Why do we break the law?

Why do we persistently cross the line and break the law whenever our society chooses to kill yet again? Can we not legally protest through the “usual channels?” One reason is that we refuse to allow the Gospel to be domesticated by “democracy,” that high set of political ideals that would allows us our faith as long as it is subordinated to the orderly maintenance of society. But if the Gospel of the crucified and resurrected Jesus has begun a new society within the shell of the old, liberating for God a people to live under Christ, who is enthroned “far above every principality, ruling force, power and sovereignty,” (Eph. 1:21) we are freed from the bondage of death and sin in the old creation. Because Christ has been raised, the death penalty has ended among us. We fail to proclaim this Gospel as long as we allow it to be domesticated under the “usual channels” of protest. Therefore, we break the law because the state has blasphemed by seizing the power to take life. We must proclaim the true Lordship of Christ, and woe to us if we do not preach the Gospel!
-Eric
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