Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 2) | June 18, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist
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Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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The bible teaches that when god laid the foundations of the
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World, he established standards for right and wrong.
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But tragically, many of today's judges and policy makers
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Have become self-appointed authors of morality,
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And any country that tries to rewrite god's law will
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Suffer dire consequences.
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My message is titled "the new moral disorder"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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♪ there is a day coming ♪
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♪ when the old will pass away ♪
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♪ and every wrong would be made right. ♪
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♪ no darkness, no night. ♪
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♪ the son will light the way. ♪
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♪ there is a king coming, ♪
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♪ the one who conquered death and grave. ♪
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♪ no more pain and no more sorrow. ♪
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♪ this hope for tomorrow ♪
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♪ is our hope for today. ♪
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♪ he who was. ♪
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♪ he who is. ♪
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♪ he who was. ♪
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♪ he who is. ♪
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♪ he who is to come ♪
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♪ is christ the son of man. ♪
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♪ he's riding on the clouds ♪
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♪ with a crown upon his head, ♪
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♪ and every eye will see him ♪
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♪ with the nail scars in his hands. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ he who is to come ♪
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♪ is christ the son of man. ♪
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♪ he's riding on the clouds ♪
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♪ with a crown upon his head, ♪
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♪ and every eye will see him ♪
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♪ with the nail scars in his hands. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪♪
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Jeffress: before today's program begins, i want to invite you to
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Join me for a special message about america's future.
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Another 250 years?"
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On "pathway to victory."
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Announcer: as our nation marks 250 years, america
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Stands at a crossroads.
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Path that leads to ruin?
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Jeffress: you know, i just don't understand why it is some
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Christians wanna go back and try to live under the old testament.
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It's gone, it's been done away with, it is idiotic to go back
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And try to keep the dietary restrictions and the feast and
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All that.
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Paul said they are shadows of what is in the past.
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We live under the new agreement, but in this new agreement there
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Are prohibitions against homosexuality.
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For example, in romans 1 verses 26 and 27 paul said, "for this
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Reason, god gave them over to degrading passions; for their
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Women exchanged the natural function for that which is
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Unnatural, and in the same way also men abandoned the natural
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Function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one
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Another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in
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Their persons, their bodies, the due penalty of their error."
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God's word says homosexuality is unnatural.
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Literally that means it is against nature.
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It is against the laws of god.
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It is against the natural law of god and there are severe
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Consequences in every area of life for it.
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Or consider 1 corinthians 6 verses 9 and 10, paul said, "or
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Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit
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The kingdom of god?"
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Who are the unrighteous?
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"don't be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
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Adulterers nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor
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The covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall
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Inherit the kingdom of god."
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Did you get that?
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"homosexuals" paul said, "will not inherit the kingdom of god
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And neither will adulterers."
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If you've ever committed adultery, you don't get to go to
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Heaven, the bible says.
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And by the way, jesus said, "if you've ever lusted in your heart
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After another person who's not your mate, you're guilty
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Of adultery."
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So nobody who's lusted gets to go to heaven.
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No homosexual gets to go to heaven, no fornicator,
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That's premarital sex.
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If you've ever had premarital sex, you're out as well.
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If you're a covetous person, that is somebody who has ever
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Desired what somebody else has, you're not making it to heaven,
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You're going to hell.
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If you're an idolater. what's an idolater?
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It's anybody who loves something more than they love god.
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If you've ever loved a possession or a person more than
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You've loved god, count yourself out, you're not going to heaven.
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Nobody's going to heaven on their own.
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Verse 11 says, "but you were washed, you were covered with
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The blood, you were sanctified, you were forgiven."
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Ladies and gentlemen, there is no sin from which you can't
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Be forgiven.
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Homosexuality is not the unpardonable sin, you can be
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Forgiven of homosexuality, you can be forgiven of any sin, but
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Get this: to be forgiven of a sin, you first must admit that
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You have sinned.
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And we have to admit what the bible says.
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Homosexuality is a sin, that's what the bible teaches.
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There's a prohibition against homosexual behavior.
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Secondly, that leads to there is certainly a prohibition against
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Homosexual marriage.
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"well, jesus never talked about homosexuality, and he certainly
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Never said anything about homosexual marriage."
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Oh, yes, he did.
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Where did he talk about it?
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He talked about it in matthew 19.
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Turn over to matthew chapter 19.
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Remember the pharisees were trying to trip jesus up, and
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They came to the lord, and they said, "lord, is it lawful for a
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Man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"
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Some of the pharisees believed in no fault divorce, others were
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Very strict about it, so they wanted the lord to try to take a
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Stand and trip himself up.
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So they said, "lord, answer this divorce question for us."
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He was so wise in how he did it.
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He went to the old testament that they said they revered.
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Verse 4, matthew 19, "and jesus answered and said, have you not
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Read, that he who created them from the beginning made them
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Male and female?
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And he said, for this cause a man shall leave his mother and
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Father and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become
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One flesh?
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Consequently, they are no longer two, but they are one.
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What therefore god has joined together, let no man separate."
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What jesus is saying is, if you wanna know the answer to the
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Divorce question, let's go back and see god's original plan
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For marriage.
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Genesis 1 and genesis 2.
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It is one man with one woman for a lifetime, that's god's plan.
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Jesus affirmed god's plan; and by setting god's standard, one
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Man with one woman for life, he is saying that any deviation
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From that standard not just gay marriage, but any deviation,
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Adultery, premarital sex, unbiblical divorce, those are
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All sins because they don't measure up to the standard, the
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Perfect standard of god.
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Jesus did address the marriage question.
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He said, it's one man with one woman for a lifetime.
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You know the bible is not a cafeteria where you get to go
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Through the line and pick and choose those parts that you
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Like, it doesn't work that way.
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If you're a follower of christ, you accept all of
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Christ's teachings.
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Now, i know there's some people who say, "well, i just wish we
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Didn't talk about this gay marriage stuff; it is so
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Controversial, we should just keep silent about it and not
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Talk about it."
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We do not do the world a favor when we stay silent about what
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God has said.
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Bestselling author joel rosenberg offers this
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Wise reminder.
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He said, "it is becoming politically incorrect to accept
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The bible's teachings on these and other moral issues, or to
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Talk about them publicly.
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Nevertheless, the kingdom of god is not a democracy.
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The lord is not running for political office.
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He's not trying to cobble together a majority.
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He is the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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What he says goes.
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How blessed is the man or woman who follows the word of god, not
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His or her own desires."
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God has spoken about this issue; we dare not be silent.
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Our rebellion as a culture against god is seen in our
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Attitude about marriage.
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Secondly, it's seen in what we believe about the sanctity
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Of life.
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Let's talk about this issue, the issue of abortion.
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Since the supreme court's ruling in 1973, roe versus wade that
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Legalized abortion for women, since that time, 54 million
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Children have been butchered in the womb, 54 million children
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Have been murdered.
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Now what does 54 million look like?
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I want you to think about this.
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Take the population of georgia, add the population of michigan,
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And then virginia, and then add in nebraska,
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And then add nevada, and then add the populations of iowa
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And south dakota and rhode island, and then add the
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Population of arizona, plus oregon, and then add
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The population of kansas and vermont and mississippi,
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And then add the population of alaska,
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Add it all together and you've got 54 million people.
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That's the number of people killed in this country
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Since the legalization by the supreme court of abortion,
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And that number is being added to every
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Year by 1.3 million children who are being slaughtered.
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Gone.
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They don't exist anymore, wiped off the face of the earth
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Because of our nation's rebellion against god.
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How does god look at that?
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Well, let's see what god says about the unborn, and i want you
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To write down several key verses.
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Here are some great verses to go back to.
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Psalm 139, verses 13 to 16.
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These are the verses that probably better than any in the
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Old testament describe how god views the unborn child.
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David said, "for thou didst form my inward parts; thou didst
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Weave me in my mother's womb.
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I will give thanks to thee, for i am fearfully and wonderfully
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Made: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knows it very well.
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My frame was not hidden from thee, when i was made in secret,
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And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
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Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in thy book they
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Were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as
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Yet there was not one of them."
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Remember god's word through jeremiah and jeremiah 1 verses 4
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And 5, "now the word of god came to me saying, 'before i formed
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You in the womb, i knew you, and before you were born, i
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Consecrated you.'"
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God had a relationship with jeremiah before he was ever
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Born, while he was still in the womb.
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You know, one of the most fascinating stories that deal
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With the unborn is found in luke chapter 1.
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Turn over there with me for a moment, luke 1 verses 41 and 44.
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This is the story of when the then pregnant elizabeth, the
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Mother of john the baptist when she met mary who was pregnant
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With the lord jesus christ and look what happened.
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Luke 1 verse 41, "and it came about that when elizabeth heard
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Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in elizabeth's womb," that's
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John the baptist.
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"and elizabeth was filled with the holy spirit."
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Verse 44, "for behold, when the sound of your greeting,
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Elizabeth said to mary, "reached my ears, the baby leaped in my
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Womb for joy."
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John the baptist in his mom's womb got so excited when he
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Heard mary speak that he leapt in her womb.
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Now, what is fascinating is, this word baby in greek is
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"brephos;" talking about the baby inside elizabeth's womb, it
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Is the very same greek word that is used elsewhere in the new
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Testament to talk about an infant that has already
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Been born.
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God views the baby in the womb as much as a human being as the
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Baby outside of the womb, both are creations of god.
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You can understand then why god absolutely hates any violence
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Toward children.
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Do you remember in the old testament when the israelites
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Came to canaan, the promised land that was inhabited by
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Canaanites, they unfortunately fell into the ways of the
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Canaanites, and they began to worship the false god molech, a
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God whom the canaanite said required the sacrifice of
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Children on the altar, burnt sacrifices of children.
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One commentator describes that gruesome act this way.
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"the ancients would heat up this idol of molech with fire until
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It was glowing.
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And then they would take newborn babies and place them on the
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Arms of the idol and watch their children burn to death."
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What did god think about that?
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What did he think about his own people engaging in that
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Horrific sacrifice?
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In jeremiah 32:35, it says, and they built the high places of
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Baal that are in the valley of ben-hinnom to cause her sons and
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Daughters to pass through the fire to molech, which i had not
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Commanded them nor had it entered my mind that they should
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Do this abomination."
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God said, "when i saw the israelites burning their
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Children alive, it never entered into my mind that they would do
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Such a thing."
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And so in verses 28 and 29, he pronounces this judgment,
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"therefore says the lord, behold, i'm about to give this
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City, that is jerusalem, into the hand of the chaldeans, and
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Into the hand of nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon,
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And he will take it.
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The chaldeans," that is the babylonians, "who are fighting
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Against this city, will enter and set this city on fire and
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Burn it."
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God said to his own people, his own nation of israel, "because
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You are killing slaughtering your own children, i'm gonna
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Raise up the foreigners to come and invade your city and to take
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It captive, to burn it to the ground.
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Now folks, if god will do that to his own chosen people, who
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Destroy the lives of children, do we have to wonder how god is
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Going to deal with the united states of america?
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A country that not only allows, but it celebrates the freedom of
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Choice, the freedom of choice to murder our children.
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It is an abomination in the sight of god.
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Contrast that to what jesus said about children.
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If you wanna know how jesus views children, look at mark 10,
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Verses 13 through 16, "and they were bringing children to him,
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So that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them.
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But when jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them,
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'permit the children to come to me; and don't hinder them;
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For the kingdom of god belongs to such as these.'"
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And then verse 16, "and he took them in his arms and he began
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Blessing them, laying his hands upon them."
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The parents couldn't get their children to jesus fast enough
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Because they sensed he loved their children.
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They wanted him to be touched by jesus.
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You know, history shows that wherever there's been a
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Christian movement, christians have always guarded children,
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Provided for children, cared for children.
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When we honor a child, we honor jesus.
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When we honor a child, we honor jesus.
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Jesus said in matthew 18:5, "whoever receives one such
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Child in my name receives me.
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You know, that attitude ought to profoundly affect our attitude
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About how we feel about having children, whether naturally
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Or through adoption.
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You say, "well, what does all of this have to do with
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Bible prophecy?"
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Here's what it has to do with it.
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Turn over to 2 timothy chapter 3, the passage we read just a
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Few moments ago and look at verse 1.
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Paul said to timothy, "but mark this;" and in the niv it says,
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"there will be terrible times in the last days."
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Nas says, "difficult times," but it says in the niv, "there will
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Be terrible times in the last days."
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Now that verse raises two questions.
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First of all, what did paul mean by the last days?
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He said, "timothy, buckle up, get ready, because it's gonna be
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Terrible times in the last days."
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What does he mean by the last days?
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Well, in one sense, the last days began as soon as jesus
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Ascended into heaven after his first coming.
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The countdown began.
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But as we're gonna see next time, this phrase really refers
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To those years, months, days leading up to the return of
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Jesus christ.
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Paul said to timothy, "it's going to get worse.
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It's going to get worse in the last days."
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And the second question is, what does he mean by, "it's gonna be
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Terrible times, difficult times?"
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Look, that word terrible is not just some bland preacher word.
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The word had a very specific meaning.
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In fact, it was only used twice in the greek new testament.
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One of those times was in matthew 8:28 when it was talking
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About the story of the demon possessed men in gadarenes
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Who lived in the tombs.
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Remember them?
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And they were unclothed and they were unrestrained.
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They were violent men committing unspeakable acts.
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That's the word used for terrible.
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Literally you could translate it, it will be times without
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Moral restraint.
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That's what he's talking about.
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Just as those demon-possessed men had no restraint at all, so
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It will be in the last days, there will be no
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Moral restraint.
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You know, almost three decades ago, the evangelical philosopher
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Carl henry, predicted that as america increasingly lost its
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Judeo-christian heritage, paganism would grow even bolder.
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And he predicted that by the start of the 21st century we
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Would face, quote, "naked naturalism and raw paganism."
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That is humanism with a pretty face ripped off revealing the
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Angry monster underneath it.
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And that's what we're seeing right now.
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Humanism unmasked for what it really is.
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These are the times we're living in, and they are a sign that we
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Are living in the last days.
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But there's even a more direct connection to bible prophecy
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And the moral deterioration of our culture.
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Remember in the last seven years of the tribulation, there'll be
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A world dictator called the antichrist.
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And i want you to listen to one of the descriptions of the
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Antichrist found in daniel 7, verse 25.
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"and he will speak out against the most high, and he will wear
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Down the saints of the highest one, and he will intend to make
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Alterations in times and in the law."
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Now we understand the first part of this.
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In the last days, the antichrist is gonna speak out against god,
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And he's gonna speak out against the people of god.
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He's going to attempt to wear them down.
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But what does he mean when he says he will also try to make
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Alterations in times and in the law?
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He's saying that this final world dictator will seek to
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Change the most basic laws of humanity.
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And we're seeing that happen right now.
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Culture may change, but the word of god never changes.
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"thy word is established in heaven forever," says the word
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Of god.
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This is what paul was talking about when he said to timothy,
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"get ready, get ready.
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In the last days there will be terrible times, times without
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Any moral restraint."
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But with that prediction is also a great hope.
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All of these things are simply setting the stage for the
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Greatest event in human history.
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Don't lose heart, don't despair, help and hope are on the way.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: i suspect you care deeply for our country
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Just as i do.
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And you want nothing more than to see god's glory
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Revered by all americans.
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As america marks 250 years, i believe we are standing
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At a crossroads.
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And his value for human life, our downfall as a nation
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Is certain.
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But god's people don't have to live in fear or despair.
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Rebelling against god?
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Robert Jeffress - The New Moral (Dis)Order (Part 2)

June 18, 2026 | 27:29

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