Trump Victory Doesn't Equate Christian Revival BUT...
Well, praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters. I wanna talk
about this subject just for a little bit here because I think it's very
important to understand. A Trump victory or a Republican victory does not
equate Christian revival in the church. There have been some circulating videos
on YouTube and around the Internet that a lot of people have been seeing that
have this similar topic has been, spread around, and a lot of Christians, I
think, believe that they shouldn't vote, or they shouldn't be involved in
politics, or they shouldn't stand for things that are right in our country
because of this fact. Now the simple fact is, in countries and in nations that
have had little or no persecution, that doesn't mean that the church just
grows. In fact, the Church of Jesus grows often most in countries and in areas
that suffer Christian persecution. So if you want the Christian Church to grow,
give it persecution, jail pastors, kill people, and then the Christian church
grows. And so there are, these videos that make it sound as though Christians
shouldn't really fight for righteousness or want someone in office who stands
for Christian rights because the Christian church grows, when we suffer
persecution. In other words, they would say just let Kamala, you know, let
Kamala Harris be the next president. Don't bother. Even though she's gonna
abort babies, even though she hates Christians, and that's quite obvious, just
let her be the next president because that will allow God's judgment to come
and judge false Christians and judge people because that is what America deserves
anyway, and it will just make the Christian church grow. You know, years ago I
thought like this myself, but it's actually very ungodly and God doesn't stand
for that. When I was first coming out of the church that I was a part of, I'm
ashamed to admit that I did think like this. I thought kind of like the
apostles who said: well, should we just call down fire out of heaven and kill
them all? Remember when the apostle said that to Jesus， they were
very upset that the Pharisees, were against Jesus, and they wanted to call down
heaven. They wanted to call down fire from heaven. And Jesus didn't say,
"yeah, go ahead. Call down fire from heaven and kill them all". But
in fact, Jesus showed mercy even to his opponents, even to people that hated him.
And Jesus rebuked them saying that he didn't come to destroy men's lives but to
save them. And that is because God's love even comes on the hateful, the
unmerciful. The rain comes both on the good and the bad. And God loves all of
us even when we were still in iniquity. Jesus didn't die for us because we were
good, but he died for us because he wanted to save us from our sins even when
we hated him, even when we were God's enemy. This is very profound, guys. When
I was first coming out of the church and the church was evil, I wanted to see
God's wrath come upon the church. At that time, one of the people, one of the
main leaders in the church had cancer. Praise Jesus everyone. One of the people
that had cancer, they were a leader of the church. And I remember thinking,
well, this is God's judgment because these leaders of the church are wicked.
And the church leaders were wicked. But I, in my lack of wisdom, started
saying, well, this person is going to die, of cancer. And I started talking to
people in the church about how this person was gonna die of cancer. It was
God's judgment. God hates iniquity. And all of, you know, all of that was my
misjudgment thinking that, God was gonna give all these people cancer. He was
gonna kill them all. And in reality, that did not happen even though I believed
God was gonna kill this person for their wickedness due to cancer. In fact,
that person, continued to live and got better. They recovered. And I, at the
time, was upset because I was just convinced that God was gonna he was gonna
rain hail and brimstone and just kill these people because they were supporting
things that were so wicked in the church. But God gave them time to repent.
It's been now, like, 10, 15 years later, and a lot of these people are still
alive. They still have their choice to make on this earth for good or for evil.
And it would be evil of me or ignorant of us just to say that God is gonna kill
them right away before the judgment for their evil, that he is not gonna show
them any mercy because they're evil and I am good. I know now that that is not
the God I serve. I know now that I was in the wrong for thinking that. So bring
that back to today. I'm not going to go along with these Christians that say,
well, America deserves Kamala Harris, America deserves persecution. America
deserves, a government that will hate its own people and put Christians to
death, and it will just, you know, make the Christian church grow due to
persecution. While it is true that trials and tribulations and persecutions
grow the church, I don't need to hope for evil upon people so that God's people
will grow. If God wants to allow persecution to come, then he can bring it by
his own hand. If God wants to discipline you by cancer, or by death, or by
famine, whatever the case is that's God's business. But I don't need to be
praying for destruction to come on my adversary, like how the apostles were
praying for, you know, lightning to come out of heaven and to destroy the
Pharisees. Jesus was not for that, and he is not for people just to suffer and
to die. He is for us, that our souls would be saved. We need to just start
praying that, that people would be saved. And if persecution does come, if God
does allow a democratic win in our country, then we need to just say praise the
lord, but we will overcome no matter what trials or tribulations come our way.
But we but just because that God may allow a democratic win, or just because he
may allow abortion in our country or these people who are hateful, doesn't mean
that we stop fighting for righteousness. And a lot of Christians just they just
give up. They stop fighting for righteousness. They start praying for war. They
start praying for evil. They start hoping for evil thinking as though God is on
their side. And God is always on the side of the righteous, and he wants us to
continue to spiritually fight and slash our swords in the way that the
righteous should do it. We should continue to pray against evil. We should
continue to stand up for things that are right. Stand up for the unborn. Stand
against abortion. Stand against homosexuality, gay marriage, pornography. Stand
against, drugs and drunkenness and wickedness, carousing. All these things
should be things that we stand up against, that we vote against if we have the
right and privilege to do so. And never should we just be negligent or looking
the other way saying, well, our country deserves evil anyway, so I shouldn't do
anything about it and take this pacifist approach and do nothing. Because Jesus
wants us to be people that are always standing for the truth. So I hope that
this makes sense to someone because these videos that I see that are
circulating, a lot of them are just creating confusion, and a lot of Christians
think that, well, if, you know, if our country is gonna have Christians grow
due to persecution, then, then I will vote for whoever brings in more
persecution. I'll vote for whoever kills more babies. And so then Christians
themselves start praying against the will of God. It is not the will of God
that anyone perish, but that all repent and come into the light of the truth.
So let us as disciples of Jesus not be confused by darkness. Let us not be
confused by Christians that are pointing people in the wrong direction. Let us
choose to say, good is good and evil is evil and always stand on the side of
the truth. So, I hope this makes sense to someone, and I hope that whether
persecution comes or whether it doesn't, whatever the case is that we will
continue to stand for Jesus. And whether we are in a time of peace or of war,
we will, in our own hearts, continue to grow with the Lord Jesus. I hope for
the sake of my own family, my own brothers and sisters, that we can live at
peace with God and at peace with one another as much as it is possible. I don't
hope for war in my country. I don't hope for violence, and I hope to keep
things that are evil out of my country such as violent gangs, drugs, alcohol,
things like Fentanyl. All these things that are wicked that are coming over the
border, all these things that are destroying the economy, I pray against those
things, brothers and sisters, because I love people. I have the love of Jesus
in me, and I pray and hope to see my countrymen succeed and not end in hell. It
goes back to what Jesus also said to his disciples, "I didn't come to end
men's lives. I didn't come to destroy it, but I came to save them". A lot
of Christians are totally getting Jesus wrong. They misunderstand God, all they
care to see is judgment. They're like Jonah. They're pouting, they're whining,
they're complaining, they're upset that that little shrub is withering up in
the desert. They're ready just to curse God and go to their death because they
care more about the little shrub in the desert than they care about, you know,
300,000,000 people. So are is our care and concern the same as what Jesus is
care and concerned about, or is it for our own selves? Are we like the prophet
Jonah who only thought about himself, who was selfish at the core? Anyways,
guys, I hope this encourages someone to be on the side of the truth, to see
things the way Jesus sees them, and not to be deceived by other Christians or
false prophets or people that are just, getting distracted from the truth.
"So, Lord Jesus, I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters that they are
not distracted by the evil one, by false Christians, by pastors, by messages on
the Internet. I pray that we would continue to fight for righteousness, that we
could pray for the young children of America, that they would be saved and not
polluted by the devil. We pray that, that people both young and old, black and
white, rich and poor, wherever they are, may be saved, that they may come into
your salvation, that you may offer them life, and that we may enter into your
kingdom. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen."
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