The Kingdom Voter’s Guide to Integrity, Character, and Government | Tony Evans Sermon

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if you want to say God Bless America

then you want to make sure your leader

or leaders are recipients of the

blessings of God so that as

Representatives they can transfer to the

citizenry so you see all of this is part

of theology it’s part of Understanding

God’s way of governance and God’s

understanding of leadership

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leadership is a fundamental feature of

Kingdom

governance and when it comes to being a

kingdom

voter we look at policies what are the

policies of the person and of the

party but we do not skip the person

while we accept or reject the

policies in God’s Kingdom having the

right person with the right policies

packaged

together that take

seriously God’s rule of government is

the way a people a community a

society a country and a culture

progresses when the two become

disconnected because you have wrong

policies or wrong

people then you have set the nation up

for Conflict for

confusion and for

possible

regression so you are looking for the

person or persons depending on the

particular area of government you are

voting on and the policies to achieve

that goal of maintaining a safe just

righteous and compassionately

responsible environment for freedom to

flourish now the Bible is full of

politics so it is full of

politicians the Bible is clear that when

it comes to God he

determines Proverbs 8:15 and

16 that Kings rule by me it

says that I orchestrate who the rulers

are because government is my

institution in Romans chapter 13 where

we started when we looked at God in

government over and over again political

rulers are called deacons they’re called

Ministers of God three times in the

first seven verses of Romans 13 so the

closer a leader is in their character

and competence to the governing

guidelines of God the more ordered the

society will be the further the leaders

are in their character and in their

competence with regard to biblical

policy since God says he is the only

ultimate lawgiver the further that

Nation will be from God and that means

the more confusion will take place in

society so picking the right

leaders that’s critical to the voting

process while you don’t skip policy you

don’t skip the person

either Proverbs 292 says that when

Wicked rulers rule the people Gran they

go because if the leader is evil then

the

legislation will not achieve its

biblical goal so we are to pursue both

now let me explain for a moment

theologically how the principle of

leadership Works in God’s government ing

process because remember government

belongs to God that is the system of

government belongs to God God operates

his world

Covenant a covenant is a legally binding

relationship that is been established by

God the more you are in sync with God as

a leader and as a culture the more you

will progress in society it is critical

that the leader is in

alignment with God in his person as well

as in his or her

policies the Bible says in Daniel

chapter 2 verse

21 he says that it is God who sets up

and takes down rulers he says in verse

21

it is he who changes the times and the

epochs he removes Kings and establishes

Kings he gives wisdom to wise men and

knowledge to Men of understanding he can

get you voted in and he can get you

voted out so you can’t even talk about

government and Leadership without

talking about God and his role with

regard to

leaders so in the principle of the

Covenant is this principle it’s a

Biblical principle it is the principle

of representation we are a

representative government we have a

representative system where we elect

representatives to represent us on

behalf of the nation that’s how God has

set up government to work

representatively he sets up families

that work that way the man is to

represent the family so Joshua says as

for me in my house we will serve the

Lord the Bible says leaders represent

the congregation so it tells the

congregation to obey its leaders and

then in

society who you elect represents you so

they will either represent you toward

God or aw from God either by their

character or policies or both so

leadership is critical and God

determines you know one of the worst

representative principles that we have

in life is Adam because the Bible says

in Romans 5 in Adam all die do you know

why you and I die because our

representative dis disobey God he was

our rep and when he disobeyed God it

transferred to the human race so because

he represented the human race and he

failed if he would have eaten of the

tree of life we would not be in this

mess but our rep failed now of course

that’s the good news too because we have

another representative Jesus Christ and

Jesus Christ didn’t fail he perfectly

satisfied in his person and in his

application of biblical truth the will

and the word word of God and when you

accept and trade representatives vote

for Jesus then for Adam you get the

benefit of the representative that you

select so you see all of this is part of

theology it’s part of biblio centricity

so Kingdom voting involves the people as

well as the policy God even operates

this way 1 Corinthians 113 it says that

God the father is over Christ Christ is

over every man a man is over a woman

he’s talking about how the blessings

flow through the bibloc Centric

principle of representation when you’re

operating Covenant God knows how to

handle leaders who go off who go off who

lose their uh uh proper perspective on

their role so to help us out with this

let’s look at the

qualifications when you’re on the

leadership Side Of The Ledger when

you’re voting you must be on the policy

side as well because policies often

Outlast leaders but you don’t skip

addressing leaders while you are

analyzing policy now the Bible says in

the book of

Exodus chapter 18 verse

22

21 the kind of leader you look for and

the kind of leader you endorse and the

kind of leader you correct he says in

verse 21 furthermore you shall select

that’s a choice you shall select out of

all the people able men who fear God men

of Truth those who hate this honest gain

and you shall place them over them as

Leaders of thousands hundreds 50s and

tens

or communities cities counties

States first of all he says that you

want to look for leaders who fear God

these are leaders who take god seriously

he says in Exodus 18 verse 21 he says I

want you to get them to judge the people

but I need leaders who fear God so let’s

talk about fearing God

a leader who fears God to fear God means

to take god seriously let me say that

again to fear God means to take god

seriously as opposing to taking God

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the Leader if he’s the wrong or she’s

the wrong

leader one of the greatest biblical

illustrations of that of course is

Nebuchadnezzar he’s in the Book of

Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar I call him

nebby for

short he got the big

head he thought there was more to him

than there was he stood out on the port

a CET one day and said look at this

great Babylon that I have built I am the

man he was narcissistic to the max he

had a dream one day That Shook him up

and he wanted to know what the dream

meant to make a long story short a Godly

politician in government did you hear me

a Godly politician in government his

name was Daniel he’s in a secular

government he wasn’t

Israel the Theocratic government he was

in a secular society but that’s what we

need we need godly people in government

the Daniels he was in government and he

went over and he told uh the king king

uh I hate to tell you this but you

getting chopped down in verse 24 this is

the interpretation oh King this is the

decree of the most high God you you a

king but you’re not the king which has

come upon my Lord anding King that you

will be driven away from mankind you

will dwell in the place with Beasts of

the fields you will be given grass to

eat like cattle and Drench with the Dew

of heaven and seven uh periods of time

seven years will pass over you until you

recognize that the most high is ruler

over the realm of mankind and bestows it

on whoever he wishes and in that it was

commanded to leave the stump with the

roots of the tree your kingdom will be

assured to you after you recognize it is

heaven that rules hello we shouldn’t

just succumb to policies we shouldn’t

skip him but we shouldn’t just succumb

to them we must hold the character in

high esteem as well he says secondly

they must be men of Truth people of

truth that means they must protect

integrity

that doesn’t mean they’re perfect you

will not find a perfect leader because a

leader is

human but you want their goal you want

their

pursuit to clearly be the pursuit of

what is true of what is honest and what

bears

Integrity well what God wants is no fake

he doesn’t want you to be a fake

politician and he doesn’t want you to

support fake in politics

because God

wants the highest caliber of people in

his Covenant if he’s going to bless the

land along with High Caliber policies

that go along with them so they are to

be

god-fearers even in a secular society

they ought to be people of truth even in

a dishonest

government he then goes on to say that

they are are able

men okay they are

productive they function

excellently at the highest possible

level God doesn’t want you just getting

by as a political leader or voting

political leaders who are not willing to

give their highest and their best for

the citizenry that they represent their

standard of

Excellence they are slouches and

lazy and doofus no like Ecclesiastes 9

10 says when they do what they do they

do it with all their might that’s what

Ecclesiastes that should go for all of

us if you’re gonna do it do it if you’re

gonna go for it get it you don’t give

slop to God you don’t give slop to God’s

covenant and when you have political

leaders who just getting over getting a

paycheck and not doing the

do then they have failed you want men

and women who work hard at the job and

who don’t just try to get over the

fourth thing he says is they must be

selfless servants he says they hate

dishonest

game in other words they’re out

there for for the betterment of the

people not the betterment of

themselves now it’s okay to get benefit

from your

service but it should be because of good

service not because you’re robbing

people stealing from them ripping them

off using them undermining them no you

should be able to be trusted that you

are after their good in how you are

serving them you’re not after you using

them just so you can be better

off so you want selfless

service

so what is our

responsibility as voters Kingdom voters

first of all let me review you should be

a kingdom

independent okay now just so that

there’s no

confusion I don’t mean by that you don’t

vote for a Democrat I don’t mean by that

you don’t vote for a republican I don’t

mean by that you don’t vote for a

Libertarian I’m not talking about that

I’m talking about a mindset that says

that I am not ultimately committed to

any

party I may vote Democrat but I’m a

Democrat light I may vote Republican but

I’m a republican light I am not fully

committed to that party unless that

party can argue that it has has

character and competence people and

policies that are in line with the

kingdom of God that’s hard to find so

people are going to choose some are

going to lean on policy others are going

to lean on

person some disagree with policy some

disagree with people so people may be

divided so when you come out of the

voting booth you come out unified as a

kingdom independent I follow God and

when my party doesn’t follow God I’m

leaving that party on that issue when

this party doesn’t follow God I’m

leaving that party on this

issue because you are a kingdom

independent as a mindset as a world view

that governs and influences not only

your decision when voting but you’re

living after you vote and your

fellowship with other Christians who may

have differed with you in how they vote

but they didn’t differ with you in what

it means to be a kingdom voter and a

kingdom citizen what are you to do for

your leaders okay stay with me

here 1 Timothy 2 veres 1 and two says

you are to pray for all including your

political leaders that is including your

president your Congress

person including your city council

member your mayor your Governor you are

to pray for

them it is

amazing how many people will

criticize a politician who are unwilling

to pray for them if we have more prayer

than criticism we get more action

because we’re getting God involved God

should hear their name ring out in

heaven to correct their wrong to support

their

right he says that you ought to pray for

them

he says you are to submit to them 1

Peter chapter 2: 13 and 14 let me read

that to you 1

Peter chapter

2 verses 13 and 14 says

this submit yourselves for the Lord’s

sake to every Human Institution whether

to a king or one in Authority or to

Governors as sent by him for the

punishment of evil doers and the praise

of those who do right you submit to them

unless there is an exception here they

are asking you to disobey God let me

tell you what you’re not you don’t have

to like them these government Governors

that that Paul talks about and Peter

talks about were not Christian

governments it says in Exodus chap 22:

28 we are not to curse rulers oh yeah it

did it says in uh

Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 20 you’re

not to curse rulers uhoh watch this

hello in your bed chamber you know what

that means in private when nobody’s

listening because you’re in your own

private bedroom he says don’t you curse

that that means more than curse you know

cuss is bad words curse is to wish evil

on them at the same time leaders in who

office whose character falls short you

challenge them yes you do that’s what

Paul did Paul did this when he went

before Felix and when he went before

Felix in Acts 24 verse 25 he told Felix

the political leader you out of control

and we challenge character lovingly

responsibly honorly clearly and bibloc

centrically the Bible is clear Proverbs

24:21 we are to respect the king we are

to honor them and when you pray

if they’re not the best

people would you pray that God changes

their character if they’re in if they’re

in off even if they’re out of office but

if they’re in office pray for their

character condemn the wrong but pray

that there be a change because God God

changed a lot of folks character in

scripture I hope you know that Moses was

a murderer Peter was a you know a denier

Solomon was a woman Isa I mean you got

all kind of issues where God got in

there fixed their

heart including nebbi yeah he did

because in Daniel chapter 4 after he

went through seven years of insanity

when he lost his mind because God God

made him lose his mind and he came to

himself after that period and he

reflected the king reflected and said

Daniel 430 is this not Babylon the great

which I myself built as a royal

residence and and and he went through

that process he comes to the end in

verse 34 he says he raised his eyes

toward Heaven my reason returned to me I

got my sanity back because I had lost my

mind and I blessed the most high and

praise and honored him who lives forever

for his Dominion is Everlasting Dominion

his kingdom endures from generation to

Generation all the inhabitants of the

Earth are accounted as nothing but he

does according to his will in the host

of heaven and among the inhabitants of

the earth and no one I mean no one can

ward off his hand oh neb be

changed no he didn’t yeah he did because

he got a righteous person speaking into

his life so pray for those who aren’t

right yet while you criticize the wrong

in a legitimate responsible way

when you go to

vote you have to look at persons in

policy ideally you want both great

people with great policies godly people

with Godly

policies but often you don’t get most of

the time you don’t get both you may get

a person who’s not the best person but

they represent better policies or you

may get a person who’s a great person

but the policies they represent are not

consistent with God’s definition of

government so you got to choose people

going to choose differently but wherever

it’s way you go you come out of that

voting booth you stand for the King of

Kings and the Lord of lords and the

unity of his church take your stand as a

kingdom voter and never never never

ignore character for character must

accompany competence persons must

accompany policies if we’re going to

have the kind of nation that God is

free to

bless well this principle of

representation is an important principle

for

Life Jesus is your representative he

represents you before God the Bible says

he ever lives to make intercession for

his children you got a representative

the question is are you in align

or are you out of alignment are you just

a church goer are you just a Christian

or are you a disciple oh disciple that

means you are identifying with him in

your character and in your

conduct in your attitudes and when

you’re in your actions you’re under his

authority and you are pursuing a

relationship with the living Christ if

you’re not doing that you may go to

church every Sunday

but you’re not one God can do anything

with because you have not fully

committed to

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him civil leaders can be for good or for

bad based on the kind of leader that

they

are in my study of the transmission of

the Bible through our documentary

Unbound

we’ve seen how governmental leaders can

work against the program of God and the

expansion of his truth or they can

cooperate with the program of God and

the expansion of his truth that’s why

we’ve got to be really careful about the

kind of leaders we elect we support we

Embrace and uh we promote because the

wrong leader can hurt the program of God

and hurt the society

in which God’s created people live work

raise their

families governmental leaders are

critical to the well-being of society

but don’t forget governmental leaders

ought to be Servants of God for the

benefit of the people they not to be

Replacements as though they were God for

the detriment of the people

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