Grandma Seppi

Gma Seppi showed us a very old bible she has had for many years but we did not recall seeing it before. She asked Lance what the bible says about women. 

Lance read to her: Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." 

She assented that this was good.

Pray that God will draw her to seek Him before it is too late. She anticipated a last minute conversion. Perhaps God will open her eyes so that she will see and understand.

Theocracy

It is a serious error to see theocracy, the rule of God, as government over men by a group of men in the name of God. The Biblical doctrine of theocracy means the self-government of the Christian man.  In Biblical law, the only civil tax is the head or poll tax, the same for all males twenty years of age and older (Ex. 30:11-16).  

~R.J. Rushdoony, Sovereignty p. 31

God is Sovereign, not man, not church, not civil government.

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“God...allows only ministries to function under Him, and very limited ones at that. Civil government is severely limited because in Biblical law its taxing power is limited to head or poll tax, half shekel for every man aged twenty or over per year, neither more nor less (Ex. 30:11-16).

The church is also limited, because of the tithe, God’s tax, is to the Lord, not to the sanctuary. One-tenth of the tithe went directly to the priests. (Num. 18:25-6)  

Neither church nor state have any valid Biblical grounds for a position of centrality in society. RJ Rushdoony, Sovereignty p. 11

“Democratic sentiments” bring Tyranny

Boccaccio (1313-1375) gives democratic sentiments, but his was an age of tyranny. God’s law having been replaced by the will and law of man, it was not government and law by the consent of all which prevailed but the will of tyrants. The Renaissance gave birth to a humanistic faith, and to tyranny. The two go hand in hand.

Biblical faith

however, is more than the church.

It is the ground of all spheres.

Church, state, family, the vocations,

the arts and sciences, and all things else

must be governed by Biblical faith,

and every sphere has equally

the duty of faithfulness to the triune God.

All naturalistic views of law

lead to elitism, because only the self-styled elite,
intellectuals, political powers, scientists, and the like,
believe they can truly manifest reason and therefore law...
In the days of Rome's life as a republic, injustice was commonplace.
For Augustine,

justice is the ordering of the world according to God's justice.
True order cannot come from fallen man.

Sovreignty and the Election

“The manipulation of the people by the media and by the political elite has become a necessity for rule and for ’social order.’ The goal of diverse groups has become to capture the attention and the allegiance of the masses, to command the revolution which continues to spiral downward.

“For the Christian, however, neither kings nor commoners, elites or masses, revolutionary victories or triumphs at the polls, is important. The sovereignty of God must be our starting point, His regenerating power and irresistible grace, His law-word, and the Kingship of Jesus Christ. Only God’s power and grace are irresistible, and His justice and right shall triumph.”