Romans 13, E-mail Neighborhood

Most Christians just throw up there hands and say "oh, well" as they think of Romans 13. God put them in charge (the government), so we have to obey....So long as they don't try to get us to deny Christ...We then give to the State all of Christ's Kingdom so long as we can keep our hearts. "Do what you want to the lady, just let me go." Jesus said..."All authority has been given to me..." All authority, is more than our hearts. We started talking about this a while back, I have a pretty decent simmer going now with it. We don't see that every time the state is mentioned in the Bible, that in context, God's Word is a limiting document to them, like the Constitution was.

Was.

Judges who should have been like traffic cops enforcing the Constitution have been instead behaved like police who hold back the traffic so the speeders can go even faster!
Because the church has done such a wretched job of honoring God by how it ignores His jurisdiction in the name of keeping the arc from falling. It's only natural for us believers to then extend the privilege to Ceasar, after all, there really are a lot of needs out here and if the state doesn't do it... the arc will fall.

If you haven't heard the Pragmatism/Principle talk from the UCFC Conference then you are like someone who keeps passing by the door of the church in Wittenberg a month after Luther nailed up his 95 Thesis. "What's all the fuss?"

God is going to send us a parade of thundering prophets hammering us with this message. Lord, please let us see and understand and return to you. It will be such a drag if we get carried away into captivity with the vast majority of Christians going "Why did God allow this?" Both in Deuteronomy and in Jeremiah God gives the answer to this question when His people ask, "Why is this happening to us?" And God said, "it is because your father's, father rebelled..."

I can still hear Kevin Swanson saying..."because no one really cares about what God wants." Everyone is running around trying to.... keep the arc from falling.

Will God let us see it? I pray He will.