Man Refused To Be Governed By God
The following is an excerpt from the book, Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian’s Relation to It, by David Lipscomb. Lipscomb was a gospel preacher in the last half of the 19th Century and early 20th Century in the southern States.
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Man refused to be governed by God. First as an individual he violated the specific command of God. “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” This leaven of disobedience wrought the rejection of the Divine government, and was transmitted from the individual to the family, to the tribe, to the race. “While men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.” When man was off his guard the enemy of God and man implanted the seeds of distrust and disaffection, and the heart, the mind and the life of man became disloyal to God.
“The serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:4-5).
The act of individual disobedience culminated in the effort of man to organize a government of his own, so that he himself might permanently conduct the affairs of earth, free from the control of God, and independent of God’s government. The first account we have of organized human government, is
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2024 presidential election – why bother?
Editor’s Note: We ran an earlier version of this commentary back on 11 April 2023. and with the election now just 2+ months away, thought it worth revisiting!
As elections go, the past 17 months have been one of the most “exciting” and unpredictable in American history. Back 17 months ago, we were hearing the pundits who believed it was already been decided who is going to win on 05 November 2024.
The problem is, they didn’t all agree. Not then, and not now.
We wrote the last commentary with this title just after the indictment and processing (arrest and release on bond) of The Donald, writing: many claim that the actions of a Manhattan District Attorney have so mobilized and outraged Trumpistas and many more Republicans and even a fair number of independents and Democrats that Trump will definitely win. Possibly by a landslide, given Uncle Joe’s age, mental condition, physical condition, and his glorious economic and foreign affairs record – to say nothing of how he has reformed American society by gaining total acceptance of transgenderism, homosexuality, and ending 160 years of race war and 500 years of racism.
Our sarcasm was proven: the Dems jettisoned Uncle Joe – and sure enough the polls skyrocketed in favor of The Donald after his conviction on those charges. (Although sentencing is still a month away: do you not love the speed of justice in this America of ours?)
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