1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 And hay ride, which is really a straw ride, but nonetheless, we 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,000 won't tell if you don't, Amen. But nonetheless, we're so glad 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,560 that each of you are here in the House of the Lord, Amen tonight, 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,239 Amen, in God's house. This coming Sunday will be me in 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,200 the AM and Brother Alex Mason in the PM. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,480 So you don't want to miss that. It's coming up here very 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,960 quickly. And then a week and a half from 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,560 now will be time change. All right. 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,680 The first weekend in November will be time change. 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:38,040 And so everything will fall back and, and it's going to be darker 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,120 earlier. I'm not trying to be depressive 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,320 on anybody. It's I don't make it up. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,600 It's just what that happens, Amen. 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,800 And so just be mindful of that Amen as well. 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,960 National Youth Convention is just around the corner. 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,800 We're about a month out from that, Amen. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,720 So that's taking place. So wow, before you know, we'll 18 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:06,240 be singing Holly jolly, some already are, and we'll be having 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,840 our candlelight service. All right, our candlelight 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,080 service going not going to take place on a Wednesday this year. 21 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,480 We're going to do it on a Sunday night, Sunday night right before 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,880 Christmas. Christmas is on a Wednesday this 23 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,480 year. So we're going to do our 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,760 candlelight actually on a Sunday night, all right? 25 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,240 And so we're looking forward to that. 26 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,680 That will actually be December the 22nd on a Sunday night that 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,880 they'll take place. Amen. 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:37,080 You can be seated tonight. We're going to look at our last 29 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,480 part of our election series here next Wednesday. 30 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,000 We'll be starting on the criteria for finding a mate. 31 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,840 All right, city series. And that will be, of course, 32 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,640 from a biblical perspective, not pop culture, not my perspective, 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,880 biblical perspective. OK. 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,960 And so we'll be looking at that. But tonight we want to finish up 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:02,480 talking about some issues that pertain to just pertain to life, 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,120 really a man, but but pertain maybe perhaps to the election as 37 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,400 as you may be bouncing some things in your own mind and 38 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,920 consideration as you go to vote next month. 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,360 My wife and I have already voted. 40 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,320 We took advantage of early voting because we're not going 41 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,720 to be around for the election. So we've already cast our vote 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,840 in the ballot box, so and so forth. 43 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,600 And but I know there's probably still several you just going to 44 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,120 wait whenever it's time to vote. So tonight I want to talk about 45 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,000 some human life issues, one that's, you know, a big player 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,320 in our world and has been for many years, and that is 47 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,800 abortion. And so as I talk about that 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,720 tonight, I want to say this that I'm not insensitive to anybody 49 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,680 that may somewhere in their past that have had an abortion, OK? 50 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,680 And I want to approach this from the standpoint that there isn't 51 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,920 anything that's not forgivable, all right, when it comes to 52 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,080 these regards. And those are things that we can 53 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,360 seek God with with a spirit of repentance and we can find his 54 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,840 blood can cover us all right, concerning these things. 55 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,640 But I think it's important that we talk about them from a 56 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:16,920 biblical perspective, all right. And, and going forward, you 57 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,440 know, there's some things that we we can say we're we're sorry 58 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,920 for, but there's other things that we have this willful 59 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:24,480 knowledge of. And that's what this is 60 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,600 empowering you with, with knowledge, hopefully. 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,880 But in 1973, Roe versus Wade decision, which happened before 62 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,840 I was born, mind you, all right, the Supreme Court ruled that 63 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,040 women, in consultation with their physician, have a 64 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,320 constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early 65 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,080 stages of their pregnancy. That is before viability, 66 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,840 meaning before that this child would be able to live on its own 67 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,400 outside of its mother's womb. And so they could do this free 68 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,760 from any type of governmental interference. 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,400 And so the journey began then back in 1973. 70 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,040 However, most of us know more recently, Roe versus Ray Wade 71 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,920 was overturned in 2022 by the US Supreme Court in the Dobbs 72 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,000 versus Jackson's Women's Health Organization case. 73 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,960 And so abortion up from 1973 until 2002 have been a federally 74 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,320 protected right, a federally protected right. 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,800 But this new ruling returned in the authority of regulating 76 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,520 abortion laws back to the individual states. 77 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:35,680 It was no longer a federal thing. 78 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,800 Now it became a state thing. And every state could decide 79 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,880 where they were on their abortion laws and so forth, 80 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,000 whether you can have one at all. So that varies now from state to 81 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,800 state. In his book The Right Thinking 82 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,360 in the World Gone Wrong, John MacArthur said this. 83 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,000 He said the irony is that a newborn baby is immediately 84 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,200 granted full legal rights as a human being, yet only a few 85 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,640 months or even hours earlier the same child is not even 86 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:09,120 considered a person. With this we need to remember 87 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,760 from Scripture idol God of the Canaanites that was called 88 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,360 Molech in Jeremiah 32 and verse 35. 89 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,400 The Bible says, And they built the high places of Baal, which 90 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,960 are in the valley of the son of Henom, to cause their sons and 91 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,680 their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech, which I 92 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,360 commanded them not. God says, neither came into my 93 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:48,760 mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to 94 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,400 sin. Again. 95 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,200 Malek was a idol God of the Canaanites. 96 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,280 They would come and they would worship this idol God. 97 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,840 And whenever the children of Israel entered into the promised 98 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:06,200 land or the land of Canaan, they they caught the spirit of the 99 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,480 age in which they were going to live in and the environment in 100 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,200 which they would live in Canaan. Rather than correct or live 101 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,960 differently than it. They they assumed some of this 102 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,200 same worship and some of these same gods in the land in which 103 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,760 they went to live. And so we even see the children 104 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,120 of Israel. Then some of them were 105 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,200 sacrificing their children, their sons and their daughters 106 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,880 to this God Malek in, in hopes or in their minds to hopefully 107 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,480 appease these supposed deities. But the altar of Malek was, was 108 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,280 on this, this mode. It was really an altar, almost 109 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:46,200 like an image that was made out of hollow metal with its arms 110 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,360 extended. And they would, they would stoke 111 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,840 a fire inside of that hollow image till it would burn 112 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:58,320 basically red that that metal would just be just inflamed red. 113 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,000 And they would take their children, parents would take 114 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,440 their children, and they would place it on the fiery arms of 115 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,000 that Pagan deity. And in essence, then that that 116 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,720 child would die. And a generation then is giving 117 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,280 up their children of the next generation. 118 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,560 And, and, and, and in essence, that's, that's what we do 119 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,280 whenever we participate in the practice of abortion today. 120 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,520 We're giving up our children of the next generation. 121 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,080 Based on data from the Guttmacher Institute and the 122 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,680 National Right to Life Committee, it is estimated that 123 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,840 over 60 million abortions have been performed in the United 124 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:46,760 States, 60 million since the Roe versus Wade decision in 1973. 125 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,760 In January of 2016, I'm just going back because I went back 126 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,320 to the numbers I had in previous years when I did this. 127 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:58,280 So in January of 2016, that estimate was around 58 and a 128 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,280 half million. Then in 2012 when I first did 129 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,960 this, that number was 4 million less than that. 130 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,520 So we have of course incrementally have gotten 131 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,600 greater and greater. To understand what 60 million 132 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,880 is, let's put 60 million people in perspective for a moment here 133 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:24,080 tonight. 60 million people, around 17% of the current US 134 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,880 population, that's 60 million people. 135 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,480 The current population of America, according to October 136 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:36,880 the 16th is around 345,000,060 million is 17% of that number. 137 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,080 That's nearly the entire population of the state of 138 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,400 California and Florida combined, which are two of the most 139 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,720 populous states in all of the United States. 140 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,920 The number 60 million the number of abortions there that's 141 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:58,120 happened since Roe versus Wade exceeds the total of American 142 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,480 military deaths of every war the US has fought, including the 143 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,040 Civil War, World War One, World War 2, the Vietnam War and more, 144 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,000 which equates to about approximately just 1.3 million 145 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,080 in total, 60 million people. Think of it for a moment when we 146 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,160 look back upon that, that dark mark in in the history of the 147 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,480 world of the Holocaust, it resulted in around about 148 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,720 6,000,000 Jews that died. We're talking about 60 million 149 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,520 babies that are aborted 10 times that number. 150 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,600 Again, just a stark contrast to a historic tragedy that we all 151 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,080 look upon and see. The sheer loss of life is great. 152 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:47,480 If those 60 million people were a country today, it would be the 153 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,160 25th largest nation by population in the world, 154 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,520 slightly smaller than South Africa which is 60.4 million 155 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,840 population, but slightly larger than Italy which is 58.8 million 156 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:07,280 people. Solomon said in Proverbs 6 that 157 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,640 there are 7 things God hates. These are some which was 158 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,520 mentioned in Proverbs 6 and verse 17. 159 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:21,040 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent 160 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,320 blood. There isn't any blood more 161 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:29,400 innocent than the blood of a child that is yet to exist 162 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,080 beyond the interior of its mother's womb. 163 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,400 Bradley and Patent Foundations of Embryology, McGraw Hill of 164 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,120 1964. I understand this is old, but I 165 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,280 want you to understand where we were years ago, he said. 166 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,720 It is the penetration of the ovum by the spermizone and the 167 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,760 resultant mingling of the nuclear material which brings to 168 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,520 this union that constitutes the culmination of the process of 169 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:05,640 fertilization and marks the initiation of the life of a new 170 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,280 individual. Basically, what Mr. Patton said 171 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:15,400 so many years ago is at fertilization there is life and 172 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,960 it's a new person. In New York Times, July the 27th 173 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,280 of 2000 and an article that was discussing the human genome 174 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,200 project, it says, and I quote the human genome is a pill, a 175 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,360 model of high performance and reliability. 176 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,440 Millions of times a year a genome meets sperm genome and 177 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,360 the result is a human baby. It's parts all in place, it's 178 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,640 brain, a universe of love and meaning. 179 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,280 Let us not forget then even biblical basis as the psalmist 180 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,760 wrote in that beloved Psalms 139 that we even look that in our 181 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,280 self worst series that says in verse 13, as the psalmist cries 182 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,360 out to God, for thou has possessed my reigns, Thou has 183 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,760 covered me and my mother's womb, I will praise thee and let's 184 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,240 just stop for a moment. More than just the covering of 185 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:15,440 actual flesh, all right, and the amniotic SAC and fluids covering 186 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,440 is protecting. God has protected us in our 187 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,560 mother's womb. Verse 14 I will praise thee, for 188 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:25,040 I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 189 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,280 Marvelous are thy works. And that my sow north, right? 190 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:33,920 Well, my substance was not hid from thee when I was made in 191 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,040 secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 192 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:44,240 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect, notably 193 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,800 incomplete, not fully formed yet. 194 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,920 And in thy book all my members were written, which in 195 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,920 continuance were fashioned. When as yet there was another, 196 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,440 He said, God, you had all my members already written and 197 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,480 pinned down before they even came into total being. 198 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,600 You had them numbered, we say in Jeremiah one and five, which is 199 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,000 through miniscripts. We looked at this too, and 200 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,760 ourself were certainly we should just put it all together before 201 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:15,320 I form thee in the belly. God told Jeremiah, I knew thee, 202 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,840 and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctify thee, or 203 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:28,480 I set you apart, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 204 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:30,720 Again, this is vitally important. 205 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:38,280 God gave purpose to Jeremiah before he exited the womb. 206 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,600 Jeremiah had a purpose as a fetus. 207 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,160 Let's go for it. Jeremiah had a had a purpose as 208 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,960 a embryo. Jeremiah had a purpose as as 209 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,040 cells that we're starting to multiply. 210 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,280 Jeremiah had a purpose. And so we got to stop for a 211 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,760 moment and ask ourselves how many God ordained purposes have 212 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:08,200 been cut off due to our participation and abortion. 213 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,960 Due to the widespread practice of selective abortion in China, 214 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:17,000 driven by a culture of preference for sons who are 215 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,320 expected to care for their aging parents, it's difficult for many 216 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,840 men even in that country to find spouses within their country. 217 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,960 Abortion as birth control has diminished the population rate 218 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,800 in many of the European countries, so much so that the 219 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,040 death rate is higher than the birth rate and it's because of 220 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,880 abortion. Isaiah 44 and verse 24 the 221 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,680 scripture says thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, he that 222 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,080 formed thee from the womb. Others versions say, He that 223 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,280 formed thee in the womb. I am the Lord that maketh all 224 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,760 things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that 225 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,720 spreadeth abroad the earth by myself. 226 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:09,880 He says he that formed thee, the Lord the Redeemer that formed 227 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,360 thee. We tamper with the unborn. 228 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,000 We're interfering with something that our Lord and our Redeemer 229 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:24,440 is creating. And if I can just speak just 230 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,680 from a position just of just like common life men. 231 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,800 I don't like people to mess with stuff that I'm trying to do. 232 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,440 You understand what I'm saying? I, I remember when my kids were 233 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,760 young, you know, they would do this thing to each other, 234 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,960 Glenny, you know, then one was playing with something or 235 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,720 building blocks, Brother Bryce and the other one came over and 236 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,280 thought it was hilarious to destroy what they were doing. 237 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,520 And the other child then is crestfallen. 238 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,640 Why? Because they have messed with 239 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,360 what I'm doing here. I wonder how much God has 240 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:01,760 grieved when we're tampering with what he's creating and what 241 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:06,960 he's purposing. So there's like, begin at 242 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,440 conception. This is from a 2013 article, A 243 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,520 Medical Concept. It says the moment of conception 244 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,840 unites 23 chromosomes from each parent, of course resulting in 245 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,240 46 chromosomes. All human chromosomes are 246 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,440 present and a unique life begins. 247 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:30,080 They said full human DNA is ready at the moment of 248 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,960 conception. And so though we believe that 249 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,920 life begins at conception, consider this thought process. 250 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,360 I believe it or not, this comes from Genesis and it came from 251 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,680 when I was doing studying during Genesis. 252 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,840 But I didn't bring this information up then. 253 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,200 I tucked it back in my jaw like a chipmunk waiting for winter so 254 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,720 I could chew on it. But I was listening to a podcast 255 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,320 called the Bible Book Project. Sounds great, don't it? 256 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,520 And the two women run this podcast. 257 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,840 And so this is a course then from a woman perspective. 258 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,839 Susan Merrill and Heather Rubio have this this this podcast. 259 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,200 And they made these remarks on Genesis 9 and verse #6 which 260 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,040 says, who so sheddeth man's blood, all right? 261 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,800 And the word there is interpreted in our English Bible 262 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,599 as man's blood. But it's not talking about male 263 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:24,040 blood in particular. It's talking about mankind. 264 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:29,080 Whoever sheds human blood, all right, by man shall his blood be 265 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,000 shed, for the image of God, may he man. 266 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,880 And so the very concept of this verse, this is pastor right? 267 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,320 Now, the very concept of this verse is this is that we are 268 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,800 held accountable for shedding human blood. 269 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,160 We're all made in the image of God. 270 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,360 This is what these two women that run this podcast had to 271 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,200 say. I quote them verbatim. 272 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,480 OK, They said, you know where I went speaking about the verse of 273 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:59,920 of Genesis 96 because this is pretty clear human blood. 274 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,000 All right, easy to find. I never thought about this. 275 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,680 I never thought about this in connection with this verse. 276 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,960 So the heart and major blood vessels begin to develop about 277 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,520 16 days after fertilization, 16 days. 278 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,640 The heart begins to pump fluid through blood vessels by day 20. 279 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,640 After that, the first red blood cell appears the next day, on 280 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,960 day 21, she said, OK, think about this. 281 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,120 Fertilization happens in the middle of a woman's cycle. 282 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,520 So at 16 days, you're like, just waiting for it. 283 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,600 And I'm not trying to be graphic. 284 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,240 You're like, just these are the women saying that's not bad, OK. 285 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,640 It's like you're just waiting for your period. 286 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,120 You don't even know that you're pregnant yet. 287 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,720 And day 21, you're only a few days late. 288 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,080 So about the time you realize that you haven't started 289 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,280 bleeding. The embryo has human blood, and 290 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,280 it's the embryo's blood. It's not mom's blood. 291 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,400 It can be a different blood type than mom. 292 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,400 It's not mom's blood, it's their blood. 293 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,600 It's human blood. It has every character. 294 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,800 It's human blood. It's the blood that they'll be 295 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,360 born with. It's the same blood though, that 296 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:18,840 they have as an embryo. We believe it starts at 297 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,160 conception, but it's interesting just to consider what these 298 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,720 women said concerning that verse. 299 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,280 Typically four to six weeks into pregnancy is the earliest of 300 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,240 fetus can be aborted or medicinally aborted. 301 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,400 At that stage, the fetus. And I know there's other things, 302 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,280 I know there's the morning after and all that, but at that stage, 303 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:43,320 the fetus has human blood. Interesting concept at week #12 304 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,720 the baby has all the parts necessary to experience pain. 305 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,360 Let me say that one more time. At week 12, the baby has all the 306 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,480 parts necessary to experience pain, including nerves and a 307 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,680 spinal cord. Meaning what happens at 12 308 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:08,240 weeks, they can feel. Babies can routinely be saved. 309 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,800 That 2122 weeks after fertilization, sometimes even 310 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,160 earlier and younger, can they be saved In some passages the 311 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,040 Bible, and this is important. Please, you hold on something. 312 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,560 Please hold on to this and some passages. 313 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,920 The Bible speaks of an unborn child in the same way that it 314 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,520 does those that have already been born. 315 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,760 Your Bible does showing then that God views both of them the 316 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,320 same. Two references for you found in 317 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,800 the same chapter, Exodus 21 and verse 4. 318 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:48,800 The Bible says if his master have given him a wife and she 319 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,920 have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her 320 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,760 children. The Hebrew is yelled for 321 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,840 children. These are children outside of 322 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,160 the womb. The wife and her children shall 323 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,720 be her masters, and he shall go out by himself. 324 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,600 You skip down in the same chapter to verse #22 in the 325 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:14,600 Bible says if men strive and hurt a woman with child so that 326 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,760 her fruit, we're talking about a pregnant woman so that her 327 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,200 fruit, that word fruit. There is the same Hebrew word 328 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,600 for the children that are already outside the womb. 329 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,240 You LED said so that her fruit depart from her, yet no 330 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,520 mischief, although he shall be surely punished according as the 331 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,840 woman's husband will lay upon him and he shall pay as the 332 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,120 judges determine. What I'm getting at today is 333 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:41,800 this children outside the womb, children that were considered 334 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,160 the fruit inside a pregnant woman's womb. 335 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:50,160 He uses the exact same word because he views them in the 336 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,760 womb or outside the womb the same. 337 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,760 The Bible says this phrase is used three times in the Old 338 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,040 Testament. It's really kind of peculiar 339 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,880 looking at it for like real precept, you know, application 340 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,880 is difficult for us today, but there is principle to it. 341 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:15,600 The phrase is this thou shalt not see the which means to boil. 342 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,320 Thou shalt not see the a kid, all right, which is a goat in 343 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,280 his mother's milk. You can find this in Exodus 344 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,000 2319. You can find this in Exodus 345 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,080 3426. You can find this in Deuteronomy 346 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,680 14 and verse 21. And since there's probably a 347 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,080 limited number of us here tonight that raise any goats, I 348 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:45,320 could think maybe of a few or don't necessarily eat goat or 349 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,520 have goat's milk. Again, the relevance of this as 350 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,080 a precept to us is a little difficult, but the underlying 351 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,480 principle I believe can be relevant to us. 352 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,160 Now, there is no Jew that was to feel guilty about drinking 353 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,560 goat's milk. Neither was it wrong to eat a 354 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,280 young kid in the very literal sense of that day. 355 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:15,480 But the problem arose with this law when they would take a kid a 356 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:21,840 goat and boil it or seethe it, it was considered going too far. 357 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:28,720 And that's because there is a special relationship between kid 358 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,000 mom and child goat. There's a special relationship 359 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,840 not just between the child and the mother, but the child and 360 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:43,400 the mother and her milk, because that of strength for her child, 361 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,320 her kid. All right, to promote growth, to 362 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,360 promote strength. But to boil a kid in its 363 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:57,760 mother's milk is insensitive to the relationship between the 364 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:03,720 mother and the child goat and the purpose of the milk. 365 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:09,320 That milk was divinely given to that kid by God to preserve and 366 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:15,080 promote the life of that baby goat, not for the purpose of 367 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,200 destroying that baby goat as it could be. 368 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,040 From the viewpoint of the mother, it would seem somewhat 369 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,840 insensitive. And So what was designed to 370 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,280 preserve life was used to destroy life. 371 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,760 And in the Scripture, God says that's forbidden. 372 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,880 If you will for a moment, every pregnant woman who is 373 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,360 considering an abortion should give careful thought to this 374 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:43,840 principal on the abortion level. But because behind the precept 375 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,640 of goats and kids and milk is a principle, because the uterus of 376 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,120 the mother is a place of safety, The uterus of the mother is a 377 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:57,960 means for protecting the child, sustaining the growth of of the 378 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,160 child. And yet some will allow a 379 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:06,680 physician to intrude into that space and invade that safe space 380 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:12,240 in that womb and terminate their child in that sanctuary, in that 381 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,640 sanctified safe place. And so then the principal comes 382 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,680 to a level we have betrayed the relationship between mother and 383 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,000 child and what was supposed to be used to nourish, to promote 384 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,680 growth of that child then becomes the very arena in which 385 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,280 it's life is ended. Amen. 386 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:43,320 Guttmacher Institute, they said in 2023 there were estimated 387 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:50,840 1,037,000 abortions. There's about 2841 abortions per 388 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,680 day, 118 abortions per hour, almost two abortions every 389 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,040 minute. I don't know how long I've been 390 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,680 up here so far, maybe 15 minutes? 391 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,040 I don't know. I'm guessing if so, we've 392 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:11,840 already had about 30. Why do people have abortions? 393 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,000 I looked at the several years ago, but even though I do, I 394 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,320 always try to find current research, current information 395 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,600 about it or articles. There was an article called Why 396 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,800 do people have an abortions? It was updated on August the 7th 397 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:31,320 of 2023. So by Don Stacy has a PHD&ALMHC 398 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,280 All right degrees and this is based upon findings of a five 399 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,000 year survey of people who at least had one abortion or were 400 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,040 asked to give reasons they chose to terminate their pregnancy. 401 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:47,000 And these are the percentages from that five year survey of 402 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,760 those people, how it fell out. This is the reason why people 403 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,400 have abortions. 40% said they're not financially prepared. 404 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,680 That's the highest percentage of why people have abortions. 405 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:01,280 They're not financially prepared. 406 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,680 I just want to pause for a moment and tell you you'll never 407 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:12,040 be financially prepared, OK? I don't care if you're living 408 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,280 today or if you're living 30 years ago, you're never going to 409 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:23,640 be financially prepared. 36% said not a good time. 31% said 410 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,040 issues with partner, which under that could even be the cases 411 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,680 where rape occurs or happens. So let me just talk about that 412 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,400 underneath that category, just for a moment. 25,000 to 35,000 413 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,480 pregnancies are caused by rape per year. 414 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,000 Half of all rape related pregnancies end in abortion. 415 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:53,040 Watch this now. 77% of rape related pregnancies were caused 416 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,960 by current or former intimate partners. 417 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,680 Let that settle in for a moment. Going on 29% said they need to 418 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,160 focus on their other children. That's the reason why they had 419 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:12,120 an abortion. 20% said it interferes with future plans. 420 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:19,480 19% said they're not emotionally or mentally prepared. 12% said 421 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,400 there's health issues and that was the reason. 12% said they're 422 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:30,200 unable to provide a good life for the child. 7% said they're 423 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,120 not independent or mature enough to have a child. 424 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:52,200 I'm standing here for a moment. God made it in such a case that 425 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,920 if you are mature enough or independent enough to involve 426 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,280 your life in the activity of sexual behavior, then God says 427 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:19,040 I'll give you what will make you responsible for the behavior. 5% 428 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,200 said they did it because influence from family or 429 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,840 friends. 3% did it because they don't want children. 430 00:29:33,250 --> 00:29:39,810 In some regards, we raised the generation of people that want 431 00:29:40,530 --> 00:29:46,600 pleasure without principle or pleasure without responsibility. 432 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,720 So how much does abortion cost? Again, I looked at this years 433 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,320 ago. The prices went up, folks. 434 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,160 It has went up. But according to Planned 435 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:06,200 Parenthood, April the 29th of 2022, and it was updated just in 436 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,520 November of 2022, the average cost, which means you have to 437 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,120 have highs and lows, right? The the average, the average 438 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,000 cost is now about $800 per abortion. 439 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,320 Later in the trimesters as you go in clinic, abortions then are 440 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:29,200 more expensive. So at 8, about 800 per abortion, 441 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,280 you take the number we have in about a year, which is a little 442 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,760 over a million. You're talking about at least 443 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,280 $830 million year industry. And I know there's the profits 444 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,480 and losses and all that. This was Planned Parenthood 445 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:50,680 again, I want you to see the shift of just life even for 446 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,320 them. This was a Planned Parenthood 447 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,480 statement in 1963. This was from one of their 448 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:04,040 pamphlets in 1963. And I quote it said an abortion 449 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,600 kills the life of the baby after it has begun. 450 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,840 Things have changed. Planned Parenthood performs 451 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:26,520 392,715 abortions in the 2021-2022 year increase of over 452 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:32,200 18,000, or an increase of 5% from the previous year and a 453 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,800 rise of 20% over the past 10 reporting years. 454 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,160 This was a record number of abortion for their organization 455 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,400 and represented about 40% of all abortions performed in the 456 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:51,240 United States. They perform 228 abortions for 457 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:57,360 every adoption referral they had in that year per 1 adoption 458 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:04,640 referral. 228 abortions to take place in his book Vision 459 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,120 Visioneering and I'm moving on. I don't know when I'm started. 460 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,520 I don't have a clock. There's not a clock. 461 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,400 So we're just going right in his book Visioneering. 462 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,400 I have read this book. Andy Stanley reported a woman 463 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,480 saying this and I quote so interesting power when I read it 464 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:19,880 again. There's a lot of things I read. 465 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,960 I just kind of took back my jacket for whatever It's 466 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,880 applicable, she said, she says. But I feel that the greatest 467 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,880 destroyer of peace today is abortion, because Jesus said if 468 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:39,000 you receive a little child, you receive me, she says. 469 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:50,970 So every abortion is the denial of receiving Jesus, the neglect 470 00:32:52,130 --> 00:32:57,520 of receiving Jesus. I'm going to share the 471 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,080 candidates views here tonight. This was last updated on August 472 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,600 the 26th of 2024. The procon.org A501C3 nonprofit. 473 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,200 The question was, should abortion be legal? 474 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,320 Harris said yes. Trump there, it said not clear, 475 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,640 not found. Last updated on September 2024 476 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,800 on the Faith and Freedom coalition.com guides, guides 477 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,680 that were sent to us that said, hey, these things here are are 478 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,840 IRS approved? OK, the question or the 479 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:35,080 statement is this federal abortion on demand law, federal 480 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,520 abortion on demand law. Harris supports says yes, Trump 481 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,160 says no. He refuses like to read again 482 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:49,320 now from both the Republican Party in the Democrat Party on 483 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,520 the issue of life and each of the thing I want to talk about 484 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,600 before we go home, OK. Concerning life, the Republican 485 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,520 Party platform says it proudly stands for families and life. 486 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,160 Believes the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that 487 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,800 no person can denied life or liberty without due process and 488 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,440 the states are free to pass laws protecting those rights. 489 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,239 Does not mention the unborn as previous platforms have done. 490 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,440 It believes the power has been given to the States and to a 491 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,960 vote of the people on this issue. 492 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,159 Promises to oppose late term abortion while supporting 493 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:33,480 mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to 494 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,440 birth control and IVF or fertility treatments. 495 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,040 The Democratic Party platform says it is committed to 496 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,239 restoring the reproductive rights Trump ripped away. 497 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,960 That's a direct quote from their party platform, not mine. 498 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,560 Promises to pass national legislation to make Roe the law 499 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,120 of the land again, which would allow abortion through birth. 500 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,480 Promise to strengthen access to contraception so every woman who 501 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,560 needs it is able to get and afford it. 502 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,080 Protect a woman's right to access IVF, Repeal the height 503 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,560 amendment, continue to support access to FDA approval 504 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,680 medication abortion. Appoint leaders at the FDA who 505 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,480 respect science, and appoint judges who uphold fundamental 506 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,360 freedoms. I want to just touch on 507 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,000 something else before we go on tonight. 508 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,560 Let's talk about the economy for a little bit, huh? 509 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,640 Anybody happy? No, I'm just joking. 510 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,160 Don't answer that. Amen. 511 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,400 Deuteronomy 1510. I don't know if it's up there 512 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,440 for me tonight. I had it for the NLT, but God 513 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,800 made it clear that we are to give generously, all right? 514 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,440 That we're to give generously to the poor and not grudgingly for 515 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,880 the Lord. Our God will bless us in 516 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,720 everything that we do. Well, a Giving USA report found 517 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:02,400 that in 2023, Americans gave the lowest percentages of their 518 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,800 disposable income to charity since 1995. 519 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,200 So this this is the lowest percentage in 2023 that they've 520 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,000 been given to charity since 1995. 521 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,920 Soup kitchens, homeless shelters, other nonprofits 522 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,600 struggling when Americans are feeling like they're choosing 523 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,800 between their everyday needs and helping others. 524 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,840 But the scripture said that we were to give generously to the 525 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,960 poor, not grudgingly. But we're being put in a place 526 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,200 because of the economy of our nation, that the hand that would 527 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,920 be out is now trying to keep its own in place. 528 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,520 America in some senses have committed the sin of Hezekiah. 529 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,320 Many good things could be said about Hezekiah, and there are 530 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,320 scripturally, there are many great and good things said about 531 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,960 Hezekiah. But when he failed God and then 532 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,640 the preacher came to Hezekiah and told him of the destruction 533 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,360 of the next generation. He told Hezekiah, all these 534 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,720 things are going to befall your nation and your people, but it's 535 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:14,080 not going to happen during the days that you are living, going 536 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,480 to happen in the days of your descendants in the coming next 537 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,560 generation. Second Kings 20 and verse #19 538 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,080 then said Hezekiah to the man of God, Isaiah, this is what he 539 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,120 said to him. He heard all this. 540 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,880 He said, good, He is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. 541 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:37,320 And he said, is it not good if peace and truth be in my days? 542 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,960 What's he saying? In effect, he's saying, so as 543 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,920 long as it's all right now, it doesn't matter what happens for 544 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,600 the next generation. Folks, what we are doing today 545 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,920 in S she's spending money that our children's going to have to 546 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,080 pay back through some form or some fashion. 547 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,080 We take a short light sighted look at it's like, well, as long 548 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,840 as everything's OK that which it's not OK now, but as long as 549 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,720 everything's OK now, it doesn't matter about the future. 550 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,400 It does it doesn't matter about the future. 551 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,360 Our children matter. Proverbs 13 and verse 22. 552 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,600 I had the NLT. This will probably be the King 553 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,800 James up there. It says good people leave an 554 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,520 inheritance to their grandchildren. 555 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,440 Folks, that's hard to do when you're just trying to pay for 556 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:27,560 your groceries or you got property taxes that's so high, 557 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,400 or this tax here, tax there, tax everywhere, tax, tax. 558 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,720 Old McDonald had a farm. Amen. 559 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:44,440 Nehemiah chapter #5 and verse #3 the Bible says, folks, it's all 560 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,960 right to have fun. The Bible says this was a 561 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,200 Nehemiah's day, right? Living during the time there in 562 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,360 Jerusalem, They've been rebuilding Jerusalem, the walls, 563 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,200 all these things. Some also we have to dismiss. 564 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,000 We'll have to some also. There were that said we have 565 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:08,880 mortgaged our lands, vineyards and houses that we might buy 566 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:14,280 corn because of the dearth. There were also that said, we 567 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,880 have borrowed money for the King's tribute, what they 568 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:22,960 borrowed money to pay tax, and that upon our lands and 569 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,320 vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the 570 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,280 flesh of our brethren, our children as their children, and 571 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,040 lo, we bring into bondage. Look at that, we bring into 572 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,640 bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and 573 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,200 some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. 574 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,840 Neither is it in our power to redeem them. 575 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,200 Why They don't have the means to do so for other men have our 576 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,320 lands and our vineyards. And so the land owners here in 577 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:52,240 the Scripture have mortgage, mortgaged their land, all right, 578 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,360 in order to have money to bite seed that they might have a 579 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,000 harvest that they might be able to just feed their family and 580 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,600 exist, right? They anticipated that they would 581 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,400 have no harvest because of everything going on, or at least 582 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,720 a poor harvest or insufficient harvest to even provide a means 583 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:13,440 to be able to pay back what they borrowed for the seed. 584 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,040 And if all that was going on, they said, then there wouldn't 585 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,880 be, no, there would be no cash or revenue to redeem our 586 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,920 property, let alone redeem our children back from slavery or 587 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,840 indentured servants that we sold them into because of our 588 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,080 poverty. And so there's all these 589 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,480 consequences. They're thinking in their mind, 590 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,880 you know what, we might lose our property altogether. 591 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,920 It it might be confiscated from us because where we are 592 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,840 financially, we might have to give our children to what and in 593 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,840 what effect? In what form because of all the 594 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,320 stuff we're trying to work off our debt. 595 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,320 And if they lost their land, they possibly may face a never 596 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,760 ending situation where their children would never be given 597 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,480 back to them to redeem. In essence, it states somewhat 598 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,040 of our times again. And I'll, I'll close with this 599 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,160 with a few other views. A candidate views. 600 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:13,360 Excuse me on Should the federal corporate income tax rate be 601 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,320 raised? This is according to procon.org 602 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:22,400 again A501C3 nonprofit Updated on August 26th, 2024 Should the 603 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,400 federal corporate income tax rate be raised Corporate income 604 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,440 tax rate be raised. Harris is pro for it, yes, Trump 605 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,840 Con no again. The Faith and Freedom 606 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:40,520 coalition.com guides there of September 2024. 607 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:46,160 The the the statement is renew the tax cuts and JOBS Act of 608 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:51,520 2017. Harris says no, Trump says yes. 609 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,440 You allow me to read again from the party platforms. 610 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,600 And this doesn't tongue and groove with economy, but I think 611 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,240 it's important. This is about our religious 612 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:05,040 freedoms from the Republican and the Democrat Party and their 613 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,160 platforms. Republican Party it says their 614 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,400 platform calls the Republican Party the defenders of the 1st 615 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,480 Amendment right to religious liberty, which protects the 616 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,920 right not only to worship according to the dictates of 617 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,120 conscience, but also to act in accordance with those beliefs, 618 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,920 not just the places of worship, but in everyday life. 619 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:29,080 Says it's partly members include men and women from every faith 620 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:34,320 and tradition and that the party respects the right of liberty. 621 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,520 No right of every American that the inks a little smudge there 622 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:44,080 every American to follow his or her deeply held beliefs 623 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,200 supports. I quote a new federal task force 624 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,480 on fighting an anti Christian bias that will investigate all 625 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,400 forms of illegal discrimination, harassment and persecution 626 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,760 against Christians in America. Promises to champion the 1st 627 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,440 amendment right to pray and read the Bible in school and stand up 628 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,000 to those who violate the religious freedoms of American 629 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,760 students. The Democratic Party states this 630 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,480 promises to protect the 1st amendment right to free exercise 631 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,200 of religion for everyone and maintain the separation of 632 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,160 church and state. Promises to combat hate crimes 633 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,800 and white nationalist terrorism, prioritize the investigation of 634 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,240 hate crimes against trans and non binary people, and continue 635 00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:24,640 to increase security at houses of worship. 636 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:28,240 Condoms. The decades long campaign to 637 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:32,720 demonize oh condemns, not condemns, sorry condemns. 638 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,040 The decades long don't want smudges on your hand. 639 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,640 The decades long campaign to demonize the Muslim community 640 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,960 and promises to advocate for religious freedom across the 641 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,520 world, although that could very easily be in their platform as 642 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:57,480 well. Proverbs 2425 and verse 19. 643 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,160 The Bible says confidence in an unfaithful man in time of 644 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:07,560 trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. 645 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:10,920 What's that mean? If you have a broken tooth or a 646 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,480 foot that's out of joint, if you put any stress on them, whether 647 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,040 it's the tooth or the foot, when you need them, they're going to 648 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:23,800 fail you. And we hurt and we feel the pain 649 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,800 associated with their inability. All right, now close with this 650 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,880 Scripture, Proverbs 29 and verse #2 when the righteous, everybody 651 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,920 say righteous. Now before we just think, well, 652 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,920 this is someone that is right living and all that. 653 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:42,680 The word righteous means just lawful, one who walks straight 654 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,560 path or this one who is moderate. 655 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:51,880 So when the righteous are an authority, the people rejoice. 656 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:57,200 But when the wicked, defined here in the Hebrew as guilty, 657 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,560 morally wrong, departed from the correct path, or ungodly, when 658 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:06,280 the wicked bears rule, the people mourn. 659 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,400 And so as we go forward, we have an option and a choice, whether 660 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:18,400 we're voting for more so mourning or more so rejoicing. 661 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:25,760 You'll stay with me tonight. And I know the past three weeks 662 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,880 may have been a little peculiar outside of the norm, but that's 663 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:35,560 OK Amen. That's OK because there's people 664 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,920 talking about these type of things every day ever since a 665 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,920 year ago. And the talk is becoming more 666 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,640 intense. And so it's important that the 667 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,160 church talks about it as well. All right, Why don't we talk 668 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,400 about issues? I wonder if we could pray 669 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,120 tonight again, this is our last session for this election 670 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,240 series. We'll be talking about the 671 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:59,440 criteria for finding the mate next week. 672 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,000 But I wonder if we could just really take a moment right now 673 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,680 and pray and ask God to give us some wisdom and knowledge. 674 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,640 All right, some understanding as we go forward from here and as 675 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,800 we go to the polls next month. God, I'm asking Lord Jesus today 676 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,680 that you would give us wisdom and knowledge and understanding. 677 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:22,080 God help us to Lord, not just to God haphazardly, Lord just fill 678 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,960 in Lord circles next to a name, but God help us to go in 679 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,880 educated. Help us to go in Lord Jesus 680 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,640 educated not just on the national level, but God on our 681 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,760 state level, even on our community level. 682 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,800 Help us to go in educated. God, we have all the tools, all 683 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,120 the means out there, Lord, for educating ourselves, Lord, 684 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,280 concerning people and issues and things. 685 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,160 I pray, O God, help us Lord, to make Lord good choices, Lord and 686 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,000 good decisions when know God that you pluck up Lord Jesus and 687 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,760 you plant. We understand all of that. 688 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,520 And God, regardless of who finds their way into office, we'll 689 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,880 pray God for that person and authority, God of that office. 690 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,520 We'll make that God a sovereign Lord Jesus, God responsibility, 691 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,360 God that we take up on our shoulders to pray fervently for 692 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,600 them. But God, help us to do due 693 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,840 diligence now. God, before that next individual 694 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,600 enters, God, help us to do due diligence now. 695 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,520 God, with the opportunity that you've given us in this great 696 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:24,000 God to cast our vote, Lord Jesus, I pray, help us, O Lord, 697 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,800 to be biblically sound God, and have a biblical compass about 698 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,840 us. God, as we go forward, Lord, 699 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,160 help us. Lord, I pray and I know, Lord 700 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,920 Jesus, God, that you'll be there, Lord, instructing, 701 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,960 guiding Lord in your hand and all these affairs, The Lord for 702 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,160 the United States of America, we trust you with it and for it. 703 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,640 And the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the 704 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:50,800 church say Amen, Amen. God bless you all in Jesus name. 705 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:54,880 Amen, Amen. Oh yeah, we got baptismal 706 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,480 certificate for Jessica Wagner up here tonight. 707 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:01,720 Give that to her.