Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
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… allows the congregation to stand for the reading of the Word of God. Therefore, you must be subject not only because of wrath, but also for conscience's sake. For because of this, you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render, therefore, to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet. And if there's any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. This is the Word of God for God's people. Please be seated. Let us pray. Again, O Lord, we would be instructed not by human wisdom, but by that revelation that comes to us from Your omniscience. And this evening, as we direct our attention once again to this sacred text, we ask that You would help us understand it correctly and embrace it with our minds and with our hearts. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. We've seen in the beginning of chapter 13 Paul's critical teaching of the role of civil government, which is instituted by God, and here we are told that the rulers, the secular rulers of this world, are God's ministers. And in …
… For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. again this is not the insights of a first century jewish scholar but this is the word of god please be seated Let us pray. Fathers, we continue to explore the implications of these things that are revealed to us in your holy word. We ask that you would grant us clarity of understanding and hearts that are submissive to the rule of your word. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Last week as we came to verse 4, I interrupted my message and said that the contents of that verse are so many and so weighty that I didn't think I could rush through that verse in the few moments that we had left last Sunday evening. …
… for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience's sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. The word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. Please be seated. Let us pray. Now, our Father, as we embark upon this segment of the epistle to the Romans, we ask that you would help us, that you would stoop to our weakness and dullness of understanding and our slowness of heart to believe all of those things that you have set forth in your word. Give us hearts, O God, that are pleased to be instructed by you. For we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Again, we see this problem of sequence and chapter divisions that I've complained about on a regular basis, assuming that these chapter divisions that were obviously not part of the original text were inserted by some itinerant horseback rider. And while he was asleep from time to time, he would just, whenever the Spirit moved him, although I doubt if it was the Holy Spirit, would make these transitions from one chapter to the next. Because when Paul introduces this most important theme of civil government, as he does here in chapter 13. This theme follows …