The Rapture Force

Why would God need politic’s or want it?Politics are a wholly man made thing.There is no right way any longer.Our country stopped being with God, for God, or about God way back when the seperation of state and church took place,right after the constitution was implemented.Might I add our constitution is no longer even close to the recognized constitution that was signed September 17th 1787.Nor was or is any part of our constitution based on Christianity.It was written to replace the nation’s first guiding document, the 1777 Articles of Confederation. There is no mention of God as a matter of fact, this article Tells of how never was our constitution meant to be any part of Christianity. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html

Virtually all the evidence that attempts to connect a foundation of Christianity upon the government rests mainly on quotes and opinions from a few of the colonial statesmen who had professed a belief in Christianity. Sometimes the quotes come from their youth before their introduction to Enlightenment ideas or simply from personal beliefs. But statements of beliefs, by themselves, say nothing about Christianity as the source of the U.S. government.The Framers derived an independent government out of Enlightenment thinking against the grievances caused by Great Britain. Our Founders paid little heed to political beliefs about Christianity.

The 1st Amendment stands as the bulkhead against an establishment of religion and at the same time insures the free expression of any belief. The Treaty of Tripoli, an instrument of the Constitution, clearly stated our non-Christian foundation. We inherited common law from Great Britain which derived from pre-Christian Saxons rather than from Biblical scripture.

Now think about this,If God is not allowed in the government,why would he want his people, his true church(not a building)The Christian true believers who make up the church, to put their two cents in?We would need to change the entire structure that makes up the government,the only way to do that would be in changing the hearts of the men and women who run our government.We cannot change the government one iota.We are not to blend the gospel message with human wisdom and think that by doing that we have made it more sophisticated. Notice this verse “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” [1 Corinthians 1:21]. This is God’s strategy: preaching the gospel is God’s chosen strategy for salvation. “It pleased God” to do this–this was His choice. Verse 27, “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty…” [1 Corinthians 1:27]. This is God’s own chosen strategy and we are not permitted to modify it. We are not permitted to substitute our own strategies in its place.

But many people today have modified it, and some Christians, have even made the same mistake I made, before I became a Christian, and that is, they think the solution to society’s moral decline is a political agenda, and they have thrown all the energies and their resources into trying to redeem society through politics, which this passages teaches us is an utterly futile undertaking.What this passage says, is that sin is what ails modern society and so the gospel is the only effective remedy.

2Corinthians6 “Do not be bound together with unbelievers for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, `I will dwell in them and walk among them and I will be their God and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,’ says the Lord, `and do not touch what is unclean and I will welcome you and I will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,’ says the Lord Almighty. Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

This passage identifies two opposing worlds. The terminology is clear. One of those worlds is marked by righteousness, light, Christ, believers, and the presence of God. The other is marked by lawlessness, darkness, Satan, unbelievers, and the presence of false gods. And these two worlds are utterly different and distinct, so much so that they are mutually exclusive. They cannot work together in common partnership, they cannot fellowship together, they are not in harmony with one another. One is old, the other is new. One is earthly, the other is heavenly. One is deadly, the other is life giving. One is wicked, the other holy. One is built on lies, the other is all truth. One perishes and the other lives eternally.

Paul then is making it clear that believers can’t live in both worlds. Certainly John said this in his first epistle, 1 John, when he clearly identified this disparity between the two worlds with these familiar words, “Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Mutually exclusive worlds. You can’t be in both at the same time.

Then in James we read in chapter 4 and verse 4, “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God. Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” And later in verse 8 he says, “Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.” People trying to live in two different worlds.
In Romans chapter 12, of course that very, very familiar passage that begins the exhortation part of Romans, “I urge you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship, and do not be conformed to this world.” Make a clean break.Not that we are to turn against the world,on the contrary we need to still speak to and help those who are unsaved to come to know the Lord by setting a good Christian example.

In order to work in the realm of secular politics, you have to make certain compromises. Politics is built on compromise. Anybody who’s involved in politics will affirm that for you. There are some things you cannot talk about in the political realm and the gospel is one of them. In the realm of moral reform multitudes would not share a commitment to the gospel of the New Testament;they would not agree with the exclusiveness of Christ, because in the words of John 3:18, the gospel is the message that, “…he who believes on Him is not condemned,” but it also includes the truth that “…he who believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” The message of Christ is an exclusive message–it’s either-or, Jesus said, “If you are not with Me you’re against Me,” and what He meant by that is, “If you are not a believer, you are not on My team.” And when your political agenda involves forming alliances with Mormons, Moslems, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Moonies, and all kinds of humanistic moralists, you simply cannot afford to speak frankly about the exclusivity of Christ–it’s an issue you can’t bring up. You have to stifle the truth about justification by faith alone, because Roman Catholics, who are your political allies reject that doctrine. You’re better off, in fact, not to mention the name of Christ at all, because Jewish people, who are our political allies, are sensitive about that, and so the gospel is stifled as a consequence whenever people become political activists, they begin to trim away the offensive parts of the gospel. It is the natural and inevitable consequence of moving the fight to the political arena–happens all the time. So,then, it is irrational to attempt to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. It should be obvious to anybody who can think that this is mutually impossible to bring these two realms together. Secondly, and we’re moving up a step higher here. It is not only irrational for believers to be bound together with unbelievers, it is sacrilegious.

Christian politician really makes no sense,you are either for God or against his ways,politics in no way is anything of God,The gospel is inevitably stifled when your main concern becomes political issues, and I frankly think that is a dangerous and wrong-headed direction for any Christian to go–it subtly undermines the gospel. It’s the very thing Paul is warning about here in 1 Corinthians 1. That kind of strategy diverts the focus of Christian people. They become concerned about and consumed with things other than the gospel.

(Disclaimer): I have taken excerpts from two different preachings of John Macarthur for this article.