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Episode 136 - God,Government,Church and State · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Oh that men would, Oh that man would praise the
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  Speaker 1: Lord for his wonderful works, for all of his many
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  Speaker 1: benefits and blessings to the children of men. Oh that
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  Speaker 1: men would lift up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that man would fear the Lord and keep his commandments.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that men would give praise and glory to the
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  Speaker 1: King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who alone is
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  Speaker 1: worthy of all glory and praise. We welcome you once
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  Speaker 1: again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries.
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  Speaker 1: You as a podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zacharan.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are going to venture into a new series.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long. Ah, I may pivot next week,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we're going to begin with an
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  Speaker 1: introduction to this series on God, Government, Church and State. God, Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. Who again, Thank God for those of
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. The handle is you do a simple search
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  Speaker 1: at one V I W and that's who we are.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we are, one voice in the wilderness crying out.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare yethful way of the Lord. Get your house in order.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ is soon to return. Amen, And he's
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  Speaker 1: coming back for as he said, a church, a people, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that has prepared themselves. And he forewarned us, forewarned us,
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  Speaker 1: forwarned us multiple occasions. Be Ye, also ready, for you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the day, know the hour when the sun
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  Speaker 1: of man will return. And so we want to be
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  Speaker 1: ready and found faithful, Amen, when the Lord returns for
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  Speaker 1: his people, God, Government, church, and state. We're gonna visit
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  Speaker 1: a couple of scriptures as we do this introduction, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to those in due course. But first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: as always, let's take just a quick moment to amen,
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  Speaker 1: thank God again for all of his benefits. Father, blessed
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  Speaker 1: be your name, Thank you for this time and season,
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  Speaker 1: and we are in and thank you for amen, this calling,
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  Speaker 1: this hope that we have, this great salvation. If you've
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  Speaker 1: made us partakers of We thank you for the multitude
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  Speaker 1: of your many blessings. We cannot even begin to enumerate them.
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  Speaker 1: Your reign falls on the just and the unjust. Thank you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that you are faithful, that you are forbearing, that you
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  Speaker 1: are patient. Oh God, that you are so gracious and loving.
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  Speaker 1: So help us Lord, to amen. See as we ought
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  Speaker 1: to see, to hears, we ought to hear. Hear the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Savior. Hear what the Spirit is saying
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  Speaker 1: to the church. Let blinded eyes be open, Let deafy
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  Speaker 1: is being stopped, and let obstinate hearts be changed. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to say yes to your will, yes to your way,
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  Speaker 1: every need, bowing every tongue, confessing that you are Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Be glorified in your church, Be glorified in your people everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: Be glorified in this world today in Jesus' name, we
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  Speaker 1: pring you. Thanks, Amen and Amen, Thank God for Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, the blood he shed. Amen to redeem us
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  Speaker 1: from all iniquity, from all unrighteousness. God, government, church and state, people,
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  Speaker 1: many people, even people in the church just run from
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  Speaker 1: this think that there is some kind of divide or
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  Speaker 1: it is off limits. There should be separation of it,
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  Speaker 1: we should talk about it. Some even don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: people in the church should be involved in government politics
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  Speaker 1: as it were separation of church and state, separation of
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  Speaker 1: church and state. And as much as in our modern
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  Speaker 1: world today would love to pretend that there is a
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  Speaker 1: real divide and separation possible between the sphere of government
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  Speaker 1: and the sphere of religion, the stark reality is that
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  Speaker 1: there has never been a time in our existence where
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  Speaker 1: these realities of God, government, church and state have not intersected,
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  Speaker 1: and there will never be a time when that will
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  Speaker 1: not be the reality. There is no separation. There is
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  Speaker 1: no separation of God from government, from the governments of
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  Speaker 1: this world. There is no separation. There is no separation
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  Speaker 1: of the Church of Jesus Christ from the state until
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  Speaker 1: Jesus comes, until he returns to rapture his church, back
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  Speaker 1: up to Heaven, back to glory. Now we can fantasize
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  Speaker 1: and romanticize as though some of us would like to
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  Speaker 1: be maybe perhaps would love to live in a state
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  Speaker 1: of delusion, and though we may desire deeply in our
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  Speaker 1: hearts a man to escape to a state of isolationism
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  Speaker 1: and not be troubled by government overreach, government oversight, government regulation,
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  Speaker 1: government laws that especially collide with what the Word of
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  Speaker 1: God teaches, that bring all kinds of challenges to our faith.
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  Speaker 1: The inescapable and unavoidable historical truth is that this is
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  Speaker 1: simply not a possibility that can or will exist in
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  Speaker 1: our fallen world of sin and rebellion. Now why is that?
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  Speaker 1: Number one? Let me give you seven things. Man is
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  Speaker 1: sinful by nature. Number one, we are falling creatures. We
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  Speaker 1: are sinful by nature. Number two, man is an exchanged rebel.
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  Speaker 1: We run from God, we run from his word, we
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  Speaker 1: run from his law. We want nothing to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: By nature, first and foremost, we are sinful. And number
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  Speaker 1: two we are extrainedinged rebels from God and the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: by the way says, we are not only that we
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  Speaker 1: are enemies of God by nature and children of wrath.
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  Speaker 1: But number three, man has no desire, He has no
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  Speaker 1: desire to obey God. He wants to live by his
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  Speaker 1: own dictates. This is exactly what Adam did in the Fall.
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  Speaker 1: By the way he grasps at autonomy, he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be his own God, so man has no desire to
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  Speaker 1: obey God. Now, Fourthly, man has been given dominion in
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  Speaker 1: the earthly realm that we need to understand. Man has
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  Speaker 1: also been given authority to rule, and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that as well. But number six, it is God, may
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  Speaker 1: we never forget, who established government governments. And number seven
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  Speaker 1: it is God who furthermore empowers, or that is, give
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  Speaker 1: authority to governments. And I take you now to Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter number thirteen to give you what the Bible clearly
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  Speaker 1: teaches about God and government the powers that be a
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  Speaker 1: man in our world. And this was written by the
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  Speaker 1: way during the time of the Roman Empire, the apostle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: who understood a man the relationship, and he understood the
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  Speaker 1: responsibilities and duties of us, and many of the other
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  Speaker 1: or some of the other, I wish say writers in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament certainly addressed this as well to some degree.
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  Speaker 1: But the apostle Paul writes these words in Romans chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you who are Bible readers are familiar with it.
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  Speaker 1: But let me remind you of what the Bible has
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  Speaker 1: to say about God and government. Verse number one Romans thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for
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  Speaker 1: there is no authority except from God, and the authorities
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  Speaker 1: that exist are appointed by God. And I have just
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  Speaker 1: got to pause right there. I didn't plan to, but
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  Speaker 1: I've just got to pause because it just came to
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  Speaker 1: my mind. Of course, when Jesus stood before Pontius Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: and Pilot was flaunting his power, as it were, in
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  Speaker 1: the face of Jesus, saying to him that I have
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  Speaker 1: the power to crucify you, and I have the power
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  Speaker 1: to set you free. And Jesus responded to him, if
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  Speaker 1: you know the dialogue, you have no power at all
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  Speaker 1: except that which has been given or granted to you.
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  Speaker 1: There is no authority earthly authority, authority otherwise, no authority
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  Speaker 1: anywhere that God has not granted. If you and let me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: just home, just give me another quick I just came
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  Speaker 1: to me when you go back to the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Job by the way, because we're talking about earthly authority,
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  Speaker 1: but even in the spiritual realm, where the enemy, the devil,
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  Speaker 1: the adversary, one who is the accuser of the brethren,
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  Speaker 1: the one who seeks to steal, kill and to destroy.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, who is the small g God
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  Speaker 1: of this world, who is the power behind and the
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  Speaker 1: influence behind of the all of the wickedness and malice
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  Speaker 1: and evil and despotism that is in our world. He,
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Job, if you're familiar with that,
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  Speaker 1: had to get permission from God to do what he did.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to Job, the servant of the Lord. And so
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  Speaker 1: there is no authority, There is no power. There are
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  Speaker 1: no rulers who have autonomous a man authority, who have
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  Speaker 1: no accountability, as it were, to God. Amen, let me
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  Speaker 1: read it again. Let every soul be subjects to the
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  Speaker 1: governing authorities, For there is no authority except from God.
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  Speaker 1: And the authorities that exist are appointed by God. They
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  Speaker 1: serve at his pleasure, They serve His purposes, even when
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  Speaker 1: they run a fiul. Oh my God, I want to jump.
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  Speaker 1: I want to jump. I want to jump so bad.
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  Speaker 1: But let me just hold on. Okay, just hold on.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get in due course. Therefore, verse number two, whoever
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  Speaker 1: resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those
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  Speaker 1: who resist will bring judgment on themselves. So we, as
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, especially those of us who are
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, are to obey and abide by
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  Speaker 1: the ruling authorities and governments in this world. So long
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  Speaker 1: as they do not, they do not. And we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that as well. A man compel us in any way,
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  Speaker 1: to a man disobey God and what he has commanded
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  Speaker 1: in decreed for us to do. Number three, Verse number three,
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  Speaker 1: for rulers are not a terror to good works but
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  Speaker 1: to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority?
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  Speaker 1: Do what is good and you will have praise from
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  Speaker 1: the same. For he is God's minister, Oh, the governor,
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  Speaker 1: the mayor, the president, the prime minister, the king. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, he is God's minister to you for good.
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  Speaker 1: But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does
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  Speaker 1: not bear the sword in vain, for he is God's
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  Speaker 1: minister and avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
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  Speaker 1: I want to, I want to, I want to say
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  Speaker 1: so much right now about that. But let me let me,
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  Speaker 1: let me restrain myself. Therefore, verse five, you must be
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  Speaker 1: subject not only because of wrath, but also for conscience sake,
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  Speaker 1: For because of this you also pay taxes. For they
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  Speaker 1: are God ministers attending continually to this very thing. Rendered
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  Speaker 1: therefore to all their due taxes to whom taxes are due,
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  Speaker 1: customs to customs, fear to whom, fear honor, to whom honor. Heymen,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to I'm going to address that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm going to address that again sometime in
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  Speaker 1: the future here. But please understand, and I let me
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  Speaker 1: just because I don't want to take all of the
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  Speaker 1: time and this introduction to dwell on or dive into
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  Speaker 1: particular verses or passages that are not necessarily conducive for
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  Speaker 1: this introduction because of the restraints of time seven poles.
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  Speaker 1: Restraints of time, by the way, But please understand that.
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  Speaker 1: Because man is sinful, and I gave you these seven
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit earlier, right just before I read
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  Speaker 1: the few verses from Romans chapter thirteen. Man is sinful
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  Speaker 1: by nature. He's an exchanged rebel from God, and he
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  Speaker 1: has no desire to obey God. And because we are
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  Speaker 1: that way, because we are sinful, because we are extrained
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  Speaker 1: from God, and because we have no desire to abide
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  Speaker 1: by the rule of God's righteous law, he will always
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  Speaker 1: Man will. That is, man is going to always stray
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  Speaker 1: far away from what is right, from what is just
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  Speaker 1: when there is no check on his dominion and his
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  Speaker 1: authority that he thinks or believes can restrain him. That's
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  Speaker 1: important to understand. Whenever there is a ruler, a monarch,
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  Speaker 1: a king, a governor, a president, a prime minister who
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  Speaker 1: believes that there is no check on his dominion and
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  Speaker 1: his authority that he believes can restrain him, he will
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  Speaker 1: run far a foul of what is right and what
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  Speaker 1: is just. Now, history is replete with such despotic rulers
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  Speaker 1: who have horribly abused their God given authority and power,
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  Speaker 1: used it to oppress, They've used it to terrorize. They've
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  Speaker 1: used it to destroy people, nations, and ultimately themselves. Now
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  Speaker 1: I will give you what I believe are biblical two
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  Speaker 1: checks that God has used I call him checks that
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  Speaker 1: God has used most often for ungodly rebel rulers. Number
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  Speaker 1: one direct divine intervening discipline. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, this is what God has used as a check.
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  Speaker 1: If you will on ungodly despotic rulers. Number one direct
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  Speaker 1: divine intervening discipline. You do not want that. But number two,
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  Speaker 1: what God uses is messenger or messengers sent with warnings
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  Speaker 1: to these rulers. And direct Number one divine intervention never
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  Speaker 1: comes without warning, It never comes without space or opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for that ruler or rulers to repent, to turn from
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  Speaker 1: ungodly behavior, to do what is right, to do what
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  Speaker 1: is just, to do what is lawful, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: the law of God, which is by the way written
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  Speaker 1: in our hearts, and we know what we ought to do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sense of altness that's built in into all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Now, who are these messengers that God has
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  Speaker 1: often deployed to speak to rebel rulers. Well, from the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Genesis rather to the Book of Revelation, it
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  Speaker 1: is man commissioned by God, mere mortal man commissioned by
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  Speaker 1: God to speak to man, mortal men, to counsel them,
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  Speaker 1: to urge them to repent. We have again, throughout the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: throughout the history of this world, recorded history where God
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  Speaker 1: has used priests, God has used prophets, God has used preachers,
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  Speaker 1: and they have all historically had to encounter the sphere
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  Speaker 1: of the political and they were often intimately involved and
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  Speaker 1: most influential as the ambassadors of God, as the spokesman
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  Speaker 1: of God for his righteousness in that capacity that they
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  Speaker 1: served in that nation or to nations even God has
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  Speaker 1: used prophets and preachers to speak to government authorities, and
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  Speaker 1: he's doing so even to this very day. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see this in the Bible. It's in the
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  Speaker 1: word of God through and through Genes's history. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you is from Genesis and Revelation. I know some of
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  Speaker 1: us think that government is so different now, that politics
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  Speaker 1: and all of that is so different now, and then
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  Speaker 1: again there should be a separation, a divide, that there
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  Speaker 1: is a divide. God is not. God is not concerned
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  Speaker 1: about who the president is. God's not concerned who the
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  Speaker 1: mayor is. God is not involved and who is the
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  Speaker 1: governor of what state? God doesn't care about those things. Wrong? Wrong, wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But let me just say this, what we as the
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  Speaker 1: church must grapple with, what we must embrace, is what
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  Speaker 1: our roles will be, What our responsibilities responsibilities, not responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: but responsibilities because there are many, and what relationships that
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  Speaker 1: we will have while we coexist with the world governments
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  Speaker 1: of today. Do we have a responsibility to speak up?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a responsibility to protest? Do we have
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  Speaker 1: a responsibility to vote, participate in political campaigns? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of relationships should we have with political leaders? With political
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  Speaker 1: parties as they seek to govern and in that legislation
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  Speaker 1: and policies and regulations that could certainly affect adversely effect
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  Speaker 1: our God or duties and commands that He has explicitly
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  Speaker 1: given to us to do. What do we do? How
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  Speaker 1: do we handle this? How are we to respond when politicians,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, governments, or leaders run a foul of
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  Speaker 1: the law of God, of the rule of God, of
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  Speaker 1: His precepts and principles that are clearly spelled out in
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  Speaker 1: His word are How are we to respond? Do we respond?
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  Speaker 1: What are we to do when human mandates and decrees
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  Speaker 1: are issued that seek to supersede, or seek to suppress,
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  Speaker 1: or somehow subvert the law of God, the Word of God?
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  Speaker 1: Do we stand down? Do we say nothing? Do we
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  Speaker 1: do nothing? Whenever there's a government or a leader that
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  Speaker 1: is overtly oppressing the people of God and seeking again
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  Speaker 1: to turn us from our god giving God mandated biblical responsibilities,
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to do? What do we do?
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  Speaker 1: Do we speak up? Do we take a stand against
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  Speaker 1: politicians and or political parties and their policies, or do
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  Speaker 1: we just disengage, say nothing, do nothing? Uh, and just wow,
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  Speaker 1: we just hope and pray that Jesus will come back,
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  Speaker 1: return and just rapture us and take us away from
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  Speaker 1: all of this messiness, all of this confusion. What do
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  Speaker 1: we do? What do we say? What should we do?
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  Speaker 1: What should we say? Should we be involved? And to
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  Speaker 1: what extent? And and and and and should we be
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  Speaker 1: seeking to influence what the governments decide to legislate? How
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  Speaker 1: far do we go and seeking the good of the land,
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  Speaker 1: of the country, of the state, of the world in
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  Speaker 1: which we live. Is there a biblical mandate that we participate? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many questions, unlimited questions, and no shortage
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  Speaker 1: of answers, no shortage of opinions, of course, as to who,
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  Speaker 1: as to what, as to when, as to how? When
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  Speaker 1: we are trying to seek the right paths, the right decisions,
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  Speaker 1: the right way, and to what death. But in all
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  Speaker 1: of this, I say, morass of moral obligation that is
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  Speaker 1: forever with us, because again we can't escape from it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to change, it's not going away until
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  Speaker 1: again Jesus comes back for his church. But he told
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  Speaker 1: us by the way to occupy until I come. We
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  Speaker 1: are in the world, but out of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way of course, I may remind you, if
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  Speaker 1: I may remind you, we have dual citizenship. But the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that is absolutely certain is we simply cannot
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. That's a double negative negative. I hope you
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  Speaker 1: got it. We cannot simply stand down, do nothing and
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  Speaker 1: simply hope that somehow everything will be just fine, and
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  Speaker 1: that we will face no threats or there will be
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  Speaker 1: no eminent danger. As ungodly and tyrannical rulers as they
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  Speaker 1: run a mock in their own madness, in their goblin,
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  Speaker 1: as the Bible says, by the way, it tells us
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  Speaker 1: that when the righteous rude, the people rejoice, but when
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  Speaker 1: the wicked are in power, the people moan. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: for a moment that everything is going to be just fine,
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  Speaker 1: just wonderful, when good people, good men, someone said, sit
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  Speaker 1: by and do nothing. We're going to further examine what
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  Speaker 1: our roles and responsibilities are, according to biblical examples, according
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  Speaker 1: to scriptural mandates, by the way which we have our
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  Speaker 1: foremost allegiance to what we must know. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to close with this today, But what we must know
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  Speaker 1: and understand fully, and I think foundationally fundamentally, if we
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  Speaker 1: get this, if we believe this. If we take this
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  Speaker 1: to heart and understand it in the scope of our
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  Speaker 1: perspectives on how we view government and how we understand
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  Speaker 1: the nature of man and all of that. If we
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  Speaker 1: will take this to heart, this one thing, and I
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  Speaker 1: want by the way, I'm turning, I'm turning to Psalm
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  Speaker 1: number two, Psalm number two. I've I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: a psalm that I'll never ever forget, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when we live in this world, we just you just
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  Speaker 1: got to understand this. We just got understand it. We
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  Speaker 1: must know this, and we must understand this. The rebel
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  Speaker 1: heart of man will not abide. Hear it carefully. The
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  Speaker 1: rebel heart of man will not abide by the law
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  Speaker 1: of God unless it is compelled to do so. The
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  Speaker 1: rebel heart of man will not abide by the law
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  Speaker 1: of God unless it is compelled to do so. And
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  Speaker 1: I take you now through Psalm number two, verse number one.
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  Speaker 1: Why do the nations rage? Not nation, not a nation? No, no, No,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the nations, all of mankind, all of
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  Speaker 1: the nations, all of the governments, past, present and future.
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  Speaker 1: Why do the people plot a vain thing? Look what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, The kings of the earth, not a king,
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  Speaker 1: not some king. And time pass. And this is not
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  Speaker 1: that there has never been a good or righteous king
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  Speaker 1: to rule in the earth. But for the most part
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  Speaker 1: again he whenever they has been one Again. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to unless compel by God to do what is right, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Unless God moves upon them, They're not going to do
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  Speaker 1: what is right. Amen. So why do the nations rage?
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  Speaker 1: Why are the people plot a vain thing? The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: the kings of the earth earth brother, They set themselves
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  Speaker 1: and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: against his anointed. Why do they do this? The answer
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  Speaker 1: is very simple, and it's right in the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying these things out of my own opinion,
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  Speaker 1: out of my own ideology, philosophical reasoning of rationale. This
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  Speaker 1: is straight from the word of God. Man does not
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  Speaker 1: by nature want to obey God, obey the law of God,
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  Speaker 1: abide by the law of God. They set themselves, they
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  Speaker 1: take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed,
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  Speaker 1: saying what verse three, let us break their bonds in
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  Speaker 1: pieces and cast away their cords from us? What is
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  Speaker 1: meant by that? They don't want the law of God.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the restraints. They don't want the moral
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  Speaker 1: obligations that God imposes on us. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it. The Bible says, he who sits in the
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  Speaker 1: heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision.
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  Speaker 1: Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and
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  Speaker 1: distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set
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  Speaker 1: my king on my whole hell of Zion. I will
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  Speaker 1: declare the decree the Lord has said to me. You
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  Speaker 1: are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will give you the nations for your inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: and the ends of the earth for your possession. You
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  Speaker 1: shall break them, See they won't. They won't. They won't
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  Speaker 1: do it on their own. They won't. They will not
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  Speaker 1: until they have been broken. And will I can show you,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, we can show you example after example
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  Speaker 1: in the scriptures, and we'll get to some of those.
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  Speaker 1: And due course God's willing verse nine, you shall break
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  Speaker 1: them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them
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  Speaker 1: to pieces like a potter's vessel. Now, therefore, here is counsel,
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  Speaker 1: Here is wise instruction, Here is wisdom. Now therefore be
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  Speaker 1: wise o kings, rulers, governors, prime ministers, presidents, congressmen, whoever
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  Speaker 1: be wise, be instructed. You, judges of the earth, serve
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: kiss the sun. Lets he be angry, and you perish
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  Speaker 1: in the way when his wrath is kindled. But a
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  Speaker 1: little blessed are all those who put their trust in him. God, Government, church,
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  Speaker 1: and state are inseparable. They always have been, they always
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  Speaker 1: will be. Because God is the creator, the owner, the ruler,
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  Speaker 1: the sustainer of this world. And he rules in the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of men, and he sets up over nations and
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  Speaker 1: peoples whomever he desires and designs to rule over them.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in due course. But in the meantime, Father,
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  Speaker 1: we stretch our hands to Thee, the Holy One of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the God of all creation. And you we live, move
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  Speaker 1: and have our being. All is from you, all is
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  Speaker 1: of you, and all is to you. Help us to
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  Speaker 1: walk worthy, to love one another, to live at peace,
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  Speaker 1: to have the joy of the Lord, all of the
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  Speaker 1: hope that is in You, within our souls and in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts, that we might be again accounted worthy to
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  Speaker 1: escape the things that are coming to past, to stand
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  Speaker 1: before you that today in that day, and hear your
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  Speaker 1: voice say well done, good and the faithful servant. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: be the name of the Lord. From this time forth
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  Speaker 1: and even forevermore. Amen and amen, God bless you in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus the Christ.