Evangelicals and Democracy

Without question, I believe God has decreed Democracy to be the form of government that facilitates the greatest possibility for human flourishing. But like anything that God has so graciously created for human flourishing, Satan is a real and present danger lurking to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

This week, the citizens of the State of Wisconsin have taken this precious gift of Democracy and turned it on its head. In a much-publicized and costly election, where over eighty million dollars were spent, the Liberal candidate defeated the Conservative justice, ensuring a Liberal majority on the court.

Two things can be true: one can champion the rights of the people's will to be heard while simultaneously lamenting the resultant actions of that will of the people. Actions have consequences, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that Americans, by and large, are not as Pro-Life as many claimed and spoke so eloquently and passionately about their desire to see Roe overturned in their lifetimes.

Since the overturn of Roe, Pro-Life initiatives have been defeated each time except for two when it was presented to the people on the ballot, even in the deeply red territory of Kentucky. Our nation's actions after the overturn of Roe vividly demonstrate that America has a Cultural Christianity dilemma on its hands.

Cultural Christianity is where people profess allegiance, obeisance, and fidelity to Jesus Christ as their Lord. Yet, their actions have little to no corresponding fidelity. There are grandiose claims of orthodoxy but no objective, tangible evidence of enduring and abiding orthopraxy.

Actions like the one that has taken place in Wisconsin this week only validate the teachings of the New Testament, that in the latter days, people having a form of godliness but denying its power. Anytime a majority of a citizenry can use their free agency to legalize the murder of life in the womb, it illustrates a void of authentic Christ righteousness in the land.

The murder of life in the womb by the very person that God decreed would be the only species capable of bringing forth life should be most alarming, and it is, but not for enough people and hence the tragic problem of our generation.

Again, very boldly and very publicly, I seek to let my nays be nay, and my yays be yay. I regard myself as an Abortion Abolitionist. I no longer believe it to be sufficient to merely label myself as Pro-Life.

Hence,  I unapologetically advocate for a federal abortion ban, conceding it is highly unlikely to be realized in my lifetime, and I believe any woman seeking to have an abortion and carrying through with said abortion should be considered a murderer because that is precisely what abortion is: cold-blooded murder, pure and simple.

With few exceptions, the female seeking to have an abortion is never the victim. The only real victim in the abortion equation is the child in the womb. Biology teaches that if you engage in coitus, there is a real and distinct possibility that action will result in conception.

God has given humanity the gift of sex as a beautiful provision through which two people of the opposite sex and only two people of the opposite sex can perpetuate life and fulfill one of God’s principal creation mandates: to be fruitful and multiply.

Like so many other things, we as a society have taken a beautiful thing and blasphemed it. We brazenly believe we can do so with impunity, but nothing could be further from the truth. God is keeping receipts, as the kids like to say.

As the Apostle Peter wrote, judgment will begin with the House of the Lord, and if it starts with them, what will be the end of those who do not obey?

I wrote a book, Weighed and Found Wanting, lamenting the orthodoxy, or actually the lack of orthodoxy, amongst the vast majority of professing African American Evangelicals, and recent state elections have demonstrated that professing Caucasian Evangelicals have acquitted themselves no better.

The only silver lining, if one can rightly regard anything as a silver lining amid this decadent and ever-increasing wicked generation, is that God will always have a faithful remnant who will not bend the knee to Baal.

Though never reaching majority status, more and more African Americans are waking up and speaking out. More and more African Americans are producing TikTok and YouTube videos denouncing wickedness and debasement, especially when it is found amongst fellow African Americans.

People like Charlie Kirk are going into public spaces and exposing and confronting the very people advocating for the murder of life in the womb and embracing the godless LGBTQ-A ideology.

Will we, Evangelicals, win? Well, Yes and No. Yes, in that, Jesus Christ will soon one day pierce through the sky and slay all of His opponents, and He will bring His reward with Him. So, yes, Evangelicals do win, but we will do so in God’s providential timing and manner.

But there is no guarantee we will win in the temporal realm, and we have to be good with that. Jesus Christ, our ultimate Commander-in-Chief, told us that in these last days, love would wax cold, so we should never be caught unawares.

Our job is to sound the alarm and hold the line, never being responsible for the result. God has called Evangelicals to be faithful, to be Light and to be Salt, to be the Beacon of Light ready to assist anyone to whom God graciously condescends to give the ability to have eyes that will see and ears that will hear with the Good News of the Gospel.

Our job is not to be optimists or pessimists but to be biblicists. We live in dark times in which Jesus Christ has already declared final victory, but a triumph held in abeyance by His own reasoning and for His own purposes.

Again, one day very soon, the dawn will break, and I am confident every truly regenerated follower of Jesus Christ will declare the struggle was well worth it.

The Bible reveals that things will get worse, not better, but it also teaches that God’s faithful remnant will never bend the knee and will endure to the end.

That is where my hope lies, so while I am disappointed in the actions that took place in Wisconsin this week, I am neither surprised nor alarmed. Jesus Christ has not taken His fingers off the controls. Things are proceeding just as He planned, down to the most exquisite minute detail.

So take solace, my fellow Evangelicals. Jesus Christ has us right where He wants us. So, blossom right where God has strategically planted you, hold the line, and be Christ to those held in the adversary’s grip—a grip that only Jesus Christ can break.

Will He break it? I have no way of knowing, but I do know that He is more than able and up to the task.

That is why and how I can hold exquisite and pristine joy even as actions transpire that appear on the surface to be vexing and dire.

Indeed, in one sense, they are vexing and dire, but on the other hand, they are part and parcel of God’s plan, whereby one day soon on the horizon, every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

When viewed through the lens of the Holy Scriptures, today is still a good day because it is a day the Lord has made, a day on which His people will still rejoice and be glad.

That was just as true this past Tuesday in Wisconsin, no matter what Satan engineered for evil. An evil that God will still use to bring glory to His name, just as He promised Joseph when his brothers wickedly and evilly sold him into slavery.

As usual, let me know what you think. Until then, keep your hands to the plow and seek to serve for an Audience of One.

With fear and trembling,

Ricky V Kyles Sr. DEd.Min