How Christians should respond to the American Election.

If you voted, Amen. You fulfilled your Christian responsibility to the government. You rendered him to Caesar what was Caesar's; you must still render unto God the things that are Gods. And few are anxious about the uncertain outcome so far, or feel you do not like the current trend, put the election in the context of God’s sovereign will.

Why is the American Election so important?

1. Leadership: Do most Americans desire a leader who is humble, compassionate and a unitor or one who is dominating, aggressive and polarizing? The choice speaks to the spirit of the culture.

2. Quality of life: Health Care, Racial, Economic and Environmental justice will positively or negatively impact your quality of life.

3. Attitude of Society: How Americans treat the LBTQ community, America's caste system and hope or hopelessness for a better world will be manifest and the attitudes of everyone.

Some Americans believe their values and aspirations are were destroyed while others believe they were upheld. Democrats and Republicans stand further apart while prophets of doom predict the end of American life.

How should Christians view life in America?

Continue being a Christian. Understand the Christian life in the context of history.

2 Timothy 3:10–17 NIV

You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Christianity was born in the womb of persecution. Our Savior was unjustly accusses of blasphemy and crucified. Christians have suffered through our history. Some have nobly sacrificed their lives for in faith. If the Lord ordains we go through persecution, we joins the saints of history who suffered before us. “Those who seek to live a godly life in Christ will suffer persecution.”

Leaders rise and fall. Great leaders die and wicked leaders grow worse and worse. They may spread their influence like the Cedars of Lebanon, but soon I will pass away and be no more. No one is perfect. No leader is sovereign. It is written, “Some trust in horses and others trust in chariots but we will trust in the name of the Lord.”

It is not over. Ecclesiastes says, “The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.”

God can change circumstances in a moment. God can send snow storms and stop wars. God can send disease and stop armies. God can turn Nebuchadnezzar into a wolf and leave pharaoh without an army to lead.

God is still on the Throne. If we are learning anything from the book of Revelation, it is this… Evil will advance for a season. Ultimately, evil will be destroyed forever. The beast will be cast into the lake of fire. Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God and the Lion of Judah will prevail. He will crown the faithful with a crown of righteousness.

When you rose this morning the sun was still shining. God bless you to see another day. His mercy is new every morning. We must continue growing spiritually, learning to be obedient to the Holy Spirit, trusting in God's sovereign will, and bearing witness to our faith.

Paul said, “continue what you have learned and become convinced of.” Stay on course. Be calm. Endure. Remember Jesus Christ died on the cross and sit down at the right hand of the Majesty. He is now making intercession for you and me. The Psalmist said “From everlasting to everlasting You are God. The grass withers and the flowers fade the word of our God will last forever.”