By Bakunin Mikhail
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4 Since Grotius’s day, the sovereignty of God has been denied in favor of the sovereignty of the state. Grotius had declared that a human sovereign cannot alter God’s law; at the same time, he held that no inferior can question or deny a superior’s will, so that men were bound by their human ruler’s false laws. For him, men were required to obey man rather than God. This was Grotius’s second great error, to require submission to human sovereigns, obedience to man’s law rather than God’s law.
If the Lord of Hosts is our God, then He is our Lawgiver, and the Bible is our law. Isaiah declares, To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isa. 8:20) “The testimony” is God’s revelation as a system of belief and a rule of duty. 6 Unless we return to our Lord, our Sovereign, and His law-word, there is no meaning for us, only darkness and death. We need to say with Isaiah, For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
There would be a collapse and a forfeiture of our salvation whenever things passed out of God’s control. Where man and society are concerned, God’s total government and predestination works to sanctify man and society by working from within, transforming the regenerated man and His world through the Holy Spirit. Where non-Biblical faith seeks to gain control, the result is totalitarianism. The alternative to government by God’s law and Spirit working through the inner man is the totalitarian state.
