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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Proverbs 29 verse 2 tells us

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this, when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man

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rules the people wrong. God didn't say, stay out of leadership or politics. He said

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for good people to get involved.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying,

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amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what

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God's word has to say to you, here is Jack Hibbs. You know, when we say that we look forward,

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right, to the coming of Jesus Christ, we as a church, we study and we'll study more

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what is known in theology as eschatology. That is the study of the prophetic things of God,

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inevitably you come to the study of Christ returning. And you need to remember church,

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I know that you do, but I'm just saying it for our broader audience, that when you talk about

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Christ returning, you need to remember that you are talking about two distinct comings of Christ

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or appearances or arrivals of Christ that need to be defined. So for example, when you talk about

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or say, I can't wait for the Lord to return. We need to ask you or we need to ask one another,

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what do you mean by that? Because there is the appearing of Jesus Christ for his church,

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where he does not come to earth, but in fact appears in the atmosphere. And the Bible says that he

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will draw up all those who are alive and remain. Remember, the dead in Christ will rise first,

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and those who are alive, when that day comes, will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

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We'll hope it's us. I hope it's today that we are pulled from the earth, caught up or in Latin,

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the word is raptured up. And then listen, don't confuse that with the second coming of Christ.

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The great second coming of Christ is when Christ comes in vengeance to the earth. He comes

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with the wrath of God. The Bible says it's the great and terrible day of God. The Bible says that

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in the second coming, the earth will tremble at his appearing, and they will actually call upon the

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rocks and the mountains to fall upon them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb, who is coming to

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earth. And the Bible says that he's on a white horse, and he speaks the word out of his mouth,

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and he will judge the nation. You say, Pastor, stop, you're scaring me. Well, listen, if you're a

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believer today, you will have nothing to do with that, but be a spectator. If you read Revelation

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chapter 19, you will be, I will be riding behind Christ as he executes wrath and judgment upon the

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earth. That's the second coming, where he physically comes to earth, like his first coming, was a

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first arrival to Jerusalem and to Israel, so the second coming is his second arrival to Jerusalem

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and to Israel. And between those two things is what's known as his appearing. So when we talk

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about his second coming, what do we really mean by that? You see, Jack, are you sure you're in the

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right book to study this right now? Oh, completely, completely. For this reason, that when Christ

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returns, he will set up his kingdom, the Bible says, have you ever heard that before? Raise your hand,

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if you've heard that. Christ is coming to establish his kingdom. And you have to listen, to be a kingdom,

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you have to have a king. And if you have a king and a kingdom, you have to have subjects.

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And if you have a king, then he has to have a throne. And if you have a king who's a king of

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the kingdom, you have to have a realm. And from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible speaks about

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Jesus Christ being the king of kings and the Lord of lords. But we don't often stop long enough

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to realize that for a king to be a king, here it comes, hang on to your seats, that he must

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exercise what is known as a body politic. Or we would say the king's policies, bluntly put,

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Jesus has his politics. He's coming to implement those. He said, I don't want to talk about that.

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Yeah, you better, if you're a Christian, you want to pay close attention to that. Because

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everything that man has done thus far has been an attempt to try to implement a government,

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which God ordained will see this today. But they've done it their way. And they've tried to do it

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without God. They've taken what is of God and they try to do it without God. And then you and

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you and I well know that it never works out right when people try to lead by laws without God.

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Now somebody is already criticizing this statement in their minds. They're saying, oh boy,

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are you saying that God's kingdom should be established on earth? I'm not saying it. I'm not

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even suggesting it. I'm saying absolutely. But how do you achieve that? You think you're going

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to achieve it through the Republican Party? Do you think you're going to achieve it through the

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Democrat Party? You think you're going to achieve it through any human property? None whatsoever.

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No, the answer is no way. But that doesn't negate the fact that God invented government. And

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to that, you cannot escape, but to understand. And so I hope you don't find this boring. I

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personally love the feelings, the warm and fuzzies I get when I think about this stuff. And when

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the Bible comes to things like this, I just rejoice about this. So we just need to remember that

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when we say, oh Lord, thy kingdom come. You need to know what you're talking about. When you say

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thy kingdom come, oh God, you are actually saying this, your political rule and reign come, Lord God,

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but it will not come through any nation on earth, according to the Bible, except one nation on earth

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when they have a king. And the throne will be established in Jerusalem. Anybody know what that

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nation is? Israel. America will not usher in the kingdom of God. Okay, when people say,

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well, these Christian nationalists want to create a utopia on earth, wrong? No, we don't. We

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happen to live in the nation of America, but listen, God first, Bible first, and America is not

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called to save anybody or to be a kingdom that lasts forever. But God will reign from Israel.

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He will sit upon the throne of David, and he will reign from there forever. Luke 11 verse 2 tells us,

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so he, Jesus said to them, when you pray, say, our Father in heaven, how would be your name, your

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kingdom come? Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That prayer is actually a request

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for Christ to return. It's not to establish some perfect governmental reign, a political party,

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or the election of a particular group of people. It's Christ is coming, and that's to be the

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attitude of the believer. But listen, in the revelation of God's will to all of mankind, please write

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this down. I don't want you to forget this. There are three, primary, I listen, three, primary

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institutions created by God. There are more, but they all come out of the three. They come out of

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this trinity of truth in the Bible. Number one, according to God's creation, number one is marriage.

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You have to write that down. Marriage, you can sum it up by same home life. The life at home,

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marriage, husband and wife, mom and dad, kids, home life, a community that leads us to that sense

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of community. Marriage, number two, God established government, and that is righteousness and order for

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a society. It is, listen, man did not invent government. In fact, by nature, man is opposed to

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government. Man is more inclined to anarchy. But God's grace intervenes and God implements

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governments among the nations. You can't have a nation without government. And government,

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according to the Bible, is God's second institution that he has created. Notice he created marriage

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and he created government. Is marriage under attack? Is government under attack? And then thirdly,

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you can combine these two together. It's the Ecclesia or the church and Israel. Not the church or

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Israel. It's the church and Israel summing it up this way. All those who believe in the Lord Jesus

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Christ, how about that? Jew and Gentile alike who come to faith in Yeshua as Messiah? The Bible

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tells us that that is the third institution that God has created. I have some questions and I'm

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going to say this sarcastically today. I have some questions for you today and I'm going to ask

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for participation. Should human beings be involved in what God calls government?

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That was a pretty confident yes, I'm surprised. But you've rightly answered because by me saying

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the word government, you're okay with that. But if I mentioned the word politics, we get a little

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we get a little nauseous. Politics is the implementation, listen, of what someone views as government.

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Did you hear that subtle but it's spoignant. Politics and to politic, politicking

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is to take what they want and to bring it about into being. Irregardless of your view,

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irregardless of God. And so we hate politics, but we love the fact that God is established

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government. Yes, this might be a big masterclass in civics, but it might be this. A masterclass

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in physics based upon the Bible and how you and I had to live our lives in real time.

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And to me, that would make for a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ in this time and this age.

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The Bible says, you say, I don't even like this. I'm not coming back next week. Yes, you are. Yes,

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you are. Because of this one verse, Christian, one verse, Jeremiah 29, seven. Yes, you are because

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you have to. So there, that's that. The Bible says, seek the peace of the city where I have

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caused you to be carried away captive in every California knows that they've been carried away

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captive into the city in which they live. And pray to the Lord for it. Did you hear that?

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We are commanded by God to pray for the city we live in. That's not all. For it's peace,

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you will have peace. If you pray and get involved in the city in which you live in by number

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when praying, God wants your city to be at peace. And he wants you to have peace. Can somebody say

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man, the God of the Bible wants your city to be peaceful. And that is ordained by God.

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Based on Jeremiah 29 verse seven, the believer is to pray for the peace of the town, the city they

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live in. And for themselves, that they might live at peace. I think that's absolutely beautiful,

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if you think about it. But we hear a lot today about justice, about balance, about fairness,

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do we not? I'm going to show you a couple of pictures of justice. This is what she looks like.

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This is justice or otherwise known as lady justice. She appears all around the world, at least she

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does in in republics and in democracies. Notice the scales they are to be leveled. Most of the time,

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not always, lady justice has what across her eyes. Anybody? A blindfold because she's supposed to be

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blind to influence only the truth to bring about justice. And so her scales are balanced. People

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today demand justice and all these kinds of things. Listen, good, bad, or ugly, it doesn't matter

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who's protesting or in the streets saying what they're saying. It's all predicated upon the concept

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in the mind that justice should prevail. And the concept, you know, some people are not going to

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like this. That whole concept comes from God, initiated by God, given to us by God, and he's

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written that reality and truth upon our hearts. This does not come from atheism. It doesn't come

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from evolution. It doesn't come from any other origin, but God alone. And even today, when people

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who are godless are yelling, I demand justice. They have no idea that in their godlessness,

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they're asking for God to manifest his balance, his fairness, his presence. This is vitally important

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because we want to expose hypocrisy and come to that place of understanding. And so it'd be good

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for us to ask this question, what is government? It's God created. It's established order. It's

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to punish evil and it's to promote justice. That's what government's for, according to God of the

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Bible. It is to establish order. It is to punish evil and promote justice. Isn't it funny? You and I

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live in such a woke culture where people don't want to hear about punishing evil. They think it's a

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bad thing to punish evil. I got in a lot of trouble this week. I'm told, people tell me how big

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I'm a trouble. I mean, I don't read social media, so I don't really know. And then people come

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out and say, boy, are you in trouble? You did a podcast on corporal punishment. What does the

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Bible say? Does a government have the authority to kill someone who committed murder? The Bible's

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crystal clear about this. And I just simply gave the Bible. And boy, that went down rough. I was told.

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Why? Because people don't want it. They want justice their way, not the way God wants it.

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And yet, without God, there will be no justice in all of mankind. When somebody commits a horrible

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murder against somebody else, and if you don't have the God of the Bible presiding in your life,

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you do understand that there will never be any justice forever in your worldview without God.

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You say, how do they get away with that? No one's getting away with nothing.

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Well, they did it 30 years ago and look at them. They're living in the palace. They're not living

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yet. Just wait till God gets done with them. See, we want some. We want it our way. We want it now.

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And God says, you just be quiet. That's not for you to do. It's for me to do. And when I get done

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doing it, you're going to say, well, you did it better. Because he's a just God. Just be careful

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when we cry for justice. He just might bring it to you. The Bible says in Genesis 9 verse 6,

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whoever sheds man's blood by man, his blood shall be shed. Folks, that's in the Bible. Give

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that to your kids, your grandkids, give it to your school kid. They're not hearing this in school.

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God says a human life is so valuable that when they take a human life by murder or by some means

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of manslaughter, their blood must be taken because that's the value of a human life. You see,

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that doesn't make sense. It makes perfect sense. If you act like God and take someone else's life,

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your life must be taken from you. By who? The government. That's who?

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Established by God. For in the image of God, he made man. That is the qualifier. Why is it

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wrong to murder? Because you are acting like God and taking the life of someone who has created

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the image of God and you do not have that authority. And God says, because you've done that,

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your life must be taken. Let me tell you something. You want to know crime rates and all the

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horrible crimes that are at the level they are in America today because we've stopped enforcing

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the laws. If you knew, if we put the 10 commandments in every classroom in America for just one year,

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you'd see a drop in the bizarre behavior of kids because the Holy Spirit, the kid would read,

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thou shalt not murder. And then God will speak to that kid's heart, put away your gun,

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put away that hatred, put away that evil. But isn't it interesting that the politics that prevails

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in America today says, you can't do that? Somebody might feel bad if they read the 10 commandments.

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And so they remove it. That's politics messing with government folks.

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And if we were to do anything as a nation, we need to get back to law and order and the rule

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of law as given by God and how our founders so well understood. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 33,

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1 Corinthians 14, 33 says, for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all the churches

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of the saints. I want to make sure I say this rightly and I read it, so I'm going to read it,

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verbatim here in my notes. We begin to take on the two most controversial issues known to man,

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and that is faith in politics or said differently, God in government. Listen, please notice what I did

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not say. I did not say faith or politics or God or government. There's an entire world view

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out there that demands that you must pick one. Listen up, everybody. Don't do it. When somebody says,

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oh, do you have an American flag on your house? You must be a big hit. Have you ever had similar

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things happen to you like that? Don't let that happen. Don't let that happen. You said, well, how

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can I prevent it? Don't defend yourself on that. Let them say it, but just keep going on with the

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conversation. Because listen, you'll never convince them because if they believe it or not,

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that's their argument. They're not going to change. So when somebody says to you, God or government,

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yes. If somebody says to you, faith or politics, yes. Why? Because God has given government,

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I believe in God. I believe in what he's given and you and I bringing about his plan on earth

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until he comes again for us is us influencing the leaders that are around us in life and that

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is politics influence the leaders. We are commanded to do this.

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