Years ago I rescued some kids who were caught in currents swirling around a jetty as a storm was coming in. There were five kids ranging in age from 16 to 10, 2 boys and 3 girls. The only way to get them to safety was to lead them into the very rocks that they feared. These were huge blocks the size of cars and the waves were crashing into them sending spray over the jetty that jutted out into the ocean at the inlet for a thousand feet, or more.
I’ll share this story in more detail in the podcast, but suffice it to say it was a very scary experience due to the danger and the bone-chilling fear those kids displayed. After I got all five safely to shore and their wounds treated, I went back in the water, far away from the jetty. It wasn’t long however when I heard cries of help coming from the waters near that jetty and so what did I do? I hesitated. I had gone through that experience less than an hour before and I didn’t want to repeat it. Surely, someone else would go. I watched to see if someone else was going to help, but all the other people at the beach did was look in the direction where the pleas were coming from. The lifeguard, who looked the part, stood on his high chair and heard the cries for help, but he didn’t go to the rescue.
I was scared and I didn’t want to go. I knew how rough it was and how the waves and current forced anyone too close to the jetty into those jagged rocks. Why risk my life for total strangers when there was a lifeguard paid to do just that? Yet, the calls for help persisted and no one was responding.
Right now lady liberty is in danger as she’s being pushed toward the rocks by the approaching storm.
Who is going to rescue her? It should be the lifeguard, but that lifeguard was the churches of America – afraid to act. Churches are supposed to be in the business of saving people and rescuing families, communities, and the nation from danger.
The Pastors are the leaders of their flocks and they are the ones that see the danger and hear the pleas for help, but instead of responding to the situation, they sit back down and ignore the dangers and those trapped by it. They don’t want to risk their church situation by possibly offending someone, or worse yet, the government that has conjured up the storm. If they stay away from the storm, they hope it won’t affect them.
The problem is, the storm’s first effects are felt on the shore as it stirs up the ocean on its way to landfall. We have seen the signs of the approaching storm for decades as the waves have increased in size and swimming has become dangerous. We have witnessed some being cast upon the rocks as they’ve pleaded for help. Maybe if we ignore it the storm will go away, but the storm facing America is only growing in strength and landfall is imminent.
We serve the God who calmed the storm. However, we are not to stand on the shore and simply pray, we are to be rescuing the lost and preparing for what is coming. We are not just to be on the defense, though. In America, we have been given a Constitutional Republic that we are to preserve so that we can influence the government to follow Romans chapter 13 as God explains the duty of government.
Verse 1 says, Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
We are to be subject to the higher powers. What is the highest power? God is the highest power and not government. Therefore, the highest power we are to be subject to is God. God then ordains those who are in power over us. God ordained government in Genesis Chapter 9, so God put the government in power over us. Which power is greater, God or government? God is, and that is why we are to obey him if government comes into conflict with God.
We are not to resist God or the power that God ordains. However, which is the greater power, God or government? What happens when government resists God? Is that acceptable? God sets the standard for government in the next verse.
Government is not to be a terror to good works. Government is to be good and not do evil to those who are doing good. Government is to be a terror to those who are doing evil. What happens when he who does good is met with terror and he who does evil is met with good? Since the Democrat Party opposes all 10 of God’s commandments and fights Christians and Christianity, then when they lead the government we are met by a party that does the opposite of what verse 3 says they are to do.
Government is to execute wrath on those that do evil. But when the party that is leading the government executes wrath on those doing good, do we obey God or government? Which is the highest power?
Verse 5 says, Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
We are to be subject to the higher power, not because we fear wrath, but because we know it is the right thing to do. Who is the highest power? God or government? God is the highest power and we are subject to him first because he is good and wants the best for us. When government, or a political party, fights against God, we are not subject to that government’s power. We are subject to the greater power, which is God.
Verse 6 says, For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
We are to pay tribute, or taxes, or support a government that is continually doing good. What happens when that government does evil instead of good? Do we obey God or the government? A minister who continually does evil is not of God, he is of Satan.
Give those powers over us their due. An ungodly government is not due our submission or loyalty, only a government that is ministers of God is due its due. Being a minister of Satan doesn’t make the government worthy of our support.
This coming storm is powered by the ungodly Democrat Party. We are not to support those that oppose
God and his Word. Pastors and churches are to be the ones doing good works and upholding God’s justice. We are to make sure that our government is doing the same and upholding God’s justice.
However, the government is powerful and peer pressure is powerful and to resist those that resist God can be dangerous. As a pastor, you can hear the calls for help. As a church, you hear those same calls. What are you going to do? Is it someone else’s job? Are we to ignore God’s Word and submit to an evil government instead of a righteous God?
We are to be the salt of the earth and we are to love our neighbors. We cannot preserve, as salt does if we are supporting evil. We cannot love our neighbors if we do not support justice. There cannot be justice when it is defined by those that do evil. In that case, justice becomes evil and it ceases to be justice.
If you love God you will oppose evil in government. If you love your neighbor you will oppose evil in government. If you love your family, you will oppose evil in government.
As it says in Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
As a pastor and a church, will you serve God or the government? You cannot support God and support the Democrat Party and its evil policies. Choose you this day whom ye will serve.