{"id":4265,"date":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:43:18","slug":"true-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/true-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"True Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 16. What does true authority look like, especially when we are being attacked, and our name dragged through the mud? The Apostle Paul owns his flaws, but knows the power of God can work through his weakness. <!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-IFWCuysLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2432004318&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/true-authority-clive-cernik\" title=\"True Authority \u2014 Clive Cernik\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">True Authority \u2014 Clive Cernik<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 16. What does true authority look like, especially when we are being attacked, and our name dragged through the mud? The Apostle Paul owns his flaws, but knows the power of God can work through his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/true-authority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True Authority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[45,433,465,80,280,246],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-corinthians","tag-2-corinthians","tag-433","tag-authority","tag-christian-life","tag-clive-cernik","tag-giving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}