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We can always so easily go back and say, Adam, why did y’all do that? We would have never done that. And we are doing that. Let me read this to you. Social security would be bankrupt in 21 years because a generation under 45 years of age has one third of the taxpayer base missing due to abortion. Each day, 10,000 baby boomers are projected to retire each day for the next two decades. The whole left in America’s tax base from the millions of abortions will really be felt exponentially for decades.

Let me ask you this, do you believe that God is angry with those who shed innocent blood? And we’re talking about God is going to judge this nation. You say, well, we get away, no, no, you will not get away with it. There is a God in heaven that gave his word and says, this is what I love, this is what I hate. You’re making decisions and there’s a price to pay for it and pay they will. The shedding of innocent blood is something that God hates.

There is no moral justification coming from the Bible in Scripture to validate abortion. It’s just not there. Let me get this to you. However, the most devastating impact to society is the spiritual damage that is a consequence of injustice and unfair treatment of somebody unable to defend themselves. A philosopher declared you can tell the moral character of a society by how they treat the most vulnerable, and there is hardly anything more vulnerable than an unborn baby in the womb.

Can it defend itself? It can’t protect itself. It can’t say don’t do this. Well, in that child, if we don’t respect that child, you won’t respect anybody’s life. If you can’t respect this life. This life is just as important as yours or mine or anyone else’s. And you don’t have a right to take the child’s life. You say, are you against abortion? If you don’t know by now, you’re not listening. I think it’s wrong. I’ll think it’s a sin.

I think it’s a crime. But you see, we have judges that have legally says it’s okay. it’s okay. So that has removed all of your guilt and everybody’s fine and it doesn’t hurt anybody because it’s legal. It’s not lawful. This book cannot be changed by the Supreme Court. God’s position is still God’s position. That’s where we stand. Selfishness does reign in the majority of decisions for abortion as it becomes either it’s inconvenient. I can’t afford to raise a child by myself.

Okay? When should you have thought about this? Most people who have an abortion have another one. In some cases another one and another one. You see, the time to make the right decision is ahead a time. If that man loves you, why don’t he marry you? Why won’t he accept the responsibilities to be the husband he ought to be, the father he ought to be? Anyway, I know that my convictions have a way of leaking out. Isn’t it something that a person is willing to commit murder just for the worth of a few minutes of pleasure?

Commit a murder for just a few minutes of pleasure. Sin, the Bible says, there is pleasure in sin for a season, but then there’s the fruits of it, the consequences of it. You want to be happy. You want the best for your life. But did you know that that comes from making the right decision? Well, how do you know what is the right decision? Find out what God’s word says. When God says, don’t do this, it means that’s going to hurt you.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. It means that’s going to hurt you. You say, what about that? That will hurt you. You’re setting a precedence in your life. And when you get the urge of the desire, you’ll do it just like you did the last time. It gets worse and worse and worse. But learn to have peace and joy in your heart because it did what was right. You don’t have to fulfill all of your desires just because you have them.

God knows we do. But there’s something that’s better than all of the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of the… See, all these things are just simply the problems America has and is a spiritual problem. And most people don’t getReleased. I want to take your Bible. Look in Matthew chapter 18. Matthew chapter 18. What has been done can’t be changed. But going forward, you can say this is going to be my position.

This is what I believe. This is where I stand. So in Matthew and chapter 18, look what he says in verse 1, Jesus is talking to his disciples and the question came up, who’s going to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Verse 1, and the same time came the disciples unto Jesus and who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said, fairly I send you except you be converted and become as a little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Verse 4, “…whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same as great as in the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever shall receive once a little child in my name receiveth me.” undrafted by God. But, whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that He were drowned in the depths of the sea. Don’t make God mad.

We’re not supposed to offend these little children. But what do you think you’re doing when you’re taking the person’s life away? So it’s an inconvenience. Does that justify murder? It’s still wrong. Typically, well, it’s inconvenient. Did you know that Moses was born at a bad time? You didn’t know that? They were killing, it was legal to kill the children, legal. Did you know that Herod, when Jesus was born, it was legal, he sent them in there, kill all the babies two years old and under.

Abort their lives, kill them. There was others who would take their children and offer them up as sacrifices and even burn them alive. There’s other ones when they had children and there was a problem in Israel And with Elijah at that time, and Syria had him camped around about it, and they were big famine. And two women came to see the king. And this woman says, look, we both had little babies, and they were starving. So we agreed that we would eat her child one day, and then we’d eat the other child the next day.

The woman says, we ate my child. And the next day she hid her child and wasn’t allowed to be done. The king just threw dirt all over himself. And all he wantedPrevot to do was kill Elijah, blind it on him. And yet it wasn’t Elijah’s fault, it was his fault. But she’s people always want to blame somebody else. People have been doing this for, this isn’t something new. It’s not new. There have been cannibals who have ate people alive.

That’s why I never wanted to be a missionary. I thought I might have tried to still does it. I was with the Indian camps over in Arizona. They have a supine Indian tribe and were down in the bottom, but on the top we had, it was a Santo Arizona, I forgot the name of the internet, but they put me in this great big pot, great big metal pot, and they stood me inside of this thing and they pretended like they were going to cook the preacher.

And I said, this joke has gone far enough. They killed a couple of goats and had some blood pudding and they told us in Bible call it, hey, whatever they do, you just as a missionary, don’t I’m just going ahead and do it. I’m sorry. I’m not eating blood pudding. There was a limit. It’s how far this boy’s dedication was going to go. But understand that these are decisions that people made. Now, let me just read this to you.

I wrote this down the other day. And that was, in the beginning, everything God made was good. Right? You read that, right? All right. It’s not good now though, is it? Why? Because, man, not because of God. All that you see wrong in this world isn’t because of God. It’s because of man. Man made the wrong decisions. Listen into the devil, and people still listen into the devil. God’s children still listening to the devil. Because the only way you can combat him is knowing the word, and many of God’s children don’t know the word well enough to lead and guide their lives.

And to be strong, and to know what’s right, and what’s wrong. And we’re to stand. Can we have men today that say, this is what’s right, and this is where I stand, and this is what I believe, and stand there? I don’t have to take an opinion poll or whatever. I don’t take an opinion poll in this church. I don’t have to ask anybody in this church, do you think God will preach this sermon or not? If this is the book, this is what we’re going to go by.

And if I’m not, then take this thing and throw it in the trash and that’s going to do whatever we want to do. And everybody just live according to what we’ll join. But if this is the book, that’s what we’re going to teach. Let me give this to you. When he gave man a free will to make choices. Man turned everything. God made good into something bad. We were like sheep and we’ve all gone astray. Isn’t there a version of the Bible that says something like that?

All we like sheep gone his own way. We didn’t go God’s way. We don’t make the… He says, my thoughts are not yours and my ways are not yours. My thoughts are higher than yours and my way better than yours and yet you go your own way. And so we have a nation that’s smarter than God. Don’t need God, don’t need the Bible. Just everybody just do whatever’s right in your own eyes, and that’s where we are. So do you see the world getting better and better and better and making wiser decisions?

No. And they’re not going to bring a Bob piece. The United Notions can’t do it. Nobody else is going to do it. Without the Prince of Peace, there will be no peace. There shall be no peace to the wicked, sayeth the Lord. Two thousand years ago, Christ went to the cross to give us the biggest choice, the greatest choice, the most dynamic choice with the happiest, most fulfilling, eternal, peace-loving results. One could ever imagine it is the only way, the only hope, only possibility of making everything you see wrong and make it right.

God is the only one ever been in this world that can change it. No man can do it. Lord can. So you know what he said he’s going to do? You know one time he told Israel he said, I’m just going to wipe you off and start all over again. And Moses said, Oh, don’t do that Lord. Don’t start all over again. Because you know he’s going to have to be the one who started all over him. Didn’t know that.

So there’s several times when God said I could just wipe everybody off because he was so, the Bible says he was greed that he made man. What? Because of our decisions. And then get this. Everything we experience in life is designed as a consequence to sin, to aid each one of us in making the right decision, the right choice. Look at the world. You love that? I don’t know. So God made it good. We made it bad. So you know what God says He’s going to do?

He says, I’m going to destroy the whole thing. I’m going to burn it all up. And all those people that don’t want what I want are going to spend an eternity in a literal fire burning hell. But God says, I’m going to make a new heavens and a new earth We’re in dwelleth, righteousness. And guess what he’s gonna do? He’s gonna do for us the same thing he did for Adam and Eve. He’s gonna give you a choice. He’s gonna give you a choice.

Like I said before, in the Garden of Eden. Some people say it was an apple. No, it was the pear. Some of y’all get that after a while. You have a choice. And God said, just new heavens and this new earth. We’re in dweller righteousness. I’m going to give you a choice. Do you like the way it is? Hell is going to be a little bit like this old world is. But a literal fire burning hell for all eternity.

Now, if you don’t like that and you want to blame God for the way things are. Now you blame yourself. Look in the mirror. Thou art the man. You’re still make wrong decision even when you know what to do is right. The Bible says to him that know if to do good and do it, then not do him. It is sin. We don’t all make the right decisions. We don’t love everybody like we’re supposed to. We don’t love God like we’re supposed to.

So there’s a price to pay. So this world, God says, is going to be renovated by fire. It’s gonna be totally destroyed. And he says, and I John saw the Holy City, knew Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. He said, there’ll be a new heavens and a newer. Now, he says, if you want to go there, I’ll give you a choice. This is where we find out how smart people really are.

You don’t have to believe what God says. You don’t have to believe that everything He made was good, And man, ruined it all. You don’t have to believe that. And you’ll spend an eternity separate from God because no decision is the decision. No decision is a choice and you made it. You chose not to choose. The only way you can get into the new one is by a new birth. To be born into God’s family by a new birth that does not have an old sinful nature.

God is not going to allow anybody with a sinful nature into that new heaven and newer otherwise we’ll do there what we did here But God says no not that one That’ll never be possible So what he’s going to do is he says you must be born again and when you’re born again, that means you’re born By the Word of God God gives you as a free gift eternal life and you’re born into God’s family without a sinful nature and without a sinful nature You’ll never sin again You see, God not taking this first birth that was born into this world, He’s going to take the second one.

You see, I’ve been born twice. Once when I was born into the world, 73 years ago, and I was born into God’s family when I trusted Christ as my Savior when I was 18 years old. It’s that second birth that’s going to heaven. It has no sinful nature. That’s why when I trusted Christ as my Savior, He gave me eternal life. He said, he had never lose me, never cast me out. Why? Because I don’t have any sense to pay for it.

I have a new birth. It doesn’t have any sin. Doesn’t have a sin for me. Christ paid for this one in order to give me this one. He died on that cross because he loved you so much. He would rather die than live without you. He loved you so much. He loved the world. God so loved the world. He gave His only begotten Son. The whosoever. Anybody in this world, if you want to get into that one, you have to go through Christ.

there is no other way. No man cometh unto the Father but through Christ. So if you reject Jesus Christ, you don’t go. And how good you live down here has nothing to do with it. It will not matter. All your good intentions won’t matter. Money you gave, a claim of a life you lived. All your bills you paid, faithful to your wife, love your children, that doesn’t matter. You have to have a new birth to get into this new heaven and a new earth.

And if you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, you don’t get to go. That’s why it is so important. Now, I want you to see this verse. Look there in Ephesians 2, verse 8 and 9. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. Ephesians 2, verse 8 and 9. And look what God’s Word has to say. How is a man supposed to be saved from this world into the next world? Say from going to a literal fire burning hell, they get to go to a place where there is no such thing as sin, no sorrow, no death, no more tears, no more grief.

Down here we have all these problems because of sin. You’re suffering consequences because of what other people have decided, and we suffer consequences because of what we have decided. Do you think that those people, when they gather in Washington, make decisions, and it doesn’t affect us? And one of the doesn’t affect us. Does it affect us? They passed laws on taxes. Does that affect us? Everything affects. Do you think that people today can just, oh, it doesn’t matter if they, you know, the homosexual, as they love each other?

Well, as long as it doesn’t affect us, it’ll affect our, it’ll affect our, the Bible says concerning a lot. He says, who vexed his righteous soul from day on the day in seeing and hearing. of their unlawful wicked sinful deeds. And the more you hear about it, nor you read about it, after a while it won’t bother us at all. Everybody knows, and everybody does it, and it doesn’t matter. Women with women, men with men, it doesn’t matter. Everything matters.

It is not good, it’s not right. And I wouldn’t want them teaching my children or my grandchildren. And given the appearance of it, They just love each other just like reading. It doesn’t matter if God says thou shalt not, thou shalt not. If it’s wrong, it’s still wrong. Get God to change his mind and now I go along with it. But so far I haven’t seen God changing his mind on anything. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance, without a change of mind, without reconsideration.

889, look what he says, 4 by grace are you saved through faith. Regardless of what anybody has done, doesn’t matter if they’re a homosexual or a person committed a portion, it doesn’t matter. A little lie, you know, whatever. We’ve all sinned, as the Bible says, for all have sinned and come short of God’s perfection. We’re all in the same boat in God’s eyes. Does God love all of us? He loves all of us. Doesn’t matter if you’re black or white pink, chartreuth, pinstripe or polka dot.

It doesn’t matter what you are. God so loved the world that when he died, he died for everybody and that once you trust him as your savior, he gives you as a free gift ever, lasting life. And if it’s everlasting life, you get to go to heaven whenever you die. We’re gonna leave here one these days and there’s this new heavens and the newer and you can’t get into it unless you have been born again. That new birth is what gives you a new relationship with the Lord in sin, to He becomes your father and you become his child by birth alone.

And this new birth doesn’t have a sinful nature. So that when we get to heaven, we’ll never have to worry about sin again. Never. Or do you like the way things are? You’re like this death and grieving and losing loved ones. I don’t like it at all. God hates sin. But that’s the consequences of man going his own way. There’s consequences. Don’t blame God for the consequences. Look in the mirror and blame ourselves for our fault. God didn’t destroy your marriage.

God didn’t destroy your kids. God didn’t destroy all of that. That’s because there’s sin in this world. And everybody’s contaminated with this whole sinful desire. So he says, by grace are you saved through faith? God says you can’t earn it. You’re all in the same boat. of works lest any man should both not of works. See I’m not going to heaven in this new heaven newer because I’m so good. I’m a sinner. I ought to go to hell. But God loved me and paid for my sins.

Offered me as a free gift everlasting life and I believe it and I have everlasting life and I’m going to heaven whenever I die because God loves me that much. He loves you that much. He loves everybody that much. Wouldn’t it be neat if everybody in the world would just trust Christ as their Savior so you can go to heaven when they die, because you’re going to sin and there’s consequences to it. And some of them may suffer the consequences of somebody else’s bad decisions.

You ever have somebody running to your car? You ever running somebody else’s? Somebody ever say something bad against you? You ever say anything bad about somebody else? Have you ever lied? You ever stole? And dead of shame? I’m speaking to a bunch of liars and thieves here this morning. We have all live, we all steal, we all do things wrong, have bad thoughts. We sure need a Savior because all the people in the world, the most brilliant people, put them all together.

They can’t solve the world’s problems. It’s not within them. They don’t have it. And it doesn’t matter who we get to elect as president. We have a spiritual problem in America because, you see, when it’s all over with, we want people to go to heaven. We’re just passing through. This just happened to be our time. This is our moment. The shine and the sun. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us.

God loves us. Now He hates what we do wrong, but He loves us. You see, God says the payment for sin is eternal separation from God. Did you know Adam and Eve, one sin, and they were out of the garden? God will not tolerate one sin. And what wicked thing do they do? They hate the wrong fruit. That’s not even as bad as telling the white line. One sin, you’re out, because God doesn’t tolerate sin. And look how many decisions we make that are sinful decisions, totally and we know it against God.

But God says to pay for the sin is eternal separation from God, but He loves us, wants us to go to heaven. But we can’t save ourselves. Our good works will not pay for sin. This hand represents Jesus Christ. the Lord God in the flesh. He came into this world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

And everybody’s heard this. Most people have heard this. But do you realize when he paid for my sin, I mean he paid for my sin so that I won’t have to. He paid for my sin and he says, all that I have to do is believe he did it for me. Now that’s Easy for everybody. Even little children can do this. Why? They can believe. But I’m so glad that I don’t have to commit my life to the Lord and promise God, I’m going to live for you and I’m not going to do these bad things anymore.

I’d be a liar and a hypocrite. Now all of those who promise that are, they don’t do what they promise. Christ is going to be the Lord and Master of my life. No, He’s not. To be saved won’t work. I turn from my sins, which ones? All of them? You didn’t do it. I’m the preacher, remember? I have to deal with all these saints, godly saints. And I guarantee you, they still got problems. They didn’t turn from all their sins.

Nobody has. That’s why you need a new birth. If you and I would simply believe that when Christ died, He’d pay for our sins and it He says, when I believe that, He gives me His free gift everlasting life. I go to heaven or what He did. See, when He paid for all this, came back from the dead, He said, He will save whosoever, anybody. Regal to what you’ve done. You can go to heaven. And all you have to do is trust Him.

You don’t have to trust the preachers, you don’t have to trust the church, you don’t have to trust nobody else. All you have to do in your own mind, I’m a sinner. I believe Christ died, paid for my sin. And I’m going to trust Him as my Savior. Now, you wanted to make the greatest choice in all the world, the greatest decision that can make the greatest difference that you’ve ever made in your whole life, this is it. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, you have an opportunity to make the greatest decision you could ever make.

Would you do it? Let’s pray, shall we? Our Father, we thank You again for Your blessings. Thank You for these that indicate You by an uplift at hand that by faith alone in Christ, They believed that when he died, he died for them. And that you will give to them as a free gift eternal life, that you’ll never cast them out and never lose them. We ask your blessings upon each one here. And Father, each person that may have really messed up and failed in the past, that Lord, we’re so glad that you are a God of forgiveness.

Help us as individuals that wanna know you and love you and walk with you and serve you, we also are forgiven of others. just because we may not have done the exact same thing before you we have all sinned. And help us not to get high and lift it up because a proud look is something you hate. But help us to be patient with others who are now where we once were. And we pray your will to be done in the lives of each person here.

And Father, we pray that for someone watching by internet that right here on the screen, they can click it and say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior. Thank you Lord for all you’ve done for us. bless us in Christ’s name we pray. Are you a new listener to Bibleline? Do you enjoy the teachings of Dr. Arnold? Well, if you’ve never contacted us before, we want to give you Dr. Arnold’s book, The Gospel Driven Man. Every day we receive many emails from folks who have questions about repentance and salvation, about faith in works, and about how to share the gospel with friends and loved ones.

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