Politics
If we follow the lives of people in scripture, they did not shy away from issues of the day. They were not worried about the politics or the polls or the status quota. They understood the necessity of challenging them. Weighing them
by the laws of God.
Many of them had witnessed God's wrath
first hand and knew what would happen if they disobeyed God. They also did not shy away from evil when it invaded their territory in life and threatened their standing with God.Additionally, they understood when it was time to stand for morality and godly values. God came before anything else.
A story we have heard since childhood is the three Hebrew children who refused to bow to the golden idol. They understood that bowing to
the idol wasn't just a political thing however, a moral and godly issue that must be confronted. Even at the threat of a fiery furnace, they did
not cower away from what was before them. An opportunity to stand up for God. They stood up to an evil dictator who ended up declaring God as the one who is to be praised.
We can also look at the example of Moses going to Pharoah to order him to let the Israelites go. How would you like to be the one carrying
that message? Moses could have been arrested and killed. He was mocked.Moses tried to get out of this, using every excuse or doubt he could come up with. "What if they don't listen," "I can't speak well," etc.Eventually Moses ran out of excuses and carried out God's call.
We also have the example of Jonah who literally ran away from God's call to warn Ninevah to turn from its sin or wicked ways. He hated Ninevah. Imagine being called by God to go to Washington D.C. and tell Obama to turn this country back to God or it would be destroyed.
We also have the example of Jesus who spent much of his ministry making people nervous. Jesus did not shy away from controversy. He actually stirred it up. Jesus knew about the elders who threw fits over his teachings. Jesus challenged the traditions surrounding the Sabbath. Jesus silenced the nay-sayers. Jesus did not treat such things as merely political and off limits.
He jumped right in the middle of it.
There really are not specific verses that command us to speak out against ungodly politics. We can only draw conclusions from verses that warn about not heeding His word.There are verses that teach to act with boldness and be doers of the Word and not just hearers.
liberalism inches closer in to our territory, threatening our standing with God. These things are not merely political however, moral and spiritual things. Scripture is very clear about how God views these things.As Christians, we are not here to shy away from evil when it invades our space in life. We are here to jump in the middle of it. To put any issue off as merely political is an insult to the faith we lay claim to.
it is reasonable conclude that people in scripture felt a certain obligation to stand up
for godly principles. Refusing to bow to idols and stop praying as with Daniel.In Acts, Paul
was always before councils being told to stop preaching the gospel. He just shook it off and
considered it a blessing.
In Scripture, people may have stayed away from politics however, politics didn't stay away from
people. In bible days there wasn't such a thing as democracy. People faced beatings and death for
rising up against leaders. The good news is they did it anyway.
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