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Strangers in a Foreign Land

How does the God of the Universe want His People to think about Protecting our Civil Society?

What is the morally righteous mindset for mature citizens to have about national border security and public treatment of aliens?

All of us today are aware and sensitive to the reality that Scripture is often misquoted, misapplied, or weaponized, in public discourse, to push political agendas. Millions of conscientious believers are trying to navigate the tension between compassion and the rule of law, between loving the stranger and protecting the vulnerable.

Everyone knows that we live in a climate of political correctness. With the left-leaning attitude of the main stream media, Christians often face moral dilemmas. The issue of immigration is a big concern.

In 2018 there was a large caravan of thousands of people moving north from Central America through Mexico. Another caravan was heading north at the Guatemala/Mexico border.  Yet another was in El Salvador heading our way. (https://www.foxnews.com/world/migrant-caravans-leaders-reportedly-demand-safe-and-dignified-transport-as-enthusiasm-erodes ) What should be the Christian’s response to people wanting a better life and trying to come to America?

To make matters worse, in the aftermath of enduring a demonstrably illegitimate national political administration, how should law-abiding citizens think, act and pray regarding the now present dangers of dealing with millions of acknowledged foreigners who have knowingly broken the constitutional laws of the land?

The God of the Bible loves the sojourner because He is the merciful Creator of everything on the planet. His Word commands his people to show compassion, mercy, and justice toward the foreigner. Citing these commands, some well-intentioned Christians contend that the Bible requires the church to oppose enforcing immigration law. But, when they do that, they fail to understand there’s a distinction between the roles of the church and the state. 

An Overview of Immigration in the Bible

While the church is called to love and serve the foreigner in their midst, governments are ordained by God to uphold justice, establish order, and restrain evil (Rom. 13:1-4). The Christian can and should support the enforcement of immigration laws—not in contradiction to our faith, but as a faithful expression of it.

The Bible commands God’s people to love the sojourner (Deut. 10:19). We’re not permitted to oppress the foreigner (Zech. 7:9-10). We must welcome the stranger (Lev. 19:33-34). We should keep a mind-set of compassion toward the destitute. 

The same Bible instructs that a nation is “defined by its borders” (Num. 34:2). The New Testament declares that God “determined…the boundaries” of nations (Acts 17:26). Borders are not human inventions; they’re God-ordained tools essential to have order in civil society. Even the heavenly city is described with impregnable border walls and an open gate that is accessible only to those whose names are found in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev. 21:12-27).

In ancient Israel, the same God, who demanded compassion for the foreigners, also required a rigorous process of assimilation for any foreigner seeking to become an Israelite. That required far more than just crossing a boundary. Did you know that new citizens were required to be circumcised (Gen. 17:27)? They were required to affirm and abide by the laws of Israel (Lev. 24:22). They were required to swear off any abominable customs of their homelands (Lev. 18:26). 

Foreigners were not permitted to permanently own land in Israel without being a citizen. In fact, God’s Law required land properties to be returned to Israelites – get this – every fifty years (Lev. 25:10). It’s called the law of the Jubilee year. That way, they could maintain control of their ancestral land allotments (Num. 36:7). The process of assimilating new citizens was careful and often multi-generational. Foreigners from hostile nations were not permitted full privileges of citizenship until the third generation (Deut. 23:3). 

See the Scriptural references for all these regulations in the transcript for today’s broadcast.

These commands, requiring both compassion and order, weren’t contradictory. But they do require clear distinctions between the responsibilities of individual believers and the responsibilities of the state. In God’s economy, the church is responsible for providing compassion to immigrants, widows, orphans, and the poor, just as the state is responsible for restraining evil and establishing an orderly society.

As Christians, we ought to desire the safety and welfare of all people. We should be compassionate (Col. 3:12), love our neighbor (Lev. 19:18), and relieve him of his burden (Exodus 23:5). We are not to oppress the stranger (Exodus 23:9). And finally, the Old Testament speaks of loving the aliens in our land (Deut. 10:19).

Okay, so this is all good. We then have to ask how do we do these things and also be wise without injuring ourselves and others without overburdening our nation? We should seek to find ways to help people make their lives better. But how far do we take this? Do we just open our borders and let anybody come in just because they want to? Or, do we require that immigrants obey our laws and enter our country legally?

If we’re seriously concerned about following the Bible, then we’ve got several issues we’ve got to address. Let’s look at them.

Submit to the governing authorities and laws

Romans 13 in the Bible tells us…

 “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.  Therefore, whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.” Romans 13:1–2

As Christians, we are to submit to the rulership of our respective countries. We’re to abide by the laws within those nations – unless those laws are against Scripture. Nations pass laws for their own prosperity and security. Its inhabitants are obligated to submit to those laws. Therefore, it’s only right to require others who are not our citizens, to submit to our laws if they wish to live in our country. If you were to move to another country, how far do you think you’d get if you demand that they change their language to suit you or change their laws for your benefit, especially if you snuck in illegally?

Whether or not you’re a Christian, are you not obligated to follow the laws of the countries where you travel?  When we enter someone’s home, we don’t break in illegally and require that they live according to our standards, do we? When I’m in their home… I need to submit to their rules.

The enforcement of laws sends the right message. The United States, from its beginning, is a nation of laws. Our declaration of Independence was conceived out of exhausting deliberation over the breaking of natural laws by Britain’s crown. Our laws have been enacted by due process and are subject to change by additional due process. If we, as a nation, repeatedly ignore our own laws and allow illegal immigration, then…

  1. It sends a bad message to other nations, as well as our own population
  2. It encourages further lawbreaking by rewarding illegal immigration.
  3. It raises the concern that if our government breaks its own laws in one area, then it also may do so in others.

The right of private property and self-protection

The Bible insists on the right of private property when it prohibits theft (Exodus 20:15) as well as warning against coveting your neighbor’s possessions (Deut. 5:21). We have the right to work and be paid for labor (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:15). We have the right to do with what is ours as we see fit (Acts 5:4) as well as the right of self-protection (Luke 22:36).  These issues may not be directly related to all aspects of illegal immigration, but they are certainly indirectly related. We must consider the possibility that some of those illegal immigrants are people who are seeking to escape the consequences of their lawbreaking in their own countries. Do we want them here?

Now, there are those who desire to come here for good reasons. They want to have a better life; they may honestly be trying to escape persecution. But there are also corrupt people who smuggle many into America for horrible reasons like sex trafficking, child trafficking, and indentured servitude. Our immigration laws are there, in part, to prevent the spread of evil. Then there’s the issue of unintentionally allowing deliberate Sharia terrorists, to enter our country so they can lie in wait until it’s time to strike. There’s no guarantee we can prevent all undesirables from entering. But unregulated borders would significantly welcome that danger.

We’re insane if we think a policy of letting anybody into our country doesn’t inevitably lead to an increase in crime. The more people there are, the more crimes there will be. But it’s interesting that, statistically, crime among normal legal immigrants is lower than native-born people.  (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/15/crime-rises-among-second-generation-immigrants-as-they-assimilate/ )  So, even though illegal immigration can contribute to crime, statistically it’s not reason enough to stop all immigration.

The Bible and Border Security

It’s not very common knowledge that God sets up borders between nations.

  • Acts 17:26, “and He [God] made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation.”
  • Deut. 32:8, “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.”

God also tells us not to move the boundary markers that establish borders.

  • Deut. 19:14, “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.”
  • Deut. 27:17, “Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

And don’t forget that some people try escaping from due process of the laws in their own country because of something they’ve done wrong there.

It’s Compassionate to Restrain Evil & Promote Order

Sometimes godly people need to be reminded that merciful compassion also restrains evil to maintain order. God is a god of order.

Jesus commanded believers to turn the other cheek, but he wasn’t calling for police officers to turn a blind eye to home invasions and wife-beatings. If we genuinely love our neighbors, we’ll do all we can to require our government to restrain such evils. When Jesus commanded the disciples not to judge others, he was not calling for an abolition of civil magistrates. When he told his disciples to put their swords away, he didn’t expect believers to demand the dismantling of our nation’s military.  We need to be honest about living in a fallen world. Rather than invite evil to invade our neighborhoods, it’s up to responsible people to insist that our governments do everything possible to restrain evil.

Failing to Enforce Immigration Law Is a Failure to Love Immigrants & Citizens Alike 

In 2023, the United Nations reported that “the US-Mexico border is the world’s deadliest land route for migrants.” In 2019, a congressional committee found “credible reports that female parents of minor children have been raped, many migrants robbed, and that they and their children are held hostage and extorted for money.” Between 2019 and 2023, border agents apprehended more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors. ICE reported to Congress that it “was unable to account for the location of all unaccompanied children.” 

Most people are now at least aware that the failure to enforce immigration laws has resulted in the brutal deaths of many American citizens. Mexican cartels, exploiting this lawlessness, have flooded our nation with drugs. Of the more than 107,000 overdose deaths in 2023, the CDC reports that more than three-quarters of those deaths were attributed to fentanyl and opioids (81,083). The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration claims that “one kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people.” The California National Guard seized more than 62,000 pounds of fentanyl at the border in 2023 alone—an increase of 1,066 percent in only two years. This is enough fentanyl to kill 14 billion people.

Immigration laws exist to protect Americans from criminals determined to exploit us.  That means YOU and me! When those laws are allowed to be ignored, Americans suffer. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reported that criminal convictions inside the United States involving illegal immigrants skyrocketed between 2020 and 2023—with crimes like assault, battery, domestic violence, DUI, burglary, robbery, fraud – each climbing more than 500 percent. Convictions of illegal immigrants for homicide and manslaughter were up 867 percent. Allowing this is not compassionate.

According to a letter from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to Congress, there were 425,431 non-detained foreigners on their rolls who had been convicted of crimes in their countries of origin but were released into our country! And that included 25,272 illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes and another 13,099 convicted of homicide. 

Is it more loving for Christians to tolerate this chaos… or work to enable our government agencies to restrain it and restore order? We shouldn’t have to think about that.

Enforcing Immigration Law Is Not Ungodly

Lawful immigration is a major contributor to America’s prosperity. But to do that right requires wise and godly support to our government’s enforcement of righteous immigration laws. Without that you invite chaos.

John Graves, CEO of My Faith Votes, a ministry of MillionVoices.org, sent out an email message about this serious and dangerously divisive topic recently.  

Speaker Mike Johnson Sets the Record Straight on the Bible and Border Security

2026 had just begun when Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, addressed this heated debate head‑on. After being pressed by reporters to defend the biblical case for border security, he released a full explanation rooted in Scripture, context, and the historic Christian understanding of government’s God‑given role.

Because this conversation is shaping national policy and influencing the faith community, we believe it’s important for you to see exactly what he shared.

Listen to part of Speaker Johnson’s full message, just as he posted it – you can read the rest on today’s online transcript.

“In the press gaggle following today’s vote, I was asked to defend the Biblical case for border security and immigration enforcement. I did so, and then promised to post a longer explanation that I drafted during the Biden Administration. Here it is, and I hope it’s helpful:

“Despite the insistence of the progressive Left, people of all religious faiths should support a strong national border—and Christians CERTAINLY should. Critics are fond of citing particular Bible verses out of context to claim that Christians and Jews are being “unfaithful” if we oppose their radical open borders agenda. It has become increasingly important for us to set this record straight.

“Perhaps the verse most often cited by the Left is Leviticus 19:34. Whether they know it or not, that passage happens to be from the instructions Moses delivered to the Israelites when they were on their journey through the wilderness in Sinai, before they reached their own Promised Land. The verse reads as follows: “But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” (KJV)

CONTEXT IS CRITICAL

“It is, of course, a central premise of Judeo-Christian teaching that strangers should be treated with kindness and hospitality. We are each called to love God first and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Deut. 6:5, Lev. 19:18, Matt. 22:36-40, KJV). However, that “Greatest Commandment” was never directed to the government, but to INDIVIDUAL believers.

“The Bible teaches that God ordained and created four distinct spheres of authority— (1) the individual, (2) the family, (3) the church, and (4) civil government—and each of these spheres is given different responsibilities. For example, while each INDIVIDUAL is accountable for his or her own behavior (e.g., Exodus 20), the FAMILY is commanded to “bring up children in the training and instruction of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4) and “provide for their relatives” (1 Tim. 5:8). The CHURCH is commanded to make disciples and equip people for the work of the ministry (Eph. 4:11-13), and the CIVIL GOVERNMENT is established to faithfully uphold and enforce the law so that order can be maintained in this fallen world, crime can be kept at bay, and people can live peacefully (Rom. 13, 1 Tim. 2:1-2).

“To be properly understood, anytime a command is given in Scripture, one must first determine to WHOM that command is directed. For example, when Jesus taught us as His followers to practice mercy and forgiveness and to “turn the other cheek” (Matt. 5:38-40, KJV), He was not giving that command to the government. To the contrary, when government officials ignore crime, they are directly VIOLATING their responsibilities before God.

“Indeed, the civil authorities are specifically charged to do justice, to “bear the sword,” and to serve as “the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil” (Rom. 13:1-4, KJV). As the Bible warns: “When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.” (Eccl. 8:11, TLB)

“Read in its context, the passage in Leviticus 19 makes perfect sense. Showing love and kindness to a stranger was not a command given to civil government, but instead to individual believers. That same principle is emphasized in the New Testament. When Jesus spoke of embracing, caring, and providing for “the least of these” (E.g., Matt. 25:31-40), His instruction was given to His disciples, and not the local authorities.

“The Bible is clear that Christians should practice personal charity—but also insist upon the enforcement of laws (like our federal immigration statutes) so that “every person is subject to the governing authorities” and “those who resist incur judgment” (Rom. 13:1-2).

BORDERS ARE BIBLICAL

“Many on the Left today, and even some at the highest levels of our government, consider themselves “globalists” who envision a utopian world order where there are no borders between countries at all. Their fantasy will simply never be realized, and their basic premise (that man is inherently good and perfectible on his own) is the opposite of the Biblical truth that man is fallen and in need of redemption that is available only through salvation in Jesus Christ.

“The Bible speaks favorably and consistently about distinct nations of people (see, e.g., Gen. 18:18, Num. 32:17, Psalm 67:2, Matt. 28:19, Rev. 5:9, 7:9, NIV), and about borders and walls that are built to guard and secure people, property, and jurisdictions (see, e.g., Deut. 19:14, 27:17, 32:8, Acts 17:26, NIV). When Nehemiah heroically led the Jewish remnant to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after their enemies had destroyed those walls, he was doing the noble work of God (Neh. 1-6, NIV).”

Speaker Johnson recited the current catastrophe with more detail and then ended with this… AN AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN RESPONSE (see below)

[Maintaining a secure border is not an offensive measure, but a wise, defensive one to prevent chaos and safeguard innocent life. As Rev. Franklin Graham once summarized, “Why do you lock your doors at night? Not because you hate the people on the outside, but because you love the people on the inside so much.”

THE CURRENT CATASTROPHE

Right now, because of 64 deliberate policy choices and executive orders of the Biden Administration, America is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and national security catastrophe at our open southern border. More than 10 million illegal aliens from around the world have entered the U.S. since Joe Biden became President, the majority of whom are single, military-aged men. Among them are countless violent criminals and more than 300 suspects on the terrorist watchlist. Cartels are making billions trafficking young women and unaccompanied minors, and many are suffering unspeakable abuses along the way. The Fentanyl that China and the cartels have pushed into the U.S. has become the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

As the peril increases and communities across our country become more and more overwhelmed with the crushing financial burdens of managing the influx of illegals, American citizens (and even a few Democratic governors and mayors) are finally demanding a return to sanity. America has always been a haven for people legitimately seeking asylum from danger in their home country, but we must insist they pursue a course of legal immigration and not simply ignore our laws.

Of course, the President of the United States must be the first to uphold our laws. Every citizen should insist that President Biden immediately use the eight broad statutory authorities he has right now to secure our borders and stop incentivizing illegal immigration. Among his most important executive authorities is 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), which empowers a President to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate” if he “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”]

AN AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

“Due in large part to our Judeo-Christian foundations and the deep religious heritage we enjoy in this country, America is the most benevolent nation in the world—by far. However, we cannot maintain that strength and generosity if we surrender our own safety and sovereignty. Preserving law and order and securing our borders should not be partisan issues, but matters of common sense. These are certainly responsibilities fully authorized by the Bible—and expected of us by God.

Any time liberals attempt to bolster their “open borders” agenda by citing Scripture out of context, they should be kindly corrected with the facts (2 Tim. 2:24-25). Christians are called to love unconditionally, serve selflessly, and defend the defenseless. We are also called to stand for, and work to ensure, just government. Justice and mercy are not mutually exclusive pursuits. To the contrary, God specifically requires His people to practice both (Micah 6:8). Despite the unfounded claims of the Left, supporting a strong national border is a very Christian thing to do. The Bible tells us so.

Does Congressman Johnson speak Bible truth?

Aren’t Christians called to balance biblical obedience with biblical compassion?

God’s command to submit to governing authorities in Romans 13 (Romans 13:1–7), logically affirms immigration policies that are in line with God’s order and justice.  Breaking those laws violates civil authority, dishonoring God and potentially enabling harm to neighbors (1 Peter 4:15; John 13:15). 

Christians must champion compassion as well as justice toward immigrants, recognizing that all people are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26; James 2:15–16).  The Old Testament repeatedly commands care for the foreigner, the widow, and the fatherless (Exodus 22:21; Deuteronomy 10:18; Leviticus 19:33–34). The parents of Jesus  Himself had to be refugees for a time when they fled to Egypt to avoid Herod’s evil decree (Matthew 2:13–15).

Mature discernment means neither advocating open borders nor supporting policies that demean or exploit migrants.  That means…

  • Respect national laws – seeking truth and justice in their application. 
  • Advocate for humane treatment of undocumented persons, including fair legal processes and protection from exploitation. 
  • Support legal pathways for measured immigration – helping immigrants integrate with language training, and voluntary charity from communities.
  • Work to remedy root causes of migration—poverty, violence, and injustice— and that’s done through citizen-led global missions and development efforts.

Ultimately, Christians are citizens of heaven first (Philippians 3:20), called to live as exiles with love, integrity, and wisdom.  The righteous mindset honors both God’s sovereignty over nations and His command to love our neighbor as ourselves—regardless of their legal status.

This was never a debate over whether the country should welcome law-abiding immigrants. Our current controversy is whether law-abiding Christians should lawfully keep quiet about securing our nation’s borders, enforcing our lawful laws, and deporting those who enter the country unlawfully. 

It’s not ungodly for our nation to enforce immigration law. Christians can care for the stranger and affirm the state’s duty to uphold the law. Real love for our neighbors demands both.

What You Can Do Next

As this debate continues, believers must be equipped with truth, clarity, and confidence. Remember that for evil to prevail, good men just have to do nothing! The choice is yours.

All you have to do is two things.

Share this message with one other Christian… whether or not they ask you for it. They may be wrestling with what the Bible actually teaches about borders, government, and compassion.

Pray for wisdom for our leaders, that they would uphold justice, protect the vulnerable, and govern with integrity and courage.

“Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin” James 4:17

Bonus Segment

Matt Slick, founder of CARM – Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry – gave this great insight.

We Can’t Support the World

Unfortunately, in other countries, there is a lot of poverty, oppression, and corruption. Freedoms are often not as robust as they are here in the United States. Armed conflicts among different political groups spill over into the general population, and drug cartels are sometimes rampant. People naturally want to flee such dangers and go to places where they can prosper, raise families, and be safe. This is why so many are trying to get in the United States.

However, the simple fact is we cannot support all the people in the world. The more that people come into this country illegally and are rewarded for it, the more others will want to do the same. This will put a huge financial strain on our country and could lead to economic collapse in which far more suffering will occur. Now, if people say that we are morally obligated to help others, then they must also consider the fact that those people here in the United States also need to be helped. We cannot do that by increasing the number of illegals who come into the country, give them housing, put them on welfare, provide drivers licenses for them, and have the hard-working Americans support them. Again, if this is what we do, the influx of people in this country illegally will never stop. If anything, it will increase and contribute to economic collapse. Border security is a way to care for the welfare of people, including those immigrating legally.

Border Security and the Analogy of Home

An analogy that can help us see the bigger picture more clearly is to think of inviting people into your own home. Let’s say that you work hard and you have two spare bedrooms. Your refrigerator is full of food and though your budget is tight, you can pay your bills. Now let’s add a small family from another country to your household who lives in one of your spare rooms. They don’t speak your language. They eat your food, use your bathrooms, produce trash, and as they gradually learn English, they tell you that they want to bring more people into your home. What do you do? How long could you support them before your own economic resources are depleted and the stress and strain upon your home becomes unbearable? The truth is that we all practice border security at the home level.

Liberals are great at inviting illegals into other peoples’ homes and rewarding them with citizenship, catering to their language and culture, and granting them voting privileges – which are used to keep the leftists in power. They don’t really feel the effects of their decisions that impact others. After all, they’re in political control and can vote themselves raises, medical benefits, protection, and other such amenities. Liberals don’t feel the financial burden that a sudden onslaught of illegal immigrants brings to our economy and local regions, and how it takes away jobs from those who are legal citizens as well as puts a financial burden on infrastructure and services within our country.

Conclusion on Scripture and Border Security

Though we encourage people to come into our country from other nations, as Christians we ought to require that they do it legally. We should consider immigration as an opportunity to spread the gospel and show the love of Christ to those who are less fortunate. But on the other hand, we must be wise and recognize that, like a typical household, we can only absorb so much before collapse is imminent. Love and charity must be balanced against wisdom and common sense. Finding the balance is not so easy, but such a balance must be in place. Otherwise, eventually, everything will be lost.

Basically, borders help keep order and they presuppose the division of properties, the right of private property as well as security, and are a passive rebuke against coveting someone else’s land and resources. This latter point about coveting is important because America is an exceedingly prosperous country. Many people in the world covet our prosperity and want to have it. Some, even want to destroy it. Nevertheless, biblically speaking borders are established by God and therefore they ought to be respected. This means, along with Romans thirteen’s requirement to submit to governmental authorities, that immigrants must respect borders and not cross them illegally.

What about the sojourner?

What does the Bible say about the sojourner? And how does this impact our view of border security? Scripture mentions those who sojourn in the land and that they are to be cared for. Let’s look at some of the Scriptures.

  • Exodus 2:22, “Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, ‘I have been a sojourner  [גֵּר, ger,  Strong’s 1616, 92 occurrences] in a foreign land.’”
  • Leviticus 25:23, “The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners [תּוֹשָׁב  Strong’s 8453, 14 occurrences] with Me.”
  • Leviticus 25:35, “Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner [תּוֹשָׁב  Strong’s 8453, 14 occurrences], that he may live with you.”
  • Deuteronomy 5:14, “but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner [גֵּר, ger,  Strong’s 1616, 92 occurrences] who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.”
  • 1 Chronicles 29:15, “For we are sojourners [גֵּר, ger,  Strong’s 1616, 92 occurrences] before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.”

There are two main Hebrew words for a sojourner:  גֵּר, ger,  Strong’s 1616, which occurs 92 times and תּוֹשָׁב, toshab, Strong’s 8453 which occurs 14.  Basically, a sojourner is a traveler through a nation. Sometimes he stays for a long time and other times he does not. Let’s consider basic dictionaries on the definition of “Sojourner.”

  • “a temporary stay” (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sojourner)
  • “to stay as a temporary resident” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sojourner)
  • “A”A temporary stay.” (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sojourn)

So, the issue of saying that illegal immigrants are equal to sojourners does not work. Though some sojourners stayed for long periods of time in the Bible, others did not. But the overall emphasis was that they were not naturally born there and that they were, generally speaking, passing through.

Nevertheless, even if the sojourner Scriptures are used in support of immigration, there still the issues mentioned above about coming into our country legally, and not being a burden upon our economy. These are still serious considerations and we cannot ignore them.

 Our nation’s immigration laws are designed to restrain evil and promote order. The United States is not an enemy of immigrants. According to the United Nations, “The USA remained by far the largest country of destination of international migrants with 51 million migrants in 2020.” We’ve welcomed more than three times as many migrants as the world’s second most popular destination (Germany). This has been growing, not slowing. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that foreign-born residents accounted for 13.8 percent of the U.S. population—a threefold increase since 1970. 

This is not a debate over whether the country should welcome immigrants who follow the law. The current controversy involves whether Christians should support securing our nation’s borders, enforcing our laws, and deporting those who enter the country unlawfully. 

To answer these questions, we should examine how the recent incentivized acceleration of illegal immigration has produced extremely dangerous and destabilizing effects on our nation. This failure of our government to maintain order has yielded deadly results that are the antithesis of love for both immigrants and citizens.

Source: Can Christians support border security or open borders? by Matt Slick 10/31/2018  https://carm.org/can-christians-support-border-security-or-open-borders

Source: How Should Christians Think About Immigration Policies?    By Sam Kastensmidt 9/4/2025 https://institutefc.org/how-should-christians-think-about-immigration-policies/

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The Legacy of A Stress-free Life

I’d like to talk with you today about one of the most important legacies that every one of us would love to pass on to the next generation.

I’m reading in Psalm 55, where it says…

“My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death assail me. Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.”

Psalm 55:4

You know, one of the realities of life that our current physical science-based medical system has had to admit in recent years is that there are non-physical causes to poor health and disease. One widely accepted non-physical cause is “stress.” It’s quite well known today that the presence of stress in one’s life, and how one deals with that stress, has a direct impact on our health. Unfortunately, the solutions the medical system most often prescribe today for mental and emotional health are expensive drugs. And they often have serious side effects. So many people are “stressed out” that anti-depressant drugs have become a growing and prosperous business for pharmaceutical companies.

Well, King David, the second Jewish king, lived a thousand years before Christ.  He was a man who faced tremendous stress in his life. Few of us today will ever face the kind of anxiety David experienced for more than 10 years of his life when he was constantly on the run from his enemies who were trying to kill him. As he wrote in Psalm 55, it wasn’t just his enemies that caused problems. It was his “friends” and fellow believers. He said…

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In Crisis Times God’s Priorities Don’t Change #342

Like the separatist Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in their homelands to courageously face an untamed wilderness 400 years ago right now, we are facing a challenge of giant proportions. Can we dare to proclaim, “Thank you Almighty God for your abundant mercy and your grace to lead us on?”

When I asked the Lord – in view of our historic atmosphere of national and global anxiety and fear – how then shall your people pray and think and act, He led me immediately and serendipitously to a historic event in the leadership of His people.  I believe He wants to talk with us about that today.

Let’s set the stage a bit

There is no way that anyone can convince you that we are not living in what is probably the most universal time of chaos, uncertainty, deception and tragically painful human suffering since God’s interruption at the tower of Babel, over 4000 years ago. Even in our affluent North American experience of relative freedom, which is another world to billions of the human family, we see all around us devastating struggle between good and evil. We are at war for the future of our children. Many Christians are saying in their feelings of desperation, “certainly, the coming of the Lord must be near.”  The conflict of the ages between the Devil’s kingdom of darkness and God’s Kingdom of light have been drawn into sharper contrast than perhaps any time in our lives.

Despite the dismal failure of our generation’s Christian leaders to teach us to disciple our own nation and amplify the knowledge and authority of God’s Holy Word in our current society, God is working behind the scenes.  It appears that He is using the multi-faceted crisis whirling around us to inspire His true disciples to seek the face of God more fervently than ever. This is good.

Have you ever caught yourself tolerating an annoying irritation for many moons sometimes before finally stopping to take the time to fix the problem?  The classic example is tolerating a small pebble in your shoe while you limp along for many steps before finally removing it.

The Holy Spirit is particularly good at reinforcing to us God’s eternal principles that are relevant to our immediate situations when we take the time to prioritize personal intimacy alone with God and His word.  As you look into His word for guidance, correction, and instruction in how to lead a life of living in right standing with your Creator/Savior, meditate on the plain meaning of the words you read and hear yourself say out loud.

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

Romans 16:19-20

Before we look at some of the specifics about the things that are causing the epidemic of fear and confusion in our world, why not pray to God right now – a prayer that you know is divinely perfect? And while asking God for the supplications of your prayer and declaring the confessions of your prayer, let Him adjust your thinking and your feelings to bring them into harmony with the way that you can absolutely know is God’s perfect will.

Psalm 31:14-24

14 “O Lord, You are my God.”

15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

16 Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.

17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You;

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (Or the nether world).

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.

19 How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You,

Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!

20 You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;

You keep them secretly in a shelter (Or, pavilion) from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

22 As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You.

Then our prayer ends with an admonition – an invitation – that gives us a model of what to declare to others around us as we walk our path with the Lord.

23 O love the LORD, all you His godly ones! The LORD preserves the faithful and fully recompenses the proud doer.

24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in (Or, wait for) the LORD.

God is just… and He expects us to pray according to the patterns of His word. His word gives us a perfect pattern of how to pray.  And yes, you need to pray that God would cut off, from before your eyes, those who would be alarmed and those hiding from His justice.

How many times have we heard our mothers and others who love us, like Jesus Himself, warn us to not listen to those subtle voices that try to tempt us to sin morally or even sin by giving in to fear, rather than staying on target with God’s voice of peace and wisdom?  And fear is a sin. We need to face that. Let’s stay on target with God’s voice. It’s always a voice of peace and wisdom.

Now, let’s be honest. We can’t stop our ears from occasionally hearing the loud noises of evil in our world. But we CAN choose whether or not we will continue to voluntarily turn on those channels of destruction. Why not ask God for His help to courageously stand firm against the emotionally persuasive wiles of the Devil.  If we are truly owned by Christ as His bond-servants, we’re supposed to not let Satan take advantage of us, nor be unaware of his devices (Or schemes) 2 Corinthians 2:11. So, just decide now to stop listening to evil reports from those who have proven to be enemies of God.

Yes, you will be a “peculiar people.”  You’ll be thought by the carnal ones as being strange. So what?  Get over it.  What is being proclaimed in your real home? Your eternal home? Do you suppose that is why Jesus said “I only do and speak what I hear my father say?”  Is He helping us take this walk of serving Him more seriously than before?  If we’re willing, do you just suppose He is able to keep you steady on that path?

I asked the Lord: What’s true and critically important for us to know about our chaotic times that make us feel so uncertain and troubled?  I listed a few of them, and you might have a similar list.

  • The instability of human governments
  • The plague that surrounds us
  • The choices we each have for our health and safety
  • The plans you expect us to participate in for the world you have redeemed
  • The priorities for the community of your chosen followers with whom you have assigned us to dwell
  • The confidence with which we must pray in praying according to your will

Here is the prayer that the Lord opened serendipitously for me as I began to write down these comments. It’s from the man whom God’s word declares was given greater wisdom than any natural man who has ever lived, Solomon.  And he uttered this prayer at the dawn of Israel’s golden age… at the dedication of the place where God chose to make His earthly home in the very heart of His world… the temple in Jerusalem. It had taken 7 years to construct that temple… and this is what King Solomon prayed…

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire community of Israel, and he lifted his hands in prayer.

13 Now Solomon had made a bronze platform 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high and had placed it at the center of the Temple’s outer courtyard. He stood on the platform, and then he knelt in front of the entire community of Israel and lifted his hands toward heaven.

14 He prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion.

15 You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

16 “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow my Law as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’

17 Now, O LORD, God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David.

18 “But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!

Think about that. God, will you really live on earth among people? Of course Solomon couldn’t see it, but we realize that God, through Jesus, is actually living through His Holy Spirit IN us. Solomon went on in his prayer.

19 Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you.

Do you think that God is hearing your prayer? Really, even Solomon was asking God, beseeching Him, to hear his prayer.

20 May you watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.

21 May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

Now we understand that the place that he was focusing on was the temple. Now, it’s the place where God is right here in our in our presence. He’s among us. Listen to what Solomon prayed and described some things, very much like what we see going on in the world in which we live. See if it doesn’t resonate in your own heart as an adequate and appropriate prayer for us in some ways.

22 “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,

23 then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Pay back the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.

24 “If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn back and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple,

25 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave to them and to their ancestors.

Doesn’t it seem that that would be an appropriate prayer? Of course, taking into consideration that we live in a different environment today, but certainly we can expect that God would be merciful if we will repent and ask Him to return us to the land of our ancestors. In other words, the land that our ancestors have spent these last centuries building and developing, even though they’ve gone astray many times? Listen to what the prayer goes on to say.

26 “If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them,

27 then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

Now again, can we justly and in faith, ask God to do similarly for us today, as He was, through Solomon’s prayer, was imploring God to do for the nation of Israel. As God’s own people, we are grafted into the nation of Israel and we can certainly appropriate God’s grace and mercy, can we not?

28 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—

29 and if your people Israel pray about their troubles or sorrow, raising their hands toward this Temple, 30 then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.

31 Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

Now, stop right there. When you look at that prayer and pray it from your own fervency, doesn’t it make complete sense that God in his biblical honest mercy and consistency… doesn’t it stand to reason that he will answer our prayer. And when you see millions of people across our land, praying … fervently calling on God for his mercy. Yes, we don’t deserve it. Yes, we’ve gone astray as a culture. But certainly, there are more people in our nation than the 10 that Abraham asked God if He would spare Sodom because of those 10 righteous. Listen to what Solomon continued to pray…

32 “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands when they hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,

33 then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.

Can we pray that God would use our nation, once again, to be a beacon of light to the world? Why not? Can God give us the faith to do that?

34 “If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and if they pray to you by turning toward this city you have chosen and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,

35 then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.

36 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned? — you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near.

37 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’

38 If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—

 39 then hear their prayers and their petitions from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you.

Can we not pray that? That God would have that same mercy and forgiveness for His people, even now?   

40 “O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place.

41 “And now arise, O LORD God, and enter your resting place, along with the Ark, the symbol of your power. May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation; may your loyal servants rejoice in your goodness.

I look at that closing part of Solomon’s prayer, and I can’t help but see that God is saying to us – we are a kingdom of priests, you know – may your priests be clothed with salvation, and may they rejoice in your goodness. May we make that a constant confession and dedication of our lips, to rejoice in God’s goodness… and at this time of thanksgiving, how can we not be thankful to God? And say openly to God, expressing to anyone even those on the street who may not know God, ‘god is so good.’ At this season of the 400th anniversary of the providential orchestration of our nation’s millions of families. We must remind ourselves that God is rich in mercy.

42 O LORD God, do not reject the king you have anointed. Remember your unfailing love for your servant David.”

2 Chronicles 6:12-42

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

At this season when our attention is drawn to the 400-year American tradition of giving thanks for God’s providential orchestration of our nation’s millions of families, we must remind ourselves that God is rich in mercy

1 Peter 2:10 “for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.”

We are at a historic moment in our republic and many people are about to understand increasingly that this present battle between honesty and treachery is a nationwide assault on the integrity of our system. The thoroughly corrupted corporate media maggots are doing all they can to ignore the crisis in our election system, but the crisis is speaking very loudly to citizens. 

The more important reality is the increasingly obvious nature of the conflict between good and evil. Our country has been gripped by apathic disinvolvement that has produced our current surreal dystopian crisis, the source (or cause) of which they simply don’t understand.  As conservative news reporter, Lou Dobbs, asserted so well, “We have a fierce demand in the leftist establishment for conformity and silence. If that is not resisted, we lose the republic.”

Thanksgiving today, gives us an opportunity to thank God for what is happening now.  By God’s mercy, He is giving us all a wakeup call, without which we would continue to sleep.

When people on the left sneer at us, it tells you some things. They are less than polite. They think they are superior to us. The first test for any American is, “do you believe every citizen of America has equal rights and is deserving of equal respect?” The answer is absolutely, because that concept is enshrined in the constitution. And that constitution is God-sent. It’s that straight forward and why we must fight this fight with every ounce of energy and courage we can muster. It’s a fight we cannot afford to lose. As we know, as sinners, we don’t deserve to win. But that isn’t the reason we win.

We have been a nation of nations for others – that’s what has made the United States of America great.

We must first look to ourselves. We’ve lost almost 70 million babies to abortion since Roe v Wade. We are a nation who talks about the family but we don’t always support the family – whether R or D.  We must be a nation who asks, do I mean what I’m saying and will I stand up for what I mean. And this is the time to do so.

Remember that Joshua’s conquering army 3500 years ago was commissioned by God to destroy the exceedingly wicked occupants of God’s promised land to Abraham. God would accomplish the victory, but the heirs of the promised land had to valiantly fight for every inch of it with their wholehearted personal commitment.

Witnessing is work. Disciple making is even tougher. But in order for a free people to have a just society to do the work of discipling the nation?… Now, that’s risky business. And it’s downright warfare – spiritually, emotionally, mentally and even physically.  We must throw off the deceptions of our misguided traditions and alliances with ungodly institutions that embrace secular humanism – the number one idolatry in our nation that has displaced wholehearted commitment to our One True God.

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

Romans 16:19-20

The Holy Spirit is breaking through fears and doubts as we meditate on His Word and truly take it to heart. But we need to take action. Do our part. Parents need to be the primary influence in their children’s training and discovery of what is true. Listening to the corrupt media’s evil reports and constant assault on divine truth and morality has NO PLACE in the life of ANY follower of Christ. There are many good news sources if you care to be informed and encouraged. Start with people like Jay Seculow of the ACLJ, and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. You can see them on YouTube and their web sites. Get more links on our website ReclaimYourLegacy.com.

If you know someone who you think might be encouraged by hearing or reading this program, copy the link for today’s program at ReclaimYourLegacy.com. And if the Lord impresses you to help keep us proclaiming the truth of our hope in God, your ONLINE financial donation of thanksgiving is sincerely needed, and will be greatly appreciated.

Bonus Segment

This episode of Reclaiming Your Legacy was first broadcast for Thanksgiving week in November of 2020. I thought it timely to share again now as we continue a time of historic uncertainty, when assessing things with a natural mind. I hope you joined me in mentally praying through the Bible prayers of Psalm 31 and 2 Chronicles 6.  Like many of the prayers we find in our Bibles, they are taking on more profound applications in today’s times than perhaps we’ve ever imagined before.

I want to add an extra bonus for you today that I believe you’ll find useful in times to come.

For many listeners who may not be familiar with finding various recordings they’d like to access on the Internet, it’s helpful to have a list of favorite sources handy. That’s why I’ve posted an alphabetized list of some of the key content providers in the transcript for today’s show at ReclaimYourLegacy.com.  I invite you to look it over. And copy and paste it into a document that you can print out if that helps you to find these websites later on.  Most of these gifted speakers, presenters, authors, and podcasters were completely unknown to most of us before the 2020 Plandemic.  Now, many of them are becoming household names… especially to God-fearing believers who love their country and want to do everything possible to share the truth with the next generation.  I’ve highlighted some that I particularly appreciate for the profound insights they’ve enabled me to discover through their determined efforts.

Print this out – File it – Keep handy for later access to your favorite shows.

Check out websites and commentary Channels that I highly regard:

Alex Newman – Sentinel Report – https://rumble.com/user/AlexNewman  https://frankspeech.com/channel/alex-newman  https://rumble.com/c/LibertySentinel

Ann Vandersteel – https://rumble.com/c/AnnVandersteel

Black Conservative Patriot at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu3lxLxp3ZuJRga7gF9KIyg/videos

Brannon Howse – WorldviewTube –  https://worldviewtube.com/

Charlie Kirk’s Rumble channel –  https://rumble.com/c/CharlieKirk

Charlie Kirk – Turning Point USA – https://www.youtube.com/@turningpointusa and at https://www.tpusa.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/RealCharlieKirk

Christie Hutcherson – https://rumble.com/c/WomenFightingforAmericawithChristieHutcherson

Clay Clark – Thrivetime Show – https://rumble.com/c/ThrivetimeShow

Dane Wiggington www.geoengineeringwatch.org

David Sorensen – Stop World Control – https://stopworldcontrol.com/

Dr Eric Nepute – search his name on https://www.brighteon.com/ and https://rumble.com/

Dr Lee Merritt – Medical Rebel – https://rumble.com/c/LeeMerrittMD

Dr. Brian Ardis – https://thedrardisshow.com/  https://rumble.com/c/TheDrArdisShow 

Flyover conservatives – David & Stacy Whited – https://rumble.com/c/FlyoverConservatives

Gary Franchi – Next News Network – https://www.youtube.com/@NextNewsNetwork

Gateway Pundit – News daily article/video links – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Glen Beck – Blaze TV – https://www.youtube.com/@BlazeTV

Greg Reese Report https://gregreese.substack.com/

His Glory – Dave Scarlett – https://rumble.com/c/HGTV

Jay Seculow at https://aclj.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialACLJ

Jeff Dornik – Jeff Dornik show – https://rumble.com/c/TheJeffDornikShow

Jonathan Cahn – https://www.youtube.com/@jonathancahn.official

Lance Wallnau at https://lancewallnau.com/ and search re-posts on Rumble channels https://www.youtube.com/@lancewallnaushow

Maria Zee – ZeeeMedia – https://rumble.com/user/ZeeeMedia

Matrix Groove show with Jeff and Shady – https://rumble.com/c/MGShow

Mel K – https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow

Melissa Red Pill – https://rumble.com/user/RedpillTheWorld

Mike Adams – Health Ranger Report and Brighteon Broadcast News – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport/videos/all

One America News – https://rumble.com/c/OANN

Pastor Jack Hibbs at https://live.calvarycch.org/category/speaker/jack-hibbs/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/RealLifeJackHibbs

Pastor Rob McCoy at http://godspeak.com/sermons and https://vimeo.com/godspeakccto

Pastor Scott Lively at https://www.scottlively.net/

Real America’s Voice – https://rumble.com/user/RealAmericasVoice

Resistance Chicks – https://rumble.com/c/ResistanceChicks

Scott Kesterson – BardsFM podcast – https://www.bards.fm/ 

Seth Gruber – White Rose Resistance – https://www.youtube.com/@SethGruberShow

Seth Holhouse – Man in America – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/maninamerica/home

Steve Bannon – https://frankspeech.com/channel/war-room

Steve Cioccolanti & Discover Ministries  https://www.youtube.com/@discoverministries

Thrivetime Show – Clay Clark – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/thrivetimeshow/home

Tucker Carlson – TCS – https://rumble.com/c/TuckerCarlson

Clearly, there are many more podcasters and good sources of information to find, but these are some that I’ve especially appreciated in recent times. I invite you to browse through these channels and ‘like’ the shows you want to be reminded of again. Subscribe to those you particularly find helpful. As the world’s traditionally respected channels for newsworthy information have degraded to a state of complete untrustworthiness, these citizen journalists, most of whom are independent of any corporate sponsorship, have become notably crucial for all people to be truthfully informed.

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Baby Cyrus story is now a documentary every American should see

Government controlled human trafficking must stop in America

When essentially moral people witness explicit harm being continually done to helpless and innocent children, isn’t it time for all of God’s children to do everything in their power to stop it?

In our mission to apply God’s Word as it touches every area of our society, we’re increasingly challenged to do whatever we can to answer the prophet Isaiah’s call to God’s people:

“Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless; defend the orphan, plead for the widow.” Isaiah 1:16-17

When are we going to compel our personal communities of believers to take that charge seriously enough to apply it to one of the timeliest commands of Scripture – Proverbs 24:11?

“Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back.” Proverbs 24:11

The rest of that passage says:

‘If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay (each) man according to his work?’

Proverbs 24:12

It’s natural for well-meaning people to think the best of others, especially when you live in a society that, for generations, was largely led to believe that most people were raised to believe in ‘the golden rule.’  But, in today’s chapter of world history, where the depths of empire-controlled evil and openly accepted human depravity are being publicly exposed, our sensitivities are numb from the widespread abandonment of virtue.

A documentary film producer, Ryan Matta, is devoted to what he honestly believes is his God-given mission to expose and, hopefully, dismantle the scourge of human trafficking in America.  He produced a new documentary in December 2025, featuring a true story about the unlawful abduction of the grandson of one of my dear personal friends, who pastored an inner-city church in California for over a decade. My friend, Diego, also has championed the defense of the scientific and historic case for Biblical creation for many years, which is how we got acquainted because of our common commitment to home based education of our children.

The documentary film is titled, “Never in America,” and it’s about Child Protective Services—CPS—the three-letter agency nobody wants to talk about, but which may be the most sinister of them all. Not because the people inside it are uniquely evil (though some are), but because the system itself has been engineered into a machine that destroys families on an industrial scale.

Most of us might have thought we understood government corruption. We’ve heard plenty of stories about the FBI, CIA, DOJ, CDC. But regardless what any of us have heard about all the scandals in those government agencies, the nightmare story experienced by my friend Diego’s family is one story that you’ll truly think it could never happen in America.  

It is one thing to believe the government is incompetent. It is another to realize it’s kidnapping children—hundreds of thousands of them—every single year.

And most Americans have no idea.

This report is only a sketch to process what we’ll learn from the scandalous story of Baby Cyrus. The horrifying picture of the “foster care system” that emerges is not comfortable to hear. It’s not comfortable to report. But if you’re a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, an uncle, a human being who deeply cares about your family—this matters… probably more than any of us can fathom.

What Ryan and Diego reveal forces us to confront a reality that sounds like dystopian fiction, except it’s really happening right here, right now, in our country. And the first time you hear it, it breaks your heart with what makes you think you’re in a nightmare that can’t be true.

The Case That Pulled Back the Curtain: What Happened to Baby Cyrus?

If you’ve never heard of the Baby Cyrus case, you’re not alone. Despite becoming one of the most viral CPS cases in American history, it received almost no mainstream media coverage—because it exposed something the corrupt systems of our society desperately want to stay hidden.

The family at the center of it—Diego, his daughter Marissa, her husband, and their baby boy named Cyrus — are the picture of a beautiful and well-adjusted, loving American family. Diego himself is a longtime pastor with a huge extended family and deep community roots. These aren’t parents living on the edge of society, hiding from law enforcement, or struggling with addiction. These are the people we assume would be the least vulnerable to state overreach.

But when CPS wants your child, your virtue doesn’t protect you.

Baby Cyrus presented a puzzling medical condition named “cyclic vomiting syndrome.” It’s a rare digestive disorder with no known medical cure, where a baby can vomit 10, 20, 30 times a day for several days at a time, risking dehydration and malnutrition. The parents were doing everything right: taking him to doctors, monitoring him constantly, protecting him from choking dangers, and trying desperately to find solutions.

Then one nurse noticed the family didn’t vaccinate. And that’s when everything changed. When you watch the documentary, you’ll learn that the nurse’s entire demeanor shifted. Suddenly the parents weren’t seen by the pediatrician as competent or caring—they became suspects. The hospital ordered them to attend a series of classes and weigh-in office appointments, even forcing them to give Tylenol, despite the known harm for an 8-month old baby. After several exhausting days, the mother woke up with a migraine and called to reschedule one of the mandatory office visits. She left a voicemail. Four hours later, CPS was hunting them.

No returned call. No conversation. No due process. Just a full-blown manhunt for a family whose “crime” was rescheduling a routine doctor office appointment.

They were already planning to move to Florida two months later. Out of pure fear—fear I now see was justified—they decided to leave early, hoping that if they got out of the jurisdiction, CPS would close the case. They had broken no laws. They had no charges against them. The only “danger” was that CPS wanted to seize their child, and the parents wanted to prevent that from happening.

When they went to visit a friend—who happened to be a retired sheriff—law enforcement illegally geo-tracked their phones. They surrounded the family in their vehicles near their home with nearly twenty squad cars. Twenty Squad Cars coming for a pastor, his daughter, her husband, and a baby.

The whole incident was broadcast live on Facebook, showing guns were drawn, family members were man-handled from their vehicles, the sister mistaken as the mother was dragged out a window, cuffed, insulted, and arrested even after proving she wasn’t the mom. The real mother was threatened, cornered, forced to hand over her baby “the easy way or the hard way.” After she complied, they arrested her anyway.

Can you imagine handing your infant to a stranger with a gun pointed at you, knowing what the state is capable of—and then being arrested for complying?

Cyrus was taken to the hospital. The parents were jailed. And in any other CPS case, that would’ve been the end.  The vast majority of CPS abductions like this never see their children again. The agency was already making plans to “place” the baby in a foster home.

But this family had two rare advantages: an enormous network of church members and activists, and a close friendship with Ammon Bundy, who was running for governor of Idaho at the time. He mobilized protests overnight. Hundreds of people surrounded the hospital. Thousands sent complaints. The story spread like wildfire across independent media.

Eight days later—an unheard-of outcome in CPS cases—baby Cyrus was returned home.

But the victory was bittersweet. St. Luke’s Hospital then sued Bundy and Diego for tens of millions of dollars, claiming the protests cost them revenue because they “had to shut down for safety.”

To this day, Diego is still fighting off lawsuits that would bankrupt a billionaire—representing himself, because hiring legal defense would destroy his family financially. The state couldn’t keep the child. So they’re trying to destroy the family instead.

What No Parent Wants to Believe: Our Government Is Kidnapping Children

Hearing the details of the Baby Cyrus case is shocking and unnerving enough, but what unraveled next went much, much deeper. This wasn’t an isolated story. It was a symptom of a monstrous system designed to tear apart families, funnel children into state custody, and in far too many cases… into the hands of predators.

It’s obvious that we don’t believe every CPS worker is evil. Many think they’re helping. Many took their jobs because they care about children. But the structure—the incentives, laws, funding streams, and legal shield around CPS—creates machinery that rewards child removal and punishes family preservation. And the numbers tell the truth.

Ryan, the producer of the documentary, shared the statistic that should naturally shock anyone who’s truly listening: An internal CPS audit from 2019 found that 83.3% of the time, CPS was in the wrong when removing a child from its home. Listen to Ryan Matta share some of his discoveries, recorded in the introduction to the documentary, “Never in America.”

Watch the documentary at: https://rumble.com/v724pje-never-in-america-unmasking-cpss-kidnapping-empire.html  

America, what if I told you that the federal government crafted a vile incentive scheme, letting states rake in profits while taking children from their loving parents’ arms? Bankrupting those families and ruling lawfare to silence their desperate cries for justice? Would you believe me? Would you call me a conspiracy theorist?

America, what if I told you that Child Protective Services is operating the world’s largest government-backed… taxpayer-funded … child trafficking network… and the very system designed to safeguard our children, are the ones robbing them of their futures?

All of the child services agencies initially started out in the service of children becomes and organization that is in fact hunting children.

Our children are the targets, and millions of people in government, education, our health care system, and our child protective systems are complicit in the agenda. … Pedophilia is how the deep state recruits and controls people. From the powerful elites, down to otherwise ordinary men, children are easily being bought and abused around the world. … 500,000 kids per year are removed by this child trafficking organization from their parents… Many disappear and many are never ever heard from again. Once the public realizes that the government is not protecting their children, then everything else about the government is called into question.

Here is where Diego, Baby Cyrus’ grandfather, begins to share his thoughts.

  “when the government does something evil and wicked, they cloak it, they hide it behind these little anecdotal pieces of evidence that show ‘look we’re doing something good.”

Ryan comments on the previous segment highlighting USAID, saying “USAID is a blueprint, a case-study in how deeply corruption can run when power goes unchecked. But it’s not the end of the story. It’s just the beginning. Because there’s a machine that’s far darker, far more insidious, and it’s operating in plain sight… a system that doesn’t just betray a nation. It preys on the most vulnerable among us… Child Protective Services… also known as CPS.

Diego begins commenting… “this is how they sold people what I call the CPS myth…  They hide it behind that façade”

Diego says, “Now, if you expose this stuff, they’ll try to kill you.

Ryan says, “Over the past decade, every celebrity, politician, or independent journalist who tries to expose this satanic child trafficking enterprise has turned up dead…

Diego says, “Senator Nancy Schaffer, from the state of Georgia, uncovered the same thing you’ve uncovered, the same thing we uncovered… (Nancy Schaffer says)… “I wrote a scathing report entitled ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.’ The report cost me my Senate seat.”

Ryan says, “Senator Nancy Schaffer of Georgia’s 50th district was set to release her documentary called, ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services’ in 2008. Followed by a news report starting at 20:57 “This Georgia state senator was planning to present her discoveries to the international criminal court when she and her husband were found shot dead in their home.”  Jump ahead to 21:43 where Ryan says, “The GBI labeled it a murder suicide… case closed. If she was a US Senator, what do you think they are planning to do to me?”

Ryan Matta’s interview with Seth Holehouse on his podcast, Man In America, about the exposure of evil surrounding the Baby Cyrus case is one of the most troubling things imaginable.

The complete interview is at: https://maninamerica.substack.com/p/inside-the-cps-machine-government?publication_id=1040302&post_id=181015774&r=184ayj&triedRedirect=true

And also at Inside the CPS Machine: Government Overreach, Trafficking Pipelines, and the Families Being Torn Apart w/ Ryan Matta

In 2024, about 400,000 American children were wrongfully stolen from their families by bureaucrats doing what they believe is their legitimate job.

And here’s the unbelievable statistic that should haunt every one of us until we stop making excuses for not stopping this horror: Fifty-four percent of those children never see their parents again. That’s over 200,000 children a year—just vanishing into the system.

Imagine a foreign government kidnapping 200,000 American children a year. That’s at least one precious child disappearing forever from all 3,000+ counties in America Every WEEK …We’d call it war. But when our own government does it, it gets filed under “child welfare.”

This isn’t welfare. This is state-sanctioned abduction.

The Foster System: A Pipeline to Trafficking

It would be one thing — still horrific — if these children were being placed into safe, healthy foster homes. But Ryan’s research showed something far darker.

He revealed statistic after statistic, each one landing like a gut punch. He’s lived with this information long enough to stop being shocked, but not long enough to stop being angry.  Here’s what he uncovered:

A massive percentage of trafficked children—sexually exploited, missing, abused—come directly from the foster care system. Not from the streets. Not from foreign countries. Not from broken homes. From state custody.

Let me put this plainly:

The government is taking children from loving families and placing them into environments where they are far more likely to be raped, abused, trafficked, or disappear entirely.

And Fifty-five children go missing from foster care daily. Daily.

Where do they go?

“Ran away” is the official line. “Placed with a sponsor.” “Transferred.” “Unknown.”

But Ryan gave example after example of what actually happens.

A thirteen-year-old “runs away.” A foster parent shrugs. CPS shrugs. Law enforcement shrugs. But no one asks the harder question:

Did she “run away,” or was she sold?

The foster system has become the perfect hunting ground for predators because children inside it lose the two protections that matter most: A parent and a witness. No one is watching. No one is accountable. No one is coming to save them.

Ryan told about cases where girls from the foster system ended up chained in basements, raped daily, starved, and tortured. About migrant girls trafficked after border crossings, dumped into HHS facilities, then sold to “sponsors” who were never vetted. About staff inside group homes who prey on kids because the system gives them access and near-total immunity.

How can we honestly think we have a free country while this is happening on such a scale?

We knew years ago that our country is essentially about as moral as ancient Sodom for tolerating what we do for electing judges and county officials who rarely, if ever make this issue a priority.

How can we be a functioning country when we allow our government to feed the country’s children into hell?

How the System Got This Way: The Money Machine Behind CPS

One of the most stunning parts of Ryan’s research was discovering why CPS behaves this way.

It isn’t just incompetence. It isn’t just corruption. It isn’t just ideology. It’s money.

In 1997, the Clinton administration passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). Before ASFA, states didn’t have a massive funding structure to support removing children. After ASFA, state governments could access huge amounts of federal money—but only if they increased child removals and adoptions. That means the state gets financially rewarded for taking your kid.

Now bureaucratic evil is incentivized by rewards and steady pay checks

  • Police departments get quotas.
  • Caseworkers get quotas.
  • Court dockets get overloaded.
  • Judges rubber-stamp removals.
  • Foster agencies get paid per child.
  • Adoption agencies get paid even more.

Every government bureaucratic agency receives benefits from one thing: Separating a child from their biological parents.

You don’t build a machine like that accidentally. And once billions of dollars are flowing through it, you don’t shut it off without a fight.

The Part No One Wants to Admit: The People Doing the Taking Are “Just Following Orders”

One of the most troubling parts of the Baby Cyrus case isn’t the bureaucrats. It’s the cops.

Like Seth, who interview Ryan Matta, the producer of “Never in America,” I’ve been a strong supporter of law enforcement all my life. My dad retired from a city police force. I still believe many officers are honorable. But after the night Baby Cyrus was taken away by armed policemen from his mother, how can a child, seeing that action on the videos recorded as it unfolded, ever fully trust armed men dressed in black with a gold badge? When twenty squad cars surrounded a pastor’s family at a gas station, ripped a young woman from her seat, arrested a mother who had broken no laws, and seized a baby at gunpoint — They weren’t heroes. They were order-takers.

That moment – recorded live on video – forced me to look at policing differently. Good officers can do terrible things when the system tells them they must. History proves that over and over. Just look at NAZI Germany.  And CPS relies on this compliance.  Every kidnapping they perform is carried out by someone with a badge who believes they’re “just doing their job.”

Evil doesn’t always wear a villain’s mask. Sometimes it wears a uniform and follows protocol. And it takes exceptional discernment and courage for a government-paid law enforcement agent to ‘stand down’ voluntarily at the risk of losing their job.

The Bigger Picture: A Society Destroying Its Own Foundation

As Ryan continued his talk with Seth on the video you can see for yourself, something else became clearer than ever. This isn’t just about CPS. This is about the deliberate dismantling of the nuclear family in America. Why do we know this for certain?

Because if you want to control a population, weaken its culture, and destabilize its future, the fastest way to do all that is to sever the bond between parent and child. What happens when you remove hundreds of thousands of children from stable families? You create generations of traumatized adults. You create people who struggle to form families of their own. You create citizens who depend on the state, not each other. You create easy prey for traffickers, criminals, and predators. You create exactly what the spiritual forces and human architects of this evil system want.

That realization should seal it for any morally conscientious adult. This isn’t incompetence. This isn’t oversight. This isn’t accidental. It’s engineered.

So, What Do We Do?

Ryan was asked what he tells parents who are terrified after learning all this. His answer was heartbreaking in its simplicity:

“Never let CPS into your home without a warrant. Never call CPS unless your child is in immediate, physical danger. Never assume “it could never happen to me.”

Once they are in your life, the system is designed for you to fail. It’s designed for you to break their unlawful ‘laws.’  It’s intended to make you feel like a renegade if you try to escape being pursued by a very scary bureaucratic deep state agency.

The other answer is education. Awareness. Sunlight. The only reason Baby Cyrus made it home is because – in God’s providence – thousands of people saw what was happening and refused to stay silent. When the illegitimate actors of a rogue state fear public outrage, they retreat. When the state knows no one is watching, it advances its nefarious schemes.

Ryan Matta made this documentary so people could see the truth with their own eyes. Seth – The Man in America – wrote the essay that I have largely quoted from for the same reason. If we want our country back—if we want to protect our children—we have to be willing to look at the evil being done in plain sight. Why do I say we have no other option?

Because one day, it might not be “someone else’s child.” It might be yours. Or my grandchildren. And if that day ever comes, you will pray that the rest of America is awake enough to fight for your family the way thousands fought for Baby Cyrus.

Conclusion: The Fight Ahead

Seth Holehouse walked away from his conversation with Ryan Matta shaken, angry, and deeply moved. He wrote it this way:

It’s “Not because I’m naïve about government corruption—I cover it every week. Not because I needed another reason to distrust federal agencies—I already distrust most of them. But because the magnitude of this one is bigger than almost everything I’ve covered:

  • The government is kidnapping children.
  • The foster system is trafficking them.
  • The courts are rubber-stamping it.
  • The media is ignoring it.
  • And the public barely knows it’s happening.

That’s not a broken system. That’s an evil system. And if we don’t expose it, if we don’t talk about it, if we don’t demand accountability—then we become complicit in its silence. I can’t live with that. Ryan can’t live with that. And if you’re reading/or hearing it being read, I’m guessing you can’t either.”

So, rather than hide your eyes from the harsh reality of wickedness that we’ve reported on today… watch his documentary. Share it. Talk about it. Prepare your family. Know your rights. And refuse to let fear silence you. Why?

Because the truth is uncomfortable. But losing our children would be far worse. And if there’s one thing I know about America—it’s that when our children are threatened, we rise. It’s time to rise.

Bonus Segment

In January 2023, my friend, Diego, the grandfather of Baby Cyrus, after extensive gathering of documentation, put out a 7-minute video report that you can see on the website he created to document everything. It’s called “They Lied to You.”  Here are a few excerpts from it.

VIDEO 2 – They Lied to You—New Video Evidence Proves that Baby Cyrus was a Perfectly “Healthy Baby” When He Was Kidnapped By Meridian Police

https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/videos/  total 7 min

If you have 90 minutes and you want to truly understand the ENTIRE STORY, then watch the presentation below:  https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/story/

This is the 90 minute presentation given by Diego Rodriguez (Baby Cyrus’s grandfather) on May 10th, 2023, about Government Subsidized Child Trafficking that not only describes the entire Baby Cyrus Story, but explains the reasons WHY Baby Cyrus was kidnapped in the first place. This EYE-OPENING video presentation can change your paradigm completely and can save you and or a loved family member from every suffering the pain and anguish of having your child kidnapped by CPS! (The presentation begins at the 4:10 mark, if you’d like to skip the introduction.)

Click here to access the links/documents mentioned in the presentation above.

For a shorter overview, you can START WITH THIS VIDEO (Video 1) – The 8 Minute Video that shows what happened when Baby Cyrus was kidnapped:

If you are like most Americans, you are shocked and enraged by what you saw in this video. (Additional videos related to the Baby Cyrus case can be seen here.). The details of what led up to this kidnapping and what happened after Baby Cyrus was kidnapped can be read below:

THEN READ THIS—Overview of the Baby Cyrus Kidnapping and Government Subsidized Child Trafficking Case:

This is the original story for those who want an overview of “What Happened?” (Approximate 10 minute read.)

May 5th, 2022 | by Diego Rodriguez

My grandson, Baby Cyrus was kidnapped by police officers from Meridian, Idaho at the behest of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for no reason other than financial gain. The story and the actions of all bad actors, including police officers, politicians, St. Luke’s hospital, nurses, doctors, the prosecutor, the judge, and other bureaucrats have been so egregious, tyrannical, and demonstratively ILLEGAL, that the story has made national and even international news, and has been featured by news outlets all over the country—with some believing that this is now the highest profile CPS kidnapping case in American history.

In this article, I am going to summarize everything that happened so you can see what the force of government, when wickedly exercised with malice and evil intent, is capable of. I will share with you never before seen documents and video evidence that I’ve received from whistleblowers from within the system, and you will be shocked, horrified, and terrified for your own family’s safety. Believe me, if they can do it to my family, they can do it to yours, no matter how law-abiding and compliant you are.

Before I share with you the overview of Baby Cyrus’s kidnapping, along with specific and some never before seen evidence, you must understand something very clearly or NOTHING at all that I share will make any sense. You see, if you are like most Americans, you are probably under the false impression that Child Protective Services, or CPS, exists to protect children from abusive parents, and that the foster care system exists to take abused children out of dangerous homes into safe homes. I likewise used to be under that false impression. As a Pastor of an inner city church for nearly a decade in Central California, I even have contacted CPS when I learned of instances of sexual molestation. So I understand that is the assumption that people have regarding CPS—that only abusive families or drug addicts get their children taken away by CPS. What I have learned is that nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that since Bill and Hillary Clinton gave America the ASFA law in 1997, all 50 states are now financially incentivized to kidnap children for any reason whatsoever. The federal government literally pays state governments to kidnap children under the guise of protecting them. They have indiscriminate power and authority to kidnap any child at any time for any reason, without due process, and they literally get paid to do so.

This is, by definition, child trafficking, and while it is very difficult to ascertain exactly how much money is doled out to states, experts say that it is currently an $80 billion industry in America. And this money that is paid by the federal government to all 50 states comes from the Social Security Fund Title 4. In other words, the Federal Government is robbing senior citizens of their social security funds and instead giving that money to state governments so they can kidnap babies and destroy families.

Senator Nancy Schaefer of Georgia was the first prominent national figure to bring this to light in public. She spent countless hours investigated CPS, following the money trail, uncovering their corruption and evil, and ultimately wrote the report, “The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.” Nancy declared unabashedly that CPS was essentially a child trafficking organization that kidnapped children for profit.

Nancy had made speeches around the country in national forums and was completing a video exposing the lack of oversight in Georgia’s Department of Family and Child Services (DFCS) as well as Child Protective Services (CPS) nationally; and started to receive lots of death threats. Unfortunately her video was never published as her and her husband were murdered, being found shot to death in March 2010.

Listen, if people on the streets will murder someone else for a $100 pair of Air Jordan’s, you better believe that they will murder a Senator who threatens an $80 billion child trafficking cash machine.

Until you understand this, you will never understand what happened to baby Cyrus. You will foolishly believe that there has to be more to the story, or that I am not sharing additional details with you. But I will share all the facts with you and the additional details that are too long to cover here in this article can be found on Baby Cyrus’s website at freedomman.org/cyrus.

Now, I am about to show you empirical evidence that my Grandson, Baby Cyrus, was violently kidnapped by Meridian police, without cause and without evidence, that Baby Cyrus was falsely declared to be in “imminent danger,” even though CPS and St. Luke’s hospital admitted that he was not, and that my daughter and son-in-law were illegally prosecuted in secret, without due process, and in violation of their Constitutional rights and in violation of multiple Idaho State statutes.

I will then share with you what you can do about it and how you can join the fight to stop child trafficking forever in Idaho and in America.

The documentary, Never in America, can be watched free online at either of these links:

Diego, the grandfather of Baby Cyrus, has developed and maintained an up-to-date website that’s devoted to the complete story of the openly public kidnapping of his daughter’s son at: https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/   I encourage you to review the various parts of this historic exposure of one of the most obvious society-wide evils in history. Share it with everyone in your church. Ask them what they think should be done. Ask them to read Proverbs 24:11-12. Then ask them to ask their pastor what are they going to do about this extreme tragedy.

My friend, Diego Rodriguez, has been keeping me updated on the nightmare his family has gone through from the beginning. Here’s his message on the documentary of the whole story when it was finally released in December 2025.

“My family and I just watched a pre-release copy of it. We were all speechless by the time it ended. I could not put more support behind this film if I tried. It is a MUST WATCH. Ryan Matta (who made the documentary), was definitely called and prepared by God to put this documentary together. He makes an unassailable case regarding CPS and all the bad actors involved, including: hospitals, doctors, judges, police…everybody!”

Do not miss this film!  It is on Rumble at https://rumble.com/v724pje-never-in-america-unmasking-cpss-kidnapping-empire.html

 Here are Ryan’s channels:

https://x.com/Ryan MattaMedia – no longer active on X

https://rumble.com/user/RyanMatta

Ryan Matta is interviewed about this documentary, Never in America, by Seth Holehouse on his podcast, Man in America, at https://maninamerica.substack.com/p/inside-the-cps-machine-government?publication_id=1040302&post_id=181015774&r=184ayj&triedRedirect=true

A comment for parents worth noting

One of the comments by a Rumble viewer posted under the Rumble posting of this documentary was from “lillycreek” she wrote:

“what parents don’t know and need to know to protect themselves and avoid going thru ruthless cps lawfare is you can go above all their heads, above the doctors, teachers, CPS workers, CPS and cops without paying a dime by IMMEDIATELY filing a complaint detailing the unlawful actions under color of law taken against your family submitted to your State’s investigator, and cc a copy of the complaint to your Mayor, Congressman, Senator, Governor and POTUS. every state has one and they all have a website with the complaint form you can submit. No Lawyer will tell you that.”

This advice sounds good and should be researched more. Every vigilant parent must heighten their awareness of the wicked forces at work to eradicate what the Bible calls “the heritage of the Lord” – our children.

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Reclaiming a Biblical Worldview takes Humility to Test All Things

Everyone has a worldview, but relatively few people see their world through the eyes of the Bible, even among those who call themselves Christian.  

The Great Commission

Christian people across the world are well familiar with what we call “the Great Commission.”  Jesus, after his resurrection, just before he ascended into heaven, spoke these words to his disciples:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matt 28:18-20  

Many pastors who avoid debatable or political/social topics, claim they are ‘just called to preach the gospel.’  Others avoid contemporary arguments in society by sticking to their preaching and teaching schedule. These seem to be noble practices to most Christians, but do you think it’s only fair that those who sit down to dine at the table of where they get their spiritual food each week have a responsibility to humbly challenge their spiritual teachers to address controversial topics that are relevant to the issues we all struggle with that are going on in our world today?

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How can God’s People be a Calming Influence in a Society filled with Fear? #361

There are lots of things I’ve learned, as I grew into adulthood and fatherhood.  One that sticks out to me seems to be missed by a lot of people who have not learned yet how to avoid being dominated by fear.  The present crisis in our world really seems to accent this fact.  Simply stated it’s this: “what we don’t understand, we tend to fear.” It’s pretty common, isn’t it?  If you don’t understand how to use a dangerous tool – like a knife or a gun – it’s perfectly natural to keep your distance from that tool because of an indescribable fear.  Once you learn how to use the potentially dangerous tool correctly, you still maintain a healthy respect for the tool, but you don’t have a psychotic fear of it anymore.

When surrounded by uncertain circumstances, fear is a predictable, universal behavior for every age group and in every era of human history. Power-hungry leaders have capitalized on this fact since Nimrod after the Great Flood. Let’s not be ignorant of that fact. Without a firm reliance on the Divine Providence of Almighty God, career government people have endless ways to deceive clueless people into believing their welfare depends on government. They literally make government into an idol.

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Christmas is a time of remembering and anticipating the greatest gift to all mankind – Redemption

When you think about it… really think about it… the season of each year when we celebrate the remarkable advent of our Creator’s incarnation that we call Christmas… it’s truly amazing how God, in His providence, can use this season every year to personally communicate and commune with our deepest soul.  Even with all the distracting commercialism and misguided paganized myths that our society has amassed around the occasion, God is still profoundly using the Christmas season to bring light into the darkness of many minds whom He has chosen to receive eternal redemption. What a gift! 

The beloved disciple John, guided by the Holy Spirit of God, recorded the event straight to the point in the opening of his gospel.  He even showed the distinction between the Savior from the man, who also had the name John – the baptizer – who announced the anticipated Redeemer’s entry into our world. He wrote it this way.

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Christmas celebrations Controversy compels Christian considerations

Let’s Quell the controversy over Christmas and its traditions.

Every Christmas season many of us are confronted with various notions about the origins of Christmas and many cherished Christmas traditions. But what can we learn from the original writers of history itself about these controversial ideas?

It’s been called “the most wonderful time of the year.”  Christmas for most of us has enjoyed a long history of traditions that make the heart of the winter season a rich time of festive celebrations.

For many of us, growing up in America in the late 20th Century, our memories from childhood include the happy songs of Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls with boughs of holly, and “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.”  There’s nothing wrong with any of that. When I was a child, singing Christmas songs like Silent Night and Joy to the World … around the piano with my grandmother… well, nothing could be more delightful to enthusiastic, ever-optimistic young children. Although Santa, for my generation, played a fairly significant part of the wide array of Christmas traditions… there was never the slightest thought that “the night before Christmas and all through the house…” was ever anything more than an amusing way of celebrating the ‘rest of the story’ that was more fully expressed when we sang “Joy to the world, the Lord is come” and “O Come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant.”  In fact, singing Christmas carols for our neighbors on cold winter nights in December will always be a treasured memory from childhood, through adolescence, and through college days as a young adult. We never lost sight of the real meaning of Christmas. And no one, that I can remember, ever behaved like a Scrooge or a Grinch that stole the heartbeat of Christmas, which was always about the birth of Jesus, 2,000 years ago.

Many Christians today have lamented the fact that modern commercialized society has made Christmas into a highly secular time of year.

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Let’s be sure our kids discover the Real Santa Claus

by Dennis Petersen

I wanted to write a personal little Christmas letter to all four of my dear kids and 10 grandkids.

Would you agree that Christmas ought to be far more exciting than the ‘tinsel-town’ fluff that’s typically merchandized so heavily in our desensitized, fast-paced society?

I wanted my own kids to get this clearly so they’d be able to help my grandkids to personally know the One for whom the original Santa Claus sacrificed his life… but you all might like to use it yourselves in sharing this Christmas season in a life-changing way with your own family. You could even gather your little ones around you to read this short review of how we got some of our Christmas traditions.

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Americans Rediscovering their Covenant with God

By Dennis Petersen

Are you ready to help people rediscover America’s covenant with God?

America’s people have been dumbed down deliberately by a secular and demonic agenda to make us all ignorant of truth, ignorant of common sense, ignorant of Scripture, and particularly ignorant of our own history.  We should all know the fact that God’s prophet clearly prophesied that His own people (“My people” He said) “are destroyed for a lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). When we speak that message, it can be a prophetic wake-up call for those who might be listening closely to what we’re saying. But another problem is that many, in the true Ekklesia of God, lack the mature personal mentors who can coach them to be guided by the Holy Spirit.  We all need that guidance to discern what is true, and to learn from the events and lives of the past that are able to witness to the incredible grace and power of God.

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