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🗓️ 20 March 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm |
0:02.0 | M. |
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0:04.0 | Bhopal |
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0:06.0 | the You know, the scriptures say a lot about judges. |
0:36.2 | In Israel, judges were established by God very early on, and the foundation upon which they were to judge their duty to honor God in his law in judging God's people. |
0:52.3 | Justice is described as the foundation of Yahweh's throne. And for many, many years, |
1:02.0 | we have repeated Calvin's appropriate statement that when God wants to judge a people, |
1:08.8 | when he wants to bring destruction upon a people, he'll give them unrighteous judges. Because it's one thing to have law, but we all know |
1:20.0 | that law must be interpreted and applied. And when you have unrighteous judges, when you have judges who do not feel that they are under the authority of the law, they do not have to interpret the law as it was intended to be interpreted, or if they actually hold to a worldview that says no one knows, no one can know what was intended by this law. |
1:45.7 | Now, of course, you can have legislatures and legislative bodies that create laws that can't be interpreted by anybody. |
1:55.3 | And they're just a mess in of themselves. |
1:57.4 | Okay, that's true. |
2:00.4 | But when you have something like the Constitution in the United |
2:03.4 | States that has a particular context to it, are there sections of the Constitution that |
2:10.7 | rightfully could be disputed as to exactly what was intended initially, I suppose. But most of it, no, it's pretty |
2:25.3 | straightforward, pretty clear. And yeah, you know, things come up that the founders could never |
2:31.4 | even dream, have dreamed of. But then you have to apply the principles |
2:36.3 | that guided the construction of the rest of the Constitution. And again, you have to look back |
2:40.3 | at history. You have to, you have to do what we do when you try to handle the word of God |
2:44.0 | right. Okay. You need to, you know, first and foremost, grammatical historical. You know, |
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