Plodcast Ep. 91 - Lesser Magistrates, The Weight of Glory, Antiloidoreo

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week Pastor Wilson talks about lesser magistrates, C.S. Lewis’ book, “The Weight of Glory”, and the greek word antiloidoreo. Thanks for tuning in! Show Notes: Lesser Magistrates: The doctrine of the lesser magistrate is a doctrine that is very relevant in our day For example marijuana is allowed by the lesser magistrates and not the federal magistrates Conservative states that do not conform to the federal standard of abortion is another example Our reasons for asking the lesser magistrates to stand up to the bad guys should be grounded in scripture Book IV of Calvin’s Institutes addresses this problem with civil magistrates very well The Weight of Glory: Written by C.S. Lewis Small collection of Lewis’ more famous essays This book is one to return to again and again Lewis sets the boundaries of what it is like to seek glory Antiloidoreo: This word means to “revile again”, returning bile for bile, spite for spite Used in 1 Peter 2:23 When someone else starts the sinning, the easiest thing in the world is to pay him back in his own coin But this is precisely what Jesus did not do

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never change.
0:17.0	Welcome to Plodgast episode 91.
0:21.0	Thanks for coming.
0:22.0	Thanks for joining us.
0:23.0	What I wanted to do today is talk a little bit about the doctrine of the lesser magistrates, the doctrine
0:30.4	of the lesser magistrates.
0:33.4	This is quite a relevant doctrine today,
0:37.7	and we see attempts to exercise it going on
0:41.9	in various places. I think that Christians ought to
0:48.0	I guess work out the theology of the thing first before we rush to apply it. So let me give you some examples of activities
0:59.3	by the lesser magistrates. I'm not commending or condemning them here. I just want to illustrate it.
1:05.3	I'll give you three examples. When local municipalities declare themselves to be sanctuary cities, where undocumented foreigners, illegal aliens cannot where the local police force is
1:27.6	instructed not to cooperate with the immigration national or
1:31.4	federal immigration officials.
1:33.6	When a city says to the federal government, no, we're not going to do that.
1:40.1	We're not going to obey federal law because we have passed a law saying that this is a sanctuary city.
1:47.0	That is an example of the lesser magistrates saying no. The city council and the mayor and all the
1:56.1	functionaries at the city level are the duly authorized authorities in
2:01.6	that city and they are defying the higher-ups. They're defying the federal
2:08.0	government. Another example would be the state legislators,
2:13.6	the state referenda or state legislatures
2:19.7	making recreational use of marijuana legal. Well that's contrary to federal law. So
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