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Love as You’ve Been Loved

Scripture: John 13:34-35
Devotional Series: The Good Shepherd II
Teaching: The Good Shepherd pt. 3 (WED 2024-05-01) by Pastor Star R Scott


We live in an hour when I think we will experience, because of this spirit of antichrist, an onslaught of human empathy based on the worship of the creature.  We are such a lawless nation.  The nation is moved by its hatred for the gospel and for the Lord Jesus Christ; that spirit is going to be the spirit of lawlessness.

The kind of stuff that drives me crazy are things like what happened the other day at Columbia University.  “Alright you kids, you’re going to be out of here at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and if you’re not…”  They weren’t, and nobody did anything.  Then it goes to three, and four, and by midnight they had taken over the building.  If the authority went in there and did what they should have done with these kids, everybody wwould rise up and cry, “Oh, those poor kids!  You brought them down and threw them in a paddy wagon!  You just hauled them off!”  They didn’t hunt them down to haul them off and put them in jail.  They told them to leave and they didn’t leave!  That’s why they went to jail.  They weren’t persecuted.  They were prosecuted, or should be.

How does all this relate to goodness?  There will be so many issues that will arise to glorify the evil ones, such as the doing of “good” by our government for all of these illegal aliens coming in and destroying our nation.  What do we, the church, do?  Do we buy that?  “Oh, these poor people.  They are refugees.”  They are not refugees.  After having run away, they are now invading our country.  Many professed Christians would speak only from the Christian perspective of loving your enemies and feeding your enemies.  That’s not what we are being told by the Scriptures to do for these people who are invading our country.

There are natural laws.  There is, for our particular nation, an order and a law that has been established by our Constitution.  As a nation, they need to enforce that.  Now, what are you going to do if one of these enemies that came across the border is lying there in the street, beaten up and bleeding?  You don’t say, “Show me your green card.”  You help the person, right?  That’s the difference between organized invasion and enemies in war as opposed to the Christian character and our care for humanity.  We are able to show love as an individual, but we don’t start a ministry that says, “Let’s go around looking for all of the illegals and give them money and help them to get established here in our country.”  That’s not our responsibility.  Our responsibility is to lead them to Jesus and say, “Now go home and preach the gospel to your family, because He is your provider, not America.”

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