The cure for the United States

There is a lot of talk about the mid-term elections this year. The elections, we are told, will be a chance to save the Republic, to vote out the representatives that are not representing the will of the people. Politically, that is true; the elections will prove to be crucial to the future of our nation. Will that save us? No, unfortunately it will not.

What the United States needs, is the gospel being faithfully proclaimed, and the Merciful Lord granting revival. That is the only hope of our Republic. Shuffling around career politicians will not do for the country what needs to be done. There needs to be salvation, repentance and trusting and following the Lord Jesus Christ.
Think about Jonah 3:1-10. He was commanded of God to go and preach in Nineveh.

Nineveh was a great city, and extremely wicked. The people of Nineveh were barbaric and unmerciful to their enemies. They were a false god worshiping, war and fear mongering people. What was needed? Regime change? Perhaps that would have changed the course of Nineveh, but they would have been no better off. Replacing one ungodly heathen with another to lead a city would have made no difference. The people did make a drastic change, individually and politically. The answer was the gospel.

Jonah preached about the wrath of God, and I believe that they saw the sign of Jonah, three days and nights in the fish’s belly, seeing the mercy of God and a picture of Christ dying, being buried and rising from the dead. The city was changed, wickedness ceased and the city was a new city. God did not judge Nineveh because the Nineveh that He was going to destroy was no longer there. Old sins had passed away, and all things became new. They were new creatures in Christ, the old Nineveh was gone, and there were a new people, a new city. Hugh Martin said that they city couldn’t have been more new if they had rebuilt every building in the whole city. They had forgiveness of their sins, they believed in Christ for salvation, the repented and followed the Lord.

We have a responsibility to vote, and if God has called you to serve in the government, I hope you do well. Jonah, as he preached in the midst of the city, preached the message that God had sent him to proclaim. Jonah preached, Jonah gave the gospel, and whether anyone reacted to it did not matter; he was going to be faithful. This man of God was not giving advice or selfhelp, but what he was preaching was powerful, was living, the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18;21 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. By the preaching of God’s word, we see the great miracle in the book of Jonah. A group of people worshipping idol gods now have turned from their whole lifestyle, thoughts, and worldview and have radically changed unto God fearing men and women. It was not because of a natural disaster, it was not because of a new king and new philosophy, but by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. The means was not fire from the sky, or a vision from angels, but a preacher, preaching a very simple message.

Jesus Christ is the only hope.


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Douglas Newell IV