We love Thee, the Prince of Jesus, back in the path we go.
He will follow the steps of Jesus' will,
there they go on and on.
If they lead through the temple, holy, reaching the world.
For it holds the Lord and the Holy Spirit, being the Lord.
The Lord, Prince of Jesus, back in the path we go.
He will follow the steps of Jesus' will, there they go.
On the last battle.
Then at last, when on high, he sees the star journey done.
He builds his fences of Jesus' head that is grown.
The Prince of Jesus, back in the path we go.
He builds the steps of Jesus' will, there they go.
The Prince of Jesus, back in the path we go.
the changes that we had to make at the last minute there. Also there's the
Navajo reservation soul winning trip there's a small town soul winning trip
to Hunter Creek and don't forget to pray for expectant ladies. Let's go ahead and
count up the soul winning going back to Friday if there's anything from Friday
to report. And was there a group that went out Saturday I think on Saturday
one there and that was outside the group right yeah didn't brother Edwin end up
head up the group on Saturday did anyone go with brother Edwin Tom he's
not here either so I don't know what they did it if they accomplished if they
got anyone saved or not but I'll ask them later what about today I think for
the group six that's six all right well great keep up the great work soul
winning and we'll go ahead and sing one more song before we go get into the
preaching tonight
Wonderful piece. Song number one hundred and thirteen.
Song number thirteen.
Another piece.
Sing it out.
Far away in the depths of my spirit's back
Was the melody sweetened and sung
It's the last of my strings that I'm ceasingly lost
For my soul, again, is there before
These pieces, wonderful pieces
I can't hold my father above
Speak over my spirit forever my name
In venomous blues above
What a treasure I have in this wonderful piece
There deep in the heart of my soul
So secure that no power can hide it away
While the years of eternity go on
These pieces, wonderful pieces
I can't hold my father above
Speak over my spirit forever my name
In venomous blues above
I'm resting tonight in this wonderful piece
Resting sweetly in Jesus' control
For I'm kept from all danger by night and by day
And His glory is flooding my soul
These pieces, wonderful pieces
I can't hold my father above
Speak over my spirit forever my name
In venomous blues above
And He feeds when I rise to that city of peace
Where the honor of peace I shall sing
Let the strength of the song mix the red song
And we'll sing in a heavenly kingdom shall be
These pieces, wonderful pieces
I can't hold my father above
Speak over my spirit forever my name
In venomous blues above
I'll restore you here without comfort or rest
Washing out around that big a town
Make Jesus your friend, bear the shadows no dark
Oh, except the sweet piece goes so by
These pieces, wonderful pieces
I can't hold my father above
Speak over my spirit forever my name
In venomous blues above
We'll read the whole chapter
There arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams
And giveth thee a sign or a wonder
And the sign or the wonder come to pass
Whereof he spake unto thee saying
Let us go after other gods which thou hast not known
And let us serve them
Thou shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet
Or that dreamer of dreams
For the Lord your God proveth you
To know whether ye love the Lord your God
With all your heart and with all your soul
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him
And keep his commandments and obey his voice
And ye shall serve them and cleave unto them
And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams
Shall be put to death because he has spoken
To turn you away from the Lord your God
Which brought you out of the land of Egypt
And redeemed you out of the house of bondage
To thrust thee out of the way
Which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in
So shall thou put the evil away from the midst of thee
If thy brother, the son of thy mother
Or thy son or thy daughter
Or the wife of thy bosom
Or thy friend which is as thy own soul enticedly secretly
Saying let us go and serve other gods
Which thou hast not known
Thou nor thy fathers
Namely of the gods of the people which are around about you
Nigh unto thee or far off from thee
From one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth
Thou shalt not consent unto him
Nor hearken unto him
Neither shall I pity him
Neither shall thou spare
Neither shall thou conceal him
But thou shalt surely kill him
Thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death
And afterwards the hand of all the people
And thou shalt stone him with stones that he died
Because he has sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God
Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt
From the house of bondage
And all Israel shall hear and fear
And shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you
If thou shalt hears say in one of the cities
Which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there
Saying certain men, the children of Belial
Are gone out from among you
And have withdrawn the inhabitants of their cities
Saying let us go and serve other gods which he hath not known
Then shall thou inquire and make search
And ask diligently and behold if it be truth
And the thing certain that such abominations brought among you
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of the city
With the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly
And all that is therein
And the cattle thereof with the edge of the sword
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it
Into the midst of the street thereof
And shalt burn with fire the city
And all the spoil thereof, every whit
For the Lord thy God and it shall be in heat forever
And it shall not be built again
And there shall cleave not of the curse theme to thy hand
That the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger
And show thee mercy and have compassion upon thee
And multiply thee as he has sworn unto thy fathers
When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God
To keep all his commandments which I commanded thee this day
To do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God
Brother Albert, can you pray for us?
Father God, thank you for this church and thank you for this evening.
We ask that you please bless this evening's service
and please fill our brethren, the deacon, with the Holy Spirit
to help preach and teach us with your word
and edify our lives. In Jesus' mighty name we thank you. Amen.
Amen.
So we'll be back in Deuteronomy 13 a little bit later in the sermon
but if you want to go over to Acts 23
I did want to cover something tonight that I really didn't have time for
this last Thursday when we were going through the chapter.
Just kind of ran out of time but very quickly in Acts 23
if you remember that's where Paul is being brought before the council
that the Romans have got the Jews together
those that were trying to kill him in the previous chapter
and then there's that conspiracy that's made
you know the chief captain has to take Paul away again from the Jews
because Paul gets them all worked up over the issue of him being a Pharisee
so then they again retreat from the Jews
but then there's that conspiracy that's made
those 40 men take a vow not to eat or drink until they've slain Paul
and then Paul's sister's son comes to Paul
makes him aware of the conspiracy
who in turn tells the chief captain
who then in turn gets his two centurions
and assembles a small army to send Paul away
and it says in verse 23 of Acts 23
and he called unto him two centurions saying
make ready 200 soldiers to go to Caesarea
and horsemen three inch score in ten
spearmen 200 at the third hour of the night
and provide the beast so on and so forth
but really what I want to look at here
is in verse 25 where he sits down
this chief officer and he writes a letter
the chief captain unto Claudius Licius
so he's kind of explaining what's going on
what's taking place, why there's this big to do
why all these heavily armed men are showing up
with this one guy okay
and it says in verse 25
and he wrote a letter after this manner
Claudius Licius under the most excellent
governor Felix sendeth greeting
this man was taken of the Jews
and should have been killed with them
then came in with an army and rescued him
having understood that he was a roman
when I have known the cause therefore they accused him
I brought him forth into their council
whom I perceived to be accused of their questions
of their law but to have done
but to have nothing laid to his charge
worthy of death or of bonds
and it was told me that the Jews
laid weight for the man
I sent straight weight to thee
and gave commandment to his accusers
also to say before thee
what they had against him fair well
so he just kind of briefly explains the situation
we'll come back here a little bit later
to bookmark Acts 23
and you can see how Claudius here
is being a little self-serving
he's not exactly telling the whole truth
he's kind of making sure he stays out of hot water
if he caught that
but then they send him on the morrow
with the horsemen they go there
and Paul ends up at the inn there
in Herod's judgment hall
ready to have this meeting once again
so what you see throughout the book of Romans
is Paul is constantly falling into
the hands of the Romans
like he's being rescued by the Romans
they're taking him into custody
and you see that there is a civil government
that's been established
and I want to talk a little bit tonight
about civil authorities
and things of that nature
just talk about God's judicial system
now this isn't going to be an exhaustive sermon
on God's system of judgment
that's a very long sermon
that's a series of sermons really
but we do see that God kind of has the way
that he does things
and then there's the way things are being done
in this world
and while there's some overlap
obviously we don't have a perfect system
like God has laid out in the Old Testament
God's, you know, the law of the Lord is perfect
God's ways are perfect
we won't really understand
how perfect God's system is
until Christ is here to enact it
because it's going to take God himself
in order to make that happen
and then we'll begin to understand
what it is to have a perfect government
because it'll be resting upon his shoulders
and he'll be ruling and reigning
with a rod of iron
but if you would go back to Deuteronomy 13
again keep something in Acts 23
in Deuteronomy 13 we kind of get a glimpse
of at least one aspect of God's judicial system
where God enacts the death penalty
of course this is just one instance
the death penalty is prescribed
for many other things
you know, adultery, witchcraft
you know, murder of course
amongst other things
okay
and if you look there in Deuteronomy 13 verse 6
it says if thy brother
oh and sodomy by the way
don't let me forget that one
you know being a homo
you get punished
it's punishable by death
I don't want you guys to think I'm going soft up here
Deuteronomy 13 verse 6
it says if thy brother the son of thy mother
or thy son or thy daughter
or the wife of thy bosom
or thy friend
which is as thine own soul enticed thee secretly
saying let us go and serve with the gods
which thou hast not known
nor thy father
so he's saying if anybody
tries to tempt you to go and serve
another god
here's what you need to do
okay
you know and that's a
that's a pretty heavy list
you know if your own children come to you
if your best friend in the whole world comes to you
you know it doesn't matter who it is
you know if it's the
your spouse
if anybody comes and tries to pull you away
from serving God
here's how I want it handled
okay
he said in verse 8 thou shalt not consent unto him
nor hearken unto him
neither shall thine eye pity him
you're not going to go
well you know I know we're not supposed to do that
that's a really bad idea
you know
don't tell anybody else about that
you know let's keep that
keep that to yourself
right
he's saying that thou shalt surely kill him
and then notice thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death
and afterwards the hands of all the people
now obviously that's a
that's a very severe punishment
you know for wanting to go worship another god
but honestly you know it's something that
it is commanded in scripture
and really if people
really love God with all their heart mind soul and strength
this would have been a lot
you know perhaps a little bit easier for them
obviously
it's a terrible thing
to have your children or your spouse or your friends
or your neighbors you know want to go worship false gods
you know we would feel bad
but you know we're not to pity them
our love for God
would override you know
our our pity that we might have for these people
we would love God more than
any of these other relations
okay
we need to love God more than father and mother
all these other relations
but notice he's saying here
thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death
and afterwards the hands of all the people
so it wasn't just something you know
you're sitting in your living room
back in old testament israel
and you know your wife comes in says you know i really feel like we're going to be
you want to go do some bail worship
and then you just suddenly rise up and just slay her right in the living room
and then tell everybody what took place
okay
his hand your hand being first upon such an individual whoever that is
you know is you arresting them this would be like a
citizens arrest so to speak
and there you would obviously be bringing them forward
to the elders of the city there would be a you know somewhat of a trial
there might be even other witnesses
you know and then it says and then the hands of all the people
you know you're going to be first to put them to death
you're going to cast the first stone
and then everybody else is going to get up so that that there's you know
there's a consent right everybody's going to agree that this person deserved to be put to death
okay
so there is a civic there's an order to this this isn't just something it's just not chaos
where people are just grabbing people saying oh they they want to worship bail
there is you could see that there's a kind of a system here right
now some people will turn to that and say
see this is why you know that in God's system there are no officers
there's no law enforcement
okay because they'll turn to a passage like this
but this is being really specific
about
you know a certain sin right going and worshipping other gods
he's saying in that instance you know you're going to grab that person
and say we're going to take care of this right now
right you're not going to you know report that to the proper authorities
that's something that you and your zeal
if you're going to take care of that person
that's something that you and your zeal even
should just be compelled to do
okay
now that's one aspect of God's judicial system
that sometimes people turn to this and say well see right there
thine hand shall be first upon him
you know you're the one we are the ones that are supposed to be making these arrests
throughout the you know in God's perfect system
okay but we'll see here in a minute you know that God has
other ideas like you know there's
he God has officers and other people appointed judges
that you know we're not the ones that make final decisions
okay we're not we are not judge jury and executioner as individuals
all right if you would go over to numbers 35
numbers 35
you know their aspect of God's
judicial system is the fact that you know you would be given
a trial you know you would you would have an opportunity
to
you know be found out whether or not
something happened or didn't in the instance of murder here right
in numbers chapter 35 of course
I'm sure we're all really familiar with the cities of refuge
you know kind of looking around I think everybody in the crowd tonight
has probably heard quite a bit about it
has probably read it up for them on their cells but
basically when
they're going into land God prescribed that there be a certain number of cities
within a certain distance
you know certain areas so that if something happened if there was somebody
who committed manslaughter they would have an opportunity to flee to that city
of refuge and then you know
they would be safe from the avenger of blood right
say you know we go out you know me and brother Fabian go out to the woods
and then you know we're you know we're chopping
wood that's the illustration use uses you know we're chopping
down some trees and the axe head flies off my
you know my axe and then sinks itself deep
into brother Fabian skull what a tragedy
right you know and he dies and that would be a tragedy
come on can he if I can't get an amen on that
I don't know brother I don't know what you've done
these people can't even amen that losing dear brother Fabian
would be a tragedy
amen
amen I'll say it for you amen it would be a tragedy
at least I care you know I care brother but
you know if that happened there might be somebody in
brother Fabian's family that wants to take revenge
on me they want to avenge his blood but did I murder
brother Fabian
no it was obviously was an accident you know it was
manslaughter it was something that you know I didn't intend I didn't lie
and wait as the Bible puts it to slay brother
Fabian it wasn't like hey let's go out in the woods or he went out
to cleave wood and I'm like waiting behind the tree and
then got him right so in that instance
I would be able to flee to one of these cities of refuge
and then you know it would be inquired of the elders
they would kind of look at the evidence they would look at what's taking place
and they would say you know what this was this was done in innocence this wasn't
first degree murder this was manslaughter this he wasn't
plot he didn't hate you know I didn't hate brother Fabian in times past
I wonder about some of you but you know I didn't I
didn't I'm not like plotting against him right and then
I would have to stay in that city of refuge so it's not that I'm without
consequence you know there would be no consequences
it's you know I would have to stay in that city until the death of the high priest
you know so if the high priest just got started you know it might
be a while that I have to hang out there so I'm kind of on a house arrest so to speak
so this is another aspect of God's
you know God's judicial system
he wants to make sure there's no innocent blood being shed in the land but notice
you know I'm being given an opportunity to make my case
right and it's not just everyone's just grabbing
each other and executing judgment okay
there's certain people that are appointed to pass
judgment in these cities of refuge the high priest
and others again this isn't going to be exhaustive you know this is
but it is something I want to touch on go to Deuteronomy chapter
number 16 Deuteronomy chapter number 16
and Deuteronomy chapter number 16 we'll see that
God does in fact appoint officers people there are people
that are called officers in the scripture you have
judges and officers now in Deuteronomy
13 where we read you know the person who's being
tempted to go worship another god they kind of act as the officer
don't they they immediately lay hands on that person
take them to the proper authorities and then when it's
found out yeah this is what happened they're not only
the officer they're actually the executioner you know you're
going to be the first one to slay them you know because you're you know it
would take a lot you have to be pretty convinced
of what happened in order to kill you know even your next of kin
okay
excuse me but if you look at Deuteronomy chapter 16
let's let's back up to verse 17 every man
well verse 18 judges and officers shall thou make
make thee in all thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee
throughout the tribes and they shall judge the people with
judgment so who's going to judge the people with judgment
oh the judges yeah there are judges but notice there's judges
and officers now what do officers do well just
think of the word officiate right what is what is somebody who's
officiating something do they make things make sure that things
are done in a proper order they make sure that people
you know are where they're supposed to be when they're supposed to be there
because obviously you know the judge he's the one that's
just doling out the punishment he's just listening
to the case listening to the facts at hand and then
consulting the word of God and prescribing the appropriate
punishment right whereas you know the officer
would probably be more one who's just making sure that that
judgment is carried out making sure that the proper parties
are there so you can kind of see where we get a
set you know our legal system from in a sense the way we kind of set
up things they don't we have officers today they're called
police officers we have law enforcement and
you know often and you know hopefully this doesn't get me kicked
out of the new IFB and labeled some kind of a bootlicker or something like
that but you know I'm just going to the Bible tonight you know and
you know the Bible does seem to me teach that
there are certain individuals who are supposed to help officiate
you know the the the the the
the punishment of evil doers there's there's supposed to be people in place
but to make sure that justice is carried out
you can't just expect one judge or a judge here and there
to be able to do all of this you know they're having all these
cases brought to them think about when you know
Moses was told to appoint you know other people
to help you know figure out the more
so he didn't take everything upon himself remember in Jethro his father-in-law
came to him and said you know you take much too much
upon you appoint other men that are full of the Holy Spirit
to look at these you know these lesser matters and then you'll take care of the
heavier ones right instead of having just one man
do all the judging you know they broke that up
but obviously you know I if you're a judge you can't
also be sitting there listening to all the cases that are coming through your
court and going out and you know and getting all the appropriate individuals
that need in order to have the court case you understand I'm saying
the judge has kind of already got his hands full you can't play both parts you
have to have people that can go out and make sure
that you know you have a court date that they're going to be there you know
they're going to issue the bench warrant they're going to go out and make sure
that you know the witnesses show up that the you know the guilty parties
are those that are on trial show up so on and so forth so I
believe that there is some evidence here for judges and officers
we can't just turn to Deuteronomy 13 and say aha see it's where do all the
arresting where are the officers it's just the common people you know that's a
real specific instance isn't it you know where and God's more concerned
you know with your love for him and your zeal to worship him and not to have your
heart turned away into other gods than he is you know making sure that
the proper people are arresting other people right if you follow what I'm
saying in Deuteronomy 13 it's more about hey I don't care who it is if they want
you to go worship other gods other than me who have brought you out of the land
of Egypt you need to lay hands on them and then take them to court take them to
the judge and then you are going to be the first one to cast a stone
whereas in these other instances you know might be more of you know someone's
found out they're guilty of something you know and then these officers are
maybe appointed to go and take people in and you know
and help the judge in that way okay or make sure that justice is carried out
maybe after the judgment is given you know you have to have people are going to
follow up and make sure that you know the fines are paid and
that even if you know death is the sentence that that's carried out as well
or make sure that you know in some way restitution is made someone has to carry
that out you know in the common person you know that you know the average guy
the guy who got wronged you know he's going to be busy you know work in the
field he's going to be busy tending to the cattle he's going to be busy just trying
to make a living you can't also take upon him you know all these other civic
duties all the time right you have to appoint people in order to take care of
these things you know so and that's my opinion I believe that's what it's
referring to there and when it says those officers that there were people
that were going to help the judge make sure that judgment is carried out now
let's go to the first Corinthians six and let's let's look at
you know some things in the New Testament when it comes to you know how we should
regard you know you know the law today like
what are some things we should and shouldn't be doing as Christians when it comes to the law
if you look there in first Corinthians chapter number six he says in verse one
dare any of you having a matter against another go to before go to law before
the unjust and not before the Saints do you not know that the Saints will judge the world
that the world be judged by you that you are worthy to are you unworthy to
judge the smallest matters we saying you know are you going to law before the
unjust he's talking about suing your brother in Christ okay
we don't want to be people that are going before the unjust and not before the Saints
you know there's some things that just need to be handled in house when it comes to
you know doing when we you know obviously some things need to be just
turned over the proper authorities okay but there's some things where it's
it's a matter of just going you know to sue or something like that going to law
judging over these smaller matters right as he
says are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters so there's some things
that you know we as brethren should just be able to work out between us we don't need to
involve the the authorities you know if you
you damage my property in some way or I do some work for you
and you refuse to pay me that's something that we would take care of in house
you know that's kind of what the Bible is teaching okay
we shouldn't be you know taking all these things before
the Lord you say well I don't know what you mean if a guy backs out on paying me in
church if a brother in Christ you know robs me in that way I shouldn't
do anything about it well I mean look at verse seven he says
now therefore there's utterly fault among you because you go to law with another why you not
rather take wrong why you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded
you know to be frauded means to be robbed to be defrauded of that
money that's owed you you know we shouldn't be taking brethren to court
and one of the reasons why is because that you know people
in the the the the legal system today are not
believers they're unsaved they don't have the Spirit of God they're certainly not using this book
you know the great thing about in the Old Testament with God is that the
the great thing about in the Old Testament with God's system is that those judges and those
officers would have been following this book they would have been enforcing good
laws okay you know it's not so much the problem so much today
isn't the legal system you know the people that are in it so much
as you know the laws that they're enforcing
you know obviously there are wicked people in positions of power
but you know what's worse than that often is
the laws that they're actually enforcing
so he's saying here verse 9 know ye not that the unrighteous shall
not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor idolaters
nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind so on and so forth
verse 11 and such were some of you now you know that's that's
in the context of the entire chapter he's saying these are the type of people
that you're going to be going to law before you're going to be going before the effeminate you're going to be
going before the fornicators the idolaters the adulterers that's who's
going to be passing judgment on you you know today we go out we want
to sue a brother in Christ you know we're going to have some you know
wicked adulterer passing judgment on us you know
they're going to be the ones that are deciding how things are going to go they're not going to be ruling
with you know the spirit in the spirit of God
so we should just suffer ourselves to be fraud and let me just say this you know
the people that I've known that have sued you know other that have sued
Christians you know often have turned out to be reprobate I'm not saying in every
instance you know there's been even pastors you know that we know
and associate with lately that have been have had people taking them
to court over frivolous things you know and
wouldn't you know it those people turned out they weren't even brethren you know they're wicked
ungodly people you know we should rather suffer ourselves to be
fraud so we should not be so unloving and so
unforgiving towards our brethren that we're going to take them to court okay
now obviously that's something we would handle you know if you know
if somebody in you know did something to another brother
you know in this church as far as not paying them you know we'll go back to
the example of brother Fabian because he's just a dead ringer right now you know I've already
already I've already called him out or whatever right let's say he had brother Elmer do
some work for him right brother Elmer's in that line of work he does a lot of remodeling
he says hey I want you to come over to my place and you know do some remodeling work
and then brother Fabian stiffs him I mean maybe that's why you didn't get that
amen earlier I don't know maybe I'm kidding
of course right you know instead of brother Elmer suing brother Fabian
what he would do is he would come to the church and say hey we have an issue here you know then we
would take care of it and if brother Fabian didn't want to get it right you know
he's trespassed against his brother you know we'd come with him a couple witnesses
hey you know here's the bill here's the work where's the receipt
of proof of payment it's not there you need to make this right he refuses
then we go before the church here's what happened everybody brother Fabian
stiffed brother Elmer there's no proof of sale we'd bring the evidence and we'd say you know what
brother Fabian get out right
and he would be until he got that right he wouldn't be allowed back we would take care
of that in house now obviously more severe crimes would be
turned over to local authorities you know because a lot of times
you know at that point we wouldn't even be turning over a brother you know
we've even had thank God not in this church in Tucson but you know we've had other people
in Tempe you know creep in unawares ungodly men
you know that turned out to be even reprobate and reprobates you know pedophiles
you know praise the Lord that you know none of our children were attacked in the church
they were kicked out you know but then some other Baptist church just threw their arms wide open
and said oh come on in you know and but you know what we did is we turned that
over to local authorities because at that point you're not dealing with the brother
you know when somebody's you know praying on children when somebody's
a reprobate you know we're not you know they they're
ungodly people should go get judged by ungodly people and we like
let the world sort that all out
now if you would go over to Romans chapter number 13 because I know there's you know a lot of
people that might disagree with what I'm saying or they might you know accuse me of
you know of holding holding the the thin blue line or something like
that that I'm just you know just some kind of a bootlicker
or whatever okay but the fact is is that you know
God does have a judicial system put in place and it does
appear to me that there are people that are called to be officers okay
now that's not to say that I'm you know for everything that
police do okay and I'm certainly not for a lot of the laws
that they enforce you know often from time to time
you'll have people ask me and others you know what do you think about
somebody going into law enforcement you know and I would I would never discourage
somebody from doing I certainly don't think it's sinful but here's the thing
if you go into law enforcement there's a very good likely you know a very good
chance that you're going to be called upon and enforce a law that isn't good
for example if you're a member of the Chandler police department you're probably
going to interact with faithful word baptist church at some point because apparently in Chandler
Arizona they have nothing better to do than go around and harass soul winners
okay in places like Phoenix you know they've got a little bit more
more on their hands okay because there's actual crime I don't know what it is with Chandler
they're just so affluent you know and and I guess it's where all the more
you know or whatever but you know it's certain you know you could
find yourself in a position as a Christian as a as a police officer if
you're Christian to you know run off soul winners off some property
you know and then you're going to have to make a decision you know there might be other things
that you that would conflict with what you believe biblically so if
people are going to go into law enforcement that's something they have to consider
you know not to mention the fact that it's an incredibly dangerous job
you know the only reason I would ever say maybe that's not for you is because
I just care about that person's safety and well-being you know I just care
about you know people not getting you know I want them to come home from their job
you know it's an incredibly dangerous job you know and you're dealing
with quite frankly the scum of the earth quite often or
you're just going through very horrific tragic things
you know where it's it's not even bad people doing the wrong thing
it's it's not even bad people doing bad things it's just you're there you're called
upon to go handle some traumatic event that's taking place you
know some child has died or something it's it's horrific I mean I
don't I'm not going to sign up for that but you know if there's other people out there that want to
that's their choice you know in a sense and I'm you know
I'm kind of grateful that there are other people that want to do it because that's not certainly something
I would ever want to do okay
you know now that that's not to say that there aren't of course
bad cops bad lawyers I don't know if there's any good lawyers
I'm just kidding you know bad judges all that kind of thing that that is a
corrupt system to some degree obviously you know the
punishments that we prescribe today are not biblical they're
cruel and unusual right prison is not you know you'll see that
in Egypt yeah prisons in the Bible when Joseph's down in prison in Egypt
we have some ungodly nation you know punishing people by putting them in a jail
cell locking them up like an animal but you don't see that in God's system it's usually a fine
they or they go they're they're put they're indentured servitude
to work off debt or the death penalty but you'll never see
God commanding people to lock other people up for years
at a time for decades at a time you'll never see probation
you'll never see God saying hey hold something over somebody's head for the rest
of their life you know like today if you're a felon you know there's a lot
of rights that are just taken from you it's on your record you have to report that everywhere
you go anytime you apply for a job that's not God's system that's man's
system so I'm not don't think I'm getting up here tonight and just praising
you know our law enforcement or our judicial
system it is incredibly flawed it's full of ungodly
people it's full of unsaved people but I do believe
that even in God's system there is such a thing as officers
you know people that were there to help that system work
to make sure that people need to be there I'm not I don't really believe that there weren't
you wouldn't call them cops back then but there were definitely people who
it was their responsibility to make sure that you know judgment
was carried out they officiated it right
you know in certain instances the people too they got involved
I understand that as well but look at Romans chapter number 13
Romans chapter number 13 verse 1 let every
soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power
but of God but the powers that be are ordained of God
and you know a lot of people might not like this but this is what the Bible says
that we ought to be subject unto the higher powers and those higher
powers are talking about civil authorities and I think
sometimes that Christians and even people within the new IFB they get this idea
that somehow we're you know we're uh anarchists or something
or that we're just so anti-establishment that you know we're against every ordinance of
man that somehow you know because we're saved or we're Christians that we
are we've just been getting licensed to just disregard the laws of man
you know I don't believe that the Bible's real clear that you know we need to
be subject unto the higher powers and they'll say
we have the highest powers God yeah when when the government starts forcing
us to do things that God disapproves of yes then it's time to rebel
then it's time to disobey okay
I'm scratching my head and having a real hard time thinking about the last time I had
some civil authority come to me and ask me to break a commandment
you know I don't think that's never happened in my life
you know what what totalitarian regime totalitarian regime are you referring to
you know because it's not in the United States this isn't you know
Nazi Germany or something like that okay you know
the powers that we have in place in this country obviously are flawed
obviously there's corruption you know it's a far cry from
you know what some people are trying to paint it out to be you know
and this there's this you know there's this anti-cop
sentiment I think sometimes in some churches with some people
and you know I'm I'm I'm not really
let me just say I'm not really for it to be honest okay I understand
the sentiment but honestly it's not really something that I'm gonna
that's not my hobby horse that's not the the line I'm trying to
tow here you know you see these you see people that they make their
life about this right they want to just go out and film police
and question them and grill them it's like as if that job isn't hard enough
then to have some guy you know sticking a camera in your face and and trying to
get you to you know do something and whatever just grilling
who knows what I'm talking about I see these guys that are just out there you know
and just trying to call them out or they want to roll the window down this far and just you know
talk to them through that the crack in the window and then but they're making a YouTube
video about it you can see why they're doing it it's not really because they're
so concerned about everyone's civil rights it's because they just they just want to give cops a
hard time and get a bunch of views right because people
eat that stuff up you know and I know this is kind of my opinion but this is my opinion
okay and I'm welcome to have it but you know
every time I've ever gotten pulled over yes it's happened you know
you know oh like raise a hand who's ever been pulled over
I'm just kidding don't everyone oh two hands
are up wow okay yeah I believe it I've seen you drive but um
I'm not one to talk okay I
I had a pretty bad one once you know I looked up I was doing
85 I looked up it was 55 went from 85 or went from
75 to 55 I looked up I saw 50 I saw
the highway patrolman I saw 55 I looked down I saw 85 and then I saw
blue lights you know but you know what I didn't do in that instance
is you know roll the window down this far and say I don't answer questions
because I what I what I just did was
reckless endangerment you know that's on the books
and I didn't know that until he wrote me the ticket you know I rolled the window down
you know do you have a weapon on you yes sir it's on my hip you don't touch yours I won't touch mine
you know and he said here's your ticket you know you have to
appear before this judge up in Flagstaff and I said oh I can't just
mail that in he said no sir I could actually haul you off to jail right now and impound this
vehicle because what you just did is called reckless endangerment so he
was actually being pretty cool now why do you think he was being cool with me because I was being cool
with him yes sir no sir license
registration I'm sorry you know and
because he had me dead to rights you know what am I going to argue that well I'm
saved you know God you know Jesus is my
king I only answer to one and one authority that's God
how do you think that's going to go
you know I'm going to get a free ride down to the courthouse
you know anyway so you know
obviously there's bad cops that's because cops are
people you know there's bad cops there's good cops
look there's bad Christians there's good Christians
right you know Christians do bad things sometimes too
they just paint all Christians as you know bad people
there's bad cops there's bad laws are really what the problem
is and the Bible is real clear here in Romans 13 that we are
to be subject unto the higher powers now obviously
you know the powers that are named be of God
look at verse 3 for rulers are not a terror to good works but
to the evil so that's how things should be going you know our civil
authority they have one job to be a terror to evil right not to good
so yeah sometimes we do have problems where the
you know Chandler the police department is trying to you know stop our
soul winning they're not they're not being they're now they're being a terror to good
works and in that instance you know I'm going to give them a hard time
and I'm going to tell them you know and and we have so you know
if you come back here again you'll be trespassing well we'll be back next week and we're
going to knock every door in this in this place and you can go ahead and arrest us
go ahead and arrest a Baptist preacher go ahead and arrest a Christian for preaching the gospel
you know I'll make them do that you know and look and I'm not saying
you have to do that okay if you're at you know let me just clarify
if you're out soul winning and the cops are called it's it's up to you
I'm not going to think any more or less of you and let me emphasize
I'm not going to think any more of you either I'm not going to think oh you know you
took such a righteous stand against you know some officer got yourself arrest or something that
I'm not going to think oh what a what a great Christian you must be or something
I'm just going to say hey that was your decision you know because I'm not going to exalt
one and put down another some people don't want to go through that
you know we'll come back later we'll send another team so we can plead ignorance
you know we'll just find some other group of soul winners who don't know what happened and say hey
go back to these apartment buildings right because they're like oh
okay you know and the same thing happens again weren't you here last week no
you know and we'll just make these cops tell everybody in the church and by then
it'll be knocked okay so
you know I'm not saying everybody has to obviously I'm in a position
where if I get arrested for soul winning I'll probably get a raise
and I probably won't I'm just kidding
right but it's not like I'm if I call my boss you know my pastor Anderson
say hey I was out soul winning this cop was trying to stop us and I told
him we weren't going to stop that we'd be back next week I went back and I got
arrested he'd be like attaboy right but also
you know we don't we the policy is we don't really you know if they call the church
we don't engage with them we just ignore them they want to call and ask questions and we've
had detectives and officers call the church and try to follow up
on things where we were soul winning you know in some restricted neighborhood or whatever
you know we just ignore it just totally ignore it a lot of times those same cops
probably might not even want to be doing they just got some superior they just have to
follow through because that's that's procedure they're like they're
probably they're probably you know leaving a message on the church phone when I hope these people don't call us back
because they you know you know you know that that hot
case comes across their desk you know the folder gets gets put on there like we got
we need you to go down there to that that faithful word baptist church we got people out with bibles
wandering through the neighborhood that's why I always laugh when I'm out soul winning like in these rough neighborhoods
where someone will threaten to call the cops like what are you going to tell them someone came to your door
with a bible and tried to tell you about Jesus
you know I'm sure there's going to be a lot of patrol cars that are just slammed on the brakes
and you know jerking the wheel throwing on the lights you know let's get down there
and catch these soul winners I mean unless you're in Chandler you know
if you're a Chandler cop that probably is the case you're going to lock them up and get them
and get to that address quick but you know
God does want us to be obedient to the civil authorities
just a fact as long as they are not infringing
upon our ability to serve God if they're not
asking us to commit sin because obviously as it says
the powers of be that are ordained of or are ordained of God
God is the highest power you know we will appeal to the highest authority
if we need to but rulers are to be a terror to not to good works but to evil
he says in verse 4
he is a minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is evil
be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is a minister of God
to execute the wrath upon him
that doeth evil verse 5 wherefore he must needs
be subject not for wrath only but also for conscience
sake for this cause pay he tribute
you know should we pay taxes as Christians yes
but would our taxes go here there they'd pay for this they pay for that that's on them
that's on them you know they ask
Peter you know doth your master pay tribute or not and Jesus you know told Peter
go catch that fish take out the gold out of his mouth and go pay your taxes
right he says go give them render unto Caesar his
render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's unto God that which is God's
you know we've got other battles to fight because this you know this is really the root of the problem
of this of people who are really just anti-establishment
is that they're going to end up getting caught up in things that really don't matter
like why do I need to audit the police when I know Jesus
is going to come back and we'll have a perfect system like I'll let him do all the auditing
you know I'll let him worry about that in the meanwhile
you know I'll do the nine over
right nine you're fine ten you're mine those are words to live by
continue to serve God rather than get caught up in
okay
just be subject pay tribute render therefore to all their dues
tribute to whom tribute interaction with the police
and you know it's it's over I've done something wrong or just looking into something
you know I am going to be respectful and I'm going to say yes sir no sir
because I want to get them off
then you know feed their ego and move on with your life
you know what I mean you know I've been pulled
over even in the church van you know we had like a tag that we didn't
get on there or something it wasn't anything major wasn't coming back from Nogales
with a you know a van load I wasn't you know
it wasn't like moonlighting as a coyote or anything
you know but it was just like some minor thing and I got pulled over on the way to soul winning
up here and I thought man I'm getting pulled over for this and you know I don't want to
be late for soul winning what do you think went through my head well I'm going to tell this cop off
so I can get in my way no and the guy came up and he was a sheriff
and let me tell you some of the Pima County sheriffs are really nice people
the sheriffs usually are a little bit more easier to work with than
city police so this is a sheriff and I mean at the end of it he's like alright well god bless
you have a good day super nice guy and just you know nothing came of it you say what happened
nothing he said here's you know here's get it fixed you know
get your tag or whatever you know I'd rather just
get him off my back fear to whom fear honor to whom honor and just move on
to owe no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another hath
fulfilled the law so we need to be subject you know
that's what the Bible says there you know there is the importance of law and order now what's
what's you know what spurred all this well acts twenty three where we were you don't have to go there go to
first timothy chapter number two because I'm going to drive these points home because
I know there's people out there that would disagree and there's people
that are going to you know say no you know these laws we shouldn't be obeying this
and it's like a it's a thing for them right they're just going to be against
speed limits right and they're going to have a bad attitude towards
police who enforce speed limits you know well speed limits it's
you know are you for or against them it doesn't really matter
because they're there it's like you can't get pulled over
I don't believe in speed limits it's like well you're about to
you know or you're going to really believe in them when you when you go really fast
and get in a wreck and you get hurt or you kill somebody you know then you'll
probably go speed limits aren't such a bad thing after all right
you know speed limits I believe the national speed limit was fifty five it was introduced
by Richard Nixon in the seventies okay
is that right yeah are you sure this time okay use my fact
checker anyway but you know I know it's true because I looked it up
but I did my own fact checking this time right
you know what's interesting is that there was like four I think it was like four something
million fatalities when they were enacted and then a year later there was some
oh oh oh aren't speed limits so wicked
you know what an infringement on our right to just be reckless and dangerous
out there highways where we're separated you know these giant missiles of steel by
nothing more than paint in fifty five you know seventies to fifty five
miles an hour and they halved
I posted that one on Facebook and I wrote good there I said it
okay you say that the government shouldn't allow
you should determine what breeds we should have and shouldn't have
home office where I work I've literally got a pit bull
and I've seen people go to the park across my house with their pit bull and let it off the chain
and then electrocute it until it passes out and
still bite the steel pit bull they're so sweet yeah because every person that had
their child mauled to death by their pit bull you know went out and picked out
okay because people are breeding them because they're so cool and then when they
I was going somewhere else I was going I had another thought in mind
go down to the animal shelter
and say give me the man-eater give me the most violent dog you
have so I can have it play with my young children they found the
one that's you know just oh so sweet because those dogs they just turn they just snap
one day one day they just snap and look I don't want to go on
about it but you know that's just one instance that's one law
that I would get behind you know well that's not very libertarian well
I'm not a libertarian you know I really don't care I'm not
trying to get entangled in the affairs of this life but if I see some you know
politician some guy in government who wants to ban these violent
worthless dog you know reprobates of the dog world I'm gonna I'm
for it I say yes
you know that's why these same dogs the same breed they're not even allowed on
government facilities they're not allowed in military housing complexes did you know
that at least the military has enough sense to say well we can't have violent
dog breeds you know living amongst our personnel anyway
I'm going off you know it's important to have law and order think about Paul's
case right what spurred all this in Acts 23 who
was it that came to that Paul was going to be just torn apart by the Jews literally
who came to his rescue other Christians
you know where were they then
you know where was James then it was James bright idea
he's like oh sorry about that Paul
you know what James didn't rally the boys and go down there it was the Romans that
showed up and was did the Romans show up because they're just
like whoa well Paul's a Christian these are Jews and we gotta make sure that you know this godly
man is protected no all they care about is law and order
civility because you have to have that in a society
you have to have law and order in a society in order to function
the reason why we enjoy all the prosperity we do is because we have
law that have never prayed for anyone in authority
ever because they're just such quiet and peaceful life folks
I mean from the occasional run-in with some irate
apartment you know I have to say I'm living a pretty quiet
and peaceful life you know I'm not you know it's some underground church you know trying to
read the Bible in secret where we're all just like you know we have one Bible that we have to
pass around tear out John your family gets John this week
you guys get Mark come back next week we'll meet secretly in an undisclosed
location we'll swap the books again you know we just can
openly and freely go out and practice our religion you know
and a lot of the reason that is is because we do have some
semblance of a righteous godly government you know it was founded
upon it was founded by you know god-fearing men
I believe and you go read some of the quotes from the we're gonna read one at the end here
go read some of the quotes from our founding fathers they might not have been
saved necessarily but they at least maybe even if they were only paying lip service to the
Bible at least they were paying lip service to the Bible and they understood
that you know having good moral people makes a great society
so we're told to pray for I know I gotta hurry up
go on to go to first Peter chapter number two
Bible says in Titus three put them in mind to be subject to principalities
and powers so Paul's telling Titus what to preach
you know in Titus at first and second Timothy you'll see where Paul will say
hey preach this right tell them
this you know if you put the bread of the remembrances that should be a good minister of Jesus Christ
nourish up in sound doctrine words and sound doctrine
right so he's telling Titus put them what is it that he's supposed to preach
to put them the people in mind to be subject to principalities
and powers to obey magistrates to be ready to
every good work to speak evil to no man to be no brawlers but gentle
showing all meekness unto all men
say oh Deacon's a bootlicker he's just you know he's
he calls the cops sir you know I'm being gentle unto all men
I'm just trying to be meek and gentle and so I can just go about my life
and live a quiet peaceable life and serve God in all honesty
look at first Peter chapter two verse eleven he says
well let's jump down to verse thirteen submit yourselves to every ordinance of
man for the Lord's sake whether it has to be the king as supreme or unto
governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of the Lord
and for the praise of them that do well he's saying to submit
to these rulers
for so is the will of God he's saying this is God's will that you would submit
to kings to governors to magistrates and
obviously you know we're not living in a system that's necessarily praising those that do well
you know we might read that as oh praising Christians no
they're they're not what they're saying they're saying you know we're not
they're they're not what they're saying there is they're not locking up innocent people
you know people that are law-abiding people that aren't causing
problems you know the praise there is that they're not being hauled off to jail
or put in some camp somewhere okay so we should be
oh we should obey authorities okay
there's nothing wrong with that and in fact you know
it God is an authority God has given us authority over the
people in our lives and we all know that authorities are flawed people now go back
to Acts 23 because you can see that even in Acts 23 it's great
that Claudius shows up and saves Paul
from the Jews and maintains law and order right that's all he's trying to do
but you know you can see that he still
is a flawed person that he's kind of still even in all this looking out
for his own best interest keeping himself out of hot water
because it says there in verse 26 Claudius let it uh verse 25 he wrote
a letter after this manner Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor
Felix that's how you dress your superiors the most excellent right
Felix sendeth greeting this man was taken of the
Jews true and should have been killed of them true
I came with an army true and I rescued him true
having understood he was a rumen false because if you know the story
he doesn't find out he's a roman until he's getting ready to torture him
until they bound him right and they're getting ready to beat him and he says you know condemn you know
do you condemn a roman unjustly and he says are you a roman and they find out he's a roman
and they started treating him very differently but he's painting out here well I understood
he was a roman so I came and rescued him he's kind of getting you understood
he was a roman but that's not in the order of events you know that that's not how it happened
right so you can see even though Claudius here you know
is trying to maintain law and order he's still a flawed person I'm not saying
that our civil authorities that the officers and the judges
and everybody that's involved in our modern judicial system are the just
great people they're flawed just like the rest of us
and obviously some of them are way more flawed than others
you know are there bad cops out there doing bad things
yeah is it potentially a very corrupt system are good
people gonna have a hard time in a corrupt system yep
it's a fact okay
you know but officer lisius here you know he was looking out for himself
now I know I gotta hurry up here
so I should I keep something in second or in
timothy go to Hebrews chapter
number 13 Hebrews chapter 13 and I'm kind of preaching this again too
you know because I've noticed a trend with some people like
when people are real anti-establishment
that kind of makes me nervous
not because I'm worried that they're gonna overthrow the government okay because they're not
you know your your your little bunker is
not gonna with who can withstand the beast my friend
the power of the American military they're not really worried about how well I don't care how
trained you are with the ar-15 or how many armor piercing rounds you have
they'll blow you up you won't even hear it coming
there'll be some guy and some you know a thousand miles away in some booth like
flying a drone you're gone that's it so that's
not why they make me nervous like oh they might actually accomplish something
it's because people that often are anti-establishment is because they're rebellious in
their heart they're rebellious against any authority
and news flash I'm an authority
you know are you in Hebrews 13 where did I have you go
Hebrews 13 let me get over there
you know so when I see people that are rebellious I'm kind of like
well they're rebellious against this authority and that authority and that authority
it's like I wonder if it's just a matter of time until they rebel against me
and I have seen this I have seen people who are just
really anti-establishment you know be rebellious against even godly
authority inside against godly authority because
it's just something that's in their hearts not saying
it can't be fixed I'm just saying it should be
look at verse 7 remember them which have the rule over you
who have spoken unto you the word of God so those that are speaking the word of God unto you are people that
have rule you know we are to rule in the house of God Paul told Timothy
to rule the house of God well right
verse 17 obey thou you know I bless
verse 24 salute all them that have the rule over you
you know he's not saying you know when I walk in you got to
you know reporting for duty sir you know
salute is like salutation like being able to at least say hello
you know which doesn't take much
it really doesn't to just you know fake a smile and say hi
how you doing you know good evening you know
believe me I know people that have done it
but we are you know so when I see people who are real
anti-establishment people who are just against
all these authorities I'm kind of like well I'm an authority so
is it just a matter of time till you turn on me
you know and the other thing is when we get into this
anti-establishment thing and just we're just all
against you know civil authorities and just you know trying to stand up for all
these rights and things like and look I'm glad we have the Constitution I'm glad
we have the rights that we do and I'm glad there's other people out there that are
fighting that battle but that's not the battle I'm called to
it's not the Bible says in
2 Timothy 2 no man that warth entangled himself with the affairs of this life
you know why do I want to get more involved in politics because I don't want to get entangled in
affairs of this life you know God
God is the one who sets up a king and takes it down God you know the heart of the
prince is in the hand of the Lord
as a river he turneth it whithersoever he willeth like God to God it's
just another government and rulers they're just another
thing that he can manipulate
you know and if we end up with a wicked government well it's because we have a wicked bunch
of people you know we deserve this country deserves the leadership
that it has it's just a fact
you know we need to say oh we got all these wicked leaders in place because we've got a country
full of wicked people the reflection of the of the people
and mass oh we've got a bunch of corrupt greedy
covetous you know liars in places of authority well that's because we have a country full of a bunch
of greedy covetous people that are corrupt
you know that's we get what we you know we get what we deserve
you know and here's the thing you know people sometimes they really get really gun ho
about you know trying to bring us back to our
you know the beliefs of our founding fathers and all that and I and I get it
it's well intentioned but let me remind you in closing of what one of our founding fathers John Adams
the second president of the United States said about this he said we have no government
armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion
he's saying there's no government that is capable that has enough power
to contend with human passion that is unbridled
by morality and religion meaning when people stop being
religious when they cast off morality when they cast off religion
when they get away from the word of God I don't care what government you put in place it's not
going to work it doesn't it cannot contend with the passion
in man's heart unbridled passions okay
he said our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious purpose and that's what he said he said
it was made only for a moral and religious people this is the second president
of the United States who said this it was made only for a moral and religious
and look I could have printed off pages of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence and others other founding fathers who said very similar things
they were saying hey our government was founded on Christian
principles it's made to govern a Christian nation so on and so
forth he's saying our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other
you know and I don't know if you notice but we are our country does not consist
of a moral and religious people I know there's a lot of Christians out there but
there's not a lot of God fearing people anymore there's a lot of people
that have just they don't know the Bible they don't care about the things of God
that's where we're at so I'm not going to make my
whole life about trying to turn the tide in politics or something like that
the Bible says where the Spirit of Lord is there is liberty
so if I walk in the Spirit if I'm full of the Holy Ghost
I'm going to have liberty in my life and I'll be able to
serve God I'm not going to get entangled in the affairs of this life but I'm also not
going to run to the other extreme and just say well all government's
bad and that we shouldn't have
anything to do with it at all like we shouldn't obey it
obviously it's wicked it's corrupt it's because it's a reflection of the people but the fact is
we still have rules that we have to live by we still have to be subject to these magistrates
we still have to obey them that are in authority so
you know that's my message tonight you know is you know I saw it in Acts 23 it was kind of
interesting you have Paul being rescued by a heathen government
right because having law and order is important
okay and God is a God of law and order God has his
own judicial system but it's foolish for us to sit here and think that the world
is going to reflect what we see in the Bible they might have some principles they might
be able to lift some things from it they might have to be able to put you know take some things
from the Bible and put into practice but you know there it's not till
Jesus comes when we get to see this fully carried out a perfect system
and even then at the end of a thousand years Satan's loose for a little while and man rebels all over
again it's just all out world war again
so it just goes to show you that man even under the best conditions because of his heart
because of his sinful nature is just prone to rebel against authority
even an authority as perfect as Christ
let's go ahead and close the word of prayer dear Lord again thank you for
Lord the fact that we do live in a country where we enjoy so much freedom
Lord the freedom to move about freely and to
speak our minds Lord and to publicly accept our
beliefs Lord I pray you would continue to preserve that not so that we could
Lord just say whatever we want but Lord that's so that we could
preach and expound the word of God so that we could go out and proclaim the
gospel of Jesus Christ Lord I pray help us to
that you would preserve that in our country Lord that we continue to enjoy this freedom
and Lord I pray help us Lord to search our own hearts Lord and to
root out any rebellion in our hearts whether it's to
authorities out in the world or maybe even authorities that are God-ordained
in our lives or in our personal lives that we wouldn't be a rebellious people Lord
but that we would be subject Lord that we would be meek towards all men we ask these things
in Christ's name Amen
Song number 389 bring them in
Bring them in, bring them in
Bring them, bring them in