04/17/2022 – Day 049 – Romans 13 -14 : Christian Duties to the State – 13:1 – 13:2
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Check out John Gill’s commentary on the first two verses in Chapter 13. The command not to resist authorities, presumes that the authorities are not disregarding God’s laws. I would submit that we are under a breach of fundamental laws today, for babies are not protected from murder, even after birth. And I could go on, but shouldn’t need to.
I will ask here: 1) Could we characterize the United States today as a civilized society? ; and , 2) Shouldn’t the fear of the Lord come over us for still proclaiming: “God Bless America!”.
“This is not to be understood, as if magistrates were above the laws, and had a lawless power to do as they will without opposition; for they are under the law, and liable to the penalty of it, in case of disobedience, as others; and when they make their own will a law, or exercise a lawless tyrannical power, in defiance of the laws of God, and of the land, to the endangering of the lives, liberties, and properties of subjects, they may be resisted, as Saul was by the people of Israel, when he would have took away the life of Jonathan for the breach of an arbitrary law of his own, and that too without the knowledge of it, ( 1 Samuel 14:45 ) ; but the apostle is speaking of resisting magistrates in the right discharge of their office, and in the exercise of legal power and authority:”
Soli Deo Gloria!