06/02/20 CONCERNING LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY

06/02/20 CONCERNING LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY

Legitimate authority never requires anyone to disobey God's rule. Obedience to God's rule may lead against "civil" norms.

Repeated from earlier post...

"Whenever government, "the powers that be," whether National, State or Local, turn from their duty to protect the righteous and punish the wicked, they will incur the judgment of God because EVERYONE is under LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY.

Everyone is required by God to submit to LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY, which begins with God and is delegated to men who will protect and punish, including those who have the position of authority, from kings, presidents, governors, mayors.
Remember,

Romans 13:1-4
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

1 Peter 2:13-14
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well."