timeless teaching
originally published February 2008
Your Ballot Is Your Seed
by Kenneth Copeland
Awhile back, I found myself griping about some things the president had been doing. Then The LORD reminded me my only source of information was from the news media.
Now, not all of them lie, of course, but some distort the facts for a living. They don’t know much about the president, and it makes them mad that he doesn’t tell them anything. I don’t blame him—I wouldn’t tell them anything, either!
But I fell over into a gripe mode for a few days and The LORD got on to me about it. He got really straight with me about allowing television, television news and television people to influence my thinking.
We all need to be very, very cautious about that.
Isaiah 1:21-23 says, “How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards….”
Those rewards Isaiah was talking about were bribes or under-the-table deals.
Compare his words to our generation. Our nation now is a lot like the city of Jerusalem was then. Just reading that scripture, you’d think you were reading the newspaper.
Isaiah continues: “…they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross [or, your slag and your alloys—the stuff you’ve mixed in with your purity], and take away all thy tin” (verses 23-25).
God always puts first things first. Notice what He said He will do first to change a city or nation: “And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors [your lawyers and your pastors] as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, the city of righteousness, the faithful city” (verse 26).
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