WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 You 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 I 02:02.880 --> 02:08.440 Bibles and turn to Psalm 101 that is Psalm 101 02:09.280 --> 02:10.920 as 02:10.920 --> 02:13.280 We always do we'll read the entire chapter 02:14.280 --> 02:18.040 Follow along silently as we read Psalm 101 02:20.720 --> 02:22.920 Psalm 101 the Bible reads I 02:23.760 --> 02:29.280 Will sing of mercy and judgment unto thee. Oh Lord. Will I sing I will behave myself wisely 02:29.560 --> 02:35.720 In a perfect way oh when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within my house with a perfect heart 02:35.720 --> 02:38.120 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes 02:38.120 --> 02:42.560 I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me a 02:43.080 --> 02:47.120 Forward heart shall depart from me. I will not know a wicked person 02:47.640 --> 02:53.280 Who so privily slandereth his neighbor him will I cut off him that hath a high look and a proud heart 02:53.600 --> 02:55.600 Will not I suffer 02:55.600 --> 03:02.160 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he that walketh in a perfect way 03:02.280 --> 03:06.760 He shall serve me he that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house 03:07.080 --> 03:09.840 He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 03:09.840 --> 03:17.360 I will early destroy all the wicked out of the land that I may cut off all the wicked doers from the city of the Lord 03:18.560 --> 03:20.920 Brother Alex, would you bless the service for us? 03:25.600 --> 03:27.600 I 03:37.040 --> 03:39.960 Don't think I need that sounds like we're working 03:42.000 --> 03:44.120 So I was like I was actually 03:45.320 --> 03:47.880 I think his last Sunday is about the asked pastor 03:47.880 --> 03:51.200 You know when the that is I had a sermon topic in mind 03:51.200 --> 03:54.840 I was gonna ask him if I could preach and then he actually comes up to me and says hey 03:54.840 --> 03:56.840 Can you preach Sunday night? 03:56.880 --> 04:00.240 Sounds like okay. That's about to ask you that anyway 04:02.200 --> 04:05.720 So it's always nice I always like preaching it's a 04:06.600 --> 04:08.720 You know, you really learn a lot yourself 04:09.920 --> 04:14.880 When you do these things, you're actually now studying for a purpose you have a goal 04:14.880 --> 04:19.680 I really need a goal to be able to study and so preaching gives me that that clear goal 04:20.680 --> 04:26.280 So grateful for pastor for allowing us all to do this house have some fun sure everyone is preached up here 04:26.280 --> 04:28.280 It's been a pretty fun experience 04:29.000 --> 04:31.680 You know once you get it once you finish your sermon, you're not like 04:32.800 --> 04:37.960 Procrastinating like me and doing it Saturday night. So it's always fun and you know a little bit nervous 04:37.960 --> 04:43.680 But yeah, it's like thank pastor has opened a quick word prayer Lord is in your spirit to preach your message and 04:44.320 --> 04:46.320 preach from your word and 04:46.800 --> 04:50.480 Edify all the people here Jesus I pray him in so I 04:51.240 --> 04:57.720 Was actually going to preach about slavery more specifically chattel slavery that would be in the south. I didn't do that 04:58.560 --> 05:01.640 Because I just ended up sounding like a deranged 05:02.840 --> 05:09.080 Congregationalist who if you don't know what the that the Massachusetts preachers there are a lot of them 05:09.600 --> 05:14.960 Congregationalists a lot of northern Baptists and they were very radical in their approach. They're very anti slavery 05:15.120 --> 05:19.200 That's what split the Baptist between the northern and southern and it wasn't really a lot 05:19.200 --> 05:22.920 I couldn't really go about an hour into that because it is a very complicated topic 05:24.000 --> 05:26.320 so one of my secondary option which was 05:27.840 --> 05:34.000 The something that's interested me and before I get in us to play a little game of you know, can you guess what? 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 I can you guess what it is? 05:36.500 --> 05:38.500 Something happened on Wednesday 05:38.960 --> 05:41.600 You will know what happened on Wednesday. It's an annual event 05:42.760 --> 05:44.360 April 15th 05:44.600 --> 05:45.720 Anyone 05:45.720 --> 05:47.720 There you go. Thanks day. I 05:48.200 --> 05:52.440 Don't know. It's not I don't think it's a big deal. Is it nowadays, you know back in the day 05:52.440 --> 05:54.440 it seems to be much more of a 05:54.920 --> 06:01.800 Hassle, I guess when when everything is electronic and you can just do things online submit online. It's a lot less 06:03.200 --> 06:05.320 You know compared to back then you have paper 06:05.520 --> 06:11.400 W-2 using actually to do them now we have all these services like H&R Brock Jackson Hewitt 06:11.680 --> 06:14.640 Who do it for you so it's a lot less hassle, but you know just thinking back to 06:16.520 --> 06:21.440 There's a season 9 Simpsons episode about what there's a mad scramble for tax day 06:21.640 --> 06:25.920 That's April 5th 1998 a week before I was born interesting enough. So 06:27.080 --> 06:31.400 Apparently it was the big thing but since this tax day people 06:32.080 --> 06:35.400 Was but I think most people probably filed long ago 06:35.720 --> 06:41.000 You know you kind of look at your w-2 and it has all the deductions taken out of it already 06:41.400 --> 06:44.160 Or if you're independent contractor, you have to write a check 06:44.600 --> 06:50.960 So everyone kind of starts thinking about taxes and you know taxes, of course downstream from politics 06:51.840 --> 06:57.360 They're kind of one in the same never kind of like I was wondering like that's a lot of money coming out of my paycheck 06:57.360 --> 06:59.360 You start doing the math on that one 06:59.360 --> 07:04.240 You know, I got a side up you life would be a lot better if I had do that that money 07:04.240 --> 07:08.640 I didn't have to give to what uncle Sam you start grumbling. But um, I 07:09.520 --> 07:11.520 Don't know 07:12.400 --> 07:14.400 Taxes are you have to pay them. I'm sorry 07:15.080 --> 07:21.080 There are a lot of Christians who are tax protesters that is wholly unbiblical. The Bible is pretty clear 07:21.320 --> 07:23.320 You have to pay your taxes 07:24.280 --> 07:25.680 You know 07:25.680 --> 07:29.160 Just as you have to pay your tithe you have to pay your taxes. They're kind of 07:30.600 --> 07:37.040 Going to different ministries and so the title of my sermon is the other ministry the other ministry and that is what we'd call 07:37.120 --> 07:44.520 The state or temporal power temporal power there the government the man and 07:46.120 --> 07:47.320 You know 07:47.320 --> 07:49.900 Justice as I said, just as you pay your tithe the church 07:50.360 --> 07:56.960 Whatever you read and actually read it and it's kind of apropos we read it in the first Samuel 8 on Thursday where Samuel warns 07:57.360 --> 08:04.360 The people of Israel about the king and one of them thinks he warns about was you're gonna have to pay taxes to 08:05.120 --> 08:07.880 The king I do not know what the 08:09.600 --> 08:14.460 Political situation of the book of judges was in turn, you know in between all the judges 08:14.460 --> 08:19.320 I imagine they probably had a local council of elders, you know 08:19.320 --> 08:21.400 Just go and look at what Moses had set up 08:21.480 --> 08:26.560 But they didn't really have a centralized authority and one of the things centralized authority does is 08:27.440 --> 08:33.640 You need ministers now you have things to manage, you know, you need you know, everyone doesn't know one likes bureaucrats 08:33.640 --> 08:37.840 They kind of get a bad rep, but you kind of need them, you know, you're running a city 08:38.320 --> 08:45.800 You have all this grain storage. Someone's got to do the Excel spreadsheet or the old tablet if you didn't know one of the oldest 08:46.680 --> 08:49.280 some of the oldest writing in the world, there's the 08:50.320 --> 08:54.840 The the business complaint against in this year for shipping bad copper 08:55.800 --> 09:01.900 There's a warehouse spreadsheet and a recipe for beer and those are some of the oldest writing we have out there 09:01.900 --> 09:05.900 So whatever complaint you have against, you know work, it's not new 09:06.740 --> 09:11.820 Better Business Bureau has been around for a long long time. So is Excel but oh 09:12.780 --> 09:15.700 man, I got off got off track on that one, but 09:17.060 --> 09:20.940 This is something, you know, it's a tax protesters unbiblical 09:22.100 --> 09:27.400 Romans 13 is pretty clear that you just have to pay your taxes. A lot of people will say well, it's it's oppressive 09:28.020 --> 09:30.760 You have you do have an argument. There are a lot of taxes 09:31.760 --> 09:34.720 You still have to do it. I'm sorry like as much as it sucks 09:34.720 --> 09:40.920 I don't like I'd rather not pay sales tax right a lot of people in Washington would rather not that's why Hayden Island exists 09:41.000 --> 09:45.440 Why is there so a bunch of outlet stores right over the border? Why is Ikea right over the border? 09:45.440 --> 09:50.320 it's because Washingtonians do not like paying taxes on sales sales tax, but 09:51.560 --> 09:57.160 So you can make an argument suppressive, but it's really not your call of paying is still proper and 09:57.720 --> 09:59.640 So 09:59.640 --> 10:01.640 Well, just as the tithe 10:01.920 --> 10:07.760 Thanks just as the tithe in a 1st Corinthians 9 13 10:09.120 --> 10:14.560 Paul says do you not know that they which minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? 10:14.560 --> 10:20.560 Of course, this is talking about the Old Testament temple tithe. We had to pay 10% of what you 10:21.200 --> 10:23.200 earn or produce 10:23.760 --> 10:25.240 to the 10:25.840 --> 10:29.800 Lyrical order and this is what they live off of you saying well now in the New Testament 10:30.440 --> 10:36.960 This is for that same purpose that the the path we you know, the pastor lives off of ideally would live off the tithe 10:36.960 --> 10:41.880 I mean this building is not free. We do have to pay rent. We do have to have power 10:41.960 --> 10:46.360 You know invites all this kind of stuff cost money and this is all 10:46.780 --> 10:52.240 You know all part of the church and how does the church collect it is through the tithe and goodwill offerings 10:52.880 --> 10:54.600 and then this 10:54.640 --> 10:59.280 Similar to that is a stay also collects it for the same purpose to go about their work 10:59.280 --> 11:02.840 And I'll get into what they do and how they do it 11:04.040 --> 11:10.160 But a Roman is 13. It's a 13 seven says render therefore all their dues tribute to him tribute is to 11:10.360 --> 11:14.120 custom to him custom, you know tribute this will be taxes custom is 11:14.840 --> 11:22.520 would be similar to if you have import fees like tariffs or excise taxic taxes that is what that is and 11:22.840 --> 11:28.680 Why is that is that one the church ministers things of God? 11:28.920 --> 11:34.800 but not to neglect that the state also serves an important function for the Lord and 11:36.440 --> 11:38.440 Interestingly in Mark 11:38.680 --> 11:44.280 1217 we have Christ is the Pharisees come up tried to trip him up on paying taxes 11:44.280 --> 11:49.240 and he says render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's and 11:49.800 --> 11:51.800 It's really interesting. These things are 11:52.520 --> 11:54.120 both phrased 11:54.120 --> 11:56.120 pretty much identically and 11:56.440 --> 12:02.360 That they're they're separate but they're almost not equal, you know, of course God supreme 12:02.360 --> 12:06.720 I think you know when he's talking about things are God's talking about like the temple tax 12:07.120 --> 12:11.920 This is separate but there are you know rises doesn't say don't pay your taxes 12:11.920 --> 12:17.360 He's saying you know, this this little this penny. This is a you know, worldly thing. You have to pay the Caesar 12:18.000 --> 12:24.760 So, of course this sermon is about the ministry of the Lord being the state they they are important 12:24.760 --> 12:28.640 They're a thing. I'll get to why they're a thing and why I was interested in this well 12:29.680 --> 12:37.480 you know, I grew up largely in the era of George Bush and then Obama and Trump won and 12:38.520 --> 12:45.680 Biden now Trump too and you know growing up the president had this really it's kind of lethargic if I remember 12:45.720 --> 12:49.080 It wasn't really into the news back then but I don't really remember 12:49.640 --> 12:55.640 Obama doing a lot is kind of just he did some things and Bush was kind of doing the whole Middle East thing 12:55.880 --> 13:00.720 So but now it's like I got really into it because we have a very active executive branch 13:00.920 --> 13:04.520 We're very you know doing doing stuff, which is kind of crazy 13:06.120 --> 13:10.180 So I got into it and I was kind of contemplating so we have this 13:10.600 --> 13:11.240 You know 13:11.240 --> 13:15.520 The Bible is talking about a lot about kings and how kings are kind of special 13:15.560 --> 13:19.440 They are clearly the main characters of the whole story a lot of times 13:20.760 --> 13:25.240 From a narrative point of view, you know, of course Christ is the main character of the Bible 13:25.240 --> 13:31.720 But you know, we have four books the bricks of Kings the books of Chronicles where it follows the journey of Kings and important people 13:32.360 --> 13:40.000 Throughout the minor prophets Kings play a very big role such as in Daniel Eve Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian kings Cyrus and 13:40.960 --> 13:45.680 Darius and then through the building in a temple there they're ever-present. They're very involved 13:46.320 --> 13:51.400 And very important you have multiple poets and the books of Psalms and Proverbs where it gives special 13:51.960 --> 13:59.600 Instructions to King especially in Proverbs where I think it's in Proverbs where it talks about the the heart of the King is in God's hands 14:00.760 --> 14:07.120 You know, they're special and well, we don't have a king right? How does that correlate with our modern Federal Republic? 14:07.840 --> 14:10.160 So I just thought I was always wondering like 14:10.800 --> 14:16.440 What do we do? Like we don't have a king the Kings are special. We have a Federal Republic. Is that less special? 14:16.960 --> 14:19.680 so this is why I'm preaching this is I 14:20.680 --> 14:25.120 Was curious so, you know, maybe someone else's maybe we answer your question at the very least 14:25.960 --> 14:29.760 Hopefully you'll be at peace not friends with the world 14:29.760 --> 14:36.180 But like kind of at peace that makes sense where you're not like struggling against things that you know are bigger than all of us 14:36.780 --> 14:44.620 Just you know go about our lives sometimes that's usually what we can do. Well, the first thing is, you know, why do we have a government? 14:45.460 --> 14:47.300 Can't we all just? 14:47.300 --> 14:53.340 You know sing kumbaya and get along and then there's no they did that in judges and that didn't work out. They did that 14:53.740 --> 14:55.740 you know the 14:56.060 --> 15:01.740 The Bible says in Genesis 6 5 and God saw the wickedness of man was great in earth and 15:01.900 --> 15:06.580 Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually 15:06.580 --> 15:13.620 Well, this is of course pre flood but you know not much has changed when we're still man. We were still going to be evil in 15:14.460 --> 15:16.460 in 15:16.580 --> 15:19.220 Federalist 15 written by publius 15:19.820 --> 15:21.380 Which is either? 15:21.380 --> 15:24.340 Hamilton Madison or Jay depending on which one 15:25.340 --> 15:31.700 He says why is government but instituted at all because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice 15:32.180 --> 15:38.980 Without constraint and in 51 he says if man were angels no government would be necessary. So this is something obviously 15:40.700 --> 15:42.780 Government is a product of the fall 15:42.780 --> 15:48.260 It's one of these things where because we're sinful in our nature if we're just left around devices 15:48.580 --> 15:53.180 It's gonna be disaster and we wouldn't we just you know form 15:53.340 --> 15:59.440 You know everyone knows this when you have anarchy if you look at the early days of the Bolshevik Revolution we had a 16:00.020 --> 16:02.580 effectively anarchy people just get killed and 16:02.940 --> 16:09.660 So you kind of need that strong government to make sure people are not just killing each other randomly for very little reason 16:09.980 --> 16:12.140 and we're not defrauding each other and 16:14.060 --> 16:16.860 That is why we have we have government 16:17.820 --> 16:24.780 Also, if you look in the book of Genesis as soon as the fall happens people start building cities as I said 16:24.780 --> 16:32.460 You know when you have cities when you have organization you need a leader you need somebody to run it you bureaucrats to manage it 16:33.180 --> 16:35.180 You know think about your workplace 16:35.260 --> 16:38.040 What would happen if everyone in your workplace was doing? 16:39.020 --> 16:44.940 Just stuff right you wouldn't make anything you'd be spending your time. Just 16:45.540 --> 16:52.940 Wondering what the other guys doing you need those the leads the supervisors to you know tell people to do they have the bigger picture 16:53.260 --> 16:57.180 The more detached they can see it more more have more view 16:57.420 --> 17:02.740 They can see the the bigger picture that I said I can understand what's going on. You may not you might not know it's like 17:03.380 --> 17:05.180 I'm sure you've had the 17:05.180 --> 17:10.180 That moment you're at work you get this a lot in blue car and it's like well. What does my boss know? 17:11.140 --> 17:13.620 You know he told me to jump on this project 17:13.980 --> 17:16.660 You know I was doing this or you might have complaint 17:16.660 --> 17:17.380 and he's like 17:17.380 --> 17:22.860 it might not he might be putting you there for a very good reason because he might know that there's a bigger project coming up right that 17:22.860 --> 17:24.860 you don't know about and 17:24.860 --> 17:32.580 That's that's government right there is sometimes they they are aware of things before they before they happen that we might not be aware of 17:34.700 --> 17:39.380 So let's say we have government because we're sinful we need somebody to 17:40.180 --> 17:45.180 You know tell us what is right and wrong and that's what the church does and then you know 17:45.460 --> 17:50.260 If someone does wrong you need you need the person with the sword make sure judgments carried out 17:50.260 --> 17:53.180 That's what the state does I'll get to that my second point, but 17:55.060 --> 17:58.900 So I compile I didn't compile lists so this question of what the 17:59.300 --> 18:02.340 King does is not new everyone's asked this 18:03.020 --> 18:06.820 Since you know forever in the New Testament 18:10.340 --> 18:17.460 It's so we're in the New Testament, and we're also in a kind of a silent period in terms of Revelation 18:18.020 --> 18:20.820 that the Bible is complete it's been complete for a while and 18:22.940 --> 18:26.180 So the a lot of the Kings you know 18:27.460 --> 18:32.860 That converted to in name to Christianity. We're kind of wondering like so we have 18:34.100 --> 18:36.820 We're now Kings that are supposedly Christian 18:37.580 --> 18:44.220 You know how do we form a kingdom? What do we do and so they asked this and of course our famous or more 18:44.940 --> 18:46.940 favorite King James the first 18:47.140 --> 18:48.300 wrote 18:48.300 --> 18:53.220 Quite a lot about the role of Kings from a Christian perspective. He's not the only one 18:55.140 --> 18:59.940 Quite a few people have written about this with the advent of Christianity 19:00.660 --> 19:05.980 Being mainstream so to say now in name only I'm not gonna 19:06.820 --> 19:12.720 When I say Christianity, I guess there's little see Christianity which would be broader and then big see Christianity 19:12.720 --> 19:19.020 Which would be you know safe people, but little see Christianity is now mainstream, so what does a king do? How does the king apply? 19:19.820 --> 19:21.820 biblical law to rules kingdom 19:22.580 --> 19:27.460 About paper I highly recommend you'll read is King James wrote 19:27.460 --> 19:34.860 It's called the true law of free monarchies, and he goes through and list the duties of of a king 19:35.620 --> 19:38.580 In brother Sean long time ago 19:38.580 --> 19:45.660 I guess preached a sermon about King James and he mentioned King James actually knew the Bible right and I'd listened to this and 19:45.660 --> 19:47.660 He's like well, you know I 19:47.780 --> 19:53.220 Know the Bible you know how much could he know he actually knows the Bible 19:53.220 --> 19:57.820 There's a difference between knowing the Bible and really knowing the Bible and he really knew the Bible 19:58.300 --> 20:03.580 He's this is before like the internet and you know concordances could only go so far 20:04.460 --> 20:09.940 You know so you actually the read the Bible to be able to pull verses out like yeah, you can defend your doctrine using 20:10.460 --> 20:13.060 Main verses, but can you go to like tertiary? 20:13.700 --> 20:16.940 Verses to defend your doctrine King James was able to do that 20:18.340 --> 20:21.900 So you're there in Psalms 101 Psalms 101 I 20:23.100 --> 20:26.720 Did not copy down on my verses, so I'll have to turn what they're with you 20:28.900 --> 20:33.180 Probably should just put my ribbon in there since there's one we're starting in 20:33.940 --> 20:35.940 These give myself a head start 20:37.660 --> 20:39.660 So the first 20:39.700 --> 20:43.020 Order the first thing that Kings do in this in this list 20:43.620 --> 20:45.620 Thank You King James the first is 20:46.220 --> 20:47.660 minister judgment 20:47.660 --> 20:53.020 Justice and judgment to his people he actually cites his you read some of his papers and he'll cite 20:53.140 --> 20:58.900 These are sources you'll see a little footnote where he gives the verse or the chapter that's talking about and 20:59.300 --> 21:03.540 In we in Psalms 101 this is a song of David of what he's doing 21:03.900 --> 21:09.460 One of the greatest kings of the Old Testament, so if you model yourself after King David 21:10.100 --> 21:12.460 Minus a few things you'll you'll do fine 21:13.260 --> 21:15.580 You know King James was famously monogamous 21:16.180 --> 21:21.000 So yeah, he he well understood of where to not follow David unfortunately 21:21.520 --> 21:23.740 Fortunately for James and unfortunately for David 21:24.620 --> 21:26.620 so this Psalms 101 as 21:26.620 --> 21:29.220 Judgment if you read the back half of it 21:29.740 --> 21:34.140 David's talking about carrying out and justice justice and judgment to his people right? 21:35.620 --> 21:38.620 He that worketh the seat shall not dwell within my house right? 21:39.220 --> 21:45.820 Judgment he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight you know he's judging people he's carrying out justice he that worketh 21:46.420 --> 21:49.020 I will destroy all the wicked of the land right that's judgment 21:49.740 --> 21:55.100 When King David's talking about I will destroy all the wicked of land he's being literal 21:55.100 --> 22:00.820 Probably executing them right that I may cut off all the wicked doers from the city of the Lord right? 22:01.460 --> 22:07.660 This is the first thing that Kings do is they administer justice and judgment to people they act as 22:07.940 --> 22:10.500 Judge jury and often executioner 22:11.220 --> 22:19.260 The other one is no they said is the advanced the good and punished the evil also from Psalms 101 right part of 22:19.420 --> 22:25.580 Justice and judgment is you know you're gonna have court cases brought before you right and you're punishing the evil and you're 22:26.020 --> 22:30.220 Advancing by punishing the evil you also advance the good that's just how things work 22:31.180 --> 22:33.180 you know if you have a 22:33.900 --> 22:35.900 counterfeiter and or 22:37.380 --> 22:40.180 Something of that ilk and you punish him you know 22:41.180 --> 22:43.180 That's good 22:43.300 --> 22:45.780 Next one is to assess 22:46.140 --> 22:47.500 Good 22:47.500 --> 22:54.500 Next one is to establish good laws to people and procure obedience to the same and as I said he cites 22:54.500 --> 22:59.860 He gives us sources second Kings 18 first three for I added the three through seven 22:59.860 --> 23:03.420 He just said second Kings 18, so he if you don't know it 23:03.420 --> 23:09.620 This is I think this is Hezekiah comes into the power comes in the power and lays down the law 23:10.260 --> 23:12.260 and 23:13.220 --> 23:15.220 So second Kings I 23:21.860 --> 23:25.700 Don't you could tell I don't really have any of the tabs little colorful tabs 23:25.700 --> 23:30.340 I also would have used those but I forgot to get those on Friday when I went the safe way so 23:30.820 --> 23:34.340 we're doing a do know it right Hezekiah comes into power and 23:35.660 --> 23:39.040 What is one of the first things he does right and he did? 23:39.440 --> 23:46.680 Did what which was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that that David his father did right next right? 23:47.160 --> 23:52.440 Establish laws and procure obedience the same he removed the high praises break the image cut down the groves 23:53.200 --> 23:59.680 Breaking the pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made for unto the for unto those days children 23:59.680 --> 24:04.980 Isn't Israel did bird incense to it and called it the shoes town there we go 24:05.980 --> 24:09.180 This is this is a example of the pattern you see in 24:10.060 --> 24:14.340 Kind of the story of Kings where the people kind of follow the King's if you get that 24:14.940 --> 24:19.420 You pick up on that when Kings good and Kings amazing like Asa 24:20.260 --> 24:21.540 Hezekiah 24:21.540 --> 24:24.180 Josiah the people kind of follow right and 24:24.780 --> 24:31.460 Then when the King's wicked the people kind of follow downhill right as I said the King is really kind of the main character here 24:31.580 --> 24:33.580 The people follow him 24:33.660 --> 24:37.060 So one of them is established good laws of people when you do that 24:37.060 --> 24:42.860 You'll naturally kind of have the obedience of them people inherently know what is good and what bad the Bible says 24:43.300 --> 24:48.860 The laws of God are written on our heart. We may kind of try to ignore those but people when they're 24:49.380 --> 24:53.700 People it is a strong calling that people naturally try to do good, right? 24:53.900 --> 24:59.380 People may lie but a lot of people know even the secular word world lying is wrong, right? 24:59.420 --> 25:05.420 So the kind of people identify when someone is being good like a king and they'll follow him just naturally if he's doing these things 25:05.420 --> 25:08.820 You kind of see this in the famous people of history 25:09.780 --> 25:15.940 You know like Julius Caesar, but I think is the thumbnail of the video. This is kind of representation 25:15.940 --> 25:20.040 He's a populist right people knew about the corruption within the Senate of the day 25:20.040 --> 25:25.860 And so they followed Caesar who was really he is dealing with a lot of senatorial corruption 25:26.620 --> 25:28.620 you know, there's a lot of 25:29.100 --> 25:33.820 Hyperinflation not hyperinflation but inflation those days and Caesar was trying to bring it down 25:34.700 --> 25:36.700 Giving not taking away 25:37.100 --> 25:42.420 Senatorial held lands giving it rewards to his soldiers who followed him through gall and 25:43.140 --> 25:50.180 So people kind of identified that Caesar was you know a good guy and so they naturally just followed him and listened to him 25:50.180 --> 25:52.580 You see this in your workplace 25:52.580 --> 25:55.540 So I was one try to bring it down like something we all see in your workplace 25:55.940 --> 26:00.340 When your lead or your boss is really great and he's a trustworthy guy 26:00.660 --> 26:06.020 I'm fortunate enough that my supervisor is a really great guy really trustworthy and knowledgeable 26:06.020 --> 26:11.140 They kind of exude this air of like you kind of tell yourself like oh this guy's really great. I'm gonna follow him 26:11.220 --> 26:13.220 I'm gonna do what he says 26:13.420 --> 26:16.400 Is I trust him and that's what you see with the Kings is 26:16.820 --> 26:22.400 Again, you get this picture of when the Kings doing great everyone's doing great because everyone kind of knows these special person 26:22.400 --> 26:24.400 The next one is 26:24.400 --> 26:29.640 Psalm 72 if you want to you don't have you don't have to turn there. I'm kind of going all over the place right now 26:29.640 --> 26:31.640 It's a list 26:31.640 --> 26:33.640 but I suggest like 26:33.640 --> 26:38.400 You know as I said, I didn't pick these ones King James when he was writing he picked these ones 26:38.400 --> 26:42.120 So he knew his Bible. He was able to argue points 26:42.120 --> 26:48.800 He was able to point to as I said if you wanted to come up with a list of what King Kingly duties 26:48.800 --> 26:50.800 There are which you have chosen 26:50.800 --> 26:52.800 Psalm 72 26:52.800 --> 26:59.680 Right and of course, this is a psalm when I was reading it. It's kind of talking about Christ here if you really 26:59.680 --> 27:01.680 It's pretty obviously 27:01.680 --> 27:06.320 Talking about a future Messiah, but if you want to be a good king, you know 27:07.040 --> 27:09.280 Psalms about the picture of Christ also apply to you 27:09.280 --> 27:15.280 You know Christ is the King of Kings and if it's meant for the King of Kings, you know, it's pretty good advice 27:15.280 --> 27:22.280 And then verse 7 in in his days shall righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth, right? 27:22.280 --> 27:24.400 It's kind of saying like if the King's great 27:24.400 --> 27:28.560 This is all kind of stacks down the King's great and the King's following all the laws of God and 27:29.360 --> 27:35.000 Ministering justice there'll be peace within the land. There'll be kind of this stability again. You saw that within 27:35.680 --> 27:37.680 King James's rule where he's 27:38.200 --> 27:40.200 He's very strict. He's an absolute monarch 27:40.320 --> 27:44.120 There wasn't a lot of there wasn't any eternal fighting compare that with his son, right his son 27:46.040 --> 27:52.160 Charles the first he had a lot of issues. He married a Roman Catholic, which is issue one 27:52.160 --> 27:57.160 He was kind of you know, if you believe some of the accusations, he was kind of a little corrupt 27:57.160 --> 27:59.160 He spent a lot more money on the Navy 27:59.960 --> 28:04.280 I think they're supporting the Dutch revolt against the Roman Catholic 28:04.360 --> 28:06.360 He spent a lot more money on the Navy 28:06.360 --> 28:11.960 I think they're supporting the Dutch revolt against the Habsburgs in the Netherlands 28:12.160 --> 28:16.000 And this was costing a lot of money and you know, he kind of searched for money where he shouldn't have 28:16.400 --> 28:22.480 and so, you know, he watched the movie Caramel you get a pretty good idea of the whole thousand events, but 28:23.040 --> 28:29.600 What happens right the King the King isn't great and there's now a civil war, right? People do rise up 28:29.600 --> 28:33.700 It's not right that people revolt and rise up what the Puritans did 28:34.280 --> 28:36.280 Shouldn't have done that. She's just gone to America 28:36.600 --> 28:40.520 But the reality is we live in a fallen world and sometimes these things happen 28:42.600 --> 28:49.480 Even you know, it's not not a perfect world, but generally speaking if you're a good king if you're fair you're just 28:50.360 --> 28:56.880 You know, they'll still have their naysayers, but generally speaking things are going to be very good compared to like some of the 28:57.640 --> 29:00.740 You know the more wicked English Kings James the second 29:01.740 --> 29:04.780 Converted to Catholicism and was overthrown by 29:05.420 --> 29:10.060 King Prince William and Queen Mary of the Netherlands 29:10.460 --> 29:16.220 You know, that was a war that was a lot of people died in that they didn't need to be but what happened? 29:16.220 --> 29:18.020 The King was wicked 29:18.020 --> 29:22.060 Converted to Roman Catholicism, you know, I don't do that in England and 29:23.700 --> 29:28.220 He's or Mary Queen of Scots Roman Catholic persecuted the 29:28.300 --> 29:34.300 New English Church killed a lot of people did not that's you know killing innocent people isn't 29:35.100 --> 29:37.100 really considered 29:37.100 --> 29:41.140 Advancing the good and punishing the evil or justice and judgment 29:41.140 --> 29:44.900 So what happened she gets preach out of office and killed 29:48.140 --> 29:51.220 Well, the next thing that Kings do is they decide controversies 29:51.220 --> 29:55.940 This is part of a ministering judge justice and judgment and you don't have to turn here 29:56.100 --> 30:01.540 You don't have to turn here this this he cites first Kings three, this is the story of King Solomon 30:02.500 --> 30:05.700 Deciding the matter of whose baby this was, right? 30:06.580 --> 30:08.900 it's really crazy just as a 30:10.060 --> 30:14.520 Thought I was like well, what would happen if you're like that the soldier in that room, right? 30:14.520 --> 30:17.460 And your King just says well, let's just cut the baby in half 30:18.340 --> 30:20.340 And you don't really know where he's going with this 30:21.380 --> 30:23.460 About to cut a baby in half and then he's like actually 30:24.420 --> 30:29.580 Whichever if you don't know story two women come before Solomon and they they're having 30:30.340 --> 30:32.740 they both claim that the baby is theirs and 30:34.620 --> 30:40.660 Solomon says well, we're going to divide the baby if you guys can't agree on this one and 30:42.060 --> 30:45.580 Then one of the women backs out and says oh, we can't do we're not going to do that 30:45.580 --> 30:50.840 And he says, you know that that is the true mother because the true mother would never would 30:51.680 --> 30:55.240 Not want harm to come to her baby, which is just you know 30:55.240 --> 31:00.040 How would would you have come to that conclusion on that one? That is that is actually some really smart wisdom 31:00.400 --> 31:05.920 Well, this is one thing to judge the Kings do is they they judge controversies and settle issues 31:06.640 --> 31:10.640 Usually on the larger scale if you look at Moses once he appointed all the elders 31:11.120 --> 31:16.200 They dealt with the day-to-day stuff and Moses really dealt with the big large stuff that would affect multiple 31:16.720 --> 31:21.320 Large groups of people and this is something the king will do is you know, he's not going to get involved in 31:22.600 --> 31:26.720 Dispute about who the fence being a foot over into someone's property 31:26.720 --> 31:31.460 It's not what he does, but he will decide if it becomes an issue between two lords 31:31.920 --> 31:34.400 Well, the next one is Romans 13 31:34.400 --> 31:35.400 Of course 31:35.400 --> 31:42.400 Whenever a subject about absolute authority comes in to play Romans 13 is one of those ones and James writes 31:42.800 --> 31:47.160 To be minister of God for the wealth of them that do well as a minister 31:47.440 --> 31:55.160 As a minister of God to take vengeance upon them that do evil of course is one of the duties is the executioner, right? 31:55.920 --> 31:58.480 sometimes people just have to die and 31:59.960 --> 32:01.960 You know, we don't want 32:02.080 --> 32:06.360 Just everybody take matters in their own hands you get these back-and-forth 32:07.240 --> 32:14.440 Killings you think about the Hatfields and McCoys which is this constant retaliation or some of the gang violence in inner cities? 32:14.440 --> 32:16.440 Where it's just it's just a series of retaliatory 32:16.960 --> 32:19.720 Tax you kind of sometimes you need this independent 32:20.800 --> 32:24.680 disinterested party just to say well this this person is just going to die and 32:25.440 --> 32:27.680 matter is over right and 32:29.320 --> 32:32.500 That force us one of the duties of the king not literally 32:33.120 --> 32:35.920 Kings usually have other people do it 32:36.400 --> 32:38.400 there's a really great book called a 32:38.920 --> 32:40.920 Haman's diary. It's a 32:41.760 --> 32:44.080 16th century diary written by the 32:45.120 --> 32:47.440 Executior of Franz Schmidt of Nuremberg 32:49.080 --> 32:54.740 Where his father was randomly chosen to be an executioner they needed to kill somebody 32:56.440 --> 32:59.120 Now I think probably for murder or something 32:59.600 --> 33:05.240 But nobody actually wanted to do it right if when you even if you're killing somebody for the right reason 33:05.400 --> 33:10.720 You still are now a murderer, you know, not in the sense that it's innocent blood, but you still taking life and 33:11.240 --> 33:15.240 In medieval times you were treated differently, right? Everyone knew 33:15.920 --> 33:17.840 that you were 33:17.840 --> 33:20.320 Required for society, but no one wanted to be with you 33:20.320 --> 33:26.640 It's like if you ever talked to like garbage truck workers or like wastewater plant people. It's a dirty job 33:26.680 --> 33:30.560 Nobody wants it, but everybody knows somebody has to do it, right? 33:31.560 --> 33:35.240 You know, just make sure you shower before you come over the barbecue I guess 33:36.680 --> 33:38.920 And so this is something the King does is 33:39.480 --> 33:44.440 Appoints people usually to carry out God's wrath, right? A lot of the verses in the Old Testament 33:45.040 --> 33:48.680 You know carry on sentences and of course this they have to be enforced, right? 33:48.680 --> 33:53.240 What's the point of law if it's just stated there needs to be bite to the law? 33:54.560 --> 34:00.040 This is something also and actually sites as like I was going through it and in the 34:00.720 --> 34:07.180 Text document I had had a little hyperlinks when the verses come up and the next one is as a good pastor to go out 34:07.200 --> 34:12.200 And in before his people you never guess what he cited. He cited first Samuel chapter 8 34:12.440 --> 34:15.320 This is something when they we read it on Thursday 34:15.440 --> 34:20.160 the some the people demanded was somebody to speak for them and 34:20.880 --> 34:24.640 Actually, let's just turn there if you guys didn't memorize it. I 34:25.160 --> 34:27.160 I 34:28.080 --> 34:30.520 Still have it even ribboned look at that 34:33.120 --> 34:35.120 See 34:36.000 --> 34:38.000 Yep verse 20 34:38.120 --> 34:41.760 That our King may judge us and go out and before us and fight our battles 34:42.200 --> 34:46.680 He's not literally saying to fight about but be the leader be the pastor 34:47.840 --> 34:53.040 Not necessarily the the pastor of a church. Although as King of England at that time 34:53.400 --> 34:57.000 He was he did take a more direct role in the Anglican Church 34:58.000 --> 35:03.440 just by if you didn't know the Anglican Church has the King of England as their 35:04.200 --> 35:10.440 Their Pope kind of is more usually more distant than the actual Pope for the Catholic Church 35:10.760 --> 35:17.880 But technically that is how they're structured and so he kind of view he took a very active role compared to a lot of other English 35:17.880 --> 35:19.400 kings 35:19.400 --> 35:21.560 so but he's more talking about a pastor as 35:21.880 --> 35:25.040 More of like this like as a shepherd 35:25.800 --> 35:30.000 Where he kind of guy he viewed he viewed the people of England as his flock 35:30.680 --> 35:35.480 and he viewed himself more as a father figure to the people of England and 35:36.200 --> 35:38.520 another one the last one that he gave a list is 35:40.240 --> 35:48.400 Through the princess prosperity that people that people's peace may be pursued he cited Jeremiah 29. I read Jeremiah 29 a 35:49.320 --> 35:51.320 few times I 35:51.320 --> 35:53.320 Actually couldn't 35:53.720 --> 35:56.020 Get what he was trying to say here 35:58.240 --> 36:00.240 Jeremiah it's a letter 36:00.880 --> 36:03.440 to the people of captivity 36:05.000 --> 36:07.520 And you can read it on your on your own time I 36:10.280 --> 36:13.360 Think he's talking about verse 7 is what I came down to I 36:14.400 --> 36:18.560 Do not know what he was talking about here, but nevertheless is a great 36:19.560 --> 36:25.860 Great verse or great point they bring up is that through the princess prosperity the people's peace may be 36:26.480 --> 36:32.360 Procured this is one of the benefits of having a king is or supreme king like an emperor is 36:33.600 --> 36:35.240 They're not out 36:35.240 --> 36:39.160 They're not in the grind so to say right they have 36:39.840 --> 36:46.960 The money they have all the money right in theory they own all the land in like so they don't really need to 36:47.960 --> 36:50.040 Over burden people you see that with 36:50.720 --> 36:53.720 when their children Israel rebuilding the temple and 36:54.320 --> 37:00.480 They have the naysayers come up before I think it's Cyrus and Cyrus is actually like they're like oh, you know 37:00.480 --> 37:06.760 If they build a temple, they're gonna stop paying their tides and they're gonna start like not sending you the tribute 37:06.760 --> 37:11.960 And you know, he's king over one of the most powerful empires and at the time Persia was huge, right? 37:12.360 --> 37:19.080 And he says well who cares like yeah, well, that's like a decimal point like a part of fraction of a fraction of my wealth 37:19.080 --> 37:24.480 Yeah, let's just send actually you're gonna send your tides over there. Right? How about that? If you want to like step up to me? 37:24.480 --> 37:26.320 you're gonna get hit and 37:26.320 --> 37:30.860 Kings by nature of being like supreme have that ability right, you know 37:31.920 --> 37:33.920 To be more generous, right? 37:33.920 --> 37:39.240 They don't have to consider money, you know money if you're thinking about the super rich, of course the super rich nowadays 37:39.240 --> 37:41.680 Are just kind of wicked and greedy but 37:43.160 --> 37:48.560 You know in like in theory like the Kings who are just like super wealthy like, you know money's not a concern to me 37:48.560 --> 37:51.500 Like yeah, we're just gonna build a we're just gonna build some churches now 37:52.120 --> 37:57.040 And it's just done right there. I'll have to worry about the the budget. It's just we're now doing this 37:57.040 --> 38:02.520 My word is we're building a church here. And so that's those are the duties of the king 38:02.520 --> 38:07.000 So that just to recap so far we have a government because we're wicked and we can't manage ourselves 38:07.600 --> 38:12.920 Therefore we have a king and his ministers to manage us manage it for us, right and 38:16.080 --> 38:18.920 So why a king well the next question is you know, why a king 38:19.640 --> 38:24.520 There's a lot of forms of government out there, right? We have a federal republic headed up by a president 38:24.920 --> 38:28.680 That's our official form of government. We've had a king in the past 38:29.480 --> 38:32.400 Our last King King George was actually insane 38:33.120 --> 38:37.780 If you read the reports of his later life you might they don't know what was wrong with him 38:37.780 --> 38:42.660 They think it might have been bipolarism, but they just didn't really know that back then says never written down 38:43.440 --> 38:50.360 Well, so why a king? Well, just plain the Kings mentioned all over the place. There's no mention of 38:51.280 --> 39:00.060 You know democracy anywhere and you know, one of the examples of democracy is the the Jews voting to kill Jesus 39:00.060 --> 39:02.380 So there's your example democracy 39:02.900 --> 39:10.500 or in Daniel chapter 6 when all the you know, all the representatives conspire to try to get Daniel killed by 39:10.740 --> 39:13.240 Coming off the order to if anyone prays to anyone it isn't 39:14.340 --> 39:17.700 In the king of Persia that we put to death right? These are the examples of 39:18.660 --> 39:21.800 Democracy and Republics in the Bible. It's like not a great track record 39:22.500 --> 39:25.160 Not saying the Kings don't have some bad examples 39:25.320 --> 39:31.840 But you know Kings are pictured in a good light even otherwise like heathenish Kings like Nebuchadnezzar in 39:32.520 --> 39:34.520 chapters 1 through 3 39:35.760 --> 39:39.640 Well, this is actually another good book 39:41.280 --> 39:43.280 Actually have it up here 39:43.360 --> 39:46.500 It's called day Monarchia. It's written by the Dante 39:47.040 --> 39:49.040 he did political stuff as well and 39:49.600 --> 39:53.120 one of the issues that he was facing some context is 39:53.800 --> 40:00.720 During the early Renaissance period the Catholic Church was trying to expand into temporal politics 40:01.120 --> 40:03.480 and kind of over asserting itself and 40:04.040 --> 40:09.360 Which angered a lot of local princes who couldn't stand up to this and so Dante 40:10.080 --> 40:13.960 kind of flippantly was writing like actually the 40:14.560 --> 40:18.000 He's kind of wrote a whole political book about what the king does 40:18.840 --> 40:23.600 And then the second part of the book is now that we've established what a king is here's why the Roman 40:24.080 --> 40:29.320 Church should not get involved in politics and he actually does a really good job. It's a really interesting book, but 40:30.280 --> 40:32.280 he writes 40:32.400 --> 40:39.000 Therefore mankind is most like God when it is ruled by one ruler and consequently most in harmony of God's intention 40:39.000 --> 40:45.360 And this is what it means to be in good indeed ideal state as we established beginning of this chapter 40:45.360 --> 40:47.560 What was he talking about in the Bible? 40:47.560 --> 40:53.220 It says that man is made in the image of God right in a sense not just in kind of 40:53.920 --> 40:59.800 Physical proportions or appearances of course the Bible talks about God having you know identifiably human 41:00.800 --> 41:06.520 Physical traits like you know Moses sees the back of God you know God's hand right 41:07.120 --> 41:13.040 These things are no man has seen the father, but you know we've seen the son and it Bible says that Jesus is an expressed image 41:13.040 --> 41:15.040 of his father 41:15.280 --> 41:20.100 so I'm just talking about the physical nature, but also the image more of like a 41:20.840 --> 41:23.400 mindset of course I go back to the Bible saying that 41:24.160 --> 41:26.520 the laws of God are written on our hearts right and 41:27.520 --> 41:32.200 just by nature we he goes through the book and saying like 41:33.560 --> 41:40.440 We by nature just accidentally do these things that mimic God right if you think about 41:40.960 --> 41:42.560 You know the Trinity 41:42.560 --> 41:50.140 We believe that God the Father has the supreme will and that Jesus being perfect follows that will that Holy Spirit being perfect 41:50.140 --> 41:56.680 Follow that will but Bible also says that Jesus has his own will you know but he follows the father perfectly and 41:57.080 --> 41:59.080 This is something that 41:59.880 --> 42:03.560 That he's trying to tie the monarchy is well God rules of one will 42:04.200 --> 42:09.960 Therefore if we mimic that and rerule have do everything with one will will you better? 42:10.480 --> 42:15.920 We might say that in the household right I talked to pastor about this and he I think he said this before 42:16.160 --> 42:19.760 You know any any beast with two heads is a freak right? 42:19.760 --> 42:24.340 You see it in the household right if you have you know the husband wife kind of co-ruling 42:24.360 --> 42:29.200 It's chaos right you need one the one supreme will just kind of say this is how we're doing things 42:29.200 --> 42:33.880 There's no argument about it. I'm not saying that this has to be absolute like I mean 42:35.440 --> 42:37.640 Kind of have to listen might have a point 42:37.680 --> 42:43.000 But you kind of need that then you can have you can have ministers as king right and advisors good idea 42:43.040 --> 42:45.400 But you still need like we're doing this now 42:46.760 --> 42:49.640 And that's one advantage of having one 42:50.240 --> 42:51.760 Supreme King is he could just say well 42:51.760 --> 42:58.040 We're doing this now know if fans and buds or in a company right if you have a really good CEO 42:58.160 --> 43:03.920 And his will is like we're gonna do these things now. You know he makes sometimes 43:03.920 --> 43:06.740 He'll make decisions that may not seem you know 43:07.580 --> 43:10.460 economical right he might take a loss one year and 43:11.260 --> 43:18.620 Invest a lot into factories and workers or pay workers more Henry Ford was famous for this he he 43:19.700 --> 43:25.020 He took all the workers and like like thinking like tripper. They're having problems with turnover 43:25.020 --> 43:31.860 And so his solution the turnover was just triple everyone's salary right and it worked now 43:32.140 --> 43:37.380 Everybody is flocking to Ford factories to work they want to be there now 43:37.900 --> 43:42.120 Turnover is non-existent. No one doesn't want to work at Ford right now 43:42.120 --> 43:47.500 You don't have to retrain people but economically if you were to do this all of a sudden it wouldn't make sense 43:48.580 --> 43:52.980 Especially like if you have a thing about company as a board of representatives they might never do this 43:52.980 --> 43:58.280 They're not gonna think about that because it's gonna cost money right and they can't really picture to some intangible 43:58.960 --> 44:02.780 Future of like actually in the future this is gonna make us more money and be cheaper 44:02.800 --> 44:04.920 They're not gonna see that but if you have one 44:05.840 --> 44:11.000 Really smart guy who's like who's willing to go out and make these decisions it makes sense 44:11.000 --> 44:14.200 we're actually seeing this nowadays with our 44:15.280 --> 44:17.280 real estate loans where 44:18.160 --> 44:21.240 Banks are just since all the banks are kind of like spread out 44:21.840 --> 44:25.840 They all want to do real estate because it's something that's a shirt like people 44:26.440 --> 44:32.580 People are going to buy land and it's kind of low risk for them people are always going to want to buy houses and always 44:32.580 --> 44:36.080 Gonna need loans, and it's just kind of like well. Yeah, it's just always gonna make money 44:36.800 --> 44:38.960 but in times past a 44:40.160 --> 44:45.880 this is something that the second Reich did that's the German Empire post 1870 to 44:47.320 --> 44:54.420 1918 is data central bank right a supreme central bank who was able to make decisions that don't make sense in the now 44:54.540 --> 44:58.140 To for the future they'll say well. We're actually now going to 44:58.780 --> 45:03.140 Instead of issuing loans to real estate. We're not we don't need that we're gonna issue loans for factories 45:03.140 --> 45:08.160 We're gonna issue loans for paying for roads and factories stuff is not gonna 45:08.160 --> 45:12.360 Just how do you how do you quantify how much value highway generates right? 45:13.060 --> 45:17.300 How do you quantify if you were to build i-5 nowadays? How do you generate? 45:17.300 --> 45:22.340 How do you say how much is is gonna generate? It's kind of intangible amount of money, but hopefully everyone knows that having i-5 45:23.060 --> 45:25.060 cutting through from 45:25.060 --> 45:32.100 Southern California to Seattle and it's beyond is very important for trade the only trucks go on that right 45:32.700 --> 45:35.400 But you can't put that and how do you put that into numbers? 45:35.400 --> 45:41.140 It's very hard, but having a king is able to say we're going to build factories. We're going to be build roads 45:41.140 --> 45:45.340 We're going to invest in the future makes sense of course. This is 45:46.500 --> 45:48.460 this is a 45:48.460 --> 45:50.700 Something in the as I said brought up the 45:51.420 --> 45:52.620 Senatorial 45:52.620 --> 45:55.860 Corruption in the late Roman Republic we have all these voices 45:55.860 --> 46:00.420 They're all kind of trying to get their own their own grind to go and they wanted own little side hustles 46:00.420 --> 46:04.400 So say they're out there for themselves, and it's kind of just confusion 46:05.020 --> 46:09.940 Corruption people being cheated their solution to the labor problem was import slaves 46:09.940 --> 46:13.580 And so at one point like I think it's like a third of the Roman 46:14.260 --> 46:20.260 Population was slaves during time of Caesar and he no one no one likes that you know no one everyone knows I like 46:20.660 --> 46:26.140 competing with free label to labor doesn't work and so that's what happens when you get one of the problems with 46:26.700 --> 46:28.700 democracies and republics is 46:28.780 --> 46:35.940 You have multiple interests right again go back to having a king or emperor who's just has everything he owns everything 46:37.180 --> 46:42.580 You know he doesn't need anything more right? He's never going to be go starving. He's always going to be fed 46:43.340 --> 46:46.540 There's no have to worry about these things. She's able to make these hard decisions 46:47.500 --> 46:53.780 You know something about like bribes and stuff if you have like a small judge in a small town 46:54.700 --> 46:57.940 You might build a bribe it more right, but if you have 46:59.620 --> 47:04.980 Like the supreme judge who does everything like a king you know you can't bribe a king 47:05.100 --> 47:08.740 You can just take your stuff right? No. You don't need that money. What are you going to do? 47:09.500 --> 47:12.180 Not to say the kings in past haven't been bribed they have 47:12.980 --> 47:20.620 George III our last king was kind of an absent king and he let Parliament run right right over him and kind of let the EIC 47:21.100 --> 47:26.580 Do some things to us and that's one of the reasons we ditched them 47:27.140 --> 47:31.380 But so not to say the kings are free from corruption. They are at the end of day still men 47:32.460 --> 47:34.460 you know so 47:35.460 --> 47:36.780 We have a king well 47:36.780 --> 47:43.500 We don't have a king, but just to kind of keep recapping the points we need government because we're sinful and we're fallen 47:44.620 --> 47:50.860 The king has the set rules to follow biblically if you go through the book. It's pretty nice. King James had a pretty good list 47:51.820 --> 47:54.460 Kings are ideal because not only do they mimic 47:55.060 --> 47:58.700 What what God is is having you know being one? 47:59.860 --> 48:02.460 but you know they able to make these hard decisions and 48:03.180 --> 48:08.620 So my next this is kind of like a journey through my thought process is well, so we don't have a king 48:09.060 --> 48:12.740 We have a representative Republic or a federal Republic 48:13.540 --> 48:19.100 How does that work right some people you know I don't want to like say vague booking, but uh 48:20.380 --> 48:23.700 I've seen it over like my 10-year course of being like 48:24.660 --> 48:31.880 Online so to say is you see this a lot of people who rebellious say well the the Bible only talks about kings 48:32.500 --> 48:36.060 We don't have a king ergo. I don't have to follow the government, and that's just not true 48:36.900 --> 48:43.140 Obviously you kind of the spirit of the law is you know kings or rulers you know people rule over you 48:43.900 --> 48:48.740 So how does how would a federal Republic like ours fit into all this well I? 48:49.620 --> 48:55.140 Think I saw in the past year about this this on Thursday afterwards because we're talking about you know 48:55.140 --> 49:00.020 We just had a sermon about kings a little bit portion of a Thursday night sermon 49:00.140 --> 49:00.860 and 49:00.860 --> 49:05.180 You know my my thought process was well a federal Republic 49:05.660 --> 49:10.420 what we if you really think about how a government we've just split up all the offices of the king and 49:11.220 --> 49:17.420 Dish them out to three parties we of course have the if you don't know and federally we have the judicial branch 49:17.580 --> 49:21.980 Which is the Supreme Court and all the different Federal Circuit courts around we have the 49:22.740 --> 49:28.220 Legislative branch which is the Congress the House of Representatives the Senate they write the laws 49:28.220 --> 49:35.260 And then of course you have the executive branch and of course these are all just duties of the king split up and so 49:35.980 --> 49:37.380 Republics 49:37.380 --> 49:41.580 It's just a roundabout way of just having a king without having a king 49:42.180 --> 49:45.100 And just having a king would just make it simpler 49:45.100 --> 49:51.820 This is something that the the Romans knew right they they're famous for having a Republic everyone knows about the Roman Republic 49:52.420 --> 49:55.480 We modeled our government off of theirs kind of 49:55.480 --> 49:58.240 But everyone knows that in times of distress 49:58.720 --> 50:03.920 They would do away with the Republic and just appoint a dictator right this is okay 50:03.920 --> 50:09.800 This is like this whole democracy thing kind of cool right allows the senatorial class to make a lot of money 50:10.120 --> 50:13.440 But when the enemy was at the gates we just need some guy to just tell us what to do like 50:14.160 --> 50:19.920 So again, this is kind of like public. It's just a runaround for not having a king for various means 50:20.280 --> 50:26.760 But if my opinion on it Republics is if they can accomplish all the different duties of a king 50:27.640 --> 50:29.160 then 50:29.160 --> 50:31.160 They are effectively just are one 50:31.720 --> 50:35.840 And so we still have to even though we don't have a king we should still obey 50:36.880 --> 50:41.400 Republic as if they were one if they act like one as I said 50:43.040 --> 50:45.040 One of the issues with 50:45.800 --> 50:49.760 Republics is that they are not allowed to have a king 50:50.080 --> 50:52.380 is the corruption the Bible says in 50:53.400 --> 50:55.640 mark 324 everyone knows it of a 50:56.680 --> 51:03.720 my Bible verses on two-page and if a kingdom be divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand and that's really where you see 51:04.720 --> 51:08.000 Republics fall as you have all these different warring factions and 51:09.560 --> 51:16.280 They can't get along you see this a lot with European politics if anyone's interested in that way of the parliamentarian systems 51:16.440 --> 51:23.120 Where all these different factions have to form a united government and have a majority and they can't do that 51:23.120 --> 51:25.120 There is no government 51:25.320 --> 51:28.360 Yeah, and they shut down and just doesn't happen 51:28.360 --> 51:35.340 I think it happened of Germany just recently because the AFD gained a large majority and no one wanted to be with them 51:35.960 --> 51:40.860 AFD is like their right wing, but it's I think it's led by a 51:42.760 --> 51:45.280 Lesbian and a Muslim I think 51:46.280 --> 51:49.040 so, I don't know what kind of right wing they're doing but I 51:51.880 --> 51:54.280 Think if you actually line it up they come about in 51:55.720 --> 52:00.280 To like 90s Democrats is where they actually land on a political spectrum 52:01.000 --> 52:05.680 But no one wanted to be with them. Germany just doesn't like right wing anything. I wonder why 52:08.840 --> 52:10.840 Let's see 52:11.240 --> 52:12.600 So 52:12.600 --> 52:15.360 Should we like obeying the government is big thing? 52:16.320 --> 52:19.680 And the issue of legitimacy is brought up, right? 52:19.920 --> 52:25.840 We did not have a great falling out with the British government during the Revolutionary War 52:25.960 --> 52:32.360 We it's called the war right wars what happens when politics and kind of negotiations fail 52:32.960 --> 52:37.240 The reason for this is as I said King George III was actually mentally insane 52:38.280 --> 52:43.340 For some like you read later in his life and they just fight him like running around his nightgown and tree 52:43.900 --> 52:47.700 His Parliament on elected officials 52:48.700 --> 52:54.180 And the East India Company, they're the big trade company. We're trying to 52:54.980 --> 52:56.980 use the 52:57.100 --> 53:00.820 Colonies in America to offset their business losses 53:00.820 --> 53:05.140 I think they lost a lot of money in India and sort of trying to use us to 53:05.740 --> 53:08.720 Regain recoup their losses. That's why you have the the tea 53:09.980 --> 53:11.340 Boston Harbor 53:11.340 --> 53:14.900 We liked tea right we bought tea from the East India Company 53:14.900 --> 53:20.780 The problem was is they said actually now you have to buy our tea and then you have to pay taxes to us on our tea 53:20.980 --> 53:26.900 Right, so kind of double dipping on that and that's what was happening and we didn't like it because you know 53:26.900 --> 53:29.500 We were English citizens, right? We owed 53:30.020 --> 53:31.940 allegiance to the king 53:31.940 --> 53:35.460 By divided charters which were through the king not to Parliament 53:35.460 --> 53:39.500 And so we were kind of have you have the same no taxation about representation 53:40.180 --> 53:42.580 We didn't have representation in Parliament, right? 53:42.580 --> 53:49.460 and so we're kind of like hey, we were begging King George like dude you got to do something like stuff is happening and 53:50.660 --> 53:55.960 Over here. It's not great. We're about to be like all slag of the East India Company a factory 53:55.960 --> 54:00.260 You think about like the factory the factory store where you just kind of owe you debt 54:00.260 --> 54:04.060 That was about to happen to us and he just didn't want anything to do with it 54:04.700 --> 54:06.700 Was let part of it so we 54:06.740 --> 54:11.780 Said well, we're gonna be there, but we're it's still a kind of rebellion against the king 54:12.860 --> 54:17.180 however, and so a lot of people say well where that was illegitimate, but 54:17.700 --> 54:24.740 We did win in 1783 we won and then in 1814 during the war of 1812. We also won against the British 54:24.940 --> 54:30.840 So obviously if you're to believe in like divine providence and God and trial by combat 54:30.840 --> 54:34.720 You know we won so obviously something was legitimate or 54:35.200 --> 54:41.720 We'd end up like the traitor of South who they seeded from the federal government and they were crushed in less than four years 54:42.240 --> 54:43.560 and 54:43.560 --> 54:50.120 That's what happened. That's what rebellion against a power looks like is you get crushed by the legitimate power and 54:52.560 --> 54:54.560 So 54:54.560 --> 54:56.560 and a lot of these a lot of these 54:56.960 --> 55:03.680 Excuses of why we shouldn't follow government really come down from rebellious people who just don't want to follow government 55:04.200 --> 55:10.080 You know some people are kind of more educational and they want to kind of question authority as like this 55:10.080 --> 55:11.960 I think the socraterial 55:11.960 --> 55:15.120 Method where you just ask questions to gain understanding 55:15.760 --> 55:21.000 Most people who like you think about these libertarian types. They just want to do their own thing. They want to be told 55:21.000 --> 55:23.000 they never really grew up and 55:23.400 --> 55:24.640 And 55:24.640 --> 55:29.480 They they just don't want to follow authority. So everything everything that they don't like is just illegitimate 55:31.440 --> 55:36.440 Some people bring up that you know the saying no king but Christ as 55:37.600 --> 55:40.440 You know like oh, we shouldn't have a king but Christ our king 55:40.440 --> 55:45.920 I don't really see how one a human can threaten a title of God 55:47.120 --> 55:50.480 And also one of the titles of Christ is King of King Lord of Lords 55:51.040 --> 55:57.000 So that would presuppose that there are kings and of Lords to be king and Lord of so 55:59.320 --> 56:05.720 One of the other ones I've heard is um, you know a slight twisting of acts 529 if you turn there 56:05.840 --> 56:08.680 this is the we ought to be a God rather than man and 56:09.840 --> 56:16.000 It's actually really interesting if you read that because it has a parallel it later in acts. I'll go there. There's kind of a parallel 56:16.920 --> 56:18.920 situation that happens X 56:19.760 --> 56:25.680 529 of course, this is um, it's Peter 56:29.480 --> 56:33.840 Yeah, this is a Peter and one other of the Apostles 56:35.600 --> 56:37.600 They get arrested it's 56:38.000 --> 56:43.200 it's the whole passage in starts in verse 17 and a high priest rose up and 56:43.920 --> 56:50.240 All that with him the Sadducees were filled with the Ignatian and they laid their hands on the Apostles and put them in common prison 56:51.120 --> 56:53.160 So who's doing the resting? 56:53.160 --> 56:58.000 it's a Sadducees right of the two sects the Pharisees and Sadducees the Sadducees were the 56:58.640 --> 57:06.160 More wicked ones. I don't think the sadducee ever gets saved in the Bible, but you see some Pharisees do Paul Pharisee 57:06.880 --> 57:12.840 Gamaliel, you know, he's also a Pharisee, but he does speak later in this chapter. He does speak some some truth 57:14.120 --> 57:19.520 Nicodemus Pharisee, right? You see the interactions of Pharisees where Jesus just grossed them 57:19.520 --> 57:25.560 But the Pharisees a little bit more understanding but again who's doing the arresting? It's the Sadducees the high priests 57:26.720 --> 57:33.760 Did were they the lawful authority in the land? No, the Romans were and they put them in common prison and 57:34.680 --> 57:39.700 Then the prison doors open that night, right and the disciples leave 57:40.580 --> 57:47.460 Did they break any laws to end up in prison in the first place any Roman laws? No, they never broke a Roman law therefore 57:48.220 --> 57:52.980 They're innocent men and they could just go out of prison and then later on the 57:54.340 --> 58:01.860 What I assume is the militia the Romans used the militia a lot kind of these local guys as police officers and 58:02.300 --> 58:05.340 they drag them back to the council and you get 58:05.340 --> 58:11.460 You get the council again not the Roman court system these are just high priests and 58:11.940 --> 58:16.980 They say hey, did we tell you not to we told you not to do this thing and if he's Peter? 58:17.940 --> 58:23.300 You know fires back. We ought to be a God rather than men, right and he goes on this whole thing 58:23.660 --> 58:27.540 Really great and then Gamaliel as I said just he spits some truth out, right? 58:28.300 --> 58:31.940 He makes a great point and they let him go. All right 58:32.180 --> 58:37.180 So the whole situation is well one they had no authority to make the arrest in the first place 58:37.660 --> 58:39.660 two they had no authority to charge him and 58:40.460 --> 58:41.780 again 58:41.780 --> 58:44.820 They didn't lack. They lacked any authority, right? 58:44.820 --> 58:50.540 These are Sadducees and Pharisees the Levitical order that they stood for is dead. It's gone 58:50.540 --> 58:52.540 These are just a bunch of posers in the temple, right? 58:53.380 --> 58:57.540 Now it's be like in the modern equivalent of the the apartment complex leader, right? 58:57.540 --> 58:59.540 Coming up say you can't let them go 58:59.540 --> 59:03.620 Complex leader right coming up say you can't knock our knock doors of our tenants and 59:04.500 --> 59:06.500 It's like well, what authority do you speak of? 59:07.100 --> 59:09.100 Because the Supreme Court says I can 59:09.820 --> 59:15.660 You know, that's higher authority. That's an actual legally by like legal document Constitution says I can and 59:17.420 --> 59:23.700 You are right you're a worker here like the maintenance guy. It's like dude, who are you? 59:24.540 --> 59:26.540 the same thing it's like these are just 59:26.980 --> 59:30.420 They're just men right they're not they have no authority that's whatsoever 59:31.180 --> 59:32.860 right, so 59:32.860 --> 59:38.140 They've been breaking Roman laws. So they weren't actually they're innocent men. They're free to go at the end of it 59:39.420 --> 59:44.780 Of course the next time prisons brought up in a in the book of Acts is the story of Philippian 59:45.500 --> 59:47.940 jailer right Paul and so Silas 59:49.100 --> 59:50.540 unlike in 59:50.540 --> 59:53.180 Earlier on they were actually charged with breaking Roman law 59:54.060 --> 59:58.860 I don't know exactly what Roman law they break but they were accused of it 59:59.820 --> 01:00:05.380 and in verse 21 16 acts 16 if you can guess 01:00:06.340 --> 01:00:12.980 Verse 21 says in and teach custom was just not lawful for us to receive neither to observe observe being Romans 01:00:12.980 --> 01:00:16.860 I guess there must have been a law against it, but they were put in prison and 01:00:17.740 --> 01:00:23.500 Similarly they had a chance to escape right everyone knows the story. There's a I think it's an earthquake and 01:00:25.140 --> 01:00:31.060 Yeah, and earthquakes and everyone's doors open and all like all this stuff breaks and they're still there right and 01:00:31.780 --> 01:00:35.780 You know that the prison warden comes by so freaking out 01:00:35.780 --> 01:00:41.940 I you know, it's about to kill himself and if everyone knows the story Paul's like, oh, we're still here, right and later on 01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:45.740 You know, then they have the whole story the jailer can converted 01:00:46.700 --> 01:00:53.020 But at no point that they leave they still obeyed the Roman government they could have probably left right? 01:00:53.220 --> 01:00:58.460 The jailer probably would have let them let them leave the prison at this point 01:00:58.460 --> 01:00:59.420 They're pretty good friends 01:00:59.420 --> 01:01:05.660 But they still stay in prison and later on how they get their captivity and as they say well actually we're Roman citizens and 01:01:06.900 --> 01:01:11.220 All the other guys are like, okay, we can't like beat you beat you. We can't do anything 01:01:11.220 --> 01:01:16.140 I think this happens later on where Paul's about to be beat and he says well actually we're Roman citizens 01:01:16.300 --> 01:01:21.060 so just contrasts being the two is you know Peter and 01:01:22.340 --> 01:01:24.340 Already forgot to other the other Apostle 01:01:24.780 --> 01:01:30.100 they were under no obligation to obey some bunch of posers and of a dead religious order and 01:01:30.660 --> 01:01:35.380 So the end they didn't but Paul did obey the Romans does it multiple times? 01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:37.780 He's you know, it's no issue 01:01:39.100 --> 01:01:41.100 You know Peter 01:01:41.460 --> 01:01:43.060 who 01:01:43.060 --> 01:01:48.300 Would later of course right first and second Peter which have a lot of verses about obeying powers, right? 01:01:48.300 --> 01:01:50.980 and this wasn't I don't think he had a like one of the 01:01:51.860 --> 01:01:57.900 Physical Peter moments, I guess where he just didn't get it. I think he was right in both situations. So that's 01:01:58.580 --> 01:02:02.760 You know, they still they obeyed even Christ obeyed Roman the Roman law 01:02:03.460 --> 01:02:05.340 going before 01:02:05.340 --> 01:02:10.260 pilot he just says like look I gave you is basically you were given this power and 01:02:10.980 --> 01:02:12.060 They still obeyed it 01:02:12.060 --> 01:02:12.500 All right 01:02:12.500 --> 01:02:18.140 One of the points that Dante brings up to kind of prove that the role that the Empire is supreme to the church 01:02:18.140 --> 01:02:20.580 Is he said well the Empire has existed before? 01:02:21.980 --> 01:02:27.220 Before the church did and Christ obeyed the Roman Empire in all points, right? Oh 01:02:28.300 --> 01:02:34.360 You know, he chose of all the times he could choose to be born. It's during a Roman mandated 01:02:34.640 --> 01:02:39.480 Census he comes into being at the order of Augustus 01:02:40.680 --> 01:02:43.160 Indirectly he obeys all Roman laws 01:02:43.680 --> 01:02:48.280 Right see this with the story of like when they try to get him on something when try to get him on the coin 01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:53.200 He's like actually he comes out the actually, you know, or if the women caught in adultery, right? 01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:55.640 Jews weren't allowed to kill people according to their law 01:02:56.360 --> 01:03:02.320 And he gives gives an out that he's not he's blameless before the the state and so 01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:04.720 You know, hopefully 01:03:04.720 --> 01:03:10.800 The points of this part are you know, we have Kings because we're holy bully. I really went over 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:17.280 Somebody checked the time. What kind of rapid through the next point? 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:23.700 I went a lot longer on that one that I intended to so we have a king because we're sinful we 01:03:24.640 --> 01:03:30.000 There's a set rules for Kings on how they should act how they should be in the Bible if they're follow the Bible 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:37.360 They'll be great they don't necessarily I want to say is they don't necessarily have to be saved to be a good king it helps 01:03:37.640 --> 01:03:40.240 But it's you seen a lot of heathen Kings 01:03:41.600 --> 01:03:44.320 Next point is the well the church and state 01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:46.760 I'll just try to rapid fire through this one 01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:49.840 Since I went way way farther my first point 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:55.840 I guess guess it really was brought up after her pastor Thompson get into the second point 50 minutes into the sermon 01:03:56.800 --> 01:03:57.880 is 01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:02.400 The next one is the church and state and separation thereof in English way in America 01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:06.040 We have this concept of the separation church and state which is usually put is 01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:10.680 Usually misused the push that the state must be some atheistic secular 01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:14.760 organization where the clear intention goes back to when 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:20.320 Large portions of colonies were effectively had an official state religion or the Anglicans 01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:27.680 If you didn't know the word anti-disestablishment and terrorism comes from the disestablishment of the church states of Massachusetts 01:04:27.680 --> 01:04:29.560 New Hampshire and 01:04:29.560 --> 01:04:33.880 Connecticut which were congregationally run they actually had a church state and 01:04:34.680 --> 01:04:40.320 There's a really great paper written by Isaac Bacchus called appeal to the public for religious liberty 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:45.560 And he goes sees a Baptist minister and he goes through why we should have the First Amendment 01:04:46.200 --> 01:04:53.180 If you didn't know the First Amendment was pushed by Baptists who were persecuted for not baptizing babies usually that was the big one 01:04:53.520 --> 01:04:56.920 By Americans and he goes through and said I actually this is unbiblical 01:04:58.560 --> 01:05:00.560 Also goes through 01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:05.380 Separation church and state is that religious leaders should not hold secular office 01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:09.560 historically like the law lords would write that they you know 01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:12.580 historically the charge against 01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:17.080 Bishops or pastors that hold secular office was they just call them hermaphrodites 01:05:17.080 --> 01:05:23.240 if you see in an old document like I think Thomas Jefferson called John Adams or hermaphrodite wasn't literally is because 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.040 He's holding two offices, that's just why they told it 01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:32.400 Of course you have the Jesus telling pilot 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:35.560 You know my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world 01:05:35.640 --> 01:05:39.240 Then my servants would fight that I should not be delivered to Jews. You're right 01:05:39.240 --> 01:05:43.200 He's saying look my kingdom the kingdom of God is not of this word. It's not physical thing 01:05:43.200 --> 01:05:49.760 It's not a threat to any established order. It's next. We're you know, we haven't hit the kingdom of God yet, right? That's later 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:57.000 So then how can the church dictate the state or the church has a separate thing going than the state 01:05:59.160 --> 01:06:01.040 You know, I 01:06:01.040 --> 01:06:02.880 think everyone in 01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:10.040 Every everything would of course everything would be better if the people in charge were nominally Christian, right little see Christian 01:06:10.560 --> 01:06:12.800 the closer the better like, you know 01:06:13.600 --> 01:06:19.400 Fundamental like I guess Baptist of historically just made terrible politicians. We've had four Baptist presidents 01:06:20.240 --> 01:06:21.640 Harding 01:06:21.640 --> 01:06:23.200 Truman 01:06:23.200 --> 01:06:25.200 Carter and Clinton 01:06:26.680 --> 01:06:33.800 Yeah price if you had if you're Baptist and I just heart set on being a president for whatever reason not looking good 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:41.680 But you know, there's a lot of Presbyterians that are right about a lot of things of the Bible Episcopalians 01:06:42.680 --> 01:06:46.400 Have had a lot of presidents who are up pretty good, right? 01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:51.400 Because you don't again you don't have to be saved to be a good person it helps not required 01:06:53.520 --> 01:06:59.760 Isaac Bacchus would write that the church is armed with light and truth to pull down the strongholds of iniquity and the gain souls to 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:05.760 Christ and into this church to be governed by his rules therein and again to exclude from such their communion 01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:12.280 Who will not be so governed while the state was armed with the sword to guard the peace and the civil rights of all persons in 01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:18.560 Society's punish those who violate the same say saying like look the state has its mission the church has its mission completely different 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:24.760 If you know like the great commandment in mark 16, I'll just read it 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:28.740 You know go you own the world and preach the gospel to every creature 01:07:28.740 --> 01:07:34.880 He that believeth and baptized shall be saved and he that believe not shall be damned and these signs shall follow them that believe 01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:39.840 in my name shall they cast out devils and they shall speak with new tongues and she take up servants and 01:07:40.600 --> 01:07:45.200 If they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them right, you know, this is the great commandment 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:53.040 Given to the churches. It doesn't say anything about the church running government. That's not our job, right? 01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:56.000 Bacchus writes that I don't have it in here 01:07:56.000 --> 01:08:01.460 But you know he's writes that there's such mischief that pen cannot ever tell when this happens right? 01:08:01.460 --> 01:08:03.460 I mean we what happened usually 01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:08.000 people write justice people are being killed or 01:08:08.720 --> 01:08:15.960 Persecuted, you know being beaten the Baptist were famously beaten in Virginia which caused James Madison to be more religious like 01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:21.960 Tolerant wanting religious freedoms not to say that, you know, the government can't get involved in certain 01:08:22.240 --> 01:08:26.520 You know things things such as the Mormons and Romanists who are 01:08:27.200 --> 01:08:28.640 you know 01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:30.640 threaten the 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:36.420 Fabric of society the Mormons were famous for just extrajudicial killings in early days. That's why they're way out there 01:08:36.420 --> 01:08:42.140 That's why there's an army base and there used to be an army base in Salt Lake City. These Mormons would just kill people 01:08:43.500 --> 01:08:46.060 So that's why the government got involved right? That's a just thing 01:08:46.740 --> 01:08:51.260 Right, but the government wasn't involved in further weird doctrines 01:08:51.500 --> 01:08:59.060 Those mostly just because they're killing random people the papists who are foreign power coming in to influence us 01:08:59.060 --> 01:09:01.060 That's when the government gets involved 01:09:02.060 --> 01:09:05.840 But you know we have our own battle like stuff like the Episcopalians 01:09:06.420 --> 01:09:09.760 I don't think the government should like oppress the Episcopalians even though they're like 01:09:10.700 --> 01:09:12.700 literally gay in a lot of cases 01:09:13.060 --> 01:09:18.860 That's that's a spiritual battle. That's spiritual warfare is that's for the church to expose and pull down 01:09:19.060 --> 01:09:23.740 You know, it's bad precedent if we give the government power to do these things because yeah, it's great 01:09:23.740 --> 01:09:28.500 Yeah, what if we have like a you know, a fundamental Baptist like executive branch, that'd be really cool 01:09:29.100 --> 01:09:34.420 But it's dangerous precedent is rather just everyone just government just not be involved in this at all 01:09:35.420 --> 01:09:39.980 Not to say that government should be completely secular because as I said right 01:09:40.700 --> 01:09:45.260 Government wields a sword, but the church wields a torch or the flashlight nowadays 01:09:45.260 --> 01:09:51.700 And so you know how can the government judge if all the judges don't know what's right and wrong? 01:09:51.700 --> 01:09:57.420 So definitely, you know having you know, nominally Christians, you know, their Bible in government is of course great 01:09:59.060 --> 01:10:01.820 As for like enforcing that you know 01:10:01.820 --> 01:10:04.060 Baptists of historically not not done this 01:10:04.740 --> 01:10:09.340 You can't compel another one is Christian Liberty. You cannot compel people to belief, right? 01:10:09.340 --> 01:10:14.380 We'd have a really probably really good great soul in numbers if we could just compel people to be saved 01:10:16.780 --> 01:10:18.780 We'd also probably be arrested because 01:10:19.820 --> 01:10:25.900 You I don't know how you're gonna compel someone to do something, but probably not legal whatever way you're gonna do it 01:10:25.900 --> 01:10:27.900 So we can't compel 01:10:28.140 --> 01:10:30.140 So we can't compel 01:10:30.140 --> 01:10:33.300 People to be saved or not. So how can we compel beliefs? 01:10:33.980 --> 01:10:39.480 Legally, right people have to come to the truth on their own and again, it's a church's job to do that 01:10:41.060 --> 01:10:43.620 Again like, you know if it's unlawful for 01:10:45.100 --> 01:10:51.540 Bring a civil suit against believers then like how much more unlawful would it be for the government like 01:10:51.820 --> 01:10:54.560 You involve the government in this and these kind of things 01:10:58.540 --> 01:11:00.540 Kind of flow so a little bit of time 01:11:01.540 --> 01:11:04.640 My last one is what so how should we interact the state? 01:11:05.380 --> 01:11:08.500 As a person as a church, we should be separate 01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:15.260 You know, we obviously if someone here was running for political office and it was a Baptist in Connecticut 01:11:15.620 --> 01:11:19.580 Jane McCormick who's running for political office there. It's definitely shouldn't be like 01:11:20.180 --> 01:11:23.740 It'd be like wicked to excommunicate him for that 01:11:24.540 --> 01:11:31.140 You know, so, you know, so one's so one's running for office in our church probably that's just a job, right? 01:11:31.300 --> 01:11:33.220 That's his prerogative 01:11:33.220 --> 01:11:36.260 So churches stay out of this kind of thing governments just stay out of 01:11:36.860 --> 01:11:42.500 Dictating what beliefs are lawful or not if it doesn't threaten, you know, the peace of the people 01:11:42.820 --> 01:11:45.900 Well, so how should the inner people interact with the? 01:11:46.940 --> 01:11:49.060 Really quickly, how should you interact with the state? 01:11:50.060 --> 01:11:55.180 It's kind of just up to you on how much the Bible gives guidelines, right? 01:11:55.180 --> 01:11:57.500 It doesn't you cannot compel like I can't 01:11:58.300 --> 01:12:02.500 You can't be compelled to like go vote or something. That's up to you if you want to do it 01:12:04.700 --> 01:12:10.940 And but there's certain guidelines like, you know, we're told not to curse the king in Proverbs 20 verse 2 01:12:12.660 --> 01:12:15.860 It says if you curse the king that's wicked 01:12:15.860 --> 01:12:19.140 Proverbs 20 verse 2 is not to provoke the king 01:12:20.340 --> 01:12:26.020 Ecclesiastes 10 20 is not to curse the king and 2nd Peter 2 is to honor the king 01:12:27.780 --> 01:12:31.780 I think it's actually 1st Peter chapter 2 is where it says honor the fear of God honor the king 01:12:32.980 --> 01:12:35.380 In 2nd Peter we have the false 01:12:36.500 --> 01:12:42.660 You can turn it for a while. I have it mostly written down 2nd Peter. It has because it describes reprobates or it says 01:12:42.660 --> 01:12:48.340 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh and the lust of the uncleaness and despise government 01:12:48.900 --> 01:12:52.580 Presumptuous are they self-willed they are not afraid to speak evil dignitaries, right? This is a this is talking about 01:12:53.540 --> 01:12:55.540 Reprobates in this whole thing right these 01:12:56.180 --> 01:13:00.820 Obviously, right so they are speaking evil dignitaries disbeying government and 01:13:01.700 --> 01:13:05.780 Bringing railing accusations is not that will be a good thing 01:13:05.860 --> 01:13:07.860 Right 01:13:15.140 --> 01:13:21.380 Online you know probably not normally involved but in online drama and stuff, you know, not church drama 01:13:21.380 --> 01:13:26.500 But just general online stuff the accusation of pedophilia gets thrown around everywhere 01:13:26.980 --> 01:13:32.340 Uh, I was actually one of the podcasters I listened to he says you treat the pedophilia accusation 01:13:32.900 --> 01:13:38.900 We would say reprobate as a loaded gun, right if you call someone to reprobate you are saying they should be put to death 01:13:39.700 --> 01:13:42.980 That is a serious thing, right? If you're not willing to do that yourself 01:13:43.700 --> 01:13:46.660 You shouldn't call someone a reprobate that is if you're wrong 01:13:47.300 --> 01:13:50.660 That's railing accusation if you're right, then yeah go for it 01:13:50.900 --> 01:13:57.140 You know if you're if you know you're right on something, you know, you know fire off in precatory prayer every now and then 01:13:57.460 --> 01:13:59.460 But if you don't know it 01:13:59.860 --> 01:14:05.700 You know and you call someone a reprobate that's you know, I think would be a fall under per se defamation case 01:14:06.260 --> 01:14:11.620 Um, I know pedophilia if you call someone a pedophile and they're not that is per se defamation. They will win it 01:14:12.740 --> 01:14:18.820 They just win court cases that way so you better be sure of an accusation not just you know fire from the hip 01:14:19.220 --> 01:14:20.820 Call someone something 01:14:20.820 --> 01:14:26.340 Um, you know someone like if you call, uh, you know, scott bassin a reprobate. He is he's gay. He's openly gay 01:14:26.660 --> 01:14:29.940 Uh, he's our secretary of the treasury or think right now, right? 01:14:30.980 --> 01:14:34.580 It's on wikipedia ever he's married to a dude like yeah, he's a reprobate 01:14:35.300 --> 01:14:37.620 Uh, it shouldn't be anywhere in office 01:14:38.660 --> 01:14:42.100 He's he is actually an okay secretary to treasury 01:14:42.340 --> 01:14:46.980 But if you read what he did other stuff he did, I think he worked for sorrows before so 01:14:48.340 --> 01:14:50.900 Pick pick one and you could probably disqualify him on both 01:14:51.380 --> 01:14:55.460 Uh, but yeah, definitely don't rail against stuff. Don't rail against leaders 01:14:56.180 --> 01:14:57.220 You know 01:14:57.220 --> 01:15:03.140 I joined facebook for marketplace. Of course everyone it starts recommending you kind of people in your circles 01:15:03.780 --> 01:15:10.100 Uh, and somehow I got thrown into like the libertarian christian circle and they're just like you have those people 01:15:10.580 --> 01:15:12.180 firing off from the hip 01:15:12.180 --> 01:15:18.340 Railing accusations against politicians with no proof just saying these things and that's wicked 01:15:18.740 --> 01:15:20.740 uh, you know 01:15:20.820 --> 01:15:26.580 Yeah, it's the khalousi estes 1020 says curse not the king in the heart for a little bird will carry it through the air, right? 01:15:27.140 --> 01:15:31.220 Yeah, go on twitter that little bird is twitter. It's there it used to be their thing 01:15:31.780 --> 01:15:33.780 um 01:15:34.420 --> 01:15:36.900 Yeah, so it's but it's pretty easy to 01:15:38.020 --> 01:15:40.340 Not get the police involved in things 01:15:40.740 --> 01:15:43.780 Uh, if you haven't noticed when we got soul winning, that's usually the only time you 01:15:44.340 --> 01:15:50.420 Interact with police and the spirit and like doing the church mission and they usually just don't show up by themselves 01:15:51.300 --> 01:15:54.100 Someone has to call them there, right? There's no police patrols 01:15:55.300 --> 01:15:57.940 And usually they just don't do anything, right? 01:15:58.420 --> 01:16:01.780 Or they get there too late. I've only seen the police like kick us out of facility once 01:16:02.180 --> 01:16:07.620 And there's some townhouses over there and they actually had some actually legal backing to do that for some reason 01:16:08.020 --> 01:16:11.620 But usually if you be a normal person in society 01:16:12.660 --> 01:16:16.580 Um, you'll do fine, right? You don't have to worry about these things 01:16:17.220 --> 01:16:18.580 I 01:16:18.580 --> 01:16:20.340 Yeah, I mean 01:16:20.420 --> 01:16:22.100 You can say at the 01:16:22.100 --> 01:16:26.020 During the events of revelation, you'll probably have more friction with the government 01:16:26.980 --> 01:16:28.820 That's not right now 01:16:28.820 --> 01:16:33.700 If just today if you don't speed going home, you're probably not going to talk to highway trooper, right? 01:16:34.500 --> 01:16:36.340 If you just be normal 01:16:36.340 --> 01:16:43.620 Police tend not they have bigger problems than harass random people. Sometimes they do that's that's a problem. But generally speaking 01:16:44.820 --> 01:16:49.140 Usually when you interact every time i've interacted as a police officer in a negative manner 01:16:49.940 --> 01:16:52.660 I did I was doing something wrong then I shouldn't have 01:16:54.180 --> 01:16:58.660 You know, I think they're wrong in both situations actually only one of them only got a ticket out one of them 01:16:59.060 --> 01:17:01.860 I could have fought it in one but I still broke the law 01:17:03.860 --> 01:17:10.820 Generally, yeah, just be normal. It's pretty easy actually think about it. Not that difficult not to be a little weird freak. So 01:17:12.420 --> 01:17:17.160 There's not many laws that you have to follow that will get it just in conclusion 01:17:19.140 --> 01:17:21.140 You know our 01:17:21.380 --> 01:17:23.380 In romans 12 18 says 01:17:23.380 --> 01:17:26.260 Is to live peaceably among all men, you know within reason 01:17:26.660 --> 01:17:30.020 That's something we should try to strive to do not be not be like james, too 01:17:30.180 --> 01:17:33.940 I think james talks about not be friends with world that's eminent to god 01:17:34.420 --> 01:17:38.100 I mean kind of like work friends like you have your co-workers and you're kind of friendly with your co-workers 01:17:38.180 --> 01:17:42.600 Hopefully it just makes life easier. If you just piss off all your co-workers 01:17:44.100 --> 01:17:46.660 Work's not going to be that great or no one's going to like you 01:17:46.660 --> 01:17:48.980 But if you're kind of like work friends where it's like 01:17:49.860 --> 01:17:52.100 you know, my work friends will talk about like, you know 01:17:53.620 --> 01:17:56.100 Sinful behavior that they do and 01:17:56.820 --> 01:17:59.460 They don't have to agree with it. I don't have to be there. I can just walk away 01:18:00.260 --> 01:18:01.540 and 01:18:01.540 --> 01:18:08.500 They they know my opinions. I have the title of division one hater at work because i've shared my opinions about what they do 01:18:08.660 --> 01:18:09.780 too many times 01:18:09.780 --> 01:18:11.780 Um, but i'm still friendly with them 01:18:12.260 --> 01:18:18.180 Just because i'm at peace I know I can I can give my opinions but it's again they do have liberty to choose 01:18:18.500 --> 01:18:20.180 not to listen and 01:18:20.180 --> 01:18:22.660 that's kind of I think our goal should be with 01:18:23.220 --> 01:18:30.420 You know these higher powers is kind of understand what they're about. You know politics is very important. It affects all of us what happens 01:18:31.060 --> 01:18:37.700 You know, we shouldn't we shouldn't be like bet too embedded in it because that causes problems unless you really want to be 01:18:38.180 --> 01:18:44.180 That's up to you just know it's a it's a dirty job. It's a dirty business and not everyone's built to handle that 01:18:44.740 --> 01:18:46.420 you know 01:18:46.420 --> 01:18:52.500 Um, but we should not be like just weird isolated weirdos. They're just disconnected because that's how you get a cold 01:18:53.220 --> 01:18:57.060 So yeah, it was about so I think it says be in the world not of the world, right? 01:18:57.540 --> 01:19:01.780 You know, you're gonna have to go to work and talk to people who are unsaved and you know 01:19:01.940 --> 01:19:09.380 Adulters phonic fornicators drunkards you have to talk to these people doing your everyday life, but you shouldn't be friends with them 01:19:09.780 --> 01:19:11.380 um 01:19:11.380 --> 01:19:12.340 Yes 01:19:12.340 --> 01:19:16.500 I think that's about it. Uh, just two books some books that you should probably read 01:19:17.140 --> 01:19:22.740 Is appeal to the public for religious liberty by isaac bacchus. It's a pdf. It's online. It's from 1783 01:19:23.540 --> 01:19:27.860 He gives a great it's a great source where he gives a lot of bible verses for what he's a baptist 01:19:28.420 --> 01:19:31.460 And he gives a lot of bible sources for his separation of church and state 01:19:32.420 --> 01:19:35.700 It's pretty important to know that's a baptist distinctive. We've always kind of believed that 01:19:36.420 --> 01:19:42.340 Uh, and then uh king james has a lot of writings true law free monarchy great reading. I was reading from that 01:19:43.140 --> 01:19:49.060 Basilica doran, you know great reading his 69 speech to parliament great reading. He knows what he's doing 01:19:49.300 --> 01:19:52.500 I suggest you read it. Um, just give you a little bit of perspective on 01:19:53.140 --> 01:19:55.140 you know civil 01:19:55.140 --> 01:19:57.140 kind of like christian kingdom like 01:19:57.860 --> 01:20:00.020 Like a theocracy but christian kings other one is 01:20:01.060 --> 01:20:03.060 Uh dante algeri 01:20:03.460 --> 01:20:08.980 It's a little he's not a christian, but he's he's like nominally catholic culturally catholic 01:20:09.460 --> 01:20:10.900 But he gives a lot of you know 01:20:10.900 --> 01:20:16.020 He still uses the bible to kind of explain what the duties of kings are and why the church the catholic church should not be 01:20:16.020 --> 01:20:20.420 Involved with that. I put that as like a little bit more comical. He makes some really great points about it, but 01:20:21.060 --> 01:20:25.300 I definitely recommend you read james king james's writing and isaac bacchus 01:20:25.780 --> 01:20:27.620 with that 01:20:27.620 --> 01:20:32.580 A little bit over we'll close in with a little prayer lord is thank you for helping preach your message 01:20:32.900 --> 01:20:38.200 So I ask you a blessing of edify today and a blessing to sing it to you jesus and pray amen