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Rooms 13 with 13 is Lucky Number. Wednesday, February 8, 2023.

Introduction

Last week we saw a major victory in federal court for which we give deep thanks to God.

A good news story about it can be found here, and down below I've included two press releases

that will fill in a bunch of salient details for you.

What I want to do for your first year is to frame the whole story theologically. There

is a reason all this happened, and it did not come about by accident. It was a clash of

worldviews, and this clash occurred at a pretty foundational level.

The theological frame. Let me give the overarching principle first, and then walk through

the events themselves. After that you can read the press releases that will serve as

something of a jello dessert, filling in all the gaps you might still have after a substantial

meal. The issue at stake was limited government. Consistent Christians believe in limited

government, because they believe in both the sovereignty of God and in the fallenness

of man. With regard to the former, only God is infinite, which means that only God is

capable of unlimited authority over anything. Only God is capable, and so if there is

no God over the state, then the state becomes God, an incapable God. With regard to the

latter, God is holy, and fallen man is unholy and corrupt, which means that only God is

good enough to be entrusted with all government.

Scriptures clear that human authorities, including human civil authorities, are established

by God, and so we have an obligation to honor and obey them, Romans 13, 1 through 7. But

as this passage also makes clear, we are to honor them as deacons of God, as servants

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