Submission to Governing Authorities
Romans 13 (NIV) Submission to Governing Authorities
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Romans 13 (NIV) Submission to Governing Authorities
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
(NOTE: Please allow me to clarify something: This is about my own story of the ABUSE that I encountered as a child growing up in my home. Because of this abuse by AUTHORITY of parents in Authority - this caused me to react in becoming super stubborn and super REBELLIOUS in reaction - as the REBELLION then became a natural part of my being in order to survive through abuse and rape. But REBELLION today, as NEW IN CHRIST, is not what GOD would want - so the Lord is teaching me of the REBELLION OLD WAYS of my life that NO LONGER WORK for me and God is wanting to teach me about true SUBMISSION to those in Authority - and not to be no longer in REBELLION... God is changing and RENEWING my heart in HIM.)
This past Sunday, our Pastor (Pastor Rick of Evangelical Free Church) shared about Submission to Governing Authorities. I ended up becoming very convicted of heart.
You see, I am a rebel by nature. I grew up in rebellion ...
Sons of Silence and who they are: See video:
I even had been a part of an actual motorcycle gang called 'The Sons of Silence' as I was associated with this gang through some that I once had been married to in life and he was a part of this actual gang. This of course was not a good part of my life
I was in full rebellion to any authority. I had not respect for any authority and I hated authority. To be honest AUTHORITY for me only met abuse... and USING people - as when I got into prostitution for a season I had a 'police man' that use to come and see me and also a lawyer... people of authority - and I learned to truly hate people of AUTHORITY and felt they were ALL FAKES including Pastors in church settings...
As a child in my own home the authority of my parents was not good authority. I grew up in a home where my own father molested me, even trying something toward me in June 1992 when I went to visit to encourage him after my mother's death.
My mother had originally wanted to abort me in the beginning when she knew she was pregnant with me. (My father conveyed this to me in August 1997 in front of my two cousins on their Nebraska farm - as I wanted them to be present as witnesses for what my father and I discussed all of my life.)
She (my mother) wanted NOTHING to do with me my entire life and she let me know it daily. She told me daily as a child 'I never wanted you from the beginning'... 'I hate you'... 'You don't belong to me'.... 'I wish you had never survived'... Mother also use to beat me over and over as a child.
One of the ways she would beat me would be for her to throw me on the floor, she then would straddle me with her legs over me, and then take her fists and beat my head over and over and over... she then would yell at me those words and then share 'if I see one tear fall from your eyes I will beat you all the more'...I learned to 'die' inside and go silent...
I carried this SILENCE with me for most of my life... until one day this SILENCE broke open and then it became like that of a broken water valve and I could no longer shut it off... until the Lord Jesus helped me to RENEW my thinking and help me.
SONG VIDEO "SILENCE KILLS" (for abused children)
My only brother, he even molested me and raped me when I was 18 years old... Today this same brother has nothing to do with me at all... This brings much sadness and tears to my heart - but I have to accept the reality of this.
This past summer 2012 - I finally wrote him and shared all my pain written on these pages... I told him that I want to forgive him and the best gift he could ever do for me in life is desire to be RECONCILED to me as his only sister and sibling... I begged him to write or call me so we could talk it out and then be RECONCILED but I left it to him. As I expected - NOTHING - only SILENCE... So now it is in GOD's hands for a day to come when he and I will be fully RECONCILED in our Lord Jesus.
At the age of 15 years old when I went to see a school friend at the first day of Summer vacation from School - I went at the wrong time... I was met at the door by her cousin who had just be released from Joliet State Prison after spending over 20 years for murder, and he was celebrating with two other friends as he had been released one day before... I came at the wrong time. This older man put a knife to my throat - they brought me down to the basement, and bound me and all three men gang raped me for the entire day - talking of killing me and where they were going to hide my body... But at the last, the two friends went out to get beer to continue to celebrate and this older man was left with me alone ... He threw my clothes at me, untied me, and said 'get out of here while you can'...
I ran out the door and told no one and stayed in silence until just a few years ago.... and the infection came pouring out (as a broken water valve main that had no control).... THE SILENCE OPENED UP....
As a young person in this kind of home environment I became super rebellious in order to survive... When you would see me on the outside I had a white picket fence on.... but inside I was full of SIN and REBELLION...
I got into drugs, sex, and even got into prostitution for a season of my life... But my heart cried out all the time as I held everything in SILENCE as SILENCE was killing me.
One day in October 8, 1977 - I was going to the Red Lion Inn Saloon that I picked up men and it was pouring down rain. At that time I weighed about 100 pounds...
As I was drenched from walking in this rain this one particular night - I knelt down on the ground and started weeping my eyes out and I shouted out 'If there truly is a GOD out there then rescue me out of this mess as here I am only 22 years old and I feel like I am over 80 and ready to die. Help me'..That same night, I went home with a man but the next morning was different when I woke early. I sent this man away. I turned on a small little TV I had and an old Evangelist on TV named Rex Humbard was sharing about the MAN AT THE TOMBS being set free.... a Bound Man. I wanted that for my life too. I called an old former 'heroine drug friend' and now he was one of those 'JESUS FREAKS' and asked this friend to come by and pick me up for church. He was right there. This man drove the Sunday School bus for this church and had me stay with him all day. After he dropped off the last child from that bus and he parked this bus his main question to me was 'Jane, what are you looking for in life'... I started crying and said to him 'I just want to be truly loved and never hit again but truly loved'... He introduced me to this real LOVE and HIS name is JESUS... I embraced JESUS into my heart and my life, repented of my many sins and opened my heart to JESUS...
This was October 9, 1977 - when I, as the man at the tombs, was restored and was given a gift of FREEDOM within my soul.
ALL things were truly made NEW in my life...
But there is ONE main sin that I have struggled with all my life and it is the SIN OF STUBBORNNESS AND REBELLION to authority... (At one time in my life before JESUS CHRIST - this stubbornness and Rebellion helped me to survive to LIVE - but TODAY in Jesus Christ - I need to deal with these sins in my own life before GOD... for these SINS are not of God and I need to repent and truly deal with these sins in God as I can no longer do it the OLD WAY but must allow my mind to be RENEWED in God's way....
Change of Heart is a life time process... as we will never be complete until the day our Lord Jesus / Messiah / Yeshua comes to bring us up with HIM as His bride....
Allow me to share what Pastor Rick taught on this past Sunday at church.
When the above scriptures in Romans Chapter 13 were written by Paul - these words were written during the reign and Authority of:
Emperor Nero
Nero was the fifth of the Roman Emperors. He reigned for 14 years, from 54 to 68 A.D., with the official name Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus GermanicChristian point of view, he was one of the most barbaric persecutors of the early church. The photo below shows his likeness from an actual Roman coin of his time.
Nero was born at Antium (Anzio), Italy, on December 15 37 A.D. His father was Gnaeus Domitius Anenobarbus, a great-grandson of Caesar Augustus - the Roman emperor at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ (Luke 2:1). Nero's mother, Agrippina II, was the great-granddaughter of Caesar Augustus, and brother of Caligula, the third Roman emperor.
Nero's father died when he was about 3 years old. After Caligula confiscated their family wealth, he and his mother found themselves quite poor for a time. Things changed dramatically when Agrippina married her uncle, the emperor Claudius. That marriage was the means of Nero's rise to power. Agrippina managed to get Nero adopted not only as a son of Claudius, but the heir to the throne before Claudius' actual sons. With the line of succession taken care of, Agrippina took the final step on October 13 54 A.D. by murdering her husband/uncle with poisoned mushrooms. Nero became the emperor of the mighty Roman empire at the age of 17.
Agrippina was very influential with the young Nero at first, but as might be expected from the example that she had set, he gradually became estranged with her. He had her removed from the palace in 55 A.D., and then ordered his mother's murder 4 years later. From then on, Nero became increasing brutal and depraved.
Nero is perhaps most famous for the great fire of Rome in 64 A.D. It started in the Circus Maximus before raging through the city for 9 days. It is unlikely that Nero himself started the fire, as is popularly believed, because he was in Antium at the time. Whether he ordered it started is another matter - he had long wanted to make room for a grand new city that he had designed.
To divert suspicion away from himself, Nero blamed the great fire on the Christians, thereby beginning a persecution of innocent people that has never been surpassed. Many were killed by wild animals before crowds of spectators in the arena, while others were tied to posts, covered with flammable material, and used as human street lamps for Nero's gardens. It is difficult to imagine a more evil man.
As was nearly always the case with the Roman emperors, plots were continuously in the making to overthrow Nero, including the Pisonian Conspiracy in 65 A.D. However, Nero was sly enough to avoid all the traps for a number of years. Every failed plot just made him more vicious.
Nero's reign ended June 9 68 A.D. when he committed suicide. He was 31 years old.
Imagine living during this time under the Authority of Nero....
Paul wrote these words during that time period:
Romans: Chapter 13: Submission to Governing Authorities
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
So now God has brought great conviction to this heart of my own sin of stubbornness and REBELLION to authority...
Now I am placing my heart before GOD to help me to change in Him.
Psalm 51:10 is written: Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Think about King David... God called King David a man after his (God's) own heart as written in Acts 13:22
After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.'
King David - a person of Authority, he committed adultery with Bathsheba. He had the husband of Bathsheba, who was a loyal friend of King David - but King David wanted to HIDE HIS SIN OF ADULTERY so he had this husband of Bathsheba - sent purposely to the front lines of battle and King David knew that this man would be killed... But King David did not want to face up to his SIN before God - so he tried to deal with his sin of adultery by having this husband killed and put out of the way so he could marry Bathsheba and have her for himself... So King David not only committed adultery, he coveted what was not his, he murdered an innocent man, he lied, he deceived, but through all this - God saw and SEES ALL...
But yet God Himself referred to King David as 'a man after his (God's) own heart'....
What makes the difference between King David's heart and Judas (who sold and betrayed Jesus) what makes their hearts different is that King David faced God (even though it was difficult) and Kind David worked out his salvation before God by repenting of his sins before God to make things right in God, and Judas ran away from God and would not face God.
SIN makes us want to hide from God. Just like in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve took of the forbidden fruit - the first thing they did is they HID FROM GOD because of SHAME...
But I want to take this SIN of my own heart of STUBBORNNESS and REBELLION TO AUTHORITY and run to God for HIM to deal with these sins within my own heart so that HE (God) can create in me a clean heart before Him....
So no matter who is in Authority in our Government - whether it be President Obama or the next President, or even when the Anti-Christ becomes the ONE WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT in authority - as according to God's written word - I must submit to this authority - as even when Christian Believers had submitted to Nero during that time and they were cast into a den of LIONS as a fun sport for Nero to watch....
Lord, yes, please create in me, Jane, a clean heart before you... Make me right in you and deal with my own sin of Stubbornness and Rebellion to Authority... I know discipline seems hard at first but the results will be LIFE for my soul... Thank you Jesus for making me RIGHT in GOD....
Jason Gray 'I am New' music video
(NOTE: Please allow me to clarify something: This is about my own story of the ABUSE that I encountered as a child growing up in my home. Because of this abuse by AUTHORITY of parents in Authority - this caused me to react in becoming super stubborn and super REBELLIOUS in reaction - as the REBELLION then became a natural part of my being in order to survive through abuse and rape. But REBELLION today, as NEW IN CHRIST, is not what GOD would want - so the Lord is teaching me of the REBELLION OLD WAYS of my life that NO LONGER WORK for me and God is wanting to teach me about true SUBMISSION to those in Authority - and not to be no longer in REBELLION... God is changing and RENEWING my heart in HIM.)
This past Sunday, our Pastor (Pastor Rick of Evangelical Free Church) shared about Submission to Governing Authorities. I ended up becoming very convicted of heart.
You see, I am a rebel by nature. I grew up in rebellion ...
Sons of Silence and who they are: See video:
I even had been a part of an actual motorcycle gang called 'The Sons of Silence' as I was associated with this gang through some that I once had been married to in life and he was a part of this actual gang. This of course was not a good part of my life
I was in full rebellion to any authority. I had not respect for any authority and I hated authority. To be honest AUTHORITY for me only met abuse... and USING people - as when I got into prostitution for a season I had a 'police man' that use to come and see me and also a lawyer... people of authority - and I learned to truly hate people of AUTHORITY and felt they were ALL FAKES including Pastors in church settings...
As a child in my own home the authority of my parents was not good authority. I grew up in a home where my own father molested me, even trying something toward me in June 1992 when I went to visit to encourage him after my mother's death.
My mother had originally wanted to abort me in the beginning when she knew she was pregnant with me. (My father conveyed this to me in August 1997 in front of my two cousins on their Nebraska farm - as I wanted them to be present as witnesses for what my father and I discussed all of my life.)
She (my mother) wanted NOTHING to do with me my entire life and she let me know it daily. She told me daily as a child 'I never wanted you from the beginning'... 'I hate you'... 'You don't belong to me'.... 'I wish you had never survived'... Mother also use to beat me over and over as a child.
One of the ways she would beat me would be for her to throw me on the floor, she then would straddle me with her legs over me, and then take her fists and beat my head over and over and over... she then would yell at me those words and then share 'if I see one tear fall from your eyes I will beat you all the more'...I learned to 'die' inside and go silent...
My mother had originally wanted to abort me in the beginning when she knew she was pregnant with me. (My father conveyed this to me in August 1997 in front of my two cousins on their Nebraska farm - as I wanted them to be present as witnesses for what my father and I discussed all of my life.)
She (my mother) wanted NOTHING to do with me my entire life and she let me know it daily. She told me daily as a child 'I never wanted you from the beginning'... 'I hate you'... 'You don't belong to me'.... 'I wish you had never survived'... Mother also use to beat me over and over as a child.
One of the ways she would beat me would be for her to throw me on the floor, she then would straddle me with her legs over me, and then take her fists and beat my head over and over and over... she then would yell at me those words and then share 'if I see one tear fall from your eyes I will beat you all the more'...I learned to 'die' inside and go silent...
I carried this SILENCE with me for most of my life... until one day this SILENCE broke open and then it became like that of a broken water valve and I could no longer shut it off... until the Lord Jesus helped me to RENEW my thinking and help me.
SONG VIDEO "SILENCE KILLS" (for abused children)
My only brother, he even molested me and raped me when I was 18 years old... Today this same brother has nothing to do with me at all... This brings much sadness and tears to my heart - but I have to accept the reality of this.
This past summer 2012 - I finally wrote him and shared all my pain written on these pages... I told him that I want to forgive him and the best gift he could ever do for me in life is desire to be RECONCILED to me as his only sister and sibling... I begged him to write or call me so we could talk it out and then be RECONCILED but I left it to him. As I expected - NOTHING - only SILENCE... So now it is in GOD's hands for a day to come when he and I will be fully RECONCILED in our Lord Jesus.
At the age of 15 years old when I went to see a school friend at the first day of Summer vacation from School - I went at the wrong time... I was met at the door by her cousin who had just be released from Joliet State Prison after spending over 20 years for murder, and he was celebrating with two other friends as he had been released one day before... I came at the wrong time. This older man put a knife to my throat - they brought me down to the basement, and bound me and all three men gang raped me for the entire day - talking of killing me and where they were going to hide my body... But at the last, the two friends went out to get beer to continue to celebrate and this older man was left with me alone ... He threw my clothes at me, untied me, and said 'get out of here while you can'...
I ran out the door and told no one and stayed in silence until just a few years ago.... and the infection came pouring out (as a broken water valve main that had no control).... THE SILENCE OPENED UP....
As a young person in this kind of home environment I became super rebellious in order to survive... When you would see me on the outside I had a white picket fence on.... but inside I was full of SIN and REBELLION...
I got into drugs, sex, and even got into prostitution for a season of my life... But my heart cried out all the time as I held everything in SILENCE as SILENCE was killing me. One day in October 8, 1977 - I was going to the Red Lion Inn Saloon that I picked up men and it was pouring down rain. At that time I weighed about 100 pounds...
As I was drenched from walking in this rain this one particular night - I knelt down on the ground and started weeping my eyes out and I shouted out 'If there truly is a GOD out there then rescue me out of this mess as here I am only 22 years old and I feel like I am over 80 and ready to die. Help me'..That same night, I went home with a man but the next morning was different when I woke early. I sent this man away. I turned on a small little TV I had and an old Evangelist on TV named Rex Humbard was sharing about the MAN AT THE TOMBS being set free.... a Bound Man. I wanted that for my life too. I called an old former 'heroine drug friend' and now he was one of those 'JESUS FREAKS' and asked this friend to come by and pick me up for church. He was right there. This man drove the Sunday School bus for this church and had me stay with him all day. After he dropped off the last child from that bus and he parked this bus his main question to me was 'Jane, what are you looking for in life'... I started crying and said to him 'I just want to be truly loved and never hit again but truly loved'... He introduced me to this real LOVE and HIS name is JESUS... I embraced JESUS into my heart and my life, repented of my many sins and opened my heart to JESUS...
This was October 9, 1977 - when I, as the man at the tombs, was restored and was given a gift of FREEDOM within my soul.
ALL things were truly made NEW in my life...
But there is ONE main sin that I have struggled with all my life and it is the SIN OF STUBBORNNESS AND REBELLION to authority... (At one time in my life before JESUS CHRIST - this stubbornness and Rebellion helped me to survive to LIVE - but TODAY in Jesus Christ - I need to deal with these sins in my own life before GOD... for these SINS are not of God and I need to repent and truly deal with these sins in God as I can no longer do it the OLD WAY but must allow my mind to be RENEWED in God's way....
Change of Heart is a life time process... as we will never be complete until the day our Lord Jesus / Messiah / Yeshua comes to bring us up with HIM as His bride....
But there is ONE main sin that I have struggled with all my life and it is the SIN OF STUBBORNNESS AND REBELLION to authority... (At one time in my life before JESUS CHRIST - this stubbornness and Rebellion helped me to survive to LIVE - but TODAY in Jesus Christ - I need to deal with these sins in my own life before GOD... for these SINS are not of God and I need to repent and truly deal with these sins in God as I can no longer do it the OLD WAY but must allow my mind to be RENEWED in God's way....
Change of Heart is a life time process... as we will never be complete until the day our Lord Jesus / Messiah / Yeshua comes to bring us up with HIM as His bride....
Allow me to share what Pastor Rick taught on this past Sunday at church.
When the above scriptures in Romans Chapter 13 were written by Paul - these words were written during the reign and Authority of:
Emperor Nero
Nero was the fifth of the Roman Emperors. He reigned for 14 years, from 54 to 68 A.D., with the official name Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus GermanicChristian point of view, he was one of the most barbaric persecutors of the early church. The photo below shows his likeness from an actual Roman coin of his time.
Nero was born at Antium (Anzio), Italy, on December 15 37 A.D. His father was Gnaeus Domitius Anenobarbus, a great-grandson of Caesar Augustus - the Roman emperor at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ (Luke 2:1). Nero's mother, Agrippina II, was the great-granddaughter of Caesar Augustus, and brother of Caligula, the third Roman emperor.
Nero's father died when he was about 3 years old. After Caligula confiscated their family wealth, he and his mother found themselves quite poor for a time. Things changed dramatically when Agrippina married her uncle, the emperor Claudius. That marriage was the means of Nero's rise to power. Agrippina managed to get Nero adopted not only as a son of Claudius, but the heir to the throne before Claudius' actual sons. With the line of succession taken care of, Agrippina took the final step on October 13 54 A.D. by murdering her husband/uncle with poisoned mushrooms. Nero became the emperor of the mighty Roman empire at the age of 17.
Agrippina was very influential with the young Nero at first, but as might be expected from the example that she had set, he gradually became estranged with her. He had her removed from the palace in 55 A.D., and then ordered his mother's murder 4 years later. From then on, Nero became increasing brutal and depraved.
Nero is perhaps most famous for the great fire of Rome in 64 A.D. It started in the Circus Maximus before raging through the city for 9 days. It is unlikely that Nero himself started the fire, as is popularly believed, because he was in Antium at the time. Whether he ordered it started is another matter - he had long wanted to make room for a grand new city that he had designed.
To divert suspicion away from himself, Nero blamed the great fire on the Christians, thereby beginning a persecution of innocent people that has never been surpassed. Many were killed by wild animals before crowds of spectators in the arena, while others were tied to posts, covered with flammable material, and used as human street lamps for Nero's gardens. It is difficult to imagine a more evil man.
As was nearly always the case with the Roman emperors, plots were continuously in the making to overthrow Nero, including the Pisonian Conspiracy in 65 A.D. However, Nero was sly enough to avoid all the traps for a number of years. Every failed plot just made him more vicious.
Nero's reign ended June 9 68 A.D. when he committed suicide. He was 31 years old.
Imagine living during this time under the Authority of Nero....
Paul wrote these words during that time period:
Romans: Chapter 13: Submission to Governing Authorities
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
So now God has brought great conviction to this heart of my own sin of stubbornness and REBELLION to authority...
Now I am placing my heart before GOD to help me to change in Him.
Psalm 51:10 is written: Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Think about King David... God called King David a man after his (God's) own heart as written in Acts 13:22
After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.'
King David - a person of Authority, he committed adultery with Bathsheba. He had the husband of Bathsheba, who was a loyal friend of King David - but King David wanted to HIDE HIS SIN OF ADULTERY so he had this husband of Bathsheba - sent purposely to the front lines of battle and King David knew that this man would be killed... But King David did not want to face up to his SIN before God - so he tried to deal with his sin of adultery by having this husband killed and put out of the way so he could marry Bathsheba and have her for himself... So King David not only committed adultery, he coveted what was not his, he murdered an innocent man, he lied, he deceived, but through all this - God saw and SEES ALL...
But yet God Himself referred to King David as 'a man after his (God's) own heart'....
What makes the difference between King David's heart and Judas (who sold and betrayed Jesus) what makes their hearts different is that King David faced God (even though it was difficult) and Kind David worked out his salvation before God by repenting of his sins before God to make things right in God, and Judas ran away from God and would not face God.
SIN makes us want to hide from God. Just like in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve took of the forbidden fruit - the first thing they did is they HID FROM GOD because of SHAME...
But I want to take this SIN of my own heart of STUBBORNNESS and REBELLION TO AUTHORITY and run to God for HIM to deal with these sins within my own heart so that HE (God) can create in me a clean heart before Him....
So no matter who is in Authority in our Government - whether it be President Obama or the next President, or even when the Anti-Christ becomes the ONE WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT in authority - as according to God's written word - I must submit to this authority - as even when Christian Believers had submitted to Nero during that time and they were cast into a den of LIONS as a fun sport for Nero to watch....
Lord, yes, please create in me, Jane, a clean heart before you... Make me right in you and deal with my own sin of Stubbornness and Rebellion to Authority... I know discipline seems hard at first but the results will be LIFE for my soul... Thank you Jesus for making me RIGHT in GOD....
Jason Gray 'I am New' music video
Jane, I have been looking at your profile for a couple of weeks now, loving the way you back Israel etc. I would never have guessed at your past life. I am so saddened for all that you have been through, but I am so very glad that you found Jesus. God bless you Jane and may He continue to heal you of all your wounds.
ReplyDeleteSusan Jordan.
Susan, God is so very good. I am married to the most wonderful man on heaven and earth. Mark and I have been married for over 34 years and Mark is my true God-given 'knight in shining armor'. God gave me the best. Thank you for your love and encouragement.
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