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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 24, the Bible says in verse 24, then comes the end, that is the end of the world as we know it, of human government.

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When he delivers the kingdom to God, that is Christ delivers the kingdom to God the Father. When he puts an end to all that's human rule and all human authority and human power, for he must reign till he has put all enemies under his foot. Listen, that might bother people.

That's First Corinthians in the New Testament. There's a time when Christ is coming and he will banish all human government. He will establish his government on earth.

The government of God reveals the sovereignty of God by the fear of divine government, the fear, the reverential awe and fear. You mean fear? Yes, fear. The government should be so righteous in its conduct, even, listen, even if bad people get elected, you know what they're supposed to do? Silly me.

How naive am I? Forget about the person who gets elected. Are they not sworn in? Every single one of them are sworn into office. Did you know that? Do you know how that happens? Somebody of authority, could be anybody that's of some form of authority, brings forth the Bible.

The guy, the gal puts their hand on the Bible, raises her right hand and swears to uphold the constitution. So help me, God is how it closes. God heard that.

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When you absorb the power given to you, when all of a sudden you go from being a businessman in California, maybe not, a pretend screenwriter who gets elected and the moment you show up in Washington, people open your doors for you. They call you Mr. Senator or your honor, and everything's waiting for you perfectly at your desk. Everything is manicured for you.

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You get instant respect and you get inside information, all this kind of stuff going on. Listen, without God, that kind of power will go to your head and it will ruin you. Listen, people with God have had that power and it has ruined them.

We need to fear the Lord. Walk before him knowing that there's a day of judgment coming. Verse two says, therefore whoever resists the authority, resists the ordinances of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

You can masquerade it all you want. You could call it a bill. You can call it a proposition.

If it offends God, it will be actually an albatross or a millstone tied around your neck on the day of judgment. When people make bad laws and they get away with it, don't think they got away with it. God will revisit their decision making process as an authoritative figure that God gave them the authority.

He allowed them to have it and they abused it. They did not honor God and they will own that in the end. Every single one who holds, listen, as a pastor, the book of James tells me I'm going to own every single thing that I said to you in the way of teaching.

The Bible says all Bible teachers will be judged with a stricter judgment when they stand before God. Wow. The word resist means to position oneself against or in opposition to the governing authorities.

The word ordinance means divine institutions, the base or the foundational rules and customs. And so in verse two, their crime is that they legislated and argued against God. Listen to this.

Psalm 94 verse 20. This is amazing. Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side? Leaders who decrees permit injustice.

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They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. Wow. That's a great, that's a powerful verse.

A couple of verses there. That's Psalm 94, 20 and 21. And listen, I read this in first, uh, Sacramento one, one in first Sacramento one, one.

I'm just kidding. It sounds like it, right? It's, it's Isaiah chapter 10. Boy, listen, Isaiah chapter 10 verse one.

Um, wow. I call it first, first Californians one, one. Whoa.

To those who decree unrighteous decrees who write misfortune, which they have prescribed. I just quoted the Bible folks. You know what this means? God says, what are those who do bad government? God gave you government to do the right thing.

You came to power and you've taken it and you've prostituted it and you've pimped it and you've done the wrong thing. And you'll write a law that will grease your palms. You wrote a law and you put it forward that will line your pocket.

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God says, I see that too. How do we stop these things by getting involved in voting and knowing about the issues and stopping so committed to entertainment. We've entertained ourselves to the point now that we're, we, the, the ship is sinking.

The Titanic is going down and we're out there arranging the chairs, putting on music. The ship is sinking. And the amazing thing about comeback is that God can grant this nation or this state of comeback.

If we will turn to him, he's promised us. If we will turn it, if it doesn't turn, God is saying that God is saying if it doesn't turn, it's on you. I've given you the power in this country, this unique country, the greatest experiment in governance in the history of man.

I've given it to you. What are you going to do with it? Wow. I don't know if you've ever been to Monticello, but just outside the gift shop at Monticello is this, is this a logo that Thomas Jefferson had made up.

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Um, have you ever seen this before? I think it's, have you seen this rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Tom, uh, Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin used that a lot as well. Wait, say, wait a minute.

Is that, yeah, but, but that's not the Bible. No, I understand that. But how about this standing up against tyrants is obedient though is obedience to God.

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When tyrants begin to say, we're going to kill Christians, you should stand up. You're going to die anyway. If you're a Christian, you should say something that's, listen, I'm being sarcastic right now.

That's if you care. So listen, so, uh, because a lot has passed, listen, because a lot is passed, does that make it right? Absolutely not. Because a lunatic could have passed the law and we are the land of lunatics.

But listen, do the laws honor God and his word should be our question. If the answer is no, they are to be opposed. That doesn't mean you riot.

I mean, you speak up. It doesn't mean you throw a brick. It means you email your legislator.

I'm, I'm, it's almost like people, it's almost like people in the, in the, in apathy does this. It's like, well, I'd rather throw a brick than email my legislator. And actually that's easier because it's carnal.

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You're hearing me. You mean a brick? I mean, a brick could be like two pounds. That's a lot of weight.

You want me to throw through a window? No, I want you to email your legislator. Oh, well that's like 50 pounds. You see what I'm saying? Because one's carnal and the other one is doing righteousness to send an email to your assembly or Senator or governor and say, this is wrong.

What I'm, I'm seeing. And I'm going to make sure that the population knows that this bill is tied to your name. Did you know that's doing righteousness? You see why crazy people throw bricks through windows.

It's easier. We don't do that. But when something's wrong, woe unto us, if we don't speak up.

And so do the laws punish evildoers and those that are lawless? Not anymore. But listen, they're supposed to. Bad guys are supposed to be afraid of the law and good guys are supposed to be happy with the law.

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Do the laws benefit you and your family and your community at large? If the answer is no, then they're, they're in opposition to God. You see, Jack, you know, you're really separates the church and state and all that stuff, man. Ooh, boy, you blew that out of the water.

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Yeah. I'm going to show you some, how, how, how much that's believed. I got a couple of, couple of three, five slides.

Justice, the guardian of liberty. That's what it says. You probably can't see that.

You see all those lawgivers from left to right, go all the way left to the right. They're all lawgivers, by the way. All of them are known historical lawgivers.

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There's one guy, you've got to hog the show. He's in the middle and he's facing everybody. He's really showing off too.

He's sitting down and he's holding two tablets. They're labeled one to 10. They're labeled one to 10.

Next slide. Yeah, there he is. And those are not horns.

Those are things to keep them from falling off the building. They all have them. Looks like Yoda though, to the left, doesn't he? To our left.

Next slide. Yeah, this is inside. I don't know if you've ever had a tour.

Have you ever been inside? But inside the Capitol building, when you see someone speaking on the news and they're speaking, you don't often see them look this way. Look at my, look at my neck, head. You don't often see them look up.

If they look up at about that angle, they don't want to look up there. You want to know why? All the way around the room or all the, all the portrait, the side views, silhouettes of ancient lawgivers, Hammurabi, you name it. They're all there.

The only guy in the middle with the full face is looking right at the rostrum. What's his name? Moses. Separation of church and state.

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They didn't even know anything about that. It doesn't exist anyway. And again, isn't it funny how the atheists and the crazies are quick to say separation of church and state.

Really? Do you believe that? Because they really don't believe that. Because if we were to say, okay, that means the government cannot tell us anything, right? Separation of church and state. You don't want the church to say anything to the government, right? That's right.

You can't say anything to the government. Okay. Then the government can't say anything to us either.

Isn't it funny? They think their argument works. There's a separation. Well, first of all, there is no separation.

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Our government makes that very clear. And poor Ben Franklin, if he called everybody to prayer after what you read a little while ago, too bad he didn't know it. Are you hearing me? Every day, Congress opens in prayer.

The Bible tells us that those who are in authority are God's officers appointed to enforce righteousness. Everybody, you see, when the government says for you to do wrong, that's when you stand up against it. And you say, well, how can you say that? I'm paraphrasing.

You can read it later. It's in Acts chapter five, but it's crystal clear. So when the believers were preaching the gospel, the empire said, no more preaching the gospel.

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Gets everybody all upset. So we forbid you to preach like England is doing right now. England's done.

By the way, it's over. England's gone. No more preaching.

You'll be fined. You'll be imprisoned. So they told that to our brothers and sisters 2,000 years ago.

And they said, you guys talk among yourselves as whether that's right or not. But we, if you're asking us to obey you versus God, we're going to obey God. And they went out and they preached and they got arrested again.

And they said, did we not tell you to not preach in that man's name? Is that great? Are you guilty? I want to be guilty of preaching in that man's name. Don't say his name anymore unless you're cussing right now, we're going to beat you up and then turn you loose to teach a lesson. And they, they beat the snot out of the disciples and then turn them loose.

And the Bible says when they got, when they were released from getting beat up, they went out in the street and they said, that was awesome. We, they said, we are honored to have gotten in trouble for his name. And they went and preached the truth.

So you might say, and they did say, you didn't say pastors all across America wrote and said to me during COVID you're making us look so bad by being such a bad witness. Don't you? Oh, are you kidding? I've kept the letters. You should.

Romans 13 says you are in sin, Jack. You need to obey the governing authorities. You need to shut the doors of the church.

You cannot listen on and on. They just run on. It's like, Oh my goodness.

All the while, silly me. God said, preach this gospel to the ends of the earth, never to forsake the assembling together of the saints. And when the governor made that his rule, which is not law, he made it his rule.

You must remember in tandem. When we were told not to come to church, you could still have an abortion. You could still go down to the strip club.

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You could still buy pot and you could still go to a bar, friends, family, church, a living example of Romans 13. When the powers issue wrongdoings, they have lost the mantle of God's authority. Authority is given by God to exercise righteousness.

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And if it is enforced, people live peaceable lives. Your daughters can walk down to Baskin Robbins and get an ice cream without any fear. Your kid could play in the street without getting run over.

You could leave your door unlocked and nobody would dare enter it. I'm sorry. I'm talking about my past.

That's how I grew up. Listen, father, I pray Lord God that you would cause us all to walk up out of this place under this banner. Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the father that Jesus Christ was crucified for our sins and resurrected from the dead.

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Jesus lives. The government of God is coming, but the kingdom of God is already within us. And so until you come for us, may we shine as lights in this ever increasing, darkening world.

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May we speak up. May we pray. May we get involved.

Anything, father God, but may we never be found out in the book of Revelation that having known to do the right thing and to not have done it and to wind up being placed in the category of all those who will inherit hell at the top of the list in the book of Revelation, number one at the top of whoremongers, murderers and rapists at the top is the coward. Wow. Lord, please baptize us in the power of your Holy Spirit.

Fill us afresh and may we fear you and you only and thereby have no fear at all in this world. In Jesus name and all God's people said, amen. God bless you.

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