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As we continue our study of Romans 13, let’s take a moment to ponder the unambiguous conclusions that we have arrived at so far. God alone is the source of governing authority. The purpose of government is to restrain evil in a society by punishing evildoers. We as the church have been called by our Lord to do the right thing by obeying our leaders ultimately as our obedience unto Him. While these things address why we submit to the government, today we will be taking a closer look at how we submit.

The resurrected Christ who sits at the right hand of God and is exalted on high has bestowed His grace on every member of his body and calls every member to serve. But Christ has gifted some believers within the church body for a very specific purpose: to establish churches, to minister the Word of God, and to equip others for service and ministry.

Since the giving of the Great Commission, the ultimate responsibility of the church has been to proclaim the Gospel to every end of the earth and to transform the believer’s inward character in order to manifest the character of Christ. We are not called to help people find themselves. The church is not a social community where we all “live our best lives now”.

A blog can serve many purposes, but at its core a blog is meant to provide information and knowledge on various topics for a target audience. In starting a blog at Twin Cities Bible Church, we want to focus the blog on what is really important: ministering to our local church body and giving glory to God. With those motives in place, the blog ministry purpose became crystal clear: to edify those in our local body and glorify the Lord Jesus by teaching His truth with clarity and passion.

Last time we looked at the second chapter of Luke’s gospel where the angel Gabriel tells Mary that she will conceive in her womb and bear a son (Luke 2:31).

Previously, we looked at Job chapter nine in which Job asked the question: “But how can a man be in the right before God?” (Job 9:2b). At the end of the chapter, Job reaches this conclusion to his question: “For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.” (Job 9:32-33)

At the end of the eighth chapter of the book of Job, Bildad attempts to offer the suffering servant of God some hope: “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers” (Job 8:20).