Christians and Government, Part 2 | Give Him 15: Daily Prayer with Dutch | May 1, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15, the title of today's Post-Christians and Government, Part 2. |
| 0:11.1 | Today I'm continuing my discussion of the church's relationship with government. |
| 0:17.7 | When God said to me, I'm going to teach you about government because I am government. When God said to me, I'm going to teach you about government because I am government, |
| 0:25.2 | it was quite a shock. Like many people, I had a great distaste for politics and government. |
| 0:32.8 | He then quoted Isaiah 33, 22, to me. For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. |
| 0:44.8 | He will save us. Notice the verse Holy Spirit quoted to me, Isaiah 3322, does not say God endorses the concept of legislators, judges, kings, |
| 1:00.1 | in other words, government. |
| 1:01.7 | It says he is these things. |
| 1:05.4 | Since God is our lawgiver, judge, king, these things in and of themselves cannot be bad. |
| 1:15.1 | And most people are surprised to find that America's three branches of government are based |
| 1:20.5 | on this verse in Isaiah, legislative branch, excuse me, Congress, the judicial branch, Supreme Court, and the executive branch, the presidency. |
| 1:33.8 | Our government is patterned after heavens. |
| 1:38.5 | When truly thought through, it isn't the concept of government that many in the church or many people dislike. |
| 1:49.2 | We have government in our homes, businesses, churches, almost everywhere. The noun, government, |
| 1:57.4 | is defined as direction, control, management, rule. The verb form, to govern means to rule over by |
| 2:08.4 | right of authority, to exercise a directing or restraining influence over, to guide, to have predominating influence. |
| 2:20.9 | As these definitions show, the concept of government is essential and created by God. |
| 2:31.0 | To be without it is to have anarchy and ultimately untethered rebellion. |
| 2:39.4 | What most of us dislike about government is actually the defilement and perversion of the function |
| 2:47.7 | by people and systems. This dislike is certainly understandable. They also |
| 2:55.9 | dislike a political spirit. Although God is governmental, he is not political. It was a political |
| 3:05.0 | spirit that led efforts to crucify Jesus. A political spirit seeks to |
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