Hallelujah!  We serve a great God (amen?), a mighty God, hallelujah!  He is holy, distinct, separate, unique from all creation.  Everything proceeded from Him, the Scriptures says (John 1:3), and everything exists for Him, hallelujah!  By Him all things were made, the Scriptures are very clear, and He has a purpose for each and every one of us.  He had a purpose for creation, and that was that all creation, the greatest of His creation, man, and those things that are inanimate–let’s realize that even the trees were created to clap their hands and worship God; amen?  And so, we rejoice in His majesty and in His great awesomeness.  That’s what we want to talk about some this morning.

Let’s turn to Proverbs, the third chapter, and look back again at God’s intention for all His creation to recognize His majesty.  We use the term “sovereignty.”  A sovereign, we understand what that is in relationship to a king and his rule and his reign over his kingdom.  Sovereigns are able to dictate as they will.  Sovereigns have authority and power over those laws that might be ancient and written and established among them.  They make decrees, and they stand.

Our God has made decrees, and they stand today, praise God.  This new modern age has no place wanting to re-write or re-represent the purpose and the will of God.  We find so many in our society today wanting to redefine God and wanting to represent God on a contemporary plane.  Many in the church want to make God more palatable to society.  We see the church caving in and having so many different morals, even political.  I state the aspect of political because of the fact that God has placed rulers in place for our good; amen?

Let’s remember that government is for the good of the church, to protect us from all the lawlessness that would exist without these sovereigns, without these authorities being put into place.  Romans 13 makes it very clear:  these do not bear the “sword in vain” (verse 4).  They’re not there for the will of man, but they’re there to effect the will of God.  Pray for those that are in leadership, that they would do what their intended purpose was, and that’s not oppress the church but to protect the church.

These things are in our minds, and we see such change in ideologies and philosophies today.  There is a new “Christian wisdom.”  The new “Christian wisdom” is this:  learn how to coexist with the world, but in that you’re going to have to compromise somewhat.  Learn the world’s methods and impress them.  Impress them as to how, we the church, can live among them and function without friction.