Because what I’m going to say here is never spoken from the pulpit, I know it’s going to anger a bunch of people. Well, truth is like that.

I won’t leave you in suspense. Because of what the Democrat Party in this nation stands for, I believe that anyone who calls himself a Christian commits a grievous sin by being a part of and supporting this political party.

Now, that’s not to say that the Republican Party isn’t extremely problematic as well, but overall, if someone chooses to identify with one of these parties, Republican should be it.

How are we doing? How many of you are raging at me and burning up in your irritation? If you can tamp that down for a couple of minutes, I’ll explain why I make such statements that are infuriating you so much.

We’ll consider the Democrat Party first. With any person or entity, we need to carefully consider what they say and what they do. Biblically, it’s called fruit. If you look at the Party Platform of the Democrats, it’s full of high-minded and uplifting words as to how they will create a better America for all people.

But what does this really mean?

Under their section titled Healing the Soul of America, they discuss Protecting Women’s Rights and Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights. From those two sections, here are some quotes:

Like the majority of Americans, Democrats believe every woman should be able to access high-quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion.

We will work to ensure LGBTQ+ people are not discriminated against when seeking to adopt or foster children . . .

Recognizing that LGBTQ+ youth and adults suffer from significant health disparities, including mental health and substance use disorders, Democrats will expand mental health and suicide prevention services, and ban harmful “conversion therapy” practices.

From the highest branches of government in our land, in both the Executive and Legislative Branches – and often in the Judicial Branch – Democrats work toward these goals. We have only to see the Executive Orders coming from the White House and the bills that emerge from Congress to see that the Democrats are fully committed to achieving the ends that they declare:

• They fully support abortion up to and even beyond the birth of a child.
• They seek to confuse and harm children by indoctrinating them into a lifestyle completely opposed to God’s will by having them live with people who have rejected God in their lives.
• They intend to prevent children from learning their true identity as God made them and will pursue any means necessary to achieve gender dysphoria in these innocent ones.

Yet, anyone who has read the Bible and knows the will of God in respect to these ideals fully understands how anti-God they are. In fact, they are sin, and grievous sin at that. By the declaration of their intent to accomplish these objectives, and by their works in making them a reality, the Democrat Party is a purveyor of sin.

Here is what Romans 6:13 tells us in this regard:

“Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.”

In other words, as believers, we are not to have anything to do with sin. However, what we see in word and deed is that, in these critical points in their Party Platform, the Democrats stand for and promote sin. Not only that, but their party leadership enforces this perverse ideology upon all its members so that they vote in lockstep against that which is of God. Very simply: If you vote for a Democrat for any elected office, you are siding with them in their advocacy for sin and all that entails.

Paul is very clear in 1 Timothy 5:22 that we are not to participate in the sins of others:

“Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.”

To do so is to enable that sin and to promote it.

All this being true, how in the world can a professing Christian identify with such a depraved group of people and consider himself a Democrat? That’s the last thing someone who is a Christ-follower should do or want to do. Remember that sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2) and is that which is done outside of faith (Romans 14:23).

What about the Republican Party Platform? At least on the surface, the Republican Party maintains a conservative, generally Christian perspective. On paper, it opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, along with other LGBT and transgender abominations. At the very least, if a Christian is involved in the political process of voting or running for office, being part of the Republican Party isn’t yoking oneself with an explicit anti-God agenda.

Now, we know that there are far too many Republicans that do not truly stand for Godly principles.

That’s one of several reasons our nation is on the verge of judgment. Enough Republicans condone sin by siding with Democrats on abortion or LGBT issues that we cannot say that this is a party on God’s side.

If one condones a sinful practice, that certainly doesn’t rise to the iniquity of promoting sin, but it does treat or regard it as acceptable. Such a stand doesn’t sit well with God either.

I stated at the outset that pastors simply don’t convey a message like this. There are enough Democrats in most churches that if something like this was said, they’d probably leave in droves – unless, that is, the Holy Spirit convicted them of the sin of association and, in a sense, being yoked to unbelievers who practice sin like they drink water.

If we truly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, we should not want the stain of sin anywhere near us. God abhors it and wants us to flee from it.

We should be very careful with whom we keep company. Minimally, it will affect the crowns we receive as believers, and, at worst, could cause us to even abandon the faith. We should choose our companions wisely.

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Book review by Terry James

I’m always interested in any writing effort that touches young people—particularly teens and young adults. This volume does exactly that as a testimonial at the conclusion of the review will attest.

The theme of David Cogburn’s book is relationship, and it’s all about how to have an intimate, personal relationship with God now and forever.

This book explains God’s plan for mankind from creation to the beginning of eternity, when all believers are living forever with God in a new, sin-free heavens and earth. It explains God’s plan for “everything” and all the major things God has done—plus why He has done them this way. It explains why God created the angels and then created human beings, and what was necessary to bring that about. It explains why God had to create a universe in the first place.

It explains what happened to cause every human being to be born with a sin nature and be born spiritually dead, and how He alone did what is necessary for us to go from being spiritually dead to spiritually alive—and what it means to be born again and connected to God. The book talks a lot about why the Bible alone is the true Word of God and how invisible God knew what He had to do for a human race with a sin nature. The author says God had to become “invisibility made visible” in two major ways. First, He had to reveal Himself to the world, and He became “visible” through His creation. The second thing He had to do was communicate to the world what He wants us to know, and He does that through His supernatural Word, roughly a third of which is prophecy.

Cogburn explains how people can know which religion is the only correct way to God versus the deceptive and faulty plan of every religion on the planet.

This book explains a lot about end-time events. David Cogburn goes into what the Rapture is and why it has to occur. He explains the Tribulation period, the thousand-year millennial reign of Jesus, and then eternity following His millennial reign.

God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity & the Universe shows in a clear way that God’s plan is to present His Son, Jesus, with a Bride, thus allowing believers of the Age of Grace (Church Age) to enter an intimate relationship to become one with God.

The author describes “the sinner’s prayer” and how to have that intimate family relationship now. He writes in a very easy-to-understand fashion. This book is sort of like the “Cliff Notes” of the whole Bible and is written for readers ranging from those with no knowledge of the Bible to those much farther along in their studies of Scripture. There are things in this book that many folks have never even thought of before.

And this is the part that makes me know how effective this book can be in benefitting the young.

A mother writes the following to the author:

Thank you so much for writing the book, God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity & the Universe. I gave a copy to my daughter Katie, who is 19. She sat down & devoured your book!

Children & young adults today have NO idea what God’s overall plan is for His creation. [Her daughter] kept saying, “Mom… I didn’t know… I had no idea. Is this really true?”

I wish I could get your book into every young person’s hands. Anyway… thank you for writing your book and telling it in a way that makes sense for everyone to understand.

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God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity & the Universe

Author: David Cogburn

Pages: 163

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