1. The Government’s Responsibility from God

2. 1. Ordained by God
-Utopia: “a imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.”
-Communism? is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless [such as the rich, middle and lower classes] and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production and real estate…”

3. 1. Ordained by God - Man’s need for law: Jeremiah 10:23; Prov. 3:5-6
-Utopia: “a imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.”
-Communism?, “the state becomes absolute only to become obsolete. It withers away because everybody cheerfully rules on behalf of everybody else, and so nobody needs to rule over anybody…Society exists without a state, no one owns anything because everyone owns everything, and all is well for the first time in human history.” (Benjamin Wiker 118)
- Man’s need for law: Jeremiah 10:23; Prov. 3:5-6

4. 1. Ordained by God 2. Obligations from God: Romans 13:1-7:
Romans 13:1-2 – Appointed and ordained of God.
2. Obligations from God:
Romans 13:1-7:
(1) Responsibility to Punish Evil
(2) Responsibility to Protect the Good/Innocent
1 Timothy 2:1-2:
(3) Right to Liberty and Peace Life
Luke 3:10-14:
(4) Collect No More Than What is Owed
(5) Don’t Intimidate
(6) Be Content with Wages