God and Government - Part 8

INTRO: This is the last message in a series on God and government. We began at creation and saw how government is one of the earliest institutions as God gave man dominion over all He had made on earth. We saw family government develop into government over a nation. We saw Israel reject God's form of government when they desired a king like all the other nations had. We saw the time of the kings end in disaster and all government in the hands of the unsaved world at the time Christ came. Then, amazingly, we saw that Christ did nothing to change the fact that the whole political world lay in the hands of unbelievers. He left government in the hands of the unsaved and then instituted something entirely new, the Church. We saw the Church blossom and grow under Roman persecution until the Roman emporer himself claimed to become a Christian. This led us into considering the failures of the church called the Roman Catholic church.