Separation of Illegal Alien Families: What Jeff Sessions Quoted from the Bible

The lamestream media no longer hides their anti-American machinations.
They routinely slander the President and his executive team, specifically for
enforcing the United States’ immigration laws, something which the previous president
refused to do.

The coverage in the printed press and on TV showcases the plights
of the poor illegal alien families, refugees who are fleeing their home
countries seeking a better life.

Now they have gone full SJW, slamming Trump and his leadership
for separating illegal alien children from their parents.

Rebuffing this insensate criticism from the media, Sessions
quoted the Bible:

"Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to
prosecution … I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise
command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has
ordained the government for his purposes. Orderly and lawful processes are good
in themselves … and protect the weak and it protects the lawful."

Specifically, Sessions is quoting Romans 13:1: “Let every
soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the
powers that be are ordained of God.”

Notice that Sessions referenced “orderly and lawful processes”
and to “protect the weak and the lawful.” Why would anyone criticize these
goals? If United States citizens go to jail for committing crimes, the children
don’t join them. Why should it be any different with illegals and their children?

Of course, the anti-Christian bias spilled over in subsequent
reports about Sessions’ Bible reference. The snide inferences in a Washington
Post commentary took the same tired, extreme, racist argument:

Sessions
says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families. The verses he cited are
infamous.

Can you feel the clickbait already? What infamy does the commentator
refer to?

When British subjects in the original 13 colonies started rolling up
their sleeves for the fight for independence in the 1770s, loyalist preachers
hammered on a particular Bible verse from their pulpits.

When Southern preachers blasted Northern abolitionists for defying the
Fugitive Slave Act in the decade leading to the Civil War, they cited the same
lines.

Such flagrantly misleading headlines shouldn’t be in print. In
the two contexts referenced above, the political interests favoring the British
Empire and the “peculiar institution” misused that verse to demand allegiance
to unjust, ungodly government policies.

Let’s take on the misuse of God’s Word first, then let’s focus
on Sessions’ proper application of Romans 13:1.

For starters, God intends for every person to live freely
within Him. Jesus came to set us all free from the bondage of sin, for example:

“The Spirit of the
Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings
unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”
(Isaiah 61:1)

During His earthly ministry, Jesus—The Way, the Truth, and
the Life—told the Israelites:

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.” (John 8:32)

Paul the Apostle defines the Holy Spirit in line with
freedom, too:

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17)

God did not intend for rulers to tyrannize their people, for
all power does indeed come from God, as Paul wrote in Romans 13:1. In fact, Jesus’
heart is that we would have His abundant life (John 10:10), and the Apostle John
voiced God’s desire that we prosper inside and outside (3 John 2). Tyranny and repression
are incompatible with God’s will.

During the American Revolution, the British government had
no right to deny the rights of Englishmen in one part of the world while
recognizing the rights of Englishmen in the home country. The American colonists
asserted their Biblical authority to form their own government. Our rights come
from God, as affirmed in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”  Those words are revolutionary now as they were
when Thomas Jefferson penned them in 1776.

 As for slaveholders
in the Ante-Bellum United States, no passage justifies enslaving another man
because of his skin color. Paul the Apostle recognized that master-slave relationships
in Rome, but he told masters to respect their slaves:

“And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing
threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there
respect of persons with him.” (Ephesians 6:9)

He even exhorted a slave master (Philemon) to treat a slave (Onesimus)
as a brother in Christ. Paul had met Onesimus in prison, shared the Gospel with
him, and the slave believed in Jesus Christ.

Paul then sent the slave back to Philemon with these instructions:

“For perhaps he
therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; Not
now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but
how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?” (Philemon 15,16)

Now let us consider Sessions’ use of Romans 13:1. In a constitutional republic,
leaders receive their power from “We the People.” They draft laws and outline legal
processes for all matters, including detainment of illegal aliens. If the people
do not like these actions, they can petition for a redress of grievances or
change their leaders. Furthermore, these laws are being applied equitably. Trump’s
executive team have provided food and housing for the illegal minors.  If the families don’t want to be separated,
they should not break the law.

Sessions did not undermine the spirit or letter of God’s Word.
The press is just hyperventilating (again) in another desperate bid to smear
and undermine the President and his righteous enforcement of our nation’s immigration
laws. If the press wants to uphold Biblical principles, they should stop lying,
distorting people’s comments and misleading the public.