"authority"
| 1. | the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine. |
| 2. | a power or right delegated or given; authorization: Who has the authority to grant permission? |
| 3. | a person or body of persons in whom authority is vested, as a governmental agency. |
| 4. | Usually, authorities. persons having the legal power to make and enforce the law; government: |
The word, "authority" has been a contentious subject for a very long measure of time. In fact it still remains an unsettled concept in most of the world. We can ask, in logic how are "authority" and "sovereign" related to "freedom".
A synonym of the word, "authority", is "sovereign".
From the Dictionary we found, "... Origin:
1250–1300; ME soverain (alter. by influence of reign ) < OF soverain <
VL *superānus, equiv. to L super- super- + -ānus -an
Related forms:
sov⋅er⋅eign⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. emperor, empress, potentate. 3. government. 5. regal, majestic,
imperial, princely, monarchical, kingly, queenly. 7. chief, paramount,
principal, predominant. 10. effective, effectual. -http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sovereign
Why is God sovereign? Because people are not absolute, but relative to their existence.
In the Bible we find:
20:023:029 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes?
20:023:030 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
wine.
20:023:031 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
20:023:032 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
adder.
20:025:006 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand
not in the place of great men:
20:025:007 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither;
than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the
prince whom thine eyes have seen.
20:025:008 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do
in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
20:025:009 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not
a secret to another:
20:025:010 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy
turn not away.
20:028:002 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof:
but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof
shall be prolonged.
20:028:003 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain
which leaveth no food.
20:028:004 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep
the law contend with them.
20:029:009 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage
or laugh, there is no rest.
21:003:011 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath
set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the
work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
(Book 21 is Ecclesiastes It's my belief that Jesus' wandering in the wilderness and the temptation are the analogy in syllogistic reality of the book of Ecclesiastes.)
21:004:007 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
21:004:008 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath
neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his
labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither
saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good?
This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
21:004:009 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for
their labour.
21:004:010 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to
him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to
help him up.
21:004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can
one be warm alone?
21:004:012 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
21:004:013 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish
king, who will no more be admonished.
21:004:014 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is
born in his kingdom becometh poor.
21:007:008 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and
the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
21:007:014 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of
adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the
other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
21:012:012 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.
23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no
end,
23:029:016 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it,
He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
framed it, He had no understanding?
23:029:017 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned
into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
esteemed as a forest?
23:029:018 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness.
23:029:019 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the
poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
23:029:020 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
23:029:021 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for
him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a
thing of nought.
23:041:010 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am
thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I
will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
23:041:011 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with thee shall perish.
23:041:012 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as
nothing, and as a thing of nought.
In the time line of the Old and New Testaments, two sources of authority seem to have emerged.
Judgment and Power by advancement. However, caution is advised here because the perspective shifts between lead and follow.
Old testament leaders were obeyed and preserved. New Testament leadership is also advocative but sacrificial. The common issue is the sovereignty of truth in love, and the choices determining the resolve of the process of the cost. A greedy king can break a nation, and an unjust judge can break the people.
The critical progress from the old to the new was (and is) literacy. To incorporate literacy into the experience of virtual maturation.
More on this when the time is appropriate.
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