The Authority of His Identity  

Nehemiah 1:11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.” I was cupbearer to the king. 

God cannot change. The Identity of God cannot change. The Authority of God cannot change

Malachi 3:6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 

God cannot misrepresent His Authority. God cannot misrepresent His Identity (Who He IS).  

Numbers 23:19 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? 

The Identity from Whom all things came has a higher Authority than any other Identity

1 Samuel 17:45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 

1 Chronicles 29:12 Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

2 Chronicles 20:6 and said: “Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. 

IF you have a true valuation of His Identity, no identity will carry a higher authority than His Identity

Psalm 7:17 I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High. 

Psalm 20:1 For the director of music. A psalm of David.

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. 

Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 

Psalm 25:11 For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. 

Psalm 44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 

Psalm 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 

Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens. 

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. 

Isaiah 26:8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. 

Isaiah 30:27 See, the Name of the Lord comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire. 

Daniel 2:20 and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. 

Micah 4:5 All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. 

Malachi 1:11 My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty. 

Malachi 4:2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 

God, Whoever He IS, has not nor will ever force anyone to represent Him. In the past, a covenant was freely entered into between God and His people thereby enabling them to carry His Identity. 

  Exodus 24:7-8 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”

8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

 In the past, His Identity dwelled in a place of His choosing, among His covenant people. 

Deuteronomy 12:5 But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; 

Deuteronomy 12:11 Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord. 

Deuteronomy 14:23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. 

Deuteronomy 16:6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. 

Deuteronomy 26:2 take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name 

2 Samuel 6:2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.

2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 

Isaiah 37:16 “Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 

God cannot misrepresent Himself, those who bear His Identity are not to misrepresent the Authority of His Identity

Deuteronomy 5:11 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.   

God cannot misrepresent Himself, those who bear His Identity are His representatives and are not  to misrepresent Who He IS

Deuteronomy 28 :58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 

1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

His covenant people  were unable to abide by the conditions required for bearing  His Identity and Authority.

Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand

    to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, ”declares the Lord. 

 God, Whoever He IS,  has made a new covenant, and with it a new place were His Identity dwells. 

Jeremiah 31:33 This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord.

“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord.

“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” 

Luke 22:20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 

Just as in the old covenant, in the new covenant, the Identity of God dwells in a place of His choosing.      

1 Kings 8:27 “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! 

Unlike the previous temple, this dwelling is not made by hands.  

Acts 17:24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 

Matthew 12:6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 

Mark 14:58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.’” 

John 2:19-2119 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 

1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 

1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 

2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 

Ephesians 2:19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 

Hebrews 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 

1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

1 Timothy 3:15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 

 God gave Jesus Christ His Identity and with it the Authority His Identity carries, 

Matthew 1:20 -21 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 

John 17:11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 

John 17:12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 

Revelation 19:13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

Revelation 19:16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

The Identity and Authority of God dwells in Jesus Christ 

Matthew 9:8 When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man. 

John 5:27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. 

John 17:2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 

Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 

Ephesian 1:21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 

Ephesians 2:21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 

Revelation 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 

Those who bear The Name of Jesus Christ bear the Identity and Authority of God, 

Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing (no part outside of) them in the name (identity) of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  

Acts 15:17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’— 

Jesus Christ cannot misrepresent Himself, 

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Those who bear the Name of Jesus Christ bear the Identity and Authority of God  and must represent Who He IS.

1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 

2 Corinthians 11:15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. 

1 John 3:3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.  

1 Timothy 6:1 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.” 

2 Peter 2:20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 

Revelation 21:27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. 

If you have a true valuation of the worth of the Identity of God, nothing will exist in your life that has a higher Authority than His Identity, 

John 1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 

Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” 

Acts 15:26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Acts 19:17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 

Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” 

Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 

John 20:31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. 

1 John 2:12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 

3 John 1:7 It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. 

Revelation 2:26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 

Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

The end of time,   

1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.