Back in 2000, I wrote an article “Decision 2000” from the Christian perspective on the election and since then my friend things have only gotten worse. Now I am not a gloom and doom kind of guy, but God expects certain things from His children and one thing that is sorely lacking in the Body of Christ is spiritual growth and development. You know you never hear any one speak on spiritual maturity any more, yet it was the heart cry of Peter, James, John and especially Paul. Maybe this is the reason for America’s (me too at times) continual drifting away from God? As much as we hate to admit (and preach the contrary) the affairs of this world often moves the Body of Christ to get involved and influence the political affairs of men (at the cost of their spiritual demise), but sadly when we do this we lose the spiritual high ground. I will be honest I have struggled within my self (because I too love America, I have given 24 years of service in defense of her and do not want to see her continue walking away from God) not to get my heart involved with the election of 2008, for I know my identity in God is not tied to a man, a political party, or a political belief, but is founded, rooted, and settled in being “in Christ” our hope (not in winning the White House or a majority of the Congress or Senate) of glory. Nor is it moved by our economic situation and circumstances. It is God not a man who makes our way prosperous. Those Christians who believe a man can change things to make their way prosperous know not the God of the Bible. Now I did not vote this election, Jesus never got involved with the politics of His day, He was far above the masses of people trying to save a country or an ideology. He had the truth, He is the truth, and expects us to walk in His footsteps. I do not know why so many Christians who say they are not of this world get so emotional, so passionate, and give almost all of their energy and resources to see a political party take power on earth. Could it be they have never really been transformed into the heavenly way of thinking and living? I think so. Jesus kept saying He has no power except what the Father gives Him and He changed the world. We run around like leaves on the wind saying we have the power and change nothing. Oh how foolish we are thinking we can do things outside God. And my friend politics is far far outside of God and His ways. Did you know the concept and practice of voting is not in the Bible. In God, if we really serve Him, we do not get an opportunity to vote on what we want God to do, He is God and does what He wants to do. Those Christians who think they get a voice in what God is doing do not know the one and only true and living God of the Bible. God is not a democrat or republican, He is an autocratic loving dictator and if you do not go His way you cannot be a Christian, your disobedience has willfully forfeited the name (even if we go to church, sing and dance, pay our tithes and offerings, and faithfully serve the Pastor) and are not a son or daughter of God.
Yesterday while Karen and I were raking up some leaves in our yard the Lord began to birth this article in my spirit. I think one of the reasons I like doing yard work is I find the Lord often speaks to me; my big mouth is shut and I can hear His words. One of the first things He spoke was I was to write this article as a father not as a son and parts are prophetic. Now I have already stated I did not vote (nor did Karen), but if we would have voted we would not have voted for some one because they boasted of their tax policy or domestic plan to restore wall street to its former glory or even because of the color of their skin, but we would have voted the Bible. I hear many in the church today say it is okay to vote, just vote your conscience, wrong! If we are a Christian we MUST vote the Bible. If not we have mocked God and called Him a liar. Now this may be strong, but I cannot understand how a Christian can identify with the democratic party; who believes in killing babies (abortion) and who believes sodomy and lesbianism is okay and normal, but God, all through the Bible, has called these lustful (not love) acts sinful and an abomination to Him. These Christians who identify with the democratic party have said in their hearts God is wrong, we know better, they have said God is a liar and mock God’s Holy Scriptures. You cannot believe in some things the political parties believe and reject others. It is like believing in the Bible, we must believe it all (every verse) or we must believe none of it. There is no defense of this, no words or spin can change the fact they have turned their backs on God, because they have been blinded by generational traditions and deceived by the gods of this world. They all stand guilty before God and must repent while they still have air in their lungs and there is time. Jesus said, “either you are for me or you are against me.” Either you believe what I say is true or you do not believe my words and have called me a liar in your hearts, actions, and associations. James talks about these types of so called Christians, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:5-8) “Ask in faith nothing wavering” to what? What we believe or what we want to see is true? No, to what God has said is true in His words and revelation. The Bible (God’s written word) is the standard and no family tradition, self-belief, or political cause can change that eternal truth. A Christian that identifies with the democratic party “wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” because they have known the truth, but fail to agree with God what He is saying is true and now they are “double minded” (going in two directions in their heart at the same time) and “unstable in all their ways.” Now the Bible says, “all their ways” (when the Bible says “all” it means all not some or a few) not just the way of wrong thinking, but everything they say, do, and think they are unstable in it. They have shaken their fist at God in defiance, like Nimrod and his people, “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven (presumption: man desiring to go up in his heart, the opposition of what God expects in us to go down in our thinking and heart condition); and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” (Genesis 11:3-7) These folks too called God a liar in their hearts, actions, and associations and God showed up to correct their disobedience. Please do not think I am endorsing a political party, I am not. My friend our disobedience (oh me) to God will always be dealt with by Him. Oh He may wait 10, 20, maybe 50 years, but make no mistake our disobedience as a person and as a country will be dealt with.
Please do not think the winner of election 2008 was elected by man, oh no God is the power that elects a man to a place of authority. If you think man elects man you are wrong in your approach to God. “But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” (Psalm 75:7) The winner was selected not by the popular vote or even the electoral college, but by God according to the hearts of the people. The nation of Israel was led by Prophet Samuel, but they wanted to be like every body else and have a king, so, “The LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.” (1 Samuel 8:7) The people were not rejecting Samuel, but (like most people and many churches today in America) were rejecting God. Thus God raised us a king after the heart of the people. (read 1 Samuel 8:11-17 for complete understanding)
The Bible says, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:32) If as a people we do not stand for “righteousness” how can God exalt our nation? He can not. How can God go against His word? He will not. My friend sadly, I believe God has raised us a king or leader (like Saul), after the hearts of the America people, to fashion America (like He did Israel) as a vessel for dishonor because America has chosen to shake her fist at God’s words and what He says is true. How can God exalt a nation if so called Christians embrace things that are ungodly? How can Christians (republican and democratic alike) embrace unrighteous practices, ungodly behaviors, and engage in the deception of politics trying to win favor, influence, and money from a political parties? And we think God will wink or turn His head at this? Oh no my friend we have deceived our selves and the truth is not in us. I have not been moved to write this article because my man did not win (the only man we vote for is Jesus) the election, oh no my friend I have been moved by the Spirit of God to share His heart and give warning to the critical need to change our heart condition and maybe God will relent from His wrathful plans and once again America will come under the shadow of the Almighty God. God will use our enemies to chastise us. God will allow our wealth to be carried away. I really believe God has raised up leaders to lead America as a vessel of dishonor because of her continued slide and waywardness from the truth in the word of God and from God Himself. “Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? 22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: “ (Romans 9:21-22) They were chosen by God based not on their ability, talents, and skills, but based on the heart condition of the people and for His divine and sovereign purposes. My friend God will not allow us or America to play fast and loose with Him. There is an end to God’s longsuffering. You see from God’s perspective it not about an election, but about the righteousness of the people within a nation. There is no such thing as a Christian nation, but there can be a nation of many Christians. Christians that are not double minded, Christians that believe the word of God in their hearts, actions and associations. My friend unless we humble our selves under the mighty hand of God I fear He will come quickly and remove America’s candle stick from the world. Let us be, “ . . . clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5) Let us, “Humble ourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” (1 Peter 5:6) and heal our land before it is too late.
Yesterday while Karen and I were raking up some leaves in our yard the Lord began to birth this article in my spirit. I think one of the reasons I like doing yard work is I find the Lord often speaks to me; my big mouth is shut and I can hear His words. One of the first things He spoke was I was to write this article as a father not as a son and parts are prophetic. Now I have already stated I did not vote (nor did Karen), but if we would have voted we would not have voted for some one because they boasted of their tax policy or domestic plan to restore wall street to its former glory or even because of the color of their skin, but we would have voted the Bible. I hear many in the church today say it is okay to vote, just vote your conscience, wrong! If we are a Christian we MUST vote the Bible. If not we have mocked God and called Him a liar. Now this may be strong, but I cannot understand how a Christian can identify with the democratic party; who believes in killing babies (abortion) and who believes sodomy and lesbianism is okay and normal, but God, all through the Bible, has called these lustful (not love) acts sinful and an abomination to Him. These Christians who identify with the democratic party have said in their hearts God is wrong, we know better, they have said God is a liar and mock God’s Holy Scriptures. You cannot believe in some things the political parties believe and reject others. It is like believing in the Bible, we must believe it all (every verse) or we must believe none of it. There is no defense of this, no words or spin can change the fact they have turned their backs on God, because they have been blinded by generational traditions and deceived by the gods of this world. They all stand guilty before God and must repent while they still have air in their lungs and there is time. Jesus said, “either you are for me or you are against me.” Either you believe what I say is true or you do not believe my words and have called me a liar in your hearts, actions, and associations. James talks about these types of so called Christians, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:5-8) “Ask in faith nothing wavering” to what? What we believe or what we want to see is true? No, to what God has said is true in His words and revelation. The Bible (God’s written word) is the standard and no family tradition, self-belief, or political cause can change that eternal truth. A Christian that identifies with the democratic party “wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” because they have known the truth, but fail to agree with God what He is saying is true and now they are “double minded” (going in two directions in their heart at the same time) and “unstable in all their ways.” Now the Bible says, “all their ways” (when the Bible says “all” it means all not some or a few) not just the way of wrong thinking, but everything they say, do, and think they are unstable in it. They have shaken their fist at God in defiance, like Nimrod and his people, “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven (presumption: man desiring to go up in his heart, the opposition of what God expects in us to go down in our thinking and heart condition); and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” (Genesis 11:3-7) These folks too called God a liar in their hearts, actions, and associations and God showed up to correct their disobedience. Please do not think I am endorsing a political party, I am not. My friend our disobedience (oh me) to God will always be dealt with by Him. Oh He may wait 10, 20, maybe 50 years, but make no mistake our disobedience as a person and as a country will be dealt with.
Please do not think the winner of election 2008 was elected by man, oh no God is the power that elects a man to a place of authority. If you think man elects man you are wrong in your approach to God. “But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” (Psalm 75:7) The winner was selected not by the popular vote or even the electoral college, but by God according to the hearts of the people. The nation of Israel was led by Prophet Samuel, but they wanted to be like every body else and have a king, so, “The LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.” (1 Samuel 8:7) The people were not rejecting Samuel, but (like most people and many churches today in America) were rejecting God. Thus God raised us a king after the heart of the people. (read 1 Samuel 8:11-17 for complete understanding)
The Bible says, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:32) If as a people we do not stand for “righteousness” how can God exalt our nation? He can not. How can God go against His word? He will not. My friend sadly, I believe God has raised us a king or leader (like Saul), after the hearts of the America people, to fashion America (like He did Israel) as a vessel for dishonor because America has chosen to shake her fist at God’s words and what He says is true. How can God exalt a nation if so called Christians embrace things that are ungodly? How can Christians (republican and democratic alike) embrace unrighteous practices, ungodly behaviors, and engage in the deception of politics trying to win favor, influence, and money from a political parties? And we think God will wink or turn His head at this? Oh no my friend we have deceived our selves and the truth is not in us. I have not been moved to write this article because my man did not win (the only man we vote for is Jesus) the election, oh no my friend I have been moved by the Spirit of God to share His heart and give warning to the critical need to change our heart condition and maybe God will relent from His wrathful plans and once again America will come under the shadow of the Almighty God. God will use our enemies to chastise us. God will allow our wealth to be carried away. I really believe God has raised up leaders to lead America as a vessel of dishonor because of her continued slide and waywardness from the truth in the word of God and from God Himself. “Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? 22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: “ (Romans 9:21-22) They were chosen by God based not on their ability, talents, and skills, but based on the heart condition of the people and for His divine and sovereign purposes. My friend God will not allow us or America to play fast and loose with Him. There is an end to God’s longsuffering. You see from God’s perspective it not about an election, but about the righteousness of the people within a nation. There is no such thing as a Christian nation, but there can be a nation of many Christians. Christians that are not double minded, Christians that believe the word of God in their hearts, actions and associations. My friend unless we humble our selves under the mighty hand of God I fear He will come quickly and remove America’s candle stick from the world. Let us be, “ . . . clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5) Let us, “Humble ourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” (1 Peter 5:6) and heal our land before it is too late.
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