If everyone will please turn to Proverbs 6, we will begin there. Proverbs 6:16. Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart …
For fifty years, I believed what I had originally been taught in preparation for baptism regarding the "Born Again" doctrine. What I learned then had been reshaped somewhat from what was normally taught in most churches, and it had been …
In Part One, we saw that Satan, the covering cherub who rebelled against God (Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:12-17), does not want to be revealed for what he is and how he operates. But as God's elect, we must know these things because, …

(1) Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. (2) Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. (3) For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. (4) For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. (5) Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake. (6) For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. (7) Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
Though all of us should understand obedience to the laws of man, it is good from time to time to ask, "Should we obey the governments of man over us?" Should we obey it if we consider it an "illegal" government? The apostle Paul had to …
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the author presents a scene in which a character, Treebeard, an Ent or Shepherd of the Trees, expresses deep sorrow and anger that the enemy’s minions have been felling huge swaths of trees on his border to feed their weapon-producing smithies. Decades ago, environmentalists seized on this scene and a few others, declaring that Tolkien must also be an environmentalist. Before long, Greens in many nations lauded Tolkien’s magnum opus as a manifesto for their cause. It did not seem to matter to them that Tolkien was not an environmentalist. He was …
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