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AwesomeSavior:
As Jesse said, we must submit to the governing authorities.
The exception would be if any decrees come down that are anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-biblical.
28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. (Acts 5:28-30)
indianabob:
AwesomeSavior,
As new covenant believers under grace how are we today to handle the O. T. command to teach?
Teaching written law brought trouble from authorities to the 12 apostles and yet they obeyed what they understood.
We today are to study and practice what we believe and to be ready to give an answer to any who "ask" of us.
Considering that we are not under the "law" but grace, how should be dealing with sharing what we have been given?
Indiana Bob
--- Quote from: AwesomeSavior on April 10, 2020, 11:23:51 AM ---As Jesse said, we must submit to the governing authorities.
The exception would be if any decrees come down that are anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-biblical.
28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. (Acts 5:28-30)
--- End quote ---
AwesomeSavior:
Bob:
I would answer that it all depends on God's will for each one of us. God had Ray start Bible Truths, which reaches out to the whole world through the internet. He has not given me that burden, but I have shared Scriptural truths with my own family. The vast majority of mankind will not learn spiritual truth until their Lake of Fire experience.
As the Lord leads each one of us...
Dean
Porter:
Bob,
I have a feeling you already know this, as your comment about being under grace says it all. As long as one can fulfill the law THROUGH love, obeying the laws of government should be a piece of cake. The laws of man aint got nothing on the spiritual law of Christ, as it is a much higher standard given under grace.
Rom 13:8 Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 The commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment--all are summed up by this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Rom 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.
I think one of the ways God "frames evil" and or controls it, is through government laws or those that enforce it. Imagine if we didn't have police.
indianabob:
Thanks Porter,
Ref police, yes we need them.
I served several years in the 1960's at a time when citizens still had a semblance of respect for authority.
Not my authority, but that of the "law" that was in place to guide us all.
As I understand it people without the spirit of God will always need to be under law of some description. Either God's law or a set of laws of their own making and with enforcement/persuasion.
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In the old days, when I arrested a teen driver with alcohol in their possession and was able to do so, I parked their vehicle and took them home to Dad or Mom and found the parents very appreciative to be able to avoid a court date and the expense of a tow truck to impound the vehicle.
It's just a little harder to find that type of cooperation from busy parents today.
They seem to make themselves adversaries to community rules and mores!
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