1. Part VIII: Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 & Ephesians 6:1-9

2. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? 1.Obedience –Ecclesiastes 8:2,4 2.Resign or Stay –Ecclesiastes 8:3a 3.Bow or Not to Bow –Ecclesiastes 8:3b –Acts 5:29 –Daniel 3 –Daniel 6 –Deuteronomy 22:5

3. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? 3. Bow or Not to Bow 3. Bow or Not to Bow - Leviticus 18:22 - Leviticus 18:22 - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - 1 Corinthians 6:20 - 1 Corinthians 6:20

4. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? Powers & Authority Over Us: How Do We Respond? 4. Discernment –Understand the times and culture. –Before we do anything, we have to exercise wisdom and seek to find the right thing to do and the right time to do it. Nehemiah 1 & 2 Nehemiah 1 & 2 Daniel 1:8-17 Daniel 1:8-17

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6. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 8:2 2 I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God.

7. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 8:4 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power; and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”

8. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 8:3a 3a Do not be hasty to go from his presence.

9. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 8:3b 3b Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.

10. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Acts 5:29 29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

11. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Daniel 1:8-17 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

12. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Daniel 1:8-17 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? Then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king. 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 “Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

13. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Daniel 1:8-17 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.” 14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

14. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Daniel 1:8-17 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. 17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

15. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the your God. A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the L ORD your God.

16. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination

17. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 9. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10. nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

18. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

19. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed. Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed. 2 I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God. 3 Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.” 2 I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God. 3 Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.” 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power; And who may say to him, “What are you doing?” 5 He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful; 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power; And who may say to him, “What are you doing?” 5 He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;

20. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment, 6 Because for every matter there is a time and judgment, Though the misery of man increases greatly. 7 For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur? 8 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it. And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment, 6 Because for every matter there is a time and judgment, Though the misery of man increases greatly. 7 For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur? 8 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it. 9 All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt. 9 All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

21. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Ephesians 6:1-9 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” [a] Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” [a]a 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. Bondservants and Masters Bondservants and Masters 5 Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ 5 Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ

22. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Ephesians 6:1-9 ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. 9 And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. 9 And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.