Adding Love: How to Love Criminals: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:36 And we’re going to talk about adding love to our faith—how to love the sinner, the criminal, the one that maliciously, purposely violates the word of God, violates your freedom, your rights. This is a different program. How do you love these people? I got Boko Haram up here, the leader of it, a group over in Africa who just kidnapped 200 young ladies in their teens from 13 to like 17 years old. We all read about it. Force them into slavery because he says his religion you can have slaves. Force them to marry—they call it marriage. She has no choice, because in their religion, the Muslim religion, you can marry girls as young as 9 years old because Muhammad did. He has kidnapped over 500 girls. He has kidnapped boys to go into his military. These girls are forced to carry water, clean, cook, and do everything, and then at night have sex. They don’t have any freedom. They don’t have any choice.

▶ 1:57 Now you’re going to go to this guy and his group with their guns and their brutality and go, I’m praying for you, you guys are really good guys in heart, I know you, I especially—I talk to your mom and your mom says you’re a good boy? You think you’re going to negotiate? America and Nigeria is trying to negotiate with this group. They don’t listen to negotiations. They listen to the sword. In Revelation, they that live by the sword die by the sword. There’s only one thing they listen to is force, because they use force. The only thing that will contain them is a more stronger force.

▶ 2:47 And American Christians—well, we’ll go over and we’ll have a medical and dental program and try to win them to Christ. So we go in and fix their teeth and we give them medicine, and now they’re healthier to do more brutal stuff. This is the way we think in America, and this is the message that need to get out. We need to change this stupid thinking.

▶ 3:18 This guy here, Isaiah Mendez, and his brother had already been arrested for illegal re-entry into the USA. Oh, you’re here illegally—we’ll just take you back. We’ll feed you, give you a nice bed till we get you back there, and we’ll give you some money so you got money to spend when you get back to Mexico. Now you stay in Mexico. Okay, they’re right back. They get arrested again and they get arrested again. They’re illegals. But then they caught them running a slavery program. They enslaved hundreds to thousands of girls forced to labor, forced to work, and forced to have sex with men—up to 40 men a day at $30 for 15 minutes. That takes 10 hours.

▶ 4:29 And the Republicans and a Democrat—they don’t want anybody not coming over to America. We’re the land of the free and home of the brave. We want your sick, your criminals—we want your bomb—we want your sex molesters—bring them on. And they try to tell us Americans that is humanitarianism. It’s not humanitarianism when you got people coming in and enslaving and forcing people to do what they don’t want to do. Amen. And they’re brainwashing us. They need to close that border down. There in the Bible strangers are welcome in the land if they obey the law of the land, if they obey just like anybody else. They don’t have a right to violate it. Is that a good amen? The Bible has answers for these things. They were convicted and found guilty and they’re in prison right now.

▶ 5:36 This guy here is a fire chief, Connecticut fire department. He, 39 years old, and his friend, another firefighter, 42 years old, were arrested recently by the Vermont state police, charged with aggravated sexual assault and slave trafficking to have sex with them and other men. And this boy was 12 years old. And for years they forced him to have sex with them and other young men that they brought into their apartment. They got caught. They were arrested—him and his friend, his buddy, were arrested. They both pleaded in the court not guilty. We didn’t do nothing. Not guilty. Next week he killed himself. He committed suicide. Why? He could not handle the public going through his past and going through what his action is. So he took the chicken way out, the coward way out, and killed himself—yet he wasn’t guilty?

▶ 7:06 You know, I don’t know where we get this idea of people going to be honest with us. Oh, he says he’s innocent. You see criminals walking into the police station—I’m a child molester, I’m a murderer, I’m a rapist? Oh yeah, yeah. No. Oh, I’m an upstanding citizen. Are you there? Twelve years old till in his 20s, and finally the boy come to his senses and goes there’s something wrong here, went to the authorities. They found it true, got the evidence, and the guy killed himself. You think blessing him and praying for him was going to change him? You think doing good to this guy is going to convert him? No. He needed strong discipline, strong punishment, strong laws, and if that didn’t work he needed to be removed out of society so he couldn’t hurt anybody. Could that be an amen?

▶ 8:11 Esther chapter 7:6. Esther was one of the wives of the king of Persia. Here—uh—that takes fortitude in itself to handle being married to a pagan king with a whole bunch of other wives. This lady’s got her act together, unlike a lot of American women who fall apart any little pressure that comes in their home or whatever. This lady had a relationship with God that was powerful. And Haman was a guy that didn’t like her guardian Mordecai, because Mordecai was a righteous man, stood for righteousness and righteous laws. And so he wanted to kill Mordecai because Mordecai would not bow to him. He wouldn’t give in to his civil leadership authority, because Mordecai knew his wicked heart. He knew he was out to kill all Jews. And Haman had this plan to kill all Jews and Mordecai.

▶ 9:27 So Esther goes to the king and says, king, I want you to come to my quarters and I’m going to feed you a meal, and I want you invite Haman. And so the king he comes down there and his wife fixes him a beautiful meal, and she’s a beautiful lady, the Bible says. I mean the king’s in hog heaven. He just—he’s got a beautiful wife, he’s got a beautiful meal. Boy, I tell you. And he says, okay now Esther, what else you want done? He said, I want you to come back tomorrow. I’m going to feed you another great meal. Man, I’ll be even more beautiful tomorrow. And so the king comes back the next day, and then in the meal Esther turns to the king and said, this man Haman is our adversary and enemy—he’s wicked. And when she said that, Haman got afraid before the king. Why? The king had authority to deal with him. King didn’t have to pray for anybody. He didn’t have to speak good to anybody. He had the authority to straighten him out or to set him free. So Haman right quick is afraid, and the king walked out on the balcony to think things over, and Haman knelt down before Queen Esther begging her—you know, don’t do this, don’t do this. And he comes back in and he sees Haman on his wife, took him out and hung him on the gallows that he wanted to hang Mordecai and the Jews on. Hallelujah.

▶ 11:13 But the key here: he’s wicked. He’s maliciously, on purpose, habitually wanting to hurt people, wanting to kill people, wanting to take their freedom and their rights away from them. That’s a big difference. That’s right. James 5:20, convert the sinner from the error of his way and you will save a soul from death and you’ll hide a multitude of sins. All right. Number one, civil authorities need to deal with wicked people. Number two, we got to convert them. They got to change—their one way they got to convert to another way. Their evil way they got to convert to a right way. And that’s how you deal with criminals. They got to be converted. And God in Romans 13:4 instituted civil authorities to be the avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil like Haman did. You see, either they turn or they’re going to burn. And I’m not talking about hell—they’re going to burn now. They got to pay the price. Now. You can’t be out there hurting people in society. That’s how you love the criminal. You don’t turn the other cheek. These people don’t listen to turn the other cheek. They don’t listen to going the other mile. They don’t listen to you finding something good in them to talk about. Are you there? See, that’s why Jesus did not use this principle in these situations.