Truths That Transform

Rob Pacienza - Defending The Unborn

January 20, 2025 | S25:E3

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Truths That Transform | Rob Pacienza - Defending The Unborn | January 20, 2025

Roe v. wade is gone
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Yet america seems to be tilting pro-abortion.
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Where does that leave us?
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And what's next for the pro-life movement?
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Find out, on today's truths that transform.
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Welcome to truths that transform,
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A production of coral ridge ministries, where we are
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I'm pastor rob pacienza.
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It's a very important day in america
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It's sanctity of life sunday.
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The date is chosen to fall close to
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The anniversary of the roe vs. wade ruling in 1973,
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Which made abortion a constitutional right
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And unleashed a holocaust
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That's claimed the lives of over 60 million babies.
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In 2022, after nearly 50 years,
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The supreme court overturned that disastrous ruling.
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But the battle for human life continues
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In each of the 50 states.
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On today's program, we'll share with you
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The beauty of god's design for human life.
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And we begin with a look at the current state
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Of the pro-life movement,
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Where you'll meet a former abortion doctor
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Who became an advocate for life
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After an encounter with the lord jesus christ.
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Here's our own christina vidal.
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Let me just give you the picture of what it was like
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Within the hospital when i was a resident.
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I went to residency training down the hall here
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You had a room;
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A procedure room where you would kill children.
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You could walk 50 yards down the hall
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And walk into labor and delivery and deliver a baby.
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This is dr hayward robinson i'm a former abortion provider
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Set free by the love of christ jesus
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And that's why i'm basically pro choice.
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I want people with the aid of the holy spirit
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To make the choice and not resist
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When the holy spirit nudges them and is drawing them in.
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Don't resist that it's the lord who always goes for the one
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And he looked at me in a way that i was one, i was unique.
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In his autobiographical book, the scalpel and the soul,
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Doctor robinson describes his journey
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From abortionist to pro-life leader with 40 days for life.
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As i became more involved with abortion,
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It's a very lucrative business.
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Abortion is a multi-billion dollar american business.
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Once you become involved in that cartel
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And you have that blood money on your hand,
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Money is a tremendous anesthetic
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To your spiritual sensitivity.
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Planned parenthood's most recent annual report
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Their top money-maker is what they call
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“pregnancy resolution services” in other words, abortion.
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Former abortionist dr. patti giebink
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Worked with planned parenthood for 3 years
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And abortion really was the only choice offered.
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In this interview hosted by live action
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Founder and president lila rose,
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Dr. giebink tells us about her personal journey from
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Abortion doctor to pro-life advocate,
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And how god took the scales off her eyes.
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“god just revealed his heart to me.
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I came to the conclusion and
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Understanding that god's heart is life.”
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Once she came to christ
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And learned that god is a god of life,
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Dr. gieblink became immersed in the bible
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After surrendering her heart to christ.
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She recounts the day she was at a christian women's conference
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And spoke out publicly for the very first time
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About her past life as an abortionist.
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And i said i am proof that god can redeem anyone.
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I used to do abortions for planned parenthood
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And then i sobbed.
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60% of abortion-minded women choose life
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If they see their baby in an ultrasound,
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But crisis pregnancy resource centers
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Are under attack more than ever before.
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Since may of 2022,
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Over 100 crisis pregnancy centers
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Have been vandalized or firebombed and
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In 2023 alone,
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Churches and crisis centers have received
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Over 400 threats of violence for their pro-life stance.
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Erin hawley, vice president of alliance defending freedom
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Has testified before congress as a pro-life advocate
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And she's argued before the supreme court
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Against the dangers of the popular abortion pill
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Known as mifepristone.
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The immediate effect is that it starves the unborn child.
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It blocks the progesterone receptors to a woman's uterus,
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And then the woman takes the second drug,
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Which basically causes a miscarriage.
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Mifepristone is a high risk drug.
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It has a black box label on it, and it actually sends it,
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And the other drugs in combination
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Send about 1 in 25 women to the emergency room.
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And that number is growing daily
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Since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade in 2022.
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Abortion is moving from the clinic to the home
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With dangerous results.
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The good news is, since this type abortion is not surgical,
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Women can reverse their chemical abortion.
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Mifepristone is the first drug
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In the chemical abortion drug regimen.
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And something that your viewers may not know is
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That pregnancy care centers have been providing
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Women under the direction of a medical professional
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With something known as abortion pill reversal.
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And all it is is progesterone.
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And if she gets enough progesterone in enough time,
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Her child may live.
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After the fateful roe v wade decision in 1973,
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A number that amounts to the entire population of california.
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And often we hear the pro-abortion argument
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That states should make exceptions
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For pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
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My biological mother experienced
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The horror and the violence of rape and, yet,
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Still was courageous enough to give me life,
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To give me the gift of adoption.
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Ryan bomberger, published a letter thanking his mother for
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Not aborting him just because he was a product of rape.
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I've tried over the years, how do i, how do i thank her?
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I've tried to figure out how do i express my gratitude
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To a woman who,
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Chose courageously to be stronger than abortion.
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Although the united states supreme court
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Overturned roe v wade in 2022,
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The battle to protect unborn life continues.
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In november, several states codified abortion access as
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A “fundamental right” into their state constitutions.
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Yet in florida, nebraska, and south dakota, voters pushed back
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Against pro-abortion proposals in their respective states.
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I literally am the 1% that is used
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100% of the time to justify abortion,
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But yet the circumstances of our conception
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Never change the condition of our worth.
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We have more to do than save babies, we need to save women,
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We need to help women pick themselves up.
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Jesus says whatever we've done to the least of these
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You've done unto me
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And what more least than the innocent pre born child.
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There's nothing more miraculous, beautiful,
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And heartrending than the birth of a human.
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Each and every one of those babies
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Is made in the image of god.
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Each and every one of them is
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An individual special edition by our creator.
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We fall prey to satan's temptations
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When it comes to fruitlessness.
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Scripture tells us that the enemy comes to steal
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And kill and destroy.
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And he's managed to convince an entire generation
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That children are a hindrance rather than a blessing,
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And that some lives are inconvenient.
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That's why i felt it was important
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To expose those lies in the light of biblical truth
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With the congregation here at coral ridge,
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In my message, “defending the unborn.”
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Turn your attention to the first 6 verses of jeremiah 18
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And the first 6 verses of jeremiah 19:
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And may we as the people of god, may we never remain silent
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With the slaughter of the innocent because
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The grass withers and the flower fades for the word of our lord,
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It stands forever.
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Amen. you may be seated
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The first thing i want to point out in this passage this morning
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In verse 6, god explains the metaphor
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Just as this potter shapes the piece of clay,
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So i have shaped you into being.
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This passage is reminding us that
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There is no such thing as a human accident.
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That every life that is born,
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That every human being here today has been shaped
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And designed, intricately, by the chief designer
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And the chief potter, who is god himself.
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Now, you being here today, we all can recognize
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That you had no choice in your birth;
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You had no choice when you would be born
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And where you would be born and to whom you would be born to.
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And it is because that god as the chief potter and designer,
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He is the one that puts life into motion,
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All human life,
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Meaning that there is no life that is a mistake
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And no life that is unwanted by god.
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Not only is life designed by the potter,
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But secondly,
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Every single life outside of the womb
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And inside of the womb is a prize possession of our god
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Who is the chief potter.
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Turning your bibles back to jeremiah 1 verses 4 and 5.
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Jeremiah writes,
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What jeremiah is saying is
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That our worth and our value is defined by god
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Not at birth and not even at conception,
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But before conception,
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God knew jeremiah and therefore we believe that
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God knew each one of you that's how valuable you are
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But in chapter 19 that we read, the story takes
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A very dark turn because god's people reject it,
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The chief designer and chief potter.
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And that leads us to our 3rd and final point.
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It says in chapter 19
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That they set up places of worship to baal.
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Now, baal was usually used sometimes as
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A generic universal name for the pagan gods,
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But there's a very specific false god
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That's being spoken of in chapter 19.
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It's the amorite god, the god molech,
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And the god molech was one of the gods, false gods,
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From the surrounding pagan nations
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That the people of god embraced
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And worshiped for 300 years.
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Molech was described as having a bull's head and a human body.
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He would be often portrayed sitting down
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With arms outstretched and palms up.
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And when they made the idol to molech,
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They would carve out the belly and
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Start a raging fire inside until
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The whole metal idol was hot and enraging with fire.
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And upon the hands and outstretched arms,
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The people of god would lay their children
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As a sacrifice to molech.
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And they did this for 300 years.
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In verse 6, it says that this place
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Will one day have its name changed,
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But that the name of this place was called topheth.
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The word topheth in hebrew means drums
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Because they would play drums so loudly so that
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You couldn't hear the screams of the children being sacrificed.
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Wherever child sacrifice exists,
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Whether it was in the time of abraham
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Or in the time of jeremiah
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Or in the greco-roman world in the first century,
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Child sacrifice was always a mark
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Of a pagan nation and a pagan society.
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And in the 21st century here in america,
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It blows my mind that we are wrestling yet again
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With the practice of child sacrifice.
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And if we continue to be a nation that embraces and
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Supports legally child sacrifice,
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We are no longer just a secular nation,
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But we are simply a pagan nation because we have given our hearts
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And our lives over to the pagan gods of our culture.
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I want to say a word to everyone who's here this morning
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And everyone watching at home.
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If you are here today,
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Thank god that your mother was pro-life
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And chose to bring you into this world
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And not rob you of the pre-ordained purpose and future.
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Because every child that is murdered in the womb,
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In the name of reproductive rights is robbed
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From the god-given preordained purpose and future
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That god has established for them.
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We hear a coral ridge.
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We do believe that a woman has a right to do
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What she chooses to do with her body.
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The problem is that baby in the womb is not her body.
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The baby in that womb is another body and no one, but no one
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Has any right to take that life away from that child.
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(applause)
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This battle for life is lost or won right here in
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This room with the people of god because when the people of god
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Aided and informed by the word of god and empowered by
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The spirit of the living god is a movement unlike any other,
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It is a movement that no other
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Political movement could ever bring.
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This is the hope of the world,
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So, this morning and formed by the word,
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Empowered by the spirit
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And motivated by the gospel of the kingdom,
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May we recommit ourselves today to be ambassadors and defenders,
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Evangelists and soldiers to fight for life and in carrying
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The good news of everlasting life in jesus christ, our lord.
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Hi, i'm jennifer kennedy cassidy.
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The sanctity and defense of human life
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Is one of the major priorities for christians in america.
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After making great gains up through
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The dobbs decision in 2022,
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The pro-life movement has faced some setbacks,
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As a number of states
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Have made abortion virtually unrestricted.
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This past election, a few states finally held the line on life
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And turned back efforts to expand abortion.
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And what we've been warning for more than a generation
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Holds true today
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God will judge a nation that sacrifices its children
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To the false gods of convenience and career.
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And that's just one of the many issues that will be facing
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The incoming trump administration.
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We want to know which are the most important to you.
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John thune, members of congress, and select media outlets.
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It's important for us to know
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By the executive director of our providence forum,
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Dr. jerry newcombe.
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Jerry is a best-selling author, and in this book, he explains
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And how necessary it is that we recapture it.
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To help us continue and expand the vital work of this ministry.
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We tend to think of the term “pro-life”
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As synonymous with opposing abortion.
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But that's only one aspect of what it means
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To be truly pro-life.
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A few weeks ago, the british parliament
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Took a step toward legalizing assisted suicide through
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The government-run healthcare program there.
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They're just one of the most recent country to do so.
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Canada did it in 2016
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And they've seen a fifteen-fold increase
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In the annual number of assisted suicides since then.
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What's more, many americans agree with the premise.
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There are already states where the government
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Will help pay for your assisted suicide.
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In a well-known case in oregon, the state-run health insurance
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Denied a patient cancer treatment for late-stage cancer,
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But did offer to pay for her assisted suicide.
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Of course, none of us relishes the idea of prolonged suffering.
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We can feel sympathetic for those who are
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Experiencing pain without much hope of recovery.
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But when we say it's okay to intervene to end such lives,
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We're making judgements that have deep moral, philosophical,
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And theological implications.
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We're cutting down to the most profound and fundamental
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Questions about the nature of life.
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While it might seem compassionate to advocate
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Ending a suffering life,
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It's actually the adoption of a secular,
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Utilitarian ethic that says the value of life
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Comes from someone's usefulness or happiness.
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That means life has no inherent, permanent value,
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But is only valuable
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Because of a certain level of mental process,
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Or functionality, or enjoyment.
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And once you've decided the value of life
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Is subjective according to these things,
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More and more lives are considered not worth living.
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But the christian worldview is far different,
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And it's the christian worldview that enabled
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The rise of the western world, with its freedom,
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Health care, science, mass education, and arts.
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The christian worldview recognizes that
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God is the author of life, not us.
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Human life-every human life-has inherent value and dignity.
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That value does not come from a person's
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Productivity or usefulness or happiness,
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But because he or she is a human being
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And human beings are created in the very image of god,
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The only creatures for whom that is true.
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For that reason, yes,
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Christians stand up for the lives of the unborn, because
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They have infinite value as human beings in god's image.
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But we also must stand for the sanctity of the lives
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Of those who are elderly, ill, suffering, or disabled.
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The utilitarian ethic says
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There's no point in living a life of suffering.
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The christian ethic says with paul,
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And here's a look at the next truths that transform.
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The bible tells us that we are to not put our trust in princes,
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Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
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That's next week
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This has been a production of coral ridge ministries
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Rob Pacienza - Defending The Unborn

January 20, 2025 | S25:E3

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