SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY

Spritual Authority could be a sub. title under Authority.  
Authority was first, always, and foremost before time, earth and the natural was! Authority is God.
That authority that formed the earth and heavens, the beings and natural living creatures that exist or ever have existed.  Any authority over substance, spirits , or any living thing was given by god,  even the authority to crucify Christ which was given to the authorities at that time, was given by God.
 In John19: begining with the 10th verse Pilate said "knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee,"  Jesus answered in the 11th verse, saying "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above:  (Power over any situation is from auhority)
The heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build for me? Isaiah 66; 1.   How can ye, being in the natural, build me a house when I am in the spirit. God is calling attention to a spiritual reality in Acts 7: 49-51, where  he states "Hath not my hand made all these things?  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, (meaning you do not understand in spirit; you have not had the natural desires of the flesh cut away from the soul and spirit)  ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.   You might not think you resist the Holy Ghost , because you give yourself to religious thoughts and priciples which make a big show in this world  and attract many but, how many of you yield  to the Holy Spirit, or strive to know him in spirit, Knowing that we are bound to be wrong and unable to understand should not stop us from striving to approch the spirit; for it is in striving to enter in that we change and learn. 
  Man would rather hear with his natural ears the words that tickle his human understanding and build him up, thinking he is building gods house, which is only of clay.   "Beyond the sacred page I seek thee, Lord; My spirit pants for thee, O living word!"  not the dead letter  but the living word.   Let every soul be in subjection to the power of God (the Holy Ghost): There is no higher power then God.
 Spiritual Authority is not understood by the natural man.
The scriptures state in John 4:24 that God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.  For man to try in the natural to worship God in spirit and in truth is ( infinitium) with no sucess.   Any time anyone puts his view of truth into conception of words understood by himself or another : he puts himself up as God!  Only God knows truth ; and he will (as He will's)  allow a slight glimmer of truth to shed it's rays into our soul and spirit in due season: and this to different individuals which some day will make up the whole, when the spiritual body will fit together without the sound of a hammer.  If he revealed all to any one individual they would become exalted in themselves.
  God is leading us away from formal worship, His desire is for each soul, the world over, to be lead by the spirit and to do his will.  When Jesus left us and returned to heaven, he said, I needs go away for if I do not the Holy Ghost will not come, and when he comes He will lead you into all truth. That is the only way you can receive truth. On the day of pentecost when the deciples were of one accord ; God poured out the Holy Ghost on them and they were indued with power from on high. You should not study to get knowdge, you should study to show yourself approved unto God which is your reasonable service. If God accepts your offering of yourself he will pour out his spirit upon you in due time.
"Be still and know that I am  God"   Ps.  46:10   " Be still"  is to quiet your mind, don't think more highly of your self then you should,  and have your knowlege in knowing God in spirit .