Being the Local Church and the Government Restrictions
Introduction It has been announced that on the 3rd of December all of NZ will enter the new Traffic Light situation. Along with many mandates affecting all areas of society, the church has not been...
Romans 13:6-7: Fulfilling Our Obligations
INTRODUCTION: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Mark 12:17). These have been called the most important political words ever spoken, and rightly so. Jesus was...
Romans 13:5: Conscience
INTRODUCTION: Living by a conscience informed by the word of God before the face of God is the basic posture of Christian holiness. We know this well, here is the famous quote of Luther demonstrating...
Romans 13:3-4: Capital Punishment
INTRODUCTION: The death penalty is a matter that causes great controversy. We live in a country that has put away the death penalty, any country today seeking entrance into the EU will have to ban...
Romans 13:2: Obeying and Disobeying the Government
INTRODUCTION: Michael Cassidy, the founder of African Enterprise visited P W Botha in South Africa on October the 8th 1985. ‘It was the time of the National Initiative for Reconciliation, and Michael hoped for signs...
Romans 13:1: God’s sovereignty over bad government
INTRODUCTION: Christians can and should submit to bad governments. They are not submitting to the devil but God. How is this possible, because God has given the authority relationship of government to man, and He...
Romans 13:1: God and the Government
Introduction: There are two extremes we need to avoid as we investigate the biblical teaching on our relationship to the government. We can call these overrealised and underrealised views of the kingdom. The overrealised view...
Romans 13:1: Submitting to the government
Introduction: Human beings are political animals. We are deeply invested in who is in power and is making the big decisions that affect our lives. And as we move into a new chapter in Romans...