Christ’s Steadiness in an Age of Lawless Rage
Why Christ’s Kingship Brings Clarity When Order Is Despised
We are living in a moment marked by visible unrest, rising anger, and open hostility toward lawful authority. Protest has given way to rage. Moral claims are made loudly, but without coherence. Compassion is invoked while order is despised. Justice is demanded while restraint is mocked.
What we are witnessing goes beyond political dispute and exposes a collapse of moral clarity. Scripture has long prepared God’s people to recognize such seasons without hysteria or surprise. Confusion, rage, and rebellion recur wherever truth is cast aside and rightful authority is refused.
God is not the author of confusion. When confusion multiplies, Scripture teaches us to look beneath the surface, not to inflame the moment, but to understand it rightly.
A Biblical Diagnosis of the Chaos
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20). Moral inversion arises as an act of judgment. Romans 1 explains that when truth is suppressed, God gives people over to disordered minds. The outcome is fragmentation and social fracture.
When rulers rage against authority, they rage against God Himself. “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh and against His Anointed” (Psalm 2:2). This rage rises from theological rebellion, not merely social conflict.
Lawful authority stands by God’s ordinance, and resistance to it stands against God Himself (Romans 13:1–2). Proverbs repeatedly connects lack of self control with folly and destruction. When restraint is mocked, wisdom has already been abandoned.
Christ’s Pattern in Times of Hostility
Jesus faced mobs, false accusations, and corrupt proceedings. He stood before Pilate without panic. He addressed hostile crowds without fear. He submitted to unjust suffering without surrendering truth.
This steadiness flowed from settled confidence in God’s sovereign rule. Christ met accusation without agitation, grounded in the certainty that chaos does not unsettle His reign. The apostles walked this path as well. They spoke the truth with steadiness, honored lawful authority within God’s order, and endured persecution with composure.
Calm conviction grows out of settled confidence in the kingship of Christ.
What Christians Must Affirm and Reject
Christians must affirm the legitimacy of lawful authority. Scripture does not permit believers to despise order while claiming fidelity to Christ. Lawful protest belongs within God’s order, and Scripture recognizes appeal and correction as legitimate acts under authority.
Christian faithfulness includes refusing lawlessness that claims the language of mercy. Shielding wrongdoing while despising authority participates in rebellion against God’s rule. Moral reasoning driven by emotion and detached from truth leads to destruction.
Disordered Authority and Disordered Passions
Genesis 3 shows how rejecting God’s order introduces disorder into human life, reshaping authority, desire, and responsibility in ways that compound confusion.
When headship is despised and order is rejected, passions no longer submit to reason or truth. Rage replaces clarity. Scripture identifies this condition as an act of judgment.
Why Unity Is Not the Goal in Times of Rebellion
Christ Himself taught that truth brings division in seasons of rebellion. Faithfulness governs the church’s course, even when unity fractures. When a culture rejects God’s order, clarity will divide those who submit from those who resist.
Faithfulness is assessed by obedience to truth rather than by the preservation of social harmony, and compromise follows whenever harmony becomes the standard.
A Call to Steadfastness
Christ’s people are called to refuse panic. To refuse mob thinking. To refuse silence born of fear. We are called to stand firm in obedience, clarity, and trust in God’s sovereignty.
Christ reigns even when societies unravel. His order remains. His authority is not shaken. The task of the church is not to mirror the rage of the age, but to stand as a witness to truth with calm, courage, and conviction.
The ground beneath us does not move. Christ does not waver. In an age of lawless rage, His steadiness anchors His people.