Rally Highlight: Kings Bound by Scripture

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We're one church. We said we're going to do this, we're going to do this until we die, we're going to end abortion.

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Abortion, no matter how you measure it, is thriving in South Carolina and that is wrong and that needs to stop.

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I'd rather have a group of people who are committed to the gospel and the law of God and are willing to open their mouths to the world than 25 ,000 people satisfied with walking around streets and then going home and laying their heads on their pillows.

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All I can really say is wow, what a blessing to be here today, what an honor it is to be among you.

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I'm so very thankful to be up here with so many greater men than I.

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We are so grateful for what God has done to bless our ministry and end abortion now. I've said before that there have been two times in which my eyes have been opened in this fight and that was the first time that I went to the abortion mill and the second time was the first time

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I went to the National Right to Life Convention in 2017. Thank you, brother. In both places, there was celebration of lawlessness and a lack of Christ and his word and its authority in both places.

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And by God's grace, I've been allowed to be the communications director at End Abortion Now where we have equipped hundreds of local churches, not only in this nation, but outside the boundaries of the

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United States to take the gospel to the death camps. And also now, what

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God is doing amongst us is tremendous in that he is sending Christians armed with the scriptures to go before their magistrates and preach his name.

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Because the argument in the past has gone like this from elected officials. This is a discussion for Bible studies.

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And in the four walls of the church, God says, no.

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God says, this is our calling. This is our holy inheritance.

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As a matter of fact, the Apostle Paul, reminding the church at Ephesus in Ephesians chapter one, he's praying for them.

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I pray that the eyes of your heart would be opened to the hope that you have so that you would receive the glorious inheritance and the riches of the saints.

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And so that you would be made aware of the immeasurably great power that is at work in us who believe that God has exerted when he raised

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Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. As other brothers have pointed out, we are a kingdom of priests.

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We serve the ruler of kings on earth, so saith Revelation 1 5.

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He has freed us by his blood. He has redeemed us.

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He has made us a kingdom of priests unto our God. And our responsibility, as the psalmist says in Psalm 119, is to speak of his testimonies before kings in places of authority, in the high place.

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So this rally is about resisting lawlessness. That's what it comes down to, resisting tyranny.

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We must obey God rather than men, right? The book of Acts. There's a few things that the apostles are charged with.

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Tell me if you remember, filling up Jerusalem with this teaching. That was the accusation.

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Saying that there is another king besides Caesar, namely one

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Jesus Christ. And there is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.

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That was a direct refutation to Pontifex Maximus to say,

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Iesu is Kurios. Jesus is Lord, not

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Caesar. And what happened in that context? As they are bringing this message to their magistrates, what are they saying?

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They're saying, you granted a murderer to be released and you killed the author of life.

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You let the guilty go free and you punish the innocent. Is that not what we're saying has to stop today in this nation?

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Because to assault a baby in the womb is an assault on the image of God and Christ himself.

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On God's very plan of salvation. Do you know why? Because God himself entered this world through the womb.

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He howled the womb. He made it a holy place. And if there is no first generation, there can be no regeneration, no birth, no new birth.

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And so that is why we stand and we do what the apostles were accused of doing.

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You're trying to bring this man's blood upon us. Stop. Stop preaching in his name.

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And what's the response? We must obey God rather than men.

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That is what we need to be accused of. And I'll simply end with this.

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In Psalm 149, we are given a sneak peek of our glory.

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And as the psalmist says, it truly is our honor. What does that mean? It is the thing that ornaments us.

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It is what arrays us in holiness to do what this passage describes.

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It is a symbol of our majesty, of our glory as God's royalty, as his priest kings.

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What is it? Psalm 149, verse 5. Let the godly exult in glory.

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Let them sing for joy on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouths.

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Or their throats. And the two -edged swords in their hands.

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To execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples.

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To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron.

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To execute on them the judgment written. What is that?

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What is the judgment written, brothers and sisters? I submit to you that it is this revelation, it is this judgment, it is this word of truth that we are to impress upon kings and those in authority and tell them, you must obey.

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You must do justice. Because we will be here to execute judgment.

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We will be here to put the truth of God's law into effect.

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This is our glory. This is our honor. So the next time you hear that in the legislative halls, don't bring the word of God into this fight.

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Don't bring the scriptures to bear on this issue. Don't you know those in authority are part of civil government and you have to talk to them in a certain way.

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You can't use scripture. You can't use the word of God. You have to appeal to them by some supposedly common standard that only exists superficially.

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No. Don't believe it. You go there and you speak the testimonies of Jesus Christ, who is the king of kings before rulers on earth.

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Because there is one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.

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And you stand to intercede for kings. Where does that place you? Who is greater, the one interceding or the one being interceded for?

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Because there is one mediator, one king, one law, one revelation, one standard of righteousness, and he will not share the throne.

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So I call on you today. Resist Roe. Establish justice.