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Daily Bread - April 30, 2026 (The Fifth Day - Genesis 1:20-23)
Matthew 28:18 - And Jesus came speaking to them, saying: “All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and on Earth.”
The Authority Given to Jesus
The Father delivered all things to Jesus and placed all of Creation in His hands as the One Who would be the Savior of the world (Matthew 11:27; John 3:35, 13:3). As the Son of Man (God made flesh), Jesus was given the absolute power to judge everything and to give eternal life to as many as the Father would give Him (John 5:27, 17:2). Furthermore, when Jesus had by Himself purged our sins, He was exalted to the right hand of the Father (Hebrews 1:2; Ephesians 1:20). At the right hand of the Father, He was glorified with the same glory He had always had prior to the incarnation (John 17:5, 1:18, 10:30; Hebrews 1:3; 1 John 1:2; Colossians 1:17). Yet, now as man’s Redeemer, He was given a Name of authority and power above all those authorities that had claimed a sovereignty over mankind (Ephesians 1:21-22; Philippians 2:9-10). All the powers that had attempted to alienate man from God are now subject to Him. He was set in authority above all principalities and powers, mights and dominions so that every influence of death and the demonic would have to loose mankind through the authority of His Name (Acts 3:16, 26:18; Mark 16:17-20).
The One Who had made the worlds had always had dominion over it, but when He became the Lamb of God, He laid all of that aside (Philippians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Hebrews 2:9; John 17:5). In His life and death and resurrection, He overthrew the powers of darkness and in His coronation as the Redeemer and Savior, no power could usurp its authority over His decree for man. Jesus vested this authority in anyone who would believe. He commissioned us to be His representatives upon the Earth. We are to demand, and even command, that His will be done! As truly as Joshua had been given a commission of conquest to dispossess the inhabitants of Canaan, even so, we have been given a commission of conquest to cast out every demon spirit and power contrary to the will and love of God. We have been given the authority of Jesus and endued with the power from on High to accomplish this task. The Name of Jesus has supreme authority over all things. Along with this investment of authority, the greater One, Christ Jesus, dwells in us so we now find ourselves more than conquerors in every endeavor of faith as we participate in the advancement of the Kingdom of God upon the Earth.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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