God establishes governing authorities to restrain chaos, not to reward virtue.
Submission is grounded in conscience, not agreement, and obedience is not dependent on moral alignment with leadership.
Rebelling against authority does not signal faithfulness — it signals confusion about where authority comes from and why it exists.
This episode clarifies the difference between endurance and endorsement, and why order remains necessary even in corrupt systems.
In this episode: Romans chapter 13
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