TEXT: ROMANS 13:1-5
RETIRE FROM REBELLION
Dearly beloved, rebellion is the act of using the investment made into you by a superior to live an independent life. Rebellion is not just disobedience to rules. It is taking investment made into you by another for granted thinking that you have arrived.
Some will declare that overtaking is permitted, they forget that no one is ever in a contest with his father.
The first rebel was Adam. God gave him eyes, ears, hands, heart and breath of life. He used all that God gave him to follow the devil who invested nothing into him. By so doing he lived independent of God who invested into him his very image and likeness.
Rebellion is deadly because apart from hurting the one who invested into you, God has already judged you. An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him - Proverbs 17:11.
Because of the severity of a rebel's punishment, God instructs his children to honour authority. 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 - Romans 13:1.
Rebellion against authority is rebellion against God. Therefore he who resists and sets himself up against the authorities resists what God has appointed and arranged [in divine order]. And those who resist will bring down judgment upon themselves [receiving the penalty due them] - Romans 13:2, AMP.
God wants to bless you, to do this on earth, God needs an established authority.
Rebels deny God the opportunity to bless them through the authority He has set up.
Since he is not on earth, he has to use an authority that is over to bring your blessings to you.
Know this, rebellion denies you the right to reap all that you have sown through service.
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
(Please be a blessing to seven persons by sending to them devotionals)
For further reading,
Leviticus 5,6. Acts 9,10.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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