Self-Government

"Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control" (Proverbs 25:28).

Most people know only one type of government: civil government. They ignore the three more important types of governments: self, home, and church. Self-government is basic. Without this, the family, the basic unit of society collapses. Both with unruly individuals and dysfunctional families, the church, civil government, and the larger society are in crisis. In order to arrest this chaotic situation, civil government has an excuse to exercise tyranny.

Tyranny is one of God's ways in punishing human rebellion. In times of economic crisis and social unrest, if people refuse to return to God in humility and repentance and persist instead in rebellion, people will suffer punishment under the power of the sword.

Self-government is our priority. To achieve this, one must first understand the two states of man: under sin and under saving grace.