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Authority is often used interchangeably with the term "Power". However, their meanings differ: while "Power" refers to the ability to achieve certain ends, "Authority" refers to a claim of legitimacy, the justification and right to exercise that power...
"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" - Romans 7:18-22 (Read Romans 7:7-25)
The context of the Christian faith includes both the outward confession of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the practice of a life-quality of inward and outward holiness by the Holy Spirit.
The idea of sin cannot be conceived without a LAW and a LAWGIVER. If there is anyone who has the power to decide what should be and what should not be, what should be done and what should not be done, it is God, the Creator of all things.
The situation of this man in (John 5:5-6) has been so long that all his friends and families have deserted him and left him alone to his faith. Nevertheless, he has hope, and believes that if he can just get into pool … he will be healed.
If there is anything men have been spending a lot of money and time to do, it has always been to try and discover how a person would relate well with his neighbor in order to have peaceful co-existence: either in marriage, family life, in business, in government, in religious undertakings, in school life and so on and so forth.