Responsibility of Christian Citizens

Pray

2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV 1900

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson (Third President of the United States)

There is freedom within limits, and within those limits, our prayers can change things.

R. C. Sproul

Participate

1 Peter 3:13-17

1 Peter 2:13–17 “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”

The people never give up their liberties but under Some delusion.

Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784.

Edmund Burke

Submit (13,14)

People submit to government as part of their submission to God (see also Matt. 17:24–27).

Grant R. Osborne

Romans 13:6–7 KJV 1900

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Vote (15,16)

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute the political power of the State.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

Billy Graham stated:

Bad politicians are elected by good people who don’t vote.3785

Billy Graham

Romans 13:6–7 KJV 1900

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Honor and Obey (17)

Romans 13:1–2 KJV 1900

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Protect

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson (Third President of the United States)

Is it not right that all of us at least do something more than merely voting to preserve and protect this nation?

Wayne Grudem

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.1

Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

Matthew 5:13–14 KJV 1900

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Psalm 82:3–4 (KJV 1900)

Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: Rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us.

George Bush