Sunday Sermon Notes

Instead of sending you away from this site, I'm going to give you the brief outline from yesterday's sermon "Two Essentials of Government."

Government is the direction, control, management, rule of one’s conduct.

There are four levels of Biblically ordained government:

1. Individually
2. Family
3. Church
4. Society

In each level of government, there are two essentials:

1. Righteousness
2. Responsibility

In society, look at:

Righteousness

II Chronicles 9:8;  Psalm 89:14;  Proverbs 14:34;  16:12;  25:5.

Responsibility

1. To God
2. To each other as rulers of the government to do what is right.
3. To the people.

Mike Huckabee said, “The Wall Street collapse was not a money problem, it was a moral problem.”

In the Church:

Psalm 132:9 says that the priests should be clothed in righteousness.

The qualifications for elders and deacons in I Timothy 3 are mainly character related.

Responsibility:

1. To God
2. To the elders
3. To one another

In the family:

Righteousness needs to rule in the family.  If so, there will not be the issues of divorce that we see.

Responsibility:

1. To God
2. To each other (husband, wife, children)
3. To the next generation

Individually

Righteousness is the requirement for each one to rule himself well:

Psalm 15:2;  112:3

Proverbs 10:2;  11:4; 16:8;  21:3;  21:21

Responsibility

1. To God
2. To the family
3. To the church
4. To the society.

The whole problem with government in society, the church or the family is the issue of us individually.