10/21/22 WHETHER PERSONAL OR NATIONAL

10/21/22 WHETHER PERSONAL OR NATIONAL

SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE EVIL 

Even if a good candidate gets the vote, God can still give a people what they deserve rather than what they want. Scary, huh?

In other words, it takes more than just moral, political, social awareness to be on God's side of history. Sometimes, if people get what they want (even when it is good), they don't get what they need or deserve. God knows the state of our State and the needs of this world as well as the needs of His Church.

We know that everyone needs Jesus Christ. Until Jesus is Lord of people's lives, they need to be shaken up and brought to reality (even through politics). God wants to draw people to Himself through blessings, but if people don't respond to the kindness of God, He will use suffering and sorrow to bring them to Himself. 

Romans 2:4 (drawn by blessing and kindness)
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 

2 Corinthians 7:8-11 (driven by sorrow and sufferning)
8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.