Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 What if I told you I am running for President? Now let me say this first. If God decides I should be president of these United States, there is nothing anyone can do to prevent it. If He decides I am not to be president of these United States there is nothing I can do to even get my wife to vote for me. All of that said, and giving God all of the credit, win or lose, I am now a candidate for President of these United States.
And here is my campaign. I know that the most important job the President has is that of Commander in Chief of the US military. I know that the oath he takes states that he will defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. And I know this, as president, if the news media can film a terrorist organization, I can carpet bomb them out of existence. I know that I do not consider water boarding torture and that I will not hesitate to do whatever needs to be done to eliminate those who attack the USA and to get information. I know our borders need to be protected and that no one can do that better than the US Military with the simple order of “Close the borders to any and all who have no right to be here!”
How am I going to pay for all that? Easy. I also know that Congress has funded the Department of Education and the EPA for a number of years into the future. Both agencies are unconstitutional. I will put Sheriff Joe of Phoenix in charge of the internment of illegal aliens and charge it off to the Department of Education as reeducation of illegals waiting to go to prison or home. Since schools will be local and the fed will have nothing to do with the money since there will be no employees of buildings to spend it on, I’ll use it to fight and deport terrorists.
Now how, you ask, can a fundamental Christian preacher say that as President he will end the EPA, end the Department of Education and bomb our enemies into extinction? What Biblical principals would I possible have, or have I gone insane?
Well, I have not gone insane, I have simply read Romans chapter 13. You see four of the biggest problems we as a nation have, is crime, illegal aliens, abortion, and homosexuality.
As the US Military became less and less of a fighting force, those four have grown. As the fed has taken more and more control of the schools, those four have grown and grown and grown. As the fed has limited more and more work opportunities and choices by regulating thru the EPA, those four have grown and grown and grown. The Bible tells us that the job of the President is: “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.”
For too many years the President and the Congress and the courts have used the power of government not to help but to hinder freedom. And those four, homosexuality, illegal aliens, abortion and crime have grown and grown and grown. The Government has usurped power and freedom by allowing and even encouraging terrorism. They encourage by not punishing it. As president I will punish it. I will punish it because God has told us that the President is to use his sword to reward and protect good while punishing evil.
Think of Romans 13 in that light and not in the light of having to pay taxes and stand by while millions upon millions of US Citizens are slaughtered while they sleep in the supposed safety of their mothers’ wombs each year. Read Romans 13 thinking not about how we must obey the President because he and Congress, the courts and the police say that we are to respect the abomination of homosexuality, how we are racist if we think it is wrong for people to ignore our borders and just enter and steal at will. Read Romans 13 thinking that God has given government the sword not to threaten us if we so much as point a finger at a criminal, but instead government is to use that sword to punish evil and evil doers while protecting and ensuring the freedoms of those who do good.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resist the power, resist the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For, for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of Light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Romans 13:1-14
You see, Romans 13 teaches us that the President is to use the powers vested in him not to reward the abortionist, the homosexual, the terrorist and the illegal alien, but to punish them with the sword and to reward and protect us who love life, love God’s rules, love God and walk in His ways.
The EPA prevents people from working, the Education department prevents local schools from teaching what they know children must learn. And our military is not allowed to protect our nation. They are hampered with rules of engagement that will not let them fight to win. That is not what a president is supposed to do, and it is not what the Congress or the Courts are supposed to do. Romans 13 is not about paying your taxes and standing by while the federal government bankrupts the nation of treasure and morals. Romans 13 tells us what kind of candidates we should be voting for, for it tells us what those in office are to do with the power they have been entrusted with.
Am I really running for President? No, for if God wanted me to be President I would simply wake up President. So, no I’m not running but I do hope you will look at your Bible as you should and not how some one in the Government would have you look at it.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, the powers that be are ordained of God. ... For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. ... Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
Does that sound like anyone you have voted for in the last 50 years? Me either. Let us look to support and work for those who will be men who will fill the shoes of leadership that God tells us they are to fill in Romans chapter thirteen.