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Obedience to God proves our love for Him (1 John 5:2-3), demonstrates our faithfulness to Him (1 John 2:3-6), glorifies Him in the world (1 Peter 2:12), and opens avenues of blessing for us (John 13:17).
Faith is necessary to please God (Hebrews 11:6), and if our faith is genuine and true, we will live a lifestyle characterized by righteousness, modeling the example set for us by Jesus Christ. We obey His commands, not because we have to, but because we want to, because we love Him. We are enabled to obey because, once we believe in Christ and are saved, we are remade. We are not the same people we once were. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
When we obey the Lord, we can live a life of joy, without shame, rooted deeply in the Lord and confident in our eternal hope. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17). Our obedience is actually part of our assurance that we truly know God (1 John 2:3).
When God’s children obey their Heavenly Father, He is glorified. Jesus told us that the plan is for others to “see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). Of course, performing “good deeds” requires obedience to the One who calls us to good deeds. A Christian’s testimony of holiness is a strong witness that God is at work in the world.
“Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in obedience to him” (Psalm 128:1). The Bible often tells us that God blesses and rewards obedience. James 1:22-25 says, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. . . . Whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.” See also Psalm 119:1-2.
God is gracious. If we haven’t been living for Him, if we haven’t been following His commandments, if we’ve been living in and for the world, we can be transformed by the blood of Jesus Christ. We can ask God for forgiveness, and He will give it. And He will choose to forget the sin, just as if we had never committed it in the first place. God is glorified when He extends forgiveness, because it is written, “I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds. . . . Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more” (Hebrews 10:16-17).
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Jesus said, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
—John 10:28-30
“He’s got the whole world in his hand.” Yes, the song may be true, but in a much more significant way, God holds us, each of his children of faith, in his hands. As we entrust our lives to him in faith, his grace ensures that no one and nothing can steal us away from his grace, his promises, and his eternal loving care. Our future in Jesus is secure. We are in God’s hands!
Prayer
O Lord, thank you for your steadfast and secure love. Thank you for the assurance that my future rests in your hands. Thank you for holding me in your protective grace. May I live today with confidence and joy, knowing that no matter where I find myself, you are there to uphold and sustain me. I thank you for this assurance, in Jesus’ name. Amen and Amen
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Joy is something we all long for but that often seems difficult to grab hold of. Experiencing joy should be a part of every Christian’s life. Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, produced by God’s work in us, and it is part of God’s will for us.
We know that even the most mature of God’s people experience periods of joylessness. For instance, Job wished he had never been born (Job 3:11). David prayed to be taken away to a place where he would not have to deal with reality (Psalm 55:6–8). Elijah, even after defeating 450 prophets of Baal with fire called down from heaven (1 Kings 18:16–46), fled into the desert and asked God to take his life (1 Kings 19:3–5). If these men struggled, how can we experience consistent joy in the Christian life?
The first thing is to realize that joy is a gift from God. The root word for joy in the Greek is chara, which is closely related with the Greek charis for “grace.” Joy is both a gift of God as well as a response to the gifts of God. Joy comes when we are aware of God’s grace and relish His favor.
With this in mind, it’s evident that one way to experience joy is to focus on God. Rather than dwelling on our difficulties or those things robbing our contentment, we can dwell on God. This is not to say we should deny our discontent or stuff negative emotions. Following the example of many of the psalmists, we can pour out our hearts to God. We can tell Him bluntly all the things that ail us. But then we submit those things to Him, remember who He is, and are happy in Him. Psalms 3, 13, 18, 43, and 103 are good examples.
The book of Philippians has much to say about joy, even though Paul wrote the epistle from prison. Philippians 4:4–8 gives some guidelines for experiencing joy in the Christian life: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! . . . The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Here we see the importance of praising God, remembering that He is near, praying about our worries, and keeping our minds focused on the good things of God. We can experience joy when we intentionally praise. David wrote that the study of God’s Word can bring us joy (Psalm 19:8). We experience joy by communing with God through prayer. And we experience joy by keeping our focus on godly things rather than on difficult circumstances or discontentment.
Jesus also gave some instructions regarding joy. In John 15 He talked about abiding in Him and obeying Him. He said, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete” (John 15:9–11). One of the keys to joy is living in obedience to God.
Another way to experience joy in the Christian life is through community. God gave Elijah rest and then sent a man, Elisha, to help him (1 Kings 19:19–21). We, too, need friends that we can share our hurts and pains with (Ecclesiastes 4:9–12). Hebrews 10:19–25 says, “Brothers and sisters . . . let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Because of the grace of God, we know we can approach God confidently in prayer (Hebrews 10:19). We know we are cleansed of our sin (Hebrews 10:22). And we are joined into a new community, a family of believers. With our fellow believers, we hold firm to our faith, trusting in the character of God. We also encourage one another. Christians do not belong to this world (John 17:14–16; Philippians 3:20). We long to be with God, finally restored to our original design. Life can be lonely and discouraging. Others help remind us of truth, carry our burdens with us, and strengthen us to continue on (Galatians 6:10; Colossians 3:12–14).
Joy is meant to be a hallmark of the Christian life. It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit and a gift of God. We best receive this gift when we focus on the truth of who God is, commune with Him through prayer, and rely on the community of believers He has provided.
Today’s Devotional
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The spiritual practice of meditation is not unique to Christianity. Many non-Christian religions and secular groups practice meditation. However, when the Bible speaks of meditation, as it often does, it is not the kind of meditation that seeks to disengage, silence, or empty the mind, as in Transcendental or Buddhist forms of meditation. The Scriptures teach meditation that actively engages the mind for the purpose of understanding God’s Word and putting it into practice. How can we meditate on God’s Word so that it produces in us fruitful and holy lives before God?
In the ancient Hebrew world, meditation always involved exercising and engaging the mind. Thomas Watson, a seventeenth-century Puritan minister, devoted much of his life to biblical meditation, both practicing it and teaching about it. He aptly defined the discipline in his book Heaven Taken by Storm as “an holy exercise of the mind, whereby we bring the truths of God to remembrance, and do seriously ponder upon them, and apply them to our selves.”
By Watson’s definition, we can meditate on God’s Word by bringing to memory His truths. Remembering requires active, cognitive recall of what we know about God from His Word: “On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night” (Psalm 63:6). According to Psalm 1:2, a blessed, fruitful, and righteous person delights in the Word of the Lord “and meditates on his law day and night.” This meditation is constant (“day and night”) and focused on God’s Word (“his law”). We meditate on God’s Word by filling our minds with it day and night.
God called Joshua to vigorous and continual meditation: “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Joshua 1:8). Here, biblical meditation expands from merely thinking to speaking (“on your lips”). The passage also states the purpose of meditation, that is, obedience to God’s Word, which produces prosperity and success before God.
Watson’s description of meditation includes serious contemplation or pondering of God’s truth. Psalm 119:15 says, “I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways” (NLT). So biblical meditation involves deep reflection and study of God’s Word. When we read the Bible, are we reading it slowly and intentionally? Are we thinking about the significance of the words and how they relate to our lives and the lives of others? If so, we are meditating on God’s Word.
Meditation requires time and effort. It can’t be rushed. It involves withdrawing from the distractions of this life so that we can fix our thoughts on God and His Word. By shutting out the noise of this world, we are better able to focus our attention on God and understand His ways: “I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes” (Psalm 119:99).
Finally, as Watson touched on, biblical meditation seeks to apply God’s Word to our lives. Psalm 19:14 illustrates this truth: “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.” Meditating on God’s Word becomes pleasing in God’s sight because it results in the transformation of our lives. As we read and speak God’s truth and actively ponder it, the Holy Spirit enables us to put that truth into practice. In Philippians 4:8–9, the apostle Paul gives us this beautiful and complete picture of biblical meditation: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
Meditation is a way of internalizing God’s Word—taking it deep into our hearts—so that the Holy Spirit can work through it to guide, teach, purify, and transform us from within. We can listen to the Bible, read it, and memorize Scripture to get it into our minds, but then we must also ponder it continually in our hearts so that we gain a deeper understanding of it and how it applies to our lives.
Here are four practical tips for meditating on God’s Word:
- Carve out a specific time and place each day when you are least likely to be interrupted or distracted to get alone and meditate on God’s Word.
- Start with prayer and ask God to help you with your meditation. You can ask the Lord to draw you closer to Him, open your eyes to His truth, help you apply that truth in your life, and transform you as you meditate on God’s Word.
- Choose a small section of Scripture. Think about what the passage means. Study it in depth so that you can understand it in context. Take notes. Ask questions. Memorize the passage. Ask God what He wants to say to you through the text.
- Consider how you can apply the passage to your life in practical ways, and ask God to help you follow through in obedience to what He shows you.
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Is Trump The Antichrist? A Biblical Reality Check After Tucker Carlson’s Warning
On a recent episode of The Tucker Carlson Show, Tucker Carlson did something few in conservative media have dared to do: he openly questioned whether Donald Trump could, in any sense, fit the biblical profile of the Antichrist.
It wasn’t a throwaway comment. It was a carefully framed warning.
Carlson pointed to Trump’s recent sharing of AI-generated images depicting himself alongside Jesus–imagery he argued crossed into mockery of the Christian faith. From there, he turned to Scripture, invoking the chilling description of the coming “man of lawlessness,” a figure who will “oppose and exalt himself over everything that is worshiped.” Then came the line that electrified his audience: “He will pose as God… He will mock other gods, and put himself in their place.”
And finally, the question that has since echoed across social media posts and podcasts: “Could this be the antichrist?
For many believers, that question struck a nerve–not because they are convinced, but because Scripture itself warns of a deception so powerful that even the faithful must remain watchful. Carlson is tapping into something real: the Bible does describe a figure marked by arrogance, self-exaltation, and a chilling disregard for God.
But here is where the conversation must shift from emotion to precision.
Because identifying the Antichrist is not about spotting similarities. It’s about recognizing a complete and unmistakable fulfillment of prophecy. And when you actually lay those prophecies side by side with Trump’s life, leadership, and legacy–the argument doesn’t just weaken. It collapses.
Yes, Trump is a deeply polarizing figure. Yes, his personality often leans toward bravado, exaggeration, and self-promotion. Even many of his supporters acknowledge that. But personality alone has never been the biblical standard for identifying the Antichrist. If it were, history would be crowded with candidates–from Nero to countless tyrants who displayed far more cruelty and self-deification than anything seen in modern American politics.
What matters is not whether a leader resembles certain traits. What matters is whether he fulfills the full prophetic profile laid out across Book of Daniel, Book of Revelation, and First Epistle of John.
And that profile is far more specific–and far more global–than many realize.
Start with the most overlooked point: the Antichrist is not merely a powerful leader. He is a world ruler. The Book of Revelation describes a figure given authority over “every tribe, people, language and nation.” This is not symbolic of influence–it is a picture of unprecedented global control. Trump, despite his influence, governs one nation during a time of increasing global division, not unification.
Then there is the geopolitical structure. The Antichrist is tied to a revived system often interpreted from Book of Daniel as a ten-kingdom confederacy emerging from the remnants of the Roman Empire–commonly associated with Europe. Trump’s presidency has been defined not by integration with Europe, but by tension with it. NATO disputes, trade conflicts, and ideological clashes marked his foreign policy–not leadership over a unified continental bloc.
Next comes one of the clearest prophetic markers: a seven-year covenant involving Israel and multiple nations. This agreement–often seen as a false peace–becomes the cornerstone of the Antichrist’s rise. While Trump has brokered historic normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states, those deals fall far short of the sweeping, time-bound covenant described in Scripture. The scale, scope, and prophetic weight simply aren’t there.
And then there is the religious dimension–arguably the most decisive of all.
The Antichrist does not operate alone. The Book of Revelation describes a second figure, often called the false prophet, who works alongside him to establish a global system of worship. Together, they introduce the “mark of the beast,” a mechanism tied to economic participation–no buying or selling without it. This is not vague symbolism; it is a structured, enforceable system that merges religion, economics, and governance into one.
Nothing in Trump’s policies, proposals, or alliances comes close to this framework. If anything he has found himself more and more at odds with religious leaders such as his current conflict with Pope Leo.
Even more striking is the ultimate claim the Antichrist will make: he will declare himself to be God and demand worship. Not admiration. Not loyalty. Worship. There is a profound difference between political ego and divine self-declaration. However exaggerated Trump’s rhetoric may be, it has never crossed into explicit claims of deity that demand worship.
In fact, if anything, Trump’s public posture–however imperfect–has often leaned in the opposite direction. He has repeatedly voiced support for Christianity, defended religious liberty, and aligned himself with pro-Israel positions that resonate deeply with many believers. His recent comments about participating in the “America Reads The Bible” marathon, including reading from 2 Chronicles alongside staff, may be symbolic–but symbolism matters. It reflects orientation, not opposition.
And that brings us to a critical point many miss: the Antichrist is not simply flawed. He is fundamentally anti-Christ–opposed in essence, not just imperfect in behavior.
Scripture also makes clear that this figure will unleash severe persecution against believers, particularly Jews and Christians. Historically, Trump’s record does not reflect that trajectory. If anything, it reflects the opposite.
So what, then, are we to make of Carlson’s warning?
At its core, it is a reminder–perhaps an important one–that Christians should not place blind trust in any political figure. That instinct is healthy. No leader should be beyond scrutiny, especially when matters of faith are involved.
But there is a difference between discernment and misidentification.
When the label “Antichrist” is applied too loosely, it doesn’t sharpen our awareness–it dulls it. It turns a precise biblical warning into a generalized insult. And in doing so, it risks leaving people unprepared for the real figure Scripture describes: a leader of astonishing charisma, global authority, and deceptive brilliance, who will not merely provoke controversy but will reshape the world itself.
That is not a role currently being played on the American political stage.
So no–Donald Trump is not the Antichrist. But the fact that the question is even being asked should serve as a wake-up call. Not about Trump, but about how easily we can drift from careful biblical understanding into reactionary speculation.
Because when the true Antichrist does rise, he won’t just spark debate.
He will command the world.
Young Men Are Becoming Increasingly Religious, Polling Confirms
Newly released polling data has confirmed what many pastors and churchgoers have long suspected: young men are bucking the cultural trend of declining religiosity and returning to the church in droves.
A Gallup survey released Thursday revealed a remarkable surge in young men saying that religion is “very important” to them, with data from 2024-2025 showing 42%, a 14-point increase from 2022-2023.
The poll found that the phenomenon happening among young men aged 18-29 is not happening among their female peers, only 29% of whom said that religion is “very important” to them (a figure that has stayed roughly the same since 2020). The upward trend in religiosity is also largely not occurring among other age groups, with the exception of men aged 30-49 (who saw a five-point increase over the same timespan) and men aged 50-64 (who saw a three-point increase).
Notably, the numbers mark a clear reversal from the beginning of the millennium, when young women led young men in saying that religion was “very important” to them (52% vs. 43%).
As reported by The New York Times, college students like Mason Gubser likely epitomize the changing attitudes of many young men in their approach to faith. Gubser told the Times that he had become dissatisfied with a life centered on constant phone scrolling. “All my entertainment is right here in front of me, but there’s no fulfillment from that,” he said. “I wanted something new and something traditional and something that felt holy.”
Gubser, now 21, eventually found the Catholic center on the Texas A&M University campus, where he became Catholic two years ago and is now engaged to be married. “What I was really looking for, and still am, was purpose,” he remarked. “The church definitely provides that.”
The surge in religion among young men is likely driving upward trends in different segments of Christianity, particularly Catholicism. Data acquired from 140 of the country’s 175 dioceses “saw a 38 percent increase in Easter converts across U.S. dioceses relative to last year.”
In addition, Orthodox churches are also seeing increases in both attendance and membership, which reportedly is being driven by young men. Another sign of a potentially budding revival are sales of Bibles, which saw a 22% spike in sales in 2024 and are currently seeing an explosion in the sales of high-end versions.
David Closson, who serves as director of the Center for Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council, sees the new Gallup data as highly significant.
“The new Gallup data is striking, particularly because it reverses a long-standing trend,” he told The Washington Stand. “For decades, young women have been more religious than young men, but that gap has now flipped. One factor appears to be political realignment. The report itself notes that much of the increase is concentrated among young Republican men, suggesting that broader ideological shifts are influencing religious engagement.”
“At the same time,” Closson continued, “we should not ignore deeper cultural dynamics. For years, young men have been told that traditional expressions of masculinity are problematic or even harmful. In that context, it is not surprising that some are gravitating toward faith communities that offer a clearer sense of identity, purpose, and moral framework. For many young men, church provides structure, accountability, and a vision of ordered freedom, all of which can be especially compelling in a culture that often feels unmoored.”
Clossen further noted that cultural factors are likely key to understanding the differences between the religious movement of young men and their female counterparts.
“The divergence between young men and young women also raises important questions. While young men are showing renewed interest in the importance of religion, young women’s numbers have remained flat and, in some respects, are at historic lows,” he explained. “That suggests we are not simply seeing a general religious revival, but a more targeted shift that may reflect differences in how young men and women are responding to cultural pressures and expectations.”
As for the church, Closson posited that the current moment “presents a significant opportunity. The data suggest that many young men are open to deeper conversations about meaning, truth, and faith. Churches should be ready to meet that moment with serious teaching, intentional discipleship, and a robust vision of biblical manhood that emphasizes responsibility, service, and spiritual leadership.
At the same time, the church must not lose sight of the need to engage young women thoughtfully and faithfully, ensuring that the message of the gospel speaks clearly and compellingly to both men and women in a rapidly changing cultural landscape.”
Joseph Backholm, who serves as senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at FRC, observed that the new Gallup data points toward an inevitable cultural yearning for the eternal. “I think young men are discovering that materialism doesn’t have the answers to the questions they’re asking,” he told TWS.
“A life without rules or meaning creates chaos, inside of us and around us. Secularism has an obvious appeal because it offers the opportunity to do whatever you want, but it doesn’t work because everyone does what they want. What was supposed to make everyone happier actually makes everyone more miserable, and secularism can’t explain why. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that young people are turning to church in an effort to understand the world as it actually is.”
“Young men also might be drawn to religion as a form of rebellion,” Backholm elaborated. “The Left has been waging a war on men for a while now, so it’s possible that young men are being drawn to religion as a way of rebelling against everything on the Left. If that’s true, that might be part of the reason young men are more religious than young women. Secularists like women better than men. As a result, women like secularism more.”
Still, “It’s also true that the Holy Spirit is at work in the world and Jesus is drawing us to Himself,” he reflected. “We live in a war between truth and lies, but Jesus promised us that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. While we see evidence of the war all around us, we shouldn’t be surprised when we see the truth advancing in measurable ways. Over time, that’s the only possible outcome.”
“Lies are eventually exposed as such,” Backholm concluded. “It often takes longer than we prefer, but lies do not endure because they cannot endure. The world was never going to just descend into universal secularism. We need to be confident that the truth is true, and right now, it seems young men are discovering this in a new way.”
Lessons From Europe: How Islamic Mass Migration Has Reshaped The Continent
A top Republican official is warning that mass immigration from Third World — in particular, Muslim — countries risks destroying American society, pointing to Europe as an example. In a Fox News interview last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) emphasized the danger posed to American culture and society by the growth of Islamic Sharia law, brought to the country by immigrants from majority-Muslim countries.
He urged state legislators to pass laws banning the Muslim practice of first-cousin marriage, which he described as “obviously part of cultures that are antithetical to American values.” The governor also touted his own actions to ban the practice of Sharia law. “We don’t want to end up like Europe, where they have no-go zones, where you have these little subcultures where this stuff is imposed,” he said. “That now is totally off the table in Florida.”
“They’ve really shot themselves in the foot,” DeSantis said of Europe, reflecting on the historic ties the U.S. shares with many European nations. “You look at, like, the United Kingdom — that has been our best ally historically. We obviously came from there, our culture grew out of English culture, our Constitution and laws, all this stuff, very tight bond,” he continued. “But I think what they’ve done — and other European countries have done — they’ve imported in mass numbers people who don’t want to be British, don’t want to be French. They want to take where they came from, and they want to change those countries to reflect things like Sharia.”
“So if the reason why we have been allied with them for so long is because we have strong political and cultural bonds, well, those have eroded because of decisions that they have made,” the Florida governor said of immigration policies enacted by European leaders. “I think what they have done, particularly on mass immigration, has been suicidal. We can’t make those mistakes in the United States.
Over the past 25 years in particular, much of Europe has been transformed by mass immigration from the Middle East and the Third World, bringing with it chain migration, Muslim culture and Sharia law, increased crime and violence, and a swollen burden on European welfare systems.
Some European nations — notably, Hungary and Poland — have resisted the immigration influx, but the governments of many European nations have not only permitted but, in many cases, openly encouraged and facilitated mass immigration. This increase in immigration, much of which comes from Middle Eastern and Third World countries, has eroded the fabric of European society and threatened to entirely decimate European culture, erasing all that once bonded the U.S. to the “Old World.”
The shift in population makeup has been drastic, particularly as the birth rates of native Europeans have declined catastrophically and the birth rates of foreigners — particularly Muslims — rise well above replacement level. The statistics cited below are drawn from Eurostat, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and national statistics offices.
Germany
At the dawn of the 21st century, Germany’s foreign-born population stood no higher than eight million, in a nation of nearly 83 million. The vast majority of foreigners were fellow Europeans who had moved to Germany for a variety of reasons: work, study, family, culture. Fewer than three million foreigners hailed from the Middle East or the Third World; of these, the majority (nearly two million) were guest-workers from Turkey or their families, along with some from Morocco and the first few “refugees” from Iraq and Afghanistan.
By the end of 2025, roughly one-fifth of Germany’s population was foreign-born, amounting to nearly 20 million people. Those from the Middle East and the Third World accounted for over half of the foreigners. Most of those came from Turkey (millions), Syria (approximately one million), Afghanistan (over 450,000), Iraq (over 250,000), and hundreds of thousands more from Africa and southern Asia.
Like much of the Western world, Germany’s native birth rate has plummeted, falling to a total fertility rate (TFR) of less than 1.5 by the end of 2020. Meanwhile, the TFR of Germany’s foreign-born population sits at well over 3.0, with foreigners accounting for over 20% of births in Germany by the end of 2020.
In 2015, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel instituted an “open door” asylum policy, which saw over one million “refugees” from majority-Muslim countries enter Germany within a single year. At the time, the European Union’s Dublin Regulation mandated that EU member states process asylum applications according to the first country that the asylum claimant enters.
For example, a Syrian national could not enter France and claim asylum in Spain; France would process his asylum claim and agree to give him refuge. Merkel abandoned that policy for Syrian and Afghan asylum claimants, allowing other EU member states to shift the asylum claims to Germany and encouraging asylum claimants to cross Germany’s borders.
In 2003, the EU had enacted its Family Reunification Policy, which allowed member states to either welcome the immediate family members (spouses and children under the age of 18) of non-European nationals living in those member states, or else to restrict the immigration of family members on the basis of national security concerns or a lack of housing and welfare. Merkel suspended Germany’s application of this policy.
The results of this mass immigration, framed by Merkel and her political allies as “humanitarian,” has been disastrous for Germany. On New Year’s Eve 2015 and New Year’s Day 2016, within a year of Merkel’s “open door” policy taking effect, over 1,200 German women reported being raped or sexually assaulted. The majority (roughly 650 sexual assaults and 22 rapes) occurred in Cologne, with hundreds of other sexual assaults and rapes taking place in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt. Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers confirmed at the time, “The crimes were committed by a group of people who from appearance were largely from the north African or Arab world.”
Albers resigned days later, citing a loss of public trust. His successor, Jürgen Mathies, argued against speculation that the mass sexual assaults and rapes had been planned or organized in advance, instead suggesting that sexual assault and rape were simply common features of African and Arab culture. Out of an estimated 500 assailants in Cologne, only 153 suspects were identified: 149 were foreign nationals, while the remaining four were teenagers born in Germany to foreign parents; more than two-thirds of the assailants were from Algeria or Morocco; nearly half (44%) were asylum claimants.
Late in December of 2016, Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian national whose asylum application was rejected by Germany (after he had already been let in), shot and killed Polish truck driver ?ukasz Urban and stole his truck. Amri proceeded to drive the vehicle at high speed through the Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market in Berlin, killing 11 people and injuring 56 others.
In the aftermath of the attack, it was discovered that the Muslim Amri had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS). Less than a decade later, Saudi Arabian national Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen rented a BMW SUV and drove, at high speed, through a Christmas Market in Magdeburg, killing a nine-year-old boy and five women and injuring over 300 people.
According to the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s federal police force, over 40% of crimes are committed by foreign nationals, while nearly half (49.3%) of violent crimes are committed by foreign nationals. Another BKA report determined that while 163 out of every 100,000 Germans are suspects of violent crimes, that rate goes up by more than 10 times for foreign nationals: 1,740 per 100,000 for Syrian nationals and 1,722 for Afghan nationals, for example.
France
In 2001, the foreign-born population of France was below six million, of which less than half were from the Middle East or the Third World. The majority of non-Western immigrants were from Algeria, a former French colony, with others from Morocco, Tunisia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
By the end of 2025, the foreign-born population had ballooned to about 10 million, accounting for roughly 13% of the population. Nearly half (45%) are from Africa, while many come from the Middle East. While the TFR among the native French is 1.6 (the highest in the EU), the TFR among foreigners is approximately 2.5, with nearly one-third of births in France attributed to foreigners.
Like Germany, France has also liberalized immigration policies over the years, bringing in large numbers of foreign workers and expanding asylum and refugee caps. Also like Germany, France has experienced a surge in Islamist violence. In 2012, Algerian Mohammed Merah attacked and killed three French soldiers before targeting a Jewish school in Toulouse and killing three children and a rabbi.
In 2014, three police officers were attacked and injured at the Tours police station by a knife-wielding man shouting, “Allahu Akbar.” Just a few weeks later, brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, forced their way into the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others.
From 2015 onwards, Islamist terrorist attacks became nearly commonplace in France. Outside the Louvre, an Egyptian national attacked three police officers with a knife, wounding two. Yassin Salhi set off an explosion in a factory outside Lyon after decapitating a factory worker and mounting his head on a fence, accompanied by Islamist supremacist writing. Five people were injured in a shooting and stabbing attack by an Islamist extremist aboard a train bound for Paris. Later in the year, 137 were killed and over 400 more injured in a series of orchestrated shootings and suicide bombings, mostly concentrated in Paris and the surrounding suburbs.
Since then, well over 100 people have been killed in Islamist terrorist attacks in France — from Catholic priests on their way to celebrate Mass to teachers and schoolchildren — and hundreds more have been injured.
Spain
Under the military leader and head of state Francisco Franco, Spain hosted very few Muslims, only two or three thousand per year, who were forced to repatriate at the end of the year. By 2001, the Muslim population in Spain — hailing predominantly from Morocco, Pakistan, and Senegal — was nearing one million. By 2008, it stood at 1.2 million.
Today, nearly one fifth of Spain’s population is foreign-born, of which nearly three million are Muslims. A series of amnesties enacted in the 1980s and 1990s, following Franco’s death and the ascent of a secular (and now socialist) government, normalized Muslim immigration and encouraged increased illegal immigration, so that Spain has an abnormally high rate of illegal immigration today.
As with other European nations, Spain has seen an increase in Islamist terrorist attacks and related crime, starting with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which claimed the lives of nearly 200 people and injured more than 2,000. A subsequent series of terrorist attacks in Barcelona left 15 dead and 120 injured. Of course, Islamist violence isn’t always bombings, stabbings, shootings, and decapitations. More recently, 25-year-old Spaniard Noelia Castillo was euthanized after a suicide attempt linked to a series of gang rapes reportedly perpetrated by Muslim immigrants.
United Kingdom
Muslim gang rape has proven to be a widespread problem in Britain. In 2001, the U.K. counted fewer than two million Middle Eastern and Third World immigrants as residents, predominantly originating from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, but with many Muslim arrivals from the Middle East. That share has more than quadrupled in the succeeding years, so that more than eight million British residents now come from Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and the Middle East.
In the 2000s and early 2010s, EU immigration policies and the liberalized asylum policies of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair saw immigration to the U.K. rise sharply. That rise slowed following Brexit and the U.K.’s departure from the EU, but the post-Brexit “point system” allowed many illegal and temporary immigrants to earn a lengthier stay, and the governing Conservative Party did little to halt illegal immigration or enact deportations.
In 2005, Islamist suicide bombers attacked London Underground trains and double-decker buses, killing 52 and injuring nearly 500. Nigerians Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale ran over British Army Fusilier Lee Rigby with their car before using a knife and a meat cleaver to stab him to death, drag his body into the street, and hack him to pieces. In 2017, Khalid Masood drove a car through a crowd on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people and injuring nearly 50, before fleeing his car and fatally stabbing a police officer.
Months later, an Islamist suicide bomber targeted Manchester Arena following a concert, killing 22 and injuring over 1,000. Just weeks after that, Pakistan-born Khuram Shazad Butt, African “asylum seeker” Rachid Redouane, and Moroccan Youssef Zaghba drove a car through a crowd on the London Bridge before exiting the vehicle and launching a stabbing spree. Eight people were killed, and 48 were injured, including 21 who were critically injured.
In recent months, much attention has also been given to “grooming gangs.” Since the 1990s, police and government prosecutors have been reportedly made aware of gangs of Muslim immigrants (mostly Pakistani in origin) and the practice of grooming and serially raping young white girls, especially teenagers.
According to official reports, the rape gangs would typically approach girls in public places, or sometimes have a young Muslim boy of about the girl’s age approach her or begin a relationship with her, and then entice her using gifts and favors, such as fast food and meals out, cigarettes, alcohol, and perfumes or clothes. The girl would then be raped, often violently, and frequently shared with other members of the family, including brothers, cousins, and uncles. Girls were often threatened afterwards and, in some cases, were coerced into drug dependency so that the rape gangs could maintain control over the girls.
According to the British government, various police departments refused to record the ethnicity of rape gang members. Numerous cases were either not investigated thoroughly or not investigated at all. The few cases that were referred for prosecution were never prosecuted.
Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer was, at the time, the director of the Crown Prosecution Service. Louise Baroness Casey of Blackstock, who led the government’s official inquiry and audit into the rape gangs, wrote that authorities “shied away from” investigating or reporting the crimes, with many of those interviewed suggesting that they did not want to be labeled racist.
Member of Parliament (MP) Sarah Champion, who represented Rotherham, where over 1,400 girls were raped by Muslim gangs, suggested that up to one million girls could have been raped nationwide. MP Rupert Lowe, founder and leader of the immigration hardline party Restore Britain, suggested that every single “foreign rapist” ought to be identified, arrested, and deported. Government inquiries into the issue have not yet revealed the full scope of the abuse.
Conclusion
Mass immigration, particularly from majority-Muslim countries, has decimated Europe. DeSantis’s warning against the potential for first cousin-marriage pales in comparison to hundreds and thousands of deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks and hundreds of thousands of girls systematically gang-raped. Policies banning the practice of Sharia law only treat a symptom, not the disease, which can only be addressed through stringent immigration control, as Europe has learned far too late.
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In the book of James, a very practical book, we have a very practical command: “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says” (James 1:22). Or, as the ESV puts it, “Be doers of the word.” James urges people who listen to God’s Word to demonstrate a sincere commitment to the Lord by reacting to what they hear with obedient action.
The original language gives the sense that we must “keep on becoming” doers of God’s Word. Genuine faith calls for obedience that endures. Doers of the Word are the opposite of Sunday morning Christians who go to church, sit and listen to a message, and then view it as merely an interesting spiritual discourse. Jesus said that only doers of the Word are truly blessed: “But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice” (Luke 11:28, NLT).
James stresses the need to act on what we hear. He says we are fooling ourselves if we think we can be hearers only and not doers of the Word as well. People who sincerely love God are those who keep His commands (John 14:15; 1 John 5:2–3). God desires those who hear His Word to become authentic followers of Jesus, disciples who obey the Lord’s teaching because they know and love their heavenly Father (John 14:23–24).
Jesus gave a stern warning to people who hear the words of God but don’t act on them: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name?’ Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!’ Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash” (Matthew 7:21–27, CSB).
James underscores his command to be doers of the Word with two illustrations, one negative and one positive. In both cases, he uses the idea of a mirror: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like” (James 1:23–24, ESV). In this first example, James compares an apathetic listener of the Word to someone who looks carefully at himself, but then walks away and forgets. He disregards what he saw, letting it drop from his mind. This isn’t just lazy listening. It’s listening without any real faith. The Word may enter the person’s ear, but the power of it does not penetrate to the heart.
In James’ second example, he describes a listener who hears and absorbs God’s Word, taking it into his heart and letting it change his life: “But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing” (James 1:25, ESV). The active listener is one who hears with genuine faith. This listener is alert and eager to learn from God’s message. He or she wants to receive from God and do what He says.
Jesus affirmed that God’s Word is the perfect law that produces liberty: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31–32, ESV; see also verse 36). Obedience to the Word of God brings freedom from sin and death (Romans 5:19; 6:11–23; Galatians 3:23—4:7; 5:13–14).
The Word of God is not just a beautiful piece of literature to be savored and enjoyed. Its purpose goes beyond provoking thought and inviting meditation. It requires more than memorization and sharing with others. It demands a change of heart that prompts a change of behavior. The Word of God is to be obeyed.
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