Going on Record

The following blog reflects the "opinion" of the writer and does not constitute any official positions of The Refuge.

There is a tendency in an election year by political parties to paint the bleakest picture possible; to stir fear and raise clamorous alarms to the impending doom should the other person be elected.  This year it is no less true that any other election cycle.  However... and this is a "big however," I do intend to raise some alarms.

Over the last four years I have watched the so-called liberal agenda advance considerably in this country due in no small part to their champion, Barack Obama.  The aggressive campaign to wash-out the definition of marriage, the advancement of all things homosexual, the historic and increasing expansion of government-endorsed, promoted and funded abortions and the calculated crusade to erase all mention of God and roll-back Christianity and its free-exercise in this country are just SOME of the alarming, yet not surprising facts of this president's tenure.

I could go on and on, but let me say this.  We need to pray.  No doubt about it.  But we also MUST VOTE.  We have the privilege and thus the responsibility to vote - even if we are sorely out-numbered.  The Christian must go on record before God and the rest of the world.  We cannot just sit back, do nothing and wait 'til Jesus comes.  "Occupy til I come," Jesus said.

Let me crystallize a voting issue for you.  Read with me in Romans Chapter One, verses 26-32:

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

If you vote for a person who practices - or vigorously campaigns and legislates special privileges and protections for such, you are complicit. You have also joined the league of the ungodly. I want to be clear. A vote for Obama is exactly this. Yep, I said it. As someone who has, on more than one occasion, skipped over references to God in the Declaration on Independence, his agenda is clear.

This man champions unrighteousness all while calling himself a Christian. No sir. No ma'am. It seems like there are those out there who, just because someone calls themselves a Christian, want to extend every assurance... "well we can't judge whether or not he is or not." Really? The Bible is NOT unclear about this. I can call myself a surgeon all day long, and even think that I should have the annual income of such. But, I'd wager that on the day of your surgery, you may want to check me out and find out if I really am one. Friends, Mr. Obama is a poser. "Many will come in My Name..." He has come in name only as a Christian. You know, "Christian," as in "he who has given every decision of his or her life over to Jesus Christ and His Word."

Make no mistake. I do not believe we are electing a "theologian in chief." This is a secular office of government. But there are wicked acts in this government; acts that promote evil and are stifling the good works of Christ-followers: killing the innocent unborn, casting all who believe in the 6000-year-old, physiologically-sound and physiologically-proven system for the furtherance of all societies (traditional marriage) as intolerant bigots... well, the choice seems very clear. How can a Christian vote in favor of such a man with such an agenda?

Reason for warning. If Mr. Obama had to worry about re-election and yet he so aggressively pursued this agenda over the last four years, what are we to expect if he's re-elected and does not have to worry about re-election on his second term? Not just more of the same, friends... an even more radical pursuit of silencing the salty voice of the Church, wholesale legalization of many, many immoral and detestable social vices which will plague us.

Some day, a blog such as this will be illegal (if the IRS would not view it as such already) if we who have the right to go on record for righteousness do nothing. "If the salt loses its saltiness, what good is it except to be thrown out and be trampled under the foot of men." See Matthew 5:13 for that. Note the consequence of a lack of saltiness: "trampled under the foot of men." Want to be trampled? Do nothing... it'll happen anyway.

Do not be weary, friend. Stand for righteousness. Vote for the candidate who best represents Biblical values. I'll tell you this: it is NOT Barack Obama, that's for sure.