WARNING: This teaching is not your typical Americanized, modernized, homogenized sermon.  While this teaching is taken right from the pages of the Bible, it is a subject rarely dealt with in the pulpits of most mainstream churches, unfortunately.  There is a terrible misunderstanding and misapplication of the sovereignty of God in today's church culture that suggests that God ordains everything that happens on the earth.  He doesn't.  Rather, God sent His son Jesus to "destroy the works of the devil" according to 1 John 3:8.  When Jesus stripped Satan of the keys to death, hell, and the grave, He then delegated His authority to us and expects us to enforce Christ's victory by advancing His Kingdom in the earth and beating back the forces of hell that have been unleashed on the earth.  This part 1 in a series helps us better understand that concept so we can begin walking in our Christ-given delegated authority so we can more effectively advance God's Kingdom in the here and now.