SF124 - IS IT EVER RIGHT TO DO WRONG TO DO RIGHT (Exodus 1 15-22)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF124

@TITLE = IS IT EVER RIGHT TO DO WRONG TO DO RIGHT?

@LEVEL ONE = EXO 1:15‑22

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@LEVEL TWO = The Debate

@LEVEL FOUR = Some say that it is permissible to break Civil law under certain circumstances (i.e. to save another person's life). 

@LEVEL FOUR = Others contend that it is never permissible.

@LEVEL ONE = WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

@LEVEL ONE = 1A. THE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE

@SCRIPTURE = ROM 13:1‑7

@SCRIPTURE = 1PE 2:11‑17

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  The Principle

@LEVEL FOUR = A believer has a biblical responsibility to submit to and obey the governing authorities.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  The Premise

@LEVEL FOUR = Government is ordained by God for the maintenance of order, the punishment of evil and the promotion of good in the world.

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  The Practice

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Recognize that all authority is from God.

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Remember that governing authorities are God's ministers.

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.  Observe the law is a matter of a positive, public testimony for Christ.

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@LEVEL THREE = 4C.  Observing the law is ordered by God

@SCRIPTURE = ROM 13:2<R>Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

@LEVEL ONE = 2A.  THE BIBLICAL EXCEPTION

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  The Exception

@LEVEL FOUR = A believer has a biblical responsibility to obey God's higher law when there a direct, specific conflict with man's law.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  The Examples

@SCRIPTURE = EXO 1:16‑22

@SCRIPTURE = DAN 6:7‑10, 16

@SCRIPTURE = ACT 4:18‑20; 5:12‑20, 27‑29, 40‑42

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  The Elements

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  There was a direct, specific conflict between God's law and man's law.

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  In choosing to obey God's higher law they paid the normal, natural consequences of that disobedience (i.e., jail, beating or even death)

@LEVEL TWO = 4B.  The Application

@LEVEL TWO = Ask?

@LEVEL TWO = Does this law of man

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Require me to do something which is contrary to God's Word?

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Prohibit me from doing something which is consistent with God's Word.

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 3

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION

@LEVEL TWO = We Must Remember...

@LEVEL THREE = 1.  We are called to be light and salt.

@LEVEL THREE = 2.  We are called to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit not to try to change men.

@LEVEL THREE = 3.  We live in a society that has built into it methods of righting wrongs within the law.

@LEVEL THREE = 4.  Our testimony before a lost world must remain untarnished if we hope to make a lasting change.