Jack Graham - The Right To Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

July 19, 2026 | 27:30

Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - The Right To Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | July 19, 2026
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  • There is no person that god cannot save.
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep.
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do.
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  • The declaration of independence. it was signed on july 4th, on
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  • July 4th, 1776. it initiated the american revolution that burst
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  • America 250 years later, we are celebrating that declaration.
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  • And in the second paragraph, the second paragraph of the
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  • Declaration of independence, these words are written. we hold
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  • These truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
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  • That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
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  • Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
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  • Of happiness. the right to life, the right to liberty, and the
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  • Right to the pursuit of happiness. and the founders and
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  • Framers gave us these words, primarily written by thomas
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  • Jefferson, and signed into existence by those brave men
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  • Who, at liberty hall, set in motion the birth of a nation.
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  • And at the very heart, this is in the second paragraph, what we
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  • Just read, and at the very heart of this is a biblical truth.
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  • When you read the words, we hold these truths, these truths are
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  • Self-evident, because they are god's truth, they come from the
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  • World, that all men are created equal. where did they get that?
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  • They got that in the bible, that god created men and women, and
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  • He created them equal, and that all life has value, that all
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  • Life has dignity, and that every person has the right for life,
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  • Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. this includes the
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  • Born, and it includes the unborn. because those who live
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  • In the womb, those who live in the womb have these same rights
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  • Of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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  • So at this moral crossroads, we're gonna be taking on
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  • All of the issues, most of the issues that
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  • We confront today, things like not only the sanctity of life,
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  • Which is today, or we're gonna be talking about the sacredness
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  • In god's design in marriage, we're gonna be talking about
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  • Sexual identity and transgenderism, we're gonna be
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  • Talking about marriage, we're gonna be talking about religion
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  • And politics, and should christians be involved in
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  • Politics, what about america and the church, what about america
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  • And the bible, you know, america was built on the bible, we're
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  • Gonna talk about america and the bible, we're gonna talk about
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  • Worldview and america's worldview, we're gonna be
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  • Talking about biblical conviction in a broken culture,
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  • And we're gonna take on the subject. but at the top of the
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  • List is the right to life. it was the first thing these
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  • Founders were thinking about, it's in the human conscience,
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  • And as we stand at the crossroads, we realize that
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  • While there is a war going on nationally and internationally,
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  • There is another kind of war that's been raging for years
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  • Now, and it's a war in the womb. it's a war in the womb, in
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  • Mother's wombs. and the safest place in the world should be a
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  • Mother's womb. but unfortunately, in our
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  • Generation, it has become one of the most dangerous places for
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  • The innocent, for the unborn, as millions of abortions have been
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  • Taking place over the last 40 or 50 years, and while there has
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  • Been advance on the issue, moving more and more from a
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  • Culture of death to a culture of life, we see progress, the
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  • Overturn of roe versus wade, and so on, we still have a major
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  • Battle to fight, and this war in the womb is not nearly over, and
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  • It is, in essence, a worldview war. it is a battle for the
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  • Babies, but what we have here, the abortion issue, that's just
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  • A symptom. that's just a symptom of a nation, a people in a
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  • Nation who have forgotten god, who have forsaken god and his
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  • Word and his commandments. so the value of life is a
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  • Foundational truth. it is written not only in our national
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  • Documents, such as the declaration of independence, but
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  • It is written in our national consciousness. common sense
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  • Tells you that to take a life of an innocent child, a baby, is
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  • Wrong. unless your conscience is seared by the world, unless you
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  • Have no common sense, unless you are insane, then you know that
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  • Taking the life of an innocent baby is wrong, and i'm gonna
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  • Show you why it's wrong from god's word. this is a spiritual
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  • Battle raging in our country, raging in our culture, and from
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  • The sanctity of life, from the womb to the tomb, you see, life
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  • Is sacred, not only for the born, but for the unborn. life
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  • Is sacred for the aged, the aging. there should be dignity
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  • In aging, yet so many older adults, aging people, are being
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  • Thrown away in our culture. it's a battle for the unborn, it's a
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  • Battle for the aging, it's a battle for the vulnerable, it's
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  • A battle for the disabled. the right to life for
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  • A child that has struggled with disabilities.
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  • I know you would agree that our world is in trouble.
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  • It's in turmoil
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  • And although it is full of so many uncertainties,
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  • There is one answer for believer and followers of jesus
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  • Is the first place we should go, and that is the place of prayer
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  • Our concerns, our anxieties, our and fears to the lord in prayer.
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  • And connect with him very deeply to be plugged in to his spiritua
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  • So what i wanna do now is show you eight
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  • Core values for the sanctity of life.
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  • And these come right out of the scripture. you know, the issue
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  • Of life is not a political opinion. it's not a social
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  • Construct. it is a biblical truth. so the first one is god
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  • Is the creator and author of human life. god is the author,
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  • The creator, and the sustainer of human life. and that is true
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  • From the beginning. you are not a product of evolution, but of
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  • Creation. you're made by god and for god and for his purposes and
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  • For his pleasure. and at the very beginning, when he created
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  • Adam and eve, the first man and the first woman, this actually
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  • Literally happened. this is the truth of scripture. adam and eve
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  • Are not figurative. they're not allegorical. had you been in the
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  • Garden of eden, you could have taken a selfie with adam and
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  • Eve. they were there. why? created by god, because god is
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  • The author of human life. this is why we say that the image
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  • Deo, the image of god, the imprint of god is upon every
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  • Life created by god. so that's psalm 139. we'll get back to it
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  • Along with others. and then secondly, the second core
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  • Conviction that we have is that god made humanity in his image
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  • And likeness, which means that human life is unique, unlike
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  • Animal life. i mean, our dogs, they're close to being human.
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  • Rowdy and dandy. i think they have more privileges in the
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  • House than i do. and as much as we love our animals, and god
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  • Loves the animals, by the way, and created them. god loves
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  • Dogs, cats. yes, god loves cats and all the animals. he created
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  • The animal kingdom, but human beings, you know, all the whole
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  • Animal rights movement and all that. no, god created man and
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  • Woman uniquely and distinctly different because we bear his
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  • Image. we bear his likeness, which means that human life is
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  • Sacred. and there you see the scriptures. all right, next,
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  • Coming up next is the third, which god intends for human
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  • Beings to fill the earth. that's genesis 1, 28, also 9, 1. that
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  • Has to do with reproduction, to be fruitful and reproduce,
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  • Multiply. and so god gave birth as his gift and his way of
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  • Expanding the world and to fill the earth. and so birth is a
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  • God-given thing. and his plan and his purpose that every
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  • Birth, every pregnancy is planned. we'll see that again in
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  • Just a moment. next, that is god confirmed that life begins at
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  • Conception and declares that an unborn baby is a sacred life.
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  • You know, the debate rages as to when life begins.
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  • Some would argue that life begins
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  • At birth when the child is born, when the child
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  • Breathes on earth. but the fact is the child breathes in the
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  • Mother's womb. others would say or argue, who would consider
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  • Themselves pro-choice, would argue that life begins at
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  • Viability. others would say, well, it's the brainwave. when
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  • The baby, just as the brainwave ceases, there is death. when the
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  • Brainwaves begins, there is life. well, the brainwaves
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  • Begins within weeks of conception. others, when the
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  • Heartbeat, and through the years through our pregnancy center, we
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  • Relied upon hearing the heartbeat of a baby to
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  • Demonstrate to a prospective parent that this child is alive,
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  • This is a beating heart within your body. but that's not when
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  • Life begins, not when the heart begins to beat, though that is
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  • Weeks into the pregnancy. no, the scripture teaches that life
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  • Begins at conception. when the man's seed and the woman's egg
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  • Are united and there is life at the moment of conception. you
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  • Say, where is that in the bible? all right, psalm 139. you should
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  • Be there by now. here's what it says. and this is just one.
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  • There are many scriptures up here, you can look them up. but
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  • You form my inward parts. you knitted me together. this is
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  • David the psalmist writing. you knitted me together. beautiful
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  • Description of god engineering, knitting together in my mother's
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  • Womb. i praise you for i am, say it, fearfully and wonderfully
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  • Made. wonderful are your works. and my soul knows it very well.
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  • David knew what we all should know. again, common sense tells
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  • You this. your own conscience realizes this. unless your
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  • Conscience has been seared by satan himself. he said, my
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  • Frame, that speaks of the skeletal system. the bones.
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  • These were not hidden from you when i was made in secret.
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  • Intricately woven in the depths of the earth. again, the
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  • Weaving, like a beautiful work of art. ephesians 2.10 says, we
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  • Are his workmanship. created in jesus christ unto good works. so
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  • Here, we are woven together in our mother's womb. and then,
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  • Verse 16, your eyes saw my unformed substance. the word
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  • Means embryo. so no matter how microscopic, no matter how tiny
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  • At conception the little one is, just as much human, just as much
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  • A person as if that child were playing in a playpen. and in
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  • Your book were written every one of them. that is, all the days
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  • That were formed for me. your life is the divine plan. every
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  • Life is a plan of god. when there was yet none of them. and
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  • So, psalm 139 clarifies it. it clears it up biblically for us.
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  • Again, you can prove life begins in the womb today. medically and
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  • Scientifically. and any honest person, scientist or medical
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  • Person or otherwise, will basically have to tell you now
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  • Which they will. there's no question this is a baby in the
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  • Womb. the question is, do you allow the baby to live?
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  • Next, god knows us from our mother's womb. we covered that a
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  • Bit in psalm 139, but notice jeremiah 1.5. that is where
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  • Jeremiah, the prophet, said, before i was born, before i was
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  • A prophet, i was formed in my mother's womb. and those other
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  • Passages there say the same thing. so god knows us. before
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  • Your mother or your father named you, he knew you. next, again,
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  • These are the eight core essential values as to why we
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  • Believe in the sanctity of life. god declares that when human
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  • Life is taken without just cause, i.e., what would be just
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  • Cause? capital punishment is just cause.
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  • Or just war.
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  • A nation has a right to defend itself. and i believe
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  • That what we are doing with operation epic fury is a just
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  • Cause. it's a righteous cause. we are liberating and freeing
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  • People. and i'm praying that the people of iran will take their
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  • Freedom and experience real freedom. and so there is a cause
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  • For just war, for a nation to protect its freedoms. and then
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  • Self-defense. you have a right to defend your home, your
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  • Family. so these are just cause. we covered that last time on you
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  • Shall not murder. but to take a life without just cause, the sin
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  • Of murder has been committed. and that's genesis 9-5 and
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  • Exodus 20-13. the next one is god is sovereign over the womb
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  • And can ultimately open and close it as he will. we've seen
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  • So many people pray for a baby, for god to open their womb. and
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  • Sometimes stupendously, almost supernaturally, it happens.
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  • Other times god closes the womb, but the womb belongs to god. you
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  • Say it's my body, no? your body, my body belongs to god. and if
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  • You are a christian, a follower of jesus, 1 corinthians 6-19
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  • Says, what do you not know that your body does not belong to
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  • You? it is the temple of the holy spirit. and when a child is
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  • In a mother's womb, this person is not an appendage, not a
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  • Product of conception, not just a fetus. you ever notice how
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  • People want to minimize the impact of the person in the womb
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  • By calling the baby a fetus? because that steps away from the
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  • Reality of the personhood of the one in the womb. so god opens
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  • And closes it as he will. and there are the scriptures. and
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  • Then one final one, number eight, children. our blessing
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  • From god to be provided and cared for by parents as well as
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  • Extended family and the church, including those who are adopted
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  • As jesus was adopted by joseph because he was the son of god
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  • And the child of mary. so those are the foundation stones, if
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  • You will, for the foundation of the sanctity of life. this war
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  • In the womb is a battle for life. it's the center of the
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  • Cultural war that is raging in our country. positively, there
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  • Are more people now in america that say they are pro-life than
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  • Those who say they are not pro-life, that they are
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  • Pro-choice. so progress is being made, but the battle is far from
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  • Done. we must keep fighting the good fight of faith and value
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  • Life because life is not valued. are you listening? life is not
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  • Valued as to whether that life is convenient or whether it is
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  • Politically correct or a preference, but rather by the
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  • Divine image. human worth is not valued by size or strength or iq
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  • Or color or accomplishment. people are worth it because god
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  • Made every person. amen. and what i hope to accomplish in
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  • This message series is that we're desperately trying to
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  • Communicate with god's word that there's only one opinion that
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  • Counts on this issue and all the other issues of morality and
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  • Well-being. only one opinion that counts on the issues and
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  • The answer of life, and that is god's opinion. what god says,
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  • Christ and the bible. right or wrong are not determined by
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  • Personal, legal, or cultural opinions, but by divine
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  • Revelation, god's word. what is right and what is wrong is not
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  • Determined by me or you, it is determined by god himself and
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  • Communicated in god's inerrant, infallible, eternal word. and
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  • This is where we stand. amen. i mean, we remember, at least in
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  • History, the holocaust and how millions of jews died as a
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  • Result of a cruel, hate-filled dictator who decided that he had
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  • The power as to who could live and who could not live.
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  • That's not our choice.
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  • And again, this includes those in the womb and
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  • Outside of the womb and all the way to the tomb. so how should
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  • We then live? our unshakable faith in the midst of this
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  • Broken culture. every generation of christians have defining
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  • Moments, tests, every christian, we all have them individually
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  • And every generation, our generation, we face defining
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  • Moments that test our faith and test our courage and test our
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  • Conviction. this is our time. this is our test. this is our
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  • Generation. now is our time to stand unshakable, unchanging in
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  • Our convictions, because life is sacred and god is the author. he
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  • Writes the story of every person's life. and i don't have
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  • The right to try to interfere with god's plan and god's
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  • Purpose. so live unshaken in the defense of life by standing firm
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  • On god's word, by showing love and compassion to people who are
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  • Confused or people who have been lied to, that we have an
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  • Opportunity to stand with them and for them in love and grace.
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  • We have a saying that leanne jamieson created that says at
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  • Prestonwood, our ministry to the unborn and to the moms and to
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  • The dads is, we are pro-life in our convictions. we are pro-life
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  • In our beliefs. we are pro-love in our actions.
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  • Abortion has moved online. and by that, i mean,
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  • Though it is the most practiced medical procedure on
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  • Women in america, abortion, now it has become a pill. and the
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  • Challenge we have is the control and the challenge of these pills
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  • That are online. you can go online and these pills can come
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  • Your way. these are uncontrolled. these are
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  • Ungoverned. they're out of control.
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  • And our goal is that not only would abortion
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  • Be known as illegal and immoral, but that in one day, it would be
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  • Unthinkable, that it would be unthinkable. so we actually work
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  • Interest. so, yes. now, the question is, if you've had an
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  • Abortion, can i be forgiven? and the answer is, yes, of course.
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  • God's grace extends to every person. the cross and the blood
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  • Of jesus christ cleanses us from every sin. there's no sin
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  • Outside of the sin of rejecting and blaspheming jesus by
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  • Rejecting him that is unforgivable. there's no
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  • Unforgivable sin. and again, there are dear people in this
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  • Room who made bad decisions in the past and have been redeemed
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  • By the power of jesus christ, who now serve in our pregnancy
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  • Center ministry. though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
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  • Be white as snow. though they be red like crimson, they shall be
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  • As wool. god's grace is greater than all my sin. god's grace is
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  • Greater than all your sin. and because of his grace that took
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  • Place at the cross when jesus died and then rose again on the
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  • Third day, you can receive forgiveness and live in hope.
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  • And that's what we want to do. this work that we do for the
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  • Sanctity of life. yes, we're battling in the culture, but
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  • We're not doing it with a clenched fist. we're doing it
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  • With an open heart and an open hand. we're doing it with love
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  • And compassion because we want men and women and little boys
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  • And girls to live life in the fullness. why? because our
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  • Nation, even at the beginning, said life, liberty, and the
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  • Pursuit of happiness. why? because that's what god said.
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