The Ultimate King in civil government is Christ, and all rulers of the nations derive their authority from Him; hence all magistrates are subject to Christ’s word, even Christ’s confirmation of every bit of the law (Matt. 5:17 f.). National leaders have no exemption from the law of God just as they have no escape from the universal Lordship of Christ… If the Kings in the Older Testament Israel were responsible to God’s law because of the “Theocracy,” then also magistrates today are responsible to God’s law because of the “Christocracy.”--Greg Bahnsen

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