This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson.
I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of the United Fellowship Baptist
Church of East Toledo.
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I'm thinking today of Titus 3.1.
This is where Paul is writing the Titus in chapter 3, verse 1, and he says, remind them
to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed.
Well, we've got work to do in this lifetime, and this verse lays out a big part of it.
We subject ourselves to the rulers that God has put in place.
Without Christian subjection, our societies would degrade much more rapidly.
This message of peaceful participation in society also serves to divert government,
which in some cases might get into reprisals against Christianity.
They're told this is our position.
We teach it over and over again to our young people, to our young Christians, and to anyone
coming to Christ that we live this way.
And that's enough to dispel the myths of our faith automatically being a rebellion against
everyone's or anyone's reign.
We are indeed some of the best citizens striving for the good of all rather than acting as
insurrectionists.
However, when government is flat out against God, our rebellion is that of the most dangerous
kind, arising out of deep convictions.
We will live for the Lord and do our absolute best and do well, and we will not fight all
the time against government even when it looks like they're wrong.
But when they truly are wrong and they're doing something ungodly, we will stand up
out of our deep convictions that only Jesus is Lord and that we are part of a greater
kingdom, the kingdom of God.
Be encouraged today you can stand up for Jesus.
You don't have to be discontent all the time.
Jesus is still on the throne.
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