Christ's Church in Rock Springs, Wyoming

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Must we always obey the government?

God does tell us to obey government, but what if the government tells us to act in a way contrary to Christian principles? This is largely the same as His instructions regarding children and parents and carries an important caveat. "Children, obey your parents IN THE LORD, for this is right." (Eph 6:1; emphasis mine)

The important stipulation is that "we should obey God rather than man," as the disciples said in Acts 5. This means a full-focus on evangelism, unto prison or death as many in the 1st century exemplified. "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even unto death." (Rev 12) I understand that this is not a popular message, yet Satan is not harmed by our weapons, but by those which God supplies.