Tuesday, November 04, 2008



Beginning at about 2:43, the final three points are worth listening to:
The prophetic perspective is what the church needs here. And by that, I mean, we don't live for politics. We don't base our confidence about the future on whoever gets elected. 'Let those who marry, marry as though they were not married. Let those who rejoice, rejoice as though they were not rejoicing. Let those who buy, buy as though they were not buying. Let those who deal with the world, deal with it as though they had no dealings with the world.' That's First Corinthians 7. And I'd just stick in, let those who vote or do politics, do it as though they were not doing it. Which means there's a kind of engagement that is not all consuming. There's a kind of voting, a kind of doing politics, a kind of advocacy which is not investing our whole selves into it because we're not here fully. We have a foot in heaven and a foot on the earth. We are citizens of two kingdoms. This is not our main home. This world is passing away. Says that in First Cor. 7, says it again in First John, chapter 2, verse 15. The world is passing away and the lusts of it, but those who do the will of God abide forever. So we know that this system is disappearing and therefore we shouldn't be so worked up about our opponent getting elected that's going to undo our life.

I sensed there's, I talked with one man after church on Sunday a few weeks ago and it's as though his whole world were going to collapse if the person he didn't want to get elected got elected. And I just said to him, 'Your issue is a spiritual one, here, Brother. You got way too much invested here. Are you a Christian?'

So the prophetic perspective says, 'I am God's child. Jesus Christ is my King. America is not my allegiance. God and Heaven are my Allegiance. God can turn this for good no matter who gets elected. And I will always be pursuing His Kingdom first and let the political chips fall where they will. That's the prophetic perspective.
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