First and foremost, we need to understand what God's general view is of immigrants.
What is his general view of immigrants?
And of course, when I say immigrant, we're referring to foreigners, those who the Bible
will refer to as strangers, aliens, not the UFOs that people think are aliens.
Aliens are just a foreigner, it's a stranger, someone who is an immigrant to a specific
nation.
Let me read to you from Deuteronomy, you're in Ephesians chapter 2, I want to read to
you from Deuteronomy 10 18, it says, he, referring to God, doth execute the judgment of the fatherless
and widow, and loveth the stranger, and giving him food and raiment.
So God loves a stranger, he loves the foreigner, and he gives him food and raiment, and why
is that?
Well, Matthew chapter 5 tells us that he sends rain upon the just as well as the unjust.
He's a gracious God.
The Bible says, we read in Exodus 23 verse 9, and thou shalt not oppress a stranger,
for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Look at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 12, speaking to the Ephesian church, which is obviously
a Gentile church, they weren't necessarily a people who were of the nation of Israel,
these were Gentiles.
Verse 12 says that at the time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God
in the world.
What this tells me is that basically every single individual, and let's just go ahead
and say it, like conservatives, right, that's unsaved is actually an illegal immigrant in
the eyes of God.
Right?
I mean, at one point you and I, before Christ, before getting saved, were illegal immigrants.
Now some of you were illegal immigrants in more ways than just that, okay?
But hey, even if you're born here, you know, even if you are a, you know, you're born in
the United States of America, you're a citizen here, and this is where you're born, you're
free born, you know, if you weren't saved, in God's eyes you were an illegal immigrant.
And it doesn't matter how conservative your views are, how right-winged you are, how Republican
you can be, what views you have in regards to the United States of America, if you're
not saved, you're an illegal immigrant.
You said to what?
Well, according to God, to the nation, which is the spiritual nation, Israel, the spiritual
Israel, heaven, okay?
You are an illegal immigrant.
Every immigrant, you know, and this is totally opposed to what people say, because, you know,
you hear a lot of people sometimes say, well, every immigrant is a rapist, murderer, and
a thief.
That's the narrative that you often hear.
How many of you have ever heard something like that?
And here's the problem with that, is that they often paint immigrants with a broad brush.
They kind of throw out the baby with the bathwater.
And you know, when I think of that statement, I think of what David said when he's being
persecuted by, you know, Saul and by the enemies of God, he said, in my haste, I said,
all men are liars.
And he understood that in his haste, he basically grouped all these people together and said,
you know what?
I can't trust anybody.
Well, in like manner, because there's a narrative being pushed or because maybe you may have
had a bad experience with an immigrant, you know, with a wetback or something like that,
you know, you might have the tendency to say, well, all of them are rapists and murderers
and thieves.
You know, but that's not necessarily a fair judgment, according to the Bible.
Okay.