2026 Don Pinson (To download, right-click on the gray play bar and select “Save Audio As”)

A very important election is close at hand.  Next Tuesday, choices will be made by voters that will affect the future of our nation for generations to come.  Are you prepared to vote?

Up until 1900 the Christian population of America controlled the outcome of elections.  No candidate could be elected who did not acknowledge God’s place in the history of our nation.  Actually, they had to go further than that.  In their speeches and writings, they had to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was God’s Son, and that the Bible was the best book to live by in this world.  Had a political candidate in the 1800s stated that homosexuality was just a different way of family life, he would have sealed his political doom.  What changed?  Why are we in the political slime which has politicians scampering for a way to appeal to homosexual voters?  Why are most government servants no longer statesmen?

It all started when Christians backed out of the political realm in the 1920s.  When Christians lost the battle over the transportation of liquor, many Bible-believing Pastors began to say, “That’s it!  The government is no longer responsive to the Church.  Therefore, we’ll make it our focus to get people saved, and we’ll leave the government for someone else to do.”  And someone else did it!

The few who hated God and wanted to see America turned from its Biblical worldview, began to move into positions of leadership in the education system, and the government.  By the 1930s many university department chairmanships had been infiltrated by these humanists.  They then easily duplicated themselves and their evil ideas in unsuspecting students who, then, went out to teach in schools across the country.  Some of the leading humanists ran for political office and made their way into high places in government.  At least two have become President, while many others became Congressional Representatives, Senators, or Supreme Court Judges.  By the 1960s they were ready to launch their full-scale attack on Christian values in our culture.

© 2026 Don Pinson (To download, right-click on the gray play bar and select “Save Audio As”)

Joshua called together the leaders of Israel and challenged them to finish the work of establishing the Jews in the Promised Land.  He admonished them,

“…choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served…or the gods of the Amorites…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

(Joshua 24:15)

The nations around them worshiped (through their idols, Psalm 106:37) a god—satan—which produced a dictator for their civil government.  God, our true Creator, had given to the Jews, through Moses, a government where the people chose their rulers through elections.  The first form of government enslaved the people to their king, the dictator; God’s form of government enslaved the government servants to the people, the citizens, giving to the people in government only specifically written powers which they could exercise over them (we call that a “Constitution”).  The nations around them had a dictatorship for their form of government; the Jews had a republic for their form of government.  And the Jews experienced, through their republic, more liberty and justice for their citizens than any nation had ever experienced up unto that time.

This is one of the things that makes voting such an important act.  We will always be choosing more enslavement or more liberty when we cast our vote because we will always be choosing a form of government.  A candidate’s idea of why government exists, what is the structure of government, and what is the spirit in which government should operate, is going to cause them, once in office, to pass laws which agree with their ideas.  So when you vote you are really voting for the way a candidate thinks.  The Bible says, as a man “…thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7)  Thus, your candidate’s thinking is going to produce a certain kind of government.  In short, it will produce more liberty or it will produce more slavery for the citizens.