{"id":4089,"date":"2024-10-31T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:55:27","slug":"stem-the-tide-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"Stem the Tide — Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored;
Renew our days as of old” (Lamentations 5:21).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Do you want to know how to vote Biblically? Would you like to hear the best sermon on the state of the union and how to view goverment and voting I’ve heard in fifty years of attending chruch and living in Christian community? Here’s a link!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We watched it last night in our home with our young community group and discussed how it measured up with the Bible and our concsiences — and what the Spirit of the Lord might be saying to those who fear Him. I think you’ll enjoy it, be inspired and encouraged by this inspired, informed, and courageous pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our young Millennial and GenZ group was, and the viewing sparked a lot of good discussion. I told our young group during the discussion I agreed with his perspective after seventy years of living, along with fifty years of reading the Bible and studying history, only he communicates it a lot better and more succinctly than I could. I often say, “Wisdom is seeing things like God sees them, because that’s how they really are.” We get God’s perspective when we view things through the lens of the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here are a few quotes from Church, Unite for the Soul of America! | Ezekiel 33:1-5 | Gary Hamrick<\/em> <\/a>, as well as a few of his main points to whet your appetite for truth. Be patient, he will tell you who you should vote for and why in the end. It’s a good paridigm for November 5, 2024 and to carry into your remaining voting days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Good goverment can’t save us, but bad goverment can destroy us.” “Of ninety million evangelicals in the USA, forty million don’t vote, and fifteen million aren’t registered.” William Wilburforce who was largely resposible for the successful battle to end slavery in the British colonies said, “Let it not be said I was silent when they needed me.” Fredrick Douglas said, “I will unite with anyone to do right, and no one to do wrong.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Even though politics wasn’t His main focus, Jesus didn’t shy away from political matters. He spoke out on matters of authority and taxation. And when in the presence of Pontius Pilate the Roman Govenor of Judaea, he spoke boldly, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me\u201d (John 18:37b NIV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen, and vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGive all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.\u201d\u2014Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), Founding Father <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin condemns any people.” (Proverbs 14:34)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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