Government is the steward of God meant to prepare the way of salvation, not to be the way of salvation; it shall never usher in the kingdom of God, for like the rest of us it has to wait for the kingdom.
Fear your government, worship your God, and know that in all things you will be held accountable.
Big government is like playing musical chairs; sooner or later they are going to stop the music and this time they might get your chair. No one else will care for they are too grateful for the chair the government has graciously given them.
Though as a Christian I do not believe we are directly under the law, or it’s penalties, it does seem to me clear that God’s coming judgment will be based not on grace but rather on justice for those who will not receive His Offered Grace. So, if I am correct, America’s coming judgment will be based, in part, on those things apart from grace.
This coming judgment is specifically for those Americans who picture God as a sort of Lady Justice with her balance scales in her hand, good weighed against evil. As long as my good outweighs my bad, so think many if not most Americans, I will be received into heaven. Of course this notion has been so thoroughly debased by Biblical scholars, and by the words of my Lord, who says, “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (NIV John 3:18) It is belief in God’s son which allows us to escape judgment; otherwise we are righteously condemned to that hell which awaits all those who spurn His Grace.
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