An Open Letter to Barack Obama

 

The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-1305

 

Dear President-Elect Obama,

Please accept my congratulations on your victory in the recent Presidential Elections. Though I did not vote for you, I must admit that you and your campaign did the things that were necessary to achieve the highest political office in the Land. In the New Testament Scriptures, we read about a Parable that the Lord Jesus Christ delivered, which is commonly referred to as the Parable of the Unjust Steward. In this Parable the lord of the Unjust Steward addresses him this way: “And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” (Lk. 16:8.) I believe that in the past few generations of Americans, the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light - especially when it comes to Politics. For this reason the Values and the Righteousnesses of the Bible are not as widely held as they once were. And now, it seems that even as a Nation as a whole, we are willing to Elect men and women to local, state, and National offices, who do not have any regard for the Bible or for the children of light at all.

Nevertheless, let me congratulate you on the ways in which you and your supporters have actively out-worked and out-smarted those that might have stood in your way.

May God Bless You

To begin with, I want you to know that we will be praying for you. I, and many other Christians throughout this Nation, will ask for the Lord’s Blessings upon you. Now, this does not mean that we approve of your past actions and ideologies; nor does this mean that we approve of the Will and Purpose of the People of America, who have (in many cases, I believe, without a proper understanding of your truly Abominable Social Agenda) voted to set you in office as our next President of these United States. But, since the Public has been swayed by your Charismatic Persona; and, since the Public has been swept away by the unceasing barrage of adoring media in your support; we must now acknowledge you as the President-Elect of this Country. The Apostle Paul told the Romans, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” (Rom. 13:1.) So, though we may not understand the Purpose of God, we must acknowledge that your victory in the recent election is ordained of God.

Since you have been given this high honor in our Nation, we must, as the People of God, Pray for you and for your Administration. The Apostle Paul told Timothy, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;” (1Tim. 2:1-3.) Surely, this Scripture alone, ought to be enough to motivate the Children of God to pray for the Leaders of which ever Nation they might inhabit. And, certainly, we will not forsake our Duty to Pray for you, the President-Elect of our Great Nation. In fact, my prayers are encouraged as I consider what the Wise Preacher once said: “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” (Prov. 21:1.) I would to God, that He would turn your heart into the Strait and Narrow Way; and unto the Good and the Right! I pray that you would heed these Words of God: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Phil. 4:8.) I Pray that God would direct your thoughts and your heart in these things that have just been mentioned.

Once upon a time, when the Children of Israel sinned against God in seeking an earthly king to rule over them, the prophet Samuel told the People of Israel, and all those that were over them, “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:” (1Sam. 12:23.) Therefore, considering what Samuel had to say to the Nation of Israel, we, too, the Children of God in this day and in this Nation, ought to Continually Pray unto God on behalf of this people; and we ought to do our best to show the citizens of our communities, the good and the right way. In fact, we would be committing a Sin against the Lord God, if we did not Pray for you and for this people, and if we did not Teach and Show others what is the good and the right way.

So, since it is our Duty and Responsibility to Pray for you and for this Nation; and since it is our Duty and Responsibility to show unto the people the good and the right way; let me mention to you now, some very grave sins that you are involved in, and in which you seem to be encouraging the citizens of this great nation to indulge in.

Abortion

First of all, let me bring to your attention a very abominable sin which is so common and so accepted in our Nation today – and that is the Sin of Abortion. Now, I know that you accept the fact that many Republicans will voice some measure of support for those folks that preach and teach the Sanctity of Life in the Womb. And, I know that you accept the fact that many in your own Party will vehemently support the murderous idea that women have the right to kill their own babies. But, I don’t believe that this is a Political Issue at all; rather, I believe that this is a Moral Issue, and an Issue of Liberty and protection of the Innocent. Therefore, I want to encourage you to step away from the Evil Practices and Platforms of your own party, and I encourage you to recognize the Rights of the Unborn. And, not only recognize those rights, but announce your own opposition to those that would seek to do harm to those innocent babies.

In fact, I believe that this is an inherent problem in our political system in general – too many folks are willing to announce what their own beliefs and practices are, but they are loath and/or hesitant and/or fearful to announce their opposition to sin. In other words, even those political servants that might have moral and noble aspirations, are content to just let others practice their sinful ways. This shouldn’t be the case! Those of us that know the Lord, and those of us that have a Fear of God, and those of us that have a knowledge of the Right and the Wrong – we all ought to cry out against sin! It is not enough to just be for good; we must also be against evil.

But, if you are still hesitant to agree with me concerning the terrible nature of the Sin of Abortion, let me refer you to some verses from the Holy Bible that might cause you to stop and consider this terrible and awful sin: “Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?” (Ezek. 16:20-21.) The disdain that Jerusalem had for her children, in that she sacrificed them in the fires of idolatry to their false gods, is no different then the disdain that America has for her children, in that we offer up our Children on the Altar of Inconvenience, or Career, or Shame. Who are we to kill these children for our own gain or because of our own desires?

The Lord told the City of Jerusalem that they would be destroyed because of their sins, and among the most despicable of their crimes against their God, was their willing destruction and willing sacrifice of their own children. “For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” (Jer. 32:31-35.) I think that we can safely say that it never entered into the Mind of God, that entire societies would Condone, Legalize, Accommodate, and even Finance the Destruction of babies in the wombs of their mothers! I don’t mean that these things come as a surprise to God (God knows all things, and He knows how wicked mankind is); but, I believe that the Lord is making it plain to Jeremiah and the others, that the Mind of God could never conceive such Atrocities.

Won’t you, Mr. Obama, stand up with us against the destruction of our babies? Won’t you join your voice to ours, in condemning the seeming wholesale slaughter of the next generation? Again, I don’t know your heart or your mind; and I don’t know if you Fear God in reality, or if you just occasionally make reference to “God” or “Christianity” when you think that it will benefit your agenda; but, I believe that if you would cry out against Abortion, and if you would bring your efforts to bear against the Abortion Movement, that God would Bless your Presidency. And, who knows? Maybe He will even Forgive this Nation, and afford unto us some of the Blessings that He has been withholding from us because of our sins!

The Gay Agenda

I would certainly be very remiss in my duties and responsibilities if I did not also confront you concerning the very Heinous and Lewd sin of Sodomy, or Homosexuality. This terrible sin has gone from a hidden and shameful practice, to an open and glorified “lifestyle.” How awful this is! How dare we flaunt ourselves and our sins in the sight of a Thrice Holy God! And, do not be deceived – Sodomy is a Terrible Sin in the Sight of our God. We read what the Apostle Paul had to say concerning this in Rom. 1:18-32, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Can there be any doubt, that what Paul is condemning here in the middle part of this passage, is the Sin of Homosexuality – both in the case of the men, and in the case of the women? Sodomy is so plainly a sin, that it is really ridiculous when Sinners of this Generation try to make it seem as if God condones their Homosexuality.

Though the world does not like to admit it, Sodomy (Homosexuality) is a Sin in the Sight of God. The Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah should bear this out. And, even Nature itself will prove this. As a point of fact, Sodomy is not natural. The Human Race cannot propagate through Sodomy and acts of Homosexuality. And, in fact, the Human Race would die out in a single generation, if all of mankind rebelled against this most basic premise of Procreation. Therefore, how can we condone such (obviously) open sin?

Who would have imagined, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, or even 20 years ago – that portions of our Great Nation would be seeking to Legalize Same-Sex marriages! And, that in the last few years, righteous folks in many states have felt the need to amend their state constitutions, or add to their laws, their belief that Marriage must be defined as a bond between “Man and Woman.” How preposterous it is, that we have to “define” Marriage to be between one man and one woman! This is shameful! This callousness and disregard towards the Law and Word of God, will bring the Wrath of God upon us, as a People, if we do not mend our ways.

I Hope and Pray that God will give you the Wisdom and the Courage to cry out against this terrible sin – this sin that we are, even now, foisting and forcing on our young people, by telling them that Homosexuality is simply a “Life Choice” that one must make. A sin that our young people see practiced openly on Television and in the Movies; and a sin that is taught and even promoted in our Education system. How I Pray that God will give us some Leaders in this land that will not be afraid to stand up against the Gay Agenda. I believe that the Gay Agenda is promoted by a very small percentage of Americans; but, it finds its strength in the larger percentage of Americans that either just don’t care about right and wrong, or that rejoice to see other folks participate in something that they know is wrong. In reality, it is the Apathy on the part of the majority of American Citizens that has allowed the Homosexuals to find such great success in recent years. Truly, we have lost so much ground already, due to the fact that we are just not willing to Stand Strong for what we know is Right.

The Outlawed Bible

Though I could spend much more time, and many more words of warning concerning the many sins that this Nation and its leaders have sponsored and made so very prevalent in the last few years, let me mention only one more – the Outlawing of the Word of God. Sadly, the people and leaders of this Nation have set the Word of God on the “back burner” for many years – only to call upon the Word of God in some time of Trial or Tribulation. But, still, it always seemed that the common man and woman had some respect for the Word of God, and it seemed that most folks had a genuine Fear of God. However, in these last few years, the Bible has not only been relegated to obscurity, It has also been Ridiculed and Scorned. I suppose that every Societal Sin that this Nation is mired in, could have been prevented (and could be curbed, even now), if only the Word of God were once again to be held in High Esteem in this Nation, and in the Hearts and Minds of the People and the Leaders.

I encourage you to read the Old Testament Book of Joshua. This Book of Joshua relates to us the account of the Children of Israel, and the man that succeeded Moses as the leader of the Nation – Joshua. In the beginning of Joshua’s ministry as the Leader of the People, the Lord came to him and told him, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” (Josh. 1:5-9.) In this Scripture Passage, the Lord God certainly speaks some comforting Words to His man, Joshua. However, notice that the Lord also laid upon Joshua the responsibility of Fearing, Obeying, and Propagating the Law of God. As long as Joshua would not Forsake the Word, the Lord would not forsake him! And, as long as Joshua would Obey the Words of God, he and the Nation of Israel would have good success.

I fear that it may already be too late for our people and our land. I fear that we, as a people, have already angered God, and forgotten and forsaken Him and His Word! But, if you, and the Nation which you lead, will only turn unto Him again, and Obey and Fear and Respect His Holy Word, who knows if the Lord may not grant you and this Nation a respite from the Evil to come?

Conclusion

Remember, in the beginning of this letter I quoted to you a verse, taken from the Parable of the Unjust Steward. Remember how the earthly lord of that Unjust Steward commended him? Well, do not think too highly of that commendation. When the Lord Jesus goes on to make application of this Parable – in other words, when He goes on to apply the teachings of the Parable to His Disciples – He says this: “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Lk. 16:10-13.) You, dear sir, have been, essentially, elected as a Steward of this Great Nation. I fear, that since you have been largely Unfaithful and Unjust in your past duties – at least in comparison to the Word of God – that you will be just as Unfaithful and Unjust in your present Duties. I pray that it will not be so! I pray that God will work a miracle in your life, and show you your need for Jesus Christ as your One and True Saviour! Examine your life, and consider your ways! Surely, just like every man, you are a Sinner and in need of a Saviour. Do not be proud or imagine in your heart that you are above Sin! Sin will destroy you, and will work death in you, and will, eventually, Plunge you into Hell and the Lake of Fire. This is true in every man’s life – without Jesus Christ, we are all bound for Hell. Your situation is no different, dear sir. You, too, must Repent of your sins, and turn to Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

However, if you do claim to Fear God, and if you do claim to Love Jesus Christ, then I encourage you to consider, again, one of the verses that I have just read which instructs us that “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.” Mr. Obama, you cannot please the Gays, and Please God; you cannot please the Abortionists, and Please God; you cannot please the Bible haters, and Please God; you cannot please the Adulterers and Fornicators, and Please God; you cannot please the lying, stealing, immoral, cheating, power-hungry Lobbyists and Politicians, and still Please God.

I hope that God will give you Repentance, and a Change of Heart. I hope and pray that God will put not just the Fear, but also the Love of God in your Heart. I hope and pray that you will remember these words of Jesus Christ: “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

May God Bless You, May God Bless Me, and May God Bless America!

In Christ,

Paul Stepp, Pastor

Indore Baptist Church

10832 Clay Hwy.

Indore, WV 25111

indorebaptistchurch.org