Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Should Preachers Address Polital Issues?


November 17
I often hear people suggest Christians should not be involved in politics. I respectfully have disagree and apparently so does God. The long line of politician/prophets is impressive. Beginning with Joseph who became the equivalent of Vice President to the Pharaoh, moving to Samuel who was Chief White House Counsel to four kings, then on to David who was the President (king) of Israel, Ezra was Chief White House Counsel to a king. Nehemiah became the governor of the province of Israel under Cyrus and Darius, Jonah went to the king of Nineveh and told him if he and his subjects didn’t quit tolerating sin in his kingdom God was going to destroy it, and the list goes on. I suggest what America needs desperately today is a Christian man who is not willing to compromise biblical values to get elected and become our next President.

What we need are Christian men running for every political office they can possibly win and upon winning it to begin ministering in that office as God’s representative to a lost nation. Most of all, what we need in America is for Christians to stop sitting on their sacroiliacs and begin speaking up, running for public office, and insisting this nation return to the principles upon which it was founded. Abortion is not a right, homosexuality is not an alternative lifestyle (it is an abominable sin and a direct affront to God), adultery is a capital crime, prostitution is a curse on any nation, drunks aren’t sick, they’re fools, women need to take care of their husbands and home school their children; murder, rape, kidnapping, and idolatry are also capital crimes;

I am discovering, thanks to a new technological wonder, Face Book, just how low we have sunk and the picture is worse than I could have imagined. In the two years I have been out of the public school system, I would estimate the decline in public morality has doubled among teens. Of course, while teaching one always has a few students he is quite confident will be drunken losers all their lives. He wishes it weren’t so, but there are so many signs to confirm it that he just raises his eyebrows in disapproval and prays for the best. Then there are those He is usually confident will do well, get a degree, a good job, get married, have 2 ½ children, and live happily ever after. I probably had a couple of thousand students in 18 years of teaching. I’m aware of about six that haven’t had children out of wedlock, many by multiple fathers, many have died in alcohol related auto accidents, more than one by suicide, and I lost count of those who shacked up for several years before moving on or getting married for a couple of years and then moving on.

Christians are sitting comfortably in church pews week after week, many of whom are living out of wedlock with someone, and some of those couples are of the same sex. Congressmen are being charged almost daily with fraud, theft of financial funds (they like to call it misappropriation), failure to pay their taxes, failure to declare income, sexually assaulting members of their staff, pedophilia, and blatant lying under oath to investigative committees. We have probably killed more babies in the past thirty years than the totality of the rest of the nations of the world.

It’s difficult for me to imagine why God has not already completely destroyed this ungodly nation. Certainly, He is trying to get our attention with earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, mine disasters, volcanic eruptions, devastating snow storms, attacks like the one on 9/11, and really poor decisions by our leaders about sending our soldiers to fight other country’s wars. I will close today’s devotion with this final thought: If God’s children in this country don’t get into politics and quickly get this problem turned around, if God’s church in America doesn’t repent, turn from their wicked ways, and call upon Him for deliverance, I fear we haven’t snowball’s chance in hell of lasting another decade as a world power and maybe as a nation. And that’s His word for us today.

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