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Introduction Good morning and welcome back to Dishman Baptist Church. After a brief hiatus last week, we are so thankful that you are with us this morning. Please open your Bibles back to Mark 12 , Mark 12 . It was bound to happen. In the providence of God and the normal course of expository preaching…

I feel as if I am little late to the party. There are almost 92 million people who have already cast their vote. Maybe you are one of those. Maybe you are not. This section of Matthew occurs in a section where the authorities are trying to trap Jesus. There are four times in this section of Matthew where…

Responding to the Government This is another significant area of Christian response. We’ve considered how Christians should respond to others (12:14-16), to evil (12:17-21), and now to the government. This is in tune with discerning the good, acceptable, perfect will of God (12:2), and in tune with relating…

How should we interact with a government we do not agree with?

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. Pharisees and Herodians were enemies politically and socially. Pharisees were conservative nationalists who begrudgingly consented to Roman rule. Herodians were liberal “sellouts”…

I have heard this said of the local church, “A church is one bad pastor away from crumbling into liberalism.” In other words, if I the pastor were to die tomorrow, and you all were left with the decision to call a new pastor, if you make the wrong choice the consequences could be devastating for the…

Acts 17:31 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” God’s gracious rule over the nations, particularly Israel. Also, the divinely established ruling of people…

Just leaving the Holiday Season Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year 2018 Family and Friends, Celebrate, Parties, Gift, Meals Two subjects generally off limits (Sanity): Religion and Politics Today I get to speak about both…lucky me All joking aside, there are many implications in today’s text About War…

Intro: We are going to dig into a subject this morning that is challenging. We are going to be talking about church and state… Christians and Government… It’s a topic that we don’t talk about particularly often, however, I am not one to skate around the difficult passages of Scripture and this is where…

We have cause for celebration today as our nation celebrates 245 years this morning. America has been an independent nation for nearly a quarter of a millennium. That is a long time. Today we not only celebrate the freedoms that we enjoy here in America, but, and more importantly, we honor the God who…

Every Soul Should Submit to Governing Authorities God Establishes All Governing Authority. This is the fundamental principle espoused in Samuel Rutherford’s time-honored work, Lex Rex: or The Law and the Prince (1644). In his book, Rutherford said that the law, not the human authority, is king, and the…

The Judgment Hall The Debate over Jurisdiction The Innocent Condemned

In November 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, concerned that he hadn’t heard from Le Roy since the start of the French Revolution. After asking about Le Roy’s health and events in Paris for the past year, Franklin gives a quick update about the major event in the United…

Review When I began this series last week, my first objective was to ensure that we have a biblical worldview concerning the nature of man. Man has a sin nature. This reality is what makes government necessary today. Briefly, we considered what the world was like before human government. We saw that…

Introduction: Tuesday we celebrate America’s 247th birthday, and we’re thankful for the freedom and liberty that we have as American’s. I realized this week that America is only 57 years older than our church. Pretty amazing. If you were to visit the Smithsonian Museum of American History, you could…

How does a Christian whose ultimate citizenship is in heaven - relate to this world and in, particular to the government that rules over him/her. Or, in our modern climate, what do we do about local and state government mandates that we disagree with? Peter in this passage talks about the Christian and…

One of the greatest threats to a regular prayer life is anger. We are living in angry times. We must careful that our anger not ruin our prayer lives. It is a great challenge for us as Christians to remember the importance of prayer when a partisan world. Now I don’t presume to know what is going to…

The blessings of Christ's Kingdom are eternal and do not rely upon human government.

Intro: Last week we started this discussion about Christians and Government. We saw that... As God’s Special People, Our Submission to Government… Is commanded Requires proper motivation Will not be easy It is God’s Will It is an act of stewardship… Let’s look at our main passage, once again… 1 Peter…

Have you ever heard the sentiment that goes something like this-”I don’t want to become too serious a Christian because then I will have to change my life so much that I won’t have any fun anymore.” Have you ever heard that? Have you ever thought that? I can remember in high school one of my class mates…

The Lord’s Supper If you have trusted in Christ alone for salvation, then you are welcome to participate in the Lord’s Supper. It has significance to you. If you have not trusted in Christ, then you are more than welcome to watch and listen. This ordinance of the local church is a celebration and a remembrance…

Genesis 9:1-17 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your…

Intro: Now last time we began with a contextual understanding of Romans 13 , what the situation is at Rome and why Paul is writing. We also observed that perhaps we have not thought through our view of government from Scripture. Lastly you see that Government is important to God; that government will…

Pastor John challenges us to put our trust in “God Alone”. Not in people, not in government, not in political parties or ideals, but in God alone.

Review We have learned that government is not the highest authority; God is. That is exactly the case made by our Founders when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, rejected the authority of the British crown, and formed their own government. We then learned that government has a God-given purpose.…