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Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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Today, the United States of America is fattening herself for a day of slaughter, according to

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the Apostle James, as the Apostle James so inimitably puts it, even as a pig gorges itself

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in the weeks and months prior to his butchering. America, you are fat and prosperous and rich

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and getting richer. President Trump has bragged about how well the economy is performing. The

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stock market rose in nine of the first 10 months of his administration, a record that no president

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can match. The market has added some $6.9 trillion in value since he took office. Companies who fled

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American shores in the face of NAFTA, which was an unfair trade deal for the United States,

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if ever there was one, and the Obama economy, which choked us with regulation, inflation,

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taxation, and burdensome debt. These companies are returning in droves, repatriating billions of

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dollars to the economy. Unemployment is at some of its lowest points in 17 years, especially in the

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black and Hispanic communities. Wages are rising and a slew of companies are handing out bonuses to

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their workers? While corrupt politicians like Nancy Pelosi have become millionaires in Washington, D.C.

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at our expense, they call this crumbs or peanuts, right? A thousand dollar bonus is not so to the

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wage earner who needs it to make that next house or car payment. No. What is truly crumbs is the

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welfare, the food stamps, the Obama phones, that dealers in dependency, the peanut peddlers like Pelosi

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proposed to substitute for self-reliance in a strong economy in which self-reliant people can

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prosper without limits. Also, the comprehensive tax bill passed by Congress has also stimulated

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investment by business and put more of what a worker earns into his own pocket rather than

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the coffers of Washington, D.C. All of these things are objective measures of prosperity.

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And anecdotally, we know that individual Americans are doing well, too, in prospering. I can see it

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in the families in my church, in my own extended family, in my community in Teton Valley. Does this

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mean we have arrived, America? Does this mean we bask in God's favor? I would caution anyone who

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acknowledges the living God of the Bible from assuming that God is pleased with us just because

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we are economically prospering for the moment. Because the record is clear that when we do so

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without Christ as the center of our hearts and endeavors, we know that prosperity is an illusion

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and short-lived. We are merely fattening ourselves in a day of slaughter. John puts it this way to the

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church of Laodicea, and it's us, too. He says, for you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need

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nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked, unquote. As I pointed

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out to you last week, what has characterized America in the past at our best, and that to

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which we must return is Christ for our spiritual lives together, the Constitution for our political

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lives together, and capitalism for our economic lives together. And that which we war against

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today is secularism emptying our spiritual lives together, statism tyrannizing our political

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lives together, and socialism impoverishing our economic lives together, the three C's versus the

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three S's. And while we see some very encouraging signs in our economic lives together, as capitalism

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has taken off the leash and allowed to run, we have yet to return as a nation to the Constitution, and

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most of all, back to Christ as our national spiritual life. How we need Christ at this present time,

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dear listener. The church in America today is precisely like the church in Laodicea. We prance

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around, thinking we are rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, but we fail to realize that we are

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wretched, pitiable, blind, and naked. Indeed, there are many individual Christians laboring with all

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other might to live lives in dedication to Christ, and who work to turn things around in the United

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States of America. But what have we allowed to transpire in our country, dear listener? Though we might be

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individually Christians and trying hard to live Christian lives, we are nevertheless responsible

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for the state of our nation, and we will suffer the consequences of God's judgment upon her, if and

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when he brings it upon us. Isaiah puts it this way, for our transgressions are multiplied before you,

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and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our

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iniquities, unquote. Yet I'm not altogether certain that the United States knows its iniquities. We seem

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to have become complacent about them. For example, most egregiously, we recently celebrated, if we can

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call it that, the 45th anniversary of the iconic Supreme Court decision, Roe versus Wade, which

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dictated legislation from the judicial branch of our government, the law that legalized abortion in

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America. And since then, even the abortion-friendly Guttmacher Institute estimates that over 60 million

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children have died from abortion since that 1973 decision. Please, fellow American, stop what you

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are doing for the moment and consider that cold, objective statistic, and think of the human

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implications of it. What is the sound of 60 million children's voices crying out from the graves for love,

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for life, for justice, for mercy? Stalin famously, cynically said about his butchery of the Russian

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people, the death of one man is a tragedy, the deaths of a million is a statistic. Oh, dear listener,

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as Americans have slowly, inevitably grappled with the bloody implications of Roe versus Wade,

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minds have begun to change over the decades. The Supreme Court case is waning in its justification.

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The advent, for example, of four-dimensional ultrasound is adding to Roe's plight. It has

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provided a window to the womb, showing the humanity of the unborn child. It's hard to argue against a

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right to life to a baby who is smiling or giving a thumbs up in an ultrasound video, isn't it?

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And then there's the testimony, too, of the women, for example, of the Silent No More awareness

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campaign. The Silent No More awareness campaign. This group of women who had abortions but who now

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regret them. Consider, for example, Wendy from Pennsylvania, who had an abortion when she was 19

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years old. She says, and I quote her, it took 35 years of my life to reconcile that one foolish

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mistake. Remember the abortion lie that promised to help me forget about my baby and go on with my life

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like nothing happened? Now, after 35 gut-wrenching years, I can go on only because I found forgiveness

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and peace in the truth, not the lie. Unquote from Wendy. She came to Christ and found forgiveness in

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him. Only then could she go on. Wendy was haunted by the ghost of her unborn child, gestating that

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little baby peacefully in her womb, otherwise the safest place in the universe for children.

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The baby was moving, flexing, sucking his thumb, doing somersaults, and giving her what Wendy said

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felt like an occasional martial arts kick to the abdomen. Much of this kind of activity is captured

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in 4D ultrasound, confirming by picture what every mother knows by experience in the core of her own

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body and being. There is a tiny person in there. I remember as a young father lying on my wife's tummy

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while she was pregnant, feeling each of our children moving in her womb. What an awe-inspiring

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feeling. I'm always reminded of the simpatico between Mary and Elizabeth. For example, when they met,

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both of them pregnant, Mary with Jesus and Elizabeth with John, when Mary came to visit her cousin

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Elizabeth, she greeted her fat with child. And the Bible says, and when Elizabeth heard the greeting of

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Mary, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed

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with a loud cry, blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, unquote. Oh,

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every mother knows that feeling. But 4D ultrasound also illustrates the pure evil that stalks the womb.

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It chronicles the butchery as well of abortion, not as a 60 million person statistic, but one child by one

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child by one child, each little person being slaughtered one by one. Saline solution, for example, burns

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and sears the baby like acid in the womb when it's injected as he or she recoils with every cell of the

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body. And if we had sound, we would hear the scream formed by the tiny little mouth. Also, the blade inserted

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into the womb that slices and dices that little baby in her mother's womb is often a live sacrifice,

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a blade which the little person instinctively tries to ward off with arms and hands or kick at with little

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legs, but which limbs are cut in pieces instead. If this crass brutality were not enough, we also have

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the macabre sight of the Frankenstein grave diggers at Planned Parenthood, profiting off of the slaughter

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as they cynically sell these same baby body parts to interested parties. For example, the Center for

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Medical Progress famously captured Dr. Deborah Nakatola of California Planned Parenthood describing over

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gourmet lunch and wine what was available for purchase. And I quote Dr. Nakatola. She says a lot of people

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want intact hearts these days. Yesterday was the first time she, that is a customer of Dr. Nakatola's,

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said people wanted lungs. And then, like I said, always as many intact livers as possible. People

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just want, some people want lower extremities too. I mean, that's easy. And on and on and on she goes.

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There's even an online pull-down menu for brain, for heart, for heart with veins and arteries

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attached, for lungs, liver, liver and thymus, spleen, and large intestine, and so on, ad nauseum.

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The order form also specifies the gestational range from four weeks upwards. Oh, judgment is in store for

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America, dear listener, because we're not talking about cattle and swine or sheep. We're talking about

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human body parts, the tissues of once living, breathing babies in their mother's wombs. And

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nothing is being done about it, dear listener. Our governors and legislators and judges are political

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cowards and demons themselves, giving their tacit assent to it by all their inaction. Or open

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advocacy as well. It's easier to go along with the status quo, isn't it, than stand against it?

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Oh, we could, if we wanted to, we could end abortion tomorrow. No, we could end abortion today if we had

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the national will for it. But the blood of their victims, nevertheless, cries out. Jeremiah puts it this way.

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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place

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that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because they have filled this place with the blood of

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innocence and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to

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Baal. Unquote. We have filled America with the blood of innocence, dear listeners, and we will pay the

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price in judgment. And as for Planned Parenthood, Jeremiah speaks to people like you as well. He says,

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you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing

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oppression and violence. Unquote. With every abortion, America, you are fattening yourself for a day of

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slaughter, as the Apostle James puts it, making of yourself more and more a juicy, well-fed beast of

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butchery for God to make a swift end of you. And your sin, when his patience runs out and judgment

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falls, blood is on our hands, repentance is demanded, and without it we will perish and fall under the

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mighty hand of God in his retribution. America, you are at present a beast fattening yourself for a day

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of slaughter, flattering yourself that God does not see and will not judge and will only continue to

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indulge you in your sin. Oh, America, if this is your will, go ahead. Gorge yourself on your riches and

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plenty. You will only be a fat sacrifice on the day of judgment. It will be, as Jeremiah puts it,

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pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and set them apart for the day of slaughter. Unquote.

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But it is not only abortion that invites God's judgment, dear listener. America is also guilty

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of, for example, child sex trafficking. Oh, I have only recently learned about this in the last year or so

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and how abhorrent, how terrifying it is when I think that indeed, as Jefferson God says, God is indeed a just

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God. America is guilty of child sex trafficking, more so than any other single country in the world.

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Oh, these little children are called little Barbies. Children, young girls, some as young as nine years old,

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are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now

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13 years old. This is, as the Daily Sheeple puts it, America's dirty little secret. Much of what you

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hear in the next minute or so is taken from the Daily Sheeple, an article there detailing much of

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this. According to the United, I'm sorry, according to USA Today, the paper USA Today, adults purchase

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children for sex at least two and a half million times a year in the United States. It's estimated that

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at least 100,000 children, think of this, 100,000 children, girls and boys are bought and sold for sex

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in the United States every year, with as many as 300,000 children in danger of being trafficked each

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year. Some of these children are forcefully abducted, some others are runaways picked up,

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and still others are sold into the system by relatives and acquaintances. What is the horror of

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this, dear listener? Who buys a child for sex? Consider this horror, dear listener. Who buys a

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child for sex? The journalist Tim Swarons, who spent more than a year investigating the sex trade in

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America, he says that otherwise ordinary men from all walks of life buy children for sex. They could be

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your co-worker, doctor, pastor, or spouse, he says. Oh, then in order to avoid detection, in some cases aided

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and abetted by the police, there's so much money involved in this that corruption from top to bottom

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ensues. In order to avoid detection and then cater to male buyers demand for sex with different women,

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pimps, and gangs, and crime syndicates work to have turned sex trafficking into a highly mobile

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enterprise, too, to avoid detection, with trafficked girls, boys, and women constantly being moved from

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city to city, state to state, and even country to country. So there's no doubt about this. It is a

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highly profitable, highly organized, and highly sophisticated sex trafficking business that operates

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in America, in towns, large and small. Judgment is going to fall on America if this continues.

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It rakes in upwards of nine and a half billion dollars a year in the U.S. alone by abducting and

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selling young girls for sex. In America, supposedly Christian America, every year the girls being bought

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and sold get younger and younger, too. The average age of those being trafficked is 13. Oh, it is the head

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of a group that combats that trafficking point. He says, let's think about what average means. That

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means there are children younger than 13. That means eight, nine, and ten-year-olds, unquote.

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Where did this appetite, dear listener, for girls come from? Look around you. Oh, look around you,

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dear listener. Young girls have been sexualized for years now in music videos, billboards, television ads,

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clothing stores. Marketers have created a demand for young flesh and a ready supply of over-sexualized

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children. Jessica Bennett, who wrote a series of articles for Newsweek magazine, she puts it this

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way. All it takes is one look at certain social media photos of teens to see examples. If they aren't

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imitating porn they've actually seen, they're imitating the porn-inspired images and poses they've

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absorbed elsewhere. Latex, corsets, and stripper heels. Once the fashion of porn stars have made their way

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into middle and high school, unquote. Oh, Benetton goes on to characterize it in other places, too,

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as the pornification of a generation. That summarizes it very succinctly, doesn't it? That America is

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experiencing a pornification of an entire generation. Oh, dear listener, there will be an accounting for these

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and other degrading crimes and iniquities, America. Do not pretend that God does not see. Do not go

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whistling past the graveyard as if the grim reaper is not stalking you and your fellow countrymen.

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Jeremiah, the prophet, puts it this way concerning Israel, but it's just as true for the nations of the world.

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He says, am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret

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places so that I cannot see him, declares the Lord? Do I not fill heaven and earth, declares the Lord?

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Oh, yes, dear listener. Your iniquities testify against you, America. The Lord sees and knows and

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will judge in a time and manner of his own choosing. God is patient. God is patient and he is loving

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and he bids us to return to him. For example, Joel says, yet even now, declares the Lord, return to me

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with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and with mourning, and rend your hearts and not your

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garments. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding

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in steadfast love, and he relents over disaster. Unquote. Oh, America, I bid you to this today.

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Return to the Lord with all of your heart, because his patience does have an end. When it becomes

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apparent, it is apparent that a people will not repent and return. He calls us to repentance. He

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calls us to return to him in true repentance, and if not, then judgment will ensue in a time and place

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of his own choosing. The prophet Ezekiel puts it this way. When God's patience runs out, he says,

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thus says the Lord God, disaster after disaster, behold, it comes. An end has come. The end has come.

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It is awakened against you. Behold, it comes. Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land.

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The time has come. The day is near. A day of tumult and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.

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Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you and spend my anger against you and judge you according

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to your ways. And I will punish you for all your abominations. And my eye will not spare,

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nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. While your abominations are still in

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your midst, then you will know that I am the Lord who strikes. Unquote. Terrible judgment is coming to

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America. When God's patience comes to an end, so do the people. And there is no remedy. There is no

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turning back. Even though America turns to repent, at that point, God will not listen.

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He says in Jeremiah, for example, Jeremiah 14, he says to the prophet, the Lord has said to me,

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do not pray for the welfare of this people. Though they fast, I will not hear their cry. And though

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they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the

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sword, by famine, and by pestilence. Unquote. Oh, America, this is your future. Unless you repent,

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it will be sword, famine, and pestilence. America, you have some prosperity and goodness returned to you

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in this administration, in our economy, in these days. You are practicing capitalism, certainly with

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great eagerness, an abounding profit, and you think that God loves you because of it. But you fail to

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return to the Constitution and, most importantly, to Christ. Dear listener, dear America, you require

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Christ for our spiritual lives together. You require the Constitution for our political lives together

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and capitalism for our economic lives together. Instead, America, you love your idols and you

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worship them. You hail Satan. You confess Allah. You make offerings to Shiva and the numberless gods of

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Hinduism. And you set yourself in the center of the universe by proclaiming your atheism as if there

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were no God. Just as Israel was littered with the foreign gods in all of the high places of the land

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forgetting her God, so America is littered with the idols of the world, having forgotten her Lord,

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Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, who is over all of these gods. The Apostle Paul puts it this way in

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Ephesians. He says that Christ is far above all rule and authority and power and dominion. And all

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these names in the Greek are used in magical spells and incantations in the ancient world.

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He goes on to say that Christ is above every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the

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one to come. Unquote. America, you are at present a beast fattening yourself for a day of slaughter.

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America, you are flattering yourself that God does not see and will not judge and will only continue to

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indulge you in your sin. Oh, America, if this is your heart, if this is your attitude, go ahead.

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Gorge yourself on your riches and your plenty. You will only be a fat sacrifice on the day of judgment.

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And it will be, as Jeremiah puts it, pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and set them apart for

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the day of slaughter. Dear America, no, have we reached the point of no return? My heart grieves

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for my country. I love America. I love her principles of Christ for our spiritual lives together, the

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constitution for our political lives together, and capitalism for our economic lives together. But we

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have frittered this heritage away. Will God judge and not relent? Has he reached that point of no return?

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Indeed, when he will judge without mercy? Oh, this none of us knows. I certainly do not. It is reserved

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for the secret counsel of God. Only he knows. What we must do, however, is what Joel counsels us to do.

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That is, return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding

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in steadfast love, and he relents over disaster. Unquote. Let us pray that God is still in this stage

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of his covenant relationship with us. Let us plead with him. Do this individually, brothers and sisters,

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and then exhort your fellow countrymen to do this on a national scale, on a national level, that we might

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seek the mercy of the Lord God and turn back his terrible judgment upon us because there is blood

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and there will be blood demanded in requisite payment for the blood that we have shed, the blood of the

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innocents. Only a return to Christ for our spiritual lives together will stay his hand of judgment and

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return us then to great blessing. See to this in your own life, dear listener. Oh, Christian,

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pray for it in the lives of your fellow countrymen as well. This has been Pastor David Bass at New

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Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th

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Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. We encourage you to join us for worship on Sunday morning.

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If you've been pondering, been thinking about perhaps checking us out, finding out what we're

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about in our worship service, I would just encourage you to join us. Now is the time to cross our

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threshold and to join us as we pray and battle for the soul of America. New Geneva meets for holy

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worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us

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for more information at area code 208-523-0196. I encourage you to call us, give us some feedback,

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maybe seek some more information. That's area code 208-523-0196. And we also have two websites that

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you can check out, newgenevaopc.org. And then we also have another website,

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omnisprotestas.org, at which we have cataloged these radio messages that you hear from week to week.

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That's omnisprotestas, O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org, omnisprotestas.org.

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And that's, once again, New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 208-523-0196.