This is Why: Pharisees
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On this episode of #ThisisWhy Zachary Conover talks about how Pharisees impact the issue. You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video.
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- This is why abortion is still legal. Pro -life Pharisees. It's become popular to call those who expose the evil of abortion by public witness
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- Pharisees, and claim that they have no grace for women. Let's examine that for a minute. The Pharisees and the religious leaders of Jesus' day were condemned by God for their mishandling of God's law.
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- Their outward, ceremonial obedience to God's law was present, but they didn't actually know God. They just made a good show in the flesh, believing that the heart was free to desire the sin as long as the hand didn't act on it.
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- Jesus exposes them for their hypocrisy of living like believers while having hearts that were far from him, and for the burdens that they put on people with their man -made traditions that they held higher than the scriptures themselves.
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- This is what the pro -life movement has largely done with women that procure abortions. When they counsel someone wanting an abortion, they try to get them to live like believers.
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- This is what the pro -life movement has done with women that procure abortions. When they counsel someone wanting an abortion, they try to get them to live like believers without having any real heart change.
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- And this is largely because they have abandoned the biblical gospel, which is the only message that can truly change a heart bent on something as wicked as abortion.
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- The point is, you cannot coach a fallen, unregenerate sinner to obey the commands of God, like abstaining from sexual immorality or don't commit murder, when there is no desire or ability within them to obey.
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- The willingness and the power to obey only comes from God's spirit, who operates through the word of God.
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- Someone may say that the Christians who expose abortion and preach the law of God to women instead of just giving them grace is something that a
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- Pharisee would do. But on the contrary, faithful Christians who bring the law of God to bear on the consciences of these women know that it's not the law that saves.
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- But in the sharing of the biblical gospel, it is a necessity to highlight the law of God as the thing that holds all of humanity accountable to God and demonstrates our need for a perfect law -keeper and a righteous standing that only
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- God in the flesh can give us. We know that true law -keeping comes from a new nature.
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- It's pro -lifers that have been the true Pharisees. They deny the necessity of conversion, believing that the woman is able to choose between good and evil and make herself good.
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- And if they don't themselves repent of this, it's them who will become the target of Christ's denunciation like the