Put Not Your Trust in Princes – Or in Politicians To Save America
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Dr. Chuck Baldwin
The following is a talk by Dr. Chuck Baldwin transcribed from a YouTube entitled “The LORD Reigneth Over The Heathen” – Message by Dr. Chuck Baldwin on Jan. 31, 2021. It’s about the mistake many Christians made in putting their trust in Donald Trump to save America, and the resultant discouragement and the depression they are now facing since Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. If you are one of them, I believe this talk can help you put your eyes back on God and help you see the situation from a truly biblical perspective.
Sad to say, there are still some diehards who still believe Trump is going to take back the presidency this coming March of 2021. Why would anybody believe that? Answer: They continue to be misled by QAnon! Q has made so many false predictions to date, how can you continue to follow it? I believe Q is a scam to fleece conservative Christians out of their money, or it may be Jesuit cognitive infiltration to give Christians and conservatives false hope with the aim of ultimately destroying their faith!
Turn your Bibles with me to the Book of Psalm, Psalm 47.
1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5 ¶God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
And I’m taking my text from verse 8, the first phrase of that verse: God reigneth over the heathen. God reigneth over the heathen. This is not the only place where this appears. If God says something once you need to pay attention to it. It’s very important or God wouldn’t have said it. God doesn’t waste words. Everything that God says is important or you wouldn’t have said it. If God says something twice you better really pay attention. If he says it more than that, this is extremely important in the eyes of God. This particular phrase God repeated it in the Book of Psalms alone at least five times. Verse 8 of 47 we just read.
Psalms 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms 96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
Psalms 97:1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Psalms 99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
And our text in Psalm 47, God reigneth over the heathen. I believe this message is extremely important and relevant for the day in which we find ourself.
Since the November elections, all Christians can talk about is how Trump was cheated out of victory. I wrote about this in my syndicated column a couple of weeks ago and I’ll just take an excerpt from what I wrote for this address.
Regarding the election being stolen, I’ll just say this: We all know that there is a certain amount of corruption in every election. I remember my friend Howard Phillips telling me about the corruption in Boston politics within both parties when he was a Republican committeeman back in the 70s. Was there sufficient duplicity in this past election to change the outcome? I truly do not know. I don’t know if any major election is an honest election. What I do know, however, is that for the last four years Christians have insisted that Trump was put in office by God. Okay, Christian, let’s be consistent. If God put Trump in office in 2016 and wanted to keep Trump in office in 2020, all of the duplicities of man could not have stopped God from putting Trump back in office. (Applause)
You said God was greater than corrupt man in 2016. Are you now saying corrupt men are greater than God in 2020? The Lord reigns over the heathen. Since the removal of Donald Trump from office, Christians by the millions have fallen into a deep state of discouragement, disillusionment, and depression. They are filled with fear. If you were like me, we have talked with many Christian conservative people since the election, and since Mr. Biden’s inauguration. The discouragement in their hearts is something I haven’t seen among professing Christian people in my entire life. The disillusionment, the discouragement, depression, and fear, you can see it in their eyes. They are afraid. The Lord hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
How can Christians who claimed The Sovereign God as their Savior and Redeemer be filled with such anguish and fear over a political election? It’s because many of them looked to Donald Trump for our national salvation. They truly believed he was a modern Moses to deliver up our country from its ills. They fell for Qanon like a hungry catfish goes for a salami sandwich on the end of a hook. (Laughter) And if you don’t think a catfish will bite at a salami sandwich, you never tried it. They truly believed what they were told by Qanon and by the propagandists organized under Trump. We now know, and some of us knew before, they were beguiled, they were bewitched, they were betrayed.
I preached a message from these verses many months ago that applies to all of us. Psalm 146 verses 3 through 5. Put not your trust in princes. The princes in the Scripture would be tantamount or analogous to a politician in our time and place.
Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in polititians (princes), nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Psalms 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in polititians (princes).
The Christians en mass from 2016 and forward literally placed their trust in Donald Trump. And now they are dejected, discouraged, in despair, and full of fear. The same God who was on the throne last October and early November is still on the throne here at the end of January 2021. God reigneth over the heathen. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man. And how do we do that? How do we put our trust in the Lord? These same Christians who are now filled with such fear and despair because of Trump’s loss or they say is a stolen election, say that they trust in God. But if you trust in God, dear Christian friend, why the discouragement? Why the despondency? Why the depression? Why the fear? Why the anguish? Why the sorrow? Why the lack of hope?
We show our trust in the Lord by being true to his natural and revealed laws. We can say we trust in God all we want. Talk is cheap. We show our trust in God by being faithful obedient and true to his laws and principles.
(End of transcript.)
Please watch the entire video to hear the rest of what Pastor Baldwin has to say.
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