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Foothills Christian Church

A Christian's Relationship to Government | Dave Hoffman | May 23 & 24, 2020

Weekend Services

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365 W Bradley Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020, United States

Saturday 6:30 PM

Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday 10:45 AM

Romans 13:1-7

A Christian's Relationship to Government
1. God is sovereign (over government) (v.1-2)

Psalms 103:19

Psalms 22:28

Psalms 47:7-8

Isaiah 40:22-24

Daniel 5:21

Daniel 2:20-21

Romans 9:17

Acts 4:27-28

John 19:10-11

A Christian's Relationship to Government
1. God is sovereign (over government) (v.1-2)
2. Government officials are God’s servants (v.3-6)

Proverbs 21:1

1 Peter 2:13-14

A Christian's Relationship to Government
1. God is sovereign (over government) (v.1-2)
2. Government officials are God’s servants (v.3-6)
3. Christians are to be good citizens (v.3,4,6)

Three Facets of Being a Good Citizen
a. Submission/obedience

Titus 3:1

Submission is the willingness to place oneself under the authority that God has placed in your life.

Three General Areas of Disobedience
1. Matters of worship (Dan 1, 2, 6)
2. Matters of witness (Acts 5)
3. Matters of morality (Exodus 1:15-17, 1 Samuel 10)

Three Facets of being a good Christian
a) Submission
b) Praying for our government leaders

1 Timothy 2:1-4

Three Facets of being a good Christian
a) Submission…
b) Praying…
c) Participate in the political process

“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil, constitutions and laws…therefore, when you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God.” Noah Webster

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice (Greed), ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

Foothills Text Line:

Text PRAYER to 619-375-0805
Text DECISION to 619-375-0805

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