Understanding when we are to obey and disobey civil authority gives us principles for dealing with all human authority. We are always to obey civil authority unless the specific thing they require of us would force us to disobey God's instructions in Scripture. This principle applies whether a government is good or evil. Even if we live under a wicked and tyrannical government, we must obey its commands except where those commands would be contrary to Scripture. And even when we must disobey civil authority, we must disobey with humility, respect and obedience to all its other commands. We must often obey an evil civil authority, and we must sometimes respectfully decline to obey the laws of an otherwise good civil authority. These acts grow out of our submission to God in whose Word we must rest.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
