Kingdom Of God on Political Issues | Realignment | Week 4
It is our responsibility to bring the kingdom of God into the earth
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:9-10 NKJV
Dilemma in American politics: we have a hard time finding truth
- Media
- Fact checking
o Factcheck.org
§ The executive director Annenberg public policy center which funds Factcheck.org wrote the book that was used to accused Russia of taking the 2016 election from Hillary and giving it to President Trump.
- Social media
Make the best of our situation :
“Don’t listen to what people say watch what they do”
1. Do not vote likability :
2. Chose the party that most aligned with the Bible beliefs
3 Big Topics for all Christians
1. Believers should stand for Israel
““I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.””
Genesis 12:2-3 NIV
““The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
Matthew 25:40 NIV
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure.”
Psalms 122:6 NIV
“Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham.”
Galatians 3:7 NIV
Party B
- In their platform there is 2 sentences in a 2 page platform stance to say we support israel but they reference to legislation that will be put back in place that limits Israel’s power to defend themselves and gives Iran more freedom to attack Israel.
o Joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA)
- According to Newsweek July 24 2020 article the party platform turned all support from being pro – Israel to being Pro- Islamic Republic of Iran and the Muslim brotherhood
Party A
- Is pro-Israel
- May 2018 restored sanctions on Iran to limit their ability to hurt Israel
- Restored Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
- Moved our embassy there to ensure there would not be any enemy attacks
- Just worked out a historic Middle East peace deal ( Abraham Accords)
2. Being our brothers keeper
ALL FORMS OF RACISM
As followers of Christ we are all called to unity. Unity is not uniformity. Unity celebrates differences and seeks to live in harmony with one another while accomplishing our Kingdom purpose on earth. As a church we value every color, culture and class of people while staying focused on Jesus. We acknowledge and denounce all forms of racism that fights hard to tear us apart. We believe that we are all brothers and sisters according to Acts 17:26 “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, …. We do stand with our brothers and sisters in Christ to move forward the agenda of the kingdom of God found in Colossians 3:11
““In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.”and in Matthew 22:39 ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Party B
– established in the south in 1830 to keep and fight for slavery
1. Established the KU Klux Klan
2. Established the Fugitive slave act of 1850
3. Instituted a voting tax on black people
4. 1912 Woodrow Wilson established racial segregation of government employees
5. 1934 Franklin d Roosevelt administration created in housing restriction that is called redlining prohibits houses in the redline areas from getting FHA loans
6. 1956 Party B created the southern manifesto introduced by VA representative Howard Smith in the House of rep. . Sen. Walter George introduced an identical one in the senate. To replace brown vs board of education from 1954 (Jim crow laws struck down)
7. lead an 75 day filibuster against the 1964 civil rights act
8. The great switch –
a. PARTY A created and pushed for The Civil Right’s act of 1964
b. Party B president Lyndon B Johnson signed it into law
c. Lie: all the racists people left party B and went to Party A
i. Party B realized they were losing ground
ii. They asked themselves : how can we blame our racist past on Party A?
iii. Say it loud enough and long enough people begin to believe it.
d. Problem with the lie
i. If you are part of a party that was founded and fought to keep racism why would you go to a party that was founded and still fights to do away with racism?
9. Passed the 1994 3 strikes and your out
a. Focused on drug arrests
b. Created the no knock warrants
c. Federal grant money was tied to the amount of drug arrests
d. 1980 – 350,000 people in prison 2005 risen to 2.3 million because of all the effects of 3 strikes and your out
e. Drug charges that use to not be felonies under 3 strikes became drug felonies
i. You have identify on ever application that you are a felon
ii. You are not eligible for government programs
Party A – established to 1848 for the abolition of slavery
1. Ulysses grant – destroyed the KKK with the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871
2. Passed the 14th amendment – gave freed slaves citizenship (94% Party A support and 0% Party B support)
3. Passed 15th amendment – gave freed slaves the right to vote ( 100% Party A support and 0% Party B support)
4. Abraham Lincoln was a Party A candidate
5. Dwight d Eisenhower who started the civil rights act of 1957 was a Party A president
6. Pushed and passed Civil rights act of 1964
7. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was part of Party A
8. 1st step act 2018 (for non violent drug offenders)
a. Required AG to put in play a Merritt based sentence reduction program for all non violent federal prisoners
b. Expanded the second chance act : partnership with community based org. For re acclimation to society.
c. Requires that the inmate be housed as close to their primary residence as possible
d. Allows elderly or terminally ill prisoners to be housed in their home
e. Reduced drug charges from 3 STRIKES POLICY that would give life in prison to only 25 years in prison
f. Gave judges the ability to give nonviolent drug offenders less than a mandatory sentence
g. 1800 prisoners have been successfully reintroduced to society because of it
9. Breana Taylor bill – is by a Party A senator Senator Rand Paul
List of where party’s stand
1. Taxes
a. PARTY A- cut taxes
b. PARTY B – just rolled out their tax plan and some states will be paying 65% taxes on their income
2. Health care
a. PARTY A- reform health care, protect pre-existing conditions, creat health care cost transparency, drive down prescription prices
b. PARTY B – provide free health care for illegal aliens, lower drug prices, treat abortion, double federal funding for community health care centers, push toward government driven health care
3. Education
a. PARTY A- support school choice, ensure 1st amendment rights, against discrimination, and oppose common core
b. Party B – triple funding for title 1 schools, double the number of administrators in schools, make college free
4. Religious liberty
a. PARTY A -fights to protect right of religious organizations
b. Party B – works to move us toward religious uniformity through passing of “hate crime bills”
5. Second amendment : its not about hunting it about having a well armed militia.
a. PARTY A – uphold second amendment
b. PARTY B – restrict your ability to own or buy guns.
6. Law enforcement
a. PARTY A- fully fund police department
b. PARTY B – decrease funding to the police
7. Military
a. Party A – strong robust military (cyber and missel defense)
b. Party B – smaller military force and repurpose military for climate change
3. Abortion
- IF YOU HAD AN ABORTION WE LOVE YOU AND JESUS LOVES YOU.
- HE ALSO HAS HEALING FOR YOU
- WE HAVE HELP FOR YOU
““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.””
Jeremiah 1:5 NKJV
Before the sperm and the egg joined God knew the person that would inhabit that body and has an assignment for them in the earth
- 1% of babies are aborted because of physical threat to the mother
- 99% of babies aborted are done so out of convenience
“Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless; Open your mouth, judge righteously, And administer justice for the afflicted and needy.”
Proverbs 31:8-9 AMP
The lie: Abortion is about a women’s right to a better life.
Foundation of abortion
Thomas Robert Malthus
1. Founder of Malthusian eugenics
a. Espoused racial supremacy and purity
b. Believed we should create an Aryan race
c. Needed to restrict the unfit and inferior from reproduction
i. Segregation
ii. Sterilization
iii. Birth control
iv. Abortion
2. Condemned charities for their help of the helpless
3. Believed in the elimination of
a. Physically unfit
b. Materially poor
c. Spiritually diseased
d. Racially inferior
e. Mentally incompetent
Margaret Sanger
1. Was a disciple of Malthusian Eugenics
2. Belief : the government should pay the unfit to be sterilized in order to eliminate the unfit physically, unfit financially, unfit mentally, diseased and feeble minded.
3. Founded the American Birth Control (ABCL) league which became the Birth Control Federation of America’s
4. Started first clinic in Harlem November 21 1930 to restrict and possibly eliminate the black population
5. Convinced black pastors, civic groups, and business leaders that family planning and birth control was the only way for the Black culture to come out of dire poverty and achieve better health.
6. She used influential Black people by forming a Council to make sure the community accepted her plan. Including DR. W.E.Burghardt Dubois who helped found the NAACP
7. ABCL started the (NEGRO PROJECT)1939
a. First in Harlem
b. Second in
8. The ABCL merged with Clinical research Bureau to form the Birth Control federation of America in January 1939
9. Quote in a letter to DR. Clarence j Gamble (co founder of Proctor and Gamble) about how to ensure success of other clinics:
“ the ministers work is also important and he should be trained , perhaps by the federation as to our ideals and goals that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
10. January 29 1942 the BCFA became Planned Parenthood
11. The lie that gave it life :its about a woman’s right to a better life.
Pie chart
Perspective
2 people subscribed to eugenics
Hitler – 14.8 million killed in the Holocaust
Margaret Sanger – killed over 50 million babies since 1973
Political party
Party A – seeks to defund and do away with planned parent hood
Party B – supports and funds Planned Parent hood
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,”
Deuteronomy 30:19 HCSB
Speak to the ladies that are hurting from it
“A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.”
John 10:10 HCSB
The thief Would love to
- Give you shame
- Give you guilt
- Give you condemnation
Jesus wants to
- Give you the abundant life
- Give you joy
- Give you peace
- Give you restoration