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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson.

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I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of the United Fellowship Baptist

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Church of East Toledo.

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And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.

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I'm thinking today of Titus 3.1.

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This is where Paul is writing the Titus in chapter 3, verse 1, and he says, remind them

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to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed.

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Well, we've got work to do in this lifetime, and this verse lays out a big part of it.

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We subject ourselves to the rulers that God has put in place.

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Without Christian subjection, our societies would degrade much more rapidly.

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This message of peaceful participation in society also serves to divert government,

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which in some cases might get into reprisals against Christianity.

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They're told this is our position.

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We teach it over and over again to our young people, to our young Christians, and to anyone

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coming to Christ that we live this way.

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And that's enough to dispel the myths of our faith automatically being a rebellion against

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everyone's or anyone's reign.

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We are indeed some of the best citizens striving for the good of all rather than acting as

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insurrectionists.

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However, when government is flat out against God, our rebellion is that of the most dangerous

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kind, arising out of deep convictions.

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We will live for the Lord and do our absolute best and do well, and we will not fight all

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the time against government even when it looks like they're wrong.

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But when they truly are wrong and they're doing something ungodly, we will stand up

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out of our deep convictions that only Jesus is Lord and that we are part of a greater

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kingdom, the kingdom of God.

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Be encouraged today you can stand up for Jesus.

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You don't have to be discontent all the time.

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Jesus is still on the throne.

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Check us out at ChurchToledo.com for more information about the Life Station and New

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Life Scholarship Baptist Church.

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