Spiritual resource to share: authority of the Christ
Be still (Mark 3:49)
Get thee behind me (Luke 4:8)
Get thee hence ( Matt 4:10)
Come out of him (Mark 9:25)
I have been giving the idea of authority a working over lately. When you are studying and learning more about the omnipresence of God and good, it doesn't leave any room for discord, dis-ease or despair.
Jesus' sharp and concise directives to evil (see above) given with such finality could only be fueled by an unquestioned sense of the authority of omnipotent Truth. I thought - this is the mind of Christ - the authority and dominion given to us by God to overcome anything unlike good.
I have to include this whole quote from Science and Health. It is such a perfect explanation of the ability of the Christ to thoroughly destroy error or evil. The paragraph heading is "divine severity":
Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it out. Of a sick woman he said that Satan had bound her, and to Peter he said, "Thou art an offence unto me." He came teaching and showing men how to destroy sin, sickness, and death. He said of the fruitless tree, "[It] is hewn down."
It is believed by many that a certain magistrate, who lived in the time of Jesus, left this record: "His rebuke is fearful." The strong language of our Master confirms this description.
The only civil sentence which he had for error was,"Get thee behind me, Satan." Still stronger evidence that Jesus' reproof was pointed and pungent is found in his own words, — showing the necessity for such forcible utterance, when he cast out devils and healed the sick and sinning.
And this is the example we have been given to follow and "do likewise." Whoa.
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