When Should Christians Disobey Government?
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are just and unjust states? |
| 0:03.2 | Just states would be nations that more honor the Lord. |
| 0:07.4 | Unjust states would be nations that more dishonor the Lord. There's a principle in Proverbs 1434, righteousness exalts a nation, |
| 0:18.0 | that would be a just state, but sin is a reproach to any people. That would be an unjust state. Governments like people |
| 0:25.7 | are good and evil, they're not neutral. Some governments are evil in an unjust. |
| 0:31.5 | And so what happens is if you have an unjust and evil government, |
| 0:34.3 | you just tell people submit to the government, quote Romans 13, if you are submitting |
| 0:38.9 | to that which is unjust, you're not being just. If you are submitting to that which is evil, you're not being just. If you are submitting to that which is evil you're not |
| 0:44.9 | being holy. So you've got to distinguish is the authority just or unjust? This is |
| 0:51.6 | demonstrated by a principle in the early years of Jesus life on the earth. |
| 0:56.0 | Matthew 13 through 15 an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream that's Jesus adoptive father, |
| 1:02.9 | and said, rise, take the child, Jesus and his mother, |
| 1:05.8 | flee to Egypt, leave the country, |
| 1:09.1 | and remain there until I tell you, |
| 1:10.4 | for Herod, the king and the political leader |
| 1:13.7 | is about to search for the child to what? |
| 1:16.5 | Destroy him. |
| 1:17.8 | The government's gonna kill the babies. |
| 1:20.5 | What we're dealing with today is the spirit of Herod. |
| 1:24.0 | The spirit of Herod, the demonic spirit of Herod. |
| 1:27.0 | And he rose and took the child and his mother, |
| 1:30.0 | that's married by night and departed Egypt and remained there |
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