Highlight: Equal Protection For All Human Life, Yes or No?

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Resolved number 16 of their resolution out of their pamphlet again proving the harshness and the mean spirit that is entailed here

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Resolved that we affirm that the murder of a preborn child Children is a crime against humanity that must be treated equally under the law as the murder of a born person

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Many of us have young females in our youth groups We have grandchildren and children who are females growing up in a sex saturated culture

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Many of them will have the opportunity at sex outside of marriage and impossible. It's possible

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All right All right, so a question I have is Do you disagree

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Do you disagree because let's go back and listen to that I want you to hear it again everyone What what is what what would you disagree with here as a pastor as a person who believes in the

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Word of God? Let's play that again Resolved that we affirm that the murder of a preborn child

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Children is a crime against humanity that must be treated equally under the law as the murder of a born person

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Harsh mean Just what exactly was harsh and mean about that if you believe the

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Bible if you believe the Bible Then you believe that's an image bearer of God If you believe the

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Bible you would have to believe that taking the life of a human being in an unjustified manner is a crime against Humanity it is a crime against another

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Human, that's what that statement means. It is a crime against another human being How is that harsh?

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How does it mean a teenage girl could read it and have their feelings hurt? Mm -hmm, Jr Jeff I was gonna say, you know

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Just ask him like it exposes Ask him to be consistent with his own values if he asked you you asked him if he believed that life began at conception

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He would probably say well, absolutely if you asked many within the pro -life establishment if they believe life began at conception

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They would say absolutely if you can say that and think that statement is mean you're exposing your bias

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You're exposing your your skewed view your perverted view towards partiality, right?

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where we're saying these these Pre -born neighbors have equal value in the eyes of God, but we are going to give them a different Protection under the law that is discrimination

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Partiality. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So what I think is actually Demonstrably harsh and mean is to engage in that kind of partiality where you say

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I know that it's human I know that it's the unjustified taking of human life But I don't want these human beings in the womb to be treated the same way as all of the humans

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That's called partiality and I want to say that God indicts that in Scripture and God would call that harsh and mean it's harsh

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Because it is it is essentially Discriminating and it's saying I'm not gonna give you the same

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I'm not gonna afford you the same love and protection as I will everyone else I would say that's very harsh and I'd say it's extremely mean -spirited

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And one more thing I want to say in terms of being harsh and mean if you're not honest with a person who's in front

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Of you who's actually guilty of something to call them to repentance and faith and to bring them To bring to them

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Christ in the midst of that. I think it's very mean I think it's very mean to essentially say to somebody who needs

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Christ who needs his peace who needs Reconciliation who needs forgiveness to say to them.

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I'm going to withhold the call of the gospel which comes of course Solidly with a hit of the law of God.

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You're guilty I'm gonna withhold the law of God from you and the peace of Christ because I want your conscience to not feel

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Overwhelmed with guilt and shame right now I want you to feel like I really love you and that I empathize and then

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I'm in this with you I want you to feel that so I'm not gonna come to you like Jesus would or like say

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John the Baptist does in Matthew 3 To the guilty Jews of his day where he tells him that judgment is coming and he says to bear fruit keeping with repentance

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I'm not gonna be like a John the Baptist. No, I'm gonna be like someone who betrays you with a kiss

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Right who has ulterior motives things are there in the back of their mind? They're doing but they're coming to you one way and they're they're kissing you and you know

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And and sort of like fluffing you up. That's exactly what what Judas is guilty of I'm like rabbi and he betrays him with a kiss.

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I don't want to betray these women with a kiss, right? I don't want to flatter them and pretend like you know, no, you don't really need

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Christ in this No, you're a victim, too I want to say that all of these young women in our churches who may be engaging in and in sex outside of marriage and May have then the

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I think beautiful consequence of a child. I don't think that's a curse That's still a gift from God in the midst of sin

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That's what I think babies are they're a gift from God. I want to I want to say in the midst of that No, you're really guilty and don't murder your child and I think that abortion should be seen in a nation that's been transformed by the gospel as a

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Criminal act you cannot kill another human being in an unjustified manner That is through and through scripture and it is not mean -spirited or harsh to say that to a person

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You cannot take human life in an unjustified manner. That's not mean it's not harsh. And so Jr.

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Go ahead Yeah, I was just gonna say the there's there's another reason

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I think even God -fearing brothers and sisters Who aren't quite there yet on equal protection?

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Are hesitant I think part of them. I mean any reasonable person would say man these last 50 years women have been indoctrinated

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To believe this is a clump of cells. How can we just enforce the law and You know say like even if they agree with equal protection at some point

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They might feel that it's on it's it's unloving or in it's too harsh to do it overnight To which

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I would say again the same thing the other issue we were having before with man's wisdom and how to fight this

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Abortion and this genocide altogether. We're now applying even on this where you know there's a cultural sin going on here where we have basically been telling women because if Again, we go back into scripture

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We know that it tells us that the law is a tutor and so if the law is a tutor Roe has been teaching our daughters and our wives for generations that that these children don't have value

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But we don't turn around and soften the law or manipulate God's truth concerning value and just measures

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By watering it down. No, we need to go institute it repent as a nation repent as a people

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And then understand that no like law -abiding people are gonna stop killing their babies overnight when when we outlaw abortion

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For those who love death, they're probably gonna continue and and like you said earlier

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Jeff Maybe that does take place in and back alleys, but you know to that point earlier I was gonna say, you know, it's like where else do we make murder safer?

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Or try to clean it up. Like there's there's no other crime that we try to help the the person

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Who's performing it do it more successfully or in a cleaner light? But that being said, you know the this idea that we need to just slowly, you know

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Recommunicate to women or there's even bills here in Texas where they're just trying to educate women We're like no like you're you're falling.

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It's the same fatal flaw. You're not trusting in the Word of God It is the power of God's Word to transform hearts and minds when we begin to use man's wisdom to manipulate the law

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And to go around and not just trust him and his word We're you know, we're dead in the water, you know, there's no power in that.

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That's right Well, and what's really troubling is when you pair the whole context of this with words grace giving community what you're actually saying is

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We have the power to extend grace on this issue And when it comes to murder

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We humans just regular people not involved in the law We don't have the ability to just cover that So you're actually lying to those teenage girls

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You're lying and saying I know that makes you feel bad, but don't worry. I can forgive you without repentance

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It's not no part of it is biblical and it's it's a horrible lie Yeah, and we've talked about so many times during on this show and just elsewhere.

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We we don't treat theft that way We don't how come

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I don't treat people who are guilty of theft this way. Well, and I'm sorry, but this is Women are the reason why this is happening the feminine.

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I mean the sexual revolution and second wave feminism Here you go. This is why it's happening women are not ignorant and they're not powerless

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They're so we have achieved such Above and beyond equality that women are allowed to kill their babies without Any consequence?

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Yeah with impunity. That's exactly right. I mean to that point joy like we've made mothers a special class of person to deem one life is valuable and another life as Invaluable or unvaluable

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So again as a culture we've put that on women empowered them to make this decision and they're living under the

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Weight and guilt of that sin. And and now we're still not even the Christians are not

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Resolved enough to say no it is sin like the the freedom the relief comes in acknowledging it as such and Entrusting in Christ and because his blood is sufficient right and his grace is is sufficient