Election 2024: Issues Affecting the Heart of Our Families—Loving People While Securing a Border

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We lock the front door of our house to protect our family. If you wouldn’t let a person you don’t know walk into your home, why would you want someone who is unknown walking into the front door of our country? Immigration and national security are tough topics for many Christians. We are called to love our neighbor and take care of the widows and orphans. But we also called to submit to the governing authority. My dad has said the job of the church is to love people, but the job of the govern...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith and a compromising culture. I want to be fearless.
0:20.0	Welcome back to another episode of Fearless where you are catching us in the middle of an
0:25.9	eight-part series where we are looking at the top eight issues going into the political
0:30.4	season and looking at them from a biblical perspective.
0:34.0	And as a woman, there are many issues that I care about.
0:37.6	I'm not just a single issue voter.
0:39.5	Some of you might be, but one of the top issues for me is immigration and national security.
0:45.7	As a mom raising my children, I worry about our enemies around the world and how they view
0:51.2	our nation.
0:52.8	And I just kind of looked at the disorder
0:54.5	that we have seen at the southern border.
0:56.3	So today, we're gonna look at the topic of immigration.
0:59.5	And imagine that you are sitting at home
1:01.9	watching TV on a Friday night, and you hear fumbling at your door and you get up and as you're walking to your door you hear break and smash in and walks a family.
1:11.8	You don't know this family. you didn't invite anybody over and all of a sudden they demand you to feed them and take care of them.
1:19.0	You don't know if they're sick or healthy, if they're dangerous, or just need help and security
1:24.0	you know nothing about them.
1:25.0	But on your own financial dollar you are told
1:28.0	that you have to feed them, house them,
1:30.0	and take care of them,
1:31.0	and provide for their medical needs.
1:33.6	And that's what's happening every day at our borders and it sounds dramatic and it's not because
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