Mandate

Mandate = an authoritative order or command:  I chose this particular meaning of mandate because there is no higher authority than God. After the last election I heard the President say he had a mandate from the people of the U.S. As I thought about this, the Congressmen and Senators he was at odds with also had a mandate from the people of the U.S. that voted them into office. His mandate does not trump their mandate, they were both elected by the people. We, as Christians have a mandate from God. God is the highest authority, his authority trumps ours (the U.S. public) or even our President, our Congressmen and Senators. God's authority trumps the Supreme Court. In Matthew 28:19-20 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always; even unto the end of the world. Amen." 
This Mandate was given to us by God himself through his word. God's word does not change because of a Supreme Court ruling. I wonder sometimes if I should just shut up because I know there are those that do not believe in God and think I should just shut up. They do not want to hear it. Believing in God as I do is a voluntary action on my part. I accept the Bible to be true. As I consider that, here is this mandate from God for us to be his witnesses to the world around us. We are to be salt, we are to be a light to the darkness in this world. That is a mandate from God. God's mandate trumps all other mandates. It is becoming a hate crime to speak of some Biblical truths to speak about certain sins. If it is not already, it is headed that way. It is already a hate crime to speak and use passages from the Bible that say same sex relationships are a sin, in Canada. Some may object to the saying fear God. To that I bring this scripture Matthew 10:28 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." There is no higher authority than God. In these times we should remember that. God is sovereign, over all.  Proverbs 8:15-16: "By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth."  We need to once again fear God in this nation. Our nation is not the first in the ages to have strayed from a fear of God. What God does is yet to be seen. Just like Darius and Nebuchadnezzar in Daniels chapters 3 and 6. Their rules did not trump God's rules. Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Daniel realized this truth and obeyed God rather than man.  These men of God feared God and obeyed his laws above the laws of their land. God delivered them in miraculous ways, but that is not always the case. Either way they were delivered from the kings hands and would be in the hands of a God who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. That is why God's mandate trumps any mandate from earthy rulers, they can only kill the body. Fear God and obey his mandate. God bless, LVZ.