Reformation Hope Church

All throughout history, government has been one of the least examined issues by the Church of Christ. It is simply presumed that because God is sovereign over “governments” (cf. Romans 13:1), He has taken that issue on Himself and left us to merely “obey” government edicts as if “from God.” However, governments throughout the history of the world have been dominantly “pagan” and have consistently been responsible for untold suffering. To make matters worse, such suffering has been the direct result of disobedience to God’s “Civil Laws.” God tells us there is a Fellowship with rulers of all the earth with which he is concerned. Repeatedly, they violate that Fellowship. “Shall the Throne of iniquity have fellowship with Thee, those that frame perversity with a law?” - Psalm 94:20 Both Psalms and Hosea 8 challenge the pulpits of today by declaring that God did not choose wicked rulers in the sense of any call to obedience to them. Yes, God is Sovereign over the nations just as He is Sovereign over wicked men