Rally Highlight: Jeff's Impactful Speech at Pennsylvania Capitol

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The pro -life industry knowingly decriminalized abortion in the state of Arizona.

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We are going around nationwide getting legislation to end abortion, not end it after six weeks or ten weeks or twelve weeks, end it completely.

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Alright brother, thank you so much, it's hard to follow that. I promise not to hurt any of you like Zach. It's actually an amazing thing to me when we think about where we're at as a nation and we think about the injustices all around us.

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You have of course the premier injustice upon the pre -born human beings, the innocent who are being threatened with death, that's happening all across the country.

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We're working in numerous states. We have over 750 local churches around the nation now who have risen up.

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They've gotten training from us and they've gotten equipped with everything and they're out now as the local churches standing in front of abortion mills every day saving children from death.

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Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of children are alive today because Christians just like you went with the gospel to their abortion facilities, local to them, preached the gospel, loved those mothers and fathers, offered help, offered to adopt children, and now thousands and thousands and thousands of children are alive today, today, alive.

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That's not theory, that's real. Because believers just like you committed to truly love their neighbor and to do something about it, not to just keep it between the space of their ears.

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I believe this is murder and it needs to stop. I believe God is angry over the slaughter of the innocent, but they went out and did something about it.

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And I love the fact that we're standing here in Pennsylvania. Yes, there's other states we've worked in to speak to our legislators, to preach the gospel, to demand justice for the pre -born.

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We have bills that have gone into numerous states now for equal protection that all human life would be preserved and all human life would be protected equally.

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You are human and this cannot be disputed. It cannot be refuted. You are human from the moment of conception.

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That is a biblical and biological fact. It is irrefutable. And so we're working for equal protection for all humans.

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And I love that today we're in Pennsylvania, yes. There are other states who are filled maybe with more outspoken believers or people who would call themselves conservatives, where it might make more sense to some to say, let's get a bill into that state where we have a chance of getting it passed.

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The kingdom of God grows through mustard seeds to large trees. And this bill, and praise

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God for this hero, which is what he is, this bill is being put into the place that is one of the centers of all the great blessings of this great experiment,

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Pennsylvania. If you look around here, around the building, what'd you say, Zach? Where you at, Zach? Did I lose you?

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There's scripture. Where you at, Zach? Zach, how many, there's scripture all over this place here, right?

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People can take tours here, right? Where they can go around and they can look at all the words that are imprinted into this building and this facility.

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Heritage tour, Monday morning, nine o 'clock. The point is, is look, this place stands as a monument to the glories of the

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Christian worldview. You do not have the great blessings of this nation apart from Jesus Christ.

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I'm not giving you a motivational speech, I'm not a motivational speaker, I'm a minister of the gospel and I'm telling you the truth.

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The blessings of this great nation came from the Christian worldview. You don't have the goodness and the justice that people celebrate about this nation and wear oaths to, to defend, apart from the word of God and the biblical worldview.

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You can't walk around this building without seeing it as a monument to the biblical truths that gave rise to it.

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And I want to just make sure we all understand something. Two ways, two lanes, one, the gospel itself and the

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Christian faith exploded into the world with some very confused disciples who had fairly recently just abandoned their

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Lord, even betrayed him. And then this Lord says, before he ascends into heaven to sit on his throne as king, he says, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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That's by the way, if you didn't catch it, past tense. And that took place in the first century.

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Jesus said that he already had all authority in heaven and on earth.

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And he said on that basis, he said, go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son of the

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Holy spirit. And he said that we are to teach the nations to obey

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Jesus. Make no mistake about it.

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Don't apologize for it. That is the goal of the gospel. Take it or leave it.

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You're either with me or you're against me, Jesus says. And those very confused disciples who knew that Caesar was sitting nearby and would have had something to say about what

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Jesus had just claimed, those very confused disciples were a small group of Christians in a hostile pagan empire.

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Caesar was Lord in their day. Caesar was Lord. The Christian faith exploded into the world with a proclamation that Jesus is in fact

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Lord over Caesar. So when you hear the modern squishy evangelical in the

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West say, well, Jesus doesn't have anything to say to that. That's outside of the realm of the responsibility of the church. They're showing that they are ignorant of the faith.

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They don't know the gospel of the kingdom and they don't understand what the authority of Jesus Christ is.

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Because if you look in the book of Acts, it doesn't take you long to discover that the early

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Christians and the apostles understood that this gospel was something that was authoritative over the heads of every single human being in the world.

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When the apostle Paul, I'm going to put this down for a second, I guess I don't need it. It's all in here.

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You should get it in there too. When the apostle Paul was speaking at the Areopagus, which was the place of philosophical debate and discussion in his day,

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I believe he's being brought up on formal charges in Acts 17 at Mars Hill. He preached the gospel in a way that doesn't sound like we often do as modern

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Western evangelicals. After he proclaims Christ, he said, and now God commands men everywhere to repent.

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God commands men everywhere to repent. The gospel for the apostle

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Paul, as he proclaimed it, if we want to proclaim it like him, he said that the gospel was a command.

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And it was a command to everybody because God has appointed a day of judgment and he's raised

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Jesus Christ from the dead as vindication of the fact that he truly is the Messiah and there will be a day of judgment.

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And so he says God commands men everywhere to repent. And the early Christians, when they were coming into contact with the ruling authorities of their day, they were commanded by the ruling authorities to obey and stop preaching in his name.

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And they said, we must obey God rather than men.

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The Christian church is the OG government resistance thing.

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We preach the gospel to everybody because everybody's commanded to repent and believe. That includes legislators and the people who are supposed to be

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God's servants in this government house. We preach the gospel and we do it in such a way that in the first century, in the book of Acts, again, when the

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Christians were being accused of a message that was disruptive, they said that these people, these

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Christians are going against the decrees of Caesar saying there's another King, Jesus, because the state of their day claimed ultimacy, ultimacy to define what is right, what is wrong, ultimacy over your lives.

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Caesar was Lord Kaiser Curios, they had to say. And the early Christians said, no, we will be good citizens.

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We will respect God's deacon, God's servant, the government who is supposed to establish justice and uphold the good, which is only defined by God's word.

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But they said, you are not ultimate, Caesar, Jesus is ultimate. He is authoritative over even you.

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And the early Christians were killed not because they worshiped Jesus, but because they were seen as enemies of the state because they actually had the nerve to say that the state is not ultimate.

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It cannot ultimately define what is right and just apart from God. Jesus is Lord. And I want to say the

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Christians who gave us this nation, and it was, by the way, Christians who did it,

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Christianity was in the atmosphere. I'm not saying everybody involved in this great experiment was truly saved or had true saving faith, but the

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Christian worldview was unavoidable. It was in the atmosphere. It was everywhere. It was assumed. And the

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Christians that gave us this great experiment, which is hanging on a thread right now, they understood this truth.

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If no transcendent law is recognized above the state, then the state will attempt to deify itself and take divine prerogatives and act as God.

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There is one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the triune

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God of Scripture, and Jesus is the King. And this nation is faltering now and losing these blessings and these great examples of justice because our nation needs to repent and turn to Christ.

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And we do not call people to repent and come to Christ with compromise.

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Can you just let a little bit of Jesus into your life? Will you obey Him a little bit?

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Will you take Jesus and allow Him to come into your life to sort of sit in a corner somewhere? Will you allow Him just to have a piece of you?

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Jesus says to people, huge crowds, the movement is growing now, He says to people, if anyone comes to me and does not hate, and He names your favorite people, and He says, in even your own life, you're not worthy to be my disciple.

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Jesus had the courage and the commitment to truth that He was willing to tell massive crowds to go away and whittle the crowd back down to 12 again.

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That's the message of Christ. He doesn't want people to be deluded into thinking that they're honoring

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Him or glorifying Him. He wants you and all of you. And the pro -life industry, the pro -life industry focuses in upon a position of neutrality, no commitment to Christ, no commitment to God's law, and they focus on pragmatism other than principle.

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They want to see what might work, and they don't want to offend anybody in the process. We want to love our neighbors, and we want to love

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God supremely. And so if we're ever going to establish justice, we can't do it in a way that is simply pragmatic and compromised.

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That always fails. Have you noticed that those who are on, let's just say, the left in this issue, those who do not acknowledge

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Christ as Lord and Savior, when they get into the legislature, they fight for their worldview. They fight for their standard of ethics.

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They fight for what they say is their truth, and they're willing to do it without compromise, and they're willing to destroy an entire nation to do so.

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Because it's not a question of whether there will be a God over this nation. It's which God.

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It's not a question of whether we'll impose a morality. It's whose morality. And Scripture teaches there is only one

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God, and He has a standard of righteousness, and He has spoken and given His revelation.

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And God's Word says, it's fundamental, you shall not murder.

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Murder is the unjustified taking of human life. It's the unjustified taking of human life.

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And what's in the womb is human from conception, and abortion is the unjustified taking of human life.

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Therefore, abortion is murder. And it's our duty. If we want to love

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God and love our neighbor, truly love them, to actually stand in the way of those trying to actually destroy these image -bearers of God.

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We live in a day where everybody's in the streets raising their Marxist fists, calling for social justice, saying, justice now.

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No justice, no peace. I'll take you up on that offer. This is the premier issue of justice.

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Don't tell me you want justice, and don't tell me any lives matter if you're not willing to stand for every human from conception.

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And brothers and sisters, when I say the pro -life industry is standing in the way, please understand something.

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As Christians, we instinctively understand the word life. That's good.

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That's from God. I'm for life. That's straight biblical.

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I'm for that. But many of us who would consider ourselves pro -life don't understand there's a difference between a believer who stands on the word of God that says they are for the protection of human life and somebody who is a part of the pro -life industry.

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The pro -life industry is an industry. It's a business. And they explicitly say from the top they are not approaching this issue as Christians, not as commitments to Christ or the law of God.

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They are doing it from a position of neutrality. And Jesus says whoever's not with me is against me.

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They're opposed to Christ. And the pro -life industry fails consistently to establish justice for the pre -born.

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This year in my state, we had a bill of equal protection for all humans from conception. Equal protection.

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My state already saw abortion as a criminal act since before Roe. Most states in our union, because they were birthed out of the

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Christian worldview, did exactly the same. They saw abortion as the taking of a human life in an unjustified manner and it went into the homicide code of those states.

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Arizona was the same. Roe is not law. It is a court opinion, a fallacious court opinion.

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It is not law. And in my state, the pro -choice industry, this happened in Texas as well and in Oklahoma and in South Carolina.

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In my state, the pro -life industry resisted the bill of equal protection even though they say they believe it's human from conception and that all human life is sacred.

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They told all the co -sponsors and those in the legislature, do not vote on this bill of equal protection.

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They said, don't vote on this, vote on ours. So they put their bill in. Do you know what it said? It said that you cannot kill a baby in the womb in the state of Arizona for the expressed purpose or reason that it has a genetic abnormality.

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So in other words, the bill is saying you can kill the healthy babies developing in the womb, but none that have a genetic abnormality.

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And it was a moot point anyways, because all a mother or father has to do as they're going to take their baby to the slaughter is simply say,

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I'm not killing it because it has a genetic abnormality. I'm killing it because I hate it.

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And you can kill your baby. Another pro -life law they put in, in opposition to ours for equal protection, was you can kill your baby in the state of Arizona, but you just have to give it a proper burial.

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So you can kill all those Jews at Auschwitz, we'll allow you to do so, just make sure you give them a nice burial.

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What's the difference? There isn't a difference. We have been deluded and we have been indoctrinated by our culture.

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And the final one, and I'm trying my best to make sure I inform my brothers and sisters across this nation of the dirty little secret of the pro -life industry.

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They put in a one -line repeal of 13 -3604.

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You know what that was? That was the Arizona law that criminalized abortion in the state and said that it was illegal and you'd be punished for it.

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The pro -life industry knowingly decriminalized abortion in the state of Arizona.

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This is not a conspiracy theory. You can check me on this. And why would they do such a thing?

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Why? Here's why. The dirty little secret of the pro -life industry. They're not trying to criminalize abortion or end it.

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They believe that a mother who goes in to have her little boy's head crushed and his arms cut from his body and be disemboweled, they believe that she is equally a victim like the baby.

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She's not guilty. Which means abortion will never be ended with that worldview and that perspective.

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Why? Because you don't punish victims and there's no gospel for them.

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Consider that. If we follow the pro -life industry's inconsistent methodology and perspective as Christians, we cannot stand with them and preach the gospel because they do not believe anybody who actually has an abortion as a mother or a father is guilty of anything.

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They're also victims. So brothers and sisters, how will we end this? With truth, with the word of God.

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How did God change you? How did God open your eyes to your condition so that you would flee to Christ for salvation?

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How did it happen? You saw your sin. You saw your need for Christ.

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You were honest with yourself. God opened your eyes to your condition. You were honest with yourself. You saw yourself as you truly are and you fled to Christ for life, forgiveness and peace.

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Do you think anybody in this nation is going to come to Christ in a different way? The only time people flee to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation is when they see themselves for who they truly are.

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And the only conviction that ever comes in somebody's life is when they see what they're truly guilty of. They're convicted that God uses the law of God to prick the heart, to open the mind and the conscience to come to Jesus.

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We have to be honest about this and recognize that the pro -life industry is not working ultimately to end and criminalize abortion because they believe people who perpetrate this crime upon their own children are themselves victims.

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We need to love these mothers and fathers enough to tell them the truth and that there's hope in Christ and in the gospel.

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Let me tell you a little bit of a secret. I don't think I've said this publicly yet. In the last two years as we've been working on bills in different states and working to establish justice,

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I have met with more legislators than I can remember. I've been in more private meetings than I can remember and I can tell you that I've stood in front of legislator after legislator after legislator face to face and I've been surprised at how many of these legislators were voted in based upon a pro -life record and that they were pro -life, they needed the pro -life votes, but they were following the pro -life industries methodology just understanding that's how we have to do this, correct?

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And when you explain to somebody, no, you know that Roe versus Wade is not a law. It says in our governing documents that Congress creates law, not the

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Supreme Court. The light bulb comes on, they say, oh yeah, we can defy that, we do it with marijuana and all kinds of stuff all the time.

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We can defy it for the sake of these children, the light bulb comes on. But I was in a private meeting last year.

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It was like a dark alley, it was dark at night. My wife called me at one point, she said, because we have like tracking stuff on all our family's phone, she's like, what are you doing in that area?

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Because it's not a nice area, it's kind of dangerous, but we met late at night in this secret location in a dark area and I'm sitting in the room with all kinds of local legislators, mayors, people who were trying to get voted in.

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And I was brought in to challenge them to be consistent and to establish justice and to abolish abortion.

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And I recognize that a lot of times people aren't in this conversation, it takes some time to lay things down so they can have an understanding of where we're at, where we need to go.

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And I was trying to be gracious and trying to be humble and I was trying to sort of approach it step by step, but sort of softly at first and make my way there.

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And one of the people in the room was staring at me, this is a person who has a lot of political influence, they're very well known,

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I'll leave it at that. He was staring them in the eyes the entire time and I was just trying to very cautiously and slowly bring these people who are other legislators into the truth.

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And I was talking about the pro -life industry compromising and focusing on pragmatism and they're failing and their bills mean nothing and they don't establish justice at all and they're not working to ultimately criminalize it and end it.

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And he's staring them in the eyes, locked, not looking away, and he finally says out loud in front of everybody, he says,

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Pastor Jeff, he says, we all know that they're not working to end it.

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He said, this is an industry, it's a business, they're trying to stay open for business.

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He says, don't pull any punches, just say what needs to be said because we already know that the industry is an industry not trying to end it.

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I'm sharing that with you because you need to know what's going on in these rooms and at the highest level.

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And you also need to know, brothers and sisters, this very important thing. Do you know how this happened?

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How this hero was challenged and how he's putting in a bill to bring equal protection?

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It didn't happen through an organization that has millions and millions and millions of dollars. It didn't happen through professionals who know how to really work with legislators and they know how the game works.

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Do you know how it happened? This believer right here and a pastor and Christians who really only come into this with the money in their pockets, who was willing to go to a legislator and give them encouragement and prayer and the word so that it would raise up a hero like this.

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It does not take an organization with billions of dollars over 50 years.

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It does not take supreme political power and strength and abilities to go to your local legislators lovingly, boldly, and with humility and to give them the truth, point them to Christ and to demand justice for these pre -born children.

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It takes believers. It takes the church. And I wanted to say one of the distinctives about this movement right here that actually establishes bills with equal protection, bills that really matter and establish real justice, in order for that to take place, it takes a church.

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And one of the distinctions between those other movements and what you're seeing right now is that this is a gospel -centered movement that is not compromising.

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It is standing on the truth and it is truly loving our neighbors. Brothers and sisters, I want you to hear that. I want you to hear that.

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Watch. Look at this. Look at this group today. Not very large. I mean, thousands more are going to see this online, yes.

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Praise God for the technology, yes. But this is not a very large group. Kind of like 11 confused disciples at the ascension of Jesus.

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Not a very large group. Not a lot of very well -known people. Just a small group like this.

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And this group actually represents believers who love God and love neighbor and they want to see justice established.

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And you are right now witnessing a hero putting in a bill that actually establishes justice for the pre -born.

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Straight away. It does not take large amounts of money, political power, and persuasion.

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It takes believers who love God and neighbor enough to do something. It takes believers who are willing to go to legislators and to love them enough to call them to be consistent and to protect these children.

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It didn't take millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars raised in funding for bills that do nothing anyways.

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They celebrate. Last year, I saw one of them celebrating a bill that said you can no longer kill a baby in the womb with sharp instruments.

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They said, look what we did. You can no longer do it with sharp instruments. That's nothing to celebrate.

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You haven't established justice. Can you imagine in any other realm reasoning like that?

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Yes, you can continue to beat your slaves, just don't use a sharp tool to do it. Would anybody get behind a wicked bill like that?

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Or you can continue to kill Jews, just make sure you use gas. Nobody would get behind a bill like that.

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But we have been deluded into following a compromised perspective of the pro -life industry.

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No more, brothers and sisters. If you want to see transformation in this nation, it's going to come through Christ and the message of the gospel.

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It will not come through compromise. And I recognize that when you are speaking in a public square, standing on the word of God proclaiming

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Christ, you could be put on the FBI watch list. Right?

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We're living in a day where the narrative is, if you love Jesus, then you're a right wing extremist, maybe a national, you should be put on the national terrorist database.

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Why? Because you love Christ. You love God's word. You believe there's ultimate standards above government. Brothers and sisters, can

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I challenge you with this? From the beginning of the gospel itself exploding into the world,

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Christians were always seen as an enemy of the state. Because when you tell the state that there's another king,

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Jesus, and that the king must yield to Jesus, every deified state recognizes the danger of Jesus.

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Look at North Korea, look at China, look at every nation that the pure gospel has gone into.

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They always recognize the threat of Jesus. But since the beginning of the church, brothers and sisters, it's been the proclamation of the church that he is the king of kings and Lord of lords, and that he is the ruler of the kings of the earth.

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That was in the first century, listen, when it certainly didn't appear to be so.

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We live in a nation that came through the struggle and the fight and the sacrifice of missionaries and Christians in history that gave us these blessings.

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And the only way this will ever be extended in term of blessing of the nation is through Christ, his kingdom, his rule, his authority, and his gospel.

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Tell the truth. How many of you guys have, I'll finish with this, how many of you guys have actually held one of these babies in your arms?

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Have you gone to the abortion mill, held a baby in your arms that was saved? Oh, we got to get you guys more involved.

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Listen, when I, I'm not a professional. I'm just a pastor,

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I was a pastor of a church that was the drug church. Everyone came out of drug addiction. We started going to the abortion mills, preaching the gospel, saving children.

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And I'll tell you, we're not special. We're not superstars. We're not powerful, really, we're just Christians that went out and preached the gospel.

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And we started doing it, preaching the gospel and holding these babies in our arms. That's when it changed us for good.

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I encourage you to go preach the gospel, save some babies. You hold these babies in your arms, it'll change you forever.

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It will change you forever. It goes from a place of theory to flesh and blood. And when you hold one of these babies in your arms, you recognize that that number of 3 ,000 babies killed a day means you have to sacrifice everything for their sake.

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I recognize that's an incomprehensible number. You know I've said this a number of times, if you watch anything I've said, I recognize that 60 million plus human beings slaughtered since Roe is a number that is incomprehensible.

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3 ,000 babies a day is incomprehensible. You can't really calculate it and consider it and really feel it as a human being.

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I understand that. That's why I agree with my friend, you have to think about it as one baby at a time.

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And there are two places you need to have this fight as a Christian with the gospel. One, at the place that they're killing them, and two, you have to go to the place where they're allowing their slaughter and you have to speak the truth.

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And if you think, I don't have much to me, I can't do this, I don't have any money, I don't have any power, you remember this man.

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And you remember a movement like ours that comes from a local church in the desert with a budget that is pennies on the dollar of an industry that does nothing to establish justice.

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And you remember that over the last year, all these bills of equal protection went in and all these thousands of babies are alive today, not because of an industry that has heavy funding, but it's because of Christians who love

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God and neighbor enough to go do something. So, brothers and sisters, do something.

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Don't allow this just to be a day you showed up for a rally, rah, rah, you got encouraged, maybe you got a little bit of a motivation to you and you walk away from it.

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Sacrifice everything. I love the story Zach tells about his family. I love it.

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Every time he tells it, it gets better because I get more details each time.

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It never gets old. But when he tells that story, there's something significant about it that relates to everything

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I just left with you. These were just men. We see them as the giants and the heroes today because they deserve to be there.

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But these were just men who were going against the popular opinion of many of those around them.

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They were seen as the troublemakers and they gave everything for you and me.

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Living outside in the winter doesn't sound very fun at all.

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Having British soldiers coming in to take you and to throw your family into poverty in perpetuity sounds like a massive sacrifice.

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That's one man who sacrificed that for you and for me. It does take dying to self to truly love others and establish any righteousness or light or truth or justice.

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So die to yourself. These children are dying every single day. So die to yourself.

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Die to your reputations. Die to your wants and needs and desires.

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Lay down your life for the sake of these children. If you want proof that God's going to bless it, that there's going to be fruit in that, look at all the people who have come to Christ through end abortion now and all the churches now doing this.

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Look at all the thousands of babies who have been saved and you look at bills like this one and heroes like the one standing right here right now that God does bless faithfulness.