Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:22:12 PM
The colonial American Christians held the Reformed view of the civil magistrate. He is a minister of God for our good [Romans 13:3-4]. Therefore, there are limits to our allegiance to him.
The Constitution is the law of the land. When its authority is ignored by the magistrates, then they cease being God’s minister for good. It is our duty to resist their unlawful acts. Even our Declaration of Independence says as much. A passive Christianity did not give rise to a free America nor will our freedom be sustained by it.
We are engaged in a cultural warfare with men opposed to the Christian world view that is the foundation of constitutionalism. Suppose these unlawful magistrates are part of God’s judgment on this land for its lawlessness and for the apostasy of the church, then how is it that we should pray for them? Let us pray instead for a spirit of repentance and a revival of truth in the land. Then the problem of unlawful magistrates will be lawfully resolved by the voice of an informed and free people.