Council Grove Christian Church

2/5/26

Servants of God,
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
 They are corrupt, they have committed detestable acts;
 There is no one who does good.
-Psalm 14:1
 
“…they are shaped into a worldview that treats the nation as an oppressor,
borders as immoral, law enforcement as inherently suspect,
and authority as something to be resisted rather than stewarded.”
-Virgil Walker, describing the rising generation
 
The vigilantes on the streets of Minneapolis are dangerous, but the deluded and miseducated school children protesting in the streets of cities throughout America ought to send chills to the bottom of America’s national soul. As a whole they cannot read, write or reason at grade level, and they are being groomed to be angry anarchist who will make the current mobs look peaceful. When our founders warned that the republic could only last if the people were morally righteous, they were warning us about the things currently going on in America’s cities.
 
I am a big fan of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. It laid out the way new states would come into the union. States like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin came into being. The ordinance prohibited slavery, ordered that Indians be treated fairly and compensated justly. It also ordered that education should be paramount. Try these words on for size: “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
The founding generation knew that religion (they meant Christianity, of course) and morality must rank ahead of everything else for education to be genuine. They were not interested in their posterity being fools who denied the existence of God. Yet, here we are in a world of ignoramuses in teachers unions grooming school children for the revolution.
 
When a population comes to embrace vigilante justice it will soon have no justice at all. The fool says in his heart “There is no God.” This mental and spiritual rebellion leads to the rejection of law and the order it creates. Someone said “You can silence fifty scholars with one fact, but you cannot silence one fool with fifty facts.” We are living in a time when fools do not wish to be confused by facts because they are sure their feelings are the ultimate standard of reality.
The gospel of Jesus confronts fallen humans with facts. Every person now living needs a savior and there is only one person who fills that bill—Jesus Christ. Until a person humbles his heart before God and receives a new heart, he is an idolater who insists on forcing his own standards on the remainder of humanity.
 
A nation without laws and borders that are credibly enforced is, in reality, not a nation. The Apostle Paul argued that God gave life to all humans and has made allotments of time and “boundaries” for every nation (Acts 17:26). If you go to any nation on the face of the earth you will most likely find that the land was, at one time, occupied by some other people. The history of the world is largely one of conquest and colonization.
 
Recently, as the 24-year-old singer Billie Eilish accepted the Grammy for best song, she ignorantly pontificated that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” Her sycophantic comments drew applause and praise. Critics later pointed out that she might want to think about the fact that her multi-million-dollar residence sits on ground “stolen” from a native American Indian tribe.
Logic dictates that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time. I doubt Billie worries much about being logical, but would it be illegal for another person to move into her mansion (built on “stolen land”) and take ownership without her permission?
 
Popular culture has been catechizing us for a very long time and continues to do so. To borrow from a song sung in days gone by (1977) “It can’t be wrong when it feels so right.” Lamentably, that song, “You Light Up My Life,” was a big hit and performed by a woman who openly claimed to be a Christian. Too bad Debbie Boone did not read Psalm 19 before she agreed to popularize such a horrible message. I cannot guess about the meditations of her heart, but the words of her mouth were not pleasing to a holy God. They argued that feelings should trump fact.
When protestors in Minneapolis move from legal protesting to illegal obstruction of the removal of criminal aliens, they are not being brave and courageous. They are breaking the law and ought to be sanctioned by the legal system. Any person who enters the United States illegally is a criminal. He or she has committed a federal offense. Read the U. S. Code 18 U.S.C. 1325. End of argument.
 
If federal officers are behaving in ways that seem too hostile, we must both hold them accountable to behave properly and remember that most of the criminals being removed have a history of violent crimes on top of crossing the border illegally. Because Minnesota authorities have refused to hand over these criminals to federal officers, and released them back into the population, the federal officers are forced to hunt down and arrest these violent offenders. Violent criminals are often tame and docile when they are in custody of law enforcement. When they are on the loose, they can be…wait for it…violent. They often must forcefully be subdued by law enforcement. Federal officers can be placed in grave danger arresting these offenders.
 
America and American police officers are not perfect. They are fallen humans as are the protestors. Phony compassion generated by feelings dominating facts abounds in our nation. As a nation we are edging toward anarchy. Christians, more than others, should advocate both for just and legal treatment of criminals and for the laws of our land to be respected. It is both foolish and dangerous to do otherwise.
 
Blessings,
 
Pastor John
Coram Deo