Wear some heavy boots this time

I believe, as Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly pointed out, that humanity’s primal sin is the lust for power. The Garden of Eden story tells us the real temptation for Adam and Eve was not that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil looked just so yummy they couldn’t resist, rather it was what the serpent said eating the fruit would allow them to do. "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:4-5. 
And so begins millennia of humans’ attempts at domination.

Mark 6:6-13
“Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. 7 Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. 8 These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff-no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9 Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them."  12 They went out and preached that people should repent. 13 They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.” 

But we have been deluded and deceived by the serpent ever since as well. Most of us quickly forget that Jesus is the only authentic source of power in the universe. And that power can be given to us, but never taken by us. He remains in control even as we become mighty in the Spirit. We become like rays of the sun, shooting across the darkness of space.

And our mission? It is serious business: to destroy the strongholds of the serpent, to release the slaves he has captured, to proclaim a message that hope remains firmly within our grasp, and to grind under millions of faithful heels the head of that ancient snake. Eat dust, serpent!