Message by Larry Thacker Jr from May 24: Government from God

About this episode

Larry Thacker Jr discusses the biblical perspective on government authority as presented in Romans 13.

Chapter 13 of Romans begins with a statement that may be hard for us to swallow. Most of us recognize the need for law and order and don’t have a problem with the idea that we should submit to proper authority, but what about the next part? The end of verse 1 reads, “there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.” How can that be? How can a government that does evil things be established by God? As governments go ours is pretty good, but we have some real problems. Consider that Paul is writing as a citizen of Rome, hardly a model for a Godly nation. We will read from Romans 13:1-7 and apply it to our world today.

People in this episode

Guest: Larry Thacker Jr

Topics covered

• government
• authority
• Christianity
• Romans 13
• law and order
• spirituality

Keywords

• government
• God
• Romans 13
• authority
• law and order
• Christianity
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Romans

Places: Rome

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