By What Authority

In this episode, we confront one of the most dangerous realities in the modern church: the captivity of tradition. Using Jesus’ own words and the apostolic pattern, we uncover how man‑made methods, familiar phrases, and inherited assumptions have buried the gospel beneath comfort and convenience. We walk through the rich young ruler, the disciples’ awakening, the impossibility of human righteousne...

For thirty‑eight years a man lay beside a pool, not because he couldn’t move, but because he couldn’t imagine moving. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra walks through John 5 with clarity and conviction, exposing the mindset that kept this man bound long after his body was healed. Jesus didn’t just confront his condition — He confronted his identity, his excuses, and his allegiance. And He still asks...

Salvation doesn’t begin with you turning to God — it begins with God turning to you. In this episode, Raymond walks through the stunning pattern hidden in plain sight across Scripture: five different chapter nines, in five different books, all revealing the same journey from blindness to salvation. From the man born blind in John 9 to Paul’s encounter on the Damascus road in Acts 9, the Bible show...

In this episode of By What Authority, we confront one of the most damaging confusions in the modern church: the blurring of assignments Jesus never intended to overlap. Preachers, teachers, evangelists, prophets, and pastors each carry distinct graces — but tradition has mixed them together until the message of the kingdom has been replaced with fear, frustration, and sin‑centered preaching. This...

Jesus doesn’t reveal Himself first to the powerful, the religious, or the insiders. Across all four Gospels, God consistently reveals His Son to the humble, the overlooked, and the rejected — and John 4 is the clearest expression of that pattern. In this episode, we walk through Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman, a descendant of Jacob whose people were divided from Israel by culture, histo...

In John 9, Jesus doesn’t repair a condition — He creates what never existed. This episode walks through the true order of salvation as Jesus demonstrates it: grace speaks first, faith responds without understanding, and salvation is completed when Jesus reveals Himself. The man born blind becomes a living picture of every believer’s story: formed by grace, sent in obedience, given sight, opposed b...

For years, many believers have carried a burden Jesus never placed on their shoulders: the pressure to “win souls.” In this episode, Raymond Ybarra opens the Scriptures and dismantles one of the most common misunderstandings in modern evangelism. You’ll discover the biblical difference between the Father who plants, the Son who sows, and the Spirit who gives the increase — and why your role is not...

Many believers know the words called, chosen, and elect — but few understand what they actually mean. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra opens the Scriptures and restores the clarity God intended. You’ll discover the difference between the universal call, the identity of the chosen, the function of the royal priesthood, the stewardship every believer carries, and the selective assignments the Spirit...

What does your “amen” really mean? In this episode, Raymond Ybarra confronts the quiet danger of agreeing with truth publicly while resisting it privately — and why that disconnect weakens discipleship, ministry, and the witness of the Body of Christ. Through Scripture, spiritual clarity, and a real‑life moment where integrity was tested in a simple tire‑shop interaction, this teaching exposes how...

Purpose didn’t start with you — it started with God. In this episode, we go back to the beginning: before the garden, before the fall, before the assignments, before the confusion. We open the Scriptures and recover God’s original design for humanity — identity, unity, reproduction, dominion, order, and cultivation — and how sin distorted it, how Jesus restored it, and how discipleship forms it ba...

In this episode of By What Authority, we step into one of the most misunderstood books in the Bible — the Book of Job. Not to talk about suffering. Not to talk about endurance. But to confront something far deeper: repentance. Job was a righteous man, but even righteous people can speak without knowledge. His words were honest, emotional, and sincere — but not always true. And when God finally spe...

Most believers don’t realize this: stagnation isn’t a season… it’s a spiritual condition. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture shows a clear pattern — flowing water brings life, stagnant water brings death. In this episode, Raymond exposes the danger of spiritual stillness, unpacks why God refuses to leave His people stagnant, and reveals how the Spirit breaks the pre‑creation condition of stilln...

Most people talk about hell with fear, volume, and certainty. Jesus didn’t. In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond Ybarra opens the Scriptures and confronts one of the most misused topics in modern preaching. Hell is real — but the way Jesus spoke about it exposes how far we’ve drifted from His heart. Instead of discipling the broken with fear, Jesus confronted the religious who misrepresen...

In John 2, Jesus steps into public ministry not with a crowd‑pleasing display, but with a quiet act almost no one sees. At a wedding in Cana, He performs the first sign — a hidden revelation of His authority, His identity, and His alignment with the Father. From the transformation of water into wine to the cleansing of the temple, this chapter reveals a Jesus who moves from obedience, not pressure...

This episode isn’t a teaching or a breakdown of Scripture. It’s simply a moment of gratitude. I never set out to build anything or gather anyone, yet God has allowed His Word to reach people in places I never expected. Today, I just want to acknowledge that — and thank those of you who listen with humility, hunger, and a desire to grow. No message, no lesson… just gratitude.

Many believers talk about spiritual gifts, but few understand the order God established for them. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra opens the Scriptures and walks through the difference between testing and discernment, the universal call to bear fruit, and the selective distribution of spiritual gifts. You’ll hear why gifts require fruit, why unforgiveness destroys clarity, and why alignment with th...

In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond shares a simple moment in his mother’s living room that opened the door to a much bigger truth about God’s heart. What started as a conversation about parenting turned into a Spirit‑led revelation about control, authority, and the way God actually leads His children. Through Scripture and lived experience, Raymond exposes a common misunderstanding in t...

John doesn’t open his Gospel with a miracle, a crowd, or a crisis. He opens with a Person. Before creation, before time, before anything existed, the Word already was. In this episode, we step into John 1 and recover the divine order the modern church often forgets: identity spoken first, calling revealed through relationship, and assignment entrusted in maturity. You’ll hear why Jesus names Peter...

Jesus was warned to turn back. To slow down. To protect Himself. But He didn’t move—not for fear, not for pressure, not for anyone’s urgency. He said, “Go tell that fox… I must keep going.” This episode opens with that moment and shows how the same pattern shows up in our lives today. From a dream about being drafted into obedience, to the pressure of others trying to redirect your calling, to the...

When Jesus told the disciples, “Do you see these buildings? Not one stone will remain,” He wasn’t just talking about the temple. He was revealing what God does to every structure we admire that He never designed. In this episode, Raymond Ybarra opens a deeply personal moment that became a doorway into a larger revelation: the difference between the order God establishes and the structures we inher...

Matthew 18 is more than a chapter—it’s the constitution of the kingdom. In this episode, Raymond walks through Jesus’ teaching on humility, holiness, influence, reconciliation, and forgiveness, revealing the culture of heaven that every believer is called to embody. From the child placed in the center, to the warning about stumbling, to the pursuit of the one, to the ministry of restoration, to th...

In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond Ybarra walks us from the mountaintop of glory to the valley of growth in Matthew 17. The Transfiguration reveals who Jesus is; the failed deliverance reveals who the disciples are; and the gap between the two exposes our need for dependence, not performance. Raymond restores Jesus’ words, “This kind only comes out by prayer and fasting,” to their bibli...

In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond Ybarra brings together the ancient truth of Genesis and the Kingdom revelation of Matthew 13 to uncover a foundational spiritual law: every seed produces after its kind. From the soil of the heart to the fruit of the Spirit, from wheat and weeds to treasure and judgment, Jesus shows us that what we cultivate now will be revealed later. This episode inv...

What if the loudest part of your testimony isn’t what you say… but how you live? In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond unpacks a simple but confronting truth: a born‑again life should preach long before the mouth ever opens. Through a real conversation with his mom and the clarity of Scripture, he explores how our reactions, our consistency, and our fruit become the first sermon people eve...

In this episode of By What Authority, Raymond Ybarra confronts one of the most overlooked truths in the Church today: dependence on the Spirit isn’t optional — it’s the foundation of real authority. From the precision of Scripture to the danger of “balanced” sermons, Raymond exposes how self‑managed ministry replaces obedience with performance. He shares a fresh, real‑time testimony from lunch wit...