Jim Bakker Show - Voting Isn't Your Right  It's Your Responsibility - Dr  David Barton on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2018-10-22
Duration: 04:07


=== Election Day Absence (04:06) ===

[00:00:00]  My rabbi, I have a Jewish rabbi, Daniel Lappens, taught me a whole lot.
[00:00:04]  As a Christian man, he has just revolutionized my thinking.
[00:00:07]  He said, You know, in Hebrew, that's the language God spoke to his people, and that every word that's in Hebrew is a word that came out of the mouth of God, because that's his language.
[00:00:16]  That's what he chose.
[00:00:17]  He said, There's a lot of things you cannot say in Hebrew.
[00:00:19]  He said, One thing you cannot say, the word coincidence in Hebrew.
[00:00:21]  It does not exist, cannot be said, because it never crossed God's mind that something was a coincidence.
[00:00:26]  He plans in order.
[00:00:27]  I thought, that's good theology.
[00:00:28]  I mean, think about that.
[00:00:29]  We wouldn't be using words like lucky and fortunate.
[00:00:33]  We would use words like God's providence.
[00:00:36]  And I said, So what else can't you say in Hebrew?
[00:00:38]  He said, Well, you can't say the word retirement.
[00:00:40]  There never is a time when God doesn't want you to be productive.
[00:00:42]  You can change your jobs, but if you stop being productive, we've got the parable that Jesus gave in Luke about the guy.
[00:00:48]  He said, Okay, if you're not going to do anything, let's get you out of there.
[00:00:51]  And then you've also, he said, You also cannot say the word rights.
[00:00:55]  Rights don't exist in Hebrew, only responsibilities.
[00:00:58]  And so, what happens in America is we talk about our right to vote as Christians.
[00:01:01]  We don't have a right to vote, we have a responsibility to vote.
[00:01:04]  And so, what happens is because we have a right, we decide whether we're going to exercise it or not.
[00:01:14]  And that's the wrong, you don't have the choice of whether to exercise it or not.
[00:01:18]  In America, since 1980, in an off-year election like we're having right now, which is between presidential elections, only 67.1 percent of American adults are registered to vote.
[00:01:29]  But of those that vote, it averages 39 percent of registered voters.
[00:01:33]  What that means is only 26 percent of adults will vote in this election.
[00:01:39]  The winning candidate will be chosen by half of that, which is 13 percent.
[00:01:43]  Since 1980, only one out of eight Americans chooses our U.S. senators, chooses our representatives, our governors.
[00:01:51]  One out of eight.
[00:01:54]  These are shocking numbers, David.
[00:01:55]  They are.
[00:01:56]  Are you guys getting this?
[00:01:57]  I mean, literally, at home, are you listening to this?
[00:02:00]  Will you say that again?
[00:02:01]  Only one out of eight Americans chooses the winning candidates in this election, and yet 72 percent of America self-professes to be Christian.
[00:02:11]  If those people who sit at home and say, I have a right to vote, and I don't like anybody, no, you have a responsibility to vote.
[00:02:17]  You go find the best one, get the one that's going to do the least damage, get involved, we could turn this nation in a heartbeat.
[00:02:24]  And the problem is that not only do we have elections that are, you know, like governors and U.S. senators, there's usually 20 to 30 people on the election ballot.
[00:02:34]  And I want to give you two examples real quick.
[00:02:36]  This is where Christians fall down.
[00:02:38]  Unfortunately, it was out of Fort Worth, Texas, that our school board said, Hey, let's not have separate locker rooms for our kids at school, men and women.
[00:02:47]  Let's have boys and girls all together in one locker room.
[00:02:49]  And let's not have separate bathrooms.
[00:02:51]  Let's have one.
[00:02:51]  It came out of Fort Worth, Texas.
[00:02:53]  President Obama said, That's a great idea.
[00:02:55]  And then he went to the Department of Education, Department of Education, and said, If you get federal funds as a school, you will have no genders on your bathrooms or locker rooms.
[00:03:03]  You will have one.
[00:03:05]  And so all across America, common sense people rose up and said, No, we're not doing that.
[00:03:09]  So there was a lady in northwest Arkansas who said, I'm running for school board.
[00:03:14]  They're not doing this in my school.
[00:03:15]  She's in a town of 40,000 people in northwest Arkansas, very conservative town.
[00:03:20]  And she ran and won her election.
[00:03:23]  Now, a town of 40,000 people, the entire election school board, only 35 votes were cast in the entire election.
[00:03:31]  So she wins the election, having the majority of 35 votes out of town of 40,000.
[00:03:35]  There was a guy in Iowa, northern Iowa, who said, They're not doing that at my town.
[00:03:39]  He ran for the school board.
[00:03:41]  On election day, he got busy and did not vote for himself.
[00:03:44]  Now, it's not that he lost by one vote, it's that in that election, not a single person voted in the entire election.
[00:03:51]  If he had voted for himself, he would have been the entire school board by himself if he voted for himself.
[00:03:57]  This is where America is.
[00:03:58]  We look at what's going on, but when you look at the numbers, we are the most disengaged of any Western nation.
[00:04:04]  Our voting number, and Christians, are the most responsible for that.