I want to show you, from God’s Word, why we have an obligation to influence the direction of the United States of America!

First of all, we are ambassadors for Christ. The Apostle Paul tells us this in Second Corinthians 5:20. What is an ambassador and what do they do? An ambassador is a diplomatic agent of the highest rank accredited to a foreign government as the resident representative of his or her own government. What does this mean for believers in Jesus? Paul said in Philippians 3:20 that our citizenship is in Heaven. If we are ambassadors, then we have been sent from our home country Heaven, by our King Jesus, to represent His values in the land to which He sent us. As citizens of these United States, we’ve been given the right to influence who leads this nation and the direction those leaders take the nation. Luke 12:48 reminds us that to whom much is given, much is required. That verse isn’t just talking about financial resources, it includes influence as well.

So then if we as believers in Jesus Christ, living temporarily as citizens of this nation, are supposed to make a difference here for our home country Heaven, what does that look like? In Matthew 5:14 Jesus told us to be the light of the world. One verse earlier He commanded us to be the salt of the earth. In order to influence this country for our home country we, as followers of Christ, must be Salt and Light!

Salt, before the days of refrigeration was the primary means of preserving food. So, when Jesus says we are to be salt, our job is to help preserve our culture from spoiling or becoming rotten. To be the light of the world is to help dispel the darkness that keeps people wandering around lost. How are we doing? Not so good!

Don’t misunderstand, we can’t make people behave. People that don’t know Jesus, don’t have our moral compass. We should share the Gospel with everyone we can and let the Spirit of God do His work. But there are some things we can do, things that our country still allows us to do and things our Ambassadorship requires of us.

We can speak out about the darkness and rottenness in our culture. We can work to have ungodly practices and laws ended. We can work to get people elected who still believe there is a God to whom we must all give an account.

Using our freedom to vote is a minimum requirement for all believers in this free nation. We have not been called by God and left here to go along and get along. We are here in this temporary kingdom by God’s providence to make a difference for His Eternal Kingdom. So, let’s embrace our Ambassadorship this November and support those issues and candidates up and down the ballot who most closely align with Biblical principles and the priorities of our King of Kings!

Tracy Figley

CEO of Strong Tower Christian Media

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Believe it or not, the Apostle Paul has some thoughts on this subject that I’d like to explore as we seek to answer the question; should we as Christians get involved?

In Second Corinthians 5:20 Paul writes: We are therefore Christ’s Ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.  We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God! 

I love that Paul uses this word Ambassador.  What do we know about an ambassador?

1. They are sent from their homeland to a foreign land.
2. They are sent by a king or leader to represent the homeland.
3. If they do their job well, they don’t push their own agenda but seek the best interests of their King and country!

Wow!  That’s the believer in Jesus!  The scripture tells us we are strangers in a strange land, that our citizenship is in Heaven, and that we take our orders from Christ, the King of Kings and we should do everything in our power to influence this foreign land for the benefit of Heaven!

So how did this play out in the Apostle Paul’s life?  The Roman Empire could hardly be considered a Republic or a Democracy.  Caesar called the shots to be sure but citizens of Rome, like Paul did have rights. We read in Acts 21 and following that when Paul got in trouble, he was beaten then they tried to let him go quietly.  Paul let them know that he was a Roman Citizen and they couldn’t do that.  He said, I want to go to Rome and take my case to Caesar!  And so it was!  You see the great Apostle Paul used his Citizenship to spread the Gospel to Rome.

There are a lot of issues hanging in the balance in this great nation.  Issues that could be decided in this upcoming election, issues of importance to our King, Jesus and our homeland, Heaven.  Issues like Life, Justice, morality, the traditional family and religious liberty.  This election isn’t about party or about candidate personality, it’s about where our elected officials will stand on the issues that resonate in Heaven!

In recent years some have threatened to take away our religious liberty.  Other rights have become more politically correct than our first freedom of worship.  But imagine if you will, someone getting into office and with the stroke of a pen eliminating our ability to share the Gospel with others or to export it from these United States through missions!  Luke 12:48 reminds us that to whom much is given, much will be required!

As a believer, you may not feel called to run for public office, or even campaign for someone who is but you can certainly vote, for Heaven sake!  We, who have been given so much freedom to do good and to share Christ dare not let that slip away because we chose not to engage on election day!

If America loses her moral compass, her ability to spread the Gospel throughout the world and all the freedoms her people once enjoyed, let it not be because God’s people sat idly by and watched it happen.

Resources can be found at PRAY VOTE STAND to help inform you about where the candidates stand on issues of importance to Heaven.  So be a good Ambassador.  Represent your King and your homeland well where you have been assigned in the United States of America.  Become informed and then on November 3^rd, Vote for Heaven’s sake!

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