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going to ask you to grab your Bibles
tonight and open to 1 Peter chapter 3 1
Peter 3:15 and while you're turning
there let me explain to you uh what's
going on so you guys aren't uh disrupted
for the next couple of weeks cuz sheep
don't like to be
unsettled we finished our series
obviously just recently in The
Parables and because there was some
traveling involved and and because we
had some guest speakers
scheduled it just made a lot of sense
for all of us to not start our next
study series until we could get into it
and go for it and so uh we have a
challenging topical message tonight that
will no doubt carry over into next
Wednesday as well the following
Wednesday after that it will be the
first Wednesday of the month August
we'll have communion together as normal
yeah and then we will kick off our a
unique approach I might add to uh the
study of the book of Isaiah we're going
to be getting into Isaiah on Wednesday
nights and we're going to be taking it a
little bit different than what you might
think you're thinking oh my goodness
Isaiah 66 chapters it's going to take
you 33
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years no it won't because we're going to
be taking anywhere between two to five
chapters a
night at as we go through it Isaiah we
need the book of Isaiah in our lives
today we need the book of Isaiah
3,000-year-old prophet of Israel and
when you read him he's as current as
tomorrow's news shocking quite frankly
and we are going to hear more from the
book of Isaiah about the messiahship of
Jesus Christ it will blow your mind for
some of you who doubt the validity of
the Old Testament for example uh you
need to come because you're going to see
how God gave the gospel in the Old
Testament and no one spoke more about
the messiahship of Jesus than
Isaiah and we're going to be looking at
issues that deal with our nation that
God spoke about through the prophet
Isaiah to the nation of Israel it's
going to be an amazing time and so we
look forward to that and so get ready
for it and uh so listen tonight and next
Wednesday night um I forgot to encourage
the ushers that we ought to just open
the doors tonight and let people leave
as the message begins
because I I mean that I'm not being cute
I'm not being funny I've concluded that
uh uh tonight and and next Wednesday
night is actually a a shot across the
bow it's a little bit of an experiment
to let you know that uh we are going to
be introducing a series of Sunday night
teachings that's going to be coming up
entitled
sessions and sessions for those of you
who might remember the old coffee house
that we used to have in town remember
that
it was Chino Hill's first coffee shop by
the way before Starbucks was ever
thinking about coming to this region you
guys ran the first coffee house it was
at the Alberton Center and on Sunday
nights I would sit on a
stool and I would teach the Bible and
people came and it was standing room
only and you could interrupt the study
anytime you wanted with a question and
it was there was no no no bar how do you
say that no bars no holes barred no
holes bar no no holes barred you could
you could get involved in the study and
so we are going to start what's again
called sessions on Sunday nights we'll
let you know when and uh it's going to
be held in a different room because I
expect a smaller crowd and uh it is
going to be a an amazing time it is
going to be a 100% interactive Bible
study and uh we might get through one
word we might get through 10 chapters
before you raise a question and we get
into a dialogue
but we are going to do our best to
package it up or to uh uh live stream it
but anyway it's going to be a really
tremendous time why are we going to do
it because I feel like tonight I feel a
very strong conviction of the Lord uh to
reach the uh high school college and 335
year old group regarding the issues that
everybody's talking about but no church
is talking about issues that everybody's
dealing with on a day-to-day basis but
you don't hear it necessarily on the
Sunday sermon in fact I gave the media
team today some video clips and they got
a hold of me this afternoon and they
said are you sure you want to show
those and uh they talked me out of it
and probably justifiably so because uh
it was video clips from Fox News who
just covered uh the gay parade in San
Francisco but it was a public event and
the mayor was there and very you know
thousands and thousands of people were
there so but I thought you know what
everybody saw it so those who come in a
church setting why not see it and but I
was talked out of it but I want you to
know that spirit that is coming from me
is this that the days in the age in
which you and I live in are unlike any
other time in our American history in
our American experience these are
according to the Bible the last days how
do we know no because things would be
happening and going on and coming down
that would seem to marginalize the
church now that's why the church is
choosing the church has chosen to be
apathetic the church has chosen to
disengage the church by and large is is
exercising uh some sort of easy way out
ISM and not address the issues that
people have to live with every day at
their job jobs and in their homes and
with their kids or with their
parents so I want you guys to know that
the topics we're going to be touching on
tonight will start tonight there are
issues that unless you live under a
rock people sitting around you are
dealing with and listen they're they're
having to cope with and as a Christian
we are commanded by God to give an
answer too we are commanded by God to
answer our
culture
and a Biblical Christian cannot punch
out or parachute out of this
mess we are to be the lights we are to
be the answer for people and their
dilemmas and as someone said before
service when they looked at my notes one
of the pastors said you know looking at
your notes tonight reminds me that
sometimes there's collateral damage to
truth or I should say when truth is
given and I I hope that's not the case
tonight but statistically it will be
truth will be spoken tonight but can you
handle it truth will be given from the
Bible tonight but can we cope or can we
Bend our will to God's will
tonight I don't look there's a lot of
other it is a beautiful night we could
go to the beach
tonight we could do we could have a
picnic tonight I don't have picnic
tonight but I mean it's a nice night we
could do something other than church I
am not interested in just doing
church I am interested Ed in us growing
in the grace and knowledge of Jesus
Christ and being equipped to take on the
issues that we live with every day with
an answer for those that are around us
and to not be able to do that I would
think would not make us a
church so are you in 1 Peter 3:15 I gave
you 12 minutes to get to it so 1 Peter
3:15 and uh for this verse I'm reading
tonight unusually so out of the NIV I
don't normally do that I'm going to be
reading the nearly spired
version First 1 Peter
3:15 but in your hearts Revere Christ as
lord always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who ask you to give
the reason for the hope that you have
but do this with gentleness and respect
I want to give you the background to
that verse and I want to give you its
meaning as we unpack it but tonight
church and next Wednesday we're looking
at a message entitled let God answer
them I'm as I'm I'm saying this as
Christians we are commanded by this
verse to give people an answer for the
hope that you and I have this
presupposes that you and I as Christians
have hope in the midst of all that's
going on raise your hand if you watch
the news and on any channel oh my
goodness I watch about 11 channels of
news I scan them I have I have multiple
screens I'm a
junkie but I believe that's part of my
job to know and by the way most of my
news comes from Europe or comes from the
Middle East and I'm looking at all that
and you can look at that stuff and if I
didn't have Jesus I'd have to take a
pill the world is
unhinged and the more the world becomes
unhinged the more people believe it or
not are going to need Christians to
answer them
biblically and so when the Bible tells
us but in your hearts Revere Christ as
Lord mark this down the word rever means
this it means to sanctify set apart to
consecrate in your heart what that
Christ is Lord it presupposes that you
know that Jesus Christ is Lord when it
says but in your hearts the word in
right here is an amazing word it's I
know it's a little in fact it's I in in
English and it's n in Greek the word en
en means to be listen a possessiveness
it means in your heart be possessed by
this truth that Christ is the Lord by
the way that word root that word is root
to the word enthusiasm isn't that neat
the Greek word en in theuse the the god
ASM is action if you have a spasm you
are
moving if you have Theos God and if you
have in inide of you if God dwells in
you you have
enthusiasm it's a Biblical word if you
say well I'm a car Enthusiast according
to the meaning of the word you are a car
worshipper did you know that oh I'm a
I'm a sports Enthusiast well it means
that Sports is your God now I know that
I know how we we use the term and we
don't mean that but the word is solely
restricted for those who know
God
enthusiasm God in you causes an action
and that action in the context of this
verse is given an answer to the world
that is hopeless to the world that is
hurting and then the word says always be
prepared the word always means to be in
a continued state of duration always
ready waiting we would use the word
Vigilant always on we would say and then
the word prepared here means to be in in
a state of Fitness we would say we're
keeping our body in shape or we keep the
blade on the sickle sharp so we can use
it well the word here that your life as
a Christian is in shape ready
spiritually to give an answer and this
is a very very great thing and that word
answer by the way means this I love the
meaning listen it says to give out a
plea or a call to reason this is the
Christian listen not the Christian you
see on so-called Christian TV most of
them that's lunacy have you seen the
things that are going on embarrassing
absolutely foolish I'm not talking about
that the Christian Spirit-filled
Christian is not somebody jumping around
and acting like a lunatic it's somebody
empowered by God to give an answer to
those that are searching in these days
and that word means to give a reason to
give an argument a
defense regarding their position and
then the word reason here like the word
answer that word tells us to communicate
logic to communicate information to give
meaning and then the word hope this word
hope means I love it listen the word
hope is the expectation of Hope or
pleasure it means this the fruit of
Faith which is Hope true Faith brings
hope that's a very comforting thing to
know and then he tells us that we should
do it in meekness and in respect what
does that mean meekness means with my
humility it means to have a calm in the
midst of an unreasonable age Imagine the
storm is Raging and there's the
Christian there you are and you're
calmly responding because you know the
truth and then finally with respect that
word is a reverential awe a Godly fear
and listen that fear is because we are
the ones very conscious of the fact that
we are giving an answer to another soul
that soul may get saved or that soul may
be lost but the validity of who and what
is going on it weighs heavy upon the
Christian's life the seriousness of
being a Christian giving an answer is a
big
deal and so let's look at it tonight
we're going to take issues tonight and
if I don't cover an issue tonight that
you want to hear then you just email me
and we'll add it on to next week if I
don't get to it in
time but these are the biggies number
one regarding the issue when we want to
give people the answer let God answer
them when I say let God answer them I'm
saying let the Bible speak through Us
number one regarding life and death by
that I mean eternity but regarding life
and death and uh YOLO for example is not
a
reality you only live once YOLO you ever
hear that term you only live once that's
not a reality it's wishful thinking you
need to write that down YOLO is not a
reality it's wishful thinking you only
live once listen some of of us are old
enough to
remember similar sayings they're
humanistic some of them
hedonistic but they are sayings that
propagate a hopelessness in other words
um uh some of them are like uh the
oldies were uh eat drink and be merry
for tomorrow you die um he who dies with
the most toys wins what are some of the
other ones if it feels good do it
look out for number
one sex drugs and rock and roll how do
you know that
one it's this concept of you know what
life stinks it's a mess just grab
there's another one grab all the Gusto
you
can and just just get drugged up sexed
out uh go for it man because you only
live
once what if that's not
true then you have taken Dice and you've
thrown it out in the cosmic Universe in
a sense of black dark hopelessness and
you've gambled
wrong and I want you to think about that
regarding life and
death someone has said and I I've got qu
I've got responses by the way from staff
and from people I asked staff to find
some
questions regarding this I I put this
out regarding life and death what do you
have to say and this is what the world
may not even be the world it could be
some Christians today and so I quote at
the end of the day we can't know what's
on the other side if there is a God then
surely he isn't going to send good
people to burn in hell if he is a good
god that would send someone to hell for
not accepting Jesus then that's not a
God I want to
know that's a very common response by
the way but listen to this do you
believe in making up your your own mind
if that's your question tonight
regarding this issue that that we deal
with others regarding life and death
eternity and the world says things like
this guy said it doesn't matter by the
end of the day how can you know what's
on the other side well number one my
friend though you may probably not
believe it is that's that's why Jesus
came Jesus came from eternity into the
material universe and then went and
conquered death and came back and
said I I I conquered it for you now you
guys can come with me that now look
that's exactly what you want to hear if
you remove all kinds of churchianity and
all kinds of weirdness away from your
experience think about it for a moment
stop thinking about church and who hurts
your feelings and you didn't get the
right parking spot and your Sunday
school teacher uh you know whatever
forget about that what does the Bible
say the Bible says that Jesus came from
eternity to show us how to get to
Eternity that's very important but let's
listen let's answer that question
regarding life and death do you believe
in making up your own mind of course you
do that's very important to you do you
believe in individual freedoms who
doesn't my question is if it doesn't
matter and there is no life after death
and according to this argument there is
no God then where did you get some of
these freedoms for example your logic
your reason your abilities
that are outside your physical body see
what do you mean by that I mean you are
more than a physical entity have you
ever thought about where that comes
from what if listen what
if what if there is a God in the midst
of all the evil wrong and pain that you
see
listen has any pain ever come into your
life has anyone ever perpetrated
something against
you if there is no God then there is no
justice to ever
be
dealt to the wrongdoer then it is eat
drink and be merry for tomorrow we
die but inside every human being is a
sense a longing for justice when you're
wronged you want restitution you want
something to be evened out you you want
something to to to be worked out did you
know that's the premise of
government that things would be done
fairly and
justly but what if God does exist would
he not then have to be a God of
Justice and when you say for example
that if I don't accept Jesus he's going
to send me to hell that is not why a
person goes to
hell a person goes to hell because of
their
sins you say I don't like
that you want a God who overlooks listen
listen are you you guys all
listen you want a god who turns his eye
away from your sins but condemns that
man or that woman who hurts
you you hear
me you want Justice in the universe as
long as it's not against
you and my dear friend we are now
scratching the surface of self-deception
in
delusion if there is a God and if you
and I know anything about Justice even
imperfectly then he must be a God of
Justice and if he's a God of Justice
then he must be a god of righteousness
because you can't have righteousness
without
Justice you can't have righteousness
justice justice is righteous listen you
can't have those without
love because from hate comes all kinds
of perpetrated things against people
from hate think of it
and you say well that's another thing if
if God is a god of love why is there so
many hateful things in the world wait a
minute you can't know love unless there
is hate and you can't know hate unless
there's love you can't know dark unless
there's light you can't know light
unless there's dark you can't know good
unless there's
bad and God says that he's a god of the
Living God says that he came to give
life says the Bible and this kind of
question by the way are questioning I
don't want to upset anybody who CU I'm
not sure who gave this to me
today but that kind of question frankly
is a little bit
dishonest because when we're wronged by
others as I said earlier we demand
justice but we don't want it when it
comes our
way and I want to ask you this question
when someone is abused or maybe if
you're abused do you want
Justice in some areas I can control
myself
but when I see somebody manhandling a
little child I I actually lose
control I thank God that he's pretty
much kept me from seeing that kind of
thing in
public but when I see someone
manhandling or somebody that it's so
blatantly lopsided I I want to uh get
involved now for you it might be
something different but my challenge to
you tonight is when someone my friends
when someone comes to you as a as a
non-believer they come to you the
Christian and they say things you know
what I need this answered you answer
them lovingly respectfully honestly but
you answer them and when they say you
know what I can't believe in your God
regarding eternity he just sends people
to hell you counter them and you say no
he does
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not our sins send us to
hell and you ask them have you ever
sinned they'll admit to it sooner or
later they will admit to
it and they can only admit to that fact
and that truth because God
exists because there is a standard of
Holiness and righteousness written upon
their
hearts by the way the premise of the
question is interesting flawed because
it says if there's a God then surely he
isn't going to send good people to burn
in hell the answer the Bible says there
are no good people now that's a
technical thing I don't want to make you
run out of the church so quick tonight
but the Bible says there's only one good
in that that's God but this is what God
says about eternity and life and death
and then you judge now I'm speaking to
many of you and maybe all of you right
now in our little dialogue together as
though you were the non-believer asking
the question but you take away these
things tonight and use them in the world
that's around you because my dear
friends the days as I've been announcing
in this church over the last several
months the days are going to get really
intense real soon and you can feel it
you can discern it you use these truth
truths number one you answer them this
way the Bible says for God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son
that whoever believes in him free choice
exercise your will to believe in him
would not perish but have everlasting
life God did not send his son into the
world to condemn the world but that the
world through him might be saved he who
believes in Him is not condemned but he
who does not believe is condemned
already why because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten son and
this is is the condemnation this is why
that the light has come into the world
but men love Darkness rather than light
because their deeds were evil answer
they love their
evil they don't want
Jesus they want their
evil this philosophy by the way
of you only live once has constantly
been recycled
throughout the thousands of years but I
want to challenge you with this question
is there enough evidence that suggests
to you that there is a part of you at
least that is not
physical is there more to you than what
meets the eye
honestly I want you to think about that
for a moment and when you're dialoguing
with somebody I want you to think about
that is there enough evidence to get
someone to think for a moment that they
life consists of something more than
physical
existence
look listen we can put you on a table
right here and do an autopsy on your
body we can pull out all kinds of
parts and we can even identify those
parts this is your
spleen this is your colon this is your
abdomen this is your heart this is your
liver this is your pancreas these are
your
lungs and you cannot point to one of
those things that says oh here's where
songs come from in poems right there
well that would be the brain no we can
take your brain out and there's still no
compartment that says love
Department there is listen there
is the forever
you that when you were
conceived according to God's
word in heaven or hell in life or death
forever there's an existence that goes
on continues
on with God or without
God in Genesis 2:7 the Bible says the
Lord God formed man of the desk of the
ground think of that he's not yet alive
what did O isn't that weird think of
that God formed Adam out of dirt but he
was not yet
alive wow wouldn't you love to have been
there Angels must have been watching
what's he doing
what's he
doing and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and Man became a living
being can you imagine God forms Adam out
of the
dirt and then somehow suspends himself
over him and just
goes and as comes into being stop right
there if you didn't have the Breath of
God in your life tonight you would be
dirt well you'd be you'd be dirt you're
the 14 elements of dirt did you know
that you're a bunch of dirt
clouds we are the basic 14 elements of
the universe is what makes up our bodies
why how's that true how's that possible
because the same designer made them
all but by the way have you ever seen
yourself when you're a little fetus when
you're just a little concepted thing
concepted I just made that word up not
long after your conception I mean you
look like a
shrimp I mean you can't tell you apart
from a
shrimp in fact you look like a
dolphin and you look like a elephant and
you look like a a giraffe and you have
you not have you ever looked at that
stuff Evolution must be true no it's not
because all the information that's
inside of that little weird looking
shrimp ain't ain't a shrimp all the DNA
inside of there is a human is a giraffe
is a
monkey because it's written in there
with such complexity and yet the
elementary shape and look simply tells
us it it came from the same engineer
it's the way he does
things you see how do you how do you
fathom that think of
it
regarding all of these
things God is in to saving man's Souls
because
listen the real you will live
forever in Heaven or Hell the real you
will live
forever the Bible says in first
Thessalonians
5:23 now may the God of all peace
himself sanctify you completely that is
totally and may your whole Spirit soul
and body be preserved blameless at the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ you are
a body Soul and Spirit did you know that
you are manyi Trinity you are a
trichotomy body Soul and Spirit this is
my body you see it that's how we
predominantly well let me take that back
this is how we predominantly convey to
one one
another but I use this
apparatus think think now think it's
kind of
fun there's nothing about my body right
now that's communicating to you that
is my hand or elbows or my face deciding
to do
that what you're seeing is only obeying
or responding to
input are you with me that input's
coming from
somewhere that input is being delivered
by
thought which is amazing because that's
an ethereal thing that is like an
invisible thing that is through
chemicals through fluids through
electronic impulse changing causing me
to move raise your hand Jack see look at
that isn't that amazing Jack put your
hand down look at
that isn't that amazing but where does
the thought process come from
God said I breathed in you and you
became a living
Soul the part that God gave from his own
lungs as it
were is what animates you
tonight and God says this part goes back
to dust that part I gave you I'm going
to require it back in the
end I'm going to call it into question
I'm going to ask it what it did
with the life I gave
it and it will answer me because it
knows no age it doesn't
age it doesn't get tired it doesn't grow
old it will answer
me you were
made for eternity John 5:24 says most
assuredly I say to you he who hears my
word and believes in him who sent me has
everlasting love life and shall not come
into judgment but has passed from Death
To Life Jesus went on most assuredly I
say to you the hour is coming and now is
when the dead will hear the voice of the
Son of God and those uh who hear it will
live for as the father has life in
himself so he has granted the son to
have life in himself and has given him
authority to execute judgment also
because he is the son of man do not
Marvel at this for the hour is coming in
which all who are in the graves will
hear his voice can you
imagine and come forth those who have
done good to the resurrection of life
and to those who have done evil to the
resurrection of The Condemned or
condemnation by the way the word to do
good is to believe on him whom God has
sent amen wow number
two let God answer them when the world
asks us questions when our co-workers
and family ask us let's give them a
reason for the hope that lies within
us lovingly yes
respectfully with meekness
yes but we must answer them and number
two is this regarding the right to
life by this I mean abortion people are
talking about eternity all the time is
their life after death secondly people
are talking about abor abortion all the
time by the way I don't want to get into
it it's not the point of my study
tonight but thank God
God that abortion in America is on the
decline it's amazing it's a miracle I
believe that's directly attributed to
people
praying and uh that's and Technology
honestly I think technology is playing a
great role but uh it's amazing many
young people today are seeing the
damages and the whr of
abortion but I want to uh we'll probably
have to end on this I I can't believe it
but um can can I can I be a little bit
to make my point can I be a little uh
intentionally sarcastic with you tonight
is that okay I don't mean to hurt
anybody it's just part of the
delivery regarding the right to
life and so here it comes does it make
scientific sense to you to murder
anything at all how many of you ever had
science I don't care if you've had third
grade science raise your hand you better
raise your hand okay no matter who you
are you've had you've had to have
science I would hope does it make any
scientific sense whatsoever to murder
anything thing I didn't say kill that's
different I said murder does it make
sense to choke a a German Shepherd to
death no that's barbaric that's that's
ridiculous uh to murder what is to
murder to murder is to uh
kill to
destroy uh it is a it is a form of of uh
emotionally charged Vengeance the Bible
says in the Ten Commandments Thou shalt
not
murder if you if your Bible says kill
that's based upon your publisher of your
Bible because the word kill is not Thou
shalt not kill in the Ten Commandments
it's murder did you know that this is a
big
difference murder our culture says
abortion is not murder who says that the
scientists do the scientists say it's
not
murder scientists get very weak in the
knees over this topic you want to know
why because they're
smart being smart has nothing to do with
being right or wrong being smart has
something to do that you know
better being right or wrong on something
in the position you take is your
morality doctors scientists Physicians
nurses have a hard time with this issue
of abortion because they've been taught
to save
life and so we hear things spun to
us and we hear things like the fetus
what are some of the other words that we
he so that we
dehumanize the baby in in the womb oh
tissue embryo thank
you
um those are political talking
points those are talking points on the
street what's very interesting is and
you know this to be true and I'm
provoking you tonight to
think why is it even still in California
if you can believe this and across this
nation that if somebody pulls out a gun
and shoots a pregnant woman that person
in court is charged with two double
homicides ladies and gentlemen did you
hear what I just
said you kill a woman tonight
by killing her and the baby or for that
matter listen in many states I don't
know I don't know about this say if you
beat a pregnant woman and the child is
born dead that's still murder in some
states by the way it certainly is in the
Bible isn't
it I want you to think right now this is
not or it should be an intellectual
issue but it's not it's an emotional
issue now let me say this before we run
out of time if you've been involved in
abortion listen you know it was wrong
and your heart breaks and you would
definitely not do it if you had a chance
to do it all over again but if that's
you tell God that you're sorry for that
and he'll forgive
you and how about this if you're not a
Christian and you've been involved in an
abortion become a Christian so you can
meet your child someday in heaven on
good ground on good terms think of that
how how amazing would that
be but science knows
better and so
does a genius
politician
inventor when he said we hold these
truths to be self-evident that all men
are created equal that they are endowed
by their creator who Could That Be with
certain unable rights among these are
life liberty and the pursuit of
happiness
is Thomas
Jefferson church are those political
statements oh don't be afraid
no are they moral
statements are they religious
statements they're all
three they are all
three we hold these truths to be
self-evident translation any bonehead
knows
this that all men are created equ
equal all men are
equal that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights nobody can take these away from
you you're Creator gave them to you only
a tyrant can take these from you only a
tyrannical government can take this from
you only brutality can take this from
you that among these are life liberty
and the Pursuit of
Happiness god-given says Thomas
Jefferson so clear he says every
knucklehead knows this isn't it
interesting that Generations around the
world read that and they all know what
it means that's why they want to come
here probably one of the most brilliant
statements ever made by the hand of
mortal man outside of scripture I
believe that's a god- inspired
statement brilliant not human
amazing god-honoring but the beautiful
thing about it is it's not a political
statement it's not a moral statement
it's not a religious statement alone
it's all three in one amazing
declaration so let me ask you this when
is the human being a human
being this issue is a big issue because
it's going to really Rock the vote
coming up ladies and
gentlemen yes and there's pastors who
continually remind me to not talk about
the political issues the political
issues of a child's right to
life the political issues of
abortion ladies and
gentlemen these are religious issues
given by our God that makes them moral
issues and politics constantly tries to
govern over our lives instead of God
that means they're all in the same
basket and I refuse to let some Godless
Nom poop dictate to me what is right and
what is wrong based on God's word it's
not going to
happen God says speak up for those who
cannot speak for themselves so here's
the
question at what point is a human life a
human
life I'm hearing conception all across
the
room that's a good answer and I think
that's the right answer I want to take
it a little bit further just to shake
you up a little bit
if you're talking now purely
scientific purely
scientific if a woman has a a viable
healthy
egg and the man's sperm dies in
route will you have
life
nope if it's
reversed if the sperm makes it to a egg
that is is dying or dead will there be
life there will not be
life
why listen why
because pure science but this is a
political moral and religious statement
I'm going to
make you have to have a living
sperm and a living egg you have to have
a living human sperm and a living
human
egg that when the remarkable information
coded into each which is the largest
alphabet in the history of mankind in
the largest alphabet ever able the
largest word known to man is the
DNA it goes from here to the universe
and
back when that when that life meets that
life there is an explosion of Genius
that to this moment scientists don't
know how this
works it is so
profound that when this
happens in that
instant from two separate living beings
come one living human being and just
because it's so
tiny doesn't give us the right to play
God and get rid of
it think of this for a moment if you are
a scientist it is all life so at what
point for what
reason would
you murder it you've got
to F you got to figure this
out you've got you got to run this
through by the
way someone said in our little search
for questions today I believe it's a
matter of a woman's right are you trying
to tell me that if a woman is raped that
she should keep the baby isn't it funny
that's that's how desperate the argument
is they have to go to some on Tenth of
1% of an
extreme who's we didn't talk about rape
we're talking about life
and
listen I'm sure this is going to get out
there
somehow and I'm sure it's going to be
edited and chopped up and made me to
look like a
demon but I base my argument on pure
science I believe in preserving life and
even if you were
raped you need all the hugs and love and
care that you need but listen I would
trust God and put the baby up for
adoption why what did the baby
do because this we know for a fact
scientifically it is
life it's life it's a life you mean it
should be exterminated because it's not
wanted but where where in life and in
science and in politics and in the Bible
is that
justifiable if you're one1 of one % of a
woman who's been raped consider putting
the baby up for adoption and listen that
will really actually bless your life
greatly you will never have it on your
conscience let someone adopt
it but I believe in a baby's right to
choose because it's a
human President Ronald Reagan said isn't
it interesting that all those who are
for abortion are for abortion only after
they've been born yeah
I'll let you think about that
one what if all
abortionist were
aborted then there wouldn't be any
abortionist Jeremiah 1:4 says then the
word of the Lord came to me saying
before I formed you says God in the womb
I knew you before you were born I
Sanctified
you
Psalm 139:14 says I will praise you for
I am fearfully and wonderfully made
marvelous are your works and that my
soul knows very well my frame was not
hidden from you when I was made in
secret imagine God's
God's God's inside the womb he's peeking
in
there he's watching the little chemicals
come together he knows see those little
chemicals right there that's going to
harden that's going to shape all the
information right there that information
is going to be transmitted to these
chemicals to do this do that and there
you got a
nose and right there information that
little droplet right there up there's
his ear and there's his other
ear he's in there working it's a
miracle that was skillfully brought
forth in the lowest parts of the earth
that's a that's a Hebrew idiom for in
secret your eyes saw my substance being
yet unformed and in your book they were
all written isn't that amazing there's a
manual Jack's mouth's going to be about
this
big in the days the days fashioned for
me when as yet there were none of them
God knows your
days we'll have to stop at this issue
but the issue of abortion is a big deal
ladies and gentlemen all the politicians
are freaking out tonight
on how they can get it's a funny thing
because they're not
listening very
well
because all you need is somebody like a
Ben Carson to give you an argument as to
why abortion is wrong and anyone with an
eighth of a brain would sign on to his
argument the greatest pediatric
neurosurgeon that's probably ever
lived
somebody might say that's a political
issue I'm exercising profound
self-control in your presence right now
to tell you what I think about pastors
who say it's a it's a political
issue I can understand a politician
saying what they say I can understand
somebody who's uninformed saying what
they
say but my Bible's pretty clear about
what it
says
and in Micah 6:7 the Bible says will the
Lord be
pleased with a thousand
Rams 10,000 rivers of oil these are
sacrifices shall I give my firstborn for
my
transgression the fruit of my womb for
the sin of my
soul no matter what condition you may be
in tonight my friend abortion is not the
right choice no one has the right
because God gives life and God takes
life but you and I live in a culture
that is so
Godless and so ignorant in light of the
facts of
science that we have swn to the wind and
will reap the world
win but these issues are issues that
people are talking about
and people know listen whenever when any
anytime anyone ever brings up the thing
about tissue and the fetus and the and
the
blob just know they they just know that
they know they're on sinking
sand because you've been created in the
image of God it Bears witness in your
soul the very amazing thing of life that
when a
male and a female get together
a miracle
happens and just
because you would say it's not
wanted or I'm just going to take care of
it doesn't make it
right and we need to give people an
answer for the
hope that our God is a god of the living
that our God redeems that our God heals
I met a woman not too long ago she had
had five
abortions and that very plight in her
life led her to becoming a
Christian God changed her
life I had a man break down in tears a
Burly big tackle football player massive
dude huge could snap my head
off break down like a little
baby because when he was in college he
got a girl pregnant and drove her to the
abortion clinic and made her go out
there and do
that
and 20 almost 25 years later he was
crying to me how it has just torn him up
isn't that amazing because you've been
created in the image of God listen next
next week we'll pick up let God answer
answer them with regards to the
immigration
issue the sanctity of marriage issue the
homosexuality issue the family issue is
there a right and wrong issue the
Israeli Palestinian issue and we'll see
what happens but that's what people are
talking about right that's what people
are talking about so we need to address
these things let all stand if you would
right now father we pray tonight the
greatest issue of all is that Jesus came
and died on the cross for our
sins that it's Jesus who rose again from
the grave to heal and cleanse and change
all of our thinking on these
issues it's not our emotions that
dictate our decisions shouldn't be
anyway it should be your word the
Bible if we obey you we'll have the
right
answers we'll do the right
thing and the greatest thing of all is
giving our heart to Jesus Christ as Lord
and savior of Our Lives father we praise
you and thank you tonight and we sing
Our Praises now in closing and all God's
people said
amen