
more than the sovereignty of God. Yes, there is. It's knowing
that that sovereign God who's ruling everything is Christ,
your God and Savior. The same one who came and laid
down his life for us is the one who's risen, the God-man. and He's ruling everything. Look there at Colossians 1.18,
and He's the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have
the preeminence, for it pleased the Father that in Him should
all fullness dwell. Look at Colossians 2 and look
at verse 9. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. and you are complete in him,
which is the head of all principality and power. Brethren, this is
our peace. This is our peace as we go about
our day-to-day in this world, the very one in whom every believer
is complete. Now, when God says complete,
who can even enter into what that means? It can't get more
complete. And the one in whom every believer
is complete is our sovereign God and Savior, who is seated
at God's right hand, who is ruling everything and everyone in this
world, and He's doing it just for His church, His body, and
you that He's called by His grace. God raised him from the dead
and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places for
above all principality and power and might and dominion and every
name that's named, not only in this world, but also in that
which is to come. And has put all things under
his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
which is his body. You're his body. You're the fullness
of him, children of God. That means unless he saves every
single child that God elected and that he redeemed, his body
won't be full. It won't be complete. Do you
think there's for a moment he's going to let one be lost? He
shall not fail till He has set judgment in the earth. That's
our Lord Jesus. He is risen there as the head
that He might fill all in all. And that's what He's doing. That's
what He's doing right now. I want to show you a few things
from Scripture knowing this. It is a great blessing to you
and me to be taught the Scriptures and to be provided with faithful
family who taught us the scriptures, or God send you faithful men
and women who were able to teach the scriptures, bring you under
the gospel, to hear the gospel preached according to these scriptures. It's a great, great, great blessing
of God. Paul told Timothy that he had
been greatly blessed because his grandmother and his mother
believed the gospel, and they had taught him the scriptures
from his youth. The Lord blessed me to know not only my grandparents,
and all my grandparents, but also all my great-grandparents
except one. And I spent a lot of time with
all of them. And some of them were true saints
of God that really believed the gospel by God's grace. But they
all were in churches. and at that time at least seemed
to be not so gone off the far end as churches are today, but
they all taught me this same thing. They all did. The first
thing they taught me was the importance of respecting those
God has put in authority. That's the first thing I remember
being taught as a child. respecting those God has put
in authority, beginning with my parents and with my pastor,
because they showed me from the scripture that if God saved me,
he will save me through the preaching of the gospel. He'll save me
through the preaching of the gospel. They use scripture to
teach me that the importance of hearing the gospels, the importance
of attending where the gospels preach, the importance of following
along in the scriptures, the attendance of being attentive,
the importance of going home and studying what I'd heard. And then also they taught me
the importance of respecting authority toward all other offices
of authority in this world. Police officers and the president
and all offices of authority, your employer. That's what Brother
Ravi just read, let every soul be subject to the higher powers. Everybody has somebody in authority
over them in this earth. There's no power but of God.
The powers that be ordained or ordained of God, that goes for
every office of authority in this world. God created the office,
Christ Jesus our Savior did, and he put those that are in
those offices. Whosoever therefore resisteth
the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. He's the minister of
God to thee for good, the scripture said. He's put there as the minister
of God. And so when we are serving them,
we're doing it as believers with this understanding He's given
us, we know we're serving the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
We're serving Him who is the preeminent authority and power. And Peter said, to the good and
the froward. To those that are good and to
those that are not good. All of them. Why? Because He's ruling every heart
of everybody in this world for His glory and the good of His
people. You believe that? It's so. It's so. We're right
now, and we always have been since Christ came. These are
the last days, have been since Christ came. But we see it more
now, and it seems like it just increased over the past 10 or
15 years. Perilous times. Perilous times. Each generation waxes worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived. I was blessed to have parents
married 55 years, and great-grandparents and great-grandparents married
longer than that, to not only teach me these things in the
Scriptures, but to show me examples of what it is to submit to authority.
But here, I can see why things wax worse and worse. and perilous
times come. I can understand this. I had
a lot of friends. This used to not be so in the 50s, but as you got along
in the 60s and it came a little more prevalent in the 70s, but
by the 80s, I was born in 1970, by the 80s, I had a lot of friends
who were latchkey children. Some of you close to my age,
you know what that is. They would get up, they had one
parent, they would get up in the morning, and when they woke
up to go to school, that parent was already going to work, and
when they got home from school, that parent was still at work. And most were not taught scriptures. They certainly weren't taught
respect for authority. They certainly weren't taught
that the gospel of Christ and that Christ is the authority
and the power over all. And some grew up and had great
problems with authority. Some had great problems with
authority. A few rebelled so against authority that they even
got in some serious trouble with police. Now, be sure to understand
this. It's not that we're simply products
of our environment. That's not so. That is not so. Every child of Adam's born with
a heart that's enmity against God and hates authority, hates
for Christ to have the authority, hates for Christ to have the
glory and all the glory and salvation. Every person comes into this
world has that heart of enmity. and will not submit to the Word
of God, will not submit to the truth of God whatsoever. So we can't blame our environment. There have been some that the
Lord has saved that grew up in a terrible environment, that
had no kind of upbringing whatsoever, and Christ being the power and
wisdom of God was able to bring them under the gospel, give them
new hearts, and save them, bring them to faith in Christ, and
keep them looking to Him. There's been some that had great
upbringings that ended up going away and forsaken all religion
and everything else and just wanted nothing to do with God.
It's not simply the environment that we grow up in. But faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And the child
is certainly worse off that was never taught the scriptures.
from an early age. They're certainly worse off.
They're never taught that the powers that be are ordained of
God, and if they never had examples in the home growing up, they're
certainly worse off. It's one of the reasons we see
in our day such a disdain for authority. You see it. You see it everywhere. rebelling
against police officers and just speaking so disrespectful of
anybody in authority. No respect for elders and what
have you. Look over at 2 Timothy 3. This is according to the scripture. This is all just evidence of
the fall, rather, and it's what this is. In 2 Timothy 3, verse
1, Paul said, This know also that in the last days, and he's
not just talking about the end of the last days. He is talking
about since Christ came. It has been the last days. In the last days perilous times
shall come. Men shall be lovers of their
own selves. Covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
truth breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof, denying the dunamis, denying
the dynamite of godliness from such turn away, no matter our
upbringing. Christ Jesus is able to save
His people. He's able to bring His people
under the gospel and save His people through the gospel because
Christ is the dunamis. He is the dynamite. He's the
power of God. He's the power of godliness.
Christ Jesus is. And this gospel is the power
of God unto salvation. Christ is the power and wisdom
of God of how God can be both just and justifier of his people. The power and the wisdom of God. This is so, this is the gospel. Christ is the power who came
and had the wisdom and the ability. What did God say in Isaiah 53? By his wisdom he shall justify
many, by his knowledge. He came forth with the wisdom
and understanding to go about and establish the whole law of
God for his people. To honor the law, perfectly honor
the law for his people. And he did that for God his father
and for his people. First for God the father. Because
God's holy, and if He's going to save a sinner, He's going
to do it in a way that's holy. And He did it first and foremost
for God, His Father, and in the process, He saved His people. Our Lord Jesus Christ, by His
blood, made it just for God to show mercy to you, the sinner.
It's just for God to show you mercy. It would be unjust for
God not to show you mercy. Why? Because everybody that God
chose in Christ Jesus have perfectly fulfilled the law of God all
their life and never once sinned. That's why. You say, I don't see that myself. It ain't in you and me. They
did it in Christ. We did it in Christ. Perfectly
fulfilled God's love from the womb all the way to the end of
our life without any sin whatsoever. And are seated right now with
Christ at God's right hand. Christ's blood not only justified
God as being just to show us mercy, Christ's blood justified
His people from all our sins. Made us the righteousness of
God in Him. He's the power and wisdom of
God. He's the power of godliness.
He magnified that law. It said he honored it. That's
what he did by his life. And he magnified it, not also
by how he obeyed it, but how he came to you and magnified
it in your heart. He came and taught you what the
law said. That's what we try to see Thursday
night and how he taught us. This is what you heard the law
says. You just thought it was outward.
You just thought it just dealt with some of your outward actions. No, he said it reaches to the
thoughts and intents of your heart. It reaches to your motive
for why you do what you do. Why are you here today? God's the only one that knows.
God's the only one that knows. If you're here because you want
to worship God or just because you just felt like you have to,
it's a big difference. There's a huge difference. He puts the want to in his people.
by showing you, brethren, that there's nothing we can do to
save ourselves. There's nothing we can do to
make ourselves righteous. There's nothing we can do to
make ourselves complete. He shows you this, that we've
broken every law in our very motives, in our very thoughts,
and we do so on a daily basis. How could that give you the want
to? How could that give you the willingness to want to come to
Christ and want to hear Christ preach? Because He is your salvation. He's your only righteousness.
He's the only way you can come to God. And He's magnified the
law to you and made you know that. teaching you the gospel in your
heart. And He imparted unto you in the new birth all things that
pertain to life and godliness when He gave you a new spirit.
You know when a child is conceived in the womb, everything that
child will be, if that child is to be 90 years old, everything
that child will be at 90 years old is right there in the womb
when they are conceived. And when He creates a new spirit
in you, everything He's going to grow you to be in that new
man is all right there. All things that pertain to life
and godliness. Sinners with a form of godliness
attribute godliness to man. They attribute it to the form.
Just like we saw with the Pharisees this morning. They deny that
Christ is the power of godliness. They can bring themselves to
believe whenever they get ready. Just make their decision. They
can put away their sins and be holy and walk holy anytime they
get ready. They can perfect themselves in
holiness by their works, by their deeds. And they just need God to help
them out a little bit. Just help them where they just
can't quite do everything just right. Brethren, that's just
not so. That's just not so. That's having
a form of godlessness and denying that I can do nothing without
Christ. Isn't that what Christ said?
You can do nothing without me. That's a mighty big word, nothing.
covers everything. We can do nothing without the
Lord Jesus Christ, but sinners are proud and they covet that
glory for self. They want to give themselves
that glory that belongs to Christ. I did, you did, and for in a
great way because of our sin nature, that's all it is, we
still try to do that. And Christ saves us, and He keeps
saving us, and He keeps saving us, and He keeps showing us.
He's the power of godliness. But natural man won't bow, he
won't give the glory to Christ because he will not have this
man reign over him. But guess what? You know this
if you believe Him. For all His people, for everybody
He laid down His life for, Christ will win. He's going to win that
battle. He always does. You stay under
the preaching of the gospel, and you give yourself to hear
the preaching of the gospel. I don't care what you see going
on in this world, what you see going on in this congregation,
or any other congregation. Christ is ruling. He's the head
of His church, His body, filling all in all. My grandfather, the pastor of
the congregation, sometimes it was like a mega church. Sometimes
they had upwards of 60 people. But for the most part, it was
about 15 or 20 people, 20, 25, for 35 or 40 years. and never seemed to be troubled,
never seemed to be shaken, he never seemed to be, you know,
worried about what was the future of that congregation. And every
time I ever asked him, he would say, everything is running right
on track. Everything is exactly as it should
be because it's all done by our Savior. It's all done by the
one who is the head of the body. Every bit of it. You stay under
this gospel. It is the power of God unto salvation.
Look at Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1. Paul began there, called himself
the servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, called by
Christ, separated unto the gospel of God. And he tells us what
it is. It's the gospel he had promised
to for by his prophets in the holy scriptures. That's what
all the scriptures is about. What's it concerning? Concerning
his son Jesus Christ our Lord. which was made of the seed of
David according to the flesh and declared the Son of God with
power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection
from the dead by whom it by him that we receive grace and apostleship
for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name among
whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ. He said this
gospel concerning Christ and it's through this gospel that
Christ himself called us. Verse 15, so as much as in me
is, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also,
for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith, as it's written, the just shall live
by faith. The gospel's the power of God
unto salvation. not merely just in the preaching
of it, it's the power of God unto salvation because Christ
is the power. we're preaching about. He's the
power we're declaring has accomplished the salvation of His people that
everything that for reason He created the world and He gave
us these scriptures and everything in these scriptures are to honor
and glorify Him as being the wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption of His people. Everything in the gospel is about
Christ and it's the power because through the preaching of this
gospel Christ comes and He makes His people know it. He reveals
from the faithful one to the heart through the faith he's
given of that child he's redeemed and makes you know he is the
righteousness of God. That's how we're made to believe
and kept believing. How do you have a pastor? Men
don't make pastors. Ephesians 4 said He gave pastors. The same one that descended is
the Son of God who came down. And when He had finished the
work of accomplishing redemption, it says He ascended. He didn't
ascend the same way He descended. He ascended as the God-man. perfect God and perfect man in
one person, the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And He ascended,
and that same one who accomplished redemption sent forth His preachers. And it says He did it for the
edifying of the body of Christ. It's even for His sake. It's
for His body. That's who His people are, His
body. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ. Yes, He's growing us individually.
He's growing us up into Him spiritually. But when He has called every
single member of His body, every single child He's redeemed, and
He's called every one of us together, then His body will be full. and his body will be complete,
Christ being the head and his body being full with every child
called in to the unity of the faith. And where is all of this
coming from? What's the power to do this?
He put us in this world where it just looks like everything
is just run by crooks and it looks like it's just, men are
just getting away with everything under the sun and it's just all
this sin and rebellion and far more reprobates than there are
a little remnant who believe the gospel. And he puts you in
this world and how is he going to do this? How is he going to
send his pastor and how is he going to teach his people and
bring them under the gospel? How is all this going to happen?
Because he has all power over all principalities and power
and authorities whether they're visible or invisible. And the
scripture says, Ephesians 4, 16 says, it's from Christ that
the whole body's fitly joined together. And they're compacted,
they're cemented together by that which every joint supplieth. According to Christ's effectual
working in the measure of every part, Christ is making increase
of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Christ is
doing that. It's from Him. Paul told the
Colossians the same thing. He said, Christ is the head from
which the body, by joints and bands, have all nourishment ministered,
so that they knit together and they increase with the increase
of God. He's God that gives the increase.
He's God that nourishes us through this Word. We came here today
to feed upon the living bread. And it's through this bread He's
nourishing us. He's growing us. Maybe we came
in here today focused on every kind of trouble and everything
that's wrong and everything that's going wrong in this world. If
you leave here today and you're still focused on it, you didn't
hear the Word. But if He speaks into your heart,
you're not leaving out here today troubled by those same things.
You know why? Because He's turning you to see He's ruling it all. He's ruling it all. It's all
worked together for the good of His people, all purpose, by
His power to bring to pass His purpose of glorifying His name
and the salvation of His people. If you believe on Christ, it's
because Christ assembled you. It's because Christ brought you
here to hear this gospel. It's because Christ taught you
in your heart. Unregenerate sinners with a form
of godliness hate the gospel of Christ. because it gives no
room for man to glory. It gives all the glory to Christ.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. They wouldn't dare say the preaching
of the cross is foolishness. Most wouldn't dare say that.
Now those that are outside of religion would, but there's a
host in religion that wouldn't dare say that. But you start
declaring that you didn't choose God. God chooses whom He will
and passes by whom He will. You start telling them that Christ
didn't redeem everybody in this world. He redeemed everybody
God gave to Him, and He accomplished their redemption. You tell sinners
that Christ Jesus comes and He gives life by the Spirit of God,
and that sinners don't give ourselves life and faith, and that nor
do we preserve ourselves. It's Him that's making us to
persevere in the faith. You tell sinners that, and you'll
find out real quick that they think it's foolishness. They
don't believe Christ is the power of God. But to you that believe
are saved, it's the power of God. Christ the power of God. Christ the wisdom of God. So
let me end with this. Look over here at 2 Timothy 3.14. Look here what Paul told Timothy.
2 Timothy 3.14. He said, Continue thou in the things which
thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou
hast learned them. That's of Christ. Christ taught
you. And that from a child thou hast
known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. He said,
the Lord used, He called some of your family members, Timothy.
He said, I called to remember the unfamed faith that's in thee,
which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice,
and I'm persuaded it's in thee also. He called some of your
family member, and through them He taught you the gospel, but
it's Christ that taught all of you. And he said, don't forget
that. Continue in Him, continue in
these holy scriptures. They're able to make you wise
unto salvation. Some of you might not have had family to teach
you like Timothy had. You might not have had that,
but you're sitting here today. Who brought you here today? Don't
take that lightly. You've heard the gospel preached
today, and that wasn't by accident. Christ did that. Christ did that. And He fits the body together
and He draws it, He grows us up into Him. So you continue
in these things. And as you see the world waxing
worse and worse, deceived and being deceived, know that Christ
is ruling it all. Your former companions may think
it strange that you don't run wild with them anymore and sin
with them anymore. That's alright. The gospel stains
the pride of the unregenerate. And so they're going to persecute
you. Men of this world are going to reject you. It stains their
pride. It's the purpose of God. The
Lord of hosts has purposed it to stain the pride of all glory
and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. He serves that no flesh should
glory in his presence. and you'll be persecuted. Christ
said we would. He said, think not that I came
to send peace on earth. I didn't come to send peace,
but a sword. I came to set a man at variance against his father,
and a daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own
household. But listen to now, he that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me. He that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. He that taketh not his cross
and followeth after me is not worthy of me. These things are
painful, but Christ will give you the strength to bear it.
He'll give you the strength to bear it. He that findeth his
life shall lose it. You'll find a way out of it,
of your own wisdom and strength. You'll lose your life, but he
that loses his life for Christ's sake will find it. What he's
saying is, those that are mine are not going to let anything
come between me and them. I'm going to see to it. Don't
be shaken by this world. When you see everything going
on, you may have some forward boss or somebody that's just
police officers and these rulers, and they may be corrupt. Smit
to them. Why? Because Christ is ruling
them. Christ is ruling them. Listen
to this. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven among
the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his center,
saying, What doest thou? Well, I thought that said about
God. That's who Christ is, the God-man. and He'll keep you looking to
Him by His power and wisdom. Though He was crucified through
weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God. We also were weak
in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God worked
towards you. Be not therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but be partaker
of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God."
Not going to be easy. But we're kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time. Let me end with this. If you
leave here, I want you to at least get this one word right
here, and don't forget this. Go out of here with this one
word. Whatever you see when you get out there on the highway,
whatever you see in the news, whatever you see this week, I
want you to keep this one word in your heart. Thy God reigneth. Keep that in your heart. Don't
forget it. Thou God reigneth. There's just
a few more times we're gonna go around the sun, and he's coming. He's gonna call the last one,
and he's coming again. Then cometh the end when he'll
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet,
and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." He gonna
conquer all. He has, and he shall. And he's made you to be more
than conquerors through him that loved us. The God-man He's gone
into heaven. He's on the right hand of God.
Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him.
So finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power
of His might. In other words, you get behind
Him. You trust Him to defend you and
lead you and protect you on all sides. It's His power and His
might. He's the authority and power.
Amen.