In last week’s podcast, we left off with a glimpse at the Divine Council. Today, we are going to tie some things up and give an overview so you can see how all these individual podcasts link together. Also, we are going to look at how God reacquired Adam’s stolen authority.

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Each week’s podcast contains a call to action. The Word of God will not produce in your life unless you put into operation.
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Meditate on your connection with Jesus. He is the Head and you are His body. The body has the same authority as the Head. Use the Name of Jesus from this level of understanding.

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Each week’s podcast also contains a question designed to encourage testimony. Testimony is vital to a believer’s life. We overcome by it (Rev. 12:11).
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Question: What has knowing how closely knit to Jesus you are affected your spirit walk? Please share your comments, in the comments section below.

Episode Resources:

You can find additional information on the Name of Jesus in the resources listed below.

1. #S3-011: What’s the Value of a Good Name? [Podcast]
2. #S3-012: Why the Name of Jesus Works for Your Life [Podcast]
3. #S3-015: How the Mighty Names of God Energize Your Life [Podcast]
4. #S3-016: How to Obliterate Temptation in Jesus Name [Podcast]
5. #S3-017: Why the Name of Jesus Is So Powerful [Podcast]

About Emery

Emery committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ over 40 years ago and has served as both a full-time pastor and an itinerant minister. Both he and his wife Sharon of 35 years emphasize personal growth and development through the Word of God. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is both the focus and the hallmark of their mission. Read more about them here.

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Podcast Notes

Overview of the Name of Jesus

• God gave man dominion in Genesis 1:26.
• Adam through disobedience and Eve through yielding to deception gave that authority away to Satan.
• Satan offered this same stolen authority to Jesus in one of the three wilderness temptations.
• If Satan has the authority God gave man to subdue the earth, how does get back into the lives of the people who lived on the earth during Old Testament times?
  • How did God maneuver in the Old Testament since the authority He delegated to rule planet is in possession of his enemy?
• God also does at least four things.
  • First, He uses a ruling council of angels by which God influences the nations.
  • A second thing you see God doing is making covenants with men who believed in Him.
    • These agreements gave God the legal right, it gave Him the permission to move on the earth.
    • God literally tapped certain people on the shoulder and said to them, ‘Will you make a deal with me?’
    • Through each covenant, He would establish another piece to His plan to permanently retrieve Adam’s stolen authority.
  • Thirdly, God exercises His own personal authority both through man and through His divine council whom He has placed over the nations.
  • Fourth, God sends a second man, a second Adam, whose way was paved, by God’s previous moves.
    • This second Adam completely defeats and dismantles Satan’s operations on several levels and through several avenues.
    • As a man anointed by the Spirit of God and via the authority of His Father, He defeats Satan through the tool of obedience.
      • Obedience up to and including the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:8 (KJV)
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:8 (AMP)
8 And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!

• Look at the phrase ‘became obedient unto death.’
• With Jesus, it wasn’t just one single act of obedience.
• It was a lifetime of obedience which culminated in obedience to the cross as a final act of obedience.
• The word ‘unto’ in the phrase is what gives us this.
• The Greek word for ‘unto’ is a preposition which can denote “space,” “time,” or “degree” depending on the context. Here, the context clearly denotes “degree.” Jesus’ obedience took him to the nth degree, to death itself. ¹
• He defeats Satan through the tool of suffering.
  • Suffering in the form of death on the cross (Hebrews 2:10).
• God raises Him up and gives Him the Name which is above all Names.
• The Name is a container of all authority.

The Head and Body Connection and the Name of Jesus

• Jesus is the head of the church.

Colossians 1:18 (KJV)
18 And he is 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.

• We are individual members of His body.

2 Corinthians 6:14–15 (KJV)
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

• Paul states believers should not be ‘unequally yoked’.
  • The Greek has it as one word which means to be mismatched; to be yoked to something different; to be or become matched with someone that does not work well together with oneself; conceived of as being yoked to an animal of a different kind or size, and therefore being unbalanced.
• Paul says believers should not be mismatched with unbelievers.
• Please, please, heed the wisdom of these words.
  • Couples will not work well together if they are mismatched.
  • The will of God for their lives becomes the casualty.
  • The mismatch makes it difficult to hotly pursue God.
  • What you normally see in people who do not heed these words is the idea that they can make the marriage work because they are so much in love.
  • But, love doesn’t make a marriage work, commitment does.
  • Commitment to God. Commitment to the Word of God. Commitment to the kingdom of God.
  • All people end up doing is become distracting from what’s really important in life.
  • All they end up doing is compromising.
• Compromise is a lethal injection to the Spirit life for what you compromise to keep you end up losing in the end.
• So, believers and unbelievers are the subjects of these verses in second Corinthians six.
• ‘What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?’
  • The believer is called righteousness and you are the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21.)
• ‘What communion hath light with darkness.’
  • The believer is called light. The unbeliever is called darkness.
• What concord hath Christ with Belial?
  • The Greek word ‘concord’ means agreement.
  • What agreement has Christ with Belial?
  • Belial is a name used to describe Satan or the Antichrist.
  • What agreement is there between these two? None.
• The believer is called Christ.
  • The unbeliever is called Satan or antichrist.
• The believer is called Christ.
  • Christ means the Anointed one or Messiah.
  • The head of the body is called Christ.
  • The body of Christ is called Christ.
  • The head and the body have the same Name.
  • Jesus said all authority has been given to me in heaven and earth.
  • If the head and the body have the same name, then they have the same authority.
• If you ever really get this in your heart, your days of tolerating the devil’s junk are over.

The Divine Council Is Not the Fullness of God’s Plan

Hebrews 2:5–8 (KJV)
5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

• Do you see the language here?
• The ‘world that now is’, is influenced by angels.
• Angels are over the nations.
• We get a look at some of this in the book of Daniel.

Daniel 10:7, 12–13 (KJV)
7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves… 12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

• This kind of thing with angels has gone on and is going on to this very day.
• But, per Hebrews 2, God has not put the world to come in the subjection to angels.
• He has done that only with the present world.
• Whereas the world that is to come is influenced by angels, the world to come will be run by the saints of the Most High God.
• Man’s destiny, your destiny, is to step in and rule the nations.
• Your destiny is to take the place of the Divine Council.
• In the current world, the angel’s rule, in the world to come that honor goes to men.
• So, one way God got stuff done is through the angels.
• A second way God got stuff done is by making Covenants with Man.
• A third way God got stuff done is by exercising His own prerogative as God.
• God gave man authority but that’s not all the authority there is.
• God gave man authority to rule the earth but there is the authority to rule the universe.
• God gave man authority to subdue planet earth but there is an authority on planet heaven.
• God has that.
• He didn’t give it away.

God the Father Himself Exercising His Own Authority

Zechariah 3:1–3 (ESV)
1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?” 3 Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.

• Note the phrase, ‘The Lord rebuke you.’
  • Man couldn’t rebuke Satan, so the Father God did it.
• What do you mean man couldn’t do it?
  • If an Israelite man tried to cast a demon out of a man, the demon would laugh at him.
  • Why? Because that Israelite man had no grounds to do so.
• That’s why you don’t see demons being cast out in the Old Testament.
• That’s why you don’t see what you see when Jesus began His earthly ministry, that is demons running for the hills.
• Demons were laughing in the Old Testament but, they’re not laughing anymore.
• They’re not laughing when they hear the Name of Jesus.
• In fact, they are screaming in terror when they hear the Name of Jesus.
• Here are some more Old Testament references to God using His own authority.
  • Psalm 9:5
  • Psalm 119:21
  • Psalm 80:16
  • Psalm 76:6
  • Psalm 106:9
  • Psalm 18:15
  • Isaiah 17:13
  • Jude 9

• You see the Lord rebuking the nations, rebuking Satan, even rebuking the waters.
• There was authority being exercised in the Old Testament but it wasn’t man that was exercising it, it was God.
• God exercised His authority at certain points in Old Testament history because the man God created and gave dominion to gave it away.
• In fact, it’s more than Adam just gave his authority away.

Adam Was Willfully Disobedient

Genesis 3:4–6 (NKJV)
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

• Notice verse 6. ‘She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.’
• When the serpent approached the woman to deceive her, the man was standing right there with her.
• Instead of obeying the Lord and subduing this intruder, he did nothing.
• Instead of saying to the serpent, ‘Get out of this garden’, he said nothing. He did nothing.
• There’s always a price to pay for doing nothing when you’re supposed to be doing something.

1 Timothy 2:13–14 (NKJV)
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

• The woman was deceived but the man was disobedient.
• It will always cost you in life if you run from a fight.
• If the enemy tries to hinder you and you don’t stand up to him with the Name of Jesus, it will cost you.
• Negligence cost Adam and it will cost you.

The Authority of Jesus in His Ministry

• So, we see the Father using authority but what about Jesus?
• If Jesus operated as a man under the Old Covenant, and Adam gave the dominion God gave to him in Genesis away, what authority did Jesus use in His earth walk?

John 10:17–18 (TNIV)
17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

• Jesus said, His authority came from His Father.

Matthew 21:23–27 (KJV)
23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? 24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? 26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet. 27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

• Upon reading these set of verses, what’s the answer the chief priests should have given Jesus?
• The question, ‘Who gave you this authority’ should have been answered ‘from heaven.’
• So, God gave the first Adam authority and he gave it away.
• God gave the second Adam authority and He kept it plus got back from Satan the authority He had received from the first Adam.
• He then rolled all of that authority forward into the Name of Jesus.

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