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SUBJECTION TO THE AUTHORITIES 201
God. Jesus resolved the question for us of whether
it is lawful to God to do so : "Is it lawful to pay
tribute to Caesar or not?" Shown a denarius with
Caesar's image and inscription upon it, Jesus said
to his questioners : "Pay back, therefore, Caesar's
things to Caesar, but God's things to God ." Matthew
22 :17-21, NW Caesar coined his own money
and did not accept Jewish coins as tax money ; and
so we must pay back Caesar or worldly political
powers the coins made and which are required in
tax payment. Through governmental operations
"Caesar" renders us numerous services and we
owe it therefore to pay our taxes . Thus we pay
him back for the services he renders and from
which we get earthly benefits, such as public service
utilities and facilities, public schooling, postal
service, fire prevention and protection, police service,
roads and streets, etc . So pay him conscientiously
for earthly services rendered . But none of
such services require our worshiping Caesar and
none are worthy of it. He cannot buy our worship
with such things . None of such things buy or provide
for us everlasting life, and none of such
things are worth our lives, so that we should lay
down our lives for "Caesar" in any cause . Our
life now and in the future is from the great Lifegiver
: "With thee is the fountain of life ." "Salvation
belongeth unto Jehovah." Psalms 36 :9 ; 3 :8,
ASV "For God loved the world so much that
he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone
exercising faith in him might not be destroyed
but have everlasting life ."-John 3 :16, NW.