Power Power Ranking

Power 

Power Ranking

            

             If you have ever played a game or have a favorite sports team

 You know about power ranking

Cards, figures or teams are rated from weakest to strongest

In life you may hold the title of garbage collector

But if you are playing euchre and have the right bower you have the power

Jesus Christ is the highest ranking authority

He will judge every ranking authority

But more important than that

Jesus Christ wants to fill you up in every way

So His Body, His Church will gain in rank

What crowns of authority will you lay at His feet?

Power Ranking

If you have ever played a game

or have a favorite sports team

you know about power ranking.

Cards, figures or teams are

rated from weakest to strongest.

In life you may hold the title of garbage collector,

 but if you are playing euchre and have

the right bower you have the power.

Rank determines power.

When we think of rank we

think of winning and losing.

 

 In real life your rank will

open and close doors for you.

If you were born as a child of a

king and queen you had rank from birth.

If you worked hard you

might have been elected to rank.

The rank you hold can be

a good thing or a bad thing.

In the military the

dedicated solider gains rank.

The solider becomes more powerful given

authority to lead others to be successful.

With increasing rank comes

 privilege and responsibility.

 

This is ordained by God.

 Romans 13:1

It is also true that your rank can go to

your head and you can become a dictator.

The world is in need of more leaders

who not only have positional power but

personal power, personal godly character.

  

Ephesians 1 says Jesus Christ

is raised to the highest rank.

Positionally He is seated at the

right hand of God in Heaven.

His rank is…

 “far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title

that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.”

God will always have those

who will rank under Him.

He establishes our rank by our faithfulness.

“He who is faithful over a little I will give him much”

or put him in charge of cities.

Luke 16, 19 and Matthew 25

We, many times, look at the rulers

in Ephesians 1 as evil. 

Someday God will make

them bow to their knees.

But what if God is talking about you?

What if God wants you to

increase in the power ranks?

Ephesians 1 is a rebuke to unrighteous leaders,

 but it is also a rebuke to us who do not rise

up to the righteous rank we can be under Him.

The scriptures say every knee will bow and

every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

That scripture says “every knee”…

That is your knees and mine.

Look at the final word of Ephesians 1…

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him

to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body,

 the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Jesus Christ is the highest ranking authority.

He will judge every ranking authority.

But more important than that…

Jesus Christ wants to fill you up in every way…

So His Body, His Church will gain in rank.

What crowns of authority will you lay at His feet?

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:18-23 NIV

18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which incomparably he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.  22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.