Heart Change
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God, Government: Church and State: the role of government inside and out the church
The Existence of Various Governments
The Existence of Various Governments
When we talk of government one may think quickly about the state, but the reality is that government extends far beyond the state. It extends to the church
The Family: Patriarchs
The Family Unit: Parents
The Marriage Unit: Husbands
The Cosmos: Laws of Nature
The Tribe: Gang leaders, rules, Entrance.
What Governments Do
What Governments Do
So what does government do?
It establishes Leadership (King, Officers, Rule, Citizens)
Church: Christ, Offices, Bible, Believers
America: President, Governors, Constitution, Citizens
Gang: Leader, Lieutenants, Code, Members
What is interesting is that in the church the King and Rule are synonomous, they will never contradict one another, they will always correspond to each other. In some governments the King is over the rule and in others the rule is over the king. But in the church the rule and the king coincide.
The problem is that there is no kingdom that can carry this out, except the kingdom of Christ. Therefore a king may overrule rule or a rule may overrule king; and while there is cohesion they do not coincide. (Cohesion means stick together, coincide means to fill the same space)
It brings Order to the Chaos or it Unifies
It brings Law (morals, not necessarily virtue)
It Limits to bring freedom, it does not limit to restrict freedom, giving a code by which to live among people.
It brings Justice to a people group
Giving every man their due
There are rights of citizens
Privileges afforded to citizens
There is entrance into citizenship
It has the ability to sustain sovereignty (freedom from external control, military)
It taxes
It goes to supporting the whole.
Government in Genesis 1-3 & Eph. 4-5
Government in Genesis 1-3 & Eph. 4-5
One of the things you see is the possibility of Ephesians 4-5 to be seen through the lens of law and government.
My point in going through this is to give a bigger picture of government, which you can trace through the Old and New Testament. Yet at the same time to show that our goal as believers is not conservative capitalism, from which has come a rigid individualism that actually takes root in several of the vices, especially avarice (greed), envy, and gluttony.