Will Trump Fix America for Christians?

Political Optimism and the Limits of Government

Listen, there's a lot of optimism right now with our current president that's coming in. There's a lot of optimism about like what could be. I think there are gonna be some suppression of evil. I think there's gonna be some adjustments of things that could help people, but it can't fix the problem, the curse, the futility that was put upon us, the changing of the structure of God's original design can't be fixed by politics or by moral suppression of a government.

As thankful as I am for that stuff, super thankful, because the problem lies at the core of two things. One, human beings are corrupt. We're born this way. And secondly, you have a powerful army called the domain of darkness, Colossians, that is further corrupting the world.

The Curse, Creation, and Romans 8:21

And then lastly, not only humans are corrupt, you got a corrupting force, but creation itself. This is why we have things like cancer and storms and all these things that afflict us. And the Bible does not promise that there is something that can be done that will take that away other than the king and his kingdom, who is building his kingdom now and is bringing his citizens into the kingdom so that it goes on to say in Romans 8 .21, that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God for we know, so he's saying that is there, but what's our current circumstance?

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in childbirth until now. So from that moment of the fall till now. And the reason why this is so helpful for me is that when I look at life, it helps me wake up every day going, I should probably expect struggle and pain and suffering.

Groaning, Suffering, and the Comfort of the Spirit

I mean, I found out potentially that I've got another friend that might be having a struggle with cancer. And you look at that and we both cried, we cried. And then we thought, man, one day, we will have our tears wiped away.

But until then, until then, we're gonna suffer together. And Justin, I have found that when we lose this part of our theology and we start gaining, I think a worldly, I think satanic ideology that we can have eaten now, it actually crushes people and crushes their faith.

You know, the Romans 8 thing is really good because Paul is very clear that when the creation is gonna be set free, what the creation is groaning for is actually our bodily resurrection. So when we are resurrected bodily, that is when the Lord Jesus returns, that is when all of this is made right.

That is when the creation is set free from its bondage that it was subjected to. And that like at our glorification. And so like you said, between now and then, we should expect the creation to groan.

We will groan along with the creation or the creation groans with us. We do take great comfort that God is with us in the groaning that the Holy Spirit is with us. I mean, that's where he goes. Sympathetic high priest Hebrews 4, but in Romans 8, that the Holy Spirit actually is getting up underneath the burden with us and is with us in the groaning.

And when we don't even know how to pray or what to say, the Spirit intercedes, you know, I mean, it's beautiful. And as Christ intercedes in heaven at the right hand of the Father, the Spirit prays from within us, right?

And that's of great comfort to me. And maybe it is to some listener out there.