Sermon on Justice

The Church’s Early Pro-Life Ministry and the Abortion Mill

So we came into this particular ministry, the ministry of the gospel, coming into conflict with death, with the issue of abortion and the slaughter of the pre-born, our pre-born neighbors. We came into this about a decade ago.

Now I want you to understand as I say that we were always pro-life between our ears. We would profess to be pro-life, we said the pro-life things, we were always promoting the pro-life cause. We of course always acknowledged that this is the image of God in the womb, uniquely made by God in the image of mothers.

We always acknowledged as Christians this is murder. Taking the life of a human being in an unjustified way is murder. Let me say it again because it needs to be said and understood and then proclaimed to the world around us.

Taking a human life in an unjustified manner is by very definition murder. We always believe that. And in my country, in the United States of America, we have the pro-life moments every year that the church sort of says, you know, those are our things, that's our thing.

You might have the March for Life at the nation's Capitol in Washington DC. You have of course things like 40 Days for Life in my country. And you have of course the annual time where pastors across the United States of America will take the Sanctity of Life Sunday and they'll preach on the issue of abortion.

And that's sort of the typical evangelical response to the issue of abortion in our nation. And that's of course where we were. We were sort of in that stream. There are traditions we all just sort of embrace as Christians.

We embody them. They're all around us. It's just sort of the thing. You step into it, you assume it, you live it, right? And that's where we were. And it was about a decade ago, I started seeing something coming across my Facebook feed.

Didn't know how it got there. The woman's name was the same name as a girl I went to high school with. So I assumed it was the girl I went to high school with and that's why she's on my feed. I'm not in the habit of friending strange women.

And so I thought, mid-storm from high school, we must have friended each other. Her name was Lisa Metzger. And I started seeing Lisa Metzger's coming across, Lisa Metzger's post coming across my feed.

And I would see her in different locations with a different baby. I'd see her and I noticed, oh these are at hospitals and she's got a new baby in her arms and she's with a mother. And then in a different hospital with a different baby in her arms and a mother.

And somewhere else with a baby in her arms and a mother. And so I thought to myself, oh let me look into this. So I look at her and I've realized that she's in abortion mill ministry and she goes to preach the gospel at the abortion mill to save these children and to help these mothers and fathers.

And so I again thought that she was my friend from high school and so I just sent her a message, hey I'd love to have you my radio show to talk about your ministry. Now all this is on record. You can dig into the archives and you can listen to the actual show that we had with Lisa Metzger.

I honestly thought until about 15 seconds before showtime that she was my old friend from high school. And as we're just getting ready to launch, I basically mentioned it like, oh we went to high school together.

She's like, no. I was like, okay. I thought we knew each other. She's like, nope. And I was like, well how do we become friends on Facebook? She says, I have no idea. She didn't friend me. I didn't friend her.

We did not know each other. And now we're friends on Facebook and I'm seeing her stuff. And so now the technician's like, ready and fire. Okay here we go. Starts the show. So we start asking her about her ministry, what she does.

And she says she's been in it for like two decades and she's explaining how they go out there to preach the gospel, to make this about Jesus, and to tell women not to murder their children, to call them to faith in Christ, and to rescue the children and to help the mother, to provide for the mothers.

And as we're talking, we're really, Pastor Luke is there and Joy the girl is there. We're sitting around this table thinking, wow this is incredible. She's talking about all the babies they've saved and all the women they've led to Jesus.

And then she tells us that they saved, I think I asked how many babies have you saved? It looks like a lot. And she said something like she saved 364 babies. I thought to myself, our jaws hit the table.

That's basically a baby a day. Like that's insane. And so we're talking and I'm thinking myself as she says this, like over 20 years of ministry. That's, those are incredible numbers to save. She says, yeah last year.

Last year. So her ministry of bringing the gospel to the abortion mills had essentially been a baby a day saved. Absolutely incredible. And so what happened was we were actually a new church that came to life out of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation hospital.

I was a chaplain there. Very small church, very rough-looking church. Everybody's tattooed up and you know gauges and tattoos. A very rough crowd. We were known early on as the drug church. Like in Phoenix they would say, oh that's that drug church.

Because everybody that came to Apologia had come from the hospital, come to Christ at the hospital and everything else. So very small church, very rough-looking crowd, but very eager, very zealous, strong, young believers.

They heard the episode and they were like, we have to, Pastor Jeff, we have to do this. I said absolutely we have to do this. We have to be faithful and we have to do this. And so we organized a small ragtag team of believers to do some investigating of local abortion mills.

And we decided to be faithful, to go with the gospel. We had three things we wanted to say. One, please don't murder your baby. Two, come to Christ for life and peace and forgiveness. And three, we'll help you.

We'll give you anything you need. And that's all we knew. We are not professionals. We didn't know what we were doing. All we knew what was going on at the abortion mill, what was going on there. We knew the solution was ultimately Christ and we knew we wanted to love them and to help them and provide for their needs.

The very first day we went to the abortion mill, we went to Planned Parenthood in Phoenix and we saved two babies on the very first day. Two babies within an hour of being there. Two children were alive, are alive today because of the work of a local church going to preach the gospel.

And then we started saving more babies. And then it got to the point where we would do a radio show and say, hey here's the show we're doing today and by the way we saved a baby this Saturday. Praise God for that.

So then other churches started contacting us listening to the show saying, hey how are you doing this? What are you doing? How do I get involved? So then they started getting involved. And so we got to the point where at Apology of Church we kind of just stopped counting because when you break the numbers of a hundred, we just said well we're just saving you know a hundred babies, 110 babies, 120 babies, 150 babies.

We'd saved so many babies that we just sort of said we don't really know how many we're actually saving. Some of them talk to us. Some of them don't talk to us. Turnaways are people who you'll see them go in, you'll see them come out, listen to your message, will start crying, getting in their car, drive away.

You don't talk to them so you don't really know. So we really have no idea how many babies Apology of Church has saved. But now local churches across the country started doing the same thing. And what took place after that in 2016 is a long story so I won't go into every detail, but we really discovered the inconsistencies of the pro-life lobby, the pro-life industry in the United States of America.

The Pro-Life Industry Versus a Christian Abolitionist Approach

There was a bill that was going on to the floor, trying to get on the floor in Oklahoma. And in Oklahoma the bill was a bill that would essentially bring equal protection to all human beings. Hear that.

Nothing controversial, should be controversial in terms of pro-life, what that should mean. Equal protection for all human beings. Now watch this. I say it to a room of Christians and a room of Christians think this as I say that.

Isn't that what the pro-life industry and pro-life lobby is working for? Isn't that why we've been sending them our money? Aren't they trying to ultimately end immediately and criminalize the issue of abortion?

And what we discovered with the bill that was going in in Oklahoma is that the primary enemy of the bill, the primary industry that was really fighting against the bill for equal protection to criminalize abortion immediately was the pro-life industry.

National Right to Life, Oklahoma Right to Life, Tony Lounger, the vice president of National Right to Life, was telling a primarily pro-life legislature and pro life, well yeah legislature, House and Senate, he was telling them do not hear this bill, do not pass this bill, because if you pass this bill it'll do away with all the pro-life legislation that we have in place right now.

What kind of legislation? Well the abortion mill has to have a certain hallway width. Well the abortionist is only allowed to kill a baby with these tools. Those are the kind of regulatory abortion, sorry, a pro-life regulation that you have in the state of Oklahoma, stuff like that.

And so we discovered that the ultimate, the ultimate enemy of criminalization, the end or abolition in Oklahoma was the pro-life lobby and pro-life industry. They didn't like words like murder. They didn't want to make it about Jesus.

They weren't working for the ultimate criminalization and end immediately of abortion in Oklahoma. There was a bill that was made that was fundamentally Christian, fundamentally consistent, fundamentally consistent with the biology, fundamentally consistent with human rights, fundamentally consistent with what we think the pro-life cause is doing and supposed to be doing, and the enemy of it was the pro-life industry, the pro-life lobby.

And so when we discovered this happened, we made a phone call to Tony Lounger, and it turns out he was willing to talk to us. He didn't know who we were, thank God. And so he got on the phone with us.

You guys can all go watch this interview. I wanted to, one, respect the man, and two, allow him to tell his story. So I didn't argue with him. I really just wanted to say, can you please tell us your position?

And I want you all to hear this because this is from the leader, the vice president of National Right to Life, which is one of the primary industries and organizations that is coming over to set up shop in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to lead the pro-life fight.

So I'm talking about the industry that is coming here now to tell you, we'll take over from here, everybody. Here's how you do this. Here's what he says in the interview. They do not believe that a woman who has an abortion is guilty of murder.

They believe that she's a victim. And then when I asked, well, how about the abortionist? He said, well, maybe it's a fine line, but ultimately they weren't working for even the abortionist to be essentially charged with murder.

And when I asked him questions about methodology, how are you pursuing this? He made it very, very clear that they did not want to use words like repentance, sin, faith in Jesus. He said they wanted to take a backdoor approach because ultimately the pro-life industry, the pro-life lobby is not fundamentally Christian.

Now this might sound conspiracy theorist because we all assume the pro-life movement is filled with Christians and even Roman Catholics who hold to an essentially biblical worldview on what human life is.

We might be thinking, well, they hold to this position. There's Christians there, so isn't it Christian? And the answer is they are professedly not Christian. You can listen to Tobias, who's the president of National Right to Life.

In our film, babies are still murdered here. She sat down with us. She did an interview and she said that women are victims. It's not murder. You can see from the very top that the pro-life industry, the pro-life lobby will tell you this is not a Christian organization.

Very important. Now I want you to hear me on this because this is critical. You are pro-life. Christians are the genuine holders of the pro-life position. We are pro-life. And I believe it's my duty as your brother and a pastor to tell you, as this is all now starting off and launching in your nation, that the pro-life industry is just that.

It's an industry. It's a multi-multi-multi-million-dollar industry. There's a very big difference. I want you to hear this. This wasn't part of my notes, but I just feel like I need to tell you this.

There's a very big difference between the two different pursuits to end abortion. I've been to the pro-life marches. I've been to the pro-life rallies. I've listened to the lectures. I've done all of that as a Christian, even as a minister of the gospel.

And I could tell you that when I've gone to pro-life marches, pro-life rallies, it has not been about Christ. It has not been about the gospel. It has not been about repentance and faith. They will not call it what it is, murder.

And they are not working ultimately for the criminalization of the issue of abortion. However, a contrast. We were just in Oklahoma at a rally outside the capital in Oklahoma that was filled with thousands of Christians from across the state and across the United States of America.

That entire rally started with worship. That rally started with worship. And all you heard was calls to repentance and faith. All you heard were calls to Christ. All you heard were claims to loving mothers and fathers who were guilty of the sin and crime of abortion, and loving them and wanting them to know Jesus.

And all you heard was a call for immediate justice for the pre-born. Immediate justice and consistency. No compromise. So you have the difference between a fundamentally Christian church-based approach to ending abortion and an industry that says we're secular.

Listen, we have almost 50 years of abortion in my nation. Almost 50. We have over 62 million babies dead in my nation. We have beat Hitler by the metric ton. The numbers even in my nation, in terms of the millions of babies murdered, don't even consider Plan B pills or abortifacient birth control pills.

So the number of 62 million is entirely inaccurate. We are standing on top of the dead bodies and in the rivers of blood of all of these image bearers of God who have been killed. This is an issue of death for my culture and yours.

Understand that. It's an issue of death. And I have to tell you my heart breaks for your nation because I was so passionate. When I first came, Raquel I told you, when I first came to Ireland I didn't come for the issue of abortion.

For some weird insane reason you guys asked a Reformed Baptist pastor to speak at your national family conference. What a bunch of weirdos. Right? But in God's providence it happens. And I wasn't here for abortion.

But as I was here all of a sudden the issue of abortion just started kind of coming up. And as I was talking I realized you're on the cusp of this actually being legalized and decriminalized in your nation.

Know this, you are in such a powerful strong position. Abortion was already seen by Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as a criminal offense. Right on the edge of it. Right? We've got 50 years behind us in my nation where we haven't seen it as a criminal act.

You are in a very strong position. And I saw you were right on the cusp of it. And my hope for you was you have to do what you can. Not to listen to the pro-life industry and pro-life lobby who are already getting their roots in here.

Who are changing the narrative and changing the language. You need to make this about God's Word, the truth, the gospel itself. You have to make sure you proclaim with a prophetic vision to your culture the truth of the living God on this issue.

To hold back this slaughter from coming into your nation. And I was so passionate. I was so passionate about the fact that Ireland has given to the world giants of the faith. Giants of the faith. You understand that?

You're in a place that brought the light of the gospel global. My nation is the result of the faithfulness of faithful men and God. Faithful men and women of God in your nation. You understand that? That Ireland's responsible for evangelizing the world in many respects.

The light of the gospel is what carried you to this place right now. And now darkness. You're losing that light. And the answer is not going to be secular arguments. Humanist arguments. Arguments merely from the issue of science.

The only way to hold this back or to end it is to be salt and light. And to use the actual truth of God to end this. Confront it with the gospel itself. My hope was desperate. Please God, preserve Ireland.

Please preserve Ireland. And of course we know what happened in the South. The Republic. And we know of course what's happened to you. This has been foisted upon you. It's been forced upon you. And I do believe that it's your duty as the people of God to fight against this with the truth of God in a courageous way.

Greater love has no man than this. Than a man lay down his life for his friends. You might look around this room right now and you might be thinking to yourself, Pastor Jeff, look at the size of this room.

What could we possibly do? Look at the size of this room. And my answer to you is this. Jesus actually started the transformation of the world with 11 very confused disciples. Right? If you consider this, it's a powerful thought.

Jesus, before he ascends, Matthew 28, 18 through 20, he says this. And Jesus came and said to them, all authority. You know what that says in the Greek. All. All authority. No translational issues there.

No problems. All means all. All authority in heaven and on earth. And here's the problem with Christians in the West. We have to understand this. We, look at the front of this thing right here. You see that?

What's that say? For Christ's crown and covenants. You're my people. Right? For Christ's crown and covenant. Christians in history understood that the message of the gospel had at its core the message of the authority of Jesus Christ over everything.

And in Christians we say it all the time. We say King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Right? And it becomes just a pithy, silly Christian slogan. We don't even mean it. Be honest. King of Kings, Lord of Lords.

That we can say it. We can put it on t-shirts and coffee mugs. We can give the slogan. But do we really believe it? Because in a situation like this, where you have legislated murder of innocent pre-born image-bearers of God, we act like our legislature isn't supposed to obey Jesus.

We act like they don't really have to obey Jesus. Because you see, Jesus is King over heaven. We love that truth. Right? He's the boss in heaven. The angels bow down. Everything worships Jesus. And heaven, all the will of God is done in heaven.

Because it has to be. Jesus is King over heaven. He's on his throne there. But don't forget, as Jesus ascended, he said all authority in heaven, here's the parts, and on earth has been given to me. Not will be.

Has been. Has been given to me. And you think about the confused nature of the situation. There's barely anybody there. Here's this Palestinian Jew, right, who doesn't have property and land and red carpets and flowing robes.

Some very confused disciples after the death and resurrection of Jesus. And Jesus says, all authority in heaven and on earth is mine. It has been given to me. So he says, on the basis of this, go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.

The goal is to win the nations to Christ. Not merely get a couple of believers to pray a magic prayer, right, and have a Bible study in a basement. The goal is to win the nation to Jesus. He says, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

And he says what? Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. You see, that's the Great Commission. And we're limiting the Great Commission to private individual relationships to Jesus alone.

We're not considering what God calls us to. And that's to win the world to Jesus for Christ's crown and covenants. It's powerful, isn't it? You see, that's the foundation of really the Christian message.

The goal of the gospel is to win the world to Jesus Christ. Is to call people to repentance and faith. To have nations bow the knee to Jesus and obey Jesus. You see, here's here's the problem. When the pro-life industry and the pro-life movement says, here's our goal.

Let's just make some scientific biological arguments and let's get people to maybe kill less babies, right? Don't kill them after 24 weeks. Or how about this? A pro-life, the pro-life industry and lobby celebrates these victories.

You want to hear about some victories? Here's the sorts of things they say is a victory. They'll take millions and millions of dollars from well-intentioned, well-meaning Christians for legislation that's pro life legislation.

And they'll say, hey look at this victory that we got. We have now a law that forbids abortion doctors from using forceps to kill babies and pull them apart. Now they have to use suction. Can you imagine these arguments used in Auschwitz?

Christians celebrating victories over Auschwitz saying, hey guess what? We got them to stop beating Jews to death. Now they can only gas them. Victory. Everybody would see how clearly asinine that is.

It's not faithful. It's not consistent. It's not good. It's the wrong way to go. But those are the kinds of things that they argue for. That these are the kinds of victories that we'll work towards. We'll shape it in this way.

You see, the ultimate aim and goal is to disciple the nation and have them obey Jesus Christ. And the pro-life lobby and pro-life industry says this. Let's just get them to stop killing some babies and maybe work our way down.

But ultimately, brothers and sisters, watch this. We have to admit this as Christians. If abortion is ended and abolished in a country, but that country doesn't know Jesus Christ, we haven't accomplished the mission of the gospel.

Do we hear that? Do we understand? Can we embrace that? Like listen, this is, abortion is one evil in our culture. It's a massive one. It is life and death. It is dead bodies. It is children having their heads torn from their bodies, their arms and legs torn from their bodies.

It is having them disemboweled. It is having them chemically burned. It is an evil. It is a wicked thing that we have to end. We're commanded to end by God in His Word. It's a command to end it, to fight against it, to war against it.

We have to understand that. But in the end, there are so many evils happening, the goal of the gospel is to win our nation to Jesus. And we do not win our nation to Jesus with neutral argumentation that pretends that we're not followers of Jesus Christ.

And somebody might say, Pastor Jeff, what you're suggesting sounds radical. People will say, Pastor Jeff, what you're saying right now will have us vilified. Pastor Jeff, what you're saying right now is going to cause us to be persecuted.

And what I would encourage you to see is that when the Holy Spirit of God was poured out on the people of God at Pentecost, read from there through the book of Acts. And what will you see throughout the book of Acts?

Faithful proclamation of the gospel that does not compromise, that tells the truth, that each and every time makes it about Jesus and knowing Him. And all throughout the book of Acts, what will you see?

You will see Acts chapter 9, Paul being saved, going, taking a beeline, preaching the gospel, causing righteous controversy at the synagogue, and it says that the Hellenistic Jews wanted to kill him. Right?

And now here's the thing, as Christians in the West today, we are so cowardly that we actually say, hey, when the nation in our community is opposed to the message of Jesus, we should rethink our methodology.

We must be doing something wrong. Well, was Paul doing something wrong when he preached the gospel, caused righteous controversy, actually argued with people for the cause of the gospel? It said the Hellenistic Jews wanted him dead.

And then it also says in Acts chapter 9, it says the church experienced peace, it was built up, and it was multiplied, it grew. When the Apostles preached the gospel, riots broke out. We wouldn't want a riot, because that's not proper.

Right? But riots broke out, and people say, they say, no, no, no, no, you're being hated by the community. You got to soften the message, soften the blow, sort of, you know, make the message, you know, easier to swallow for the culture around you.

Tell it to Peter, tell it to Paul. When Peter and the others, John, were told, stop preaching in Jesus' name, they continue to go, break out of prison, hey, preach in Jesus' name, bring it back. And they're like, this is like the political authorities say, didn't we tell you to stop preaching in his name?

And then what's Peter say? We must obey God rather than men. And so then they take a beating for Jesus. They take a beating for Jesus. Now, we have to be honest, and I will be humble, and I will say the truth.

I think if most of us took a beating for Jesus, like you go to jail, like you're in and out of jail, you're in trouble with the law, and then you take a beating for Jesus, I think most of us would go away with our hot, sticky backs, and look for a nice warm place to lie down, and have somebody wipe our wounds, and sort of say, hey, good job, you know, really suffering for Jesus.

Like, oh, yeah, I know, thank you, you know. Oh, yeah. What would they do? They leave the presence of the council doing what? Rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And we've lost that perspective today.

The kind of perspective that comes to an island with people who want to kill you, and says, I'm gonna win this entire island to Jesus Christ. The kind of perspective of the Puritan Christians, our forebearers, who went from the United States of America to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820.

And they won, in 20 years, the entire Hawaiian Islands to Jesus Christ. 20 years leading really dangerous pagans to Jesus Christ. To the degree that, in 20 years, our Christian forebearers, Reformed folks, led the islands to Christ, so that over 90 of the islands were professing faith in Jesus, and in the Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution, it said, no law of the Hawaiian Kingdom shall be at variance with the laws of Jehovah God.

Did you hear it? Jehovah God. That's specific, the God of the Bible. He's the sovereign over the Hawaiian Kingdom. We've lost the perspective of the ultimate aim of the gospel. We have to admit that. It's a failure on the part of the church.

It's my failure, it's your failure, and we have to be willing to sacrifice and lay our lives down for the cause of the gospel, loving God and loving neighbor. Here's what I want to say. If you and I will not speak the truth to the world around us, we are hating God and hating our neighbor.

It is not loving God or loving neighbor to hold back the truth when death is right in front of them. We hate our neighbor, and we hate God when we will not tell the truth. Jesus said all the authority was his.

Please don't hear this as a pithy slogan. Don't. It would be so worthless for us to be here, and fruitless for all of us, if you just hear this as a slogan. Please don't. Jesus Christ has all authority and is king, and must be obeyed in Northern Ireland.

Do you get the full extent of that? That's the aim. Jesus Christ is the king. He has full authority, and he must be obeyed in the United States of America. He's the king of kings, the lord of lords. That's our profession.

My question is, are we liars and hypocrites? Are we frauds? Are we frauds? Am I a fraud? Do I say one thing theologically with my lips, but actually behave, live, and act, and move, and breathe in a completely foreign way?

Are we hypocrites? Jesus had a lot of condemnation for the hypocrites, the jupacrites, the pretenders, those who are wearing a mask. They look like something on the outside, but on the inside, we know they're not truly that character.

That's what jupacrite is. It's an actor. It's a pretender. It's somebody who's in a costume. Are we actors? You see, you have to hear this story, that when Jesus said that in Matthew 28, 18 through 20, he said that, all authority, heaven, earth, mine, go get the nations, win them to me, baptize them.

He says, teach them to obey. Understand this, that wasn't like the disciples, Jewish disciples, who knew the Torah. They knew the Tanakh. They went to synagogue. They heard the story of the kingdom of the Messiah.

That wasn't something that would have shocked them like, what? You came to win the nations? The whole world has to obey the Messiah? You want all the nations to obey Yahweh? It wasn't a surprise. That was the core part of the story of the kingdom of God, and of course, we've missed that in our culture in the West, evangelical culture in the West, reform culture even in the West has missed that.

That was the fulfillment of the ultimate story of the Old Testament, the good news of the kingdom. Stop. Stop. Christians in the West today, we are so good at, when we say gospel, what we mean by that is the heart of the gospel, justification by faith, by grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone, apart from works.

We're good at saying, it's not by works. It's all Christ. It's his righteousness credited to me, and my sins imputed to him. It's all a gift. You cannot work your way. It's faith in Jesus, faith in Jesus.

We've got that part of the gospel, but can you explain the gospel of the kingdom? Why is the kingdom good news? Because it's what Jesus was preaching in Matthew's gospel. After Jesus comes out of the temptation in the wilderness, in Matthew chapter 4, it says that he was out proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom.

Can you explain that? Can you tell somebody why the kingdom, the rule of the Messiah is good news for the world? Because the kingdom, the rule of the Messiah was good news. How is it good news? I'll just point you to a few texts.

I have limited time, but Genesis 49 10 was a good starting place where you start to see all of these little moments in the Old Testament where God prophesied the Messiah's kingdom. In Genesis 49 10, it says that Shiloh is coming, and listen, and to him shall be the obedience of the nations.

We believe that? Messiah is going to get the obedience of the nations? Is it a coincidence that in Romans chapter 1 and in Romans chapter 16, Paul's systematic explanation of the gospel starts and ends with the same proclamation.

In Romans 1, the Apostle Paul says that the goal, their goal, was to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations for the sake of his name, and at the end of Romans, Romans 16, it says the same thing.

Where's that from? Genesis 49 10. Shiloh's coming, and to him shall be the obedience of the nations. Listen to it again. The obedience of the nations. The nations are to obey Messiah. Genesis 49 10. You can look at Psalm chapter 2.

I see it up here. Where's that? You sing it? You are peas. You're awesome. You sing it. In our church, every Sunday, we make sure we're going through a psalm every single Sunday. This right here, these are the war songs of the church right here, right?

And in Psalm chapter 2, I hope you know it. You don't have to go far in the Psalms to get to it, but in Psalm chapter 2, there is a powerful thing we need to hear that relates to the issue of abortion.

It's all over the issue of abortion. In Psalm chapter 2, it says, I just lost my place here. Here we go. In Psalm chapter 2, well, I know by heart. Okay, so I'll just, okay, here we go. It says, the Father says to the Son.

The Father says to the Son. The Father is speaking to the Son in Psalm 2, and it says, ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, the very ends of the earth for your possession. Psalm 2, the Father says to the Son, ask of me, I'll give you the nations for your inheritance, the very ends of the earth for your possession.

Sound familiar? Sound like Matthew 28, 18 through 20? Sound like the Great Commission? Go make disciples of all the nations, right? So, one of my teachers, my mentors, one of my heroes of the faith, actually said something powerful about this section in Psalm 2.

Ask of me, I'll give you the nations for your inheritance, the very ends of the earth for your possession. He said this, and it challenged me, and it cut me. He said, do we think that Jesus forgot to ask?

Ask of me, and I will give them to you. At the Ascension, Jesus says, go get them. And then the Father has a word to the kings of the earth. He says, be wise, O kings. Obey the Son, or you will perish.