I've heard people suggest that we should take care of an unrepentant, wife-beating gang member from El Salvador. They use the Good Samaritan as their proof. I believe this is a misreading of the parable.
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Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. We have a Kilmar update. You don't hear the left talking about it much anymore. It's got so bad that even the Democrats are like, ah, let's abandon this guy. But a second protective order has been released.
Not another one, right? So there was one in 2020. This one was in 2020. No, no, sorry, there was in 2021. This is another one from 2020, where his wife accuses Kilmar Abrego Garcia
of physical abuse, threatening her, says that she said she has a recording where he says if he kills her, nobody can do anything to him. The wife said, at one point, I'm afraid to be close to him. At this point, I'm afraid to be close to him.
I have multiple photos and videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he has left on me. He grabbed her by the hair in the car, dragged her out of the car, left her on the street, broke her son's tablet, broke the door to their house, punched the wall, brokepping, shoving, mental injury of a child, detaining against their will.
We're supposed to believe all women, right? And you had the Democrats standing with Kilmar. Pretty wild. So we have this list here of Kilmar, of the Maryland man, as we were told. Salvadorian citizen, illegal alien, MS-13 gang member. His wife's ex said he wanted custody of the kids because she is dating a gang member.
Accused multiple times by his wife of being a wife beater, domestic abuser. They also released the body camera footage of when he was pulled over in Tennessee, convicted of human trafficking, with eight people in his truck with no luggage
going from Texas to Maryland. Amazing. And we had sitting US senators go and visit him. The midterm ads are writing themselves. Why would so many people jump to this person's aid in the first place? Of course, TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, of course.
But there's something else there. It's anything Trump's for, they have to be against. Anything Trump's against, they have to be for. So if Trump's against this gang member, then the left has to be for him. They've tied themselves in a lot of knots over many different issues motivated by that force alone. But there's something else going on too. Allie Beth Stuckey, she wrote a book called Toxic Empathy.
She said, keep in mind that many liberals suffer from misplaced mothering, which explains their passion for destructive causes and people. They channel the love meant for children because more women are waiting longer
to have kids or families at all. So they had this natural love that's intended for children, but they've turned it into instead abstract issues and victims, social justice. This allows them to feel virtuous without having to suffer a real sacrifice. They're very protective of this dynamic. Thus their rage. When it's threatened,
this is what JD Vance was getting at remember during the campaign Really? I think the one controversial thing he said was he talked about the childless cat lady and Childless cat ladies were very offended But he said the u.s. Is being run by Democrats Corporate oligarchs and a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made
So they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. Remember when he said that? Or no, I don't think he said it during the campaign, I take it back, he said it, I think on Tucker Carlson, and it came out during the campaign, that's what it was. People found it and brought it up
and made him answer to that over and over again. So that is the latest with the Kilmar story. I hope the last update we ever give on the Kilmar, but there's just so much to learn about how this all operates and how the left is operating about this story. And we talked the other day, I don't know if we did a segment here about the lefts. We came up with the word malicious obtuseness with the tattoos on his fingers, the MS13, they're like, oh, I don't know. I'm pretty sure that's Photoshopped.
You're like, what's Photoshopped? Well, look, it says in Times New Roman font in black letters, size 12 above each symbol, MS13. That looks altered, therefore the photo's Photoshopped, therefore it's not real, therefore he's not in a gang, therefore he's a Maryland man and we need to bring him home. You're like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
You're being obtuse, but not just up to shipping maliciously obtuse. You know it. So there's a lot of lessons, big political and life lessons to learn from this whole thing. But here's where I want to pivot to the Bible. People for a long time. And I heard it just the other day, have used the good Samaritan story as a justification to embrace gang members in America.
I guess I think that's the conclusion to the rest of that. Like we shouldn't deport illegal alien gang members because the good Samaritan. But maybe they don't use it for the gang members as much as just the good people. The otherwise good, the non gang members, the aliens, I guess, is who they're focused on. But I just want to use that as an excuse to talk about the Good Samaritan story and one of my favorite points of the story. And this point is that you're the bloodied man who needs saving. I think seeing it this way provides a lot of
clarity to the story. So the context is the man asks to Jesus, who is my neighbor? It's Luke 10. Then Jesus answered and said, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him and departed, leaving him half
dead.
So this road was known to be super dangerous. It had a nickname. The nickname was like the road of thieves or something like that. Now I've heard different analyses on this one. I'll let you decide what nuance you want to provide. This is William Barclay, mid-1900s. He said he was an obviously reckless and foolhardy character.
People seldom attempted the Jerusalem to Jericho road alone if they were carrying goods or valuables. Seeking safety in numbers, they traveled in convoys or caravans. This man had no one but himself to blame for the plight in which he found himself." And I got this quote from Spurgeon in a sermon he gave about this. He said, nobody could blame the poor Jew that when he was going down to Jericho about the business, about his business, the thieves beset him
and demanded his money, stripped him, left him half dead. How could he be blamed? It was to him a pure misfortune. I don't know. I don't know if it matters, but you can decide which of those two you prefer.
But you know the rest of the story, right? So the priest and Levite, both religious officials, they come across him first, and they had great excuses, I'm sure, not to help. Spurgeon said, I never knew a man, refused to help the poor,
who failed to give at least one admirable excuse. But the Samaritan then came, helped the Jew, and Jews and Samaritans hated each other. He had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and he set him on his own animal,
brought him to an inn and took care of him. So a couple of things. First, the Samaritan knew what to do, meaning he had the skills to take care of another person. That's an interesting detail. That's inspiring or convicting um also the samaritan put him on his animal which means he walked so
he really even that level of sacrifice he brought him presumably out of his way or at least the samaritan had somewhere else to go so he was at least sacrificing his time but now this guy was the top priority in his life. And then maybe my favorite part is he continued to take care of this man, even after he left, right? He didn't just hand him off to someone else.
He said, hey, I'll pay you back whatever resources you need to, for this man to get better, let me know and I'll pay you back. So you're the man, you're not the Samaritan, you're the, you're the bloodied up guy. You're the broken and bloodied and totally helpless because of your sin, man who needs saving.
Spurgeon said, I've set before you the highest example. And I shall conclude when I've said two things. Judge yourself, all ye my hearers. If you are hoping for salvation by your own works, look to what you must be throughout an entire life. If your works are to save you, you must love your God with all your heart and soul and strength and your neighbors in this Samaritan's fashion,
even as yourself and both of these without a single failure. Okay, so you have to be at, you do everything the Samaritan did all the time to everyone constantly never fail. Have you done this? Can you hope to do it perfectly? Okay, so if not, why do you risk your souls
on this frail skiff, this leaky sinking craft of your poor works, for you will never get to heaven therein. Lastly, you who are Christ's people are saved and you are not going to do these things in order to save yourself. No, the greater Samaritan has saved you.
Jesus has redeemed you, brought you into his church, put you under the care of his ministers, bidden us to take care of you and promise to reward us if we do so in the day when he comes. Seek then to be true followers of your Lord by practical deeds of kindness. And if you've been backwards in your gifts to help either the temporal or the spiritual needs of man, begin from this morning with generous hearts and God will bless you. Oh divine spirit, help us all be like Jesus.
Now we can each reflect on our individual roles of helping unrepentant, wife-beating gang members in El Salvador. But in the meantime, let us take the time to know that Jesus is the ultimate Samaritan, serving us, loving us all the way through, all the way through to the end, despite our sin,
and despite our being able to offer nothing in exchange for his love. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website Mike Slater dot Locals dot com.
