Popular Evangelical Christian Pastor John MacArthur issued a comment about the upcoming presidential election saying that Kamala Harris’ response to hearing the phrase “Jesus is Lord” at one of her recent rallies is all fellow believers need to know about who they should cast a ballot for come November. And he’s right on the money about that. If someone shuns Christ so openly and advocates for policies that are firmly set in opposition of God’s holy, righteous law, that’s not the person a Christian should vote for.
MacArthur, 85, gave this thoughts on the incident while having an on-stage conversation at Grace Community Church on Sunday evening with Jim Pfaff, who serves as the president of The Conservative Caucus and asked the pastor to help “shepherd our hearts” with mere weeks before the election.
Here’s more from The Christian Post:
After taking a jab at Harris for her “this is the most election ever” comment last year, MacArthur pointed to her response to a pair of protesters at the Harris-Walz rally at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse last week when they shouted phrases like “Christ is King!” as Harris spoke about abortion rights. Harris paused her speech to address the students, quipping, “You guys are at the wrong rally,” which drew loud applause from the audience. The moment quickly went viral on social media.
While recounting the incident, MacArthur told Pfaff, “Somebody said ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and she immediately said you’re in the wrong place,” he said. “What else do you need to know?” After Pfaff replied, “Jesus is not Lord in that place?” MacArthur clarified, “No, I’m not saying that Jesus is not Lord over the universe. I’m not saying that Jesus is more Lord over the Republicans, but I’m telling you He’s not there, not when you kill babies and mutilate children and destroy marriage.
It seems MacArthur, in a roundabout way, endorsed Trump for president, saying, “in this kind of election, you can’t be on that side.” Sure, he didn’t mention the 45th president by name, but what he’s saying seems implied.
“You take the best of maybe not the best choices,” he explained during the conversation. “Who would do the most damage to the family? Who would do the most damage to children? Who would do the most damage to the culture? Who would do the most damage to morality? Who would put us in a most insecure and unsafe position when [the] government is designed to protect law-abiding people and punish evildoers? I mean, it’s a clear-cut choice.”
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MacArthur made similar comments in 2020 when he said “any real” Christian would vote for Trump because they cannot support the policy agenda of the Democratic Party. He also previously dismissed the notion that political figures like the former president could be the solution to the nation’s moral and spiritual decline, although he considered a second Trump presidency a “huge move in the right direction.” In his conversation with Pfaff, MacArthur also spoke publicly for the first time on the fall of former Master’s Seminary professor Steve Lawson, who was removed from his pastoral role at Trinity Bible Church in Dallas over what was described as an “inappropriate relationship with a woman.”
Lawson was once the dean of Doctor of Ministry Studies at The Master’s Seminary and often made appearances alongside MacArthur at his congregation and for conferences. Talking of Lawson, the beloved pastor stated that one of the ways God purifies His Church is to “expose someone in a position they have no right to be in.” He then stated that the exposure of Lawson’s misbehavior was, in actuality, a “blessing” for the church, explaining that this was the hand of God watching over the fellowship.
“It is fatal to a church to have that kind of behavior in leadership, and while none of us knew it or expected it because of the soundness of the theology, the Lord knew. And the Lord said, “For Grace Church, that’s enough,” he stated.
Despite the scandal, MacArthur called Lawson a “friend” — “I don’t love him any less than I’ve loved him for 25 years” — and said his conscience must have been “seared” to allow Lawson to continue preaching in spite of his infidelity.
“I don’t know how you preach past your conscience unless it’s completely scarred over … ” he finished. “ … I find myself almost every night praying for him.”