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Resistance to Tyrants and Obedience to God February 13, 2023.

For whatever reason, whenever anyone has chosen personal affluence and comfort as their

pole star, by which they are resolved to conduct all their navigating, we should not

be surprised what harbor they always seem to sail toward.

To change the metaphor, as long as the barn doesn't leak and there is hay in the trough,

the human cattle don't mind.

The hay is federally insured.

But there's another way to think.

There's a long tradition found in Protestant resistance theology that somebody really

ought to fetch down from the library in the North Tower.

More and more looks as though we have need of it, now that the orcs are tumbling over

the first wall.

If you haven't got the time for that being otherwise occupied with unexpected orcs, I

would be more than happy to summarize it for you.

Here goes.

This line's submission.

God is the one who has established all legitimate civic authority and he has done so in order

that we might submit ourselves to it.

All civil authorities established by the hand of God and is what it is because it operates

under God's authority.

Civil authorities at every level are therefore to be considered as God's servants as God's

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