Welcome to episode 82 of Grasp the Bible.  Since today is the mid-term elections for 2022, we discuss Romans 13:1-7.  Today, we cover: 

• The believer’s submission to human government (vv. 1, 2)  
• The role of human government (vv. 3, 4) 
• The dynamics of obedience (vv. 5–7) 

Key takeaways: 

• Paul wrote to instruct the Church on how to behave properly toward the state. 
• Submission does not depend on how “good” government is, and the Christian does not get a pass on submitting if government is evil. 
• The Scriptures testify that it is God who sets up governments—even the bad ones—and He takes them down as well. 

Quotable: 

• Government is the deacon of God, and as with any deacon, its job is to humbly serve. 

Application: 

• The Christian’s obedience to the state is always conditional, and sometimes disobedience is a duty.  There are at least three areas in which a Christian should resist authority. 

1. If he is asked to violate a command of God. 
2. When asked to do an immoral act. 
3. Going against their Christian conscience in order to obey the government. 

• Our task is to call authorities to accountability and warn them of judgment if they refuse to follow God and govern righteously. 
• We may be repelled by a politician’s scandalous conduct. But that does not disallow us from respecting the office. The person is just a human, but the office exists at the discretion of God. Even in our dissent we must always be Christian gentlemen and gentlewomen. 

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