You aren’t saved by faith; salvation is by allegiance alone. Rival Nations challenges those who merely “believe” in an intellectual-consent-only kind of way to reframe their understanding of the Bible’s teaching on faith as “allegiance” to Jesus, the risen, enthroned son of God.

In nothing is the degree of the contradiction which the lives of the men of our time have reached so striking, as in that phenomenon which forms the last means and expression of violence - in the universal military service.

Apply the teachings of Romans 12 to the State,
and you will wreck the State;
or apply Romans 13 to the church,
and you will wreck the church.

In His name, all oppression shall cease. Whatever burdensome or oppressive nature taxation may have, its days are numbered. One day, we will inherit a world of true and unending freedom, free from all tyranny.

In this section of the book of Matthew, most of these stories have something to do with Jesus’s follower named Peter. We’re going to learn something important about Jesus and what it means to follow Him. What’s really unique in this passage is the combination of death and taxes.

Thousands of years ago, megalomaniacs claimed to be gods in order to rule over their subjects. Once that stopped working, they claimed to be representatives of the gods in order to rule over their subjects. Once that stopped working, they claimed to be representatives of their subjects in order to rule over their subjects. One day that will stop working too. The propaganda will stop working eventually as more and more knees bow and tongues confess that Jesus Christ is King (Philippians 2:9-11).