Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from yesterday’s service and message “Christian Citizenship”.
Citizenship means that a person is part of a community and has been vested or granted rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities within that community. The people of God through Jesus Christ are part of the beloved community and are citizens of Heaven and the kingdom of God. Our first loyalty is to this community.
As missionaries to the people to whom we are sent, we may be granted citizenship in the country or nation to whom we are assigned. If we are afforded any amount of citizenship, we must be careful to use it to perpetuate our mission and to serve and benefit the society we are sent to minister to.
The United States where we are assigned is a divided nation. Over 70 million votes have been cast for two different candidates. People are in the streets for the first time in the nation’s history saying that the election was fraudulent, rigged and unfair when no such thing has happened.
The current occupant of the White House refuses to acknowledge the rightful results of the election and seeking ways to undo the will of the majority of the people and undermine to legitimacy of the President-elect.
The division in this nation has been exasperated by the misguided attempt to legislate biblical norms upon a nation who no longer accept these norms. Biblical principles and standards in candidates have been sacrificed in order to achieve these policy objectives.
As a result, ungodly and unprincipled people have been elevated to positions of great power and influence and are fueling mistrust, discord, confusion and division that threaten to destroy the United States democracy. By using these people and giving them a platform, we are enabling the division and unrest in this nation.
The principle responsibility that God gave us is to “do no harm”. We must not use our earthly citizenship to harm those will live among. It is time for Christians to remember our mission by seeking to heal the nation, to lower the rhetoric and hold people accountable for what they are saying and doing that serve to divide and mislead people.
This is part of our Christian duty as citizens of Heaven. God will hold us all accountable for misusing our influence for harming the nation by enabling greedy, selfish, hateful and ungodly people to impose and legislate a biblical morality upon a population who have moved toward a more secular worldview.
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Pastor Jordan
