Post Election Wrap-up

Well, that didn't go like I thought it was going to. I am disappointed and I am sad for our country, but do not despair, because God is still God and he is in control of the affairs of men.

I pray for President Obama. He is a husband, father, and a soul. I pray that he will hear the true and saving gospel. I pray that God, in his common grace, would direct his mind and give him wisdom.  He is the commander in chief and has the lives of many of our men and women in his hand. Proverbs 21:1  The king's (and President’s) heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

I pray, that by God’s grace, he would grant that His elect be able to live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty here in this country. We have had so much freedom - to write, to preach, to witness, to worship, to broadcast over the airwaves. Let’s face it - we are on our way to being socialist nation now because that is what the majority of Americans wanted. Secular and socialistic countries eventually will limit speech. To what degree, it remains to be seen, but I pray that it doesn't.

I pray that God would give grace to His people in this country and that we will do the will of God as citizens and “put to silence the ignorance of foolish men” and by living submissive and godly lives, by living for King Jesus (I Peter 2).

                                                                                                                                                      

I pray that we will remember that the election did not take God by surprise.

If you have a few moments read the introduction to A.W Pink's Sovereignty of God today. After you finish this, of course!

I pray that my words, thoughts, prayers today will be seasoned with love. Love for my neighbors  love for my Saviour, and love for my fellow citizens. May we be salt and light. 

I pray that Governor Romney will come to know the Lord Jesus Christ in saving faith.  

Luke 10:2  “The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.” - Jesus Christ

I pray that people who trusted the Republican Party, and who are now without hope, will find that Jesus Christ is the only true Hope of humanity. Christ is already victorious over death and those that put their trust in His finished work on the cross and His resurrection have eternal life. There will be a lot of conservative pundits trying to give people hope in the next election cycle. I hope they hear a preacher of the gospel today. 

I pray that those that are currently putting their trust in the Democratic Party will become equally disillusioned.

Socialism and class warfare is another name for covetousness. As God’s people, let’s use God’s terminology and wield the Sword of the Spirit. The sword of Ronald Reagan is a Nerf toy.

God's judgment is not coming. We have been in the midst of it for a while (Romans 1:18-32). However, let it move us to be more like Paul "So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel..." Romans 1:15

Government is given by God as a common grace to restrain evil. The government’s job is greatly hindered when those in charge call evil good and good evil. That is where we come in. It is our job to call good, good. It is our job to call evil, evil.

I pray this will finally give Christians a realistic view of the country. We are not a Christian nation - we are a secular nation. I hope that this finally displays that superficial, non-Lordship salvation, nominal cultural Christianity that has been so prominent has bore its rotten fruit and been worse for this country than either party could be. President Obama ran on a pro-abortion platform, mentioning Planned Parenthood no less than four times in the town hall debate, and yet a nation that is supposedly a majority Christian nation, overwhelmingly supported him. Combine that with the advances that the homosexual marriage results, there should be little doubt about the souls of our fellow citizenry. But that is a good thing, in a way. It is far better to be awakened to the truth than to continue to believe a lie.

Ronald Reagan is not going to come back, and there is only one Good Man on a white horse (Rev. 19:11) that will save us, and he isn't coming to “restore American” (Psalm 2) and there is none good but God. Stop waiting for a political Saviour. Serve the only Saviour.

I pray that this wakes us up. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. (Rom 13:11-14)

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential cause of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars".--Will Durant in Caesar and Christ. HT: The Imaginative Conservative

In 1352 Pope Clement VI issued a decree for a “purification” of France of the Baptist.  In “The History of the Waldenses” by J.A. Wylie it is documented how many of the Baptist were saved from the sword.  

“The zeal of the Pope, however, was but indifferently seconded by that of the secular lords. The men they were enjoined to exterminate were the most industrious and peaceable of their subjects; and willing as they no doubt were to oblige the Pope, they were naturally averse to incur so great a loss as would be caused by the destruction of the flower of their populations.” 

 These godly Anabaptists, who suffered the heavy hand of persecution, were the prize citizens of their country.  Our government should look upon the populous and say that if every citizen acted like the Christians, this country would be a better place. If we suffer, if we are persecuted and hated, let it be for righteousness sake, not for the Republican or Democratic Party’s sake.

In Christ, you have a living hope because you have a living Saviour. 1 Peter 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Grace & Peace,

Doug