God, Government & Christian Nationalism

Government as God’s Ordained Institution

Hello, and thank you for listening to the testing the spirits podcast. I titled this episode God and Government. God and government. First of all if people don't believe in God Government becomes their God it's obvious.

That's becoming a common thing these days. Right and wrong is decided not by the Lord and giving the Ten Commandments. No, no right and wrong is being decided by government. Which really means right and wrong is being decided.

It's being dictated by a bunch of powerful rich people, so that's Disturbing obviously so we're going to talk about that, and then we're also going to talk about the Christians responsibility to government.

The year 2020 was a real eye-opener. The government started trying to exercise authority that God didn't give to government and.

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2020 saw the government you know enforcing the law for some people and not others so we'll get into all of that. But let's just first establish. So nobody gets the wrong idea of what I'm trying to say let's first establish that government is an institution ordained by God human government is God's idea and We see that going all the way back to the book of Genesis chapter 9 on The most basic level we see government being implemented by God in Genesis 9 verse 6 which says whoever sheds man's blood by man his blood shall be shed.

For in the image of God he made man so while some people say that government is a necessary evil I think the proper way to look at it is that because of evil Government is necessary so instead of being a necessary evil Government is necessary because of evil so because people sin, and that's what was happening in the book of Genesis because people sin and commit evil acts the worst thing is People killing other people because of that God has ordained human government.

So the most basic form of that is when a man committed murder back in the book of Genesis other men. The government right the authorities other men are now in that position of responsibility To put that evil doer that murderer to death so this is where human government began sort of in an embryonic form and Then it develops from there, and then we could talk about Government that God established through Moses at Mount Sinai where the Lord gave his law Etc etc and that brings us all the way down to the modern day.

So that's the first point that government is ordained by God so this podcast Has nothing to do with being anti government. You know I'm glad that we have a stable government but at the same time government is just a group of People and again usually it's a bunch of rich people and Do we trust them we don't want them to have too much power right we believe in Liberty.

That's the American way. It's it's the biblical way, and we're gonna look at that. You know where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty so we should Christians especially we should believe in freedom and of course It's the Christians in the United States that do believe in freedom as opposed to those who are more Going in a Marxist socialist communist direction.

So we're not this podcast is not anti-government, but at the same time we have to be realistic. It's human government that we're talking about so government is just a group of human beings and human beings are flawed humans are Sinful.

The Bible teaches the depravity of man. Meaning not that mankind is as bad as he can be but mankind is as bad off as he can be and that man is Tote without the grace of God. We are totally unable to remedy our lost condition.

So what ends up happening is? Governments end up being Just full of lost people and they don't always obey God. Every government should be under God like Jesus is Lord. He has been given authority in both heaven and earth.

We see that in the passage known as the Great Commission Matthew 28 Jesus is Lord. We should be every government should be a nation under God, but that's just not the way it is. Mankind is sinful. You know those verses like let God be true in every man a liar.

What do people say you know politicians all have one thing in common they lie? But this is true for mankind in general. Right 17 Jeremiah 17 verse 9 the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.

So while government is a good thing Anarchy would be much worse. But while it is a good thing it can also be used the government can can be used for wicked purposes. This is why a government must be under God.

And it was the role of the prophet, and I believe it's the role of a preacher today to speak. Pastors today should speak prophetically and call upon our Governing officials to do right in the eyes of God.

America is supposed to be a nation you know one nation under God right that's the pledge. Presidents get sworn in putting their hand on a Bible in God. We trust is on our currency. So this gets into the next thing.

The Rise of Secular Progressivism and the Attack on Christianity

How we have gotten away from that today, and I'm not sure when it happened it's been happening for a long time. People who are of a Darwinist you know they believe in Darwinian evolution they're of that mindset a Marxist mindset that is very common ever since the 1960s it's sort of Infiltrated the country and gone mainstream in the 1960s 1970s.

It's only gotten worse from there. They people who think like this who have this sort of Marxist ideology and believe in evolution they oppose Some more than others, but they oppose Christianity they certainly oppose biblical Christianity they reject the idea of an all-powerful Deity that we must obey they want to this is should be pretty clear many of them are open about it.

That congressman that the the will of God the the the Senate has no Concern what for the will of God we don't care about any of that that Congressman from New York made a statement like that, but it's very clear.

They want to eliminate Christianity from our society at the very least they want to keep religious people out of public life. They cry separation of church and state all the time even though the original meaning of the separation of church and state.

It originally meant that the government had to stay out of the affairs of the church and to that I say amen so Separation of church and state as it was intended originally is actually a good thing, but they twist that Today to mean that if you believe the Bible if you worship God.

You can have that at home and in your church, but if you're in Public life if you're out in society if you hold office, especially you just need to keep it quiet, and it cannot affect Anything it should not affect public policy well.

That's crazy because the liberals and the progress the secular progressives. They have a belief system that affects Their laws that they want passed so what a Christians not allowed to have their view.

It's a total double standard, but this is what they're trying to sell this was oh, this is separation church and state there again they're totally twisting the intent of that. Well, how does God view things?

Well every knee is gonna bow eventually and it would be better if we bow the knee in this life. It would go much better for us Woe unto that nation that rebels against the Lord. So the way the secular progressives are are running things.

You know God doesn't see it that way and Americans didn't see it that way up until Recently it is very clear that in the past our nation has a Miss has had and still has I believe a Christian heritage.

That's why the pilgrims came here. If we were not officially a Christian nation from our founding We were most certainly a nation full of Christians. But today the again secular progressives. They hate that.

They hate it so much. They are busy trying to paint our Christian heritage as a white Supremacist heritage, right? We had a Christian school open up in our area. I did a podcast on this a while back and that local school Tried the local school board tried shutting down the Christian school and Even though they're just normal people who have normal Christian beliefs the progressives in town who sat on the school committee The the board there they the Marxist is what they are.

They actually accused the Christian school of having a white supremacist agenda. Of course, that's crazy. That's a lie. But let's face it That's their. That's their play, right? Because our nation we did have slavery and segregation in this nation.

So talking about racism. That's a narrative That seems to stick so they're running with it. So anyone who disagrees with the secular progressive narrative. They're going to whether it's true or not doesn't matter most of the time.

It's not true, but they're going to try to Brand people as a racist sexist white supremacist, you know bigot deplorable homophobic xenophobic whatever. Right that so anyone who disagrees with the secular progressive agenda.

You are a horrible bigot white supremacist. It's totally bogus. But again, that's their narrative they're just throwing stuff at the wall and Hoping it sticks. Okay, so what's the point that I'm trying to get to.

The point is these Marxists the progressives and this is not progress by the way but these Marxists they are trying to eliminate Christianity and if they do that because People in government. Unfortunately many if not most today have a Marxist ideology.

That just seems to be the way it is. It's certainly true in Europe and in Canada and is starting to become very true here in the United States. So people who have this Marxist ideology who are in government, they're trying to eliminate biblical Christianity and if they do that if they can shift enough people away from believing in God then government will step in and Take the place of God and this is what they want that the authority will not be.

That we're all loyal and pledge our allegiance to God. No, we will pledge our allegiance to the state. Okay. Now the state Should be under God, but they don't want it under God. They want the state to be the final authority.

Okay, so the progressives have basically taken over Marxists are running the big cities. They control Hollywood Washington DC, you know the deep state they control many of the state some are conservative and they're not as bad, but This is becoming a real problem.

They definitely control the educational system and most of the colleges and universities. So they are working overtime to indoctrinate and brainwashed people to stop believing in God. Or if you believe in God, okay again, you can believe in God in church for an hour a week you can believe in God at home, but Outside of that shut up about it and it cannot affect public life.

It certainly cannot Have anything to do with how what laws we pass because that's Christian nationalism. And that's like Hitler and I saw one local Supposedly an evangelical pastor. He was comparing Christians who who want the government to obey Christian.

He said that's like Hitler. That's what Hitler did. This is insane. Literally, this is insane.

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If this happens for these people who are buying in. They're buying into this narrative if that ever happens in this country. You know you want to talk about Hitler look at those nations that replaced God with the state Soviet Union.

Mao's China. You know the actual Nazis. That's what they did they got rid of God and Government became God. And. How did that end up. 100 million people dead in the 20th century because of this Marxist ideology.

Oh, you think it's such a great idea because that's what your college professor told you. You know, we still have a lot of time left in this century, you know, it's only 2023 almost 2024. We could double that hundred million dead number if the United States ever became, you know Communistic and we're headed in that direction.

This is serious stuff. So what's the solution? Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus literally is the only one who can save us If we go in this godless direction.

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Romans 13 and the Christian Duty to Obey

Thankfully, there are still tens of millions of decent Christian people in this country salt of the earth people. And what does that term even mean salt of the earth? Basically Christians are the ones preserving against the rot.

But things are getting bad. So that said. Since things are starting to go bad and since they might get worse. We saw a little glimpse of this. You want to know what things will be like? Look how things were for six months, you know back in 2020.

Remember when the government was just dictating everything what you can do what you can't do. Yeah, that's little little taste of what communism is like. Okay, so Christians will say this Christians have a duty to obey the governing authorities.

I think if you had at but 2020 totally changed everything if you had asked me prior to 2020. What I thought about God and government I probably would have quoted Romans 13 submit to the governing authorities and do what they say unless they tell you to sin.

So obey the government unless they tell you to do something God forbids or unless they forbid you from doing something God commands. That's what I would have said and that's generally true. But does government really have the authority to tell you to force you to get injected with Medicine, do they really have the authority to demand that you wear something over your face everywhere you go.

Well, there's no Bible verse that you know talks about it. I'm not so sure. It's a sin issue. So Point is Christians had to rethink some of these things that long story short government really doesn't have that authority.

Do they but they'll take as much authority as you'll allow them to take. People get the government they deserve. Some have said so as far as going to church our in 2020 our church stayed open we were one of the few churches in Western, Massachusetts that never shut down we never canceled a service and I didn't go along with that from the start number one because it was clear that this really wasn't the plague like they were claiming it wasn't as serious as They said and number two the Bible says do not forsake the assembly.

So I was not about to tell people they couldn't go to church for three months six months a year two years. That wasn't going to happen. So we kept worshipping and just to make get straight to the point all authority comes from God.

God has given human government a certain amount of authority and They have basically gone way beyond that. Okay, so Romans 13 Paul says let every soul be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God and the Authorities that exist are appointed by God.

Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. So Christians generally speaking we should be good citizens. We should obey the government and we do.

Verse three four rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil, of course, that's not always the case. Paul is speaking generally He says do you want to be unafraid of the authority then do what is good and you will have praise from the same?

For he that is the governing authority. He is God's minister to you. He is God's deacon to you for good. But if you do evil be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain for he is God's minister and avenger.

To execute wrath on him who practices evil. So God gave government authority to punish evil and to reward the good if they claim Authority that they do not have and they try to impose that upon us. Do we really just have to obey whatever they say?

No now we should use wisdom. You know, not every battle is worth fighting but Christians. Let's look at what the scripture says 2nd Corinthians 3 17 now The Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty so we should be submissive but Christians need to stand up for what's right and sometimes that means Not obeying the governing authority.

The Great Commission and Christian Resistance to Overreach

So in conclusion I hope this was helpful and really the best thing to do is to help Fulfill the Great Commission Jesus gave to the church to preach the gospel to every creature to disciple the nations.

Including our own to baptize them and teach them everything that the Lord commands and that's both. What's in the New Testament and in the Old Testament by the way teach them all things that the Lord commanded?

Because in our country the more people who believe in Christ the more freedom we will have the better our country will become. Thanks for listening. And until next time may the Lord be with you. Have a great day.