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0:00 Chapter 30 tonight is on the topic of nullification and civil disobedience in the book, Well Birst.0:07 I wanna talk to you about civil disobedience and nullification. What's nullification? That's when there is a law that's passed that is so bad that either the state0:19 nullifies it, a federal law, or a citizen nullifies it. There was a citizen refuses to follow it. Have there been cases when we should do that? Well, of course. Let me take you back0:31 to 18 15. 18 15, the fugitive slave act. And it required if a if a slave got free in the north, that they had to get0:43 him and bring him back and return him to his slave master. Should that be followed? Of course not. That's what you call nullification, citizen nullification,0:54 when they refuse to to follow the law. 1 of the famous stories of Oberlin College in Ohio is when a slave got there and he was free, and the federal authorities came to to arrest the1:06 slave to take him back to the south, And some of the students and faculty rang the bells of Oberlin College, got all the college students around. This was a school founded by Charles Finney. At the time, it was a godly1:18 Christian school. Not that case anymore. But at that time, it was. And they gathered around him, the whole town all the townspeople came. They gathered around him and protected him, and finally the federal officials1:30 left. What's that called? Nullification. Citizen nullification. A very bad law. Now when you do that, you may have to pay a price. I was in a meeting in New1:42 York City with a group of people a few years ago, and a man in a suit and tie, not the kind of guy you'd picture no. You know, think when you think of civil disobedience, you think of maybe somebody in jeans and a t1:53 shirt and young and, you know, maybe hippie looking or something. No. Here's a tall, slender man in suit and tie, and he stood up before a group of 80 of us in that meeting and2:05 says, how close are we to the point where we have to participate in very active civil disobedience? He, he addressed the elephant in the room because we are2:17 coming to that point in our own culture when the laws of the land, the demands put us on by anti godly government is such that Christians are gonna have to make some very2:29 tough decisions. Now some Christians cop out on this issue and say, oh, no. We have to obey the government. It does say to obey the government. That's correct. Romans Paul is writing in Romans is very clear2:40 about obedience to the government. But we are not called to obey the government when the government willfully intentionally violates the laws of the land. I've got news for you. The2:52 Supreme Court is not supreme overall. God is supreme. And the Supreme Court has passed laws, regarding marriage, regarding abortion,3:04 and under no condition do we have to follow laws that violate the word of God. We're on a pretty good, standing when we take those positions.3:16 Let me give you some examples on that 1. Let's Let's go to Exodus chapter 1. That would be the Egyptian midwives. They violated the law and saved the the Israeli babies. I could take you to3:27 Joshua chapter 2, and that would be Rahab, the the prostitute who violated the law and worked with the spies who had come. I take you to 1st3:39 Kings chapter 19. Obadiah hiding 1 of God's prophets. I take you to Daniel chapter 3, a story of Shadrach, Meshach, and3:51 Abednego. Take you to Daniel chapter 6, the story of Daniel himself. Take you to Esther chapter 4, the story of Esther, queen Esther, defying4:03 the law. I take you to Matthew chapter 2, the story of the Magi. We 3 kings. Oh, it wasn't 3 necessarily, but the kings who came from from afar, And4:14 they defied Herod's demand. If we go back to the Old Testament, take you to back to Exodus 14. Moses, when he was leading the Jews from Egypt, from their captivity. These are4:26 all examples of civil disobedience. Now we're coming to an era when we need to be more aware. We're not talking about breaking laws for the sake of breaking laws. We're not talking about going over the speed limit4:38 because you don't like it. We're talking about bona fide laws that violate clearly the word of God, and we refuse to cooperate with them. Is this difficult?4:49 Yes. If you do that, you have to be also willing to pay the price that comes with that. Let me read you, if I can, from the famous Manhattan Declaration signed by many, many,5:02 leaders and by, frankly, hundreds of thousands of people. The Manhattan Declaration, which addresses some of these issues. It addresses the issue of marriage, addresses the issue of abortion,5:14 it addresses the issue of religious liberty. This is a an incredible document if you haven't seen it. Let me read to you the last paragraph of the Manhattan Declaration.5:25 As Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical, the Orthodox faith, Roman Catholic faith, and Protestant evangelical. As Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians, we take seriously the5:37 biblical admonition to respect and obey those in authority. Because we honor justice and the common good, we will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar5:49 what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's.5:59 In 18 50, the Supreme Court passed a law called the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced the abolitionists to return slaves back to the South. Mhmm. I'm really glad that states rose up6:11 against this unconstitutional and unbiblical law.6:15 Yeah. Absolutely, Chris. And if the Supreme Court were to force the ripping apart of babies6:20 in the womb on the6:20 American public or if they were to force sodomites so called marriages on the public, then the public has a right to take a stand against these immoral laws.6:29 Absolutely. And if the US president were to completely reinterpret existing law that would jeopardize the safety of young girls letting men in skirts use the woman's bathroom, then every state6:41 has the right to rise up to nullify this unconstitutional action.
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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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