Someone asked me, a Christian black ex-sinner (a man who messed up in his youth), why aren’t you voting for Barak Obama? I simply told them that I didn’t believe in the man. They said, are you voting Republican then? I told them, I just might if Hillary Clinton doesn’t somehow get on board with him. Wow, they said! I told them, it came down to two things for me. The first one: Barak Obama reminds me too much of the Barak in Judges Chapter 4, a man who history gave the credit for winning a battle but a man who didn’t get the credit by God. By this I mean that Barak never wanted to run in the first place for the President of the United States of America, he heard about Hillary Clinton beginning to ponder on entering the race and he was convinced by those around him to enter into the race. A man that does not have God as his central guide should not be given a place of power. Every man, because that who the Presidents were, relied on God, the Word of God to guide this country. I believe the Bible is clear in Judges Chapter 4: in the absence of a qualified man, a qualified woman immediately must take the reigns; don’t elect an unqualified man into power because its just trouble.
The second thing that I said was, having a President who fears God is the most important thing to me in times like these. In this country we pride ourselves on religious tolerance, Christians accept non-Christians in this country because they wrote it in the Constitution of the United States; however, they wrote it in the Constitution because they knew that it took the power of God to accept others in their country. Let us take a lesson ahead of the election from 1st Samuel 8, the children of Israel set the path to their nation’s destruction by voting a man into power that possessed some great stature. They didn’t know he would be all about the power and bring them to a point of almost destruction. They thought he would rally them all together to fight their enemies. This man, Saul, was later found not to even respect the Word of God or the prophet of God. And although this very prophet had guided him spiritually through many problems in his elected life, a man that all people knew was anointed by God, Samuel the prophet, this man shrugged his noise up at him and did the opposite of what he said, what God said. Matthew 10: 40-41 in the New International Version of the Bible states it best:
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me. Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
What’s the flip side of this? In all that we know in this country about the plight (trouble) of children of Israel, how can we inter-mix other religious ideas into our government now? Is Barak even going to church? Who will give Barak Obama the Word of God now, now that he has publicly shamed his own pastor? Will even our legendary Bill Graham be able to talk to him about the Word? Someone ask Pastor Graham what he thinks? Remember, if you are not getting the Word of God you are getting the word of human and the word of …
That’s my answer to you and to you that read these words. She’s been down and she’s been up but she has never forgotten God even when she sinned or had trouble in her life. We all fall short but we never talk about the Lord’s person when they are doing the Lord’s work. In the Old Testament many prophets and priest spoke out about the country, condemning it badly. Barak should of never spoke about Pastor Wright. He should of let the Lord our God deal with him if he is saying something wrong: Please read the difference in dealing with Pastors in Numbers 12, 22, and 20:11 – 13 & Deuteronomy 32: 48-52.
Barak this is for you:
Proverbs 1:1-7
The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2 for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; 3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; 4 for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young- 5 let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance- 6 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
And Barak this what you have portrayed to our youth
For the sake of Martin Luther King, don’t elect Barak Obama the next President of the United States of America. African-Americans from the time of slavery have relied on God (when they accepted God) to get through their struggles. I believe Barak Obama thumbs his noise up at everything our ancestors struggled for in this life. How many Ministers, Pastors, and ordinary Christians prayed for better days to come and how many times over did God answer their prayers. It might have taken centuries to come to those days but he heard their cries and brought them into a better time like the children of Israel getting let into the land of milk and honey. If we elect Barak Obama as our next President, the dream of Martin Luther has not been accomplished because he never had a dream of destroying our faith to make that dream become a reality. I believe he never would of wanted the African-American people to see an African-American person rise to the top by separating himself from the very thing that caused him achieve equality, God. To me Barak Obama has set the stage for all to see: An African-American man may reach the top by denouncing God. If Obama is elected, many African-American women and men (especially the young black men who are going through a hard times now) will begin to believe that denouncing the very people that prayed for our doors to be open on equality can be disregarded because we have entered into a new era in our society. I say to you, “say no to Obama, yes to Clinton or its McCain” because such great a model of rejection cannot and should not be tolerated in African-American community or by the Christian people of the world.