Jesus gave you authority over evil
In this brief sermon excerpt, Blake Robert Templeton interprets Colossians 3 to argue that Jesus publicly stripped a symbolic "medallion of authority" from a soldier‑like figure—representing power, oppression, and slavery—and transferred that authority to the righteous through His blood. Templeton claims that this divine authority empowers believers to dominate all evil. He warns that when believers fail to recognize or assert this polarized spiritual authority, they effectively surrender it back to the enemy, casting the enemy as a game‑like villain whose defeat is already assured. The passage emphasizes the narrative power of viewing spiritual conflict as a story where the righteous already possess victory, encouraging believers to actively claim and exercise their God‑given authority.
