Tenth Child

“Evangelicals are doing worse than ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’ by complaining about Samuel Sey’s deportation. They are returning evil for good, attempting to derail godly and necessary immigration laws, and spurring God’s blessings. The deportation of Samuel Sey was righteous, holy, and good by every Biblical, objective standard. ‘Samuel Sey is doing God’s work,’ we are told, as though a ministry were a diplomatic passport. And that’s only if you can consider opposing Christian nationhood a ‘ministry’ (hint: it is not). Samuel Sey was not doing ministry by any discernible standard. But immigration enforcement certainly IS. The minister, in this situation, is the magistrate. Paul writes of the magistrate, ‘a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil’ (Romans 13:4). God has assigned the civil authority and tasked it with a job. Enforcing just laws is the whole assignment. Evangelicals who oppose this oppose God Himself. And they should be ashamed of themselves. Being popular while African doesn’t exempt anyone from following the law. There’s no clause pardoning law-breakers because evangelical women of both genders are trying to outdo one another with public displays of virtue-twerking sympathy to prove their compassion. We have millions of invaders, and we elected a president who promised to deport every last one. When ICE faithfully enforces immigration law, its officers are doing work God has assigned to civil government, and when evangelicals complain, they are doing an anti-ministry, serving as opposition to law enforcement, and putting cowardice on parade. It’s not about righteousness for them. It’s about fearing they'll be thought unkind. Western Culture cannot survive that kind of evangelical. Our children’s inheritance will be consumed by their toxic empathy and lack of spine. They must be rebuked in Jesus’ name and then promptly ignored. If ‘doing God’s work’ deserves our support, as they suggest, then so does Customs and Immigration Enforcement, who, last week, carried out a sacrament of government and dispensed the elements of lawful accountability. For Samuel Sey, handcuffs were Communion with justice. Christians must applaud it. Or did you think the minister ‘bears a sword in vain?’ Protecting the Table is as important a job for government as it is for pastors. Expelling people from our midst, when necessary to preserve the Body, is an ecclesiastical requirement. And in the realm of civil authority, the same must be done for those who pollute our Republic with their criminal, Third World self-trafficking. The congregation must be protected. Don’t like the metaphor? It’s God’s. Take it up with Christ the King. Their theological failure, on display for the lost world to see, is partiality. It’s a grave sin. God hates it. James says, ‘If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin’ (James 2:9). The problem isn’t that they like Sey. Of course, they do. His novelty was marketable. The problem is that they think it supersedes God's laws. And the government, when acting in defense of the nation, is enforcing the laws of God. As Christians, our sympathies must conform to Scripture’s. And this is a sad instance in which the evangelical church has lost its moral authority, and praise God, the government still has it. Who’d have thought? Might they keep it. So, while evangelical influencers are praying for Sey, which is well and good, we must also remember to pray for our government. We must pray they ignore these stupid, civilizationally suicidal, weak-willed, creampuff evangelicals who mistake their inability to stomach consequences for the compassion of Christ. Women of both genders, who cannot distinguish justice from cruelty, have no business instructing the magistrate. Evangelicals who demand exceptions for their friends have no business lecturing the rest of us about righteousness.” *Read the full article on the NXR Substack.