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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has responded to Pope Leo XIV’s concerns about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, proclaiming that “borders are biblical.”
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In speaking with reporters Tuesday after a vote on the House floor, Johnson was asked to address Pope Leo XIV’s citation of “Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.”
“Borders and walls are biblical,” Johnson, a Southern Baptist, responded. “From the Old Testament to the New, God has allowed us to set up our civil societies and have separate nations.”
“Immigration is not something that’s frowned upon in Scripture,” he added. “We’re to welcome the sojourner and love our neighbor as ourself.”
The speaker continued: “What’s also important in the Bible is that assimilation is expected and anticipated and proper.”
“When someone comes into your country, comes into your nation, they do not have the right to change its laws or to change its society,” Johnson said. “They are expected to assimilate.”
“We haven’t had a lot of that going on,” he insisted.
When speaking to reporters in November, Pope Leo XIV noted how “Matthew’s Gospel Chapter 25” features Jesus discussing how “at the end of the world, we’re going to be asked … ‘how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?’” The pontiff shared his belief that “There’s a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what’s happening” in the United States.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what’s going on right now,” he lamented. The relevant portion of Matthew 25:35 mentioned by Leo states, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.”
Johnson contends that biblical commands to “take care of the sojourner and the neighbor” and “treat them as yourself” are “an admonition to individuals, not to the civil authorities.”
Johnson detailed how “the civil authorities are given authority under scripture to maintain order” and characterized the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy as at odds with biblical teaching.
“It’s a calling to maintain order in society and we have not had that. When Biden and Harris opened the borders wide for four years, we had as many as 20 million illegals come [into] the country, and we all know many dangerous people: hardened criminals, child molesters, rapists, murderers, all the rest, terrorists who came into the country.”
“We did not take care of our borders,” he recalled. “Sovereign borders are biblical and good and right and they’re just not because we hate the people on the outside, it’s because we love the people on the inside. We should love our neighbor as ourself as individuals but as a civil authority … the government has to maintain the law, and that is biblical, and it’s right, and it’s just.”
Johnson vowed to post additional analysis on his X account. He followed through on this promise, publishing an X post later Tuesday asserting that “Despite the insistence of the progressive Left, people of all religious faiths should support a strong national border — and Christians CERTAINLY should.”
“Critics are fond of citing particular Bible verses out of context to claim that Christians and Jews are being ‘unfaithful’ if we oppose their radical open borders agenda. It has become increasingly important for us to set this record straight,” he wrote. “The Bible teaches that God ordained and created four distinct spheres of authority — (1) the individual, (2) the family, (3) the church, and (4) civil government — and each of these spheres is given different responsibilities.”
Johnson said that the civil government was established to “faithfully uphold and enforce the law so that order can be maintained in this fallen world, crime can be kept at bay, and people can live peacefully,” citing Romans 13 and 1 Timothy 2:1-2.
“The Bible is clear that Christians should practice personal charity — but also insist upon the enforcement of laws (like our federal immigration statutes) so that ‘every person is subject to the governing authorities’ and ‘those who resist incur judgment,'” he wrote.
“The Bible speaks favorably and consistently about distinct nations of people (see, e.g., Gen. 18:18, Num. 32:17, Psalm 67:2, Matt. 28:19, Rev. 5:9, 7:9, NIV) and about borders and walls that are built to guard and secure people, property, and instructions (see e.g., Deut 19:14, 27:17, 32:8, Acts 17:26, NIV). When Nehemiah heroically led the Jewish remnant to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after their enemies had destroyed those walls, he was doing the noble work of God.”
Johnson said that followers of Christ are “called to love unconditionally, serve selflessly, and defend the defenseless.”
“We are also called to stand for, and work to ensure, just government,” Johnson said. “Justice and mercy are not mutually exclusive pursuits. To the contrary, God specifically requires His people to practice both (Micah 6:8). Despite the unfounded claims of the Left, supporting a strong national border is a very Christian thing to do. The Bible tells us so.”
What do you think of Speaker Johnson’s stance on border security? Share your thoughts and prayers below.
This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Mike Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151760213.
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Border security is an important responsibility of government and I appreciate Speaker Johnson addressing it. I hope policy decisions will also reflect compassion, justice, and care for the vulnerable while maintaining the safety of our nation.
Speaker Johnson awesome biblical reply to the Pope. So sad he’s countering and just taking part of the word isolated from all the Bible.
What I noted was missing in all this discussion this time
The immigrants have entered “illegally”
One thing I have so appreciated w current administration the Great Lengths they’ve gone in face of Great atrocities of has upheld and respected the due process of law.
VIP for a true democracy to suceed.
I agree completely with his stance and the scriptures he used
So the problem is that for 50 yrs or more , under different Democratic Presidents, with help with ” rich, “, people, there was a plan for a group of people to stay in control of our government!!! We, the regular people of tge US had ” NO”, idea what was going on. But after President Biden opened the ” borders”, we could see the manipulation that was happening. God is a God of wisdom, directions, organization. He does NOT approve of ” open” borders Ask Jesus, Jesus will answer.And Jesus tells ” every one”, the same answer. He told the Jews tge same, in.the Old Testament. But they did not OBEY. Taking on the other people traits of worshipping other gods, etc. Jesus punished the Jews. If Jesus punished the Jews, Jesus will punish US. Yes, the.US government needs to really READ their Bibles. Actually , Jesus wants the US to take on His wisdom, love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, wisdom, healing, deliverance, peace, joy, protection. But OBEDIENCE is required. Not making up People’s rules and regulations. OBEDIENCE to ALL God’s wisdom, directions, rules, and regulations. Because even though Jesus loves everyone, not everyone loves Jesus. And because of this, NOT everyone will be received in heaven!!! The US needs to obey the whole Bible!! In Jesus’s name Amen
Praise God for Speaker Johnson and his knowledge and understand of the Word teaching us the truth and its application in the world, in Jesus name, amen and amen.
I absolutely agree with Speaker Johnson. The pope is not correct in his interpretation, nor is the pope correct to advocate for a two state solution in Israel.
We stand firmly only on the Word of God. Thank you, Mr. Speaker for standing on scripture.
My concern is that the Pope has no authority over Christians whole wide. Also the left is using him to leverage their agenda. I pray that the pope is truly saved and he rightly divides the word of God in scripture. Lord I pray in Jesus’s name.
Father, thank you for Speaker Johnson’s reply to Pope Leo XIV’s concerns about our immigration policy. Give us understanding about the difference between individual and governmental responsibilities. Give our President and our Congress wisdom regarding the protection of our nation. I praise your name for your love and care for us as a nation and as individuals.
Im so Godly Proud of His response. Good for Speaker Johnson
Speaker Johnson has put truth from The Word to support the decisions regarding “illegal” immigrants. While reading the article I also remembered Joshua 9:14-15 about Joshua and the leaders of Israel didn’t seek God about the Gibeonites and made a peace treaty with them after they were deceived by the Canaanite group. They were deceived, disobedient to God, Israel wasn’t allowed to destroy the Gibeonites, and Israel was forced to put the deceivers into positions as laborers. Which means they were still in their midst and could influence negatively.
This country as a history of people in leadership making unrighteous decisions that put this country and it’s people under the influence of the deceiver and disobey God and walk contrary to the safety of His Word and Promises. Enough is enough!
‘A big AMEN! Very well said and accurate!!!
Today’s Charles Spurgeon on biblegateway.com (under explore/devotionals) is written for and about you my beloved intercessors!
“Pray one for another.”
James 5:16
As an encouragement cheerfully to offer intercessory prayer, remember that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears,
for the prayer of Christ is of this character.
In all the incense which our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not a single grain for himself.
His intercession must be the most acceptable of all supplications–
and the more like our prayer is to Christ’s, the sweeter it will be;
thus while petitions for ourselves will be accepted,
our pleadings for others, having in them more of the fruits of the Spirit, more love, more faith, more brotherly kindness, will be, through the precious merits of Jesus, the sweetest oblation that we can offer to God,
the very fat of our sacrifice.
Remember, again, that intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent.
What wonders it has wrought!
The Word of God teems with its marvellous deeds.
Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand,
use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.
When thou hast the King’s ear, speak to him for the suffering members of his body.
When thou art favoured to draw very near to his throne, and the King saith to thee, “Ask, and I will give thee what thou wilt,”
let thy petitions be, not for thyself alone, but for the many who need his aid.
If thou hast grace at all, and art not an intercessor, that grace must be small as a grain of mustard seed.
Thou hast just enough grace to float thy soul clear from the quicksand,
but thou hast no deep floods of grace, or else thou wouldst carry in thy joyous bark a weighty cargo of the wants of others,
and thou wouldst bring back from thy Lord, for them, rich blessings which but for thee they might not have obtained:–
“Oh, let my hands forget their skill,
My tongue be silent, cold, and still,
This bounding heart forget to beat,
If I forget the mercy-seat!”
–Charles Spurgeon
“For we must all appear before The Judgment Seat of Christ;
that every one may receive the things done in his body,
according to what he has done,
whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of The Lord,
we persuade men…”
2nd Corinthians Chapter 5
Great interpretation of Scripture!
thank you lord for giving us a speaker of the house that truly understands your word. we pray that the pope would, too
legal immigration and assimilate. decades ago talk was of making English our national language. not done. now teachers are expected to teach elementary students in multiple languages. it doesn’t work. I suggest that as a start to keeping our country intact but probably too late. Will the pope welcome sharia law in Vatican City?