Brant highlights three key points for after the election:
- Be FOR ONE ANOTHER.
- Be recognized as believers who place their HOPE in Jesus, regardless of political results.
- Be UNIFIED within the church, which is vital for followers of Jesus.
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Transcription:
Brant:
It is time for Brant’s three things that I planned days ago to say after election day.
Sherri:
So it can’t be pigeonholed into
Brant:
No, you can’t.
Sherri:
Yes. Okay.
Brant:
I mean literally wrote these things down before election day because I’m like, I want to revisit this afterward. Regardless of who wins or regardless, even we don’t know who wins. We’re going to talk about this stuff. Here’s something I know that we can talk about. And I wrote this down again days ago. In Jeremiah when the Israelites were not where they wanted to be. They were in exile and these people worship the false god around them and all that stuff, and they wanted out and God said, “Hey, you have to be for this”… He didn’t say, Hey, that’s me trying to make it sound cool. But he said, yo, I hate doing that. No, he did say, Hey, but he said, you need to be for the city. Like plant gardens among them.
Raise your kids here be for your neighbors, be for them. So that’s just a great stance to have wherever you are on the political spectrum for your follower of Jesus, I’m for these people, the people around me. Period. So if I’m a believer in Jesus, I have to be known for hope. I’ve got to, and that’s hard for me because naturally a pessimistic sort of person, but God has changed me and I think I am more hopeful than a usual person. And I bring this up, this is the second of brands, three things. There’s three things I planned to talk about the day after the election, and I planned it before the election.
Sherri:
Yes.
Brant:
So this was regardless of what happens, what doesn’t happen, who wins, who doesn’t win, who knows what, or if we don’t even know all that sort of stuff, things that I know are true,
Sherri:
Regardless of any of that,
Brant:
regardless. I have to be known for hope. Whether my candidate wins loses or we don’t know. That’s got to be my thing. And to the point that in the Bible talks about how we should have a ready answer for the hope that’s in us, so that it’s kind of this expectation that people will be like, why are you so hopeful? What does it matter with you? And we will be able to go with, let me tell you why.
So here’s something we know, and we knew this before the election, and I actually wrote it down like, Hey, we’re going to talk about this after the election is over after election day is over, whether we know who won or we do or not, or whoever wins. It’s something that we know that has not changed. And that is unity is everything to Jesus. It just is unity in him to be sure.
Sherri:
Yes.
But that’s everything. We just saw this scripture too. I had never even noticed this before, but Paul was writing about the kingdom of God and how awesome it is, how it’s supposed to be about peace and joy and goodness. And at the end of it, he says, we do this so there can be harmony in the church. People should look at us and go, okay, we got to get this together, us, right? Yeah, yeah, us. We’ve got to get it together. So that’s the third. And my third thing that I wanted to talk about, stuff we wanted to talk about before the election even happened, regardless of what happened, it’s like this has to be us as people of Jesus living in harmony and building each other up. That’s got to happen.
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