In This Sermon:
🗳️ After a week of polarization and confusion, how should Christians think about politics? In this message from John 18-19, Pastor Jacob Van Sickle looks at Jesus before Pilate and walks through three views of political authority: God over Caesar, God and no Caesar, and Caesar over God. Along the way he shows why Jesus’s kingdom is “not of this world” without being indifferent to what happens in it.
🔑 In this sermon you’ll learn:
👑 What Jesus meant when He said, “My kingdom is not of this world”
⚖️ Why God over Caesar means political authority is accountable to God, and why the church must first bow to that authority itself
🏛️ How Romans 13 and John 19:11 show that Pilate’s authority was real and given from above
🚫 Why the church’s role in politics is more complicated than “you can’t legislate morality”
⛓️ What the chief priests meant by “We have no king but Caesar,” and how politics can become someone’s god
✝️ How Jesus offered paradise to a criminal on the cross, and what that means for His political enemies and for you
📍 Sacred City Church is a church plant in Providence, RI, reaching college students, young adults, and young families with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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For Further Study:
• YouTube video on Berlin & LA police
• A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer
• Lex, Rex: The Law and the King by Samuel Rutherford
• Politics According to the Bible by Wayne Grudem
• ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments by Randy Alcorn
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