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A single lie has taken root and quietly reshaped how our entire culture measures the worth of every person, young or old. How does the biblical truth about human origins expose the emptiness of modern ideas that treat life as disposable when it no longer serves a purpose? Let’s find out how aligning our emotions and actions with God's perspective changes everything we think about the value of human life.
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00:00We decided a couple of years back that it would be a good idea for us to have a small
00:03fire safe in our house.
00:05We figured that there are some important documents that in case there was a fire that they would be safe.
00:11That makes good sense.
00:12Although I would really rather have something like this as a safe in my house,
00:16but I don't quite have about $6,000 to buy one like that.
00:19But I mean, it will do over 2.5 hours of intense fire.
00:24When you think about why do we get a safe, I mean, I can't enforce it like that,
00:28but I have a small fire safe.
00:29Why do we have safes?
00:31What is the purpose of that?
00:34Because what do we value?
00:37Because what man values, he protects.
00:41Whether it's his family, whether it's important documents that you put into a safe to keep them safe,
00:46your last will and testament, insurance policies in case of a fire that they would be there and kept safe.
00:52So those things that we want to protect, we put in a safe.
00:55Or those things that we want to secure, what he secures, he puts in a safe.
00:59He keeps it secure, keeps it safe so it doesn't come to harm.
01:03Or what one treasures, what he treasures, he wants to put in a safe.
01:08That's because he values these things, those things he speaks highly of.
01:12He values them.
01:14Some of you, if you have a safe like that, you have pictures of your grandchildren
01:17or your great-grandchildren in there or your children in there
01:20because those are things that you value.
01:22You want to keep them secure.
01:23You treasure them.
01:26We live in a world, as you well know, that is falling.
01:32Since Cain, the first child that was born after the fall,
01:38since Cain murdered Abel, humanity in its entirety has shown other contempt for the value of human life.
01:48Each generation has had his canes.
01:51There's not been a time in human history since the fall where people have not devalued human life.
01:59Some generations are worse than others, some are better.
02:03But all are equally guilty of not placing a proper value on human life.
02:10Our founding fathers, men who had an intact understanding of human history
02:15and human depravity, that we're fallen creatures,
02:19started our nation with a clear proclamation of the value of human life
02:23that they penned in the Declaration of Independence.
02:26It reads like this.
02:28We hold these truths to be self-evident,
02:32that all men are created equal,
02:34that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
02:39that among these are life, a right to life,
02:43liberty, the right to liberty,
02:45and the pursuit of happiness.
02:48What they wanted us to understand in the founding of our country
02:51is that all people have the right to life.
02:53It is an intrinsic value in a human being.
02:58Every person has an unalienable, cannot be refreezed, is that word, right to life.
03:05Now what I'm going to talk about today is truly a controversial subject.
03:11People become very emotional about it, and you should be emotional about it.
03:15I'm hoping that you're not indifferent.
03:17If you're on the opposite side of me today, that's fine.
03:20Be emotional about it.
03:21We can debate it.
03:22But I hope that you're not indifferent.
03:27The only thing I ask is that we can bring our emotions in line with the Word of God
03:33and see the world as God sees it.
03:35Not as we think it should be.
03:37Not as we see it.
03:39But really, in reality, as God sees the world.
03:43I understand that there are many difficult decisions that must be made regarding this subject,
03:47and many will draw different lines, and that's okay.
03:49We can debate that.
03:50We can talk about that.
03:52But what I want for us today is that we will place the same value on the sacredness of life
03:57that God does.
04:00I want to bring our thinking in line with God's thinking.
04:03What we're going to see in the brief text today is simply this,
04:06that man is created in the image and likeness of God, giving mankind intrinsic value.
04:15For you may ask the question, are there conditions in which mankind loses its value?
04:23That life loses its intrinsic value.
04:26Are there conditions?
04:29Now, what we're going to notice today is that the amount of space that's allocated to the second creative act
04:34on the day of six in the book of Genesis chapter one,
04:38it's a lengthier portion of everything else that came before that.
04:42It clearly indicates that man is at the center of God's plan.
04:46Look at Genesis chapter one.
04:49Just a couple of verses, and I know we'll be over in Genesis chapter two here in just a second.
04:52Genesis chapter one.
04:55Genesis chapter one.
04:56Just two verses.
04:59Verse 26.
05:17So God created man in his own image.
05:28Man now is the crowning glory of God's creation.
05:32This, what was said of man, was not said of any other animal or beast prior to the creation of
05:38man.
05:38He becomes the crown of God's creation.
05:41He's unique in the sense of the planning for man.
05:45Let us make man in our image.
05:48He's unique in the nature of him, in our image.
05:52He's unique in his creation.
05:54Look at Genesis chapter two, verses four through seven.
05:56Just a couple of pages over or one page over, depending on your translation.
06:00These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day
06:05that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no bush of the field was yet in the
06:09land
06:09and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not caused it to
06:14rain
06:14on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
06:17And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground.
06:21Then the Lord God fooled the man, the dust, from the ground and breathed into his nostrils
06:28the breath of life, and man became a living creature, a living soul.
06:34He breathed into them and said, be made in my image and likeness.
06:40And the text here is the Lord God, I love it, it's Yahweh Elohim.
06:45Elohim is the all-powerful, almighty creator God, and Yahweh is always the covenant God in
06:50relationship.
06:52So we see that he creates them in all-powerful, but he creates them for relationship with him,
06:56Yahweh Elohim.
06:59The terms image and likeness are used synonymously, really.
07:03There are some shades and differences, but they're very similar, and refer primarily to
07:08man's spiritual relationship to God, his rationality, his morality to his maker.
07:14Image and likeness also is the male disposition of man's soul, what's commonly known as original
07:20righteousness.
07:21God created man in original righteousness before the fall.
07:25In Ecclesiastes, we see this idea, see, this alone I found that God made man upright.
07:31Now, we know that's not the case today, since the fall man is not upright.
07:35But that's how he was created in original righteousness.
07:38His image, the righteousness of God, but they have sought out many schemes.
07:42And the idea of the new creation in Christ Jesus is to bring us back to that original righteousness,
07:47to establish God's righteousness in us, Ephesians chapter 4, and to put on the new self created
07:54after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
07:59This image of God, this likeness of God was important only to human beings, not to the animals.
08:04Not that they're not important.
08:05Animals are very important.
08:06I have animals in my house.
08:07But man alone was made in the image and likeness of God.
08:11And the breath of life that God breathed into man's nostrils was not talked about in any other creature that
08:17he created.
08:18Only man.
08:20So the combination of the terms image and likeness refers to all that sets man apart from the animal kingdom.
08:27We are different.
08:29And because man is God's representative on the earth, his life therefore is sacred.
08:36Every assault on man is an affront to the creator, and he made in his image and likeness.
08:44It merits the ultimate penalty.
08:47That's why we can say that murder is wrong.
08:50Not just because it deprives someone of their life, hurts people.
08:54It's wrong because, in Genesis 9, verse 6, we read this.
08:58Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.
09:02For God made man in his own image.
09:04The reason murder is wrong is because it's an assault on the creator of God who made man in his
09:09image and likeness.
09:11So it's forbidden throughout the whole Old and New Testament to intentionally or through neglect
09:16cause the death of another human being.
09:20But we have this one, this person, this being in the world.
09:24Who delights in causing murder.
09:27It's in his very nature.
09:30Jesus was talking to people in John chapter 8 and said this to them.
09:35Actually, to the Jewish leaders.
09:37You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.
09:42He was a murderer from the beginning and has nothing to do with the truth because there is no truth
09:47in him.
09:48The truth is God created man in his image and likeness.
09:52That is the truth.
09:53And in man is an intrinsic value because he is made in the image and likeness of God.
09:58And Satan comes along and says, you know what?
10:00I don't abide by the truth.
10:01I don't accept that reality.
10:03I have my own truth.
10:04And that is, I don't care if I kill people.
10:06I don't care if I murder them.
10:09Here it is.
10:10That is in his very nation.
10:11He's a murderer from the beginning.
10:14So the truth that we see from the scriptures is man has intrinsic value simply because he is made in
10:22the image and likeness of God.
10:26But when we do not start with God, here's our problem.
10:32When we do not start with God as a creator, who breathed into man the breath of life, who gave
10:39man this intrinsic value because he is made in the image and likeness of God.
10:42If we don't start with God as a creator, man has no ultimate intrinsic value.
10:51This brings us to the foundational lie that has wreaked havoc and misery on humanity.
11:00Let's look at the lie.
11:02Paul warns us in Colossians chapter 2 to be very careful about lies in this world.
11:08There is a truth of God and there are lies.
11:10He wants to warn us about this in Colossians chapter 2.
11:14He said,
11:44It's the one thing that I have no patience for.
11:47We have a saying in our house, liars are friars.
11:51They just don't like lying.
11:53I try to tell my own son who's a man.
11:55I try to tell him, listen, if you tell me a lie, I can't trust you.
11:57I don't know if you're telling me the truth.
11:59I don't like lying because I like the truth.
12:01I love the truth.
12:02So I hate it when people lie.
12:04I discourage my children from lying.
12:07See, people lie in order to control and manipulate others.
12:11They lie because they don't want to get in trouble.
12:13Normally children.
12:14They have politicians too.
12:15But they lie because they don't want to get in trouble.
12:17But they lie to manipulate and control people.
12:20That's why lies are there.
12:21To take us captive.
12:23To think like they think.
12:24To act like they act.
12:26So they lie to take us, to control us, and to captivate us.
12:30And the liar believes that he can create a new truth for our minds.
12:37Contrary to what God has revealed to us.
12:39Because they want to take our minds captive to this new truth that they've created.
12:44Governments are famous for this.
12:46Truth, as we see, is not relevant.
12:50But rather, it's one's perception of truth.
12:53It's not relative.
12:55It's what I think truth to be.
12:58See, when someone lies, they disrespect the truth.
13:03They spin the truth, if you want to say that.
13:06They reshape the truth so that they will be advantaged by it.
13:13But truth is the bedrock to build life on, to build a society on, to build a marriage on.
13:23Truth is the very bedrock.
13:25Lies are shifting sand with no stability to stand on.
13:30Without truth, a marriage, or even a society will crumble.
13:35It's happened before, and it's happening right now.
13:41Let me tell you what the lie is.
13:43There is one big overriding lie on this whole idea of the sanctity of life.
13:49One major overriding heading lie in this society today.
13:54And here it is.
13:56This is the lie.
13:58Man is a byproduct of a biological evolution.
14:03That is the lie.
14:05Under that cascades many smaller sub-lies.
14:09But the overriding lie that shapes the way that people think about the sacredness of life
14:15and the intrinsic value of life is the idea that man is a byproduct of biological evolution.
14:21That is it.
14:23In 1859, Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published.
14:28His theory of evolution, note the word theory, of evolution,
14:33basically infers that over billions of years, through billions of mutations,
14:38human beings evolved from a single-celled form,
14:41resembling modern bacteria,
14:43to this well, wonderfully, and fearfully made body that we see today.
14:49Basically, man is simply a random happenstance machine.
14:56The human body simply functions because it's a machine.
14:59It's how it evolved to function this way.
15:04If you take this lie, and you draw it out to its logical conclusion,
15:09you take it out to the very end of what would happen if you really believed this lie,
15:13and you took it out to the very end,
15:16Dr. Provine, in the debate, gave us five things that are the logical conclusion of this lie.
15:21The problem is you'll not hear people say this so outright.
15:24There are no gods or purposive forces in this world.
15:28Second, there is no life after death.
15:31When you die, you die.
15:33Third, there's no free will.
15:35We can talk about that later, determinism.
15:36That's really not relevant to necessarily what we're talking about today.
15:40Fourth, there is no fundamental or ultimate foundation for ethics.
15:44If man is simply a byproduct of biological evolution,
15:47there is no foundation for ethics.
15:50You can believe one thing to be morally right,
15:52and you can believe something else to be morally right.
15:54There is no ultimate, absolute standard of ethics and morality.
15:58Fifth, there is no meaning in life.
16:00That is a logical conclusion of this lie.
16:03You carry it out to the very end.
16:05But this one lie results in multiple consequences.
16:11And they pan out in our world today,
16:13and you can see them broken down.
16:15This one overriding lie is many sub-lies underneath it, if you want to say that.
16:20Remember, we're corresponding a lie to the truth.
16:23And the truth is what?
16:24Man is created in the image and likeness of God,
16:27and therefore has intrinsic value because God created him.
16:30That's the truth.
16:32The lie is random, happenstance, millions and billions of years,
16:37product of biological evolution.
16:40And the sub-lies that fall underneath that are this.
16:44Because if one believes that man is a biological evolutionary creature thing,
16:52human life only has value if it serves a purpose.
16:59If you believe the lie that that man is a biological evolutionary creature,
17:03then we have to establish value simply on what can man do for others,
17:10for himself, for society.
17:11He has that purpose.
17:13If he doesn't have a purpose, he doesn't have a value.
17:16It's called utilitarianism.
17:18Big word, I know, but that's quite simply what it means.
17:20It's a utilitarian lie that states that a person must produce something for society,
17:25or that person has no reason to be here.
17:29See, our culture is slowly but deliberately moving towards a utilitarian worldview.
17:36It means, Latin for, utilis means useful.
17:41It's that which is useful, that which is good.
17:45Consequently, what's not useful is not good.
17:49It must be removed.
17:52If you want the strongest to survive so the human race can survive,
17:56then you need to take care of the weak ones.
17:58Or we can't be strong as a human race.
18:01They're not useful.
18:03They don't produce.
18:04So get rid of them.
18:05It's just worldview.
18:08The question is, who defines what's useful?
18:12Who makes that ultimate choice?
18:17Whoever defines what's useful has the power over us, society,
18:21and they can enforce that standard of usefulness on us all.
18:27Some of you remember this.
18:28Some of you probably had to read this for school.
18:30In 1932, Adolis Huxley conveyed to us a vision of a technological nightmare, actually,
18:37in which man is forced, through conditioning and eugenics,
18:40to happily serve as a cog in the utopian socialist machine.
18:45Things that are important to us, family, close friendships, relationships,
18:49individuals, and faith are removed from the individual
18:51through brainwashing techniques
18:54to create hollow vessels better suited to a life of consumerism
18:59and service to the state, capital N's.
19:02Motherhood is abolished.
19:05Favor of fat reproduction of children.
19:08Mothers are important.
19:10Elderly and disabled are taken care of.
19:15The euthanasia practices of the brave new world are carried out in public hospices.
19:20When the children are invited, brought into a play,
19:22and enjoy themselves as part of their conditioning,
19:25that when someone is no longer useful for society,
19:29they are taken care of.
19:32What frightens me is that we in our society are moving in that direction.
19:39When they're no longer useful,
19:41they're to the greater good of society.
19:44It doesn't just eliminate them.
19:48Do you see the lie?
19:50If they're not useful,
19:52if they're not convenient,
19:54if they're not wanted,
19:57they're to be taken care of.
20:01I came across this chart when I was doing some studying
20:04because part of the lie that we are told as Christians is
20:08that we want to keep a portion available
20:11for those people who have been raped or incest,
20:14horrible, tragic.
20:17People need to go to jail for stuff like that
20:19to rape someone or to incest someone.
20:22That's horrible.
20:23But we're told to keep it available for those purposes.
20:25But I want you to see these statistics
20:27as of August 26, 2012.
20:30He compiled this man,
20:32William Robert Johnson,
20:33compiled all of a sudden.
20:34I think it was not all the states in America.
20:36So you have to go back to the website
20:37and find out which states exactly
20:38that he compiled the information from.
20:40But what I want you to see is this.
20:43For rape,
20:43it's 0.3% reason for abortion.
20:46Incest, 0.03%.
20:48Physical life of the mother, 0.1%.
20:50Physical health of the mother, 1%.
20:52Fetal health, 0.5%.
20:54Which I don't quite understand that.
20:55Maybe it's disabled.
20:56But mental health of the mother, 0.1% to 0.8%.
21:00But what I want you to see
21:01is that the majority of abortions
21:04performed in America are elected.
21:07They're not for rape.
21:08They're not for incest.
21:09They're not for the life of the mother.
21:10They're too young.
21:12They're too mature.
21:12They're not ready for the responsibility.
21:14Economic reasons.
21:15To avoid adjusting life.
21:16They're not convenient.
21:18Mother's single or in a poor relationship.
21:20Enough children already.
21:21Sex selection.
21:22Very low.
21:23But what I want you to see
21:24is that we are told
21:25keep it viable
21:26for those people who have been raped
21:28and incest.
21:29Horrible, tragic things.
21:30But the majority of abortions in America
21:32are not for that reason.
21:35And if we just said,
21:36okay, let it be for abortion,
21:37let it be for rape and incest.
21:38I wouldn't even want that,
21:39but at least to say we let that.
21:41We would save 98% of the babies
21:43from being born in our country
21:45in a year.
21:48The lie is that man
21:50is nothing more than a machine.
21:51There's no life after death.
21:52Children or babies,
21:53so what?
21:54There's no life after death.
21:55They're dead.
21:58But when the machine breaks
22:00or it's not worth it,
22:01it's not worth it,
22:02it doesn't produce anything,
22:03get away with it.
22:05This utilitarian worldview
22:07believes that if the machine
22:08doesn't function properly,
22:09it has no further value
22:11for society.
22:13That's the lie.
22:15Value is only there
22:16when you have a purpose.
22:17That's not what God says.
22:18God says you have a value
22:19because you are created
22:20in my image and likeness.
22:21Not because you have a purpose,
22:23but because I created you.
22:26I used to like George Bernard Shaw
22:28until I heard him say something.
22:30I saw the video clip.
22:32He's a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
22:34He believes in this worldview.
22:36Listen to what he says.
22:38I think it would be a good thing
22:40to make everybody come
22:41before a properly appointed board
22:43just as he might come
22:45before the income tax commissioners
22:47and say every five years
22:50or seven years,
22:51just put them there and say,
22:53sir or madame,
22:55will you be kind enough
22:56to justify your existence?
22:59If you're not producing
23:00as much as you consume
23:02or perhaps a little more,
23:04then clearly we cannot use
23:06the big organization
23:07of our society
23:08for the purpose
23:09of keeping you alive
23:11because your life
23:12does not benefit us
23:13and it can't be
23:14of very much use to you.
23:16I don't want to punish anybody,
23:19but there are an extraordinary
23:20number of people
23:21whom I want to kill.
23:24That is the end result
23:26of a utilitarian worldview.
23:28If it doesn't have a purpose,
23:30if it's inconvenient,
23:30if it's not wanted,
23:31get rid of it.
23:34See, abortion is not wrong
23:37because we may kill
23:39someone who's going
23:40to create the vaccine
23:41for cancer.
23:43Abortion is not wrong
23:44because we may abort
23:46someone who's going to be
23:47a genius musician
23:48or piano player.
23:50That's not why abortion is wrong.
23:51That's a utilitarian worldview.
23:54Abortion is wrong
23:55because man has
23:56intrinsic value
23:57and is created
23:58in the image
23:58and likeness of God.
24:00Whether they serve a purpose
24:01or not in this world,
24:02they have value.
24:04That's what God says.
24:06Any assault on man
24:07is an assault on the creator.
24:10He said,
24:11human life only has value
24:13if it has a definable,
24:15discernible quality to it.
24:18We hear this different view,
24:20quality of life
24:21versus sanctity of life.
24:23Quality of life
24:24worldview argues
24:24that life must have
24:26a visible purpose
24:28and worth.
24:29That person's life
24:30is not worth living
24:31in the judgment of others
24:32or perhaps himself.
24:33He should die.
24:34There's no quality to life.
24:37This worldview uses phrases
24:39like death with dignity,
24:40peaceful end.
24:42The bottom line
24:43is they think people
24:44should die
24:44rather than burden
24:45everyone else.
24:49That's exactly
24:50what Hitler did.
24:52Early on in this administration
24:53and later on
24:54in this administration,
24:56handicapped,
24:57mentally ill people,
24:58challenged people
25:00were exterminated,
25:01were taken care of
25:02for the good of society.
25:04For if you believe
25:05that man is a biological
25:06product of evolution,
25:07then simply,
25:08if he doesn't serve
25:09a purpose,
25:09get rid of him.
25:10We want the weak
25:11out of society
25:11so the strong can live.
25:13That is a logical
25:14conclusion of the line.
25:17Eric Mextus
25:18in his book
25:18Vonhoff
25:19and Pastor Martyr
25:20and Powerful Spy
25:21wrote,
25:21Carl Brandt was the principal
25:24architect and coordinator
25:25of the T4
25:26euthanasia program
25:27in which scores
25:28in thousands of persons
25:29with mentally and physically
25:30disabilities
25:31were removed from hospitals
25:32in places like
25:33Bolshevik's Bethel community
25:35and murder.
25:36Brandt also performed
25:37enumerated,
25:39forced abortions
25:39on women deemed
25:40genetically inferior,
25:42racially deficient,
25:44Jewish,
25:45or mentally
25:45or physically disabled.
25:47As early as 1929,
25:49Hitler had publicly
25:50proposed that 700,000
25:52of the weakest Germans
25:53be removed per year.
25:57In August 1939,
25:58every doctor and midwife
25:59in the country
26:00was notified
26:00that they must register
26:01all children born
26:02with genetic defects,
26:04retroactive back to 1936.
26:07In September,
26:08when the war began,
26:09the killing of these
26:09defectives began.
26:12In the next few years,
26:135,000 small children
26:14were killed,
26:15and it wasn't until later
26:16that all that tension
26:17was formally focused
26:18on the other incurables.
26:21A little footnote
26:22here on this.
26:23He tried it early on
26:25in his ministration,
26:26killing,
26:27taking care of
26:28mentally disabled,
26:29physically disabled people
26:30very early on
26:31in his ministration.
26:32And do you know
26:33what stopped him?
26:34The church in Germany.
26:36The church in Germany
26:38had a backlash
26:39that you cannot do that
26:40because man has value.
26:44And he stopped.
26:45Well, once he got
26:46further control
26:47of the country,
26:47he just continued
26:48doing what he wanted to do.
26:51The church stopped him
26:53at the beginning.
26:55It's a human.
26:56Human life
26:56has intrinsic value
26:57because we were created
26:58in the image
26:59and likeness of God,
27:00not because our life
27:01has a definable,
27:02discernible quality to it.
27:05Because man has the power
27:07to produce life,
27:08this lie,
27:09sub-lie of the domain lie,
27:10the naturalistic process,
27:12that is.
27:13He thinks he has
27:14a right to terminate it.
27:16God is God
27:17and we are not.
27:19Human life
27:20is a merciful gift
27:21of God to us.
27:23Only God has the authority
27:25to withdraw that.
27:26To usurp that authority
27:28is to usurp God's place
27:29in this universe.
27:32See, we started out
27:33in our nation well.
27:36The Declaration of Independence.
27:38Right.
27:38An alienable right.
27:40Life.
27:41Right to life.
27:45How did we get
27:46to where we are today
27:47in our society?
27:49Well, obviously,
27:50God has been thrown out.
27:51No, that one can throw God out
27:52and there isn't any other explanation
27:54than evolution.
27:57But ten years before
27:58the Declaration of Independence
27:59was signed,
28:00Thomas Malthouse
28:02was born an alien.
28:04Many of you probably
28:05never heard his name before.
28:07Probably don't even care.
28:08Let me tell you
28:09why you should care.
28:10Because of the result
28:11of what he wrote
28:12in his work titled
28:13An Essay
28:13on the Principles
28:14of Population.
28:16He advocated
28:17population control
28:18through preventive checks
28:19of abortion,
28:20birth control,
28:22postponement of marriage,
28:23and celibacy.
28:25His disciples
28:26took it a step further
28:27and they believed
28:28that if Western civilization
28:29were to survive
28:30the physically unfit,
28:32the materially poor,
28:34the spiritually diseased,
28:36I don't know how you define that one.
28:37I guess that's Christians.
28:39The radically inferior
28:41and the mentally incompetent
28:43had to be suppressed
28:44and isolated
28:44or even perhaps eliminated.
28:48Even in Charles Darwin,
28:50Descent of Man,
28:51Darwin laments
28:52that the misguided care
28:53of the weaker members
28:54of society
28:55has come as a detriment
28:56to the whole.
28:57Again,
28:58the strong must survive
28:59so the human race survives.
29:00Get rid of the weak.
29:01They have no value.
29:04He warns that measures
29:06must be taken
29:06to prevent the reckless,
29:08vicious,
29:08and otherwise inferior
29:10members of society
29:11from increasing
29:12at a quicker rate
29:13than the better class
29:14of men.
29:17His half-cousin,
29:18Francis Galvin,
29:19he's a father
29:20of what we know
29:20as eugenics.
29:21Eugenics means
29:22good genes in the Greek.
29:24So we want good genes
29:25in the human pool.
29:27We don't want bad genes.
29:28Bad genes taken out,
29:29good genes put in.
29:30Father eugenics.
29:31We accepted this premise
29:33of Darwin
29:33and advocated the possibilities
29:35for planned human betterment.
29:38Galvin coined the term
29:39eugenics to denote
29:40scientific endeavors
29:41to increase
29:42the proportion of persons
29:43with better-than-average
29:44genetic endowment
29:47to selective mating
29:48of marriage barbers.
29:51But there was a disciple
29:53of Galvin.
29:56This disciple of Galvin
29:58founded what we know
30:00and is still in existence
30:01here in America today.
30:03She was a disciple
30:04of Malthouse
30:05and an admirer of Galvin.
30:06Her name is Margaret Sangen.
30:09She founded
30:10the American Birth Control League
30:11in 1921
30:12and in 1942
30:13the name was changed
30:14to the Planned Parenthood
30:15Federation of America.
30:18Planned Parenthood
30:19was built on the ideas
30:20and resources
30:20of the eugenics movement.
30:23Bad genes out,
30:25good genes in.
30:27So she came up
30:28with her mind
30:28who the bad genes were.
30:30Who the things
30:31and people
30:32that she wanted
30:33out of the human
30:34genetic pool.
30:36So she argued
30:37that birth control clinics
30:38or bureaus
30:39should be established
30:40in which men and women
30:41would be taught
30:42the science of parenthood
30:43and the science of breeding.
30:45For this was a way
30:46to breed out of the race
30:48the scourges
30:49of transmittable diseases,
30:51mental defect,
30:52poverty,
30:53lawlessness,
30:54crime,
30:55since these classes
30:55would be decreasing
30:56in the number
30:57instead of breeding
30:58like weeds.
31:01That's her philosophy.
31:04That was the philosophy
31:05that founded
31:06the Planned Parenthood
31:07of America
31:07we know today
31:08as Planned Parenthood.
31:11It was not about
31:12the right of a privacy
31:13for women
31:14as the Supreme Court
31:15said in 1973.
31:17In her mind
31:18it was about
31:19controlling population
31:21and weeding out
31:22the defective ones
31:23in society.
31:24By the way,
31:25she was an extreme racist.
31:27That's why most of her clinics
31:28were among black
31:30constituents.
31:33the American society
31:34has bought the lie
31:36about the right of the woman
31:38over her own body.
31:39The lie of the baby
31:40really isn't part of her body
31:42technically.
31:43It has its own DNA.
31:44It's a complete
31:44separate individual.
31:46And the blood
31:47is not shared.
31:48It's not the same as the mother.
31:48Sometimes it's contrary
31:49to the mother's blood.
31:50Different type of blood.
31:52It's not really technically
31:53part of the woman's body.
31:54The woman is protecting
31:55the baby in the womb.
31:56Yes,
31:57just like the woman
31:57will protect the child
31:58outside of the womb.
32:01But it's not really her body.
32:02It's a baby.
32:03It's a human being there.
32:08Those on the forefront
32:09of promoting abortion
32:10or emphasize
32:11or euthanasia
32:12and racial exterminations
32:14have often based their views
32:15on evolutionary Darwinism.
32:17That's why I hate that lie
32:18so much in society.
32:20It is the overriding lie.
32:24What's the direct result
32:26of devaluing human life?
32:28In Roe v. Wade,
32:30the Supreme Court
32:31justice ruled
32:32based on the 14th Amendment
32:35that gave the right
32:36to a woman
32:36to terminate a pregnancy
32:37under the guise
32:38of the right to privacy.
32:40A woman has a right
32:41to do what she wants
32:42with her own body.
32:43Margaret Sanger's famous saying.
32:46In January,
32:48the Supreme Court
32:49in a ruling
32:49actually January 1972
32:52keeps the date.
32:54January 1972,
32:55the Supreme Court
32:56in a ruling,
32:56five to four ruling,
32:58struck down
32:58the state's right
32:59to execute
33:00a convicted criminal.
33:03One year later,
33:04on January 22, 1973,
33:07Roe v. Wade
33:08and Doe v. Bolt
33:09were handed down
33:10in seven two rulings
33:11in favor
33:12of a new right
33:13to abortion.
33:15That afternoon,
33:17former President
33:17Lyndon B. Johnson
33:18died pushing
33:19that information
33:20out of the psyche
33:21of the American people.
33:23Think about this.
33:26The Supreme Court
33:27struck down
33:28the right of states
33:29to execute
33:30convicted criminals
33:31and one year later
33:33authorized the execution
33:34of innocent babies.
33:38What can we do?
33:40It's overwhelming.
33:41What can we do?
33:42A couple of things
33:43quickly.
33:44At every turn,
33:45at every turn,
33:46wherever we encounter it,
33:48we must value
33:49human life
33:50in our conversations
33:51and in our actions.
33:57man was created
33:58in the image
33:58and likeness of God.
34:00We have value,
34:00intrinsic value,
34:01not by what we produce
34:03or what we can do
34:03or a quality of life,
34:05but simply because
34:06God created us
34:07in His image.
34:08We must tell people
34:09this truth.
34:13You might want to volunteer
34:14in a pro-life organization,
34:16iChoice
34:16or other crisis pregnancy centers
34:19or some sort of
34:20pro-life organization.
34:21It's possible
34:22you may want to do that.
34:23Volunteer there.
34:24We have here
34:25in the back
34:26some baby bottles
34:27that iChoice
34:29is taking up
34:29collecting for the next month.
34:31Grab a baby bottle
34:32on the way out.
34:32Fill it up with coins
34:33or better yet,
34:34put dollars or checks
34:36inside here
34:36to go over to iChoice
34:38to help them
34:38save lives of babies.
34:41They're in the back
34:42on the way out.
34:42Grab one.
34:44Maybe you want to
34:45write letters
34:45to the editor.
34:47You want to write
34:48to the newspaper
34:50talking about
34:50the intrinsic value
34:51of human beings.
34:55We persuade society
34:56in the realm
34:57of ideas.
35:00Here's probably
35:01the biggest one
35:02we can do.
35:03All of us.
35:03Me included.
35:04All of us.
35:06We have to stop
35:08being afraid
35:09to speak
35:10the truth
35:11of God.
35:12I have to stop
35:14being afraid.
35:16Fear of being
35:17labeled a religious
35:19fanatic.
35:20Fear of being
35:21miniculed as one
35:22who denies evolution.
35:24Come on,
35:24everybody knows
35:25that evolution
35:26is true.
35:27Go to your
35:28public schools.
35:32you're ignorant
35:32and anti-scientific
35:34if you don't
35:34believe in evolution.
35:36Fear of not being
35:37accepted in our
35:38society.
35:39You speak out
35:40on the truth
35:40of the value
35:41of human life
35:41and all of a sudden
35:42you're outcast
35:43in the one place.
35:45You go to the
35:45water cooler
35:46and everyone
35:46leaves.
35:50Fear of being
35:51seen as
35:51narrow-minded,
35:52heartless,
35:53uncompassionate
35:54person.
35:55You don't care
35:55about women.
35:57Isn't that what
35:58we heard in the
35:58last election?
35:59We have a war
36:00on women?
36:01If you stand
36:02on the side
36:03of valuing
36:04human life,
36:05all of a sudden
36:05you're at war
36:06with women?
36:07Why do they
36:08say that?
36:08They want you
36:09to be afraid
36:10to talk about it.
36:12No one wants
36:13to be at war
36:13with a woman.
36:14Trust me,
36:15I'm married
36:15to one.
36:16Don't let me
36:17be at war
36:17with a woman.
36:18None of us
36:19want that.
36:19That's not
36:19what we're saying.
36:20What we're
36:20simply saying
36:21is that life
36:21has value
36:22because God
36:22created us.
36:25I watched
36:25a movie here.
36:26I know I need
36:26to wrap this up.
36:27It's almost
36:27a...
36:28I watched a movie
36:29here.
36:29I can't
36:30necessarily
36:30recommend it.
36:31I tried
36:32all this
36:32the whole way
36:33through.
36:34But it was
36:35about a
36:35Polish piano
36:37player in
36:37World War II.
36:39He's in
36:39Warsaw.
36:40He's playing
36:41on the Polish
36:42radio station.
36:43It was broadcast
36:44all over the
36:44United States.
36:44Oh, excuse me,
36:45I'll over
36:45Poland.
36:46And the bombs
36:47start falling.
36:49So he goes
36:50home.
36:50He's in his
36:50mid-20s.
36:51He goes home
36:51to his parents
36:52and his kid
36:52and he said,
36:53you know,
36:53should we leave?
36:53Should we get
36:54out of town?
36:54They're in Warsaw.
36:55Should we stay?
36:56Should we go?
36:56The daddy
36:57says,
36:58the patriarch of the
36:59family says,
36:59we need to stay.
37:01Shortly thereafter,
37:02they walled in
37:04Warsaw,
37:05made it the
37:05Polish ghetto.
37:07They were Jews.
37:08I'm sorry,
37:08I should have
37:09said that.
37:09He was a Jew.
37:11At the very
37:12beginning,
37:12as they walled
37:13again,
37:14they were brutal,
37:15the Nazis,
37:16and cruel to the
37:17Jewish people
37:18inside the ghetto.
37:19I mean,
37:19absolutely just
37:20shoot them at
37:21random.
37:23But then slowly,
37:25they began
37:27withdrawing the
37:28Nazi presence.
37:30And once fear
37:32had worked its
37:32evil enslavement,
37:35very few Nazi
37:36soldiers were
37:37needed to control
37:37the population.
37:39And in one scene,
37:40one soldier was
37:40there overlooking
37:41about 100,
37:42200 people.
37:43Hello?
37:43One soldier,
37:44one weapon,
37:45200 people,
37:45can take the guy
37:46out?
37:47No,
37:47they were afraid
37:48to act.
37:50That's what we
37:51have been,
37:51afraid to act,
37:53afraid to speak,
37:55afraid to stand
37:55up for the truth,
37:56to be labeled,
37:57all of those
37:58things.
37:59We live in fear
38:00even to bring up
38:01the subject of
38:02abortion,
38:04sanctity of life.
38:06And when the
38:07discussion turns
38:07more,
38:08we're normally
38:08silent.
38:10I'm tired of
38:12being afraid,
38:14tired of living
38:15in fear of how
38:16society will view
38:17me.
38:19The opinions
38:20of the world
38:21cannot negate
38:23the truth of
38:23God.
38:24We are created
38:26in an image
38:27and likeness
38:28of God,
38:28and how
38:29valid
38:29it is.
38:31Teresa and I
38:32lived about
38:3240 minutes
38:33from Buchenwald,
38:34concentration
38:34area in eastern
38:35German.
38:37Buchenwald,
38:37they did not
38:38have gas
38:40chambers there,
38:41but they had
38:41ovens.
38:42And it was
38:44hidden well
38:44in the woods.
38:45The Americans
38:46liberated it
38:47toward the end
38:47of the war.
38:48And we watched
38:49this documentary
38:50at Buchenwald,
38:52about it.
38:53And one
38:53segment of the
38:53documentary that
38:54impacted me
38:55greatly is what
38:55the American
38:56general did.
38:57The closest
38:58city to Buchenwald
38:59was Weimar.
38:59You've heard
39:00the Weimar
39:00Republic,
39:01it's Weimar,
39:01that city.
39:02The closest
39:02city to that,
39:03not far away,
39:04just a few
39:04minutes.
39:06The general
39:06sent people
39:07down to
39:07Weimar to
39:09ask them
39:09why they
39:10didn't stop
39:10what was going
39:11on up at
39:12Buchenwald.
39:13And the
39:14response was,
39:15oh,
39:16the people
39:16of Weimar
39:17responded,
39:17we didn't
39:18know what
39:18was happening.
39:19We couldn't
39:20quite explain
39:21the black
39:22clouds of
39:23smoke that
39:23were wafting
39:24over the
39:24city of
39:25Weimar that
39:25smelled
39:26unusual,
39:27but we
39:28really didn't
39:28know what
39:28was going
39:29on.
39:32They didn't
39:33say anything
39:34because they
39:34were afraid.
39:37They feared
39:38getting involved
39:39because of
39:39their personal
39:40hardships or
39:42things that
39:43would happen
39:44to them.
39:46They knew
39:47what was
39:48going on
39:48there.
39:52And
39:53therefore
39:53were responsibly
39:56for the
39:56sake of
39:57value of
39:57human life
39:57to try
39:58to stop
39:58it.
40:02Do you
40:03remember
40:03back way
40:05in human
40:05history,
40:07Adam and
40:07Eve,
40:08the very
40:08first son
40:09mourned
40:10Cain and
40:11follow
40:11Abel?
40:14Cain was
40:14angry at
40:15Abel or
40:16angry at
40:17God,
40:17basically.
40:18And we
40:18know the
40:18story,
40:19don't we?
40:19We know
40:20the story
40:20that they're
40:21out in the
40:22field and
40:22Cain kills
40:23Abel.
40:25But do you
40:25remember shortly
40:26after that,
40:27not where,
40:28am I my
40:28brother's keeper?
40:29Not that
40:29second,
40:30but something
40:30else that God
40:31says to
40:32Cain in
40:33Genesis chapter
40:344.
40:34Look what he
40:35said to
40:35Cain.
40:37And the
40:38Lord said,
40:39what have
40:40you done?
40:42The
40:43voice of
40:44your brother's
40:45blood is
40:46crying to
40:47me from
40:47the ground.
40:49God's
40:50saying to
40:50Cain,
40:51listen,
40:51I hear the
40:52cry of your
40:53brother's blood
40:54from the
40:55ground.
40:55It's come up
40:55into my
40:56ears.
40:57And God
40:57Almighty,
40:58the creator of
40:59man and
40:59woman,
40:59creator of
41:00all humanity,
41:01values humanity,
41:02says,
41:03what have you
41:04done?
41:04I hear
41:05the cry
41:07of his
41:07blood.
41:09Well,
41:10I ask you,
41:12what would
41:12the sound
41:13of 50
41:14million
41:15aborted
41:16babies
41:16sound like
41:17in God's
41:18ears?
41:23What have
41:24we done?
41:25Not you
41:26personally,
41:27but us
41:28as a
41:28society.
41:31Dietrich
41:32Bonhoeffer
41:32in his
41:32book,
41:34he said
41:35this,
41:37silence
41:38in the
41:38face of
41:38evil
41:39is
41:40itself
41:40evil.
41:42God
41:43will not
41:44hold us
41:44to
41:44us.
41:46Not to
41:47speak
41:47is to
41:48speak.
41:49Not to
41:50act
41:51is to
41:52act.
41:56God
41:57use us
41:58to
41:59change
41:59agents
42:00in
42:01our
42:01society.
42:02Let's
42:02pray.
42:03Father,
42:05we see
42:06the truth
42:06in your
42:07word,
42:07and we
42:08clearly see
42:09the lie
42:09in society.
42:11I'm afraid
42:12you would
42:12forgive us
42:13when we
42:13have accepted
42:14parts of
42:14that lie
42:15into our
42:15value system,
42:18which influences
42:19how we think
42:20and act.
42:22Forgive us
42:22when we
42:23have accepted
42:23even a
42:24fragment of
42:24the lie
42:25into our
42:26way of
42:26thinking.
42:28Thank you
42:29for exposing
42:30the lie
42:30by revealing
42:31to us
42:32your truth.
42:33And may
42:34we,
42:34your people,
42:35the people
42:35of truth,
42:36the people
42:36who love
42:37the truth,
42:37who love
42:38the Lord
42:38Jesus Christ,
42:39who is the
42:39way,
42:39the truth,
42:40of the
42:40life,
42:40who love
42:41the spirit,
42:41who is the
42:41spirit of
42:42truth,
42:42who love
42:42you,
42:42who is a
42:43God of
42:43truth.
42:44May we
42:44be people
42:45of truth,
42:46not people
42:47of the
42:47lie.
42:49May we
42:50be used
42:50by you
42:51in this
42:52society
42:52to be
42:53change
42:53agents,
42:55that our
42:56society
42:57would turn
42:57from the
42:58lie and
42:58embrace
42:59the truth.
43:00I pray
43:01this in
43:01Jesus'
43:02name.
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