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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?

The truth is: Of those who say they are Christians, only half are registered to vote; of the half who are registered to vote, half of them do not vote; and of the remainder who do vote, many of them vote for candidates who are against Biblical moral values.  Many of these are sincere people who are trying to live as God wants them to live.  Why then do they not go to the polls and vote?  I’m glad you asked.

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 1800’s stated that homosexuality was just a different way of family life, he would have sealed his political doom.  What changed?

It all started when Christians backed out of the political realm in the 1920’s.  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 1930’s 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 1960’s they were ready to launch their full-scale attack on Christian values in our culture.

Prayer and Bible reading in government schools were disallowed in 1963.  In 1973 the murdering of unborn children by abortion was legalized.  In 1980 the Ten Commandments in public places were ruled unconstitutional.  Early in this century the legalization of homosexuality was pushed on us.  And now we have a man in the White House who endorses homosexual “marriage”; and has the gall to say this perverted idea was inspired by Jesus!

Why can they do this?  Because most Bible-believing Christians have stayed home instead of going to the polls and voting; even though there are enough of us to swing any election to the candidate that stands nearest to the Biblical position on issues.

Will you decide to be the “salt and light” Jesus told us we were?  Will you go to the polls and vote this coming Tuesday?  Your choice is: Vote your Biblical values; or— one day soon have your children look at you and ask, “Daddy, Mommy, what were you doing when freedom in America died?”

Can we not hear God calling today: “Who is on the Lord’s side, let him come unto me!” (Exodus 32:26)  Christian:  Go vote!!

Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—
and for your children!  And you won’t like what that brings to you.  I’m Don Pinson this has been Think About It.