Friday, March 12, 2010

the powers

there is no misfortune or bad luck or 'renegade power'

In our natural human state we each presume that we are the centre of the universe. Our needs, our comfort, our wants and desires and opinions and …. We have a name for that. We call it pride. And God's Word says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
- Berni Dymet

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995) - 1 Peter 3:22
Christ has gone to heaven where he has the highest position that God gives. Angels, rulers, and powers have been placed under his authority.


2 Chronicles 33:12 When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

Romans 13:1
Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;

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