2 Chron 9
Romans 13
Psalm 138; Psalm 139; Psalm 140
“Train up a child in the ways of civil magistrates and when they are old, they will not depart from them.” Gobbledygook 9: 66
Doug Giles in his book - Dear Christian: Your Fear is Full of Crap (Available on Amazon)
Romans 13
As we struggle with our own Government in this passage, my mind goes to sardonic intensity… Or as my Microsoft buddy would call it... Well, I’ll let your imaginations roam.
I have been accosted verbally by multiple people for not wearing a mask, not getting the vax, telling people I smell burning human bodies when I wear a mask (One of those issues I brought home from Iraq)… One lady in the Mall accused me of teaching her daughter to not respect authorities according to Romans 13. I looked at her ten-year-old daughter who wore a mask and asked, “Did your mommy always respect and obey her mother?”
The ten-year-old shook her head, no, the husband snickered, and the mom angrily stomped away dragging her daughter. I had to ask, “Dude, does she even let you stand when you pee in the toilet?” We both laughed as he shook his head, no.
In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today’s American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer’s prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late. He works through the problem of churches incorrectly applying Romans 13 to close down, stay out of politics, get the Vax, wear your mask, do church on Zoom…
I love Doug Giles’ Big Government Beatitudes from Dear Christian: Your Fear is full of Crap:
Blessed are the gullible in spirit, for theirs is the great deception
Blessed are the Woke for they will go Broke
Blessed are the Social Media junkies for they will grow man tits and live with mommy forever…
The question as you read Romans 13 is - When Government is ungodly and requiring you to do ungodly things, will you be among the obedient ungodly? Will you close your church in the next round like you did in the last one? I heard Dennis Prager ask that question on a Podcast.
My call on my brothers and sisters in Christ is to be Biblical in opposing even our government - even when some in the church accuse us of being political.
Pre-order Eric Metaxas’ book, Letter to the American Church.
Click the bold title for link. It will make you think hard on the correct application of Romans 13.
Jay
Always excellent Jay! Love your passion and witty way of communicating! Keep it up!