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If Christians don’t personally engage in politics, it’s all over for America
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Hmmmm .... can you show me chapter and verse from the Holy Scriptures for this? Is God’s Kingdom of this world?
Be careful about loving the things of earth too much.
BTW - I believe America’s time is long over - but God will do what He will, when He will.

Liberty is the gift of God. God does not find it funny when Christians abuse or neglect his gifts. You may not agree with this, (as a Christian I can say that this is what I believe) but at the time of the Founding they knew it very well.

John Philpot Curran, born 1750, made this as clear as anybody could:

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

Right now, the forces of tyranny are way more active; wheras the Christians are much more qualifying of the label 'indolent'.

We know Liberty is a gift from God because we are all made in His image. That's right there in Genesis - do you really need the numbers? I'm sure you know the part. If you really want to see what happens to a people who neglect any of God's gifts, read what happens to the Israelites when they think they can go it alone without God.

"Be careful about loving the things of earth too much."

Liberty, as such, isn't an "earthly" or I'll say it more pointedly - Liberty is not Worldly - it's not Mammon. The world clearly wants socialism.

but God will do what He will, when He will.

If more Christians don't get off their butts and work to save this great country God helped us have, He might figure we aren't worthy of His help.

He put us here to see what we would do, not to have us wait for Him to do something.

Suppose our founding fathers had the attitude that there was nothing to do, just wait for God to do it all for them?

So far the actions we need to take are simple, with very little risk to life and limb.

Just vote and help get others to vote.

So far, nobody is shooting at you. We are not having to shiver through a winter at Valley Forge.

Jesus said “You are the salt of the earth. If the salt has lost its flavor, what good is it? It is tossed aside”

Salt preserves. We (Christians) preserve Righteousness here on Earth as much as God enables us and we are willing. If we don’t, Evil men can do what they want. Joseph, Daniel, Nahum, the Centurian who believed, officials who were saved in the Book of Acts. Jesus said His Kingdom is not of this world, but it doesn’t mean that we as Christians don’t implement Godly values as leaders in society and government. He prayed specifically in John 17 for His Father NOT to take us OUT of the world, but that God would keep us from the World’s influence.

Just since your name implies good guess that you’re from Nigeria, let me ask you - don’t you think that the Christian leaders that God has raised up in Kenya and other African nations that have refused to go along with Obama/Kerry/UN’s intimidation to accept Abortion and Homosexuality, might not have been there in their positions of government if they did not ‘get involved’? I pray for their strength to withstand the evil external pressure all the time.

God blesses those who follow Him, doesn’t matter what tongue or nationality.