I pay my taxes. I stop at stop signs. I don’t use another’s identity. I abide by speed limits. I have marriage and driver’s licenses. I stop when told to do so by an officer of the law.<\/p>\n
In other words, I try to be in compliance with this:<\/p>\n
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers”<\/font><\/b> (Romans 13:1).<\/p>\n I suppose my most conscious reason for submitting to civil authority is that I fear the consequences of disobedience.<\/p>\n More importantly, though, I obey because of the rest of the verse.<\/p>\n “For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Civil authority gets its power from God. Not from the people, not from the Constitution, not from the military. From God. Period.<\/p>\n So obeying them is obeying God. Honoring them is honoring God.<\/p>\n I want to do better at this, especially at my attitudes toward some of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I pay my taxes. I stop at stop signs. I don’t use another’s identity. I abide by speed limits. I have marriage and driver’s licenses. I stop when told to do so by an officer of the law. In other words, I try to be in compliance with this: “Let every soul be subject unto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[44,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-romans","7":"tag-live-right","8":"tag-obedience","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}