Who Gave You This Authority?
Mark 11:27 – 12:12 | Pastor Buck Poole | August 30, 2026
27 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, 28 and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”
– Mark 11:27-28 ESV
1. God has the authority to plant.
1 And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
– Mark 12:1 ESV
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 9 You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. 10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 11It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
– Psalm 80:8-11 ESV
1 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
– Isaiah 5:1-2 ESV
2. God has the authority to destroy.
9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
– Mark 12:9 ESV
3. God has the authority to give His authority.
10 Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 11 this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
– Mark 12:10-11 ESV
