Authority in the Spirit.

“The principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual forces of evil are under Satan’s command and authority to steal, kill and destroy, just as the Lord Jesus said. But they can only do that to those who are in the kingdom of darkness. They can’t touch those who are in the Kingdom of God! Satan’s authority in this ” “world is limited to affect only those who have not been born of the Spirit.

“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” 1 John 5.18

We see then that personal achievements, economic success, a well-established family, children set in good path or material possessions are not a person’s greatest glory. One day, all these things will come to an end. The greatest glory of all is the one that lasts throughout eternity; the one blessing that the Holy Spirit Himself performs inside the human heart: the new birth. The glory of one who is born of the Holy Spirit is the greatest of all honors because it is the birth of a child of God.

The birth of the Lord Jesus was the greatest manifestation of God’s glory here on earth. The entire heavenly host rejoiced as never before. The Bible says that “suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: ‘Glory to God in the highest’” (Luke 2.13,14). The same joy is repeated in heaven whenever “abandons his evil ways. The Lord Jesus said, “I say to you that likewise ” “there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance” (Luke 15.7).

He who is born of the flesh is flesh. He is a corruptible body subject to decay, which will eventually be destroyed. But he who is born of the Holy Spirit is spirit, and belongs to God’s world; therefore, he is eternal. The born again, or born of God, belongs to God; that is, he is a child of God just as the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God!

Being a child of God means being issued out of God. This is exactly the greatest glory a person can have. Only those who have been conceived by God have His divine and eternal nature. In addition, they are also the only ones who enjoy exclusive access to His holy presence, since they too are spirit. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4.24)”

Bishop Macedo