WEBVTT 00:00.648 --> 00:02.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Romans chapter 13. 00:03.551 --> 00:05.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter 13. 00:06.073 --> 00:08.835 [SPEAKER_00]: This Tuesday, we're going to the polls. 00:09.136 --> 00:13.139 [SPEAKER_00]: All Americans are going to the polls to elect our governing officials. 00:13.300 --> 00:16.703 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of us on Wednesday will be excited. 00:17.523 --> 00:18.985 [SPEAKER_00]: Others will be disappointed. 00:20.155 --> 00:25.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Nonetheless, Romans 13 addresses how we are to treat those who are in authority over us. 00:27.078 --> 00:33.100 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't say, and Romans 13, that we are to yield and respect only those who have earned our respect. 00:35.001 --> 00:38.102 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't say that we are to honor those that we agree with. 00:39.923 --> 00:45.565 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it says that we are to yield and respect those got his placed over us, and he 00:50.254 --> 00:51.435 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, well, how does it say that? 00:51.455 --> 00:52.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Where do you get that? 00:53.216 --> 00:58.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Rums chapter 13 verse one says, for there is no authority except from God. 00:58.699 --> 01:02.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And those that exist have been instituted by God. 01:03.481 --> 01:07.424 [SPEAKER_00]: So after the election, after the election is final. 01:08.244 --> 01:10.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Question is, will you yield to their authority? 01:11.386 --> 01:14.147 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you fulfill your obligations? 01:14.668 --> 01:18.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you honor those who have the office? 01:20.143 --> 01:22.424 [SPEAKER_00]: These questions even go beyond the election day. 01:22.844 --> 01:26.446 [SPEAKER_00]: They really do, because they go into our daily lives, because we're all under authority. 01:26.526 --> 01:30.649 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone is over us in authority at work or at home. 01:31.329 --> 01:35.771 [SPEAKER_00]: And the question then becomes, are we yielding to that authority over us? 01:36.812 --> 01:40.214 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we paying taxes without cheating the government? 01:41.614 --> 01:50.742 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we speaking about our elected officials in an honoring way at the dinner table with our kids and on social media platforms to the public? 01:52.784 --> 01:54.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you don't have to agree with them. 01:55.627 --> 01:57.208 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what it means to honor. 01:57.689 --> 02:02.833 [SPEAKER_00]: But can you disagree with someone in authority without ridiculeing them? 02:04.175 --> 02:05.155 [SPEAKER_00]: That's really important. 02:06.037 --> 02:15.045 [SPEAKER_00]: Because think of the life lesson you're going to be imparting your kids to your kids when you demonstrate honor to those you didn't vote for or want in office. 02:16.146 --> 02:21.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about the legacy you're given to your kids because you think about it, your children did not choose their parents? 02:23.613 --> 02:27.817 [SPEAKER_00]: Their relatives or their teachers, so the lesson is going to apply immediately. 02:29.098 --> 02:30.059 [SPEAKER_00]: We're all under authority. 02:31.213 --> 02:33.674 [SPEAKER_00]: under some authority that we have not elected or agreed to. 02:34.715 --> 02:39.497 [SPEAKER_00]: So Tuesday is going to determine who gets elected, Romans 13 applies no matter what happens. 02:40.677 --> 02:47.920 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me read the passage, Romans chapter 13, I'm going to read the first seven verses. 02:47.940 --> 02:50.341 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to just look at verses five to seven. 02:52.962 --> 02:56.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. 02:57.377 --> 03:00.799 [SPEAKER_00]: for there is no authority except from God. 03:00.839 --> 03:03.461 [SPEAKER_00]: And those that exist have been instituted by God. 03:03.981 --> 03:11.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, whoever resist authority resist what God has appointed and those who resist will encourage judgment. 03:12.367 --> 03:15.229 [SPEAKER_00]: For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. 03:16.410 --> 03:19.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you have no fear of the one who is an authority? 03:19.803 --> 03:22.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Then do what it's good and you will receive his approval. 03:23.326 --> 03:25.467 [SPEAKER_00]: For he is God's servant for your good. 03:25.987 --> 03:30.291 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you do wrong, be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain. 03:31.211 --> 03:36.175 [SPEAKER_00]: For he is the servant of God and avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 03:36.895 --> 03:37.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's our section. 03:37.716 --> 03:40.478 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, one must be in subjection. 03:41.939 --> 03:45.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only to avoid God's wrath, but also for the sake of conscience. 03:47.138 --> 03:52.380 [SPEAKER_00]: For because of this, you also pay taxes for the authorities or ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 03:53.541 --> 03:55.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Pay to all what is owed to them. 03:55.762 --> 04:06.166 [SPEAKER_00]: Taxes to whom taxes are owed revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom, respect is owed, honor to whom, honor is owed. 04:08.133 --> 04:12.496 [SPEAKER_00]: The governing authorities is God's public servant. 04:12.556 --> 04:13.556 [SPEAKER_00]: That is my title. 04:14.237 --> 04:17.959 [SPEAKER_00]: And the things I want to draw out are, we are to yield to that authority. 04:19.280 --> 04:22.062 [SPEAKER_00]: We are to pay what we should owe, pay what we owe. 04:23.125 --> 04:26.228 [SPEAKER_00]: And show honor where honor is due, those are the three points. 04:26.248 --> 04:28.890 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's look at the first one, yield to their authority. 04:29.530 --> 04:33.234 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse five, it says, we are to be in subjection. 04:33.594 --> 04:35.976 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't usually use that word, subjection. 04:36.016 --> 04:46.104 [SPEAKER_00]: It does mean that we are willingly ranking ourselves under authority, willing inclination to obey to yield. 04:46.144 --> 04:49.067 [SPEAKER_00]: And I say yield because it's not just outside, it's inside. 04:50.138 --> 04:59.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just on the outside, gritting your teeth because you're all, but inside, you have a willing spirit to come under those in authority over you. 05:00.005 --> 05:04.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Cause really, is there any boss or authority that you agree with a hundred percent of the time? 05:05.729 --> 05:07.631 [SPEAKER_00]: There is, that doesn't exist. 05:08.712 --> 05:10.073 [SPEAKER_00]: That just doesn't the guess thing about it. 05:10.453 --> 05:15.897 [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna fuss and fume about directives from people ranked above us, but I caution you to do that. 05:17.298 --> 05:22.140 [SPEAKER_00]: Because our attitude toward them is related to our relationship with God. 05:23.741 --> 05:29.204 [SPEAKER_00]: All authority that are over you, all authorities that are over you are in place because God appointed them. 05:30.645 --> 05:33.486 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, why does God put them there? 05:34.867 --> 05:41.330 [SPEAKER_00]: You can listen to the other sermons, if you've just arrived, but they have been deputized by God to keep the peace. 05:42.600 --> 05:45.603 [SPEAKER_00]: to bring about justice in the world by punishing the wrong doers. 05:46.484 --> 05:51.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And we are commanded not to take vengeance on our enemies. 05:51.810 --> 05:55.254 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 12, 19, but leave room for the wrath of God. 05:55.274 --> 05:59.659 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the wrath of God is displayed, it says that the governing authorities 06:01.684 --> 06:04.366 [SPEAKER_00]: are exerting the wrath of God in a temporary way. 06:05.087 --> 06:11.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that, they are his deputies bringing the wrath of God in a temporary way. 06:11.231 --> 06:16.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, there is judgment day, but there's a temporary way that's being given out. 06:17.315 --> 06:21.698 [SPEAKER_00]: So yield to that authority over you to avoid God's wrath. 06:22.819 --> 06:23.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Now think about that. 06:24.400 --> 06:27.803 [SPEAKER_00]: Anytime you see a policeman hand-cuffing a thief, 06:28.753 --> 06:33.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Just think, it is God's wrath being poured out on theory. 06:35.197 --> 06:44.062 [SPEAKER_00]: If you ever see a husband get apprehended by a police officer for physical abuse in the home, it is God's wrath being poured out upon that abuse. 06:47.082 --> 06:54.567 [SPEAKER_00]: The IRS serves you a fine for cheating on your taxes, it's God's wrath being poured out upon your fraudulent dealings. 06:55.287 --> 06:58.549 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a shot over the bow, temporary of your ship. 07:00.010 --> 07:05.653 [SPEAKER_00]: You answer ultimately to God, but he has deputies that serve the purpose. 07:05.693 --> 07:10.416 [SPEAKER_00]: So we are too yield to their authority if we want to avoid God's wrath. 07:11.257 --> 07:13.478 [SPEAKER_00]: His temporary punishment on wrongdoers. 07:14.886 --> 07:19.032 [SPEAKER_00]: And you go, wait a minute, hang on John, what if I'm wrongly accused? 07:19.953 --> 07:23.559 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't say that that's God's wrath poured out upon me. 07:24.800 --> 07:25.662 [SPEAKER_00]: True, I can't. 07:27.002 --> 07:30.324 [SPEAKER_00]: What Paul is saying is a general statement, okay? 07:31.024 --> 07:35.527 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think our problem is always, we look for the exceptions when we hear this kind of thing. 07:36.167 --> 07:47.473 [SPEAKER_00]: So just be cautious, be careful, because the Lord put this teaching in Romans chapter 13, first Peter chapter two, to connect the two things together, government and God. 07:49.494 --> 07:55.798 [SPEAKER_00]: God rules the world through secondary means, through His earthly government. 07:56.563 --> 07:58.084 [SPEAKER_00]: So, keep that connected. 07:58.885 --> 08:06.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we are to avoid, we are to yield, not just to avoid wrath, but it says also for the sake of conscience. 08:07.390 --> 08:07.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. 08:08.511 --> 08:08.991 [SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean? 08:09.051 --> 08:10.592 [SPEAKER_00]: For the sake of conscience. 08:11.553 --> 08:13.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know what a conscience is. 08:13.214 --> 08:21.179 [SPEAKER_00]: So, that's kind of like that inner judge that sits and judges all your actions based upon what you believe. 08:22.373 --> 08:27.237 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap between there and your conscience is going to remind you, wait a minute, you're doing it wrong. 08:27.337 --> 08:30.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, you shouldn't be doing that because you believe this, right? 08:30.820 --> 08:34.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's not going to be 100% accurate. 08:34.303 --> 08:39.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Your conscience is also a fallen aspect about you. 08:39.267 --> 08:44.651 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not completely accurate, but you must be careful not to violate your conscience. 08:46.462 --> 08:51.623 [SPEAKER_00]: It should be informed by God's Word, but never violated it, less it's stop working. 08:52.223 --> 08:57.524 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you keep going against your conscience, one day, it's not gonna work. 08:57.564 --> 09:05.246 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible talks about a seared conscience in the first Timothy 4, 2, or a callist conscience. 09:05.906 --> 09:10.947 [SPEAKER_00]: It just stops working because you keep ignoring it and Paul saying, don't do that. 09:11.847 --> 09:14.148 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, well, okay, I know about a conscience. 09:16.831 --> 09:19.592 [SPEAKER_00]: based upon your conscience, or for conscience sake. 09:20.753 --> 09:26.376 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would say, because all authorities in this world are appointed by God. 09:27.997 --> 09:40.343 [SPEAKER_00]: So they can seem institutional and faceless entities, but they are God's deputies, and our obedience to them, listen to this, reflects our obedience to God. 09:41.483 --> 09:41.904 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why. 09:43.004 --> 09:44.305 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why for conscience sake. 09:45.248 --> 09:49.931 [SPEAKER_00]: When you disregard authorities over you, you're really disregarding God. 09:51.131 --> 09:54.934 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless they're asking you to do something that violates God's word, okay? 09:55.854 --> 10:10.343 [SPEAKER_00]: But it says in Ephesians chapter six, verse five and seven, five through seven, bond servants or employees, obey your earthly masters in fear and trembling with a sincere heart as you would Christ. 10:13.410 --> 10:25.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by way of eye service as people pleasors, but as bond servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man. 10:25.973 --> 10:27.773 [SPEAKER_00]: So God is the ultimate boss. 10:28.513 --> 10:32.714 [SPEAKER_00]: But the way that you respond to your boss is going to be the way that you respond to God. 10:32.734 --> 10:37.755 [SPEAKER_00]: God is going to receive that as not so good worship or worship. 10:39.492 --> 10:47.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're missing what Paul is saying if you're the person who treats every instruction from your supervisor as an insult. 10:49.074 --> 10:49.954 [SPEAKER_00]: You know those kind of people? 10:51.014 --> 10:56.455 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like they bristle at every, every instruction. 10:56.475 --> 11:03.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you're missing it if you're a teenager that challenges every boundary that your parents have for you. 11:04.997 --> 11:05.577 [SPEAKER_00]: You're missing it. 11:06.508 --> 11:07.669 [SPEAKER_00]: yield to their authority. 11:08.010 --> 11:09.231 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been given by God. 11:09.612 --> 11:11.133 [SPEAKER_00]: yield for conscience sake. 11:11.534 --> 11:13.136 [SPEAKER_00]: So yield to their authority. 11:13.196 --> 11:13.897 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's number two. 11:15.318 --> 11:16.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Pay what you will. 11:17.200 --> 11:18.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Pay what you will. 11:18.181 --> 11:19.383 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll just talk about taxes. 11:20.885 --> 11:21.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me read it again. 11:22.026 --> 11:22.947 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse six and seven. 11:26.475 --> 11:31.498 [SPEAKER_00]: For because of this, you also pay taxes, because of this, you know, the governing authorities in our lives. 11:32.138 --> 11:35.921 [SPEAKER_00]: You pay taxes for the authorities, our ministers have got a tendency to this very thing. 11:36.561 --> 11:43.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Pay to all what is owed to them taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed. 11:44.085 --> 11:52.210 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know the gap between what is paid to the IRS and what actually is owed to the IRS is $600 billion a year? 11:55.143 --> 12:15.005 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that, they should be taking in 600 billion more, which tells you that there are people have found a way around paying taxes or revenue, and I'd dare say that Christians have done that too, and Paul raises the concern here, pay what you will. 12:16.074 --> 12:16.754 [SPEAKER_00]: pay what you owe. 12:17.635 --> 12:35.401 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you own your own business, you understand the full impact of this, because as a Christian businessman, you are to report your income honestly, you are to claim legitimate expenses and forwarding the taxes that you withhold or collect. 12:36.662 --> 12:39.683 [SPEAKER_00]: It means that God wants holy bookkeeping. 12:45.133 --> 12:48.055 [SPEAKER_00]: You're to do this for conscience, sake. 12:48.696 --> 12:49.976 [SPEAKER_00]: You could even say it like this. 12:50.657 --> 12:56.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't rob God by cheating on your taxes because the two are linked. 12:56.941 --> 12:59.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Authority that has been placed over us. 13:00.304 --> 13:07.329 [SPEAKER_00]: You said, but I disagree with the way that they, what they have suspended, we probably always will. 13:08.835 --> 13:10.916 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we vote. 13:11.096 --> 13:11.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 13:11.596 --> 13:15.357 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going vote and to try to get something to change. 13:16.297 --> 13:24.979 [SPEAKER_00]: But Paul and his audience, Paul, the apostle Paul, think about him, he was under the Roman government and in the Roman government, there was no way that they were voting. 13:25.359 --> 13:27.580 [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't petitioning, they weren't doing any of that. 13:27.620 --> 13:30.320 [SPEAKER_00]: We have far more access than they did. 13:30.961 --> 13:36.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And Roman emperors declared themselves to be God's demanded worship throughout the empire. 13:37.968 --> 13:53.280 [SPEAKER_00]: John MacArthur, commenting about this verse, he says, of special concern to Jews and Christians was the fact that part of the Roman taxes were used to support pagan temples and other religious institutions throughout the empire. 13:54.881 --> 14:04.048 [SPEAKER_00]: So, and to put insult to injury, even beyond that, tax collectors who were Jews, 14:06.231 --> 14:09.794 [SPEAKER_00]: to collect taxes for the Romans, they added their fee on top. 14:11.796 --> 14:24.607 [SPEAKER_00]: As long as the collectors brought in that prescribed them out that the Romans told them, they kind of turned a blind eye, which made the tax collectors one of the most despised people, group of people, because they cheated their own people. 14:26.578 --> 14:32.984 [SPEAKER_00]: And with that as a backdrop, you can't really excuse yourself from paying what you owe as far as taxes. 14:33.385 --> 14:34.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Earthly governments are corrupt. 14:34.866 --> 14:36.428 [SPEAKER_00]: They always will be corrupt. 14:37.909 --> 14:40.752 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet we're instructed to pay what we owe. 14:42.633 --> 14:59.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Now to be fair, let's put some, let's dress this up and show what the money, what the tax is go to, because if you go to any other country outside of America, you'll come back and kiss the earth and say, thank God, I live in America. 14:59.959 --> 15:04.761 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we really do live in a great and exceptional country. 15:05.761 --> 15:09.663 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though there is corruption, we live in an exceptional 15:10.582 --> 15:11.002 [SPEAKER_00]: country. 15:11.643 --> 15:28.313 [SPEAKER_00]: So our taxes go to pay for law enforcement, firemen, roads, streetlights, safe neighborhoods, parks, schools, teachers, administrators, regulating commerce and building codes so that businesses don't cheat us. 15:30.401 --> 15:34.786 [SPEAKER_00]: or help departments to keep our restaurants clean. 15:35.707 --> 15:36.848 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we don't get sick. 15:38.930 --> 15:46.477 [SPEAKER_00]: Courts, jail, mail, sanitation, bike paths, even cloud roads coming up. 15:47.358 --> 15:50.401 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when the snow comes, someone has to pay for it. 15:51.222 --> 15:59.507 [SPEAKER_00]: All of that is what our taxes will go to, and you say, well, and they they, you know, there's a lot of taxes they brought in, and I could do it for so much less. 15:59.587 --> 16:05.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, probably so, but think about a small plumbing business, if you will, because 16:06.837 --> 16:18.680 [SPEAKER_00]: When a guy comes out to service your water tank, and he gives you the bill, and you think, what, for just doing that, you gotta think to yourself, all that money is not going directly into his bank account. 16:18.940 --> 16:25.581 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gotta pay for his tools, he's gotta pay for the truck, and the maintenance on the truck, and the tax. 16:25.741 --> 16:27.902 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of things he's paying as well. 16:28.722 --> 16:32.106 [SPEAKER_00]: Things that you don't see, and the same is true with the government. 16:32.707 --> 16:38.994 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just pay for the services you see, but all the things behind that keep it running that you don't see. 16:40.235 --> 16:42.097 [SPEAKER_00]: So just keep that in mind. 16:42.778 --> 16:46.442 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were in charge of the city, maybe you would do something different. 16:47.423 --> 16:48.785 [SPEAKER_00]: But as long as you're not in charge, 16:49.827 --> 16:51.788 [SPEAKER_00]: yield and pay what you owe. 16:51.808 --> 16:52.728 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? 16:53.128 --> 16:55.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you, I would encourage you to become the mayor. 16:56.529 --> 17:08.173 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to, if you want to petition and try to get being the mayor and campaign, but until you do, we are too yield and pay what we owe thirdly. 17:08.954 --> 17:11.675 [SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, I don't, in my sermon, show 17:20.077 --> 17:29.979 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 7, it says, it's the last part of that, show respect to whom respect is owed and honor to whom honor is owed. 17:30.319 --> 17:31.199 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are two words. 17:31.239 --> 17:35.820 [SPEAKER_00]: The first one, respect, it's the Greek word, fobos. 17:36.360 --> 17:39.841 [SPEAKER_00]: We get fobia, maybe you can think about what that means. 17:40.681 --> 17:43.921 [SPEAKER_00]: It's where we get fear, fear and respect. 17:44.721 --> 17:47.662 [SPEAKER_00]: There ought to be a proper fear of authority. 17:48.984 --> 17:53.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, do you remember the Boston Massacre in your history lessons? 17:53.927 --> 17:57.930 [SPEAKER_00]: The Boston Massacre, it happened in the 1700s. 17:58.791 --> 18:06.816 [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 1768, the British soldiers arrived to enforce the taxation which the colonists despised. 18:07.717 --> 18:13.101 [SPEAKER_00]: They were getting the new tighter and tighter and there was tension growing. 18:13.462 --> 18:22.709 [SPEAKER_00]: And it happened the night of March 5th, 1770, when a young apprentice quarreled with a British officer just outside the customs house. 18:22.769 --> 18:26.732 [SPEAKER_00]: And we were at that house a couple of, about a month or two ago. 18:26.752 --> 18:27.453 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was fun. 18:28.454 --> 18:30.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, an argument to a crowd. 18:31.356 --> 18:35.578 [SPEAKER_00]: and then soldiers were summoned, and so it got even more tense. 18:35.758 --> 18:41.661 [SPEAKER_00]: And the crowd began pelting the soldiers with snowballs and ice and sticks. 18:43.342 --> 18:50.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one of the soldiers got struck by an object and fire his gun, which then sent all the others to fire their gun. 18:51.986 --> 18:54.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Six people died, five were wounded. 18:55.171 --> 18:57.452 [SPEAKER_00]: That is the Boston Massacre. 18:58.173 --> 19:04.276 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would just say I'd bring that up because the crowd was not innocent. 19:05.897 --> 19:07.038 [SPEAKER_00]: They were egging them on. 19:07.979 --> 19:13.082 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of those officers were fearing for their lives because there's a crowd, what are we going to do? 19:13.502 --> 19:15.123 [SPEAKER_00]: They're throwing things at us. 19:15.143 --> 19:16.624 [SPEAKER_00]: They're insulting us. 19:18.475 --> 19:24.186 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes me think of the crowds, the challenge, the ice officers, and the police officers. 19:24.928 --> 19:28.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Or think about what's going on in Europe in France. 19:30.768 --> 19:34.149 [SPEAKER_00]: I think a Germany as well, just these crowds. 19:34.309 --> 19:44.553 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you look, if you've seen it in the news, these people are face-to-face with these police officers insulting yelling, trying to provoke them to do something. 19:44.993 --> 19:46.653 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty scary thing. 19:47.194 --> 19:49.334 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is the fear of authority? 19:50.715 --> 19:53.756 [SPEAKER_00]: There needs to be proper fear of authority. 19:54.645 --> 19:57.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Earthy authorities can be wrong. 19:57.106 --> 19:59.387 [SPEAKER_00]: They can abuse their authority, yes, they can. 19:59.727 --> 20:03.348 [SPEAKER_00]: But there is still a proper fear due to their office. 20:06.469 --> 20:09.370 [SPEAKER_00]: How many teenage parents are in the house? 20:09.390 --> 20:09.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Raise your hand. 20:11.470 --> 20:11.751 [SPEAKER_00]: OK. 20:12.531 --> 20:13.731 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is a good illustration. 20:15.912 --> 20:16.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about your teenagers. 20:18.813 --> 20:22.114 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you want them to respond to you when you are wrong? 20:23.134 --> 20:35.897 [SPEAKER_00]: When you have stepped over the boundaries, when you have lost your temper, you still want them to respect you, though they might challenge you. 20:38.260 --> 20:42.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And you picture it in your mind, that's how you should respond to the authorities in your life. 20:42.802 --> 20:50.847 [SPEAKER_00]: How you want your teens in that moment when you have crossed the line or lost your temper, you still want them to honor you. 20:50.907 --> 20:55.929 [SPEAKER_00]: They still should honor you because of your office that you have over them. 20:56.790 --> 20:57.910 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been appointed by God. 20:59.531 --> 21:02.173 [SPEAKER_00]: So how you manage that is very important. 21:02.773 --> 21:06.375 [SPEAKER_00]: So mom dad, how do you respond to the authorities over you? 21:08.332 --> 21:16.756 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you know how to give respect and honor to those that you disagree with or haven't voted for? 21:17.796 --> 21:27.841 [SPEAKER_00]: What are your kids here from you regarding President Trump, Governor Pritzker, or their coach? 21:29.301 --> 21:33.823 [SPEAKER_00]: What are they here when you speak about them? 21:33.843 --> 21:37.225 [SPEAKER_00]: And are you demonstrating a respect and honor? 21:39.207 --> 21:47.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Because probably a sticker on your car that says, Pritzker sucks may not be appropriate. 21:48.130 --> 21:49.130 [SPEAKER_00]: That's probably not honor. 21:51.571 --> 21:53.372 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a way to do both. 21:54.532 --> 21:56.633 [SPEAKER_00]: If you disagree with Pritzker, OK? 21:57.313 --> 22:01.315 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to tell your kids why, but still respect him. 22:02.327 --> 22:04.048 [SPEAKER_00]: as the authority that's in our life. 22:05.069 --> 22:07.030 [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to set your kids up for a life. 22:07.090 --> 22:07.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 22:07.390 --> 22:09.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're always going to be in that spot. 22:09.951 --> 22:16.235 [SPEAKER_00]: As we are, we're going to be under authority that we don't always respect or in every way respect. 22:16.555 --> 22:19.696 [SPEAKER_00]: But you still have to give honor while disagreeing. 22:20.117 --> 22:22.138 [SPEAKER_00]: So think about your teenager. 22:22.218 --> 22:25.920 [SPEAKER_00]: What would you want from them when you are in the wrong? 22:27.080 --> 22:29.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Then be that and demonstrate that. 22:32.578 --> 22:35.579 [SPEAKER_00]: wives, how do you respond to your husbands? 22:37.540 --> 22:42.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you automatically bristle every time he tries to, he attempts to lead you? 22:44.284 --> 22:47.645 [SPEAKER_00]: And if he's doing it so wrong, can you help him get it right? 22:48.426 --> 22:51.147 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the way you're helping him get it right, you're honoring. 22:52.450 --> 22:53.653 [SPEAKER_00]: without belittling him. 22:54.736 --> 22:56.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you mean, John? 22:57.503 --> 23:01.633 [SPEAKER_00]: Eliminate the ridicule, eliminate the scarfing, eliminate the rudeness. 23:03.126 --> 23:11.129 [SPEAKER_00]: because maybe say something like, I understand what you would like, but you realize, or have you considered, right? 23:11.349 --> 23:26.534 [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to say, I know what you want, but I've got to say some things, do it in an honoring way, display an attitude that wants to comply and wants to help, but doesn't just jam it down his throat, or belittle him. 23:28.557 --> 23:29.478 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is that important? 23:30.338 --> 23:39.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Bible draws a direct line to God in our obedience to earthly authority, direct obedience, a direct line. 23:40.325 --> 23:45.628 [SPEAKER_00]: So the way that you honor your husband is going to reflect on the way that you honor God. 23:46.409 --> 23:47.910 [SPEAKER_00]: That is how you're honoring God. 23:48.998 --> 23:56.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Kids, the way that you display your respect to your parents is your respect to God. 23:57.061 --> 24:12.326 [SPEAKER_00]: So if there's a difference between what you are on Wednesday night and what you are in the home or what you are at Christian school and they're respecting you there, but you're not really respectful in your home. 24:12.847 --> 24:13.667 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a problem. 24:14.167 --> 24:16.768 [SPEAKER_00]: Line it up because God sees it. 24:18.324 --> 24:19.705 [SPEAKER_00]: God has seen it. 24:20.885 --> 24:29.490 [SPEAKER_00]: So for all of us, to the government, from his 131, that every person be subject to the governing authorities. 24:29.951 --> 24:34.393 [SPEAKER_00]: For there is no authority except from God and those that exist are instituted by God. 24:34.893 --> 24:37.315 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a direct line connected there. 24:37.855 --> 24:44.559 [SPEAKER_00]: To your husband, Ephesians 522, wives submit to your husband as to the Lord. 24:44.759 --> 24:45.920 [SPEAKER_00]: You see how it connects it? 24:46.903 --> 24:54.329 [SPEAKER_00]: or to your parents, teenagers, Ephesians 6-1, children obey your parents in the Lord. 24:55.169 --> 25:06.658 [SPEAKER_00]: And to your boss, bond servants, employees, obey your earthly masters in fear and trembling with us in seahar heart as you would Christ. 25:06.918 --> 25:08.199 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see how it all links up? 25:10.040 --> 25:13.423 [SPEAKER_00]: If our submission to earth the authorities reflects our submission to God, 25:19.255 --> 25:25.478 [SPEAKER_00]: God does not like outward compliance without inward compliance. 25:27.119 --> 25:42.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Like if we are greeting our teeth, always and bristling and angry and at the people above us, again, when they do wrong, then it's a difficult thing because it's God says, God sees it, right? 25:43.108 --> 25:47.210 [SPEAKER_00]: He knows whether we're truly compliant, whether really coming under. 25:48.882 --> 25:53.667 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to honor God, honor your boss, honor your husband, honor your parents. 25:54.368 --> 26:00.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you weigh so much time resisting authority when you could build something very beautiful in your home. 26:02.016 --> 26:02.496 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? 26:02.717 --> 26:03.938 [SPEAKER_00]: You can teenager. 26:04.038 --> 26:10.745 [SPEAKER_00]: You can help build something beautiful in the home without resisting every, every boundary. 26:12.662 --> 26:27.453 [SPEAKER_00]: same with mom and dad, the way that you display yourself, you can build something very beautiful, that's lasting, and I just encourage you to think about that and do that, that show honor, where honor is do that. 26:27.513 --> 26:30.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Does not mean you give it only when they deserve it. 26:31.957 --> 26:37.501 [SPEAKER_00]: That will never come, because everyone's flawed in their leadership, everyone. 26:41.357 --> 26:50.394 [SPEAKER_00]: We all want to be on, we all want honourable authorities over us, but we are called to give honour even by virtue of the office they hold. 26:50.454 --> 26:51.617 [SPEAKER_00]: That's our part. 26:53.118 --> 26:57.439 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, on their part, they're answer to God for the authority that they have. 26:57.999 --> 26:59.199 [SPEAKER_00]: They answer to God. 26:59.979 --> 27:04.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this passage, again, I mean, doesn't it challenge us at every level? 27:04.720 --> 27:12.942 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, every one of us is going to be convicted by this passage because it's so difficult to come under a flawed leader. 27:13.542 --> 27:16.023 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's the only leader we have in America. 27:16.343 --> 27:17.803 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the only leader we have in this world. 27:20.175 --> 27:28.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you submitted willingly or only when someone could make you? 27:28.280 --> 27:34.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you honestly paid your share of taxes or only pay what you couldn't hide? 27:34.665 --> 27:41.169 [SPEAKER_00]: And have you shown honor or given honor? 27:42.850 --> 27:45.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Or do you only give honor to those you agree with? 27:49.056 --> 27:50.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Just consider the Lord Jesus. 27:51.637 --> 27:56.578 [SPEAKER_00]: He submitted to His parents, even though they were flawed and He was perfect. 27:58.979 --> 28:00.480 [SPEAKER_00]: And He ranked above them, really. 28:01.500 --> 28:01.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 28:03.140 --> 28:05.801 [SPEAKER_00]: They were wrong sometimes and He was always right. 28:09.362 --> 28:11.723 [SPEAKER_00]: He also honored the Roman government. 28:12.223 --> 28:18.005 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus paid taxes, though they would crucify Him unjustly. 28:19.535 --> 28:25.760 [SPEAKER_00]: He just becomes the the exemplar for us in coming to the passage. 28:26.901 --> 28:30.604 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more than just a reminder of how to behave properly. 28:32.225 --> 28:39.251 [SPEAKER_00]: We need forgiveness because you know how hard it is to come under. 28:40.912 --> 28:42.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have blown it many times. 28:49.255 --> 28:51.657 [SPEAKER_00]: The change of heart that we need comes from the Lord. 28:54.238 --> 29:02.104 [SPEAKER_00]: And what if you were to give that, and I mean for some homes it would change the entire out of the atmosphere. 29:04.845 --> 29:09.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of working against your husband, you actually help. 29:11.190 --> 29:12.290 [SPEAKER_00]: You actually work together. 29:17.533 --> 29:21.837 [SPEAKER_00]: so that that's not hard to follow, okay? 29:23.758 --> 29:30.864 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we're at fault a lot of times because we're not respectful, we're not loving, we're not tender. 29:37.089 --> 29:39.712 [SPEAKER_00]: And so both sides, both sides. 29:40.352 --> 29:44.876 [SPEAKER_00]: But if both can repent, how beautiful the home can be. 29:46.394 --> 29:46.954 [SPEAKER_00]: teenager. 29:47.715 --> 29:52.617 [SPEAKER_00]: If you can be broken of your own sin, don't point to your parents. 29:52.998 --> 29:54.759 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to find sins, okay? 29:55.839 --> 30:03.443 [SPEAKER_00]: You're always going to find sins, but on your own and then contribute it's not a hotel. 30:03.944 --> 30:05.184 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to help out. 30:05.284 --> 30:14.489 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a house and make it make it something that's beautiful, make it something lasting, make it something that's a legacy that continues 30:16.833 --> 30:25.320 [SPEAKER_00]: to people who come in there because no one in this room is batting a thousand when it comes to coming under authority. 30:26.060 --> 30:26.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody is. 30:27.962 --> 30:41.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even this week you have resisted authority, maybe you've purposely hidden some figures and falsified financial records, perhaps you have dishonored authority figures in your life, it's time to repent. 30:42.193 --> 30:42.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's where 30:45.372 --> 30:55.219 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where the beauty in your home will start with, that's my prayer that all of us would come and find forgiveness in Jesus. 30:58.201 --> 31:02.443 [SPEAKER_00]: We can easily point to the flaws in each other. 31:05.586 --> 31:08.848 [SPEAKER_00]: Teenagers, you can point to your parents and say they're wrong. 31:09.708 --> 31:11.630 [SPEAKER_00]: But one day, you're going to be in the same position. 31:16.483 --> 31:18.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, goes around comes around, okay? 31:18.845 --> 31:19.886 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we're flawed. 31:22.228 --> 31:23.490 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to own our own stuff. 31:24.831 --> 31:26.653 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to repent of our own sin. 31:28.170 --> 31:40.956 [SPEAKER_00]: And just an ask God for a tender heart to come under authority that God's put there, whether it's the government, whether it's in the home, whether it's our boss, to come under. 31:41.516 --> 31:47.119 [SPEAKER_00]: We are to be these citizens in this world that just beautifies the gospel. 31:48.133 --> 31:50.634 [SPEAKER_00]: Makes people go, man, there's something different about him. 31:51.914 --> 31:52.714 [SPEAKER_00]: I love what you said. 31:52.914 --> 32:06.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was, I mean, such a beautiful, I'm be able to call out some of the people that demonstrated that to you as a nurse, that's a beautiful thing. 32:06.999 --> 32:08.979 [SPEAKER_00]: And we want to shine as lights. 32:09.279 --> 32:10.620 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not perfect, no one is. 32:11.766 --> 32:15.950 [SPEAKER_00]: But the more that we come under, because really, we're coming under the authority of God. 32:15.990 --> 32:17.371 [SPEAKER_00]: That's really the main issue. 32:18.012 --> 32:21.635 [SPEAKER_00]: And then all his deputies, we're coming under. 32:22.035 --> 32:23.336 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where the blessings flow. 32:23.797 --> 32:29.262 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you continue to resist, resist, resist, resist, that's not where the blessings flow. 32:30.712 --> 32:33.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I'm not asking you to come under if you're in danger. 32:33.395 --> 32:35.697 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what I'm asking you to do. 32:36.698 --> 32:47.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes leaders abuse their authority and you have to seek refuge, you have to seek authorities that are there to protect even the governing authorities. 32:47.769 --> 32:48.569 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the case. 32:49.030 --> 32:50.551 [SPEAKER_00]: You can seek governing authorities. 32:51.092 --> 32:55.937 [SPEAKER_00]: But for the most of us in this room, it's coming under. 32:56.577 --> 32:57.838 [SPEAKER_00]: And the blessing is going to flow.