10 years ago, if I said marriage is between a man and woman, few would disagree.
30 years ago if I said that homosexuality is not acceptable before God, few would disagree.
40 years ago if I said that abortion is wrong, few would disagree. But now people will say I’m too political.
It was on July 2, 1945 that Lyndon Johnson faced a tough campaign against a couple individuals who used 501(c) 3 secular organizations. Johnson authored the Johnson amendment to congress that imposed restrictions on 501(c) 3 organizations from making political speeches, comments and commentary. It was not intended to restrict churches, but the devil used it to hinder and stifle churches from speaking their conscience.
I have always considered you wise enough to make solid biblical decisions, so I have not from the pulpit made significant appeals, proclamations or exhortations regarding how you should vote. I still believe you are wise enough to understand biblical mandates and truth, however, I speak today as an encouragement for you to realize your Christian responsibility to vote.
The present administration did inherit a mess, but the mess is even greater now in several areas. Morality is spinning out of control, economics are sliding off the chart, infrastructure is failing, and the family is becoming weaker. The US security is weaker across the world, the flag is disdained by most countries and the US is targeted by radicals by a three point plan to dismember our strength to bring us under Sharia law. The reason for all of this is because we as a nation are turning from our spiritual moorings and worship of Jesus Christ. We saw this in our study of Chronicles time and time again when God raised up enemy forces to cause Israel’s attention to return to the Lord.
I have read most of the GOP and DNC platforms.
Let me give you four issues for you to consider:
1) I believe Scripture teaches that life begins in the womb and any party or person promoting ending that life at the choice of a person, even the mother, shows a complete disregard for our Creator God. The Republican platform only demands that the 75 million tax payer portion of the Planned Parenthood 1.1 billion budget not be provided by the government or the taxpayers. The DNC “strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay,” i.e. Abortion on demand supported by the government
2) The DNC platform promotes same sex marriage – and will not enforce the DOMA – Defense of Marriage Act, which is a union between one man and one woman. The DNC platform “support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples.” This is completely incompatible with the Word of God.
3) The GOP platform emphasizes a handle on fiscal responsibility. The DNC wants the government to continue funding help to the allegedly disadvantaged. I’m not sure what to do about 47 million on food stamps, but that number is beyond my understanding. The recent QE3 to infinity will not only increase the national debt, but hamstring seniors who depend on a fixed income and destroy a solid monetary based for the poor who will suffer as prices increase, and they will increase. There have been more “Acts”, whether the Recovery Act, the American Jobs Acts, Affordable Care Act, Lilly ledbetter fair pay act, paycheck fairness Act, and many others, that have been written in the last four years. Each one brings more people under the economic handout of the government and therefore control of the government. People are not working toward freedom, they are sliding into slave dependency on the government rather than the Lord. I don’t condemn people who are caught in very difficult situations. Use the situation to provide for your family so that you can get out and become independent of the government as soon as possible. If someone is caught in a lifetime dependency on the government, I don’t condemn them. We must understand, the government has never produced anything. It only takes money from people in order to buy things from enterprise. The President has stated before his presidency that he is for redistribution of wealth, a socialistic mechanism. The DNC asks people to pay their fair share. Fair share would seem like an equal percentage. I do agree with both parties that loop holes should be closed so that no person in a higher income bracket can have enough loop holes to not pay taxes. Simplify everything to a few taxes and you’ll shut down all the loopholes. If someone controlled the present government waste, like the 500 Million that went to a company like Solyndra that shuts down within months, we would have fewer problems. Someone must return the money to the tax payers. Few of the recent administrations have done well in this.
4) The right to bear arms. The DNC platform states, “We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation.” This may lead to Judicial expediency vs. the constitution. I am very concerned about where the DNC might take this in the future. You have the right to protect yourself, not with bow and arrows, but with protection that you can afford and not cause harm on other innocent people.
I won’t even bring up the problem that the DNC wanted God removed from the platform and the voice vote, while said by the chair that it was clear, seemed clear that a majority were louder in keeping God off the platform.
It’s not about politics; it’s about principle. It’s not about race, it’s about righteousness.
Is the answer with the Republican party? I don’t believe they have the answers in total either. I don’t see how they will bring our economic problems under control any time soon. My problem is I saw the previous Republican administration expand the national debt, grow the government and cause more people to become dependent on the government subsidies. That’s all about power and control. The government has just a few responsibilities and they are outlined in Romans 13. The citizens have responsibility to feed themselves. So what do you do about the greed inherent in free enterprise? I despise that. There is greed there, but also in power politics and control. That is there because we Christians, for 150 years, are not discipling our children and neighbors before God. We are too comfortable and we are content with growing problems in our neighborhoods and communities, as long as it doesn’t affect us.
There are other issues with the platforms. Let each one decide by his/her own conscience how they should vote. There are complicated issues. The main issue is America is walking away from her spiritual moorings. The answer is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ, not in a particular party. Unless the country returns to its foundation it will spin down the spiral into a third rate country.
Vote for the candidate who endorses the constitution and amendments as they were originally written.
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Shepherding Truth 
Well said brother well said