“How Christians think of God’s authority … will inevitably be affected by their experience of earthly structures of domination.”
“And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.”
John 15:7
“God, therefore, in the mystery of the Trinity, lives in the harmonious relationship of equal Persons, each of whom possesses his proper function, authority and relatedness to each of the others. Human beings, therefore, made in God’s image, were created to live in the harmony of personal equality but with social organization that required functional structures and patterns of relationship. The ordering of social relationships and structures, locally, nationally and globally is of direct concern to our Creator God, then. But such ordering is precisely the stuff of politics.” Christopher Wright
II. The Creator is King
“15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”
Col 1:15-20
III. Citizenship Mandate
1. The First Political Institution
2. Sons act Like Their Dad.
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
2 Tim 2:12
6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Rev. 20:6
IV. Priestly Mandate
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Cor 10:31
V. Absolute vs. Mediated Authority
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