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Welcome to the Plodcast episode 93.

Plodcast episode 93.

Thanks for joining us. So I want to talk a little bit about immigration and refugees.

So what is a biblical response be to the problem of refugees, know people who are fleeing some horrendous

situation in their home country and they show up on they show upon our

border and or or people who are immigrating not because their lives are threatened,

but simply because they believe and believe rightly that their family would have much better opportunities here and they just show up on our border or they come across the

border and here they are.

Now one of the things that I would like Christians to start doing when we address these sorts of issues is

recognize that there are an economy of scale issues. So you can't simply take the parable of the Good Samaritan and say,

so here you're traveling along the road and you see a guy beat up by the side of the road and you apply oil and

wind his wounds and you load him on the donkey and do just what Jesus said to do in

the parable and you take him to the inn and you give two

coins to the innkeeper to take care of them until you return.

And so people say, see, that's what we ought to do.

Well, let me change the parable. Let's say you're going

down that same road with your same donkey and you come across not one beat-up guy, but there's just been a great battle, and you come across 50,000 wounded men lying by the side of the road. There's been a great battle and there are men on the

point of death, men crawling around, men barely wounded, you know, you've got every

known medical calamity that is there, dead men, dying men, scraped men, bruised men, all right? And you've got one donkey and your two coins.

Now what?

What is the obligation that Christians have if the ship sinks and there are a

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