Well, to glorify God means to live in accordance with His revealed will, to live in ways that bring honor to Him, that recognize that He alone is God. And God has given us His law as a transcript of his very character. And so we glorify God by doing what he commands, loving him and doing what he commands. That's what we teach our children. And so we must ask what has God commanded with regard to civil authorities?

Well he's told us to be subject to them because he's the one who has established every civil authority and he's done so making them his servants. That's what Romans 13 says, that the civil authorities, the magistrates, the governors, the kings, the police officers. Those are God's deacons to carry out God's will in the civil arena for His world. And so we should be subject to them. We should be respectful of them.

To defy them out of hand is to defy God. But we need to also recognize that those civil authorities, they have authority because God gave it to them. And so they're not a law unto themselves. They're not on their own. Their authority is not inherent.

It is delegated. And so whenever a delegated authority begins to defy the ultimate authority of God, the way that we honor them, the way that we show respect to them, is to help them come to recognize that they are defying the very source of their own authority. And as the apostles said to authorities in their day in the New Testament times, we must obey God rather than men. And so sometimes the most honorable thing to do for a civil authority who is acting tyrannically, who is disobeying the God who's vested authority in him, is to disobey him for the honor and glory of the God of all authority. Thank you.