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people said, “the voice of a god,” an angel struck him. There is such a system
operating in this universe on this earth and in our lives.

God’s Government Referring to How God Works, Manages, and
Arranges Things According to His Plan and Will

The third point is a kind of definition of government: God’s government
refers to how God works, manages, and arranges things according to His
plan and will. In His government, He is free to work, to manage, to arrange
according to His plan and will. We will be wise and blessed if we respect this
and if we, in any matter of our own life—married life, family life, church life,
serving life—would not dare try to work out something, manage something,
and arrange something according to our view as if we were the government
itself. This is restricted to God.
From the Beginning of God’s Creation, God Having Been
Working to Usher in His Government; and He is Continuing
This Operation Until the End
From the beginning of God’s creation, God has been working to usher
in His government; and He will continue this operation until the end. We
will see as we go on in the message that this operation is now focused on the
churches. The Lord must accomplish His governmental plan in the churches
before He can enlarge that governmental exercise and deal with all kinds of
evil, corrupt, and chaotic situations on the earth. The United States, to me,
is in a degraded, chaotic, and hateful situation that I have never seen in my
eighty years. How we long for the Lord to exercise His authority! But I am
realizing that the churches in the United States must take the lead to allow
God to be God governmentally, and to do whatever He needs to do with us so
that He can do whatever He wills through us.
Our Needing to Learn to Acknowledge God’s Government
We must learn to acknowledge God’s government. Although I am right
now emphasizing government, I sense there is mercy and grace flowing
right here because I have the sense, my brothers, that before the Lord takes
any particular action in any of our lives, or in the way we are serving, or
in the church where we are, He is giving us a precious opportunity to learn
by ourselves to acknowledge and respect His government. If we are willing
inwardly to do this, then there will be blessing. Even beginning right now—