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We will be in Romans 13 this morning.

I was enthusiastic about all of this new electronic equipment.

We were getting and probably wouldn't have been as enthusiastic if I knew they were going to hang it on my ear on Sunday morning.

Romans 13.

The back up a little bit in verse 5.

Therefore, you must be subject, not only because of Wrath, but also for conscience, sake.

Or because of this, you also pay taxes for their God's ministers attending kentoon early to this very thing render therefore to all their do taxes.

The taxes are due Customs to whom Customs Fear To whom fear and honor to whom honor?

Every once in a while we come to place in Scripture.

and we look around, we think a little bit and

Were they?

God, are you sure you didn't make a mistake here or maybe looking around in our country today?

And what's happening?

If you and Leadership at cetera?

Lord, are you sure that's what you meant?

Or maybe we should do like WC Fields and see if we can't find some way out of this.

Some different meaning behind these words or is w.c.

Fields looking for loopholes.

I would sure like to find one when it comes to a passage like this and with what we're experiencing, but in truth, this is a truth here and our Lord does want us to believe it and he does want us to follow through on what he has written here.

We need to be reminded and encouraged by what a God expects of his children, regardless of what we think he should have said.

With this side of a commentary.

I called frequently Christians, try to rationalize their Infidel and infidelity to the state by saying that Paul simply could not understand what it meant to live in such a corrupt society as we do.

We must remember.

However, that is Paul wrote.

These words.

He was living under the reign of the wicked Emperor Nero.

Nero's, mother agrippina, sister of Emperor, Caligula who killed and tortured thousands for pleasure.

Heading gyro stepfather assassinated with a dish of poisoned mushrooms.

Nero himself killed his stepbrother.

Britannicus when the boy was just fourteen years old later when he feared that his mother would attempt to exercise the power of the throne, neural killed, her as well.

He banished his first wife Octavia to an island and had her killed.

She still later.

He slew his second wife.

I'll pay you in light of these facts of Paul can so tenaciously.

Hold at the believer should be subject to the higher Powers.

The 20th century believer must be very careful not to jump to the conclusion that he should not be subject to the present-day powers.

And I totally agree again.

We need to look at what Paul was under.

As he penned these words.

It's interesting in our passages morning.

We seen verse 5. Therefore, you must be subject.

Not only because of rap but also for conscience sake.

We see in scripture conscience referred to quite often and a good conscience 1st.

John 3 21 and 22 beloved.

If our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God and whatever we ask we receive of him because we keep his Commandments and don't do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

If our heart does not condemn us.

We have a good conscience.

John is revealing a principle here that we need to take the heart.

When we have confidence in God, will be walking by faith and will not feel condemnation in our hearts, you know, principal.

As a pastor for years and a lot of counseling and things.

And, you know,

Why are you feeling the way you're feeling?

Because you're outside of the truth of God's word?

And we can you feel condemned when we feel condemned, something is out of whack with our face.

I think Melissa has at least when our taxes are a little more complicated, we have these feelings, come in.

Temptations of okay, maybe hiding this or not claiming that or whatever and those feelings come in.

That's not what God wants.

Next time you see a Believer out of the will of God 1st, John chapter 3, 18 to 20, my little children.

Let us not love in word or in Cong, but in deed and in truth and by this, we know that we are the truth and shall assure our hearts before him.

Or if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

So again.

Don't live your life in order and tongue.

Just we're just empty words so much of Christianity and maybe in our own life, where we're at a time where that's where we were.

It was more of what we said than what we lived out in the faces of Our Lord.

John gives us a picture of someone who gives lip service to God and feeling be condemned because of it.

When we are babes and immature, we don't like the fact that God knows all things.

I don't know about you, but I can think back in my life.

That was not a happy thought.

Let me see the lowest state of a person refusing to live by faith.

Effusion 4:30 and do not grieve the holy spirit of God by him.

You were sealed for the day of redemption.

There are those who believe?

They have the car rider, heart and conscience, pertains only the lost.

But from experience alone.

I don't believe that.

Certainly the loss of Fusion for 17 through 19.

This I say therefore in testifying the Lord that you should no longer walk as a rest of Gentiles walks in the Futurity of their mind, having their understanding darkened.

Being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their art, who being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness to work.

All uncleanness with greediness.

I so happy, she's talking about the loss of alienated from the life of God, but Paul's words here that you should no longer walk says, what was it indicates?

It is still possible.

Even for the Christian to have his conscience, seared, or hardened against the truth.

1st Timothy 4 and verse.

1 + 2 novice Spirit.

Expressly says it in latter times some will depart from the faith giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.

Seared with a hot iron, a hot iron could be translated, Branding Iron, our word for a cauterized, a person's heart, becomes more and more hardened until he is finally passed feeling.

As we saw in verse 18.

This doesn't seem possible.

But I know men in leadership where this seems to be a real with their words, their lives using Christ name, even and yet, so against, or opposite of the grace and love of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

We need to study conscience.

A little bit, made up two words from the Greek, Khan and science.

Literally with knowledge with knowledge, when a person does something with knowledge.

What he is doing is according to his conscience.

When you do something wrong, he goes against himself.

And against God.

So we need to stop asking questions.

Here, shouldn't be his conscience is safeguard.

Is our conscience, the safe guide?

It was at Jiminy Cricket Cricket.

Be let your conscience, be your guide.