Should Christians participate in power or not? Ecclesiastes 10:5-7.
Many of those who step into the corridors of power and control it are not fit to walk in the corridors of power. It is an error of leadership that foolishness is dignified and skills is devalued, non achievers lead and instruct achievers, the righteous step back and the wicked step forward. Sometimes you think when all these big people gather, they are talking about big things and then you go to the big people’s meetings and listen to the big people’s conversation, you realize you’ve given them too much credit.
Some people in the corridors of power have no right to be in the corridors of power, they are there because those to be there have shrunk back. Those to be on the horses are walking and those to be walking are on the horses. But it is going to change, we are going to seize the corridors of power and we are going to walk in the corridors of power.
To play our role in the corridors of power, we need to understand how the world’s system work. We don’t need to bow to the world’s system to take over the world’s system. The challenge of the believer is how am I going to take over the world’s system if I don’t bow or compromise?
2nd Corinthians 6:14-18. When I was growing up as a Christian, this was a major Scripture, come out from amongst them and be separate, do not be unequally yoked. If we are not supposed to be part of it then how do we get to the corridors of power because much of it is controlled by the world? The richest people in the world are unbelievers for your information.
To draw a balance, John 17:14-18
“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world”.
Jesus is not saying I am taking them out from the world but I am sending them into the world, so, when the Bible says come out from among them, it is not saying come out of the world, it says come out of the evil system of the world. Don’t become part of the evil in the world.
Now if you put these two Bible portions together, Paul says come out from among them, Jesus says don’t take them out, it gives us three ways to deal with the world:
- The first option is separation- When we do this we allow satan take over ‘You know what, don’t go to high, you’ll backside. The money will tempt you’, the money doesn’t tempt unbelievers but it seems to tempt believers alot. You know we use to think that if you got rich, you’ll lose your zeal for God.
- Integration – Integration means we become one with them. When we do this, we allow those who are in Christ be like those who are in the world. In other sense, there’s no difference, they can’t see the difference.
- The third option is the option of Christ, transformation – transformation says engage the world. Don’t participate in its sin but go in there and change the world’s system.
So we are not separating, we are not integrating, we are transforming. And Jesus now says if you want to transform the world, I am sending you into the world as the father sent me. Jesus is Holy, pure, He had never seen sin before, then He comes to the earth and sin surrounds Him. Jesus could have chosen separation, integration, those were the options He had. Well, He didn’t separate, He didn’t integrate, what did Jesus do? He transformed. We are agents of transformation.
“Christians have an idea that we control the world from our knees. We control the world from our feet, we have to walk into the world, we need to work hard. Yes we have to pray but we need to engage the world”.
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