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Globalists
promote a border-less world. How should the Christian respond to this claim? Of
course, immigration reform is necessary. However, presently we must enforce the
laws that we now have. While we Christians have a responsibility to love all
people, here are some thoughts to guide Christian compassion:
1. Unless Christian compassion begins at home or it will
create bitterness. What if I was to love all wives and children as my own? This
would create bitterness and impede other attempts to love. Instead, well loved
families are best able to help others. Might this also pertain to nations!
Mustn’t love begin with our own and our neighbors?
· Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have
opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the
household of faith.
Am I loving my neighbors if I am exposing them to harm?
2. We cannot reward evil. God does not bless the unrepentant
(Luke 13:1-5); nor should we. God has ordained government (Romans 13:1-5) and
even borders and national sovereignty (Acts 17:26-27). He thwarted man’s
attempt at creating a one world government (Genesis 10). He also commanded us
to respect our government even when we do not like it:
Many of the caravans have already proven that
they refuse to respect our laws and prefer to illegally and forcefully break
into our country. To allow disregard for some laws is to encourage disrespect
for all laws and would put our citizens in jeopardy. However, regarding the illegals
already in our country, Christian mercy should not be withheld.
3. To aid and abet the entry of the caravan and to provide
sanctuary for criminals is to resist the legitimate and just concerns of our
rule of law.
· 1 Peter 2:13 Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
4. To reward those who will break the law because of public
opinion or the pressures that the migrants are exerting is to undermine the
rule of law. It sends the wrong message. It says that we are willing to break
the law. It also says that the violent and forceful will get their way while
the ordinary citizen or asylum-seeker will not. This represents the undoing of
justice, the equal application of the law to all. It will breed defensiveness
and fear instead of trust and respect. This will inevitably create cynicism and
contempt for the law and the institutions that are supposed to maintain it, and
will eventually lead to collapse if unchecked. When people do not respect the
system, they will take the law into their own hands.
5. To allow one migrant caravan is to invite many more. We
cannot coherently refuse the next caravans, once we allow the first. Law must
always be about setting limits.
6. Indiscriminately allowing in un-vetted migrants is
equivalent to emptying prisons of convicted criminals. This represents neither
Christian love nor justice. If we do not enforce national boundaries, then we
leave it to citizens and states to form their own boundaries. If government
will not protect the innocent, then the innocent must protect themselves.
Inevitability, this will lead to chaos. Government of the people, by the
people, and for the people must first protect its own before all else.
According to Jesus, even the corrupt Sanhedrin was to be obeyed:
· Matthew 23:2–3 “The scribes and the
Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not
the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.”
7. A borderless world is a world of disorder and instability. It is an unfounded dream of human togetherness, peace, and a refusal to regard the lessons of history and the many bloody attempts to create an international workers’ paradise. The scent of weakness is an invitation to the violent.
· Romans 13:1-5Let every person be subject
to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and
those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the
authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur
judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you
have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will
receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do
wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant
of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one
must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of
conscience.
8.
The Old Testament is often
erroneously used to justify “open borders.” Admittedly, the ideal was to
provide “one law” for alien and Israelite alike. Consequently, the alien was
forbidden to practice their alien religion:
· Deuteronomy 17:2-3, 5 “If there is found among
you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or
woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing
his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun
or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, then you
shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing,
and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.”
Israel was to show the world the goodness and justice of their God, not by sending missionaries out but by welcoming those to an opportunity of tasting a better life:
· Deuteronomy 4:5–8 “See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?”
We are no longer a melting pot or are able to inspire conformity to a broken system.
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