#068 What Should The Church Do About Illegal Immigration?

Can the Christian hold two ideas in their head: Borders are God Instituted and Sacred, and the Great Commission Tells Us To Go To The Nations? Before you get your knickers in a wad, which ever side you sit on, hear me out. God instituted borders in Exodus 34:24, borders are noted as a gift from God:

“For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. “

In Psalm 147:14 we hear that Borders are God ordained:

“Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.”

In Isaiah 60:18, we see that Heaven has borders, perhaps endless, but also distinctly separate and protected from evil:

“Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.”

Also, however, the Great Commission tells us to do what:

Mathew 28:19-20

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Concerning strangers and aliens in our land, Exodus 22:21 tells us: "Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.”

Leviticus 25:23 says: “When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The
stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you
shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your
God.”

Numbers 15:15-16, however, states:

“The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing
among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be
the same before the LORD: 16 The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the
foreigner residing among you.”

So let’s note that there are laws that all are to be held accountable to, but we primarily have an obligation to the Great Commission.

Pew Research found that in 2012 approximately 83% of the illegal immigrants in the States self identified as Christian. That’s 9,200,000 immigrants and that number is 10 years old. This year alone, there have been 2 million illegal immigrants arrested at the border. There are even more who have not been accounted for. What is the Church to do?

Well, first, we want to stop the infrastructure meltdown that is occurring when our own poor are not being cared for. This is a cultural and political debate. But for those who are here, are we really going to be able to deport them all logistically? Is that even the right call?

Why have the Leftists in our government opened our borders in this way? One of two reasons, cheap labor, or cheap votes. What if instead of answering them as a fool, why do we not answer them as their folly deserves? What I mean is the greatest triumph for the Church here would be to turn these massively conservative and Christian immigrants into Conservative and Christian voters. None of the people people in the aforementioned 83% demographic want Drag Queens, LGBT Porn, CRT, Abortion, and Atheism taught in schools. None of them want abortion at 9 months out of the womb. What Satan and his proxies meant for evil with this swell of immigrants, God can turn to good with prayer and elbow grease from His Church.

I’m not saying that this will be easy. God’s work rarely is. However, ministering to their children, feeding them, walking with them in their trials, as individuals and as a Church, is what it will take to take those who are here illegally, and make them model Christian Citizens.

For some, this will not work. But who are we to know who will and won’t turn and be saved, or turn to an active relationship with Christ? We will never know what God can do, unless we show up.

https://baptistnews.com/article/howcanchurcheslegallyministertoillegalimmigrants/#.YzL9AkzMJAu

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/05/17/the-religious-affiliation-of-us-immigrants/