Tag: The Doctrine Video Series

There are three convincing proofs that Romans 13 does NOT teach unlimited obedience to the State. In addition to the information presented in the latest video, Romans 13 Examined, the book entitled The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and A

The lesser magistrate doctrine is needed in our day. The preborn are being murdered; marriage is under attack because adultery and homosexuality have been decriminalized. There’s Obamacare, immigration, and a phalanx of laws created by the Federal government to invade our domestic affairs, disarm the

The people play an important role in the application of the doctrine of the lesser magistrates. The people have a duty to protest unjust or immoral laws. Do you remember the story about Governor Petronius defying Emperor Caligula regarding his immoral law to put his

Higher magistrates committed to unjust or immoral law will always demonize, marginalize, undermine, and criminalize any lesser magistrate who takes a stand to oppose their unjust/immoral laws or policies. You have to understand, there will be a conflict.Tyrants will stop at nothing to impose their

The best treatise ever written on the doctrine of the lesser magistrates was by John Knox in his Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland (1558). Knox made clear that lesser magistrates are not to hide behind the excuse that they must simply obey