PART TWO... RELIGION AND POLITICS
PART TWO --- RELIGION AND POLITICSJuly 14, 1:15 pm
In part one I explained why I wanted to write on this subject: in essence it is just because some Christians falsely believe that God “ordains” individual (political) office holders... He does not! God only ordained the institution of human government, that is where certain men would rule over the affairs of other men.
For a clear example of this let's briefly look at the two other “God ordained” institutions: marriage and the church. If God actually ordains the man and the woman who are married, then that would mean that every single marriage since creation unto the present day was ordained by God. That is each marriage was the perfect choice for the man and for the woman. Of course, we know that is certainly not the case. The marriage institution is God ordained, and it is perfect: however, individual marriages are quite often not of God and certainly not “ordained” by Him. If you believe otherwise let me set up a clear example of this. Is a believer in Christ permitted to “marry” a non-believer? (II Corinthians 6:14: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”) And there is no greater “yoke” on Earth than the marriage relationship. Now, have there been millions of marriages between believers and non-believers? The answer is yes! So, did God ordain an individual marriage that Scripture already forbade? The answer is no! Again, just like in politics, God does not ordain individual office-holders nor individual marriages, He does ordain the institutions of both.
Before I move on let me explain a salient point to those who apparently only know enough Bible to be able to twist and misunderstand it. In I Corinthians 7:10-16 some believe this gives permission for the lost and saved to be married... it does not! Keep in mind, the Bible is not written to or for lost men. The only place the Bible is for lost people is where it tells them how to be saved. Other than that, all of the ordinances, laws, and teachings are for the redeemed of God! The above verses (I Corinthians 7:10-16) are for two people who were lost and had gotten married. Then, sometime during the marriage one had become born-again: those people are permitted to remain married, the wheat and the tare growing together... but a person who was already saved is never permitted to marry a child of the devil. And according to God's Word, that is every person on Earth (John 8:37-44) above the age of knowing who has not been born-again! That is why you can have lost, God-hating men holding the office of the President of the United States and you can have agnostics married to followers of Christ.
The other God-ordained institution is the church. Again, like the other two the church itself is ordained by God... NOT the individual pastors! Let's look to see if this is true? If God ordains every single pastor of every single church, then regardless how heretical their teachings are, according to some, they have been “ordained” by God and that is EXACTLY the person God wanted to head up the local body of believers. Of course, we know that is hogwash. As with the other two institutions, human government and marriage: the church as the institution is what has been ordained and not the individual leader!
People who believe that individual politicians holding office are exactly who God wanted are nothing more than hyper-Calvinists in a political spectrum. (Will someone please find Doris Day and coax her tired old body out of retirement and let's all hold hands and sing, “Que Sera, Sera.”) Think about it, why vote? I mean, God already ordained who he wanted and of course we all have the exact leader He wanted. What a load of garbage that is!!!
From the VERY FIRST king over Israel (Saul) until this present day, we have had and do now have evil men who hold office and by their actions are God-haters and Christ deniers! I Samuel 8:7: “And 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.” God's plan for man (human government) was to have Godly men (judges) rule over His people. However, because men are sinners they did not want to have God rule over them. So, they looked around and saw how the heathens did their government and they wanted to do the same and also have a king over them. Samuel, God's prophet, was rebuking the people when the above verse was given. “And 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, (Samuel) but they have rejected me, (God) that I should not reign over them.
Now, will those who apparently have little Bible understanding at least admit that this WAS NOT AN OFFICE HOLDER THAT GOD HAD CHOSEN! He allowed Saul because of the hard hearts His people had, but Saul was not God's choice! We now have and have had in the past many presidents who, by their actions, are God-haters. This does not mean that God chose them to be leaders. He allows them to be leaders because of the sinful hearts of His followers.
There are times that God specifically will raise up an evil leader, and in that sense He does ordain them at that time and for that period. He did it with Pharaoh and a few others in the Bible. Beware though, if that is what has happened in our country at this time: that is, if Obama was “ordained” or picked by God and God Himself set Obama up... then America is about to be severely punished for its sins. In that sense we get what, as a nation, we deserve!
Look what God promised would happen to Israel if they chose Saul to be king; I Samuel 8 verses 5b-22: “ ...now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And 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. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee, Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.”
All of these bad things happened to Israel... and all because of a terrible choice by them as to who their leader would be. America and its citizens had better be ready to repent and see if God will still be merciful to this nation? You can not elect a man to lead who by his actions is a God-hating Christ denier and expect God to “bless” this nation? Ridiculous!
Americans, more than any other people seem to want to accept someone is saved simply because they say they are. Of course, that is an un-Biblical approach. The Bible knows nothing of accepting a person because of their words only, the Bible expects “proof.” (This is also why there are some mixed up in a works doctrine. It seems they cannot grasp the difference between trying to do “works for your salvation” which is false and “showing works because you are already saved” which is correct.)
In I Timothy chapter five we are told to, “Lay hands suddenly on no man...” Paul, inspired by the Holy Ghost wanted to see some “proof” of salvation. John the Baptist called this proof... “fruits.” When throngs of people (in John's day) came to be baptized by him in the river Jordan... he did not throw his arms open wide and welcome them into the fold. Luke 3:7: “Then he said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” HE CALLED THEM NAMES AND SENT THEM AWAY!!!
He would not baptize them until he saw actual repentance. How do you suppose he expected to see this repentance... by deeds or fruits. John wanted evidence! Obama can say until the cows come home that he is saved, but if all of his fruits (works) are bad, that is evidence of a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is a pretender!
If a lost man like Jon Voight has enough sense to see that Obama is a Jew-hater, why does not those who call themselves children of God (born-again) not see it as well? In part his open letter to the Washington times stated: “You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies...”
You can not willfully kill un-birthed children around the globe as Obama promotes and push the homosexual agenda as he is doing and hate God's chosen people (Jews) as he does and be born-again. That brings me to the last part of this blog. When I pray for the president, and I often do, I never pray that God be with him, or help him, or prosper him, or anything else that could be construed as some sort of blessing on his life. That would clearly be sin for any believer to do this. Until he shows proof of true conversion, BY HIS ACTIONS AND WORKS, I always pray for his and his families souls to be saved! And I do not mean “saved” as the blasphemous teachings of black liberation theology teaches. I mean the only type the Bible knows anything about, getting born-again because of your acceptance of the substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ, God's Holy Son!!!
II John 1:10-11: “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” Now, those verses are particularly speaking about someone who is teaching false doctrine as it related to Jesus the Christ. However, I would not be willing to chance it and ask God to bless any heathen in any of their actions. Think about this. Why would any Christian want a person who hates Jews, kills, un-birthed babies, and promotes aberrant lifestyle choices to be “blessed” in anything that they do?
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posted by Robin Johnson @ 12:55 PM
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