BY WHAT AUTHORITY?
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him.
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(Colossians 3:17)
 
 
"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at
his appearing and his kingdom;  preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.  But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." (2 Timothy 4:1-5)