Hey church family. If you've got your Bibles, go to Romans chapter 13. One of the things I've heard in the past few weeks is are we as a church getting political? I never have any intentions of getting political. What we want to do is be biblical always. And as we teach the full

council of God, there are many, many biblical issues that show up in the current events of our

lives. And so as the Bible leads us to talk about these things, we talk about these things.

And so the past few weeks,

for sure, I've been leaning heavy into what the gospel says about, about justice and fighting for

the oppressed. And so in order to teach the full counsel in line with what's going on in our

world, I want to just look at Romans chapter 13.

Now, if you want to hear like an hour sermon on it,

you can go back to the Roman series where I taught on this,

but this will be much, much shorter.

Let me read these words.

It says, let every person be subject to the governing authorities.

For there is no authority except from God and those that exist

have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resist the authorities resist what God has appointed

and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one

who is in authority, then do what is good, and you will receive his approval. For he is God's

servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain,

for he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore,

one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath wrath but also for the sake of conscience for because of

this you also pay taxes for the authorities are ministers of God attending to this very thing

pay to all that is owed to them taxes to whom taxes are owed revenue to whom revenue is owed respect to whom respect is owed to them. Taxes, to whom taxes are owed. Revenue to whom revenue is owed. Respect to whom

respect is owed. And honor to whom honor is owed. Well, this is a doozy for Devo time, isn't it?

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