Tonight’s Call – WHO WILL RISE UP…CHRISTIAN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE!
Is there such a thing as Christian civil disobedience? Yes! If the government asked you to violate your faith or your conscience, civil disobedience may be appropriate. Whether unjust laws and diminish the lives of others, civil disobedience is appropriate. We are in a time where the government is oppressing what we call our Biblical Worldview. We hold to a higher set of moral principles and if asked or forced to deny them we must obey God rather than man. Government is supposed to see, serve, and promote the common good of the people, not the good of rulers. Ideally, the government must promote and never prevent progress toward the peace and prosperity of society. It is to preserve human dignity. Harm done to another person is a violation of human dignity. It is when people are treated cruelly and unfairly because of their faith in God and the Word where problems will surface. Tyrants always have tools of oppression which include attacks on our religious freedom and free speech; the prohibiting of freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, controlling us economically, threats of imprisonment, and use of police force.
As believers in Christ, we must always seek nonviolence. Remember how the apostle Paul utilized his Roman citizenship which gave him rights in the governmental system. As citizens of this nation, we have the United States Constitution as a guide to follow. Unfortunately, corruption is running rampant in our nation. No man or nation should be corrupt. God persuades the wicked to turn away from their evil ways, stop conforming to worldliness and be transformed in their hearts. We must refuse to condone corruption because God wants us to do His will. Again, civil disobedience is morally justified in our Republican form of government. We can be a people of action, and nonviolently refuse to accept the dictates of government if our conscience is violated. Christian civil disobedience differs from other illegal acts because it is engaged in by people who commit the action knowing and accepting the penalties and consequences of breaking the law. Breaking the law is a means toward changing the law, the justice system, government policy, or the culture.
There are a number of acts of civil disobedience in the Bible. The Hebrew midwives with the Egyptian Pharaoh gave a clear command to kill all male Jewish babies. They feared God instead and honored life (Exodus 1:20-21). In Joshua 2 we see Rahab directly disobeyed a command of the king of Jericho to protect the Israelite spies who had entered the city to gain intelligence for battle. Instead, she helped them via a rope to escape. In 1 Kings 18 Obadiah feared the Lord and went against Queen Jezebel regarding the killing of God’s prophets. He hid them instead. What about the book of Daniel where King Darius was disobeyed? Daniel refuses to deify King Darius and would only pray to the true God. What about in the book of acts were Peter and John refuse the authorities who are attempting to stop them from teaching about Jesus?
There are so many examples in the Bible, but we must each be led by the Holy Spirit of God what to do and what not to do. We are in a day where a remnant is rising to challenge the oppression of tyrants. How many times have we said that our children and grandchildren are at stake? Stay the course and hold the line for righteousness’ sake. If the foundations of our nation are destroyed, then there is nothing the righteous can do. Who will rise up?
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: But when the wicked bear rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2
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POINT TO PONDER – Where do you see America on this scale below?
(Every 200 years nations have progressed through the following sequence.)
1. Bondage and Severe Persecution – Result of selfishness and depravity.
2. Spiritual Faith – Vision, purpose and destiny birthed in a few.
3. Great Courage – People rise up and make a stand.
4. Liberty – Freedom comes from self-sacrifice and the pursuit of truth.
5. Abundance – Blessings resulting from freedom.
6. Complacency and Apathy – Ease, comfort, affluence, distraction, lack of prayer.
7. Selfishness – People again turn to living for self, pleasure, and lusts.
8. Dependence – Work ethic is destroyed, welfare, and people live off others.
9. Degeneracy and Moral Depravity – The flesh rules over spirit and sin abounds.
10. Bondage – The enemy of our souls brings captivity and judgment.
America is a land of the free where God has bestowed upon us great blessings and favor. This abundance has made us lose sight of God who is our provider, and we see ourselves turning to pleasures and lusts of the world. We are now becoming a dependent society where a developing moral depravity will cast us into bondage. The radical remnant and the prayer closet can turn this nation back. In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom. In the greatest hour of danger, we are facing we have been handed an opportunity and a responsibility of unprecedented proportions. We are that.
generation. Now is the time! Day and night 24/7/365 prayer is one of the solutions. Make this declaration over your nation, state, region, or city and take the initiative and be part in raising up the greatest prayer movement America has ever experienced.
“For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret place of His tabernacle, He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.” (Psalm 27:5)
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