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Direct Answer Based on Bercot’s teaching, the same suspicion shows up whenever Christians assume God’s commands (like submission, truthfulness, meekness, and peacemaking) will harm them—so they look for “necessary” exceptions when obedience feels risky.

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• Bercot says what was spiritually lacking was “faith and trust,” because the colonists “didn't really believe that God had their best interests at heart when He gave His laws.”
• He ties that distrust to the fear that obedience would bring loss: they were “colossal[ly] anxi[ous] over what would happen to them if they obeyed God's law and peacefully paid their taxes.”
• They believed submission would lead to Britain taking “all of their rights and liberties.”
• He contrasts that with the confidence God calls for: “The Lord is my helper, I will not fear,” and God’s promise, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
• He portrays obedience as never defeating God’s good purpose: “Can anyone thwart God’s purpose by obeying Him? Of course not.”