DIRECTING GOVERNMENT TO ITS DUTY: Government’s God-Ordained Role vs. Our God-Given Rights and Civil Liberties

Questions Worth Consideration:

-When to obey God and government vs. when to disobey government in order to obey God

-When we are to be submissive to government vs. obedient to government

-When Civil Disobedience might be necessary or obligatory

-How governments are to govern

-Do those in government know they are accountable to God

-Whose role it is to inform these leaders as to their God-ordained roles

-Where agape love fits into government’s role and that of the Church

-Where government has and does not have authority or jurisdiction

-Who bears responsibility to tell government when they overstep their authority or jurisdiction

-What our God-given unalienable rights are:

*the right to Life

*the right to Work

*the right to have and be with Family (including and especially when they’re dying)

*the right to Own Property

-What the God-ordained PURPOSE for government is (to protect our God-given unalienable rights…

Government doesn’t impart these rights to us – they’re from God, but government is obliged to protect and facilitate them.)

-How covid restrictions and lockdown measures align with protecting our God-given rights and civil liberties – or don’t

-When war is the right thing to engage in

-Is it government’s responsibility to protect us from a virus

-Is government culpable in God’s eyes if people die from a virus

-Is government culpable in God’s eyes if people die from government’s limits, lockdowns, and restrictions placed upon people

-Will they have to give an account to God for the harm these limits, lockdowns, and restrictions cause

For these answers and more … Feb. 14, 2021 – On that date, James Coates, GraceLife Church pastor in Canada, gave this last sermon – DIRECTING GOVERNMENT TO ITS DUTY – before being arrested for the second time. He remains in prison, awaiting trial to be scheduled for either this May or June 2021.

Here is the link to the recorded sermon in which Pastor Coates gives a profound, ANOINTED explanation to those in government regarding

1) Their God-ordained role, and

2) Our obligations to both God and government

(He also praises South Dakota’s governor, Kristi Noem, and rightfully so)

The video is 1:04:26 in length – and worth every anointed second. I pray God leads you to watch it and heed every word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6nXD4Rtg0&t=1s

In the words of renowned Dr. John G. Lake:

God, turn our fears into thanksgivings and rejoicings.

We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.