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It's amazing that the strategy of Planned Parenthood has been very, very successful since its inception from the likes of Margaret Sanger.
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Margaret Sanger wanted to target minority communities because she believed in more children from the fit and less children from the unfit.
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That was her motto. She believed that people of color were like weeds that needed to be pulled in a garden.
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And how alive and well is that philosophy today behind the walls of Planned Parenthood in which we have minorities, we have blacks,
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Hispanics, that are the majority of people that come to this place to offer up their own son and daughter to pay someone, to pay an assassin to destroy their own son or daughter.
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Here in Arizona alone, 40 percent of those who obtain an abortion of any kind, whether it's chemical, surgical, 40 percent are
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Hispanic. So you have Hispanics, minority community in the state of Arizona, quite literally killing themselves, killing their own people group.
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Blacks, same thing. That's why Planned Parenthood is established in these communities to contribute to the destruction and the continual harboring of malice against people of color.
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It's amazing, you look back in the times of slavery, times where people were devalued, they were dehumanized for being a different color or for just being different, period.
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Nowadays, we have the same thing going on at the hands of those who champion abortion on demand.
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It is the dehumanization of the child in the womb, right?
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So just an example. I know it looks like a human being,
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I know it walks like a human being, talks like one, but it's not, it's my slave, it's my property. That's the argument that slave owners were using to justify their man stealing and their imprisonment and oppression of a certain people group.
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The same thing happened in Nazi Germany. In Nazi Germany, you have the
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Third Reich, they would say, I know it looks like a person, looks like a human being, but it's not, it's a
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Jew. Now, in the modern day, the oppressed people group has merely been transferred from Jews, from blacks, from Native Americans onto the child in the womb.
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The child in the womb is the slave, the child in the womb is the Jew. I know it looks like a human being,
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I know what biology says, I know what science testifies to, I know what genetics says, it's absolutely irrefutable, but guess what?
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It's my property, and I can do with it as I please. That's the argument. That's what a woman essentially says when she says it's my body.
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She's saying I own this thing, this machine, God didn't make it, it evolved through natural evolutionary processes over a long period of time, and therefore
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I have complete ownership of it, and I did not consent to a fetus as a parasite invading my body, therefore
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I can get rid of this clump of cells, this mass of tissues, this parasite.
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How dehumanizing and how destructive of the relationship between a mother and her baby, a mother and her child.
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Actually painting the beautiful portrait of motherhood, taking that beautiful picture that God gives us, and putting a mother at war with her own baby.
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Not only at war with her own baby, but at war with her own body. That's what feminism has done.
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Feminism has destroyed women and caused them to be at war with their own bodies.
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They hate themselves, they hate their bodies, and so they want to be men. They're rebelling against their very biology, against the very way that they've been made.
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All of us have been made. Our bodies have been made by God. Men's bodies have been given to them that testify to what
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God commands of them, to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill the earth, to subdue it, to build the kingdom of God, to protect those who have been entrusted to them.
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A woman's body bears witness. It's not a neutral entity that we just impose meaning upon as we see fit.
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No, a woman's body was meant, designed by God beautifully in such a way that a man's body could never be.
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To grow a child, to nurture a child, to preserve a child's life, to care for that baby.
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Something unique, fearfully and wonderfully made that God has given women. But what feminism, atheism, agnosticism, what all these ideologies have done, they have driven a wedge between a woman's body, her material nature, and then her immaterial nature, her spirit that God has given her.
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And so there's this constant war going on. And so it makes sense when women are at war with their own biologies, they are by extension at war with the separate biology that is within them.
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The little woman in the womb, oftentimes. But the gospel of Jesus Christ is that God not only saves sinners,
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He not only restores and reconciles people to Himself by the person and work of Jesus Christ on the cross,
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He restores humanity to its intended purpose. He restores men and women to live how they were designed.
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That is part and parcel of the good news of the gospel of the kingdom, is that Jesus in Himself, in bringing sinners to Himself, is making a new humanity and He is restoring moms and dads,
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He is restoring everything that was lost in the garden. So friends, as we call out to you today, there are many different ways that you can try to justify what you're doing.
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You can say, well things are hard right now. You don't understand, I don't have a lot of money. I'm not able to pay my bills.
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I'm actually trying to find a job right now. I actually have three other children. Right? I hear these things, I've heard these things before, and I want you to know how many families there were before you, with those same things that we as a church have taken away, those reasons, those supposed justifications, why moms and dads felt they had to kill their babies.
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We've taken those away. There's actually a couple that chose life. They were scheduled to come into this facility, this
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Planned Parenthood, a couple months ago. I ended up talking with this mom on the phone the day of her appointment.
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She had an appointment that afternoon, and I ended up talking with her. And she ended up not going to Planned Parenthood that day, and having her baby killed.
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And now, her baby is doing well. Her baby is growing as they should, even though she was terrified.
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You see, she has hard times with her pregnancy. She has gestational diabetes, and the further along she gets, she needs to go to the doctor more, which means more medical co -pays.
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And she needs more, honestly. And her son has special needs. And we as a church are committed to helping them.
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We, in one day, one day, let me tell you, this is amazing. I talked with this mom.
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We found out all of her needs. We put up a GoFundMe. And in one night, one night, we raised $1 ,700 for her.
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And we gave it to her as a Christmas present. Friends, we can help you.
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It's not for lack of help that mothers and fathers stay in these places.
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It is for lack of desire. They don't want their children. I just had a woman the other day at a different clinic here in the valley tell me,
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I was pleading with her, ma 'am, please, don't do this. Don't hurt your baby. Don't kill your child.
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We'll help you. We'll adopt them. We'll provide you diapers, formula, any material needs.
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We'll help you with anything. Just don't do this. And she said, no, that's okay.
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I just don't want a baby right now. And that is the desire of women that go into these places.
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It's not that they have no other choice. It's that they have no other desire than to have their baby killed.
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And it grieves and saddens me. But such is the nature of sin.
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People who are slaves to sin are slaves to self -deception.
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They've lied to themselves. They've lied to themselves. They believe the lie.
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They've lied to themselves. They're worshiping the preacher rather than the creator. They're worshiping oftentimes themselves as their desires are merely just an extension of themselves.
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Their God is their will. Their God is choice. And at the expense of pleasing their
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God and offering acceptable worship to their God, they offer up their own children as the sacrifice of worship to their
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God. That's what happens at these places of death. Babies are murdered here.
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Babies are murdered here. And they are murdered by their own parents.
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They are murdered by their own parents who should love them, who should be caring for them, who should be providing for their needs.
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And we're here to help with that. You've heard several people now offer you help, offer you service, take away every excuse.
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The only reason that you would stay in there today is pride. That's the only reason. Just pride. Pride is the only reason that you would stay.
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God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. Ma 'am, as you're running out of there, please consider the fact that you are patronizing a place that dismembers little girls, that decapitates little boys, that takes them apart in the womb and then puts them back together like a puzzle and discarded like trash.
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That's what you do. There are babies being murdered at this place today. And people are driving around.
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They're just walking down the street like nothing's happening. Let me say it again. Babies are being murdered here today.
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And God commands you not to murder, ma 'am. The Bible says that their feet make haste to run to evil.
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That's what you are doing as you run into this place right now from your car and you shuffle your feet through that door.
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The portrait that God's word paints comes to life every time out here.
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Women rushing into this place, rushing into this place, hiding themselves. Why is that?
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If this is such a good thing, if this is such a noble thing, it's because it's not.
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Nobility would be self -sacrifice, not the sacrifice of your child's life for yours.
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You see, a mother lays down her life for her baby. And that's a portrait of the gospel.
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A portrait of the gospel. That's why feminists hate motherhood so much.
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They hate children. And they hate motherhood so much because it's a portrait of the gospel and they really hate
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God. Because the gospel is about laying one's life down for your neighbor and because abortion is the opposite of that, they hate parenthood and they hate and despise children.
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That's the hard truth. But Jesus can flip that on its head.
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Jesus can give you a love for your baby, moms. Good news today. Jesus can give you a love for your baby.
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He can take away the malice in your heart. He can take away the hatred that you have for your child.
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He can make you a new creation. He can restore you to true womanhood. Men, fathers inside,
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He can restore you to true fatherhood. He can make you new. He can wash you of your sins.
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The Bible says if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness.
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But if we say that we have no sin, we make ourselves liar.
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A liar and His Word is not in us. That's the testimony of Scripture. That same book that I just quoted to you says, it's a warning given to God's people, don't be like Cain who murdered his brother.
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And why did he murder his brother? Because his brother's deeds were righteous and his were wicked.
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You can be assured of this, my brothers. No murderer has eternal life abiding in them.
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No murderer has eternal life abiding in them. That is why you need
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Christ. Jesus Christ saves murderers. He saves drunkards.
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He saves sluggards. He saves thieves. He saves adulterers. He saves fornicators.
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He saves idolaters. Because rest assured, none of those things will inherit the kingdom of heaven.
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That's what the Bible says. None of those things will inherit the kingdom of God. Neither to the gentleman with the pink umbrella and the pink vest, neither will the effeminate enter the kingdom of heaven, sir.
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It's not just those who participate in the homosexual act who won't inherit the kingdom.
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It's the men who are also effeminate, men who play the women, a man who plays a woman not just in the bedroom, but in every other area of his life too.
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That man will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. And by you being here today supporting the murder of these little women and these little boys, you are demonstrating yourself to be that which does not inherit the kingdom of heaven.
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But there is hope for you, my friend. God can give you courage to do the right thing.
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If you turn from your sin, God can make you new again so that you stop dancing in your effeminacy on the graves of these children that you are leading to the slaughter today.
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I saw you earlier waving over at us, smiling gleefully, dancing over there, dancing over the graves of these children in your effeminacy.
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God calls you to more than that. He calls you not to look to me, not to look to any man out here, but to look to the man
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Jesus Christ, the God -man. He is the portrait of true manhood. He is the one who engages in necessary conflict.
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He is the one who calls out the oppressors of groups of people.
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He is the one that saves His people.
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He is the one that lays His life down for His people.
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He is the good shepherd. His sheep know Him. They hear His voice, and they follow
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Him, and He gives them eternal life, and no one will snatch them from His hand. Jesus is outraged at evil.
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He is outraged at injustice, and that's the message, by the way, that was promised about the
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Messiah, that when He came, He would faithfully bring forth justice, and that the coastlands would wait for His law.
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The farthest reaches of the earth would wait for His justice, and Jesus Christ Himself is about justice.
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He's about righteousness. He is about giving someone their due, and moms and dads, and those of you standing out here, the due for these children is that you spare their lives, that you protect their lives, that you preserve their lives, not that you give them a brutal death.
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That is what is due, my friends, for them, that it would be justice in this situation.
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Justice. Injustice is to put the innocent to death and to let the oppressor, the criminal, go free.
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In God's law, the shedding of innocent blood is such an offense to God because God says, you do not punish innocent blood and you don't let murderers go free.
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God is intimately concerned with justice, and when a nation like ours sheds the blood of the innocent over and over, every day, every month, every year, for decades, we are storing up wrath for ourselves in this nation that we live in, and God will avenge it.
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He will avenge it. That is my fear, and that's another reason why we come here, is to give
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God a reason not to destroy us as a nation. We have committed such blatant and high -handed sin against our
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Maker. He has every right to destroy us. He has every right to destroy us and to uproot us.
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I pray, friends, that He grants you repentance today. I pray.
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Again, I shared the Gospel with you earlier. Let me recap. Jesus Christ is
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God. He lived righteously, died for sinners, and rose again from the grave. He commands you to turn from your sin, to repent and to believe the good news of His kingdom.
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He is your King. You are not your own. You do not own your body.
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God owns your body, and He commands you to honor Him with that. That is His standard. He commands you to stop being soft men and hard women.
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He commands you not to murder. And those of you inside, moms and dads that can hear us, we care about you.
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We love you. Please come and talk to us. Come out here, and I'll show you the pictures. I'll show you the pictures of little
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Atlas. I'll show you the picture of Atlas, the baby girl that was saved that I got to see just about three weeks ago now, a few weeks ago.
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She's almost two years old now. She's absolutely precious. She's wonderful. I was there the day that she was in the hospital.
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I was there the day that her parents came out of Planned Parenthood.
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I was at their house a couple weeks after she was born, and I got to hold her for the very first time. And that baby girl is everything that Planned Parenthood despises.
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She is a living reminder of what goes on at this place, in vivid, high -definition color.
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She is a constant reminder of what happens at this place. This place makes money off of the backs of murdered children.
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They throw them away like trash, and they make little girls like that a mockery because of the malice that they have for those children.
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Every child that has been saved from an abortion mill, an abortion clinic, is a living testimony.
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And if we were to line them up on this sidewalk today, who would have the greater testimony? If you lined up all of the victims that you are murdering today, and we lined up all the children saved, which is the more attractive world to live in?
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Which is the world that actually makes sense as God created it to be? Is it your world, where you have little boys and girls torn into pieces?
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Or is it the kingdom of God and of His Messiah and of His community of redeemed, blood -bought people, with families, with children?
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Which portrait will last and stand the test of time?
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Which will last? Which owns the future? God owns all of history.
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O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set
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Your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
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You have established strength because of Your foes to still the enemy and the avenger.
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God has ordained praise to come from the mouths of nursing infants and babies for His glory that will still the enemy and the avenger.
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Your time is short, Planned Parenthood.
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God will move, and He will judge justly, and He will use
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His people and the proclamation of His word to end the massacre of innocence, to end the slaughter of children at these places of death.
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So please, come quietly before it's too late. Come quietly now.
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God, the Bible says, the person of Jesus did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped or held on to, but made
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Himself nothing, taking on the nature of a servant, being found in human appearance.
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Thank you guys so much for coming. I appreciate it. He emptied Himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.
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God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name that is above all names, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is
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Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Submit to His rule while you still have time, my friends.
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We care about you. Please, God commands you, stop murdering babies.