Governing Authorities & their Spiritual Connection (TMF:1823)

Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Peace to Live By: Governing Authorities & their Spiritual Connection (TMF:1823) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s go ahead in turn in our Bibles to Romans chapter 13. Starting in verse 1: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.” First, in getting started today, who are the governing authorities? Well, governing authorities would be any government of man that is officially recognized by the world. So, this is like the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Israel, Iran, Russia, and China to name some big and common ones. This obviously does not include a vigilante government. Paul said, “For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” We learn here that the governing authorities, then, have a spiritual connection, a tie to the spiritual realm. They have been instituted by God.