Neighborhood Ministries

A friend of mine  who is an evangelist in Russia stated that the people there are like those in Ninevah for they do not know their right hand from their left hand. That is true in America today. The media today deliberately lies to us telling us things were going well under President Obama and now under President Biden when they are really collapsing but they said things were in very bad shape under President Trump, when the country rose to the best economic condition in forty years, before Covid closed things down. President Trump was successful because he was a businessman who understood business, not a politician merely interested in getting reelected.  How can you really believe them because they also tell young people they can’t tell whether they are a boy or girl by looking at their privates, they should go by their feelings which often change daily. In Russia, the news service is called Provda, which means truth. The difference between Russia and the United States is that the Russian people know that the government is lying to them. In the United States, many people refuse to believe that the news services are lying to them. Up until 20 years or so, the news services were fairly unbiased. They were becoming slanted but still maintained some balance. It was more a matter of omission of facts than outright lies. Since then they have lost all attempts to be balanced and many articles are just political hit pieces rather than news stories. Many voters only vote for politicians based on what they will get from the government with no thought to what it will cost them in taxes and freedom. The Bible says that in the last days, the devil will seek whom he can devour, seeking to deceive even the elect, and we are seeing that today as many church people follow after corrupt politicians. Many today follow after false gods, and God has turned His face away from this land, just as He did Israel when it followed after false gods. God has promised that if we turn from our sin and seek Him, He will heal the land. However, if we do not, He will allow this land to suffer as He did Israel when they refused to return to Him.

Jesus came to show us a better way.  The best leader is someone who knows the love of God and is guided by the Holy Spirit to do what is best for everyone. No one is capable of ruling over others, regardless of what liberals tell you. That is why the framers of the Constitution designed it so that the people are the ultimate rulers in America and the politicians serve at the people’s will, and under their direction. However, they observed, and rightly so, that it would only work if the people at large knew God and served Him. We are seeing what happens when the nation turns away from God. The people select leaders to rule that will benefit them personally. This leads greedy politicians to give away money to buy votes, which we are seeing now. The recent vote showed that many voters are seeking politicians that will benefit them personally, not ones that will rule wisely for the benefit of all. Many voters in the last election indicated they believed the promises of free money and voted for candidates promising to give it to them, with no thought that they are going to have to pay the money back in taxes, with interest.  To get back to where we need to be, God’s people need to turn back to God and seek His will. God’s people then need to select politicians that will seek what is best for everyone, not just themselves. They must be politicians who themselves seek God’s will and respond to the will of the people.  They must enact laws that control those who don’t know God to keep them from hurting others and that allow those who are guided by God to serve God freely. They must be politicians who will apply the law fairly, not just in a way that benefits them. Then God’s people will be free to win souls to serving God through their example and through preaching the Word of God. Preaching alone won’t do it for there will be unbelievers who don’t know God and must be restrained by the law until Christ returns and removes those who don’t serve Him. Politicians can never clean up this country because they can only limit people’s ability to sin, they cannot change hearts. However, they can create a country where the church is free to win souls and help God change lives, or they can create a country where the church is prevented from winning souls openly.