Topic:  “CORRUPTION” – Daily Devotional By Dag Heward-Mills Ministry 28 December 2021

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 “CORRUPTION”

READ: Ephesians 2:13-19

“The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men...” – Micah 7:2

Do you remember what God told Adam and Eve? He said, “In the day that you eat this fruit you will die.” When Adam and Eve sinned, they died. The condition of spiritual death entered their spirits and there was no way God could fellowship with them anymore. He had to drag them out of the garden and separate them from Himself.

Before a man is born again, he is estranged from God. His nature is essentially evil. He may look good on the outside, but essentially, he has a corrupt and wicked nature. That is why democracy and the rule of law are important. When one man with such a nature has unlimited power, he does many evil things.

A tyrant is simply an unsaved man who has unlimited power. That is why governments are supposed to have three different independent arms: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. There is supposed to be a separation of powers. This is to prevent one group of “unsaved men” from having too much power over other human beings.

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As Lord Acton (1834-1902) said in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” When Judges are afraid for their lives and their jobs, they often cannot make unbiased decisions.

The whole human race is separated from God because of sin. Salvation breaks the wall that separates mankind from God (Ephesians 2:14, 16)