Being The Light In Darkness

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I was born in Las Vegas and some of my best favorite most emotional intimate memories are from when

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I was a little boy and I would go to visit family in Las Vegas and I remember distinctly really distinctly always flying into Las Vegas at nighttime and I remember looking out the window of the airplane always as a little boy my favorite moment when was we were coming into Las Vegas and you could see just darkness but this city lighting up everything and I remember as a little boy just thinking how glorious it looked and how beautiful and amazing and I was in awe of this city that I was born in and I remember it the feeling of just seeing just pure darkness and this light just lighting up the darkness and to this day whenever I'm traveling or doing ministry and we get to come through Vegas one of my favorite things to do is to come into Las Vegas at nighttime and see the lights lighting everything up and it's amazing too because if you look around this incredible spectacle in the desert you see just the lights and the veneer but underneath the surface of all of this is this intense idolatry rebellion and opposition you see here is a city that is called what

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Sin City what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas that's the motto right people come here from all over the world

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I mean you walk down the streets here just tonight you can hear accents from all over the world

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Ireland Scotland England Africa everywhere

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I mean it's all represented on the street here and people come here from all over the world to party to engage in the pursuit of pleasure it's underneath all of this all of the lights in darkness here is just a veneer it's just on the surface and underneath it is this intense rebellion in pursuit of pleasure there is the pursuit of drugs and alcohol and sex sex without consequences only it has a tremendous amount of consequences underneath all of this sex without consequences the idolatry of sexual morality is the consequence of life the beauty of life the forming of a new life and in this town in this city with no consequences and where what happens here stays here you have the consequence of all of the sexual immorality and all the rest and you have the consequence which is really glorious consequence and that's life the beauty of life and in this town you have

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Planned Parenthood and the abortion facilities that actually address the consequences of what happens here stays here and you have children every single day in the city and in the state that are killed as a result of this kind of a lifestyle and it's really an amazing blessing to see that since God formed and abortion now through Apologia Church we have churches in Nevada and in Las Vegas who are bringing the gospel into this city in the darkness into the context of the pursuit of pleasure the gospel to the abortion metal saving lives it's incredible actually when you think about that experience

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I had as a little boy flying into the darkness and then seeing this city in the darkness lighting up the darkness it's really actually how

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Jesus describes the church is that that's our mission our mission is to be salt salt is a preservative it actually stops things from spoil and decay it's not just to make things taste better it's to stop things from spoil and decay and rot and Jesus says that we're the light of the world we're the ones that actually set light into darkness and light dispels darkness and that really is the mission of the church in the world people ask the question should we be involved in bringing the gospel in the area of abortion