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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

God vs Gov... Who Wins?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

When should a Christian practice civil disobedience? Does God want Christians to be politically activate? Join me as I weigh in on this age-old debate!

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0:00.0

Vote Like Jesus, Jesus answers to the 15 big questions about God versus government is my latest book and sermon series headed into election season, and it's not about personalities it's about biblical

0:15.1

principles that's what I'm talking about as a Christian you need to come to your

0:19.9

citizenship your national patriotism which you should have, and also your voting

0:26.0

booth decision with God's word ringing in your ears and guiding your decision

0:31.9

making. If you don't understand what God's word and guiding your decision-making.

0:33.0

If you don't understand what God's word says about the demonic,

0:36.7

how Satan the demons work through governmental forces,

0:39.8

how God has always put representatives for himself

0:43.8

insignificant and influential government positions,

0:47.0

you will understand what's actually going on.

0:50.2

You'll just be sucked into the typical left right progressive conservative arguments and I want you to go north-south not left or right north and south

0:59.7

The kingdom come that will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

1:03.0

What's God's government like in the kingdom of God,

1:06.3

and how do we, as his people, the church,

1:09.8

live out the same values of our king Jesus Christ and his kingdom, the kingdom of God.

1:16.8

This will be a highly controversial, very helpful book and it's a lot better than the mainstream news if I'm totally

1:25.1

honest with you because they don't know our God because they don't know the enemy

1:29.7

of our God and because they don't know the word of God they don't know a damn thing.

1:34.1

Well how do you? We got a great great great text today. The best way to get a word from

1:38.9

God is to open the word of God, amen. So open your Bibleibles to Romans chapter 13. We're looking at the

1:45.3

Christians relationship with government and I'll just say it's really curious

1:49.5

timing because what weekend isn't? It's Memorial Day weekend

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