refugee baby in order to push their no borders, open borders immigration policy. there are two problems with doing that. there is nothing in the biblical text that suggests that mary, joseph, and jesus came to egypt to flee herod illegally. they certainly did not come in a caravan of 5,000 threatening egyptian sovereignty. but the bigger problem, ed, the attempt by the left to demonize president trump for dealing with the bible says is his responsibility, and that is protecting citizens. i preached president trump president trump s inauguration sermon and i use the text about god telling nehemiah to build a wall around jerusalem. i said, mr. president, god is not against welding walls. the bible says that even happen will have a wall around it. not everyone will be allowed in. ed: pastor, you mentioned people mangling the christmas story. here is democratic congressman luis gutierrez at a hearing, i believe, last week.
protect citizens from evil-doers. i hut privilege of preaching the sermon before president trump s inauguration. and i chose the old testament story of god telling nehemiah to build a wall around jerusalem. and i said, mr. president, god is not against walls. walls are not unchristian. the bible says even heaven is going to have a wall around it you, not everyone is going to be allowed in. jedediah: pastor, what do you think of the larger issue of plifingses using politicians invoking jesus to score points at times like this. how does that feel for you as someone in a leadership position in the religious community. look, i m not one that believes that the bible doesn t inform political decisions. it does. but i think people like this congressman and others may be sincere but they are sincerely wrong because they confuse the role of government with the role of the church. look, we have a church tomorrow morning. we are going to open our
what we ve seen from the democrats so far is complete obstruction. they are willing to shut down the government and put american lives at risk just to protect hundreds of thousands of people who are here unlawfully and illegally as opposed to protecting the hundreds of millions of american citizens. they are playing politics with people s lives. we saw it a few weeks ago and we re seeing it now. the president laid out a bipartisan plan that has a popular platforms throughout. people want a daca fix, a lasting daca fix. people want border security. people want an end to chain migration and the end to visa lottery system and we know this, but a wall works. there is one around san diego and 2 1/2 decades 95% drop in illegal crossings. a wall around jerusalem, 99% drop in illegal crossings. it works and democrats know it. sandra: speaking of daca and a fix to that democrats are coming down hard on john kelly. they continue to do so over the comment he made referring to dreamers as lazy.
wall around jerusalem to help protect the city. that will be at the center of the sermon. should be about an hour long before they head back over to the white house for that tea with the obamas. but everybody that you would expect to be here is here, and this is kind of a tradition that we ve seen pretty much consistently since 1933. president-elect trump continuing that today. the reverend indeed very controversial, runs a 12,000-member mega church in dallas. we should point out, he has said islam and mormonism are heresies from the pit of hell, suggested the catholic church was led astray by satan and on and on. that s one of the challenges for the president-elect, projecting a message of unity but surrounding himself with allies of the campaign. if you re left of center, you look at this and say how can you deliver a message of unity when you allow the lead sermon, when you go to the president s church, as st. john s is called,