Who Should Christians Vote For? | Costi Hinn
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- When it comes to the church, there seems to be this idea that politics shouldn't be talked about. In this video, Costi Hinn sits down with Brett Skinner to discuss how Christians should approach politics and voting.
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Sinners are very bold today. The church needs boldness more than ever.
Amen! Thankful for the clear, biblical approach to this. Silence is not biblical!
As you stated I choose how to vote by God's word, Paul explained who should be chosen as a leader/elder of the church (body of Christ) as President is therefore a leader above all believers,
1 Timothy 3: 2-3
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
Since God's word is truth I will vote for a candidate that comes closer to God's word.
Paul believed character mattered to lead Christians and as a believer I accept his commands.
Thank you Pastor Costi!
Here’s my question to all my brothers and sisters in Christ? Although I understand the substance behind pastor Hinn position on this why no one addresses the character of the leader that promotes all Christian values? Is beyond me why we don’t address the main issue with Trump!!!
How blind can we be? I person that exhibits not a centella of decency, morality, respect, trustworthy, decorum, integrity, that is in his right mind, and that mocks openly the word of God through his own maniacal actions and we somehow can look above that and vote for him?? What’s the difference between that and Taylor Swift endorsement to democrats? None they are both unchristian!
Agreed!
I agree.
Because, by nature, the options are limited and unfortunately do not include a perfect Christian. When there is, then vote for them. When there isn’t, like right now, vote for the one closest to that. This is not complicated.
@@MapleBar777 there is no perfect Christian, only Jesus was perfect
would you prefer Kamala Harris, who does not believe in our Christian values and mocks the faith more openly by her words and actions? She even rallies like minded individuals who are blind by the vague promises she gives and the "funny" speeches. Every time I see a video of her it feels like a bad stand up comedy that makes no sense. Even if Trump might not exhibit the trustworthiness you want because of all the actions he has done in the past, he does have character and believes in some of the Christian values we want. He is not perfect by any means, neither are any of us. He does have better relationships with the world leaders and at least they respect him. Just pray for him if you want him to be more like Jesus. Either way, whoever wins, we need to pray for them both. And take everything to God.
Two sides of the same coin. But as a Christian I must vote Republican. Why? Murder is Murder! God bless you both and your ministry. To God be All the Glory!
You do realize that the Reps' position on abortion is virtually no different than the Dems' position, do you?
Not only do Republicans and Trump openly support abortion but homosexuality and God said Sodom and Gomorrah was set as an example to all nations who promotes that lifestyle.
There is not an exemption. God is not a respecter of persons saying I will not destroy that nation if Trump is the POTUS even though he endorses abortion homosexuality because Trump loves America and can build walls. Do you think God is so impressed with Trump that instead of destroying America, because of murdering babies and promoting homosexuality, He will instead allow Trump to save America?
Yes and amen
I really struggle with a strong sense of disillusionment with politics as a Christian. I've heard evangelical politicians speak as if they're intending to drive their voters to vote from fear, which I don't believe reflects the hope that we have in Christ, God's dominion, and the inevitability of his kingdom coming. It's as if my vote is being coerced by imploring me to fear democrats more than fearing God. I've seen friends and family fall to sin as a result of this fear.
You're right. We should vote in line with our kingdom morals, but my trust in any politician to bring those to fruition is paper thin.
I remember when Christians use to tell us that voting for Democrats was wrong because they supported abortion and homosexuality and voting for anyone that promoted it was participating in their sin, and I concur.
Now, these same ministers are saying we must vote for the most moral or lesser of two evils sonce both parties now support it, false and deceiving.
These ministers have become corrupt and have lost their ways, even if, like Costi have left one deception for another. God will destroy America because His people, like the Jews, care more about their lives than obeying God's clear commands.
Of course God is our hope/future/deliverance. However, we’re presented with 2 choices, 1 is more biblical than the other, and we have to pick 1 out of the 2.
Amen 🙏🇺🇸, well said!
Well said @max tennessee USA
To vote morally, Christians should consider pro-life 3rd parties. ASP Peter Sonski for President
As a person i think when they say... my body my choice really upset me because its lead to so many fatherless kids in which evil can make there lives tough like mine was... Not to mention the thug culture in which satan actually kills or uses for killing. If its there body there choice than choose not to have sex or choose to make him use a rubber or better yet CHOOSE to use your body for righteousness and Godly action and CHOOSE to fight those evil fleshly desires and NOT DO IT TILL YOUR MARRIED. You know what its like being a early baptised buy water kid then through into forstercare that the only good thing I got was Christain camp and running away from it when they expelled me because of a fabricated story in which the super attendant refused to even check if his allegatiions we correct and if what i had unknowingly in my locker was just a legal smoke bomb or a IED. Keep in mind i was 17 and didnt even know at the time i was a fatherless kid who didnt even know how to fight with fists let alone make a damn pipe bomb. And thats the reason America didnt educate me and why to this day i live on benifits and ebt with work here or there and seek knolledge but without them knowing it ie Bibles colledge books ex. Point being Christ knew satans plan to use thw States plan to get our familys property, saved money my mom would have got and sold the property for 30K amd sold half for 80K my loving grandmother who worked for the county as a music teacher and i think vise princible but died the last feq months in a shitry nursing home alone at least she didnt know the money she and her late husband aaved didnt get coveted buy greed and her home wasnt casted for lots. Also the high school who expelled me for a smoke bomb but used there conservative power to refuse any inquriea even a basic inspection becuase i was a class clown and pot head. Ita how i coped with the stress of family seperation and being the only new student in years. Anyways ive noticed BOTH SIDES protect there own pocket or power or use it for evil while calling YOU the evil one completely falsesifying or half truths mixed with lies. im half interested in a formal education today the Lords wih me but whats the prize a house buy myself seeing the situation wih women today wirh the risk and reward. It was only a smoke bomb and America paid. I got almost 3 years of a full year spring break and now i have a apartment in which i can work on myself witb the lord instead of constantly worring about money money money. I did it for 20 years in entry level jobs and the damn global natzis who think its ok to sell us products build wealth then instead of building factories here in America and hire 3rd gen or 4fh gen americans of ANY race... They build it in china which we DONT know worker conditions. Or if that wealth could be used to build campains against us. We need a new national capain thats not natzi but Godly
Sadly so many pastors don’t have the courage to speak up the truth; they avoid talking about this all together. Church people have no guidance/guideline to follow. The church is unknowingly being overtaken by the secular values.
There’s no point in putting your faith in politicians.
There is a reason the political spectrum of this world is divided into left and right. They are polar opposites of a binary scale ensuring the largest number of people are in opposition, not only to one another's philosophy, but to one another.
The right is symbolised with the colour blue, and left, red. One the artists' colour wheel these two colours are directly opposite to each other and are often used in art, advertising, political propaganda, to create a subliminal feeling of discord or opposition. This is why police lights are often red and blue. They create an uneasy feeling and jilt drivers from the day dreams they may be in. This is also why Picasso used subtle shades of red and blue in his monochromatic work 'Guernica'. It elicited and developed negative emotions of what was being depicted in the painting.
Are left or right really the only two options? Is competing and battling the only way forward? There is more that human beings all agree on than disagree. The political system of left vs right focuses mainly on that which people disagree, further corrupting any sense of unity. How has it come to this?
It surprises people to learn that the bible sheds a lot of light on this. In the Hebrew Scriptures several words or nouns that can be translated as “knowledge” are related to the basic verb ya·dhaʽʹ, signifying “ know by being told,” “know by observing,” “know by personal acquaintance or experience,” or “know by being experienced, skillful in something.”
To know good and evil by eating the forbidden fruit is to know it through experience. Adam and Eve did eat the forbidden fruit and now we, their descendants, are experiencing good and evil.
That tree was no different to any other tree. The fruit was no different to any other fruit. It was simply the tree God chose to represent his right to rule. Because he had commanded that it not be eaten from, for as long as it remained uneaten from, it also represented humanity's acceptance of his rulership. The day it was eaten from showed humanity's rejection of God's rulership. In effect Adam and Eve had said to him, "We want to do it by ourselves". We now know, through experience, the result of humans ruling themselves.
'Demos' is the Greek word for the People. ‘Kratia' is the Greek word for Power or Rule. 'Theos' is the Greek word for God. 'Democracy' therefore means The People Rule, and 'Theocracy' means God rules. Look at the result of people ruling themselves - war, poverty, starvation, crime, greed, inequality, hatred, slavery, sickness, and ultimately death. Democracy isn't working. In fact, the very notion that people can rule themselves is the exact same lie that Satan told Eve in the garden of Eden.
God’s Kingdom is a real government established by God. “The kingdom of God” is also called “the kingdom of heaven” in the Bible, since it rules from heaven. (Mark 1:14, 15; Matthew 4:17, King James Version) It shares many attributes of human governments, yet it is superior to them in every way.
Rulers:
God has appointed Jesus Christ as King of the Kingdom and has given him more authority than any human ruler could ever have. (Matthew 28:18) Jesus uses this power only for good, since he has already proved to be reliable and compassionate.
Leader:
(Matthew 4:23; Mark 1:40, 41; 6:31-34; Luke 7:11-17) Under God’s direction, Jesus has selected persons from all nations who will “rule as kings over the earth” with him in heaven.-Revelation 5:9, 10.
Duration:
Unlike human governments, which come and go, God’s Kingdom “will never be brought to ruin.”-Daniel 2:44.
Subjects:
Anyone who does what God requires can be a subject of God’s Kingdom, without regard for ancestry or birthplace.-Acts 10:34, 35.
Laws:
The laws (or commandments) of God’s Kingdom do more than just prohibit wrong behaviour. They raise the moral character of its subjects. For example, the Bible says: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbour as yourself.’” (Matthew 22:37-39) Love of God and neighbour moves subjects of the Kingdom to act in the best interests of others.
Education. While God’s Kingdom sets high standards for its subjects, it also teaches people how to meet those standards.-Isaiah 48:17, 18.
Mission:
The Kingdom of God doesn’t enrich its rulers at the expense of its subjects. Instead, it will accomplish God’s will, including the promise that those who love him will live forever on a paradise earth.-Isaiah 35:1, 5, 6; Matthew 6:10; Revelation 21:1-4.
The first general election (that is the public vote for a political party to take office) was held over 300 years ago in 1695. Is the world scene better now than it was? Is the world happier, less stressed, more hopeful for the future, more secure? No, so get yourself liberated from the stranglehold of the system.
Follow the example of Jesus, who refused to accept political office. (John 6:15) He taught his disciples to be “no part of the world” and made it clear that they should not take sides in political issues.
John 17:14
I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.
Mark 12:17
Jesus then said: “Pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar, but God’s things to God.” And they were amazed at him.
Be loyal to God’s Kingdom, which Jesus spoke of when he said: “This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth.” (Matthew 24:14) As representatives of God’s Kingdom, commissioned to proclaim its coming, remain neutral in the political affairs of all countries, including the one in which you live.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are ambassadors substituting for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us. As substitutes for Christ, we beg: “Become reconciled to God.
Ephesians 6:20
for which I am acting as an ambassador in chains, and that I may speak about it with boldness, as I ought to speak.
By remaining neutral, you are able to speak freely to people of all political persuasions about the good news of God’s Kingdom. Try to show by your words and practices that you rely on God’s Kingdom to solve the world’s problems.
Psalm 56:11
In God I put my trust; I am not afraid. What can a mere human do to me?
By avoiding political divisions, you can be united as an international brotherhood. (Colossians 3:14; 1 Peter 2:17) In contrast, religions that meddle in politics divide their members.
1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I urge you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all speak in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you may be completely united in the same mind and in the same line of thought.
Normally it's the lord who gives leadership either for justice or judgment for all nations...should we vote Yes...No👉 Proverbs 16:33 We may throw the dice,
but the lord determines how they fall.
Yes, God is in control. However, we have the duty to do our very best.
Well said. Bravo!
Many churches don't talk politics, because they love money and because they can't. They will lose their 501 c tax exempt status. it states very clearly in the text you cannot do this and maintain tax exempt status.
Is 'abortion' policy a distraction from the true problem? I.e. a highly sexualised culture that makes promiscuity normal.
Beyond that, there is something fishy about being pro-life and pro-gun. (I'm ok with ownership of ancient muskets, as per the original spirit of the constitution, which has been twisted, just like Scripture, but I digress).
Who do we vote for when both candidates support abortion?
Don't vote
We’ll never get a candidate that is anti abortion so I’m going to vote for the party that most closely aligns with my secondary issues - border control and not mutilating children in the name of transgenderism.
Like Pastor Costi said, the candidates will not be perfect or the perfect match. We just choose the one most aligned to the Bible.
@@TrangNguyen-vc3yk Is that what the Bible teaches? Does the Bible teach that Sodom and Gomorrah was only an idea, but don't worry about that as long as 1% of babies aren't murdered and the economy is ok, I will allow Trump to save America because, my people are so scared of Taylor Swift.
All candidates are totally against God to the core as they hate him. The idea that there is a difference shows just how reprobate those who call themselves Christians are.
The fact that the moderator deleted my posts shows they cannot handle the truth.
Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
I'm glad Costi left his uncle, good for him, and he became a Calvinist, again, great but to be entangled in this world, that he would rebel against God and His word? absolutely deplorable!
I hope that wasn’t a prophetic word that Taylor Swift will end up president someday… something inside me says that won’t be too far a stretch in the future.
This fallen world won’t get any better. Hopefully we’re all raptured by then. 🤣🙏
I say don't vote
I don't either! Our choices are now rebellion against God! Their is no other choice.
Isn’t not voting, in effect, a vote for the party that hates America (aka democrats)?
That will teach them…that thinking or lack there of is how we have our dysfunctional country.
I think you missed the point Pastor Costi was trying to get across. If we don’t vote, then the secular choice will win. Not that we don’t trust in God’s control, but we do our very best and leave the result to God.
@@TrangNguyen-vc3yk I didn't miss the point at all. He misses the point, to obey is better than sacrifice [voting] for a warped idea about the lesser of two evils which he could not articulate, because he absolutely refused to give details. The details reveals a 1% difference in abortion and no difference in homosexuality. Trump, Biden, and all pols from both parties hate God.
God has already told us that He will destroy all nations that permits homosexuality as that nation has gone too far and reprobate.
What part of II Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who had sinned - but cast them down into Hell and delivered them into chains of darkness (to be kept for damnation) -
5 nor spare the old world (save Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness) - but brought in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly,
6 and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes (condemning and overthrowing them), and made them an example to those who would live ungodly afterward,..
Do you not get the above?
So how many children are you willing to sacrifice? How many children are you willing to expose to homosexuals to rape? With Trump and Biden story time and open raping of our children will be legalized.
Trump said he will defend homosexuals and their lifestyle worldwide when he had a night of homosexual debauchery at Mar-A-Lago telling them how proud he was of their political activism.
This is such an open and defiant sin that God is destroying America as America is falling apart and will soon go into the ashes of history.
It's because God's people have shaken their fists at God and declared we can save ourselves.
No one liked the prophets of old because they told the truth. I'm no prophet, but I do know the clear teachings of scriptures and Costi and all Reformers are siding with the debauched ministers like Benny Hinn, Paula White, and others are promoting rebellion against God and he can't sugar coat it. It would be like Elijah siding with the prophets of Baal.
Therefore, I will call him and you to repentance because I love him and you too.
Simple question and simpler answer. Donald Trump.
Conservative Trump in the United States and Pierre Polievre in Canada 🇨🇦 Conservative Party of Canada !!! 🎉🎉🥳🤗🩷 I’m a Roman Catholic Christian born in the 20000s I was born in 2003 and my brother Christian was born in 2005 and my parents both grew up Roman Catholic christians my family always used to go to church but then my dad soon as he divorced and forgot about his own family he has created together with my mom because my mom told me when my parents were married for 10 years he never drank any alcohol and that alcohol would give him headaches and now his FAKE new narccisstic partner makes him drink and now he’s also a narcissist but I just saw him yesterday and he started talking to me and also started to talk about politics because of me and my brother so things are the tide is turning we are Conservative Traditional Family Values Always
Thank you Pastor Costi.