Signs of the Times: The Law of Lawlessness: Romans 13:1-4

June 25, 2025

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The erasing of lines is always the artistic work of the father of lies.

The law of lawlessness is that God’s law is outlaw.

Romans 13:1-2

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God…

Lawlessness in the streets is a symptom of lawlessness in the heart.

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Romans 13:3-4

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Compassion without truth becomes confusion.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7

And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

The greatest threat to justice is not the law enforcement of Romans 13, but the lawless hearts of Romans 1.

Philippians 2:14–15

Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world…

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