‘If ye were of the world, the world would love his own, but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.’

The world hates the just; as close as you are to Truth, to righteousness – and to becoming fruitful it is to that degree that the world hates you.

I could opine about the political, about what is Trump, and the systematic persecution that he has faced – and perhaps we ought to consider that in the light and context of this principal of scripture.

It is my father’s glory that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples.

Getting positive things done according to right morality as derived from God’s Word is the Father’s glory. God – who is the Creator of all things good – is glorified when good is done.

Does this mean – literally or even hypothetically – that Trump is anointed, ordained, hand-picked by God?

Well, there is a certain inevitability to that conclusion, though not to any messianic degree, and those excesses come hard through his movement and partisan politics. I can’t recommend, or esteem man, but Christ… the principals of morality and godliness. The danger to exalting any man to messianic state is, perhaps, greater than falling entirely on the wrong side.

We must be on the side of Christ, and only thereafter on the side of those who side with Christ. Why? Firstly, because of the sin of idolatry, but beyond that because man can err, and we ought not become someone’s yes-man and follow them when they err.

Uzziah was a good king, but when he overstepped his bounds, God punished him with leprosy (2 Chron. 26:19); Paul likewise confronted Peter to his face when he was wrong in his treatment of Gentile believers (Gal. 2:11). Paul even also declared: ‘Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ.’ (1 Cor. 11:1) I.e. insofar as I am following Christ; or: follow my example of following Christ.

The danger to partisanship is exactly that: partisanship following a man or a movement; following this or that political party. Rather, we are to follow Christ; and in doing so we can acknowledge where someone is in the right, and we can correct when they are wrong.

And so, in the political, religious, or any other sphere – we must hold to the Truth and follow Christ; we give support those who are doing what is right insofar as they do right.

‘Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.’

Christ chooses people, be it for one work or another, and there is a purpose to that choosing – that we bring forth fruit.

Ps 75:7
God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

We see the left systematically persecuting Trump in a time and situation where the left is systematically persecuting Christians. Christians and godly morals are opposed, marginalized and cancelled; likewise is done to anyone who will hold to biblical morality, and likewise is done to Donald Trump.

We think that to avoid addressing the political is godliness – this we think it seems more often than not because we have been convinced that strife and quarreling lie down that road, more so than that we are concerned about carnal partisanship.

We think that we ought not to tamper with the political because people’s emotions are too much involved in it. Thus it is fear that keeps us from holding publicly stating Christian values. Always the slogan arises: ‘you will not win the lost by winning a political argument,’ but neither will you win the lost by staying silent of your convictions through fear – fear of upsetting others, fear of confrontation.

1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

We must side with known godlessness.

Rom 12:21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

The left has attempted to destroy democracy, by removing the candidates chosen by the people. They attempted to remove Trump from the selection process whether or not the people wanted him, and they have installed a candidate who was not chosen by the people through the democratic process.

They do all this while professing that Trump is a danger to democracy. So what they are guilty of they blame on their opponents.

Shall we then align with the side that despises the truth for power – and who we know perpetrate evil? (Abortion, pushing Transgenderism & so forth.)

Follow justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)