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Pro-Life: It's Non-Negotiable | The Truth Of It - Ep. 97 - YouTube
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Yes, you must be Pro-Life. I'm
Martyn Iles and this is
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'The Truth of It'. I was travelling
at the time, so I actually
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missed my chance to film a
response to the overturning of
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Roe vs. Wade in the United
States Supreme Court, some weeks
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ago. But I don't want to miss a
chance to explain why pro-life
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is good, why it is right, and why
it is non-negotiable for the
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Christian. Pro-Lifer's welcomed
the legal change in America
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with Roe vs. Wade being
overturned, because it does mean,
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in practice, that there will be
fewer abortions in America. But,
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for me, that's not only reason
why it's good. It's also good
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because it is quite true. There
is no right to abortion in the
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U.S. Constitution. The document
is completely silent on the
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matter, as constitutions around
the world tend to be. It's not
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the sort of thing you put in
a constitution. It wasn't
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there. It was never there. It
was a fabrication. It's true,
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it's right that the court says,
yeah it's not there, okay? So,
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the States can legislate as
they please but it's not in the
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Constitution. It is also true,
that no law should sanction
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abortion, because the law
should not say that what is
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wrong is right. It's pretty
simple. And the act of aborting
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a child is wrong. Law says
what's in, what's out. It should
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be what's right and what's
wrong. It's supposed to accord
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with God's standard of
righteousness, so the scriptures
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say in multiple places. It's
not right that it should
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sanction it. But, it's also true,
that Pro-Life is good, it is
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right, and it's commanded by
God. God commands, in a
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non-negotiable way, the
advancement of both biological
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and spiritual life. Two things,
right? They are separate
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words in the New Testament,
'bios' and 'zoe'. Two different
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kinds of life. And regarding
the first, biological life,
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Genesis 9 holds a really
key - a really important key.
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It says this, God says, 'I will
require a reckoning for the
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life of man. For God made man
in His own image. As for you,
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be fruitful and multiply,
increase greatly in the earth,
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and multiply in it.' In other
words: make life, not death, and
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I will judge you accordingly.
Children are never given a
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negative connotation in all of
the Bible, only positive. Psalm 127
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is well known. It says that
children are a reward, that they
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are a heritage from the Lord.
It says that children are a
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blessing to fathers. Children
are a blessing to mothers. It
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says grandchildren are a
blessing to grandparents in
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Proverbs. Jesus used children
as a metaphor for faith,
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a metaphor for greatness in the
Kingdom of God, and a metaphor
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of Himself, because of their
humility, dependence, trust,
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and lowliness. You remember,
Jesus said 'I'm meek and lowly
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in heart', right? Condition of
entering the Kingdom: poor in
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spirit. He's likening - He used
a child as a great metaphor
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for a number of those key
things. God decided to save the
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world through the birth of a
child. Ever since Genesis 3:15,
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there would be a child that was
born - that's what Genesis 3:15
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is promising - that would crush
evil, that would crush Satan.
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When Galatians 4:4 says,
'When the fullness of the time
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was come, God sent forth his
Son, born of a woman.'
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Tragically, because of
abortion, we routinely kill our
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children. And that is clearly
evil, and God will judge us
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accordingly. That's biological
life. What about spiritual
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life? It is possible for a
human being to be biologically
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alive, and yet spiritually dead.
There are many references, but
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in Ephesians 2, that's just
one: 'God, being rich in mercy,
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because of the great love with
which He loved us, even when we
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were dead in our trespasses,
made us alive, together with
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Christ.' There you go. Romans 6:13
says, '...we should live as those
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who have been brought from
death to life...'
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Spiritual death / spiritual life - both states can
exist in a biologically alive
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human being. But that is why, the
same evil forces that literally
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kill children, would also seek
to see children corrupted and
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have their innocence robbed
from them as young as possible. The
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assault on the innocence of
children, the corruption of
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children, has gathered pace in a
very short time, and right now
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the vanguard of that, is the
school system and the
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entertainment system. And I'm
sorry to say that there have been
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institutional system some run
by churches, and some in
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churches, in the past that have
done exactly this, that have
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that have also been responsible
for great corruption and great
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stumbling of children. The
design... what is it, from all
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these evil people wherever they
find their foothold? If the
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children must live, then they
must be dead to towards God.
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These are all the sick, dark,
and twisted designs of death.
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But it has ever been thus. As
early as Genesis 3:15,
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which I think I
mentioned just a minute ago -
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scripture flags for us, a great
conflict between good and evil,
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and right in the guts of it
will be a war on human life -
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the offspring of women - that's
what the war will be centred
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on, climaxing in the war on
Jesus, the son of Mary, who it
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says will crush the serpent,
crush evil, although He Himself
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will be bruised. This reality
of the way evil denigrates
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children is everywhere. You
look at Pharaoh, given over to
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Satanic influence, killed all
the Hebrew babies. That is why
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Herod, jealous for power,
killed all the boys in
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Bethlehem. That is why children
are so frequently at the bottom
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of the social order, and victims
of forces of corruption and
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destruction, I just touched on
that. To those people
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responsible, Jesus said,
'Whoever causes one of these
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little ones who believe in me
to sin, it would be better for
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him to have a great millstone
fastened around his neck and to
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be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Woe to the one by whom the
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temptation comes.' Better, He
means, than to face God's
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judgement for such an act. Now
the war on life is very
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intense. Not just in history,
but in our day. On physical
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life, we have politicians who
literally throw parties when
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they pass abortion-to-birth
laws through our parliaments.
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They are bent on the physical
deaths of children. We also
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have, on the spiritual side,
sickos in the education system,
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and the entertainment
industries, bent on the
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spiritual destruction of
children, the corruption of
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their innocence, and the insertion,
the placing of stumbling
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blocks and temptations in their
way to turn them away from what
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is right. What are we to do? We
need Pro-Lifers, to advance the
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physical and the spiritual
lives of children. Because it
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is through the life of people,
it is through the creation of
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life, that God advances His
plan. What happened, by the way,
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when Pharaoh did his worst? God
preserved a life, miraculously,
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in Moses, to advance His plan.
What happened when Herod did
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his worst? God preserved a life,
miraculously, in Jesus to finish
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His plan, for all time. What
happened, by the way, when God's
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people slumped down into a
terrible situation in the era
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of the Judges. How did God get
them out of that? How did He
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change the era and the times? He
raised up a life - Samuel,
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through the prayers of his
mother, Hannah, and ushered in a
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new era. It is through life
that God advances His plan. Yes,
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we need to be Pro-Lifers. And
we need to be Pro-Lifers in the
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political world, right? And
that's something that I've had
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to do a lot of, and a lot of advocacy, and
we pray and trust that as
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America is making great gains,
we will continue to see gains
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here. We've seen small ones. We
trust that we'll see more. But
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we also need to be those who
are Pro-Lifer's, just in our
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lives. We need to be those who
do have children, as we're
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commanded to, if we can, if we're
married. We need to treasure
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the children that we know. We
need to pray, intently and
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earnestly, for the children in
our lives. We need to be
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involved, as best we can, in the
spiritual formation and the
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guidance for righteousness of
children. We need to protect
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children. We need to dedicate
our children to the Lord to
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advance His purposes. That is
the Pro-Life life. It is good.
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It is right. God has commanded
it, and He hasn't made it
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negotiable. And it's becoming
so, so countercultural. As
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children drop to the bottom of
the social ladder, excluded from
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more and more places than ever,
considered to be an
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inconvenience, replaced by puppy
dogs and kittens by millennial
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couples - I could go on. Do you
know something? Boy, oh boy, will
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Christians stand apart because
of their difference on this
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matter. Advancing the
biological and the spiritual life
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of every child because this is
good, and don't forget it. I'm
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Martyn Iles and that was 'The
Truth of It'.
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