"The State's Role"

"And you shall teach...and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do." (Exodus 18:20)

---------- Because if you don't someone else will!

A German judge wrote in a recent case involving parents who were teaching their children from their home (home-schoolers), "We recognize in our German basic law about philosophical and religious conviction and that parents have rights, but the basic law also includes that it is the state's role to educate all children."  This is the view of the statist.  A dictionary defines statism as, "A political viewpoint 'that sovereignty is vested not in the people but in the national state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, the prestige, and the well-being of the state.'" 

With all his pride, bravado, and impudent rejection of Jesus Christ and the reign of Christ's Kingdom, man is basically a lonely, frightened creature in the universe.  Historically man has yielded to statism because man needs someone to show him "the way."  Increasingly and globally, statism, in one form or the other, is ruling in the hearts of mankind. 

Our text, indeed, all of the Bible, AKA, the Word of God, "became flesh and dwelt among us" in Jesus Christ; and The Word of God commanded the Church to, "....make disciples of all the nations,.. teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you."  Anyone and anything the Church fails to teach---------------------------- the state will gladly take up the slack.

Father, in Jesus' Name, forgive me for not living and teaching "all things that [You] have commanded."  Amen.
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