So the title of this video is the political and the spiritual realities of immigration.
So immigration is a pretty popular topic nowadays because it's something that is, you know,
pervasive in the sense that it's very prevalent in the United States and in Europe.
We see a lot, millions, in the past couple decades of immigrants from other nations coming
into the United States.
We see a ton of immigrants from Central America, South America.
I see many immigrants from Africa, from Europe where I am.
I mean right now I'm at a park in Paterson, New Jersey.
You know I pulled in, basically what I saw was probably was too large what looked like
Palestinian families.
They have a similar look to the Palestinian people that I meet around here or they're
from some other country in the Middle East.
Well, you know, that's a pretty normal sight.
That's not unusual for me here in North Jersey.
And there's no question that immigration is a big topic and the face of our nation is
changing because of it.
Millions of immigrants have come here to the point where when I go out into the world,
especially in certain cities, I'm way more likely to interact with an immigrant from
any number of countries than with a home-born citizen of the United States.
And the bottom line is this, mass immigration often causes a lot of problems for nations.
It often leads to war and the destabilization of nations.
And it's no question that people in the United States who are vying for power have an interest
in having open border policies for their political purposes.
And I believe that a nation has every right to establish borders and border security and
immigration laws.
I mean, what makes a nation is the people and they're generally within borders.
God instituted human government in different nations and he instituted different nations.
So God, it's not his will to have some monolithic one-world government system.
And when you see mankind trying to work towards such a system in the Bible, God thwarts it
and separates the nations because he does not want a one-world system.
So God wants separate nations.
Nevertheless, immigration is an issue that our country is facing.
Many many immigrants come into our country.
And I think it's much more important to emphasize the spiritual reality over the political reality
of immigration.
So does the United States have a right to establish borders?
Yes.
The Bible talks about God enlargening your borders.
God is the one who basically allows nations to exist and he helps establish their borders
and he allows the face of the nation to change.
Well, you know, as much as I believe that we should obey the law of the land, I don't
believe we should illegally enter into any country against these laws because I believe
we should obey the laws of that land.
But the bottom line is, when it comes to my country here in America, these immigrants
are already here.
And the Bible also calls me an immigrant, it calls me a stranger.
So the Bible says that I should be empathizing and sympathizing with strangers and foreigners.
And I think that many Christians and conservatives miss this fact and they overlook it because
of their zeal for their political stance on immigration.
Now my political stance on immigration, it's more conservative than the left and probably
a little less conservative than Donald Trump.
I believe we have the right to establish borders and border security.
I would like people, you know, the right people to come here.
I don't want the wrong people to come here.
I don't want criminals and people like that coming here.
And if a nation decides that they can't figure out what that is, it's just too much of a
laborious task to be vetting all these people, I believe they have a right to cut off their
borders completely.
The bottom line is the United States has not done that and we have an open border policy.
But even though we have like these open borders, the Bible still says, it says thou shall not
oppress a stranger for you know the heart of a stranger seeing that you were strangers
in the land of Egypt.
So the Bible compares Christians to strangers or immigrants or foreigners because we are
basically citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem who are just sojourning among the world's
people.
And so we're in a sense strangers.
The Bible says, dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from
fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Again Peter's calling us strangers and pilgrims.
The Bible also says, it says these all died in faith having not received the promises
but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrims in the earth.
So the Bible says we should come to a point, you know, if we are walking like the people
in Hebrews 11 did in the Hall of Faith, they came to a point where they said, you know
what, I'm a stranger and a pilgrim on this earth.
And that's, if that's our attitude, we should be able to empathize with the stranger and
the immigrant among us because here's the thing, the Bible says thou shall not oppress
a stranger and the Bible says one law shall be to the homeborn as to the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
So the Bible says one law, one for the homeborn person, citizen, but the same law for the
stranger.
That's why I'll never agree with you when you start, you know, flapping your gums about
why immigrants don't have any rights here in America.
They don't deserve rights and they don't have a first amendment.
They don't have a second amendment or fourth or fifth amendment because they're illegal.
Okay, well, here's the thing about the Constitution.
It was written as basically just, you know, discovering or bringing to light or recognizing
natural born rights that we have from God.
So you don't enjoy the US Constitution because you're an American citizen.
That's such a great philosophy.
No, the theory is that these are natural born rights to all mankind.
Therefore you should have no problem seeing an immigrant or, you know, a stranger, whether
he has papers or not, enjoy the first amendment, second amendment, fourth and fifth amendment,
the whole constitution, the whole bill of rights because one law to the stranger and
to him that sojournes among you.
And look, there's no question.
If you look at history, that mass immigration, it leads to, it can lead to war.
It leads to unrest.
You have these, these, you have the home-born nation and you have different new people groups
coming in.
You have, you have conflicts of interest.
You have different, you know, you have, you have varying, what's the word, why can't I
think of the word, like cultures, varying interests.
And you have, you know, one political, one political group vying for power, basically
bolstering and inflaming the passions of one group, maybe the immigrants.
And then you have like another political group vying for power, you know, who are bolstering
and trying to gather the support of, of the, of the citizens.
And then you have conflict and then you can have unrest.
Whatever happens in the United States is going to happen.
It's basically an act of God that he's allowing these people to come into our country because
the Bible says that God even sends strangers to devour the lands of people as a punishment.
I'm not saying that, I'm not saying like if you're an immigrant, you are sent by God to
punish us.
But what I'm saying, this is a Bible principle.
And when you see faces of nations changing and millions of people coming into a world
or coming into a nation, the face of the nation is going to change.
And that's, that's something that God has allowed.
That's not something that's, you know, God, God rules in the affairs of men and God knows
and allows these things to happen for whatever reason.
So here's the thing.
They're coming, whether I like it or not, and I don't dislike it, but a lot of people
do dislike it.
They're coming.
You know what I want to do?
I want to understand that I was also a stranger and a pilgrim.
I am a stranger and a pilgrim.
And so I want to win them the Christ.
And instead of just having this Americana apple pie culture that's just this clean cut
all-American look, but void of God and just, oh yeah, American values, but we're still
getting farther and farther away from God and hating God.
No, I'd rather seek out, seek out anyone who's in my country, sojourning among me, red, yellow,
black and white, they're precious in his sight.
I want to win them to Christ.
I want to assimilate them into a Christian culture.
That should be our goal is to assimilate, help them assimilate into a Christian culture,
not just to come and learn English and about democracy.
I want to teach them that Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again, that democracy
is two, you know, two wolves, two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner and teach
them the Bible.
And I want the face of my nation.
I want God to use this for good, to bring humble people over from other nations, nations
that I can't travel to.
And instead of me having to go to all these nations to preach the gospel to every creature,
God is actually allowing them to come to us so we could seek them out and preach the gospel.
That's the spiritual reality of immigration.
So what's the spiritual reality?
The political reality is that yeah, immigration or carnal sense, it's not good for a nation,
it's mass immigration.
It changes the face of a nation.
It tends towards conflict, it tends towards war and it tends towards crime.
But you know what?
The spiritual reality is they're coming and there's a lot of them.
You know what I want?
I want to learn to speak their language and preach to them.
You say like, oh man, they should learn English.
They don't know English.
They come over here.
Yeah, they should learn English.
You should learn to speak the language of the country you're living in.
But you know what?
Instead of just getting all bent out of shape about that, I want to learn their language.
I want to learn Spanish and preach the gospel to them.
And you know what?
It opens doors.
I've been able to communicate and preach the gospel to Portuguese speaking people because
I've been learning to speak Spanish.
So I used to have no means of communication with Spanish or Portuguese people, but now
when I run into Portuguese people, I don't speak Portuguese, but basically we have a
basic common understanding of Spanish so we can communicate in Spanish.
That's the kind of thing I want God to do and to use.
And I don't want to sit there and just, you know, fill my mind with Tucker Carlson's talking
points.
I actually like Tucker Carlson for many different reasons.
But when it comes to the spiritual reality, don't let your political opinion blind you
towards the fact that, wow, God is allowing all these nations to come here.
Let's win them to Christ because often these people have they've traversed, you know, night
and day through deserts and just dry spells and heat and thirst and hunger.
And they've had to, you know, live in like uncomfortable quarters and go through a lot
to come here.
And they're often very humble for that reason.
They appreciate being here often.
And so I'd rather find that guy and talk to him in his language than, you know, basically
the American third or fourth generation who's just just full and his soul doesn't need anything
and he doesn't want to see God.
But he has an American flag and, you know, he's he's got Vietnam veteran on his hat.
I'm more interested in helping these immigrants, you know, thwarting the devil's plan to just
make them a tool for the left or something or a tool to destabilize the United States
and preach them the gospel and bring them onto the winning side.