Tuesday November 2, 2004 was an historic day in our country. I would be remiss in my responsibility as a pastor to allow this moment to pass without calling attention to it and without thanking God in prayer.
Twenty-two per cent of American voters Tuesday said they voted the way they did for “moral reasons.” The news media has been all over the map trying to figure out what were these moral reasons, I am here today to comment on that subject.
When this nation was founded it was founded to express religious Christian freedom. No honest student of American history could contradict that statement. Not all were Christian, by any means, but the vast majority of those earliest settlers were indeed believers and freedom under God and the Bible were their moral reasons for coming here. The first schools were established to teach the Bible. The first universities were founded to pre-pare men for the ministry.
The psalmist told us that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” while in the mother’s womb. The Scriptures tell us that it is murder to kill the innocent. The only exceptions were when God had placed judgment upon an evil people in general. To abort unnecessarily the life of a baby in the womb is murder. It is against God’s law.
Often in the Old Testament it is said, during a time of great evil and spiritual darkness, “and the sodomites were in the land.”
Today the sodomites are again in the land, our land. Tuesday they tried to back candidates who were sympathetic to their cause. They were before voters to consummate their evil unions. When the dust of election night cleared, they were 0 for 11. Eleven of these sovereign states sent voters to the polls. The Bible side won, thank God almighty.
When informed Christians go to the polls, they do not do so to automatically “vote the straight ticket,” as it is often said. The twenty-two percent who voted as evangelical Christians absolutely swung this election in a way so as to give us another opportunity to reach the lost in a country that is free from these terrible evils, at least to a degree.
Here in Michigan, we got an added bonus. We got a chance to put gambling’s advancement in the hands of the voters. I am the foe of gambling, but if it must be, at least let the people have their say.
We have much for which to thank God today. Let us do so now.
Amen
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