Mon.’s Devo - Our Authority

Read: Jer. 6:15-8:7; Col. 2:8-23: Ps. 78:1-31: Pr. 24:26 Jeremiah prophesies judgment to a rebellious people who defile their own consciences to do evil. Even animals know to follow their instincts but these people don’t even pay attention to God’s laws. Jeremiah admonishes their high places of Topheth and the Valley of Ben Hinnom. These were places they sacrificed their babies to the God’s of Moloch and Baal. These are places that represent Hell. We do this same idol worship in our country by a different name: abortion. Our gods are convienence and selfishness. Colossians 2:9 says that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus. We learned in Col. 1:26 that Christ is in us, so in us is the fullness of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are complete in Him and lack nothing. God is the head and has control over all principality and power so so do we. Jesus put off all principalities and powers and triumped over them so so did we! If this is right then there is nothing that can make us afraid. The world has no power over us. We are dead and buried with Christ in our flesh and risen with Him in our spirits. We must guard against allowing the devil to try to trip us up with rules and doctrines of work. Our law is the law of Christ. Lord, help us to grasp our position and all that You have given us.