Pastor John,
The “Remembers” from the upcoming Father and Son #23 reading are really something! (Father and Son 23 PDF) It is really good and clear:
- The basic function and greatest benefit of government is to provide for the establishment and maintenance of right relationships.
- By nature, both men and animals are wild, and fleshly nature will oppose God’s order as long as the flesh is alive.
- The best that human governments can do is to muzzle the dog so that it won’t bite, but they cannot change the nature of the beast.
- It is the nature of the flesh, whether human or animal, to resist being governed because it thinks of being governed only as being controlled.
- God’s form of government is to replace our nature with His so that we are freed from our natural rebelliousness and have the strength both to want to do His will and to do it.
I was reading these Remembers this morning and thinking about how we have to be recreated to understand and love God’s government, and how God is a God of relationships, and how that God recreating us to love His government enables us to obey His will and receive the greatest benefits.
Wow! This is really good, Pastor John.
Beth D.
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