Did you read Brave New World? I had to, I always found Brave New World such a, you know, 1984 was dark in a governmental tyranny oppression type way, Brave New World was dark in its emptiness, humans emptied of what makes us human, and that's what we're talking about here, we are talking about, you remember Brave New World, where you had the alphas and the betas and the deltas and the epsilons, and you literally designed people to have a low IQ, so they could do the dumb jobs, and then you had the higher people and, you know, smaller and smaller numbers, you know, hierarchical and all that kind of stuff, and it just, sexuality had become just a thing you do, same thing with This Perfect Day, where human sexuality was just, it was cheapened, it was turned into a recreational activity, which is, again, where we are, rather than a covenantal activity, we've all been deeply influenced by it, I don't, and this started before the sexual revolution really started, the sexual revolution was already in the universities, but it started before then, because I was getting this stuff in my youth, and I was in a, you know, fundamentalist context, so it was coming from every which direction even then, anyway, these books, it's just so empty, and this is where we are, and we know, we absolutely know, that some of the greatest minds of the past came in defective bodies, Beethoven, my goodness, would have been aborted for many different reasons, many, many different reasons, would have been aborted, and I listen to those symphonies, and I go, what a loss, how many Beethovens have been aborted, how many doctors whose minds would have seen connections that ours cannot, or that AI cannot, have been aborted, we think about these things, I think about these things, and I am once again, and this was not what I was raised with, this is something that the Lord is having to sanctify me about, but once again, when I hear people saying, look, the only, the only solution to any of these things is found, not only in the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but the embracing of it, we, mankind will destroy himself outside of the eventual gracious restraint of the Lord Jesus Christ, because it's his purpose to build his church, if mankind destroys himself, that church is going to be destroyed, now don't get me wrong, there could be massive upheavals, global upheavals, that the church would continue on, remember, the church made it through the black death, by God's providential care, and God's decree, but man, I'll tell you, in the middle of that, it would have been real easy to lose faith, to just throw your hands up and say, it's done, it's over, everything we thought was true isn't, we always have to remember, and this again, if you don't believe that scripture is what scripture claims to be, and man, there's fewer and fewer people who actually believe it, then you, we don't have a divine perspective from which to look at what's happening in this world, and to come to proper conclusions about it, and that's truly problematic, both for the secular world, as well as for the Christian world, where there is so much willingness to abandon scripture, and its highest, its highest authority, but it does, it does, it is there, it gives us that perspective, and for a husband and wife, greatly desirous of children, of their own children, I get it, I understand, but it's the Lord that opens the womb, you might say, well, but he's just using a mechanism, the mechanism produces numerous unique human embryos that will never see life, and they are destroyed, if that's human life, that's the destruction of human life, and the Christian couple should go, no, if the Lord has closed our womb, speaking as a couple, there are many, many children that need homes, adoption is beautiful, it's biblical, it's appropriate, it's proper, it's God -honoring, and so Alabama's insightful decision should prompt further, deeper moral discussion, problem is, uh, I don't see the concurrent spiritual awakening amongst Americans to allow that meaningful kind of conversation to yet take place, let's hope and pray that it happens, um, right now I don't see it, um, a couple of things, I, that I didn't get to in the last, um, dividing line, that I, I thought of only afterwards, and so my, my apologies to you, uh, for that, uh, I, I really need to find a, a different way, um, of getting to, I, the one thing I don't like about accordance is the verse entry thing, it's too small, I need to have, I need to have the box thing, um, push button, anyway, uh, one thing that I didn't get to, that I wanted to get to on the last program was the assertion that was made in the purgatory debate with, uh, Trent Horn, we are never told to confess our sins to God, what's fascinating to me is, um, there is no such thing as a sacramental priesthood in the New Testament, but here you have somebody who's saying you're never told to confess your sins to God, and what he wants you to believe, because there's a whole article, in fact, he linked to it in response to somebody else, why you should confess your sins to a priest, once you believe you should do it to a priest, so do you see the contradiction in telling someone there's nothing in the Bible to tell you to confess to God, and there's also nothing to tell you to confess to a priest, but I want you to do the one, not the other, it's just, um, there's been a lot that's come out, and there's a lot more that's going to come out by the weekend, um, I, I think, uh, we'll see, anyway, a lot of people said, well, but, um, what about 1 John 1, and this is a message we have heard from him, declared to you that God is light, in him there is no darkness at all, if we say that we have fellowship with him, so we're talking about God, and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not do the truth, but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin, so the focus is on God, uh, walking in his light, he himself is the light, and only in him can we have fellowship with one another, so there is the, the community of faith, and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin, that's not through some concept that's going to come a millennia in the future of transubstantiation in the mass, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, now, you can, in, in a broad sense, say that if we, the people of God, say that there is no sin amongst us, uh, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, but it seems far more obvious that what John's writing against here, are those who would say, I have no sin, and they're speaking personally, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, this isn't some communal deception, this is our self -deception taking place, and the truth is not in us, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us, so again, these are plural pronouns, they're, this is being addressed to the whole Christian community, but it's very clearly saying, if we say we have no sin, that's something individuals say, if we confess our sins, confess to who?
