Ask Charlie Anything 167: What Does the Bible Say About Immigration? What Can We Learn From Bobby Knight? UofA Canceled Class Because of Charlie’s Visit?
00:01:05.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:06.000Sometimes that they allow their heart to dictate their politics, bigger than any sort of commitment to reason.
00:02:12.000But they also don't quite understand, in my personal opinion, the totality of the scriptures that have, quite honestly, verses that can be compared and contrasted, but you really don't talk about the warnings as much as sometimes people say, but let the foreigner into your country.
00:02:29.000It doesn't say that as explicitly, but it's close.
00:02:31.000If you go to the border, it's Christian charities doing a lot of the trafficking.
00:02:35.000So what does the Bible say about immigration?
00:02:40.000What does the Bible say about borders?
00:02:42.000What does the Bible say about foreigners?
00:02:45.000Now, one of my biggest pet peeves and biggest complaints is when people cherry-pick verses.
00:02:51.000I was once very guilty of this, and I try not to be.
00:02:56.000And so, if I am guilty of cherry-picking a verse here, please email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:04:10.000That is more of an anti-sectarian teaching than anything that could be connected to immigration.
00:04:17.000I'm just going through some of the most popular verses.
00:04:19.000Now, mind you, I went to five or six of these websites that most people would go because most pastors don't do a lot of deep theological examination.
00:04:26.000Their wardrobe budget is much, much bigger than their book budget.
00:04:29.000So they're much more into kind of Instagram clicks.
00:04:32.000So they would just go, what does the Bible say about immigration?
00:04:34.000So when I go, just so you understand, when I go to these websites, almost none of the verses that talk about slowing down immigration or being scared of how foreigners can take over your country, they're almost never mentioned.
00:04:47.000Now, this is one that is commonly quoted, and it's in one of the most important chapters of one of the most important books of the Bible, Leviticus 19.
00:04:56.000So Leviticus 19 contains several verses that I want to isolate.
00:05:02.000It contains one of the verses that Jesus, our Lord, said all of the laws of the prophet hangs upon this teaching, which is love your neighbor as yourself.
00:05:11.000Leviticus 19 is a powerhouse chapter, one of the most direct ethical teaching chapters of the entire Torah.
00:05:20.000So it says the following: The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you.
00:05:26.000You shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
00:05:32.000Now, interestingly, the open border advocates don't mention what is also in Leviticus 19.
00:05:40.000Yes, love your neighbor yourself, but what else?
00:05:43.000Do not favor a poor or a rich person in the administration of justice.
00:05:50.000So when you administer justice, the very same teaching that they always use in Leviticus 19, they don't talk about that also in Leviticus 19.
00:06:00.000It says that in terms of justice, you cannot allow your heart to dictate.
00:06:05.000If somebody illegally breaks into your country and they're poor, you cannot let that impact your decision making.
00:06:12.000They should be deported because that's an act of justice.
00:06:17.000And that very same teaching, you should love on them.
00:06:20.000And honestly, one of the most loving things you can do for a foreigner is send them back to their home country because they're not going to be a foreigner anymore.
00:06:28.000I'd go on and on, many of which are misapplied.
00:06:31.000But the verse that never gets mentioned in any of these lists is a direct political teaching because some of these teachings are individual teachings.
00:06:59.000Deuteronomy 28, 43 through 45 is Moses talking to the nation before they enter the land of milk and honey, Canaan, which becomes the land of Israel.
00:07:08.000And the Joshua generation takes it forward.
00:07:10.000One of the last warnings that Moses gives is one that every Christian needs to listen to, internalize, and pray over.
00:07:18.000And very few pastors will ever mention this.
00:07:22.000And it is a direct warning against mass migration.
00:07:26.000It's a warning and a cautionary tale about how foreigners can ruin your country.
00:07:35.000Okay, it was set to NIV, of which I do not like to do.
00:07:39.000So let's go to ESV, which is a far better translation than by my friend Wayne Grudem.
00:07:44.000The sorjourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
00:07:52.000He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him.
00:07:56.000He shall be the head and you shall be the tail.
00:07:58.000All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
00:08:13.000Another translation is equally as powerful.
00:08:17.000Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power while you gradually lose yours.
00:08:22.000They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them.
00:08:25.000And in the end, they will be your rulers.
00:08:29.000So we must balance all of these teachings.
00:08:32.000Immigration can be an asset for your nation.
00:08:35.000We shall love our neighbors, but it's not loving to our current neighbors to say you have to indefinitely host foreigners and migrants brought here as cheap labor.
00:08:45.000But understand there are explicit verses on assimilation, learning the customs and being foreigners no more.
00:08:52.000If foreigners come to the country and they are no longer assimilating, learning the language, learning the customs, do we have to allow them to continue to come into our nation?
00:09:02.000And I'm afraid sometimes Christians overthink this.
00:09:06.000World Relief, Christian, WR.org, United States Conference of Catholics and Bishops and Migration and Refugee Services, Catholic, USCCB.org, U.S. Committee for Refugee and Immigrants, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, International Rescue Committee.
00:09:21.000The amount of groups that subsidize the open border on the southern border that are Christian is unbelievable.
00:09:27.000The Christian groups are the facilitators, the co-sponsors, and they are the subsidizers.
00:09:36.000Producer Andrew used to work for them for one of them.
00:09:40.000And he's very, very hawkish on immigration.
00:10:13.000Nowhere in the Bible does it command you to ruin your nation, to allow people who hate you to come here and to destroy the country.
00:10:23.000In fact, the Lord says in Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
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00:13:52.000They're all about why we must welcome immigrants, why we must welcome immigrants.
00:13:56.000You must not welcome why you must welcome immigrants.
00:13:59.000It's incredible how open border ideology has infiltrated at least the presentation of scripture.
00:14:07.000What I'm saying is, yes, some of these verses are obviously legit and you have to work through those and you should love all people.
00:14:13.000And it is true that there is a legitimate point that it is a constant, constant refrain in the Torah, the five books of Moses, reminding them that they were strangers in Egypt.
00:15:31.000But if you are a Bible-believing Christian, I highly encourage you to know your Bible first and foremost, but do not allow yourself to be led astray on shaky theological teaching while the country collapses.
00:16:40.000And while it's easy, plagued with pagan secular guilt, to look at some of these people and say, I feel so bad for them, but you shouldn't allow your heart to dictate the administration of justice in the administration of justice.
00:16:55.000That's a political teaching, by the way.
00:17:28.000So you look at people that have come into the country illegally, they broke the law.
00:17:33.000If you're saying they should stay, you are violating a teaching of the Bible and you're allowing your heart for them as the poor in the administration of justice.
00:17:45.000We have significantly rewritten history and rewritten, rewriting, honestly, the present, where we act as if that these people are not breaking the law.
00:18:10.000It'd be really interesting to have producer Andrew on at some point talk about that.
00:18:15.000Kind of the open border Christian racket.
00:18:17.000I bet it's very similar to most Christian charities where they actually don't care about solving the problem.
00:18:22.000They just raise a bunch of money on the problem, fear-mongering, and also getting to the lowest common denominator of people's emotional impulse.
00:18:30.000Nice is the lowest, fakest of all virtues.
00:18:33.000Courage is the highest of all virtues.
00:18:37.000That would be a really interesting podcast to do at some point.
00:18:55.000Chances are you've been out here before.
00:18:57.000The chaos in the markets, oil and stocks, just when you thought it was safe and interest rates were rising, new threats come out of nowhere.
00:19:03.000Tensions are boiling from Asia to Europe.
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00:23:55.000To win three NCAA titles is unbelievable.
00:24:45.000But it all kind of came down the way the delegate math was falling: if Trump could continue and win a couple Midwestern states, then the whole game would be changed.
00:24:55.000And I remember watching out of nowhere the great Bobby Knight coming out and endorsing Donald Trump in the primary.
00:25:10.000They saw a lot of each other in each other.
00:25:14.000I think that's why they both loved each other.
00:25:16.000Trump had a huge soft spot for Bobby Knight.
00:27:50.000We got to talk about this presidential crap just for a moment here.
00:27:55.000You know, just you older folks remember this.
00:27:58.000Your mothers, fathers have taught you this.
00:28:01.000I'll tell you who they said wasn't presidential.
00:28:05.000I don't even know what the hell presidential means, but they told him that he wasn't presidential.
00:28:11.000And that guy they told all these people that wanted to say you're not presidential, that guy was Harry Truman.
00:28:21.000And Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved, saved billions of American lives.
00:28:39.000And that's what Harry Truman did, and he became one of the three great presidents of the United States.
00:28:45.000And here's a man who would do the same thing because he's going to become one of the four great presidents of the United States.
00:28:55.000How many people in their endorsement, you think he's going to say many of you remember Ronald Reagan or maybe Nixon, but it's Harry Truman.
00:29:05.000And not Harry Truman for establishing the state of Israel.
00:29:10.000And he's like, you know what I liked most about Harry Truman?
00:29:26.000I'm not going to get into the morality of dropping the bombs there, but it does go to show why did Bobby Knight like Trump and Trump like Bobby Knight?
00:29:33.000Sometimes unpopular things need to be done in war that are necessary for the advancement of morality and the protection of the innocent.
00:30:14.000And the Student Union Administration Building, UAPD is currently monitoring the situation.
00:30:18.000Please encourage staff, faculty, and students in your units who may be impacted to consider avoiding the area, offering mental health counseling services, canceling class, dean student office, and also crisis management.
00:32:20.000Sounds like you have hate on the mind, man.
00:32:23.000And if you would have just wanted to have a dialogue, I'd be more than happy to do that.
00:32:28.000More than happy to have a conversation back and forth.
00:32:30.000But it is one of the more troubling trends in the country.
00:32:34.000That if you don't want to have a conversation with the other side, then you're just going to use political power to obliterate the other side.
00:32:42.000And that is what the left is doing to us.
00:32:44.000College campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.