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Well, howdy

We got a great great great text today the best way to get a word from God is to open the word of God

Amen

It's open your Bibles to Romans chapter 13

We're looking at the Christians relationship with government and I'll just say it's really curious time

Because what weekend is it it's Memorial Day weekend where we honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice

Giving their life to defend our freedoms because for them our freedom came at the highest price, amen

So we stop to honor those

We start by thanking and honoring first responders police officers those who are soldiers veterans and those who are family members of

Veterans particularly those who have fallen and given their life and what's really interesting

We're spending about a year going through the book of Romans and a lot of times people say we can't take that long of a series and go through a whole book of the Bible

Instead you just need to every week figure out what is topical and relevant

So you could stay current with events well when I laid out the book of Romans

I just organized it into the thought units and lo and behold

I wasn't this smart we're dealing with the primary text in the New Testament regarding government on Memorial Day weekend

And how we're supposed to relate to the government. So guess what God's timeless word is always timely

Because it's eternal it fits perfectly into the season that we find ourselves in and so what we're dealing with now is how do you live as a

Citizen of God's kingdom but a resident of a nation and when there is conflict between God and government

How is the Christian to respond now that being said?

He's gonna tell us that we can be rebels rebels against the culture by obeying the government

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