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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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And today I want to ask you, I want to explore with you why it is time to change the way in which

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the church struggles to end the Holocaust of blood that is abortion and now infanticide as

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well. This has been weighing heavily upon my heart, especially since the New York legislature

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legalized abortion right to where the baby is in the birth canal and even out of the birth canal.

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And there was applause in the gallery all through that legislature. What a shame. And I just think

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for me personally as a pastor, it's time to change the way in which the church struggles to end this

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Holocaust of blood that is abortion and infanticide. Along those lines, I want to pause for just a

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minute to highlight and to feature an event that's coming up Thursday, April 18. And it's a pro-life

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pastor's luncheon, a pro-life pastor's luncheon. And it's hosted by Emmaus Road Church. And it's

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going to be held Thursday, April 18 from 12 p.m. to 1 30. And it will be at the Hilton Garden Inn.

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And that's located on Lindsay Boulevard in Idaho Falls. And we're going to explore some pro-life

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opportunities that are available to us now in eastern Idaho, particularly an outfit that's called

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Stanton Healthcare. Now, this is a really great outfit. They're located in several places in Idaho

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already, and they're considering coming to Idaho Falls. And they do just a beautiful job of taking

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pregnant women under their wings who might otherwise have an abortion and then helping them not only to

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care for and nurture that child in utero, but also then help those mothers after the baby is born.

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And if they wish to put them up for adoption, they help with that. If they want to keep the baby,

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they help with that. All kinds of circumstances. Stanton Healthcare. And they're considering coming into

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Idaho Falls if there's enough support. So put a bug in the ear of your pastor. Give him a call. Talk to him

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this Sunday, because this event is coming up pretty quickly. That's the Pro-Life Pastors Luncheon.

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And if you're a pastor, then please respond. Put in your reservation at contact. This is the website

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for Emmaus Road Church. Contact at walkemmausroad.com. That's all one word. Contact at walkemmausroad.com.

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I'll spell that for you. Contact, of course, C-O-N-T-A-C-T, at W-A-L-K-E-M-M-A-U-S-R-O-A-D.com.

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Contact at walkemmausroad to make a reservation. And once again, that's the Pro-Life Pastors

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Luncheon. I'm going to be there and hopefully we'll see you there as well. Well, let me get back

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to my topic here, which is let's explore some ways in which we can end the Holocaust of blood that is

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abortion and infanticide. And there's reasons why I feel this way. First of all, four reasons.

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First of all, we have reached an impasse, I think. As I look out on the scene, the abortion scene in

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America, we seem to have reached an impasse, kind of entered a perpetual circular loop with no way

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out. It's Groundhog Day over and over again, right? I've labored too long to end the Holocaust

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by appealing to the conscience of creatures who by definition have no conscience. Pro-abortion crowd.

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If we were to wait to act until the denizens of death and denial did develop a conscience,

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I'm afraid we would wait an eternity. The old cliche of the frog in the boiling pot, I think is apt here.

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The temperature of the waters of abortion have gradually increased, have they not, with every

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passing day since Roe versus Wade was passed in 1973, such that it's boiling over now. The waters

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of abortion as evidenced by the legalization of infanticide in New York, that scene to the applause

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of lawmakers and the gallery. Meanwhile, this rising temperature of abortion has cooked the conscience

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of America as a collective. Oh, hasn't it? Abortion has more or less cooked the conscience of America.

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It's time to change the terms of the debate, dear listener. I've become cynical over the years about

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the uneasy peace and symbiosis which seems to have developed between the proponents and opponents

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of abortion in this debate. Both sides form organizations that passionately advocate their

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positions, which gratify their equally passionate followings. Each side raises rivers of revenue

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from their supporters, and then they go back to state and federal capitals and they advocate for their

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positions. Back and forth goes the momentum with seemingly no conclusive resolution having been made.

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The advocacy groups have a vested interest in keeping the debate alive. Dead children equal a live

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organization. And much the same can be said of our politicians. Each politician has a position taken

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on the abortion debate. Votes are cast in campaign. Coffers choke with contributions based in part upon

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the candidate's stand on this important issue. What would happen to their political career if this issue

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went away? Oh, the politicians have a vested interest in keeping this debate alive. Dead children equal a live

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political career. That's how cynical I've gotten, number one. Number two, it's time to change the terms

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of the debate because one side, more and more clearly I see this, one side is living within the bounds of the

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law while the other side is not. And the question you may ask then, who is living within the bounds of the

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law? And more importantly, whose law? The staff of Planned Parenthood, for example, may well slaughter

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children from inception to infanticide legally under the laws of man and then add to their crimes by

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selling the body parts from the baby. But a horrible price will be paid by all the nation for the

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transgression of God's law. His judgment, sooner or late, will fall. The shedding of innocent blood,

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if you're not aware of this in the scriptures, the shedding of innocent blood is given as a chief

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reason for God's judgment. Proverbs, or I'm sorry, Psalm 106 verse 38 says,

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they poured out, that is Israel, Israel poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters

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whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. Conversely,

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what if another, grieved by what he saw, intervened to put an end to the slaughter of the

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innocents? Proverbs 24 11 says, rescue those who are being taken away to death. Hold back those who

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are stumbling to the slaughter. Perhaps this might involve interfering with the otherwise legal routine

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of butchery, but whose law is higher, God's or man's? Such a person should not be considered a crazy

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actor behaving beyond the bounds of law. Rather, whatever his actions might be, protesting, persuading

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women outside of abortion clinics, seeking to have arrested corrupt Planned Parenthood officials

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closing facilities permanently or temporarily, or like one of my heroes, James O'Keefe and Project

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Veritas, exposing corrupt actors like Planned Parenthood who will not only kill children outside

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of the womb but dissect and sell their baby parts. Such a person like James O'Keefe should be considered

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a citizen using powers granted under the law of God and any reasonable interpretation of natural law.

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And it is time that we acknowledge that it is the state that has gone over to tyranny, evil,

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and lawlessness. The federal government in particular has broken faith with the American people.

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The federal government may demand and command and compel our obedience, but it is increasingly

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difficult for me to see how we justify saying that we owe them our obedience by covenant precisely

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because they have repeatedly broken covenant with us such that we can no longer expect them to abide

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by the provisions outlined in our Constitution. They no longer abide by the covenant of the Constitution

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on their part, but they expect us to abide by it on our part. We no longer live under the rule of law,

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but a rule of men, or perhaps closer to the truth, a rule of demons in many cases.

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A covenant or a constitution is always a two-way street. Our federal government was crafted by our

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founders to administer justice in a commonwealth of states, which states in turn rendered obedience

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and resources for that federal system to operate. But the federal system, which was initially created

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to serve the states, has over the decades turned like Frankenstein's monster upon its creator,

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to tyrannize it. The federal system is now master over the states, which have become little more

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than regional provinces of that system. We have abundant evidence that the federal state

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violates the rule of law by living by a double standard of justice, one for the privileged like

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Hillary Clinton and another for the rest of us. The federal state plunders our wealth, taxes,

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inflation, and borrowing, while corrupt politicians use their power and influence to enrich themselves.

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Most pertinent, the Supreme Court creates out of pure imagination, abortion as an extension of a

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shadow, of a penumbra, a right to privacy, and then they impose it tyrannically on the whole nation.

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And then adding insult to injury, that same federal system then funds an engine of Holocaust,

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like Planned Parenthood, millions of dollars under the guise of women's health care.

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Well, almost all of America has lost sight of its allegiance. Our allegiance first is to God and

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His law. Those who rescue those being taken away to death are in reality, in the light of eternity,

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for God's law, only doing what legislatures of states like New York should be doing.

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Those who rescue those being taken away to death are only doing what the district attorneys of New York

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should be doing. Those who rescue the perishing are only doing what the United States marshals and

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county sheriffs of New York should be doing. Oh, dear listener, those who stop the Holocaust of abortion

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are only doing what every citizen of conscience in the state of New York should be doing.

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Well, thirdly, another reason why we must consider and ponder and create other ways of dealing with

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this Holocaust of abortion is because of the church. No more chicken poop evangelical. No.

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Since World War II and the entrenchment of secular humanism, it seems to be the church's song has been

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caution Christian coward instead of onward Christian soldier. The national sin of abortion can be laid

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squarely at the feet of the church in America. As goes the church, so goes the nation. All through our

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history, it is the church that has led the way on every issue that has grown and flourished our world.

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It is time to stop behaving like the nation's abused, bitch-slapped wife and take our stand.

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A number of factors have contributed to the evangelical church in America cowering on its knees in the corner.

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Four of them. A. The American evangelical church has a gross misunderstanding of Romans 13,

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which briefly teaches one aspect of a Christian's relationship to the state, and it says in part,

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in verse 1,

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let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God,

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and those that exist have been instituted by God. Amen. Obedience we owe to legitimate government.

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Most Christian teachers interpret this as the unquestioned submission to government,

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no matter how evil it might be. And it's a text, parenthetically, that the German Nazi regime

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employed to cow the German Lutheran church during the 1930s. And if this were the only thing the

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Bible taught on this subject, then we could skip our conscience and just blindly obey, as the church

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in the United States is doing today. But the Bible is also clear on the magistrate's accountability to

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God and the church, on the magistrate's responsibility to execute justice, practice justice

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and justice only, the Old Testament tells us. And then also the Bible is clear on our higher authority

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to God. We must obey God rather than man, as Peter says. And then B. The American evangelical

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church also has a distorted notion of pacifism in Jesus' teaching, because in the Sermon on the Mount,

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Jesus taught important truths, like turn the other cheek and do not resist evil to others as you would

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have them doing to you, these kinds of things. Some Christians think that we cannot resist evil

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under any circumstances whatsoever, and just blindly put this as an absolute principle,

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how costly this has been for the lives of the unborn. Principles in the Sermon on the Mount

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that I just summarized very briefly for you, not exhaustive at all, those principles in the Sermon on the

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Mount were given to witness to sinners to win them to the gospel. They were not given for us,

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the state, to win us participation in good behavior certificates. No. Peter also told the state of his

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date, we must obey God rather than men. And Solomon also prescribes, rescue those who are being taken

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away to death, hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. That's activism. Pacifists, when

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they enjoy the benefits of a Christian culture, they enjoy them at the expense of others who labor to

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win those liberties. Activists do the hard work of winning liberties, making the investment of blood,

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sweat, and tears. Oh, pacifists are fond of saying, we enjoy these because of the providence of God.

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But these things do not appear out of thin air. They are indeed providential, but they are

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providentially made possible by the sacrifice of the activist. We need more activists on this issue

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of abortion. C. The American evangelical church also practices a false dichotomy between church and

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state. Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that our founding fathers wrote the

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Constitution to seal off religion from having any influence on government whatsoever. Although, of

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course, the government can dictate to the church what it should do, as happens when separation is

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practiced, right? It's always one way. Oh, how false this is, the separation between church and state.

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That phrase, separation of church and state, is nowhere in the Constitution. And a little homework

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on Thomas Jefferson and his letter to the Danbury Baptists will show the phrase's first use and how

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it has been distorted by progressives ever since. In fact, John Adams remarked,

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this Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is entirely unsuited to any

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other, unquote. The morality and religion presupposed in that day was biblical Christianity,

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dear listener. Biblical Christianity was seen universally as the religion which did have in fact

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and ought to have in principle the most profound influence upon government and those who govern.

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Well, then, finally, D, the fourth reason why the evangelical church is cowering in the corner

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is that the American evangelical church has a deadly, fatalistic approach to eschatology and the

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future. Yes, evangelicals have bought into the Revelation Red Heifer Rapture rant, I call it.

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That is, that Revelation Red Heifer Rapture rant goes something like this. Jesus is coming soon,

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and all the signs are there, and we can see it in the headlines, and there's no need to worry because

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people will all be raptured out before the Great Tribulation, when the bad guys will get theirs

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during the seven-year Great Tribulation, when the Antichrist will reveal himself in a rebuilt

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temple in Jerusalem, and on and on the rant goes. To the modern evangelical, all prophecy is in the

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future, and there's nothing we can do here and now to change things. In fact, to try to make things

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better and transform our world along the biblical lines, along biblical models, is to stand in God's

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way, in their mind, stand in God's way of bringing about end times. Pastor, don't you want the rapture?

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Don't you want to see the temple rebuild? Don't you want Israel's rabbis to find the red heifer so

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they can inaugurate temple services again? Don't you want things to get as bad as they were in the

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days of Noah so God will bring about the Great Tribulation? Brothers and sisters, the modern evangelical

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church with this kind of attitude, it's no wonder abortion thrives in our day. The modern evangelical

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church has a retrograde eschatology that retards Christ's return rather than furthering it and also

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puts a damper on their action in this world, on their application of the gospel in this age. One of the

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major roadblocks to ending abortion thus becomes an eschatology that by its very nature aborts Christ's

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gracious work before it can even be born in our generation. No wonder abortion thrives and flourishes

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because indeed it is the church that has lapsed in her duties toward sanctification, in sanctifying

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this nation, sanctifying the world around it. We not only need to be sanctified believers

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individually, but we also then, by virtue of this, end up sanctifying the world around us

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and putting an end to abortion, parenthetically. Well, another reason that abortion is thriving

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and flourishing in America these days is because the abortion, the act of abortion, is the apple of

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Satan's eye. Abortion is the apple of Satan's eye. It is his precious, right? Abortion is the centerpiece

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of Satan's banquet, the engine of his life force, the sacrament of his religion in our day. This has

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become more and more evident to me as the years go by. And it's nothing new, is it, in the history of

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redemption? It's nothing new. As I observe, too, in my peace, there will be blood. I need to consult

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that lecture, and that's on our website, omnispotestas.org. The entire lecture is

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there will be blood, and in it we discuss how both God and Satan require the shedding of blood,

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and they have from the very beginning of creation, since the fall, there will be blood. And you can find

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that lecture on omnispotestas, O-M-N-I-S dash, P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org, omnispotestas.org.

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And you'll find there that complete explication, there will be blood. And of course, there's ever-present

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blood in abortion. I heard a Satanist say they require getting their hands in blood, and they can

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do this on their floor of abortuaries. There will be blood. Both God and Satan require the shedding

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of blood, and they have from the beginning. God demands the shedding of blood for the remission

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of sin, while Satan demands the shedding of blood for the redoubling of sin. God demands the blood

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of the one who sins, while Satan demands the blood of the innocent. The pattern is really quite simple,

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but it is profoundly opposite, even as the abortion debate illustrates for us. God says,

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for example, the soul that sins shall surely die. Ezekiel says this to Ezekiel, the soul that sins

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shall surely die. Blood is therefore required because, once again, as Leviticus tells us,

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the life of the creature is in the blood. Consequently, since blood is the very symbol and

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essence of life, as Hebrews says, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.

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Very important principle. Remission of sin is uppermost, and without the shedding of blood,

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there is no remission of sin. Mercifully to us, God has always accepted the shedding of the blood of a

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substitute in our place, has he not? Under the old covenant, that blood was the blood of bulls and goats

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that looked forward to Christ. The old covenant, blood of bulls and goats, animal blood that anticipated

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the final blood of the final substitute, the perfect substitute, Jesus, under the new covenant. Since

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then, the acceptable blood, which looks back to that final blood of the final substitute, is the blood of

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the cup, Lord's Supper. What's important here is the mercy and grace of God in first, the shedding of

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blood for the remission of sin. That is a principle of mercy and grace. Sin is remitted. Sin is taken

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away. And secondly, accepting the blood of a substitute, Jesus Christ, in our place. Well, that is how God

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works. Satan too, however, requires blood of his devotees. But it is not to remit sin, but to redouble it.

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God sheds the blood of the guilty in order to reestablish innocence in his creatures. Satan sheds the

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blood of the innocent in order to increase guilt in his creatures. Nothing could be more antithetical

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than the difference in the demands of blood between God and Satan. Satan too, in his occult rituals,

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that is, secret and hidden ceremonies, Satan requires and demands the shedding of the innocent

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blood of children. You see where I'm going with this in abortion. Satan demands in his occult rituals,

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which are secret and hidden ceremonies. He demands the shedding of the innocent blood of children.

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While God requires in his occult rituals, that is, open and revealed ceremonies, that is, our worship

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ceremonies on Sunday, they are occultic in that sense that they're open and revealed ceremonies. They're not

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hidden and secret. No, they are open and revealed for all to see. So God requires the blood of the guilty

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sinner through a substitute to make them once again his innocent children rather than guilty people,

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right? And so the Bible tells us plainly that his people Israel sacrificed their sons and their

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daughters to the demons, as the psalmist says. They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons

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and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

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Well, today, today, the idols of Canaan appear as the idols of choice, and our land is polluted with

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blood, and God will judge. Indeed, abortion is a choice. How often do you hear that, right?

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The mantra from pro-choice people. Abortion is a choice. Abortion is a choice. And indeed is a choice,

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a choice in which one party has no voice. Abortion is a choice in which one party has no voice. Oh,

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mother carrying your child, what if you gave your child a chance to speak his voice, yay or nay,

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for life? What do you think he would say? Give that one a voice. Have that child, oh, pregnant woman.

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Well, indeed, abortion is a choice, but abortion is a choice in which one party has no voice.

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And that choice is often exercised increasingly in the name of Satan. Openly today, a brief Google

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search will give results. I'm not going to nauseate you with some of the particulars, but a brief Google

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search will give results replete with satanic abortion rituals at abortuaries, covens practicing at

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Planned Parenthood facilities, and even satanic lobbyists in state and federal capitals advocating

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for various abortion bills. This is coming out increasingly, dear listener. Oh, church of

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Christ, you unintentionally mount the shoulders of the beast of revelation here amongst us. Now you

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mount his shoulders so that you may peer into the future to identify some supposed beast to come while

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he absolutely eats your lunch in front of your face. Oh, Christian, what good is it to imagine how

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you might resist the beast of the great tribulation when he actually has you marked in the forehead and

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hand right now? Well, that's a lecture then for another day as well, but just note that part of

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the beast system is abortion, and I urge you to find creative ways to battle it, and we'll explore those

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in the future as well. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 1014th Street on the corner of 4th and

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Boulevard. Once again, join us for Sunday worship. Perhaps you've been thinking of crossing our

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threshold. This is the time to do it. Please come during the Easter season. Please come on Easter

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Sunday and join us for worship. We meet at 10 a.m. at 1014th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard,

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and you can give us some feedback. You can get some more information by calling us at area code

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208-523-0196. That phone number again, area code 208-523-0196.