MANS ABUSE OF GOVERNMENT

GOVERNMENT IS ORDAINED BY GOD. WHEN GOD CREATED
ADAM, HE GAVE HIM DOMINION (AUTHORITY) OVER THE
EARTH AND EVERY THING IN IT. GOD MADE ADAM A KING
(EVE, HIS QUEEN) AND THE EARTH WAS HIS THRONE, HIS
KINGDOM....ADAM ANSWERED ONLY TO GOD....GOVERNMENT
WAS CREATED/ORDAINED TO BE A RIGHTEOUS TOOL OF THE
ALMIGHTY.
THERE WAS AN ANGEL NAMED LUCIFER WHO, IN HIS PRIDE,
DESIRED TO ELEVATE (EXALT) HIMSELF ABOVE GOD.....
ISAIAH 14: 12-14
HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN O LUCIFER, SON OF
THE MORNING! HOW ART THOU CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND,
WHICH DID WEAKEN THE NATIONS!
FOR THOU HAST SAID IN THINE HEART, I WILL ASCEND INTO
HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF
GOD: I WILL SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE
CONGREGATION, IN THE SIDES OF OF THE NORTH:
I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL
BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.........

HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS WAGED WAR AGAINST GOD AND
WERE DEFEATED. LUCIFER AND HIS COHORTS WERE CAST
OUT OF HEAVEN. THEY CAME TO THE EARTH AND LUCIFER
SOUGHT TO MAKE THE EARTH HIS KINGDOM; HE WANTED
TO RULE AS A god....BUT THERE WAS ONE LITTLE PROBLEM.
KING ADAM HAD DOMINION ON THE EARTH AND AS LONG
AS ADAM HAD GODS FAVOR, HE, LUCIFER COULDN'T TAKE
THE KINGDOM FROM HIM....SO HE DISGUISED HIMSELF AS
A SERPENT AND LIED ON GOD...
GENESIS 3: 4-5
AND THE SERPENT SAID UNTO THE WOMAN,THOU SHALT NOT SURELY DIE:
FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF,
THEN YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED, (SPIRITUAL EYES) AND
YE SHALL BE AS gods, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.

EVE WAS DECEIVED AND SHE WENT TO ADAM, AND HE
WILLINGLY DISOBEYED (FOR HER??) GODS COMMANDMENT.
GENESIS 2: 17
 BUT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU
SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST
THEREOF, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE. (AND WE ALL KNOW
THAT HE DID)
ADAMS DISOBEDIENCE CUT HIM OFF FROM GOD SPIRITUALLY,
LIKE AN APPLE PULLED FROM THE TREE. HE LOST HIS
AUTHORITY, HE LOST HIS KINGDOM....AND LUCIFER TOOK
HIS PLACE.

SINCE THEN, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY KINGS. SOME GOOD,
MOST BAD.THERE HAVE BEEN, AND ARE TODAY MANY
DICTATORS, TYRANTS AND MADMEN WHO HAVE AND HAD
SEIZED POWER/AUTHORITY BY FORCE OR BY STEALTH...
BUT THOSE GOOD KINGS/LEADERS ALWAYS HAD A
SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE ALMIGHTY.

THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KINGDOMS ALWAYS PROSPERED
WHEN THEY PUT GOD AHEAD OF THEIR DESIRES AND NEEDS.
WHEN MEN EXALT THEMSELVES, WHEN MEN SEE
THEMSELVES  AS gods, THEY ABUSE THEIR AUTHORITY, THEY
ABUSE THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE ORDAINED TO CARE FOR....
THE TYRANTS, DICTATORS AND MADMEN ARE OUTRIGHT
CRIMINALS....LIKE THE ONE WHO USURPED ADAMS PLACE
IN THE BEGINNING.

WHEN THE LOVE OF GOD IN NOT IN THE HEARTS OF THE
GOVERNORS (ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY), THEN
THOSE MEN/WOMEN WILL DO WHATEVER IS IN THEIR
WICKED HEARTS AND MINDS TO DO. THEY WILL DO
WHATEVER THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH....
HISTORY HAS RECORDED THIS TRUTH.......HENCE, WE HAVE
WARS, ASSASSINATIONS, CORRUPTION, STRIFE, DISEASE,
FAMINE, SLAVERY, ETC, ETC...

LASTLY, IF THE LOVE OF GOD IS NOT IN THE HEARTS AND
MINDS OF THE PEOPLE, YOU ARE GOING TO GET LEADERSHIP
WITHOUT THE LOVE OF GOD IN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS...
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE??? WE GET THE GOVERNMENT THAT
WE DESERVE............IF YOU DO A LOUSY JOB THEN YOU GET
A LOUSY RESULT, AM I RIGHT???


                                                     RONALD J LAMB