Someone has well said that the scandal of our time is the bad citizenship of good people. It is totally inconceivable that God would have ordained human government (Romans 13) and then told his people to stay out of it.
We, as God’s people, need to speak to the government and to our leaders. We dare not be silent. We need to sound a warning. Now that’s not our main cause. Our main cause is preaching the Gospel but God’s people dare not be silent. It’s Satan’s strategy to keep good people silent in evil times. If you will study the prophets of God’s Word … Nathan spoke to king David, Elijah spoke to Ahab, Eleazar to Jehoshaphat, Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, Moses to Pharaoh, and John the Baptist to Herod. We need to tell every governmental official whoever he is: Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong. Therefore we will talk about abortion; we’ll talk about gambling, and we will talk about the liquor business. We are going to talk about things that people may not like to have discussed. If they don’t like it … we are not here to win a popularity contest.
It’s a very interesting thing. If a preacher like my self stands up and preaches about…let’s take the subject of abortion, there are those, and there are plenty of them, that say, “Why don’t you stay out of politics?” But, if you ask a politician what he thinks about abortion he will say, “well, that’s a church matter.” See what they do? In other words, if you talk about politics they say stay out of politics and when you ask them to talk about abortion they say that’s a church matter. It doesn’t matter whether it’s political or a church matter, it’s wrong to kill babies. It’s absolutely wrong and we need speak up without stutter or stammer.
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Rev. Adrian Rogers