EAN: Christ or Chaos

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Well, good afternoon everyone. Thank you for having us here today. Thank you

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Brian for hosting this event. It's been something We've been planning for a few months. So I'm excited to do this and it's actually hopefully will be the first of many of these

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Sort of weekend events. We're hoping to do where we have a Friday and abortion now conference team with our good friend

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Zach Lautenschlager Tomorrow is he's teaching his life in Liberty Academy So, thank you again everyone, my name is

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Luke Pearson, I am the discipleship pastor at Apologia Church in Mesa Arizona and I'm one of the founding pastors of an abortion now so The sermon about to give

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I guess is not technically a sermon, but this message is called Christ or chaos This is the third version of this message.

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I will have given this year since July actually and I was able to Tailor this specifically for ending abortion.

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So I'm hoping and praying it blesses everyone here today But this is a topic that has been very very heavy on my heart the last 18 months or so really honestly since the beginning of kovat and All that to say the main verse

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I want to look at is 1st Corinthians 14 verse 40 which says but all things should be done decently and in order

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There was a Presbyterian pastor. His name was Peter Marshall He lived from 1902 to 1949 and he famously said the choice before us is plain

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Christ or chaos conviction or compromise Discipline or disintegration.

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I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans The time is now it is now when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship

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America's failure depends upon her accepting and Demonstrating God's government

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This was 80 years ago and it couldn't be any more true than it is today before we get started

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I'll go ahead and open in prayer Laura's thank you again for this opportunity to be here today

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I'm thankful for my brothers and sisters here in Louisiana Lord and for opening up the church today for us to come and speak and I ask that you would use this message

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Lord and the lives of everyone here and everyone that may listen on the internet on YouTube Later on Lord and we ask that this conference would would bless you and that you would use it to end abortion

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Not just here in Louisiana, but in our nation as well where we ask that you'd be glorified in Christ name we pray.

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Amen So again Christ or chaos We probably have all heard this phrase

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But not I'm not sure that we have all really thought through the implications of what it means

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The idea is that there is no neutrality in this life We must view all things through either the lens of Christ or through the lens of chaos

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We must either presuppose order or presuppose disorder. There is no in -between

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We cannot attempt to appeal to both sides I've had this conversation a number of times recently with brothers and sisters that have actually been

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Frustrated with the pro -life industry for continually trying to end abortion from a neutral position

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What a perfect time to have this conversation. We're seeing this currently with The case going on the

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Supreme Court right now that the pro -life industry is celebrating some sort of neutral victory But but they're not ending it.

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They're not approaching this this argument from a position based on scripture

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This fight to end the slaughter of our pre -born neighbors can only be won Under the authority of Jesus Christ through the proclamation of his good news by the power of the gospel

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This is ultimately a spiritual battle battle and and not only Cannot but will not be won through mere information

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We will not prevail through the changing of minds only but through the changing of the hearts by the regeneration of the spirit

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We must put to death Neutral thought by placing the gospel at the forefront of this fight

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We all know Matthew 6 24 It says no one can serve two masters For either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other

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You cannot serve God and money Although the specific context here is money the basic principle still applies

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You cannot serve two masters for either you will hate the one and love the other or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other you cannot serve both

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Christ and chaos Order leads to life

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Disorder leads to death and in Christ we find life and chaos we find death

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So starting at the garden since the fall the battle over sin has ultimately been a battle of Theonomy versus autonomy or theos

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God namas law. So God's law first man's law Adam and Eve had the opportunity to obey

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God's law Genesis 2 verses 16 through 17 says and the Lord God commanded the man saying you may surely eat of every tree of the garden

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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat For in the day that you eat of it.

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You shall surely die Or conversely Obey their own law as We all know according to God's perfect plan.

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They listened to the temptation of the serpent to be a law unto themselves When God said to them in 3 verse 1

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I'm sorry when Satan said it did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden Eve's response to the serpent in verses 2 to 3 was a lie

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The woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden But God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden

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Neither shall you touch it? Lest you die Do you see the lie?

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God's law was very clear. Do not eat of the tree but Eve given into this temptation created her own law

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By including the command to neither touch it The serpent then sweetened the temptation in verses 4 through 5

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He said but the but the serpent said of the woman you shall not surely die for God Knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil

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His lie was an appeal to autonomy to be like God It's to determine what is right from wrong to establish one's own laws to decide

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What is good and what is evil that was the appeal to Eve from from the serpent

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And this is precisely what we see when we minister at the abortion mills Most women know it's a baby.

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They know full well their murder in their child They just want the right to do so they want to decide for themselves that it is a morally good thing to do

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Verse 6 shows the satanic appeal to Eve it says so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and That it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise

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She took of its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate

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The temptation was to be wise in her own eyes and this temptation was too much for Eve to turn down Verse 7 tells us that the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths

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So the immediate result was chaos. It was disorder. It was death

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Not just for themselves, but for all of mankind Even before the fall before sin entered the world humanity needed an external law to determine what is right from wrong

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Ever since this point in time mankind has been attempting to figure it out on her own

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We have found life through the order of God's law manifested in Christ and death through the disorder of the chaos of man's law

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So moving on from the garden then let's look at two other examples in history First I want to go to Judas Looking quickly at the life of Judas We all know the story of Judas, but he lived slept ate

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Sweat probably bled with Christ. He saw firsthand Christ's many miracles

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He was an eyewitness to the order that Christ brought into a chaotic world Christ himself embodied order and yet Judas willingly chose disorder immediately resulting in chaos chaos to the point of death

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And the next example I want to look at is Barabbas Without going too much into detail.

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We all know this story Barabbas literally it means his name was Bar Abba So Bar meaning son of and Abba father or son of the father the father's son.

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That's literally what his name meant Of course many have argued that Abba is Is more intimate than that it is often an enduring term used by Jewish children

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Towards their fathers it's equivalent to daddy or papa So for the sake of this point,

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I want to refer to the Barabbas As son of daddy or daddy's boy Daddy's boy was a bad dude

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We don't necessarily know how bad he was But we do know that the crowd knew Verse 16 describes him as notorious

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John 18 40 tells us he was a robber And Luke 23 19 says that Barabbas Was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder

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This guy sounds like he's the Epitome of way of the master if you guys

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Know ray comfort stuff. He was notoriously a lying thieving murderer So the jews being persuaded by the chief priests and the elders as verse 20 tells us they had a choice

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Between daddy's boy in christ Like judas many of them had been eyewitnesses

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To christ's miracles. They literally had before them the embodiment of order on one hand

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And the embodiment of disorder on the other I'm, not sure there has been a more clear depiction in scripture of the choice for mankind between christ or chaos

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Pilate literally gave them two options You either choose christ or you choose chaos

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Which shall it be? And of course as we all know the crowd chose chaos

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And in doing so willingly accepted the consequences Matthew 27 25 says

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All and all the people answered his blood be on us and on our children

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So in choosing daddy's boy, they gladly chose death Having witnessed the life of christ they understood who he was and what the consequences of rejecting him were and yet Having hated him so much.

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They willingly chose death and not just for themselves, but also for their children Now I wanted to think of a a modern example of someone that hopefully

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Makes this more meaningful for us What real life daddy's boy would drive this point home

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One name and one name only immediately came to my mind hunter biden Bear with me now considering, uh biblical justice and about presuming innocence until proven guilty.

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I want to be very cautious I'm, also hoping facebook doesn't fact check this But that's a different discussion for a different day.

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But here's the point Everyone knows that hunter biden is a hot mess He's not a good dude

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Even though he has not been proven guilty in a court of law There are at least two to three independent lines of witnesses demonstrating his wicked vileness

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So for the sake of this illustration imagine for a moment That christ lived here on earth with us now imagine that we were all eyewitnesses to his miracles

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And the order he brought to a chaotic world Having also been eyewitnesses to the disorder that is hunter biden

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Now imagine that both men stand before you A crowd is gathered and we have to pick one to be spared and one to be crucified

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Apart from a saving knowledge of christ. We would most assuredly Choose hunter the culture hates christ and would not think twice to send him to his death

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In fact, they love their autonomy so much. They are willing to pay the price of death in order to keep it

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They don't care if it destroys them their families or even the entire culture

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Or even sends them straight to hell Rebellion against the sovereign god is worth the price of admission as long as they are able to hold on to their little piece of autonomy

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It is not the culture. However, however that i'm concerned with at the moment. It's actually the church

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Remember who was there in matthew encouraging the crowd to choose barabbas? It was the chief priests and elders

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How many of our religious leaders and even evangelical pastors would do the same how many would be would be saying give us hunter

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How many people in the modern church would readily condemn christ to die via crucifixion and declare may his blood be on us and on our children

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That's a scary thought isn't it? It's one thing to watch the culture destroy itself through its rejection of christ and willingly accept the chaos

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But what scares me the most is how quickly and easily this has infiltrated the church

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Go down the list of cultural idols and think about how many of them are now considered acceptable by those claiming the name of christ

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Transgenderism homosexuality gay mirage lesbianism pedophilia abortion euthanasia genital mutilation cultural marxism critical race theory woke ism

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These are all a result of this order Not of god -ordained order due to the rejection of christ in celebration of chaos

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How is it then? That they have been so cheerfully welcomed through the front doors of our churches

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How have they been so tolerated It's because the church overall has become antinomian

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Christ's bride has abandoned god's law and substituted it with man's law Those claiming to love christ have ceased acting as a prophetic witness and therefore the people

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Within and without the church have cast off restraint But notice the second half of proverbs 29 18.

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It says where there is no prophetic vision that people cast off restraint But blessed is he who keeps the law

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Without returning to god's law the church will continue to become more and more chaotic and this brings me to my next point

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The decision between christ and chaos ultimately is a battle for worship Worship of christ produces order the worship of chaos produces disorder

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It's a little known fact but a fact nonetheless that many abortion mills have satanic altars in them

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It's a true story As christians In christ we find our sabbath and we find our rest and we find our comfort

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Unbelievers are also looking for sabbath rest They too desire comfort and know that a sacrifice of innocent blood is required to achieve this comfort

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The problem is that instead of submitting their lives to the god who is comfort who sacrifices own innocent life

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They're willing to sacrifice anything and everything including their own precious children to molek the cultural god of false comfort

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Have you ever noticed that there are very few instances? Of demonic activity in the old testament, but the moment christ arrives in the new testament

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You see demons everywhere Specifically in matthew 8 you see a demon -possessed man. He approached christ and called out

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What have you to do with us oh son of god have you come here to torment us before the time

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Why do you think this is? It's because they knew what the arrival of christ meant They knew what the implications of the proclamation of the gospel was for them

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It marked the undoing of their temporary reign Here here over the earth

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Christ made it clear in matthew 12 that he had come to plunder satan's house

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As my dear friend andrew sandlin has said we live in a cosmic war zone being faithful to christ

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Means trying to regain satan's territory and attempting to bring order to disorder means engaging in a spiritual war for worship

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This is a battle not just for physical but also for spiritual life and death If you remember

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I mentioned earlier that neutrality is a myth Proverbs 8 35 to 36 says for whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the lord

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But he who fails to find me injures himself all who hate me love death

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Remember the mob we just discussed in matthew 27. They hated christ so much that they intentionally chose death

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This culture that worships comfort hates god. So they therefore love death

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They love everything about death the smell of it the taste of it The color the look they love to watch death in 4k hd and long to romance the idea of it

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Death, of course is the result of chaos and not of order But why is this why is the culture obsessed with death scripture is pretty clear why?

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First corinthians 15 25 through 26 teaches us That christ must reign until he put has put all his enemies under his feet.

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The last enemy to be destroyed is death Did you catch that? Christ is currently reigning and will do so until every enemy has been put under his feet the last being death

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This is god's promise that we must cling to But their god has other promises that we must also keep in mind

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Leviticus 21 through 5 says The lord spoke to moses saying say to the people of israel

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Any one of the people of israel or of the strangers who sojourn in israel? Who gives any of his children to molek shall surely be put to death

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The people of the land shall stone him with stones I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people

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Because he has given one of his children to molek To make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name and if the people of the land

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Do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to molek and do not put him to death

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Then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among the people

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Him and all who follow him in whoring after molek

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So according to god's standard of justice anyone who sacrifices their children to the false god of molek should be put to death

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I of course would argue that molek is equivalent to our culture's false god of comfort

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God says that he himself will personally set his face against these idolatrous murderers and cut them off from among their people

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It gets worse though God is not just upset with the murderers, but also with the people of the land who do not put the murderers to death

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God says he also will set his face against all who follow support or put up with the murderers

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And will cut them off not just them but also their clans

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And then continuing in verse 22 it says you shall therefore Keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out

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So if we do not follow what god has just commanded us The land literally could spit us out

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Briefly, I want to give you I'm going to share a quote with you from from jonas clark Brief history.

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He's a hero of mine actually named my six -month -old son after him He was best friends with sam adams and john hancock and paul revere

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Uh, he this is from a sermon. He gave in lexington on april 19th, 1776

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This was to commemorate the shot heard around the world one year prior on april 19th, 1775

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Keep in mind. This is three months prior to the signing of the declaration of independence. It was his congregation

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He was a presbyterian pastor was his congregation That the shots were fired upon but he said this

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As god is the sovereign of the world and exercises his government for the glory of his name and the good of the whole so He hath a paternal concern for the special benefit and improvement of his church and people

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All creatures are his servants and god Accomplisheth his designs and carries his counsels to effect by what means and instruments he pleases

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It is With him alone who was wonderful in counsel and excellent in working to bring good out of evil

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When god designs the reproof and correction of his people he can exercise This holy discipline in various ways and by various means as shall best answer the purposes of his government

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This holy discipline is a is accordingly exercised sometimes by the immediate hand of providence as in wasting sickness

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Parching drought awful and desolating earthquakes or other judgments which are immediately from god himself

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Or this may be done more immediately By the instrumentality of his creatures and even the wicked

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And those that love the wages of unrighteousness that delight in oppression waste and spoil or thirst for the innocent blood

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May be improved as The rod in his hand to correct or punish the sins of his people With this view the oppressor is permitted to injure insult

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Oppress and lay waste in a land and to carry his measures to the shedding of innocent blood

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But the same design does the sovereign god give the enemy a commission in war with fire and sword to distress and destroy

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So why then As christians are we so surprised that the god hating chaotic comfort loving

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Evil forces behind the demise of our culture promulgate death Why are we shocked?

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That death is their selling point They know full well that the death that death is the last thing they have to hold on to They know what the scriptures say and they believe it

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They know what christ intends to do and they fully intend to fight tooth and nail

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First john 3 8 says whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil for the devil has been sinning from the beginning

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The reason the son of god appeared was to destroy the works of the devil

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I'll be fully transparent here. I had previously missed This christ did not come just To save us from hell, but also to vanquish satan and his works

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Again, my friend andrew salen here says that christ works Or christ's work on the cross was designed to reverse the effects of sin in every single area of life and thought and culture

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Christ is currently and actively defeating satan and we should not for one second Think that his minions of disorder will at any point give up without a fight

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They will literally fight to the death of death Attempting to bring as many as they can with them all the while appealing to death as something righteous and good

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The only way to defeat this is by proper orderly worship I have described what false worship looks like but what does proper worship look like?

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I'm, not limiting this to sunday worship in a public setting but also to daily worship with our lives

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In our current day and age we daily feel pressure from the culture to disrupt our worship

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But what separates us from this pagan culture? I stole this from my friend joe boot, but I say this often that culture is nothing more than religion externalized

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So what defines our worship and what defines worship for the unbelieving world? for the believer

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Worship starts with god and is ruled by order for the unbeliever worship starts with chaos and is ruled by apparent order

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We all know believer and unbeliever alike that the world is broken And needs to be repaired

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The problem for the christian is ethical the world is broken because of sin and rebellion

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Civilization is fragile because of the sinful heart of men The only solution is the gospel in right orderly worship

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The problem for the unbeliever is that civilization is also fragile But because of chaos and structural defect the world is built upon a foundation of chaos

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The unbeliever has no ultimate standard of order His only hope is to drive things back further into chaos hoping to get lucky for better order on the next go around They desire a tabula rasa a blank slate

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To be able to start over and recreate themselves society even nature itself

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They want to be self -created to be self -governed through self -law finding true meaning in self

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And their worldview everything has been constructed by a man And therefore can also be deconstructed by a man and be rebuilt from the ground up For them this is utter autonomy

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This is what chaotic religion and worship must do out of necessity The desire to burn everything to the ground is driven out of this delusion

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Christians want to live ordered lives because we serve the god of order Pagans want to live chaotic lives because they serve the gods of chaos

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This is why proper ordered worship is so important to everything that we do

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Foundationally god created this world For us to dwell in and to dwell in it in such a way as to make it more and more orderly

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Likewise, he wants us to worship him in such a way as to repair the broken world According to first corinthians 1440.

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This is the main verse. I mentioned at the beginning This is our duty, but all things should be done decently and in order

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As christians we should want nothing to do with this order Because it is contrary to god's created order

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Orderly worship must start with the individual It starts with self -government and moves to family government and then to church government and lastly to civil government

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We are currently facing a secular view that is That is not possible to have a just society without destroying the family government because a strong family structure eliminates

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Radical individualism and therefore autonomy Strong orderly families require self -sacrifice

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Which drastically conflicts with disorderly autonomy the civil government then must destroy the family government

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Because they are competing governments when in reality they should be complementing governments

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Strong family governments threaten the absolute strong arm authority of the state And in a world of chaos competitors must be destroyed

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And in orderly society each sphere of government has its own god -ordained role

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Scripture has clearly laid out these roles for us First timothy chapter 3 lists the qualifications of an overseer

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Verses 4 through 5 paul says that he must manage his own household With all dignity keeping his children submissive for some if someone does not know how to manage his own household

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How will he care for god's church? This is precisely what i'm referring to Proper orderly worship begins with the self -government of the head of the home and then is incorporated within the family governmental structure

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It is very telling to me that paul realizes That there can be no orderly worship within the church government if the overseer of the church is unable to maintain order at home

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Many puritans believe that homes were like many churches Dads father's husbands were viewed as pastors of their own little churches

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It was his responsibility to lead his family in worship And to lead his family in the word of god

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Much of the church today has forfeited the idea that men are called to be many shepherds of their homes

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Ultimately, we can trace the surrender again all the way back to the garden That does not mean

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That there have not been faithful men since then or even periods of time in history When this was the prevailing thought but if we are going to regain this mentality, we must trace this failure back to its roots

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Let's take a few minutes to go back to genesis chapter 2 Everyone wants to blame eve for the fall

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But do you remember? Whose god command to not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was given to?

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God was speaking to adam Eve hadn't even been created yet This was chapter 2 16 through 17

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And came immediately after god put him in the garden of eden to work and to keep it That was in verse after verse 15.

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So this this initial command was actually given to adam even he wasn't even around yet It was in verse 18 that god said it is not good that the man should be alone

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I will make him a helper fit for him So before eve ever ate the fruit adam had already failed to properly shepherd his wife

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Either he failed to correctly relay what god had told him Or he allowed eve to believe a lie

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As we discussed already when faced with the serpent's temptation Of did god actually say?

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Eve responded with at worst a deliberate lie and at best a partial truth

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To make things worse. Have you ever thought about where adam was during this debacle? He was sitting right next to her

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Chapter 3 verse 6 tells us that as soon as eve ate the fruit She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate

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So not only did adam fail to shepherd his wife prior to the fall But but also like a coward he failed to shepherd her in the midst of the fall

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Is eve responsible for her sin? Absolutely 100 But as we can see as head of his home

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Adam ultimately bears the responsibility for the fall of mankind because he failed to properly lead his family

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There is such a lack of genuine worship in the church because we do not have strong men with faithful wives

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Properly following assisting them in leading and shepherding their families instead. We have the garden of eden

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Strong families do not magically occur just because the churches have strong elders strong families occur because they have strong fathers and husbands

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Many deep seated sins in the church are a result of a lack of faithful men

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Extended singleness porn addiction laziness cowardice men acting like boys effeminate men

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Pride these all stem from the faithless faithlessness of fathers

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And an apology or radio episode we did with andrew sandlin earlier this year He said that the spiritual level of the church will never never rise higher than the spiritual level of the families that comprise it

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I recently heard a very intriguing statistic in unbelieving families

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When the mother comes to christ first the children and the husband also come to christ 17 of the time

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When the husband comes to christ first the children and wife come to christ 93 % of the time

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This is utterly astonishing Why is this? You do the math because families need strong fathers

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At some point during the 18th century there was an inward turn In other words everything turned inward towards man instead of the standards for truth and morality coming from outside in They now came from inside out

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Instead of god's transcendent objective laws coming to man from outside of history

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They now came from within man out into the culture this philosophy Has of course infiltrated the church

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And much of our modern churches the standards of the worship service have become I felt instead of he said

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The standard is no longer what? Was the word of god preached or did the worship bring glory to god, but how did it make me feel?

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The church has a standard. It's the word of god And it has failed because it has not returned to its source

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Proper christ honoring worship involves a heart given completely to god But a heart given completely to god is a heart that is completely immersed in the external word of god

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You cannot have true devotion to god in worship without devotion to the external word of god

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During that radio show andrews also said If our minds are not biblically saturated then our minds will be weak

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They will be constantly they constantly will be at prey to secular neo -pagan thinking and the church will continue to fail

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It all starts with submersion in and obedience to the word of god

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So christian worship then whether it be individual at home at church or in a public sphere

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Should be disciplined. It should be intentional. It should be trained. It should be powerful and it should be reverent

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The pagan world on the other hand wants everything reduced to chaos But we as christ's bride

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Are the dam holding back the chaotic waters of destruction? We stand as the barrier between creation and chaos

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Just as babies are being torn apart limb from limb and their mother's wombs the gods of chaos

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Will be slain and it's going to be christian worship that ends it Just as elijah slain the 450 false prophets of baal and first kings chapter 18

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The gods of chaos will be slain And it's going to be christian worship that ends them

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We want to introduce order into the chaotic world while at the same time the pagans want to flood our ordered world with chaos

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Just like faithful gideon And judges 6 we need to tear down the culture's grisly idols to the chaotic gods of comfort

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And rebuild them in such a way that produces orderly worship to the god who defeats chaos

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God has established his church And promised us that the gates of hell will not prevail against it

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We as christians often Get this promise wrong What do gates do?

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They protect They are not offensive, but defensive The gates of hell will not prevail against us because they will not be able to withstand our offensive charge

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We do not defeat the gates of hell by keeping our worship within the four walls of our churches We defeat the gates of hell by charging forward bringing our right orderly worship to the unbelieving world

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Until those gates are left. No stone standing windows update

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Just in case you're wondering Next point then is christ or chaos.

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This is the last main point here I've shown you why we must choose either christ or chaos

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Not just in this fight to end abortion, but also in every facet of life But practically speaking.

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What does christ versus chaos look like? As the culture actively tries to deconstruct what god has sovereignly structured.

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What does order versus disorder look like? So I put together actually you may have seen this earlier in the year but I put together a chart that said order versus disorder and was out on my facebook page and on the end abortion out page, but I'm gonna go ahead and read some of these to you order

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Is glorifying god and enjoying him forever This order is glorifying self and enjoying man for our short time on earth

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Order looks like finding our joy and contentment in christ. This order looks like finding our joy and contentment and idolatry

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Order is identity in christ disorder is identity in anything other than christ

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Order looks like loving god with all your mind heart soul and strength This order looks like loving self with all your time energy and resources

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Order is loving your neighbor as yourself Disorder is loving yourself without concern for your neighbor

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Order looks like the god -ordained biological genders of male and female This order looks like the alphabet people

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Order is embracing the way god created you and using that gift to his glory

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This order is practicing self -mutilation and defiance to god Order is proper christ honoring self -government.

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This order is autonomous self -love Order looks like the divinely decreed institution of family government.

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This order looks like the deliberate demolition of the nuclear family Order is husbands loving their wives as christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

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This order is husbands loving only themselves and giving up their wives for selfish desires

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Order looks like wives submitting to their husbands as to the lord This order looks like wives submitting to no one neither lord nor husband

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Order is the worship of god through proper sexual intimacy of a husband and a wife This order is the worship of sex through the improper sexual intimacy outside the confines of the marriage bed

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Order looks like taking responsibility for the little lives created through sexual intimacy This order looks like sexual intimacy without consequences

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Order is children obeying their parents in the lord. This order is children obeying no one and living as a law unto themselves

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Order looks like fathers not provoking their children in anger and raising them up in the discipline and the instruction of the lord

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This order looks like fathers Exasperating their children raising them up without discipline or godly instruction

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Order is fathers managing their households. Well This order is the biden's

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Order looks like fathers leading their families in family worship at home Disorder looks like fathers neglecting this duty thereby leading their families in the practice of idolatry

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Order is sacrificing everything for the well -being of your offspring Disorder is sacrificing your offspring for everything else

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Order looks like caring for your children no matter the cost Disorder looks like hiring an assassin to butcher your children.

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No matter the cost Order is loving your baby. Even if that means giving them up for adoption

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This order is hating your baby even to the point of death Order looks like rescuing those being taken away to death

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This order looks like deliberately helping those to stumble to the slaughter Order is men acting like men

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This order is men acting effeminate Order looks like men working hard to provide for the families.

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This order looks like men being lazy Depending on their wives or even the state to provide for their families

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Order is taking dominion over the earth Or our disorder is leaving it in disarray

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Order looks like christ's bride acting courageously This order looks like the church acting cowardly

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Order is applying the lordship of christ over all things This order is applying christ's lordship only over heavenly things

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Order looks like having no king but christ This order looks like having no king but caesar

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Order is courageous men fighting for the lives of the pre -born This order is cowardly men dropping their baby mamas off at the abortion mill to have their children murdered

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Order looks like faithful pastors Leading the charge from the pulpit to end abortion now

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This order looks like unfaithful pastors saying Eh, it's not really my thing

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I've heard it And in conclusion This is a spiritual battle and we must not forget that Anywhere And everywhere you look throughout the world is contested territory

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But where god is most at work There we will find satan working the hardest against us

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We are not just fighting our unbelieving culture But also satan who is currently losing and will ultimately be defeated once and for all in god's perfect timing

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In the closing I want to end with this quote again from my friend andrew sandlin he said we're going to win

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Satan was definitively defeated on the cross History itself is the outworking of the effects of the cross and the resurrection

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By the power of the spirit of god the preaching of the gospel the authority of the moral law of god

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In all areas of life, and we're going to win We can only accomplish this through order pastors if you're watching this

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If you're listening to this it starts here in the pulpit Fathers and husbands it starts in your homes

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In all areas of life, we must reject every invitation to neutrality and always choose christ over chaos

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Lord again, thank you so much for this opportunity to be here today And just ask that this message this conference lord

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They'd use it for your glory that you'd use it to end abortion here in louisiana and across our nation