The Continental Divide (EXCELLENT Sermon to share with Evangelicals)

Excellent Sermon by Tommy Nelson that sets the record straight for Evangelicals.

An sample:

It must be said that probably few of us had Donald Trump as our first choice. He wasn’t mine. I was Cruz, Rubio, then Carson because they were open Christians. Most of us said, “What would you do if it came down to Trump?” Well it did because the Republicans Party chose Donald Trump and entrusted him with their platform. We all recognize that he’s somewhat unlikeable. We also recognize that it’s somewhat scary to have a fellow as hard-nosed as he is to be in discussions with foreign leaders who can be on the edge. And we recognize that he is untested in politics and we could all have egg on our faces in the coming years. I assure you I will be praying earnestly for Michael Pence to guide him in the civility of politics. But those things “might be”, as indeed in all elections there is a “might be” involved in all leaders. But the Democratic platform is not a “might be.” It’s a “gonna be.” A “will be.” Donald Trump is scary because of the unknown. Hillary is scary because of the fear of the known.

If Trump is successful . . . for eight years . . . his VP would be the logical follow up. That could possibly be 16 years of halting the direction of an administration that has made the most radical rulings since Roe v. Wade and the Fugitive Slave Law that forbid the resisting of slavery and helped foster the Civil War.

How can this happen? It is easy. The sleeping giant must awake. Twenty five million evangelicals did not vote in the last election. We lost by 4 million. We are the largest demographic in our country. If Christians, our sentries, the conscience of our country, step up, if they vote and vote wisely, not for Utopia but for that candidate that will support through Supreme Court appointments the historic Christian and American values, the rights and wrongs we were built on, we will win and regain a sense of control. We can slow the madness for 30 years. We can’t stop it because the madness is not political. It’s from man’s rebellion against the Almighty God. A madness of the soul.

A problem arises:
“Both are flawed, so I will not vote.”
OR
“I’m voting for a write-in candidate with no chance of winning as an act of conscience an expression of Christian indignation - a political sitdown.”

You say, “I can’t support Trump.”

Can you endure Hillary and the Democratic platform, and an imbalance in the Supreme Court for 30 years? The loss of your Constitutional freedoms? Can you endure that? Because, when all three branches, Executive, Judicial and Legislative, swing one way, “it is Vegas.” It is a trifecta. It is total takeover. There is no checks and no balances. Not in just politics but this time in outlawing traditional freedoms, Constitutional freedoms. One that will curse your children and curse your grandchildren long after you’re gone. Does that bother your conscience? You don’t fight the enemy by firing into the air.

Francis Schaeffer said 30 years ago, “If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow, eventually we or our children will be the enemy of society and the state. No truly authoritarian government can tolerate those who have real absolutes by which to judge its arbitrary absolutes.” George Orwell saw this before his 1984.

In Presidential elections you vote for the better of the two. You vote for a platform; for possibilities.

The better opening to the prayer of 1 Timothy 2:1 is the one that makes the most sense to vote for.

Some Christians are spectator Christians. They might vote once every 4 years but then they expect those folks to carry on autonomously. They might refuse in disgust to vote if they don’t see someone who looks like he can carry on autonomously.

Other Christians are player Christians. They are always looking for a door. When they vote, they vote for the biggest door in view. But then they play through that door, every day, with effectual prayers to God.

God isn’t very happy with spectator Christians. They have a form of religion, but are denying (saying no to, not moving on) its power.

If the Republicans wanted my vote, they'd have nominated a candidate who meets my minimum criteria for support: has the candidate demonstrated that he or she is likely to uphold their oath to support the Constitution? Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump come close to meeting that simple minimum standard. I'm very glad that one candidate who is eligible to win the Electoral College does meet my minimum standard. He's a FReeper, by the way. www.TomHoefling.com.

I joined FreeRepublic during the Clinton impeachment era. Anybody with a modicum of good judgement has known, for decades, that Hillary is a disgrace to our nation. Trump included his endorsement of her in 2007 in one of his books (see here for details). What does that say about his judgement to you?

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