Go Your Way and Be Wise
Everett Meadors
At last we come to the end; the end of Daniel and the end of time, the...
Christian political thought is a balancing act between competing allegiances. On the one hand, the state is owed our allegiance as an authority anointed by God for a certain purpose. On the other hand, our allegiance to the state is subservient to our allegiance to God. We render to Caesar what is Caesar's, but never from what we owe to God.
It is a difficult balance, even in the best of times, with nations limited by biblical principles. But it's made even harder when the state arrays itself against God. How does a Christian swear allegiance to God when he can't also swear allegiance to the state? How does a Christian thrive in exile?
The book of Daniel is God's gift to his people in exile. The tension between God and empire will be settled, and the empire of the Lord will prevail, and God's people will bear witness to its presence even now as his kingdom spreads like a stone cut from a mountain, which will become the great mountain, and fill the earth (Daniel 2:31-35).
Sermons in: Cut From The Mountain God And Government In Daniel
The Reality Above
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Seventy Weeks of Years
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We come to one of the most debated passages in all of Scripture. The...
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The Son of Man
Mike Stancak
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Up from Leviathan
Mike Stancak
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Shattered Like a Pot
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The Son enthroned means both the redemption and the judgment of the...
The Difference Between a Beast and a King
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In one of the more disturbing passages of Scripture, Nebuchadnezzar...
Into the Furnace, Out of the Fire
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Lifted Above the Hills
Mike Stancak
Christians living under human government live under a temporary...
From the King's Table
Mike Stancak
This week we are introduced to the main themes of the book of Daniel...