Our readings in this series are from the book, The King’s Heart: The Kingdom of God and Civil Government. Here is an excerpt from page 77:
“At the same time the United States was putting together its orderly society, France was being savaged by a totally different view of social order, one without any sense of the idea of sin, except as something the elites should be able to define as they saw fit. We take for granted the way our society is organized to ensure order, but ours was very much a “new order of the ages” when it first appeared in 1789. And the order, and the maintenance of order, which our Constitution defines are in many ways the product of an intellectual and political consensus that grew out of the soil of Biblical teaching, and not out of the soil of the human lust for power. Politicians who seek to define order apart from divine revelation will find themselves, sooner or later, on a collision course with God.”
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