{"id":591,"date":"2016-05-15T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/messages\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-07-02T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T19:35:05","slug":"christian-ethics-for-a-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2016\/christian-ethics-for-a-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Ethics for a Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outline\u20141 Timothy 5:17\u201325<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s pay (vv. 17, 18) <\/li>\n<li>The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s protection (vv. 19, 20) <\/li>\n<li>The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s purity (vv. 21, 22) <\/li>\n<li>The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s pain (v. 23) <\/li>\n<li>The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s perception (vv. 24, 25) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Related Scripture<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>James 4:2 <\/li>\n<li>Matthew 22:39 <\/li>\n<li>Psalm 15 <\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 6:16\u201419 <\/li>\n<li>Matthew 5:37 (\u2026let your \u2018Yes\u2019 be \u2018Yes,\u2019 and your \u2018No,\u2019 \u2018No\u2019) <\/li>\n<li>Leviticus 25, 19:13 <\/li>\n<li>Colossians 1:10 <\/li>\n<li>Acts 5:29 <\/li>\n<li>Joshua 24:14 <\/li>\n<li>Exodus 20 (the ten commandments) <\/li>\n<li>Romans 12:9, 10 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Take Home Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil society is only as civil as it models Christian ethics. <\/li>\n<li>If we would just follow the ten commandments, our society would be well on the way to becoming civil. <\/li>\n<li>Moral excellence is doing that which is right and avoiding that which is wrong. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p>For <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackEvent(&#39;Messages&#39;, &#39;Download&#39;, &#39;msg20160515hi.mp3&#39;);\" href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20160515hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Broadband<\/a> Connection (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p>For <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackEvent(&#39;Messages&#39;, &#39;Download&#39;, &#39;msg20160515lo.mp3&#39;);\" href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20160515lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Dial-Up<\/a> Connection (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline\u20141 Timothy 5:17\u201325 The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s pay (vv. 17, 18) The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s protection (vv. 19, 20) The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s purity (vv. 21, 22) The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s pain (v. 23) The ethics behind the preacher\u2019s perception (vv. 24, 25) Related Scripture James 4:2 Matthew 22:39 Psalm 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,95,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}