This brief animation that someone created in Blender would be a great sermon illustration for the difference between power and true authority. When getting results, the little mouse immediately looked to what he thought was power in his own finger, unable to see the big picture of how circumstances were graced in his favor by authority. See the video below by John Paul Jackson for an excellent explanation of the difference between the two.
John Paul Jackson describes effectively the difference between spiritual power, which is the visible manifestation of dunamis, and spiritual authority, which manifests in our lives as a by-product of abiding, intimate relationship with God.
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