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Titus 3 1 Subject to Rulers and Authorities · Life For Toledo

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  This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson.
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  I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of the United Fellowship Baptist
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  Church of East Toledo.
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  And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.
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  I'm thinking today of Titus 3.1.
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  This is where Paul is writing the Titus in chapter 3, verse 1, and he says, remind them
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  to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed.
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  Well, we've got work to do in this lifetime, and this verse lays out a big part of it.
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  We subject ourselves to the rulers that God has put in place.
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  Without Christian subjection, our societies would degrade much more rapidly.
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  This message of peaceful participation in society also serves to divert government,
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  which in some cases might get into reprisals against Christianity.
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  They're told this is our position.
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  We teach it over and over again to our young people, to our young Christians, and to anyone
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  coming to Christ that we live this way.
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  And that's enough to dispel the myths of our faith automatically being a rebellion against
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  everyone's or anyone's reign.
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  We are indeed some of the best citizens striving for the good of all rather than acting as
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  insurrectionists.
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  However, when government is flat out against God, our rebellion is that of the most dangerous
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  kind, arising out of deep convictions.
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  We will live for the Lord and do our absolute best and do well, and we will not fight all
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  the time against government even when it looks like they're wrong.
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  But when they truly are wrong and they're doing something ungodly, we will stand up
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  out of our deep convictions that only Jesus is Lord and that we are part of a greater
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  kingdom, the kingdom of God.
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  Be encouraged today you can stand up for Jesus.
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  You don't have to be discontent all the time.
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  Jesus is still on the throne.
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