Do You Trust God To Be Involved In Politics?

Where everybody, in this post election season, where are we? Where are you? And how is it going? And I mean this with a great sense of sincerity because in the states in which you live in, it is predominantly now for your particular jurisdiction heading on to the general election come November. For those of you and I know there's many of you who do and thank you for watching who are international, America when it votes is the only nation in the world that when America votes, it affects the rest of the world. People don't often realize that in the United States, but what Americans need to realize is that when we vote, the rest of the world is watching because listen, the voting results affect Cuba. The voting results affect how it's going to go in Iran. The voting of America affects trade, environmental issues, commerce issues. In fact, the list is infinite. A lot of people don't realize that the United States when we vote, how we vote for whom we vote affects maritime safety. Did you know that the United States is the single number one player in maritime safety when it comes to the keeping the economy at sea moving and awarding off piracy is done by the United States Coast Guard and the US military around the world. When America votes, people still to this day and in many nations when America votes, they watch and see what they should do about the particular policies or the type of candidate that was elected. You have seen this profound effect. I don't know what you want to call it. Just as there are those people who have DTS, Donald Trump syndrome, the equal of realities, there are those who have the Donald Trump syndrome in what would be in the positive sense. What do you mean by that? There are many countries that since Trump was elected in his first term, a lot of countries elected candidates that had much or variations of the Donald Trump effect in business, understanding, savviness when it comes to contracts. Why would that be important? Because governments of nations are really boardrooms of big companies. I know that many of the progressives don't even want to hear that because they're against actually governments that understand and view that. They're against governments that function, that work. Progressive liberals are very anti-republic. They're very pro-democracy. America is not that. America is a republic. It's not a democracy. But a lot of nations will look to us because America leads the way. Good, bad, or ugly, America leads the way. And that is a very great thing. Jesus said to whom much is given, much is required. So think about for a moment, the great benefits that you have been given in life. Call them privileges. We all have them. You have them. If somebody's watching right now saying, I don't have any privileges. Yes, you do. You first of all have the privilege to say that you don't have any privileges because you probably live in somewhat of a free country. You are free enough to be watching this technology right now. So you are privileged. To be honest with you, I've never gotten caught up into the privileged label for this reason. I don't care what color you are. I don't care how poor you are or how rich you are. I don't care how middle class you are. If you have a heartbeat and you can think if you're privileged, I'm privileged because I have eyes that can see. And I have legs that work. I'm privileged. So I want you to think about this for a moment. We are now in a midterm primary post primary election season. And now it's pushing hard for many states to the finish line in November. Why is it important? Before I answer that question, it's time for me now to say this. In this last election, in many ways, either A, Christians proved that they should actually stay out of politics because they just don't have the bandwidth to take their faith into the political decision-making process. You see what you mean? For a lot of Christians, this is their first rodeo and they couldn't function in their Christianity and insert their Christianity into the secular world of politics, which frankly, I say secular world, I say that I say that kind of tongue in cheek sarcastically because I don't believe in any secular realm that is excluded from the spiritual realm. How about this? The secular realm is often void of righteousness because of Christians' apathy and or ignorance to insert themselves into the darkness. Now, I have a great, great allergic reaction to that. I personally believe that our faith as Christians and being a Christian means I am super resilient, I am super capable and super able to take on any warfare of any type. I believe this is true for every Christian. When I go into the theological realm, if I have a comment or insert into the political realm, the media realm, the influential realm or influencing realm, I don't care what it is. I do not care what it is as a Christian because I know the word of God, I have input into that realm. I do not and I will never excise myself out of anything that this world throws at me. Why? Because I am a Christian. You see, Jack, I hear Christians say because they are Christians, they don't get involved in this or that or the other thing. Yeah, you should ask them why? You should ask them why they surrendered their influence and limited their ability to be salt and light. Why did they limit themselves? Now, listen, some people got involved in these last elections, but they didn't have, again, as I say, the bandwidth to handle themselves in it. So a lot of people are either they are Christians and old ways got a hold of them. They say they are Christians, but you are not even sure if they really are. A lot is now known, isn't it? Or it is to be known. Many Christians who were going to vote or did vote or maybe didn't vote or maybe because they are, maybe because their mascot was in the race, they just threw down their toys and they went and buried their talent, their influence under a basket. They will have to answer to God on that one and that is going to be a whopper. But many, many people in the faith-based community have proved themselves to be so immature and so incapable of actually functioning in the rough and tumble bloody world of engaging darkness. And this has been a great and fantastic, what's the word? I don't want to say diagnosis because that's too ahead of it. What I'm trying to say means this. The X-ray was taken, right? Button was pressed, right? The X-ray is shot and then the image is put up on the wall lights and we see the broken bones or we see the tumor in the X-ray imaging. And when we put the imaging up in a post-election era like right now, we see that many people were incapable who were Christians of being able to understand what the Bible has always made clear. And so they voted with emotions. They didn't vote with their brains, they didn't vote with logic, they didn't vote with reason, they didn't vote. Well, the reason why is because their particular candidate he or she was the closest thing to Jesus that they've ever seen. And so their candidate didn't make it and so they didn't go vote. And I want that to sink in for a moment. By not engaging in the process to block evil, you set it out, you insulted as it were the blood of tens of thousands, of hundreds of thousands, if not more, of those who founded this nation and maintained this nation so that we might have the freedom to, as Ben Franklin said, keep the republic. An able-bodied, healthy individual physically walked out on voting because their emotions got dinged. Like somebody who has a brand new car, who worships it, but it got a little scratch on the door and now all hope is lost. And those are people that I hope are few but I don't think they are. I think there's a lot of them and sadly they're in the camp of what is called Christian. But I'm going to, I'm going to read to you what is Christian. And so to be Christian is to take in the entire word of God from Genesis to Revelation. And so I want to read this to you. It's Isaiah chapter 44 beginning at verse 28. And this applies to all of us in this, in the national elections and in state elections and in county elections and in our local elections. Who says of Cyrus? He is my shepherd and he shall perform all my pleasure. Same to Jerusalem, you shall be built. And to the temple, your foundation shall be laid. Chapter 45 verse 1, it continues on. Thus says the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held. This is amazing. God is speaking to a pagan. A pagan, King Cyrus. He says to subdue nations before him and to lose the armor of kings to open before him the double doors so that the gate will not be shut. God is speaking to Cyrus. He was not a Jew. He was a pagan worshipping King. And God calls him his anointed, his shepherd, his instrument. And God is saying, I'm blessing this man because I'm going to use him. I understand that completely. I hope some of you do. I wish all of you would. But the results of this last election proves that Christians they don't believe Christians do not believe in this section of Isaiah that God could be that sovereign. Could God ever use someone that doesn't meet their standards? Could God use someone in my life, Jack, in my life that doesn't meet my standards? Is that even possible? Can God use somebody in this world? Would God call somebody in this world? Who doesn't meet Jack standards? How about this? Would God call someone into power who doesn't even meet his standards? God standards. The Bible is full of this. When it comes to politics, that's what God does. Did you ever stop to think about that? It's what he does. So, for example, Nebuchadnezzar, Babylonian king, pagan worship, Nebuchadnezzar worshiped 360 gods. Some of them, some of those guys represented abortion, mollock, deities. God says, Nebuchadnezzar is my servant. See, God can handle that. You can't handle that. I don't mean you, but I'm being sarcastic right now, and I'm trying to speak in a way that you can maybe use this podcast where, nope, I can't vote for her. All right, I can't vote for him. Nope, not gonna do it. I'm just gonna go home. I'm gonna let the bad guys win. Do you trust God enough to actually be involved in politics, or are we the only ones that are involved in politics? Is God involved in politics? What do you think? What do you think the Bible says? Doesn't God say I'm gonna make Josiah king? That's politics. God says I'm gonna pick David to be king. That's politics. Hey, when the people of Israel wanted God to get out of their lives, they wanted King Saul. And God says, give them King Saul. I'm gonna give them King Saul. God did that. He let them have that. Nicodemus at the time of Jesus. Jesus didn't avoid Nicodemus. Jesus dealt with him. He said, yeah, but he wasn't a pagan. He wasn't a pagan, but he wasn't. He wasn't representing team God. Nicodemus happened to have a very high ranking religious position among those in Judaism, but he wasn't biblical. Nicodemus followed the traditions of man, not the Bible. What about Garius? What about Arctic zertes? Are King Ahazurus in the days of Esther? These are all pagans. And God moved in their lives. And no wonder why the Bible says God sets up kings. And he brings kings down. That is God sets up leaders and he takes leaders down. But at the same token, God also in the Scripture tells us, choose today whom you'll serve. You can vote today whom you'll serve. And so God gave you, do you understand? God gave us a republic in America and all of our states and counties and cities. God gave us a responsibility that's to be the model of the world. Pick your leaders. And so what do you do with that responsibility? So post-election midterms, I am happy to report that my conscience is 100% crystal clear on those that I voted for because for each and every one of them, I have my reasons. And then I match them up against my biblical understanding of God's standards. And then I applied my prayerful vote to my feet. And I went and cast my ballot. And then because and only then that those who did what I did, and I'm not saying because of me, but we did it together, whatever we did, no matter the outcome, the outcomes God's business, if I do what he tells me to do, I now can rest in the outcome because God's in control for either judgment or for righteousness. Listen, Genesis to Revelation, it goes one way or the other and God says, you pick. So that's why he says in 2 Chronicles 7, 14, if a nation will acknowledge me by repenting of their sins, turning from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, and I will heal their land. Yes, that's a promise to Israel, but if you read the context of 2 Chronicles 7 carefully, that promise goes to any nation that makes the God their Lord. Happy as the nation, whose God is the Lord says the Bible. And so this is very, very important. So with the post stuff of the primaries, we are now heading toward the general election. And in all the 50 states, I'm not concerned about how the progressive liberals going to vote. I already know how they're going to vote. In fact, jokingly I say, maybe not, jokingly I say, I know how they're going to vote five times wherever they're at. They're progressive liberals. It's what they do. They never said they wouldn't do it. Voter fraud seems to traffic in one particular area the most. That's going to continue. That's not going to stop. That said, did you know that the Christian, in fact, a great friend of mine, former congressman of Ohio, said something to me and it's brilliant. He said, you know, Democrats, they fight until they win. He says Republicans fight until they lose. I want you to hear this. I want you to see this for a moment. Democrats fight until they win. Republicans fight until they lose. In other words, one team will not give up. They won't stop. The other team will endure for a little bit and then when it doesn't go their way, they collapse. That's the Republicans. The Republicans have a tendency to collapse. Democrats fight until they win. Why? Because first of all, for Democrats, if you read the program for the Democrat Party in America and in your state, Democrats do not acknowledge the existence of God. That makes government their God. That's why big government is their big God. Democrats are famous for big government. Why? Because they want a big God, lowercase G, and there are many so-called Christians who occupy the independent or Republican camp and the downside to that is, well, I voted and it didn't turn out so I never vote again. No. What you do is you double down on good. You keep doing good no matter what and you keep pushing forward and no matter what the outcome is, as long as you're doing righteousness, you can sleep well at night. You can surrender the outcome to the Lord Jesus and understand clearly that what just happened is either a movement towards righteousness or a movement towards coming judgment. And frankly, either one's good for me because I want God's will to be done and God is holy just and Abraham said this, shall not the Lord of all the earth do right? Yes. But God wants us to do good. He wants us to have good leaders. He wants us to be people who seek mercy and justice and walk with him. And so I think this is an important lesson and a time for us to learn wherever we are in America today is that we would understand that the post-election results are a X-ray of my private belief in God. It's an X-ray showing my actual obedience to God or not. The X-ray shows that if I am healthy or not, the X-ray shows that God knows all things. He sees all things. And so whatever state you're in, whatever if you're in Puerto Rico even, what are some of those other areas that Guam stay focused? Do your God ordained responsibility to vote for the person even if they're listening? It's possible that the person that's got the best credentials for the closest alignment of your biblical worldview values that are found in the Bible, not your feelings, not your feelings, not your jersey that you're wearing, not your association with any particular costume. But Bible that you would vote for that individual, I gotta tell you, if an individual is running in a vote that I have my vote to be cast, if there's a pro-life Democrat, if there is a conservative Democrat versus a liberal Republican, a rhino, I'm probably voting for the Democrat. You want to know why? Because I'm not loyal to any political party or individual, but God who leads. And many people can't handle that because their God is too small. They can't handle that because they've got to get in there and they've got to make it happen. And that's unfortunate. And so this is a great, great time of reflection for a little bit. And then get your gloves on and get your boots on and get moving because as you head towards November, in your city, there's going to be elections. Very important elections. In your county, very important elections. In your state, again, very important elections. And in your nation, you will be voting for senators and Washington DC, congressmen and women and Washington DC. Yeah, a lot of power. God has given every single one of you I'm speaking to who come November will be at the age. You have to be, I think, 18 on the day. If you're going to be 18 before the vote in November, wow, you get to vote. And it's your biblical stewardship to vote in a way that is the best for the country. Always remembering Jesus will not be on the ballot. Always remembering. And then I want to leave this with you. If there's team independent and there's team Democrat and team Republican, those teams will do their best to make it to the finish. In some way, shape or form, there may be that this candidate is going to win. They have the high probability. They're polling the highest. They're out ahead. They're looking good. Well, they're not exactly my cup of tea. Stop talking about tea and realize how do we defeat evil? Well, I take my endorsement of A who's not going to be elected and I apply my endorsement to B who has a great chance of being elected. And then I tell all my friends who were in camp A to go vote for camp B because why? Because we wanted to be evil. And just because your person may not make it or didn't make it, you don't throw your toys down and act like a knucklehead. What you do is now you move over to your second best choice. Why? You do that to block evil. And this is going to apply to a lot of people in the United States. Remember that. So please Christian, team Christian, team Jesus. Let's show ourselves worthy. This coming November and not be silly immature and stupid about letting your jersey color get in the way of victory for the glory of God and for righteousness sake. That's a lot of horse sense, horse knowledge. I mean that in a good way. Horse sense where down to earth sense. That's that's that's some that sounds crazy, but yeah, that works. Yep, it's usable. So yeah, let's let's keep moving forward and let's keep fighting. Let's keep doing the right thing. And bottom line is this we need to always pray that God forgives our nation by first of all forgiving us. Nowhere does God call the unbeliever to repent before him regarding the sins of the nation. He's never asked them. He's always asked the believer to repent before him for the sins of their nation. Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. I could go on and on. Isaiah. So Christians pray repent of your sins and ask God to heal heal our land. Starting where you live first. Amen. Amen.