Politics and The Gospel

Paul is now encountering the first of several steps towards Rome. The events in which he finds himself pushed and prodded along are the result of false accusations by enemies of Jesus Christ. In it all we see a man who accepts the situations without falling into fatalism or surrender. Rather, he seeks to maintain a proper witness of Jesus Christ to a hating world. In our day the level of wickedness is stunning and with its rise there is a call to arms, so to speak, by people who posture themselves as leaders in the larger Church in America. This sermon considers Paul’s overt teaching on our posture toward the government and compares his actual actions to it.