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 pages 42, 43:
“Human governments abuse the powers entrusted to them from God when they consider their own word and will to be authoritative rather than God’s…This ‘desire for sovereignty,’ Augustine warned ‘is a deadly corrosive.’ History is littered with examples of nations and rulers reduced to rubble by the selfish ambition of those in power. Such calamitous upheavals do not occur outside the scope of God’s sovereign rule of the nations; indeed, at times, they may be manifestations of His divine judgment…[When God’s] glory has been offended, His justice compromised, and people are being oppressed to one degree or another by rulers bent on having their way, we must not suppose that the God Who rules the political swords of this world by the Sword of His Spirit will simply stand aside.”
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