Today in many churches, sermons on who to vote for, or who a Christian can never vote for, will be delivered.
But not here. Instead, we will review some warnings about improper ways of thinking about elections.
First, democratic representation brings along with it personal moral responsibility onto the voters whose candidate is victorious. In Christ's day, the people were ruled by foreign despots, and had no moral input into government conduct.
But with the democratic process, now we do bear moral responsibility for what our elected officials do.
Both major candidates are overt moral catastrophes. None of them believe the gospel or have repented of their gross sins.
They will seize our money and waste it. They are using outrageous lying rhetoric against each other. They lie about what their opponents will do.
Their hands are drenched in the innocent blood of countless helpless people the world over, and both have assured us they will continue those terrorist policies. Both major candidates openly advocate terrorist atrocities against innocent people.
There are several moral pitfalls we easily fall into at election time.
The first is moral pragmatism, to vote for the "lessor of two evils." But that begs the question, how can we really tell which candidate is the lessor evil?
The next moral slip is to assume that our chosen candidate won't turn out to be nearly as bad as he appears now! Maybe he will surprise us by doing some good things!
This demonstrates that determining the "lessor of two evils" is in fact impossible, because we cannot know the future or what God is trying to accomplish in all these things.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
