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^¡SHl W hat would happen to America if someday a foreign power seized control of our Government? How would we, as Christians, react? Just how close is the United States to a war which would bring chaos to our nation and homes? Looking at these questions what should be our position as Chris tians? With your Bible opened to Romans 13, let us see what the Spirit of God has here for our admonition. Verse 3 reads, “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.” Let us state first that this verse is not talking about spiritual salvation or eter nal life. The term “good works” which is mentioned, does not refer to regen eration by means of our own vain ef forts to labor for salvation, for man has, and is, and ever w ill be saved only by one means, and that is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His fin ished work on Calvary’s Cross. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteous
ness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” This is what Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, has put before us in the 10th chapter of the same Epistle. In fact, the entire theme of the book is that liberating truth which Martin Luther discovered in the long ago, “The just shall live by faith!” The good works, then, which are given here signify the behaviour and exemplary manner which marks the life-of the believer—the way in which he lives through the days of the week amid the numerous trials and vicissi tudes which beset him on every hand. The Bible tells us that rulers are not a terror—that is a general statement. Of course, history records the Hitlers who have sadistically slain and brutal ly tortured countless thousands. But generally speaking, rulers will not punish those who are living as the Lord intends they should. If you obey traf fic regulations you need not fear the officer of the law whom you see in your rear view mirror. However, if you have been speeding, have committed other infractions of the law, or do not have your driver’s license in your pocket— your conscience will bother you. It is interesting to note the com-
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