Series: Why We Believe What We Believe
Title: Separation of Church and State
Verse: Romans 13:1-7
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
- Thomas Jefferson
I. The Recognition of its Rule
Matthew 22:15–17
Matthew 22:18–22
1 Peter 2:17
II. It's Right to Rule
John 19:10–11
Isaiah 53:7
Exodus 9:16
Daniel 4:17
Romans 13:1–2
III. The Reason for Its Rule
Romans 13:3–5
διάκονός (diakonos) - servant, minister
Matthew 16:18–19
Matthew 18:18
Genesis 9:6
IV. Our Response to the Rule
Romans 13:1
Romans 13:5
ὑποτάσσω (hupotassó) - to rank under as in the military
1 Timothy 2:1–2
V. The Exception to the Rule
Acts 5:29
2 Chronicles 7:14
