What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 8)
5 – Sometimes the Creator allow a false prophet to be successful in order to prove believer’s heart:
• Deu 13:1-4 -> “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.”.
So, there are times that we need to disobey the order that the Creator instituted through the potentates that He constituted and suffer the consequences of it so that His eternal and perfect principles (established by Jesus) can be reinforced and His name glorified.
In other words, the Creator has two laws: His eternal and perfect law (love the neighbor as Jesus loved us – John 13:34-35), which has to be observed always, and the law which comes from the potentates (permissive will), which we have to disobey when they conflicts with the Holy Scripture (absolute will) and suffer the upshot so that His name can be glorified and His Word, confirmed.
So, don’t mind who is the potentate or their orders: we need always to stay in Jesus and His truth, even if this imply in disobeying the order of the Creator through them and, thereby, receive the condemnation for this. Certainly, the Creator will do a miracle (direct or indirect), His name will be glorified and we will receive a testimony of His work and rewards.
If it is doable to obey the order of the Creator through the potentate with wisdom, let’s do as Jochebed did (Exodus 2:3).
Moreover, if the order of the potentate doesn’t conflict with Jesus’ word, let’s obey.
What is the finality of the potentates?
Tomorrow we will carry on. Have a great day.
5 – Sometimes the Creator allow a false prophet to be successful in order to prove believer’s heart:
• Deu 13:1-4 -> “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.”.
So, there are times that we need to disobey the order that the Creator instituted through the potentates that He constituted and suffer the consequences of it so that His eternal and perfect principles (established by Jesus) can be reinforced and His name glorified.
In other words, the Creator has two laws: His eternal and perfect law (love the neighbor as Jesus loved us – John 13:34-35), which has to be observed always, and the law which comes from the potentates (permissive will), which we have to disobey when they conflicts with the Holy Scripture (absolute will) and suffer the upshot so that His name can be glorified and His Word, confirmed.
So, don’t mind who is the potentate or their orders: we need always to stay in Jesus and His truth, even if this imply in disobeying the order of the Creator through them and, thereby, receive the condemnation for this. Certainly, the Creator will do a miracle (direct or indirect), His name will be glorified and we will receive a testimony of His work and rewards.
If it is doable to obey the order of the Creator through the potentate with wisdom, let’s do as Jochebed did (Exodus 2:3).
Moreover, if the order of the potentate doesn’t conflict with Jesus’ word, let’s obey.
What is the finality of the potentates?
Tomorrow we will carry on. Have a great day.