Scripture teaches governments are to establish and maintain order by punishing those who do wrong and honoring those who do right (see Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-17). However, when government doesn’t know right from wrong, it can’t do its God-given job. It won’t always get things wrong, but it lacks the foundation to consistently get things right.
Many of our elected and appointed leaders aren’t just confused about right and wrong—they turn morality on its head! Examples include homosexuality, which is celebrated as an “alternative lifestyle,” and the claim that women should have an unfettered “right to abortion,” increasingly at taxpayers’ expense! Isaiah wrote, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa. 5:20; also see vv. 21-25). Next time we’ll consider how we got to this point.
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