The reason we have to love the other human being/ whether legal o illegal is not because they contribute tax or money or else.
Even if they rob us, christian still commanded to love other human.
Stephen not only being rob, more than that people rob his soul aka kill him. But he pray for they forgiveness.
I myself not able to do that yet. But it is what the bible teaching Do we choose to do and believe our own calculation, and not to love them, they do damage to me, this what i usually choose, or we trust Him, what ever his command will end up to our own benefit.
Is not an easy task. Choose the narrow way is not easy.
AND Loving them and INSISTING they go by the Immigration LAWS, are two sides of the same Coins. AND THAT IS THE WILL OF GOD.
Romans 13:1-8 (NKJV)
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1 [/SUP] Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
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2 [/SUP] Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
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3 [/SUP] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
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4 [/SUP] For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to
execute wrath on him who practices evil.
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5 [/SUP] Therefore
you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake.
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6 [/SUP] For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing.
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7 [/SUP] Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes
are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
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8 [/SUP] Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 Peter 2:13-16 (NKJV)
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13 [/SUP] Therefore
submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,
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14 [/SUP] or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and
for the praise of those who do good.
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For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men--
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16 [/SUP] as free, yet
not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
I was a Volunteer Prison Chaplain for 9 years, ministering to those incarcerated in the largest Security Housing Unit (The Hole) for the Worst of the Worst violent inmates in the State of California. I showed them the Love of Christ, every time I talked to them or took them Christian reading material. FREQUENTLY they tried to get me to help them break the rules such as sneaking a letter out without the Officers seeing it. NOT ONCE did I help then commit a crime. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HELPING INMATES BREAK RULES AND HELPING ILLEGAL ALIENS BREAK RULES?
SIN IS SIN! GOD SAYS DON'T DO IT.