It’s interesting to me that taxes come up repeatedly in Scripture. We’re told to pay our taxes. Jesus paid the tax He didn’t think He should have to pay so as not to offend. God provides the money for the tax, from the fish’s mouth, and I’ve always appreciated the Biblical record of God providing money for taxes!

We’re told to submit to our ruling authorities. We’re told God put them there and they serve God’s purposes. Of course, there is a time to obey God rather than man, but that’s not an excuse for not obeying and submitting to authorities. The Jews wanted to get out from under Roman control, but God didn’t sanction rebellion.

Do you understand that The Boston Tea Party, the American rebellion against the British taxing them, the rebellion against their authority, was wrong from a Christian perspective?

Besides being told to pay our taxes, we’re given this great money advice. “Owe no one anything.” Don’t go into debt. If you don’t have the money for it, you don’t need it. Go to God to meet the need. He can miracle away the problem, or He can provide the money if that’s what you need. Don’t rely on a credit card or a loan. That’s looking to the bank to be your god, your provider. Then you are a slave to them. We want to serve God only.

There is one thing we do owe everyone. That is to love one another.

Love does no wrong to another. Love is the fulfillment of the law. We can’t love, but God is love. Christ in us is the fulfillment of the law, and to the extent that the life we live in this flesh we live by faith in the Son of God, we walk in the fulfillment of the law of love.