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Hi, I'm Jeff Durbin, pastor of Apologia Church and the head of EndAbortionNow .com. I am so excited to present to you what

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God has done over the last year through your prayers and your support, all that you've done to partner with us as a

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Christian church, trying to equip other Christian churches globally to save lives at the abortion mill and to establish justice, immediate justice for these pre -born children.

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Years ago, when we started this ministry, we told you that we were a Christian church that wanted to make this about the gospel.

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We did not want to work with the pro -life industry who are trying to regulate the issue of abortion. We wanted to establish justice, to abolish this, to criminalize it and to end it once and for all.

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When we first started, we told you that we wanted to raise churches up to equip them completely for free.

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We wanted to educate them. We wanted to provide for them all the resources to go out and to save lives at the abortion mill.

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As of today, over 615 local churches have signed up. They have been equipped.

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They have been trained. They've gotten free resources. We haven't taken anything from these churches. We've wanted only to give to them.

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And through your support, we've been able to equip them and train them and give them all their resources to save lives completely for free.

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Over 615 churches, countless lives have been saved at this point. Thousands upon thousands of lives are being saved and they continue to be saved on a regular basis because of what you did with us.

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You gave to this church to equip these churches. And now thousands of children are alive because of that.

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We knew that we needed to create a media ministry that was a platform that could communicate consistently on this issue of abortion from a consistent

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Christian perspective that worked towards the end, the criminalization and the abolition of abortion in our nation.

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We knew that we needed to speak with the gospel demanding immediate justice to our legislators. We started a movement across the country of Christians going to the legislature and demanding immediate justice.

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That all has happened. And now we've been able to work with Christians across the country who are working with their legislators to criminalize the issue of abortion.

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Right now in the state of Arizona, we have a representative who is presenting a bill to criminalize, not regulate, to end the issue of abortion in the state of Arizona.

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Roe v. Wade is a court opinion. It does not have the force of law. It is not a law. And that is admitted now.

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Number one, we don't know exactly what she will do. Her expectation is that she may very well move to overview over rule

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Roe. The only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making

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Roe the law of the land. That's what I would do. We needed to educate believers that Roe v.

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Wade is a court opinion and states need to reject an unjust ruling by judges in the 1970s.

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We knew that we needed to actually approach this consistently in a way that was different than the pro -life industry has, where they're working towards regulation and not the ultimate criminalization of abortion.

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They call mothers and fathers who have abortions victims themselves. You'll never end abortion with that mindset, with that worldview.

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The pro -life industry refuses to call abortion murder, what Christians would call it. We've wanted to raise churches up to actually equip them to focus on this issue as Christians, not with neutrality, but with the gospel demanding immediate justice.

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We've been able to do that through your support over 615 local churches now out saving thousands of lives.

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We have now established other media ministries. We, through your support have actually given numerous churches their own media kit where they're actually gonna be able to produce their own content, just like Apologia Studios.

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We've given them high -end cameras and recording equipment, sound equipment, tripods, lenses, so they can do what we're doing to broaden the reach of the voices of those within the

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Christian church who can speak to this issue with consistency as Christians for the end of abortion.

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We've been able to raise up churches in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland who are speaking to this issue as Christians in Ireland, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Canada.

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God has made this movement global and it's happened because of your support with us. I wanna speak to you from the heart here.

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We are not trying to create an industry. I long for the day when we shut all this down and don't ask for another penny to support these churches and to criminalize this issue.

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We are working as a Christian church to criminalize this and to establish justice and to save lives.

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You've helped us to do that and you've helped us to do it in a way where we've been no burden to the churches, we've just helped them, equipped them.

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You did that, you supported us, you prayed and right now we have legislators in Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma and in Arizona who are going to be putting in bills to criminalize abortion, to resist

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Roe versus Wade and to criminalize abortion at the state level. It's gonna be happening here in Arizona.

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It's already being submitted and all that's happening because of the work of endabortionnow .com

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and other believers across the country who are trying to establish justice, true justice for these pre -born children.

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Will you join us again in 2021? Of course, pray for us. Of course, please sign up at endabortionnow .com

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with your church, save some lives with us. There's Christians all over the country that need you to join us.

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We need your help to save lives but also partner with us so we can equip more churches, develop more media ministries to speak to this issue in the public square together and to once and for all criminalize abortion in our nation, help us to meet our matching donation for 2020, help us through 2021 to save more lives and to end the slaughter of these innocent pre -born children in the womb.

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When you give to endabortionnow .com, you're giving to equip local churches to save lives.

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That's all there is to it. Lives are being saved every single day across the country and around the world now because of believers just like you who gave.

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You are helping to raise churches up and you are saving lives. You're helping to establish media ministries like Apologia Studios that are speaking to this issue consistently, that are raising up Christians, that are helping to actually end, to criminalize the issue of abortion.

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You're helping us to actually train and equip Christians to do what we've been able to do across the country now.

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Christians have been able to talk to their legislators and demand immediate justice. Just think about this.

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10 years ago, we weren't in a place that we are now where we have legislators who are actually saying, end it, it's over, we're criminalizing this, we're abolishing it.

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Now we're here. Christians have been working so faithfully in this area and you can partner with a ministry like Apologia through End Abortion Now to raise up churches, to bring the message of the gospel into conflict with abortion and to bring the message of immediate justice to legislatures across the country like this one.

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It's happening in Arizona right now. We have people all over the country now who are in this.

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This is unprecedented in our time to see so many changes right on the line.

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And I just wanna reiterate again, I am so looking forward to the day as a pastor where we never do another one of these videos except just to celebrate what

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God has done. We never ask for another penny. The pro -life industry is an industry, it's a business.

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When you give this to the church, the church can work with the gospel to end this issue and never ask for another penny.

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Brothers and sisters, will you give, help us to match our donation so we can fund all the work for 2021?

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Will you help us in this moment in time to work to the end of abortion as the

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Christian church? Help us to work in such a way that we end this, we don't regulate it, we criminalize it and establish justice for our pre -born neighbors now.

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That's what's happening. So many churches, so many lives saved. Now, more media ministries than ours able to speak to this with good quality content, with a consistent message and working with the legislators to criminalize this issue in our country.

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Will you partner with a Christian church that makes this about the gospel, that makes this about ending abortion once and for all?

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We can celebrate together when we never ask for another penny from a

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Christian to end this issue because it's ended. Go to endabortionnow .com,

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sign up with your church to join us in saving lives. Go to endabortionnow .com to give towards the work of 2021.

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All of your giving goes towards raising up churches, saving lives, creating media content and media ministries to speak to this issue and to training churches to actually end this at the legislature.

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Join us for 2021, brothers and sisters. I'd be so grateful if you did. This year,

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Endabortion Now gave cinema quality video production kits to four of the most active abortion clinic ministries.

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These kits valued at over $5 ,000 each include a Blackmagic 6K camera, multiple lenses, audio, tripod, and accessories.

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The goal was to flood the internet with gospel -centered video content so that more people might see babies getting saved in their communities and get involved.

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So the things we've got on the camera just in the few days since we've been using it are two or three saves,

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I think, already. Interactions with all types of people that come to the mills and some angry, some happy.

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Just being able to capture everything that's happening has been really good. The video equipment's helpful because just from going out,

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I've heard of quite a bit of people who have watched other videos that people who go out to the mill put out there, and it encourages people who kind of have the thought of wanting to step out, but they're not sure.

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So then they watch other people go out to the mill and they think to themselves, I can do this. I think a camera like this is more helpful than just a ordinary

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GoPro because of greater detail. You're able to capture more of what really goes on out there.

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If I upload a GoPro video, it's scratchy. It's not capturing everything.

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You can block it with your coat, so you can't really see the face -to -face conversation that we're having, but with a camera like this, you get to capture the whole conversation.

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You get to actually witness the mother's face. Her eyes are lit up, and her smile is huge.

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With a GoPro, you can't really capture that. It's awesome to watch God move at these places, and it's really great to be able to show other people, to record these things and show other people the way

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God moves and what he does at these places and the way he saves babies.

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Ken Cheeseman, Raleigh, North Carolina. We wanted to do some evangelism, but then we started seeing this could be, abortion ministry could be effective for evangelism.

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YouTube, just started watching, found Durbin confronting people, and then, yeah,

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YouTube, basically. Well, I mean, at the place that we're at now, we have our pro -life,

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I don't know, pregnancy center type place that's completely hostile and hates what we do.

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They're trying to do what we do, and they really just hate the gospel, I think.

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They don't give them the gospel. They're out there, and they say, we're not with them, we're not with them.

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Yeah, we're not with them, no. And they have gift bags.

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There's food in the bag. There's information about getting the ultrasound, but we asked them to look in the bag, and there's not even a gospel track.

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I really do think they're ashamed of the gospel. It's about handing out these bags and getting people to have the ultrasound so they can check the box, so they can extort money from churches that are afraid to share the gospel.

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People should support End Abortion Now because they're not ashamed of the gospel, and they're proclaiming the law of God, which that's what's gonna work on the heart to bring people to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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I mean, it is the gospel. We can't be ashamed of the full counsel of God. If we don't proclaim it, if the church doesn't proclaim it, there's no organization on earth that will.

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And then you have these pseudo -Christian organizations, again, extorting and taking money from Christians in the name of Christ, but will not speak the true message of Jesus Christ.

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We knew of a woman that had needed some help, and we had chosen to help her with her pregnancy, and she birthed a little girl, and we continued to help her for years, for a couple of years, and she ended up pregnant, an unwanted pregnancy.

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And she wanted to get an abortion, and I just, I couldn't fathom that.

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And I talked to her about it being murder and that it's just, you can't do that.

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She couldn't do it. I just wasn't gonna let her do it. And I said, we'll talk tomorrow. Next day came.

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She was living at her home, by the way. Next day came, and she still wanted to, and I said, you couldn't.

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I told her she couldn't, and four days went by, and on the fourth day, she said that she had already ruined him, that she had already ruined him, that she said that she had already been doing things that she shouldn't have been doing while she was pregnant.

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And she said that nobody would want him. And I said that I would. I said that you could, that she couldn't get an abortion and that I wanted him.

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And then I called my husband and I told him what I said. And he was like, okay, we're gonna have another baby.

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And he was born two months early, and his name is Jairus, and we are so blessed by him.

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And I'm so blessed that that mom chose life. I'm so blessed that she trusted me, that she trusted me to help her through her pregnancy and to care for him.

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And he's one. He's one. Well, he's number 10, and he is full of energy.

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And we hadn't had a boy for a while, so it's just, he's a bundle of joy. He is, he's more than what

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I expected. He's right on track with kids his age. He's not been affected by anything that she was doing.

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He's perfect. So this is actually, to my mind, a historic site.

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It's one, it's a place where one of the giants of the faith of our generation has stood and ministered for 16 years.

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It's a really incredible spot. This is the Orlando Women's Center. I've only been here for a little bit as we're getting everything set up to do this for you so you can see this place.

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And just in being here for a short time, I've already seen several mothers and fathers going in and out.

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I've watched two women who came in here to kill their children stumble out and sort of be carried out by the fathers of the children.

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And so it really can be a devastating emotional experience to be out here, to be so close.

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We've been in this for maybe about a decade, preaching the gospel at abortion mills, raising up churches to go and save lives.

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Thousands of children have been saved through the work of the churches through End Abortion Now who have come out to preach the gospel, to offer help and hope and love to mothers and fathers who are going in to kill their children.

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But where we're at, we can't get this close to the abortion mills. So this for me is a really powerful experience, not just because of how close you can be to the mothers and the fathers who are going in there to kill their children, how close you can be to the paid assassin who's out back smoking and to the staff that are out there smoking in between killing children.

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But it's an amazing place to be because of what's taken place at this location.

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John Barros is my hero of the faith. One of my heroes of the faith.

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He's been out here faithfully. He's been a silent hero for so long. Every single day coming out here to preach the gospel to these mothers and fathers to plead for the lives of their children.

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He's been doing it for 16 years. I call him a silent hero because he was doing this and he was faithful out here every single day.

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Before people really cared about who he was or had cameras on him or could do live feeds out here.

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He was just saving children by the thousands before it was cool. And so many miracles have happened here at the

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Orlando Women's Center. Too many miracles to actually talk about right now on this particular clip, but miracles happening.

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I mean, even every day, I've talked to the two men that are out here today and they've already seen, I think two or three saves today just by being here, being faithful, standing on the truth and preaching

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Christ. But I wanted to show you this. This for me is a moment that I will never forget.

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John's one of my heroes. He's inspired me to do this work and abortion now exists in many ways because of his testimony and his work.

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But I've wanted to come here for so long to experience just being here at the place where God has moved to save thousands of children from death over so many years.

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And I've wanted to come here because, well, because of this.

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This is actually a very, very powerful thing. John, many of you guys know, stands on crutches.

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So not only does he come to the abortion mill to preach the gospel and save lives all day long. And let me just tell you right now, it's hot out here.

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It's hot. It's not comfortable, but he stands on crutches and he's been here for so long, so faithfully been here for so long, for 16 years that he's literally worn the sidewalk down.

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He's worn the sidewalk down right in front of the doors where the mothers and fathers are going in to kill their children.

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This has been his station right here. This is his spot. And this is where the gospel has come from.

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This worn down sidewalk right into those doors, into those mothers and fathers in there who are gonna kill their children.

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The gospel has come out from this spot so many thousands of times, and God has saved so many thousands of children.

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To my mind, this ought to be a monument. It is a monument. It is a monument.

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It's a monument to one man's faithfulness, to a silent hero, a man who's given his life for these children.

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And I was saying this earlier, so many thousands of children are gonna go through their whole lives and never even hear the story of the hero who saved their lives.

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Many of the mothers and fathers who turned away from killing the children aren't gonna tell their child, you know,

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I was gonna kill you and then this man stopped me. They'll never tell them. Who knows?

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God knows. John knows. Those mothers and fathers know. But their children, they won't know that their life is a reality because of one man's faithfulness in this hot sun, outside of this one place of death for so many years.

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And there's a monument to his heroic acts. There's a monument to his faithfulness.

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And it truly is incredible because I don't know if it comes through on the camera like it does when you're here, but if you feel the sidewalk all around here, it's consistent, it's rough, but as soon as you move over here,

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John has stood here and you can see where he's worn the sidewalk down and even where when he was standing on his crutches, he's worn the sidewalk down to where this is white, but it's not just white.

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He's literally worn it down to where there's holes in the concrete. You can feel this man's faithfulness, the monument to it.

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All of this dark and consistent and then the concrete just worn down from the weight of his body, pushing into those crutches, leaving a mark of gospel faithfulness going through those doors.

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And it's powerful because wouldn't it be amazing if one day like this was an actual historic site?

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I think it ought to be. I know it is in God's mind. But to me, this is one of the most precious moments of my life to be able to see this because this man and his silent faithfulness, the silent hero was out here preaching the gospel to these women saving lives long before most of us got involved in this.

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There are many heroes besides John, don't forget that. But many of us today who are out preaching the gospel and saving lives are doing it in a particular context that's just so different.

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John and others like him were out here as silent heroes before most of us had woken up.

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And here's the monument to his faithfulness. I'm so glad I got to touch it.

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And you can not just hear this story. You can not just hear this story and say, oh, that was amazing.

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Praise God for this man and move on. Don't do that.

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Don't do that. We're a part of this now as the church with the gospel to save lives and preach the gospel.

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This is about the truth. This isn't merely a political situation.

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I'm not trying to draw on your heartstrings. There's real children being slaughtered inside this location and others like it that are near you.

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You can be a part of what God is doing to save children and to bring the gospel into conflict with the issue of abortion.