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Something to think about - American Elections

First you must know, I am a biblical voter. Not a Christian voter, for not all Christians are biblical. For we know a tree by the fruit that it bears

I'm neither a republican nor a democrat. I have duel citizenship. I have a responsibility to the kingdom of God and I have a responsibility to my nation here on earth which reflects my higher kingdom. I'm not one of those who sit around and complain about what my government isn't doing for me. 

So yes, I do my research. I pray and then I vote by what I know is right according to God's righteousness, to bring His kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. So when I vote, I do my best to honor God with my vote, not man. 

None of us are perfect and there is no perfect candidate, there never has been, thus, we will never live in a perfect world until Christ comes back in the flesh and time is no more. 

I am so thankful that God has put me here and given me the right to be able to vote. I did not ask for that right, but it has been given to me to do so. I will be a good steward of that vote.

It is very important for us to discern all of the key issues of this nation. God's fingerprints are all over the creation of this country. 

God says, "righteousness exalts a nation" - not economics. 

When we seek righteousness, all these other things will be added to us. So from a biblical stand point, we cannot vote on behalf of ourselves. We cannot vote for what is good for me, I must vote on what will promote righteousness. 

If everyone did this, prosperity would come as a result of it. God will see to it. He is our provider, not the government. It is up to us whether the righteous will rule or the wicked.

God has been very specific on issues of government here on earth. Taxation, Global Warming, Immigration, Marriage, Health Care, Transportation, The Poor, Social Programs, Etc. God has covered every issue that is raised. God has also prioritized them. 

Out of the over 613 'laws' that were handed down by God to Moses, His 10 Commandments are the top 10 of all those laws. If we would only just keep the "essence" of those 10 laws, righteousness would reign. So therefore, we too must prioritize when we vote.

He's also said, another way that exalts a nation is through the Judges of the land. Judges are a very important issue. Right now we have only 4 righteous Judges out of the 9. 

Again, it is up to us whether the righteous will rule or the wicked. If we don't respect the "right" to life, which is foundational, we will not respect the "right" of private property, we will not respect the "right" to keep and bear arms, we will not respect the "right" of religious freedom or the "right" of free expression

All these "rights" plus many, many more have been handed down by God, not by man and the founding father's adopted them in the beginning of this country. And when you have wicked judges, we start loosing our "rights".

Our "rights" are a precious thing.

For it is written in our Declaration of Independence:

"...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the 'seperate' and 'equal' station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God ENTITLE them"

and also

"We hold the truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal, that they are ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR with CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

We have to be very careful of how we vote, so my priorities must first be, Judge's, and their stance on topics as Abortion, Marriage and then beyond that will come health care, economics, wars and all other issues.

It is unfortunate that at least 50% of all voters will vote on the basis of a 30 second TV commercial. Anybody can tell you what you want to hear in 30 seconds. 

All candidates have voting records and that is what we should seek, not the way they look or how great their commercial was, not how they tickle our ears in their speeches or their campaigning. 

We can't believe what they say, we must only believe what they have done. And now that we have access to the Internet, we can see everything they have ever voted on.  

"Project Vote Smart" ( http://www. votesmart. org ) is a good resource for this type of research because they don't care if you are liberal, conservative, right, left, up, down. They simply put out the candidate's voting records on every topic they have ever voted on. 

You can even see how all lobby groups rate each person from President all the way down to the pee-on's that are running for a government offices.  You can also go to the Library of Congress website ( www. loc. gov ) and see every single vote and every single statement they said while they were voting.

Concerning the governments responsibilities, we definitely lack on what it's true role and responsibility is and should be. 

For instance, in our country we have a Social/Justice gospel going around which is the eradication of poverty. People believe that the government is supposed to be the one who is responsible for this issue

This is far from the truth. It is the responsibility of individuals and of the church, which are the people of the land, not government

Jesus taught, to sell what you have and share and give to others. God said to farmers when they harvest their fields, don't harvest the corners so that the poor could come in and harvest food for themselves. But since people won't do this and are only looking for profit, they want the government to do it. 

That creates a problem.

When government does it. It is ineffective, but when people come together to help the poor the job gets done and it becomes very effective. If we give money to the government to help the poor, 85% of that money will never leave Washigton D.C. because it gets stuck in the bureaucracy, which does nothing to change the condition of the poor.

Statistics show that faith-based programs get results. For when the government tries to get involved trying to change people or lives or behavior, nothing changes because the government cannot love, it has no compassion. It shouldn't have compassion, because that is not its role in our society.

The Government is a very poor vendor of social services. The government takes our money, which only a small portion of it goes to the poor, to do a poor job of taking care of the poor. What should we do? If we don't want it to come out of our pocket, then we should get the government to give us a tax credit for giving to the poor. 

From the biblical standpoint, there is no where that God says the governments responsibility is to take care of the poor. So I cannot allow my vote to have that priority on that basis

Government is not accountable for those things, we the people are. Now, please don't get me wrong, personally, the poor and the homeless are very important issues but concerning the governmental elections, it is not top priority. 

It is God who has originated government, and has made very clear mandates and executed how it is to operate in the book of Exodus. When we try to take a tool and do something with it that it was not designed to do it will never function correctly.

People must realize that the government is never going to take care of us in the manner of many of the issues that are out there. It is never going to do it right even if it tries. Why? Because it is not its role or its responsibility.

Governments role is to bear the sword, provide protection and defense, and they are to execute justice for its citizens. They are to create laws. The laws they are to create are not for the good men, but for law breakers, bad men, murderers, perjurers, thieves, etc. That is its purpose. 

The government is not a service industry and was not designed to be a service industry. All issues that deal with service to others, God says that we the people, as individuals or the church, are to do those things. Not the government. It's only purpose is to protect what God has given us.

We must be very careful not to lose those rights that God has given us to hand over to a government to take on a role it was never intended to take. We will surly lose our rights.

If America continues to be divided as the candidate's are, we are going fall.

Where is that going to leave our grand children?

I feel sorry for the troops when they come home. Is it going to be like it was during the Vietnam war? The only difference is, during Vietnam, those people were drafted to fight a war. The boys we have in there now....they enlisted on their own free will. Why? Because they understood that if we didn't fight on foreign land, the battle would be here in America. They are the real hero's.

Something to think about.

Please when you vote, be a good steward and vote to honor God.


 


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