Please try to explain it to me like I was a third grader (which, I may be).
I probably picked a poor example to post to, but it seems to fit for me.
As I said, our preacher was talking about how Paul said we need to be ruled by our leaders as God put them in a position of power. (He also talked about the opposite of that idea with regards to Moses and the Pharoah, the Babylonians, our Founding Fathers, etc.)
But, one of the things Paul wrote was something like that governments are put in place by God to punish the bad guys and reward the good guys.
So, as a Christian I look at that tidbit as my “way out” of not having to look at the Obama Administration as “being put there by God” and to be ruled under it. Not very Christian I suppose to be looking for the way out, but...
Of course Abortion has been the law of the land for a long time. Abortion clinics are protected, laws are passed, etc. In my opinion, and from what I can understand from the Bible, probably God’s opinion too - Abortion is evil. I don’t know if I would go so far as saying abortion doctors are evil - but they are “evil-doers”. And our government rewards them.
I guess your comment regarding if the govenment had taken care of this abortion doctor this other guy wouldn’t have had to was what prompted my thoughts.
Perhaps my thoughts aren’t so clear to myself - much less trying to explain to someone else! I just find it hard to believe that an Obama administration was placed there by God. Except perhaps in the form of a punishment against us.