Don’t do that!
We all understand authority. As parents we exercise parental authority over our children. Of course from the child’s perspective it is structural authority, “you are bigger than me therefore you can tell me what to do – for the moment”.
Structural authority is evident in all our lives and by and large we just accept it and generally it makes life easier. Drive on the left, go up the escalator on the right, etc.
The prophets spoke with God’s authority and our First Reading makes clear what happens to false prophets who do not speak God’s words.
Jesus also spoke with God’s authority but in a very different way from the prophets. He spoke with conviction, from the heart and was filled with knowledge of the truth. Of course he did not always tell the crowds what they wanted to hear, but there was no doubt that what he said was true and founded in reality.
Today we describe somebody who speaks like Jesus as having “Charismatic Authority”, but unfortunately we do not come across it very often.