Relationship of Church and State

2) Daniel disobeyed the command to not pray. The lions didn’t eat him. I guess they didn’t want to get sick. They knew it was hard to keep a good man down. I note that when the king came to see Daniel the next morning Daniel did not rail against him but said, “Oh King Live forever.” This was a standard way to honor the king. Imagine honoring a king that just twelve hours ago threw you into a den of lions. But Daniel’s heart was right and he did what was right. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Those who call GWB a Hilter are showing their ignorance and their lack of objectivity.

3) The disciples disobeyed the religious authorities a few times. Their disobedience was to an order to not preach in the name of Jesus. But I think our mandate here on preaching is very thin. We must stay on the track exactly. Our disobedience can only be in proclaiming Jesus not some idea or doctrine of our own. It can only be if we are PREVENTED from preaching the gospel. Not being allowed to do it the way we want to do it isn’t enough. There are those who try to defend David Koresh on legal and biblical grounds. I can find no biblical ground and his legal grounds are at best shaky. And do not give me the story that if we don’t defend those who worship differently we will loose our right to worship. That is backwards to what Paul wrote above. If we are fighting with the “officer” all the time we become the target of his wrath. And do we put our name and the name of Christ on something despicable as we do when we defend men like Koresh, Randy Weaver and the like? God forbid.