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An Epiphany for Christmas 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n How does a local community stop such things as the coming of abortuaries, casinos, strip joints, and sodomy parades?<\/p>\n It passes zoning restrictions at the behest of the local churches who speak out against wickedness and urge local rulers to stand for goodness and justice as true civil authorities under God are obliged to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Local civil authorities \u2013 under God – are not required to bow to other erring civil authorities (i.e. federal judiciary) but may rule justly as they understand justice defined by God’s word.<\/p>\n The Churches of God must give direction to a society wandering (both as a civil order as well as the individuals living therein) and in desperate need of guidance.\u00a0 The church is the “pillar of truth” (1 Tim. 3:15) for the body politic (in need of reform) as well as the citizen (in need of salvation).<\/p>\n Christendom v. Pagandom<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n If Christ rules the world (with Truth and Grace)<\/p>\n And if He does so by Right,<\/p>\n Then by what Right does anyone assert his gods or idols or laws<\/p>\n To be equal to or above Him?<\/p>\n To Him be the honor, the glory, and the POWER<\/p>\n NOW and forever.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n This is our Creed.<\/p>\n And this is the message the Churches must declare<\/p>\n To this nation which has lost its way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Epiphany for Christmas 2008 How does a local community stop such things as the coming of abortuaries, casinos, strip joints, and sodomy parades? It passes zoning restrictions at the behest of the local churches who speak out against wickedness and urge local rulers to stand for goodness and justice as true civil authorities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}