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TIME TO CALL THE
NATION TO ORDER
| For the past 2,000 years the Christmas season has served to remind nations around the globe of the One upon whose shoulder the world’s governments rest. | |
Isaiah begins with a message for God’s people, the ancient church which includes the amazing announcement especially germane at Christmastime that a virgin will bear a son, and we will call him Immanuel (Hebrew for “God is with us.”)
With this, he writes about Immanuel’s role in world affairs (government) and before the final stroke of the pen, he employs the word “nation” (or “nations”) 79 times. God is focused on each sovereign nation as intently as he is on the individual.
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God’s eyes are on each nation of the world. As Luke (the writer of Acts) points out, God builds nations around mankind, determines national boundaries, and places each nation at their appointed time in the flow of history. (Acts 17:24-28)
God so cares for the nations that Jeremiah’s entire life purpose was focused on delivering God’s word to the nations.
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Jeremiah speaks of the nations 88 times and ties the spiritual health of the people of God (our ancient ecclesiastical forefathers) to the welfare of the nations. He says:
“If you return to me, if you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waiver, the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
~Jeremiah 4:1, 2.
Ezekiel employs the word “nation” or “nations” 88 times to continue to demonstrate the divine focus not on the individual, but the group which shapes the political entity.
| The relationship between the church and politics is inherent in the fact that Abraham is the father of both the church and the nations. | |
All this is why the final words of Christ to his disciples was to disciple the nations. (Matthew 28)
The political class has a high calling. The Bible uses the word “nation” or “nations” 646 times. Our legislators and other governing officials bear responsibilities which are transparent before the eyes of God.
Christ came to transform nations and families as well as individual people.
The church must be awakened to its political responsibilities.
American intellectual, O.A. Brownson contemplated the duty of Americans in 1846 when he compared the patriotic proclivities of the church to those of our founders who fought a war to secure our liberty.
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He wrote:
The evils of war are great, but not the greatest.
It is a greater evil to lose national freedom, to become the tributaries or slaves of the foreigner, to see the sanctity of our homes invaded, our altars desecrated, and our wives and children made the prey of the ruthless oppressor.
These are evils which do not die with us but may descend upon our posterity through all coming generations.
The man who will look tamely on and see altars and home defiles, all that is sacred and dear wrestled from him, and his country stricken form the roll of nations, has as little reason to applaud himself for his morals as for his manhood.
The culture of a people is the incarnation of their religion
~ T.S. Eliot
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This week, Dr. Everett Piper addresses the lethargy among many in the church regarding our duty to guard and protect our nation and the borders which God by his providence has bequeathed to us.
DR. EVERETT PIPER
Sunday, December 14, 2025
IGNORING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
IS CULTURAL SUICIDE
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This past week, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) published its monthly newsletter, whereby it heralded the Christmas season, not by celebrating “Joy to the world,” but by repeating its annual yuletide claim that:
Because Christ, himself, was a “refugee,” all Christians are obligated to welcome all immigrants (regardless of status) into our country, our towns, and our neighborhoods.
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And how are we to do this? How exactly are some 60 million American evangelicals purportedly represented by the NAE to welcome the “sojourner” and “foreigner” in our midst? What practical steps does the NAE suggest we take?
Well, rather than create its own action plan, the NAE provides a link to a recently published statement by The Wesleyan Church, a denomination of approximately 500,000 North American members, as an example of what the Christian position should be on immigration.
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So, what does this Wesleyan document say?
Well, first, it is a not-so-thinly veiled homage to some of its leaders’ decades-old infatuation with neo-Marxism rather than simple biblical truth.
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And, frankly, they don’t even try to hide it.
For example, this church’s official statement on immigration is laden with references to “systemic” this and “systemic” that, as well as the overt and intentional use of the word “equitable” rather than “equal” to describe its desired outcomes.
This is the language of Critical Theory more than that of orthodox Christianity, and biblical believers should be very wary of it.
It’s a nomenclature that comes straight out of the Frankfurt School handbook and reflects the writings of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse more than it does traditional Christian beliefs regarding individual responsibility and conservative morals.
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If you have a sense of déjà vu right now, there is a reason.
It is no coincidence that this all seems very familiar. We’ve been here before.
All this talk of blaming the oppressor rather than focusing on ourselves, and of redistributing things equitably rather than on the basis of hard work and merit, is little more than a kissing cousin to the liberation theology that left-leaning evangelicals such as Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis popularized back in the 1970s.
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This worldview has always been much more about “social justice” than personal salvation. It is a quasi-Christianity that always leads to division rather than unity, blame rather than personal confession, and the worship of government more than God.
Because of its neo-Marxist roots alone, American Christians should reject the NAE/Wesleyan statement on immigration. But if that doesn’t convince you, there are several other reasons to discard this line of thinking.
First . . .
This statement repeatedly ignores the fact that the Bible never excuses illegal immigration or expects any country or nation to tolerate it. (Spoiler alert: There is absolutely nothing in Scripture that suggests that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus crossed any borders illegally. It’s just not there).
Second . . .
It consistently conflates immigrants who honor the law with those who don’t. In fact, the NAE and the Wesleyans seemingly draw no distinction between the two as they presume to scold those of us who do see the difference.
Third . . .
The statement completely ignores the elderly, the poor, the widows, the children, and the women who are being victimized even now, as we speak, by a tsunami of illegal vagrancy now sweeping across our nation.
What about them?
What about the working-class folks in Springfield, Ohio, Central Los Angeles, South Chicago, Aurora, Colorado, or Minneapolis, Minnesota, who can’t even leave their front yard, walk to the local grocery store, or take their kids to the community park because a literal army of illegals now overruns their entire neighborhood?
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What about children who are being trafficked and abused by the hundreds of thousands?
What about the young women who live in fear of being harassed, if not outright raped?
What about the elderly retired couple who still live in the 1,000 square foot house they bought in what was a nice neighborhood in the 1950s that is now overrun by tent encampments, drugs, violence, and crime?
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What about all these people - these millions of law abiding blue color American citizens - who have had to sacrifice their safety, their home equity, their neighborhoods, their schools, their streets, and their entire way of life on the altar of virtue-signaling progressive Christians who live in their upscale suburban communities, sleeping soundly at night behind their double-locked doors, and who drink their five dollar lattes while smugly writing position papers scolding everyone else to do better?
The bottom line is that the National Association of Evangelicals and its proxy, the Wesleyan Church, are wrong. There is nothing in the Bible that tells a nation to ignore lawlessness and criminality at the expense of its own people.
Read the book of Nehemiah, my goodness!
The entire thing revolves around
building a wall for a reason.
Legal immigration is a wonderful thing.
Illegal immigration is not.
Ignoring the difference
is cultural suicide.
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Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
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DECEMBER 3 MEETING:
SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW
With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett
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Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here.
Note:
Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks.
Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark.
Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark.
Watch the full meeting here.
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LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION
GABE WOOLEY
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JOHN ASHCROFT Sings here
Full Meeting here
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WES LANE, PRESIDENT
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SALLT
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Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness.
Watch Wes Lane's presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
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We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night."
Watch the presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
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TPUSA
Students were in attendance
Supporting Samantha
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SHANE JETT
MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS
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Senator Shane Jett here
Watch the full meeting here.
BOB LINN
PRESIDENT OF
OCPAC FOUNDATION
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We are in desperate need of returning
our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.
Thank you for your activism.
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