Unavoidably Political and Revolutionary

I have had a great many unbelievers and professing believers alike tell me that we ought to keep our religion out of politics; but how can we do such a thing? Politics, like every other area of life, is necessarily a religious endeavor. God invented and established the political office and politics have to do with Law which is the legislation of morality and morality stands on the foundation of one religion or another. Politics cannot and never will be separated from religion. The question is this: which religion will your political system be built upon? It is either ignorant or just outright foolish to think that the two can ever be separated.

As Christians we are to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world and intrinsic to this gospel is the Lordship of Jesus Christ; every area of life is to be brought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Cor. 10 : 5), this would include the political life of a nation. As the people of the nation come under the authority of Jesus Christ and the sway of His Spirit one of the natural results will be that those in the political realm will asks themselves “How would the God who established government have that government to function?” If our commission is to convert and disciple the nations it is inevitable that we will affect those nations’ governmental systems and this, brethren, makes Christianity a politically revolutionary force.

Governments, as already noted, are built upon some sort of religious presuppositions and when Christianity comes in and starts converting the people of a particular country to another religious system it is undermining the very foundations of that society; it is effecting a revolution. Likewise, when other religions begin establishing a foothold in a Christian republic, such as the United States used to be, they are undermining the foundations of that society and will bring about a political revolution as their religion and others spreads among the people. We are witnessing the political fruit of this religious revolution right before our very eyes here in the United States today.

Consider the Roman Empire for a moment. They killed many of the Christians as seditious political revolutionaries. Based on their religious presuppositions Rome granted a limited amount of religious freedom as long as those religions’ subscribed to the ultimate Lordship of Caesar. This the Christians could not do and thus they were seen as a threat to the political stability of the Empire.

Why do so many of the Muslim or Communist countries persecute and even outlaw Christianity? Part of the reason, no doubt, is the natural animosity in the hearts of unbelievers towards the truth, but they also recognize that a new religious system will undermine the very fabric of their society as it inevitably brings another system of Law and morality with it as it spreads. Tyrants’ especially fear Christianity as it always carries the seeds of freedom, and the collapse of their throne, along with it.

So if America is going to return to its former glory and strength (and we ought to desire the good of the nation we live in), it desperately needs a new revolution; not merely a political revolution but a spiritual, religious revolution. It needs to return to its Scriptural, Calvinistic roots and we need the return of a Church that isn’t sitting around waiting for the “rapture” thinking that some things are “spiritual” (like church and evangelism) while other things (like education, politics etc.) are somehow nonspiritual and outside the box of the lordship of Jesus Christ. This is Americas only true "Hope": a religious revolution with political consequences.