The Left Hand of Christ
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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The State is the left hand of Christ; it is that final prepositional phrase — that imports so much of the meaning — that is often ignored. As Christians, the ‘political’ realm is not a realm of indifference or adiaphora — and this is particularly true for Christian men. We are not called to separate ourselves from the world (except with regard to righteous behavior), but to be engaged in the world — put another way: to be in the world but not of the world.
Where Christians retreat, Satan advances. The times are evil and the Church must respond accordingly. It is incumbent on the Christian man to do his duty, and such duty most certainly includes a political dimension.
So what may Christians do with regard to the kingdom of the left hand? What must we refrain from doing? What is merely permissible? In this episode, we lay the foundation for a series on government, on the political, on the left-hand kingdom.
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We discuss capital punishment — primarily in the context of Scripture — in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone Choir, we are going to be discussing godly government. |
| 0:49.3 | We're going to go over the scriptural history of a couple different types of government and highlight some of the examples of the moral principles by which we should judge any government. |
| 1:03.0 | One of the pressing issues of the modern political context is the legitimacy of any particular government. And while we're not going to get |
| 1:12.3 | into American politics or anything specifically, this is very much a live issue. And especially on |
| 1:19.2 | the internet, especially in the dissonant right, a lot of people have a lot of stark opinions about |
| 1:25.1 | different forms of government being better for solving our |
| 1:29.3 | problems. And so this is not, this is not in any way intended to foment revolution or anything. |
| 1:35.4 | We're simply highlighting that if you have a pet type of government, whether you're NRX, you want |
| 1:41.3 | monarchy, maybe you're a full-blown libertarian, a minarchist. |
| 1:46.8 | Whatever flavor of government you find to be most appealing, part of that appeal is inherently |
| 1:53.1 | going to be based on an appeal to the moral legitimacy of that government. And obviously |
| 1:59.9 | moral legitimacy can only possibly come from God. |
| 2:03.2 | We all inherently know that it's crucial for whatever the government or whatever the state is |
| 2:09.2 | to have moral legitimacy. In other words, there's always going to be someone ruling you. |
| 2:17.5 | You want to be happy about that to some degree. |
| 2:21.3 | Now, happy can very widely, you know, if you are blessed any time of peace and prosperity |
| 2:26.7 | with a godly, faithful ruler of whatever stripe, you're going to be pretty happy |
| 2:32.6 | because your kids are going to be okay, your family's |
| 2:35.7 | going to be okay, your property is going to be okay. Like just basically good times, peace. |
| 2:40.1 | You know, the times that don't really show up in history because there aren't wars or |
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