American Christians are not unlike the Jews of New Testament times. The Jews were not looking for the Prince of Peace.  They were looking for a political deliverer on a white horse.  They were looking for someone who could deliver them from the power of Rome as Moses delivered them from Egypt.

Contemporary American Christians are also looking for a political deliverer on a white horse.  Someone who will reinstate biblical Christianity to its rightful place of respect and authority.  Someone who will load the courts with conservative and God fearing judges and someone on whose coat tails the conservative political machinery will thrive.  

I personally don’t think that is going to happen and here is why. Our government is a government for the people and by the people. The people are corrupt.* 

It is not big business, special interests, the rich, or even big government that is to blame for our present condition.  It is the people who have elected our leaders, their values, and the policies they bring with them.  The American people are to blame.  We have what we have because we are proud, self centered, and lovers of pleasure more than we are lovers of God. 

There is only one way to change the American people and that is by bringing them one by one to Jesus Christ, teaching them to walk in the Spirit and discipling them to obey the written Word.  

We must start by examining ourselves to see whether or not we are in the faith.  Before we speak anything to anyone, we must see God’s power exhibited privately within ourselves giving victory over our own thoughts, desires and motives…..and then we must stay out of God’s way.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17).

•  *I understand that corrupt is a harsh word, but the Scriptures say that the plowing of the wicked is sin and that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.  Man without the Saviour is corrupt.  Romans chapters one and two condemn the natural man, the moral man and the religious man altogether.
• A few years ago I surveyed several rural towns in our area of the Midwest.  Seventy five to eighty percent of those who were asked if they would go to heaven when they died responded positively.
• When asked why they should enter heaven, those same individuals replied within the categories of either because of what I am or because of what I’ve done.
• It is because of what we are that we are alienated from God.  It is because of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done that we can become the beneficiaries of salvation and call ourselves Christian.  (John 1:12 &13; 3:16; 10:9 and 14:6)
• The degree of corruption within our population, due to being unregenerate, is much higher than the polls and surveys would have you think.  Churches are not preaching the written Word and “Christians” are not holding the churches accountable to the written Word.   Most “Christians” are just doing what is right in their own eyes.