This Is 'Our' Man....We Put Him There....And We Will Take No Evidence That We Made A Mistake

                I want to recommend an episode of John Piper's ministry....desiringgod.org....that is up front this morning....titled....The Nourishing Word. In it Piper preaches on Hebrews 5:11....particularly the last few words...."since you have become dull of hearing." I want to add another verse to go along with that....Matthew 13:15...."For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn, so that I should heal them."
                Prima facie evidence in the law is that initial....'at first sight'....evidence....to make a case that trial is necessary. I present to you the prima facie evidence that the church....evangelicalism....needs to....in a very introspective sense....each and every one of us....be put in the docket for our failure to identify a genuine biblical false prophet....and 'an antichrist'....as the Apostle John labels those who claim to be one of us...but proceed to destroy that which is our essence. John Calvin wrote...."It is not enough in words to confess that Jesus is the Christ, except he is acknowledged to be such as the Father offers to us in the gospel." Just spouting the word 'God' at rallies means nothing....for anyone can do that.
                If Donald Trump is anything in this world....above everything else....he is one who lies as easily....and almost as often....as he breaths. Prima facie evidence is there in every year of his life....and as president....in every day of his presidency.....but one has to be willing to read....which we are not. One would have to....(and unfortunately we do all the time)...cover our eyes and plug our ears....in other words permit no evidence into our mind....in order not to see and readily admit....as even Rush did at one time....that Donald Trump lies. We have chosen to follow a liar....in an attempt to keep the lifestyle that we want to go back to....that if we were honest we would admit that that prior day....(make America great again)....did not honor God to begin with! In other words we want what we want....and will not hear evidence on what God wants!
               Donald Trump is a false prophet. Surely all of you admit that for over nine years now he has in every rally and every speech....prophesied that our best is yet to come....and that nothing will stop us.... and that we are just going to keep on.....winning....winning....winning!" You may say that this is just politics....but no man that I have heard of even comes close to building his entire existence and reputation on promises and prophecies like that. That is why people follow him....because they believe those false prophecies....but even more that they want those false prophecies to be true! God's Word....to those who are not dull of hearing....tells us the exact opposite....that judgment is coming on this world! Explain please....John MacArthur....how this man does not qualify as a false prophet....according to the descriptions that you yourself have given over your long and great ministry? 
               When the Apostle Paul warns of those many types of people that we are to stay away from at all costs....how is that we can identify Donald Trump in just about every description....and yet we throw all these warnings away....to run to him to lead us to 'greatness' again? Explain this to us please pastors? Is it not that if you warned of this man from your pulpits that a percentage of your sheep will protest....and either leave....or work towards your removal? 
                Donald Trump's personal boasts on what he had accomplished in his first term are greatly exaggerated. We....conservatives....put out a job application for someone who would give us originalist judges....and this for the past forty years. This was not his idea. In fact there is not evidence that he even leaned this way before running for president. He did give us judges....the hard fact of it is that he could have not done anything else....for the congress would not have let him.
                 Did he build a wall as he boasts that he did? If you can remember what happened....even talk radio was on him for dragging his feet. A lot of wall that was built was just replacement. He had other things on his mind....building profits.....for that is his only measure of success. And what about that great economy. After eight years of Barack Obama....and the changes in regulations that any republican president would bring....a healthy economy would follow. Trump did what conservatism had called for. If anything at all is his own accomplishment it is that his bravado did motivate business. 
                  Yes....many of the indictments brought against him have been what is called....lawfare....using the legal system for political and personal and propaganda purposes....but he still did these things.   Yet he will stand before an audience and twist it so that it appears that he is innocent.....and the crowd roars its approval.....this because evangelicalism today has been judged by God....blinding us....this is spiritual blindness folks....and He therefore is giving us.....exactly what we want! 
                   The greatest failure here has been from our pulpits. They do not preach to bring down the glory of God....because they do not know how to preach to bring down the glory of God....but what is worse than ignorance is that they show little enthusiasm for humbly seeking anything that they may have missed. It apparently is beyond them to admit that that they may have failed in their calling.
                   One last thing for this post. Eli was a priest of Israel....and he had two sons who were also priests and led Israel. These sons....Hophni and Phinehas....were corrupt. Eli warned them....but barely warned them. War came....and these two sons grabbed the Ark of the Covenant to take to the battle....surely God would give them victory with the Ark right there on the battlefield! Well that is what we are doing today. Did the older men of God....the Billy Grahams....sufficiently warn us about substituting politics for trust in Almighty God? Whatever....we have in effect carried the name of God to the battlefield. Surely God will give victory to those who are pro-life and against same-sex marriage! Surely He will give freedom and liberty and capitalism the victory in this....'Christian'....nation!
                    We need some semblance of sound and humble leaders....not to make us 'great' again....for the day of judgment is at hand. We need those leaders to take us through the difficult times that are ahead....that we have brought upon ourselves! Judgment has come to the church of God first. This is our man. This is John MacArthur's man....and Franklin Graham's man....and Jonathan Cahn's man.