4 Signs You’ve Turned Politics into an Idol

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Politics can easily captivate our hearts, hopes, and mental energy. When is that proper civil duty? When does it become idolatry? Are there any tests we can use to determine it? Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming classes! Find out https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/who-would-jesus-vote-for (Who Jesus Would Vote For) and https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/how-to-be-skilled-at-life (How to Be Skilled at Life) in these Zoom classes with https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastors Keith Simon) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick Miller). Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/is-it-okay-for-christians-to-be-nationalists/ (Is It Okay for Christians to be Nationalists? )and our last series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/david-in-22-stories/ (David's Life in 22 Stories). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook) @TenMinuteBibleTalks Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.0	And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:13.0	Okay Keith I've got a little thought experiment for us to go through today.
0:18.0	I want us to imagine that we're sitting in a room full of very genuine sincere followers of Jesus and we are debating this question
0:26.9	would Jesus run as a Republican or Democrat what do you think people would say?
0:31.8	Wow it sounds a little bit like hell to me.
0:34.0	A bunch of Christians debating whether Jesus would be a Republican or a Democrat.
0:39.0	It feels like I've been a part of those conversations too often lately.
0:43.4	It seems that more than ever people are coming up to me frustrated because they think their
0:49.2	political party is getting overlooked or mislabeled.
0:53.0	So here's what I've figured out in all those conversations to go back to your thought
0:56.4	experiment, Patrick, is that whether a person thinks that Jesus is a Democrat or Republican
1:01.8	tells you more about them than it does about Jesus.
1:04.7	Okay, why do you say that? Well, I just think that people pick and choose what they want
1:10.1	to emphasize of Jesus in order to make him fit their political party.
1:14.8	It's such a something people have been doing for a long time in the Caribbean
1:18.9	where there was obviously a large slave trade and a huge number of slaves in the Caribbean back in the 1700s
1:27.2	the slave masters there made a Bible that they gave to their slaves the only
1:30.9	problem was they chopped out of it all the parts of the Bible
1:33.6	that said negative things about holding slaves, keeping slaves, how you should treat
1:37.9	slaves, all of that stuff. They just cut it out of the Bible and then they gave it to him. So you
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