Lessons learned.
Second, the pleasure of being oppositionists in an accommodationist culture. Joe Biden will have no Federal employee labelling as "aliens" those illegally in America. Though pot shops operating without a license are illegal pot shops. Since a vast difference exists between being a citizen of any country and being an alien in any country, why would our government grant illegal aliens rights belonging only to citizens? Try being an alien in Mexico while claiming the rights of citizens! We have served for so long as an economic safety-valve for Mexico that we think it our obligation to continue. The Roman Catholic Church certainly welcomes that conviction. It's the wealthiest organization in the world, with an estimated worth of $30 billion, from ownership of churches, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, offices, tennis courts and telephone towers. Internet. But while we presently spend $60 million a week housing and feeding migrant MINORS, when has that absolutist ecclesiastical body EVER spent $60 million to create jobs in nations where it rules, so their people stay home, not migrate here? This is the first reason we're oppositionists to our accommodationist culture. The apostle Paul's declaration that we're citizens of heaven, Philippians 3:20, agrees with the apostle Peter's declaration that we're aliens in this world, I Peter 2:11. Christians can't be both aliens here AND citizens here—that is...holding as the basic values of life what any nation tolerates. By being aliens here, we avoid the world and its sinful desires that war against our soul I Peter 2:11. But by being citizens of heaven, we inherit the transforming of our "lowly bodies" into Christ's "glorious body" Philippians 3:21. Why would we forfeit Christ's glory to our nation's depravity? The saying that "Christians are so heavenly-minded they're no earthly good" is a satanic lie. Robert E. Lee had a struggle between patriotism and citizenship which made him a traitor to the Union. He disliked secession and slavery but loved his native soil. God frees Christians from any such struggle by establishing our citizenship in heaven with Jesus, not in an earthly commonwealth. Citizenship with Jesus determines the basic, permanent, changeless ideals by which we identify ourselves, by which we say, "This is what we are and will always be. And by this naturally, by our relationship with Jesus, we introduce his virtues into everyday life!" Therefore, as many Christians have yet to learn, we automatically exist as spiritual aliens in America because our citizenship is in heaven. For the best in any human society doesn't even barely approximate God's world and can never equal or surpass it. To the Pentecostal crowd the apostles preached, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation" Acts 2:40. And that a society of Temple and Law, God welcomed, his word obeyed, his Person Revered. What would the apostles say to our depraved culture, indeed to every generation bequeathing an "empty way of life"? I Peter 1:18. We're oppositionists therefore to an accommodationist culture. We're also Christian-counter-culture advocates. That's the "rest of the story." Finale, Part B
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