Council Grove Christian Church

June 4 in the year of Our Lord 2025
Servants of God,

Should Christians be concerned about antisemitism? Absolutely, we should. Any unjust treatment of a human being or a group of humans should never be acceptable to or go unchallenged by Christians. We must always work and pray for righteousness and to purge evil from our hearts.

At the same time, we must be thoughtful. Not everything that is called antisemitism is properly categorized. Jewish human beings are like the rest of us—subject to the words and actions of others. Sometimes Jewish people are wrongly treated or accused. Sometimes Jews (like all of us) are wrong. It is always important to tell the truth. Christians must think clearly and act righteously. The presence of antisemitism in our fallen world manifests human sin. It does not justify thinking unbiblically about Jews or any other group.

Recent violent crimes against Jews have grabbed headlines in our nation—a nation where its citizens pledge our allegiance to a republic that stands for (among other things) justice for all. There is a danger, however, in falling for the lie that crime against one group of people is more hateful or sinful than against another. We must remember that all have sinned and that all need God’s forgiveness offered by faith in Jesus Christ, the risen Messiah.

Crime against various groups grows when justice is lacking. The misleading term “social justice” is, at its heart, a Marxist ploy. Justice is a perfectly good noun. It can only be harmed by an adjective. God has revealed to us that we are to “…do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8). Behavior that pleases God is rooted in justice.

Let us be honest. Most recent attacks on Jews have revolved around the political and kinetic war in Gaza. We ignore the true teachings of Islam at our peril. Europe is finding that out the hard way. I do not mean every Islamic person is a criminal. I do mean that the underlying teachings of Islam includes the belief that it is righteous to use force (the sword) to bring infidels (Christians and Jews) to confess that Allah is supreme.

If you think Islam is not a threat to peace in our world, you are mistaken. Just because so many Americans take their religion lightly (virtually everyone casually claims to be a Christian of some sort) does not mean that serious Muslims play at theirs. Of course, there are wonderful Muslim men and women, but the religion they adhere to, taken to its logical conclusion, seeks to bring every human under the lordship of the demon god Allah—by force if necessary.

It takes time for a belief system to spread widely enough in a culture to gain control. Europe is almost there. The horrible open borders policy has flooded Europe with Islamic people—many of them radical and restless in their belief. The result is that in the major cities of Europe there are enclaves of Islam where Shariah law is the only law that is enforced. The local police do not enter or do so very reluctantly because the areas are manifestly unsafe for non-Muslims. The streets are filled with pregnant Islamic women pushing baby carriages and being followed by multiple small children.

It is likely only a matter of time until Islam wins out by birthrate alone. Islam is a clear and present danger in some American cities and on many a college campus as well. American Christians must not hate Jews or Muslims but we must tell the truth about all false religions.

Please do not fall for the lie that all religions are the same. Jews are not pseudo-Christians. Both Judaism and Islam reject the lordship of Jesus. That means that those who adhere to Judaism  reject God’s offer of grace and mercy through Jesus just as Muslims do. To speak this truth does not make me or you an antisemite; it makes us Christian evangelists who know that all lost people need Jesus! To miss Jesus is to miss everything. If Jesus is the way, truth and life—and he is—that means there is only one avenue to God the Father (John 14:6). It also means that both beliefs (Judaism and Islam) are teaching falsehoods about God.  

Again, I stress that Christians must think clearly (biblically). Crime against any group is crime. False beliefs that steal the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ are false beliefs that lead their adherents to Hell. The good news (gospel) is that though all have sinned, there is a path to salvation and peace with God for all categories of human beings by way of Jesus’ sacrificial death and glorious resurrection.

Remember that the early church was composed of Jews. Thousands of Jews (including priests Acts 6:7) placed their faith in Jesus. They grasped that Jesus is lord: the long-awaited Messianic King promised by God in the scriptures. The apostles were Jews. The early missionaries were Jews. They believed that in Jesus, God had kept his promise to Abraham and the nation of Israel. The true Davidic kingdom had arrived. They rejoiced that not only they (as Jews) but all the nations (gentiles) were being offered the forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life. Jesus told the Samaritan woman that “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22). God’s eternal and unstoppable plan is to make the universe great again through a Jewish Messiah—Jesus (Ephesians 1:10). Antisemitism is real and must be condemned and opposed, but the greatest problem Jews and gentiles face, is alienation from God. Jesus is the way—the only way.

Blessings,

Pastor John

Coram Deo