Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision

course with the truth of God's word. And now here's David.

Thank you for joining me for today's episode of God, Law, and Liberty.

And I hope you have enjoyed the last couple of weeks,

as I've talked about my own experiences in recent years in the

sphere of law and civil government with two groups of folks that I have defined for my purposes as Neo Covenantors and Neobaptists.

And I got a letter or an email, I should say, from a dear friend of mine, a Baptist last week in response with some great questions that I want to respond to today.

And he and I are going to meet next week and continue what I believe will be a fruitful dialogue, but I want to put it before I get to that in the context of something that came to my mind as I was praying and planning for today's episode and it's an interesting verse of

scripture that seems to be inconsistent with all the emphasis in Paul's writings about being of one mind and

unity and not letting divisions develop and all of that and it's found in

1st Corinthians 11 18 and 19 and let me read it for in the first place he writes and I'm meeting the

NSA B that's what I just happened to copy out today. For in the first place

when you come together as a church I hear that divisions exist among you.

This is what was interesting to me, and in part I believe it.

For there must also be factions among you so that those who are approved may become evident among you. And so I thought it's amazing that God says I want

unity but here's how we're going to get there. They're going to be factions. But in the, but I will be using those things as iron sharpens iron if y'all will just seek after me, seek my face,

study my word, make my glory the preeminent consideration in all your deliberations,

and I will use those divisions to produce the kind of unity and maturity and

perfection that the Apostle Paul writes about in Ephesians chapter 4, that speaking the truth in love

always being grounded in lowliness and meekness as it says in chapter 4, being

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