Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

• Part 1 – Fearing God Over Fearing Governments

Here I begin to lay out the choice that men really face of (1) fearing God or (2) fearing governments, and how (1) the former should cause men to avoid the latter, and how (2) the latter attempts to cause men to forget God.

• Part 2 – The “Fear of the Lord” and God’s Judgment

In this one, I start to show much how (1) fearing God is related to fearing what will come upon us if we are to forsake His idea of peaceful and non-violent social order and (2) chase after the violence that is inherent in the political kingdoms of men instead, and how a true fear of the Lord would lead us to avoid these systems.

• Part 3 – The “Fear of the Lord” and Liberty

This one expounds upon the former one, showing how (1) God-fearing is also necessary to liberty. For if men fear God so much that they avoid man’s political systems, they will be liberated from the oppressive men who operate by getting men to fear men.

• Part 4 – Will Men Learn To Fear the Lord Before the State Leaves Us Desolate?

This article shows a sense of urgency in getting men back to (1) the fear of the Lord given that we have already failed to be God-fearing enough to keep the political rulers away, who are now bringing judgment down on us through their evils.

• Part 5 – Fearing God, Repentance, and Turning Away From Statism

This one shows how men who (1) fear the Lord turn away from the evils of the world, and how those who have been caught idolizing governments have failed to do this. God-fearing men repent of their support for statist systems.

• Part 6 – “But Who Would Protect Us From Bad Guys Without the Government?”: How Fearing Men Brings Egyptian Bondage

Here I show how the very common response of statists, “But how would we have X without the government?,” to the suggestion that the provision of goods and services doesn’t need to be based in tax-robbery is (as opposed to God-fearing) the fear of men that allows people to be enslaved by political rulers who are said to be the only ones capable of providing certain goods and services that are arbitrarily deemed to be “public goods.”

• Part 7 – Causing Fear Is How They Rule Us — So Fear God Instead

Building off others that show how (2) man-fearing leads to bondage to men instead of liberty under God, this one points out that inducing fear is an explicit method used by the political rulers to get men to submit to their system of political slavery, and how we can combat it by fearing God alone.

• Part 8 – Fearing God Keeps the Statists Away — Or How to Not Get Enslaved By Political Rulers

This one makes a stronger case than the last one that (1) fearing the Lord, ie., (2) refusing to fear men, is our way of fighting back slavery by the State. Much like part 6, it shows how men get dominated by other men not when they fail to erect a State (as statists tell us), but precisely when they do. Contrary to the statists who tell us “the Chinese would come get us without the US Armed Forces,” this one shows how avoiding statism (which is disobedience to God) is the way to keep away the enslavers, and how setting up alleged “protectors” become the very threat to liberty men thought they were protecting themselves from.

• Part 9 – To Fear God or to Fear Men? These Are Our Choices

This one presents (1) the fear of God or (2) the fear of men as a true dichotomy. Either we fear God, in which case we don’t set up States to “protect us” and live free as a result; or we “fear men,” in which case we think human rulers are necessary for law and order, which brings only slavery, lawlessness, and immense legal plunder.

• Part 10 – Are You Afraid of the Government? Or Do You Fear the Lord?

This is a brief summary of this dichotomy and once more (using the example of voting and worrying about politics) shows how (1) God-fearing men are not bothered by the political actors of our world while (2) those who lack the fear of the Lord believe they need to throw themselves into these systems and participate in them.