#1: “Biblical Government 101”

SCRIPTURE: Psalm 33:12a
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…”

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 33:22
“For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is
our king; He will save us.”
INTRO:

It is not my intention to preach politics. I have been called to
“Preach the word” (2 Timothy 4:2). This is my aim in this series, and I
believe that is what I have prepared to do.
My intention in this series of messages is to call your attention to
what the Bible says about human government. I have been motivated to
prepare and preach this series for a number of reasons, the main one
being that our society and our civil governments have moved away from
the Christian principles that provided the godly “root system” of our
nation. I believe a return to that biblical foundation of American
government is essential to our being the nation our forefathers intended
us to be and the nation God has blessed so much in the past.
Francis Schaeffer wrote in 1976:
“To whatever degree a society allows the teaching of the Bible to
bring forth its natural conclusions, it is able to have form and freedom in
society and government” (How Should We Then Live).
He goes on to note that with the loss of biblical absolutes in
American culture, American society has become ripe for those who want
her to become an authoritarian or socialistic state.
John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney and founder of the
Rutherford Institute, has written:
“Americans must again study the nature of their civil government.
They must know why our society remains today the freest on the earth.
Simply put, we must learn the lessons of history, or we are bound to
repeat its failures” (God and Government, Vol. 1, Gary DeMar, Foreword,
American Vision Press)