This is a quick comment about something Charlie Kirk said about Donald Trump. The context is someone asked Kirk about John Piper’s comment about Trump being an unregenerate sinner.

My initial response is Piper is absolutely correct. Trump is an unrepentant and unregenerate sinner. Anyone who publicly admits he doesn’t need to seek or ask for forgiveness from God for their sins has not been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Trump said that during his 2016 presidential campaign.

As an aside, however, do not interpret this to mean I endorse Piper. I can’t endorse him because I don’t like that he speaks at the Passion Conference and seems to believe in the current interpretation that modern prophecies do not have to be 100% accurate. I have other problems with Piper and if you want to know more, read Iain Murray’s book and his analysis of Piper’s hedonistic Christianity.

Back Charlie Kirk’s response.

Kirk brought up Samson. Samson was with a prostitute when killed some of the Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone. Samson did a lot of sinful acts and constantly violated his Nazarite oath. But at the end of his life, Samson was repentant and acknowledged from whom he got his power from, God, and prayed that God would use him one more time to judge the Philistines. Kirk said Samson was in what is called the Hall of Faith in Hebrews despite what Samson did in his life.

That’s Samson is in the list of faithful servants in Hebrews is not because of Samson the person. It is a demonstration of the mercy and grace of God to sinners, and that in spite of Samson’s sinful life, God sees him as a saint. And that is true of all the people in chapter 11 of Hebrews.

Trump is not Samson, nor should be compared to any of the people in the Bible whom God has called His servant.

Kirk talks about Trump’s indictment and the possibility that he could go to federal prison for 300 years and lose his family fortune. First, I’m sure Trump has taken steps to protect his money so his family will not be destitute. Melania and Barron Trump will not be living on the streets. Let’s not get ridiculous here.

Second, and I think this is Kirk’s point, is this is a type of persecution of someone whom “God has raised for this moment” (Kirk’s words which I will comment on below). I’m sorry, Charlie, but Trump is not being persecuted for his faith in Christ. It has nothing to do with God or Jesus or anything remotely related to the Word of God. It is a political conflict, not persecution like past martyrs have faced.

Please stop deifying Trump because he claims to love this country. I could argue he is not any better than Obama or Clinton or Bush. As I have said in a previous post, Trump enables the “Establishment” to get rich off taxpayer money as any other president has in the past 100 years. He might put more money in our pockets and ease the burden of inflation, but those are salves, a bandaid on a gushing wound that needs emergency surgery.

All Christians should believe in the sovereignty of God in all things at all times. Nothing happens that God has not decreed to happen. If He is not sovereign over all things at all times the He is not sovereign, or omnipotent as the Bible claims. And if that is true then God is not God at all.

I say that first because Kirk, in his response, said that God raised up Trump for this moment in the history of this country. (I will write about “Christian Nationalism and the false notion that the United States is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles by Christian men, and we need to bring it back to that standard.) If a you are a Christian then you ought to understand that all leaders of all nations are raised up by God in all of history, by His sovereign Will. If, as a Christian, you accept that God raised up Trump but Biden then you don’t believe in the omnipotence (sovereignty) of God. If Biden wasn’t raised up by God to be president then God made a mistake and He ceases to be God, because God is infallible.

In John 19, Jesus is before Pilate. Pilate tells Jesus that he has the authority to release or kill Jesus. In verse 11, Jesus responds “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” Jesus tells Pilate he would have no authority if it had not been granted to him by God the Father. This statement is true of all leaders of nations throughout all history. King Nebuchadnezzar was judged by God until he acknowledged the sovereignty of God. This is true of all presidents in the history of the United States.

Kirk is correct, Trump is being raised up by God in this moment of history. It is not a special anointing by God on Trump because God needs Trump to deliver this country. Trump is not being legally persecuted because of his faith in God. It is all political theater to distract everyone and fool the masses into believing their vote matters.

When Trump is put back into the Oval Office by the people who hold the real power, the people with the money, it will be business as usual. He will continue to make policy decisions that benefit them. The American people will be soothed with an improved economy and will not pay attention to what is really happening.

God had raised up Trump to be president but it will be just like what Paul warned Timothy:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires.”

This statement is true of politics and sound biblical doctrine. Trump is tickling our ears with his rhetoric of the border, bringing back jobs to this country, curbing inflation, mining production of domestic natural resources.

If you need evidence of Trump’s tickling and soothing words then look no further than his “Spiritual Advisory Council”. Most of them, if not all, have been tickling ears for their own financial gain for decades.

Yes, Charlie Kirk, God did raise Trump in this time for this country, not to save this country but to judge this country.