But what about the behavior of the public official/public servant? If he stands for biblical standards, what battles will he face? Many, vicious battles. The ungodly hate God's law. "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death." Proverbs 8:36. It reminds them of what their conscience already is trying to tell them - there is a God, and you are not Him. What about the mere fact that the biblical public official's stand may demonstrate the total invalidity of the very positions that placed the wicked where they are, maybe what sustains them financially.
Think about abortion, and how its supporters fight for it tooth and nail, denying or contradicting the moral arguments about it. Think of the psychological toll of admitting they were supporting the murder of innocent babes. It would be unthinkable. There's no forgiveness in their worlds, so they would simply be left with their sinful selves, supporting murder. What psychological manipulations have they accomplished to keep their stand valid in their own mind? What actions would they take to invalidate the Christian position on abortion?
The godly must lean upon God's promises. "O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him." Psalm 4:2-3. "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies." Psalm 139:19-22.
If you teach them the error of their ways, they will not listen. "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." Proverbs 9:8.
The biblical public official will not be an evangelist, even if he teaches some to avoid error. No, his gifting is not in evangelism, it is in leadership. "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness." I Corinthians 12:6-8.
But what do the smart wicked do? What do the devious wicked, who know the promises of God toward His people, seek to do? Beware of Balaams, those who seek to seduce. "Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD." Numbers 31:16. See also II Peter 2:15; Jude 11; Revelation 2:14. If they seduce the believer into their wickedness, they win. They know God doesn't support the wicked, so they seek to make the godly like themselves.
I have heard from someone involved in background checks of political officials (congressmen, e.g., deal with national security issues, and their backgrounds must be checked to determine if there is something that could compromise them) that the imbalance between republicans and democrats is amazing. The overwhelming majority of democrats have something immoral in their background, while republicans have the opposite ratio. This should not be surprising because the democrats have adopted the immoral doctrine of socialistic total equality, they have adopted the immoral political strategy of coercion and manipulation by demonization, and while rejecting laissez faire in business have adopted it regarding personal morality. Their personal lives simply reflect their immoral political careers, or vice versa. They are socialist in their economics, Marxist in their political campaigns, and amoral in their personal lives. All they care about is winning.
If they can subvert the morality of the godly, they have a lever for keeping them in check. "If you oppose our policies, we'll expose what you did last summer at that party we invited you to." They do not work by persuasion but by coercion and manipulation. They control their own party "faithful" by threatening to deny them advancement and benefits or by threatening to oust them from office even. They can always find someone else interested in "goodies," so they can control someone to vote the way they want.
The Christian cannot find common ground with such political manipulaters, who are not seeking the good of the country. Common ground, or "reaching across the aisle," is where compromise on principle occurs. There was a time when such compromises were less harmful to the body politic. When two congressmen sought benefits, and one had the upper hand, for the two to work together and split the benefits for their districts is not an attack on the law of God. I'm thinking of a much earlier time in our country's history. But when the life of the unborn are involved, how can there be a compromise. One side says that the life in the womb is of no consequence, and all that matters is the autonomous choice of the individual woman. Where is the compromise possible when a human life is involved? When marriage is the God-ordained and sanctioned uniting of man and woman, but some want to change its definition, where can there be compromise. When the issues that God tells us to consider holy are attacked, compromise is "the language of the devil."
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