 Amen, so keep your place there in Ephesians chapter 4 and look down at verse number 26. So we're going to look at verse number 26 here just as a means of introduction this morning. Look down at Ephesians chapter 4 and verse number 26 where the Bible says, Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. So notice the first part of that verse where the Bible here says, Be ye angry and sin not. So it's saying, Be ye angry but don't sin when you do it. So the Bible here is saying that there is a righteous anger in the Bible and my goal this morning to you, anyone that knows the Bible knows this is true, obviously God in the Old Testament is angry very often with his own people. We're going to look at that a little bit this morning. But Jesus himself is angry at times. Tell me that Jesus, when he went into the temple and he actually made a whip to beat people with and flipped over the tables of the money changers in the temple. Tell me that he was not angry when he was doing that. Tell me when Jesus was saying that the Pharisees were vipers and that you know I mean just dressing down these people for having a false gospel and what they were doing. He was angry many times but obviously Jesus was without sin. So the point is I'm trying to get you to understand there's a righteous anger. This idea that Christianity that to be a Christian you just have to just accept everything and just never be upset over anything is a lie and that is not what the Bible teaches. We are to be righteously angry when situations call for it and that's my goal this morning. My goal this morning is to make you angry with a righteous. If you're not upset at the end of this sermon I've failed this morning because I'm trying to give you a righteous anger over some things this morning. So my goal is to make you mad this morning. This isn't one of those sermons that's just going to make you just feel great about everything and everything that's going on. But hopefully you'll have a righteous anger to the sermon this morning. I'm going to Deuteronomy chapter 20. So we've been going through this sermon series every few weeks about called confounding the wise. I can't even remember my own sermon series confounding the wise and I'm going to address a few of the things that some of these atheists or agnostics talk about when they accuse God of being genocidal. They accuse God of being just full of vengeance and wrath. I want to show you this morning the reason that God, I want to address to you this morning just as means of introduction, setting the stage before we talk about how we apply that to things that are going on today. But I want to set the stage for you this morning and explain to you why God did some of the things that he did. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 20. Deuteronomy chapter 20. Of course when the children of Israel came to the Promised Land they were to wipe out the nations that they met that they that were possessing the land at that time on command of God. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 20, look at verse number 16. The Bible says, But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But thou shalt utterly destroy them namely the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Parasites, the Hivites, the Jebusites as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. So they were commanded to just wipe these people out. Verse number 18. Why? And then God gives a reason why right here. He says that they teach you not to do after and then underline these three words. All their abominations which they have done unto their gods so should ye sin against the Lord your God. God is saying here that these people need to be wiped out because if you don't completely utterly destroy them if you leave a remnant of these people and we know they did this as we studied through judges as we studied through Joshua we know that they started to make peace they started to put these people into you know servitude to them they started to not utterly destroy them. But the Bible here is saying God is warning he is saying look if you don't utterly destroy these people you will start to do what they do. You the children of God will start to do what these people do. More on this later you know this is also why God put in certain laws in the Bible to protect again against this. But you know this is what God is saying look this is the truth right here. Now when somebody like Richard Dawkins says that you know we are going to have a post-religion society. We are going to have a post-religion society where we look back on this time when people believed in God or Gods or any kind of God at all you know we are going to look back on that as a dark time look there will never be a post-religion society. There will never be a hundred percent thousand percent it will never happen. We may forget the God of the Bible that's happened many times but then what we will do is we will go to false gods every time. Why? Because God gave us a conscience and we are searching for God in our heart from the moment that we are born. We are searching for God at that point in our lives. So until somebody can figure out how to get rid of your conscience that God gives you which will never happen there will never be a post-religion society. But what will happen is as we forget the Lord the one true God we will go to these false gods and along with that comes these three words in verse number 18 all their abominations. So it's not like you know it's not like you just look at you know people that worship false gods or that you know create false gods after they've left the God of the Bible and just laugh at them and just be like oh yeah they're worshiping a piece of wood or a piece of stone or these these dumb idols as the Bible calls them they're not gods they're stone they're wood they're material they're not gods however the problem is is that it's not just that stupid thing it's with that comes all these abominations with that look at 2 Kings chapter 16 2 Kings chapter 16 look only God can see the future and that's why God can understand that he needs to give this command in Deuteronomy chapter 20 that these nations need to be utterly destroyed otherwise we will do these things God's people will start to do these things I mean it seems crazy on its face but we know that that's exactly what happened because that's what did happen in the Bible look at 2 Kings chapter 16 look at verse number 2 look these are historical books here these are historical events that happened and it's it's in the Bible it's true it's never been proven wrong and it never will be look at verse number 2 of 2 Kings chapter 16 I'll just give you one example there's many examples of this in the Bible 20 years old was Ahaz when he began to reign and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord like David his father but so he didn't do what God wanted him to do instead he did this but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel yay and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abominations of the heathen this is the abominations that Deuteronomy chapter 20 that God was warning us about with these false gods of the heathen this is the abominations God was telling us look this guy these people when they went to worship these false gods just like the heathen that they didn't destroy they began murdering their own children that's what this means that's an abomination you know what that means that means God hates it that mean God God hates it and he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree then resin king of Syria and pika the son of Ramallah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war and they besieged as but they could not overcome him at that time reason king of Syria recovered elot to Syria and draved the draved the Jews from elot and the Syrians came to elot and dwelt there unto this day look is it God's fault so let's address this idea that God is just this mean he had genocidal maniac murderer that just wiped people out look is it God's fault that left to ourselves we will literally start creating false gods and murdering our children is that God's fault God's people did this a has with king of the lower kingdom which was inherently better than the northern kingdom and they started doing this they started worshiping these false gods and sacrificing their children couple generations later menace did the same thing started worshiping false gods sacrificing their own children look is that God's fault that people do that that people start they leave him and then start murdering innocent people in their society I mean think of Israel here they had the oracles of God they had the Bible they had the instruction and just because they didn't listen to God they ended up doing these things that the other nations did we give you another example go to Genesis chapter 18 God by giving that command in in Deuteronomy chapter 20 God you know what he was doing he was trying to protect the innocent he was trying to protect children that's what God was doing and he was trying to protect children for generations to come God was being merciful to the innocent in Deuteronomy chapter 20 let's look at another example look at Genesis chapter 18 here we're looking at Sodom and Gomorrah very famous story in the Bible look at Genesis chapter 18 and verse number 20 of course we know the story of Genesis chapter 19 but just look back at Genesis chapter 18 and look at verse number 20 the Bible says and the Lord said he's explaining he's explaining why he's going to destroy these cities God says and the Lord said because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous I will go down now and see whether they have all done according to the cry of it which has come unto me and if not I will know and the men turn their faces from thence and went towards Sodom but Abraham stood yet before the Lord so of course Abraham you know he he intervenes for a lot and says God you know the lot is a is a is saved can we get him out of there but the reason the very base reason and we know that there's all sorts of unnatural perversion and homosexuality going on in Sodom and Gomorrah but look at what God says God says that the cry of Sodom Gomorrah twice he uses that word is the cries coming from those cities who were the cries look we see we see in Genesis chapter 19 the wickedness that was going on there by by men that came into the town in one day they were attacked and assaulted and they were they're trying to just you know do horrible things to them and murder them but look imagine someone who lived there imagine the the women and the children who live there that's the cries of Sodom and Gomorrah that God was talking about and God heard those cries and that's why God was going to judge those cities so we you know we see the story of the men that come to town and then God ends up destroying those cities and that he destroys the whole plane the Bible says he destroys the whole area the Bible says because of the cries because of the the the violence being done to the innocent there that's why God did it the flood is the same thing we don't even need to go over that God flooded the world because it was filled with violence violence meaning you know just harming innocent people and the most innocent among us are the children go to Matthew chapter 18 Matthew chapter 18 God is serious about protecting the weakest among us and that is look that is the children that is the children it's the women it's the children God is serious about that look what Jesus says in Matthew 18 Matthew 18 or look at the front of your bulletin the Bible says in Matthew chapter 18 in verse number two look God is very serious about this Jesus was serious about this look at verse number two and Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them imagine he brings this child and this is this is Jesus's object lesson you know this is what he's bringing to church to demonstrate what he's about to say he says very I say unto you except you be converted and become as the little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven whosoever there shall so humble himself as this little child the same as greatest in the kingdom of heaven Jesus is saying is that you know in order to be saved you must humble yourself that's true I mean in order to be saved you have to let go of belief in yourself and just trust totally on God that's why it's so much easier to get kids saved by the way than it is to get somebody who's much older saved they have all these ideas and they're not humble and they're prideful about their beliefs that they have in their life it's much easier to get a child that doesn't have all those you know preconceived ideas in their mind it's very easy to get children saved it's very easy to get children saved but then he goes on he says and who so shall receive one such little child in my name receive with me now he's talking about something different now he's saying look we need to protect these innocent children we need to protect the weakest among us he says but he's like but if you don't but who so shall offend meaning cause and offense meaning you know commit a crime against one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and then he were drowned in the depth of the sea I'm sure Jesus is not angry about people who offend who offend children who cause offenses against children I'm sure Jesus doesn't get angry about that when he says it would be better if they were drowned then should they do something like that well Jesus is talking about how serious God is and we see all these examples in the Old Testament how serious God is about protecting children he's saying it literally here look at verse number seven he says woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that the offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offenses come he's like I know these things are going to happen Jesus says I know these things are going to happen and look they are happening today these things are happening today but Jesus says woe unto that man by who they woe unto those people to who they happen because God will have the last say just like he did in the Old Testament he will still have the last say look God is serious all that to say this God is serious about protecting children in this world he always has been it's no different in the Old Testament than it is in the New Testament and the weakest in his eyes are the children so what is it what does this mean for us so first of all this idea this idea there's another idea that Dawkins and these atheists they press forward that we don't need God for morality they say we don't need God for morality you can be an atheist and be moral but look the Bible proves history proves history proves that left to ourselves that without the Lord spiritually morally we descend into chaos we descend into abominations and violence that's what history shows us I mean look it's it's really it's the second law of thermodynamics spiritually is what it is without the addition of the Lord without the addition of God's law and in that spiritual direction that God gives us we will we will devolve into chaos and abomination that's the truth of mankind right there and so this idea that you don't need God for morality is completely wrong show me one example of a society in history where that was true you won't find it you know they used to teach in even public school I can remember this from public school in social studies they used to teach us that the fall of every empire was preceded by moral decline do they still teach that today in public school no public schools are really teaching moral decline today public schools like the gas pedal down on moral decline today let's get this moral decline going as fast as we possibly can they say teach us that that every single society every single empire from the Romans to the Mongols to whoever it was moral decline preceded their complete fall they used to teach that now we're we're seeing how fast we can accelerate this today and the law you know the law that God puts in place so God not only tells us he not only tells us don't forget me don't forget me don't forget me completely destroy these heathen people you're gonna do what they do and then don't forget I mean how many times in the Bible is that like if you do the things that I say then God gives him the law he gives us the law to try to help us you know guide our steps I mean think of the laws in Leviticus chapter 20 you sit there and you read these laws like you know God makes a law against man lying with mankind then he makes a law against the man lying with beast and you're just like what in the world but God has to actually make laws against this stuff but he was a thing yes he does otherwise when men forget him these are the abominations they go into so God puts this law in place to help keep us on track against all these unnatural things where you're just like you're just like you're reading this in the Bible and you're like are you kidding me and if it wasn't happening around you you wouldn't even believe it but God actually has to put laws in place against this but the point is is that God is trying to protect the innocent God is trying to protect children because if these laws are not followed society will destroy itself and it'll destroy itself starting with the weakest people which is the children you say how does this apply how does this apply today well there's two sides today there's two sides today there's one side that's out there just in our country today there's two definitive sides today and it's getting more and more easy to see these two sides but there's one side that's trying to protect children there's one side that's trying to protect children did you know that today there's like it's a positive thing this is a positive thing did you know today there's 26 states 26 states that have already passed or in the process of passing laws that either restrict or completely outlaw abortion 26 states that's over 50 you know that's that's that's half the country that's a great thing to protect children to protect the innocent among us but that's not really what I want to talk to you about this morning this morning there's another side that is getting even further away from the Bible even further away from this if there's a side out there that is literally trying to murder children they're trying to murder children first of all let's talk about science everybody loves science so much and if you want to see biblical biblical evidence against there are not against that biblical evidence that life begins at conception you know I preached a sermon called violence about a year ago and that will cover it from the Bible the Bible is very clear as they have 44 Jeremiah 1 Psalm 139 life begins at conception folks from the Bible God is very clear about that abortion is murder plain and simple abortion is murder plain and simple but let's talk about science just for a second because everybody look the godly the godless they only like the word science when it suits them when they can properly twist it but here's the thing a person a person born versus not born and this idea of person personhood there is no scientific connection between a person who's not born and a person who is born there is nothing there is nothing there the only thing that you could scientifically say where life begins that only line is after conception that's when the DNA new DNA is formed of a new person isn't that what everybody likes the genetic code a brand new genetic code is not formed after birth it's formed after conception look there is how about this idea these a lot of pro choice people I even hate that word pro choice but a lot of pro choice people will say well you know it could never survive on its own you know a child you know in the womb they'll never say a child but you know a child in the world could never survive well a baby can't survive on its own what what kind of argument is that a newborn baby can't survive on its own a one-year-old baby can't survive on its own but you're gonna start to see that they don't really care about that line between born and unborn so much and so I hope you know some of the things that I'm gonna read to you today are probably gonna shock you are probably gonna shock you but they shouldn't they shouldn't because this is where it's been heading for a long time look there is no scientific the point I'm trying to make as we begin here is that there's no scientific line between born and unborn it is after conception it's a new person that's it that's what science says that's what the DNA says abortion is ending a human life it is murder that's what the science and the Bible tells us they match once again the science and the Bible match now more than ever we are seeing two distinct sides form here because let me tell you something as somebody who's been pro-life my entire life it's this has been an issue that bothered me since I was young enough to even understand it it was something that was very very very upfront in my family just this abortion issue and just the abomination of it but let me tell you something abortion there's things changing in this country because abortion used to be known universally is a bad thing even the pro-choice side most people who claim to be pro-choice would would agree that abortions bad that abortion is not something that you know it's it's not a good thing but look this is changing this is changing and here's another mistake that pro-life people now are making is that pro-life arguments now they're starting to only push this idea of the health of the woman that you know we shouldn't we shouldn't legalize abortion or we shouldn't have we should make abortion illegal because it protects women and look I get that I understand that abortion is bad for women but look abortion first and foremost upfront is murder of a person that is what abortion is and that needs to be the front issue because if we start you know focusing on you know the health of the mother and things like this which you know it's an important thing that's a person too but abortion is murder of a human being and that needs to be first and foremost upfront but the point is abortion used to be universally a bad thing used to be universally a bad thing but now but now while there's 26 states that are trying to make this illegal or more difficult or restrict this moving to protect life let me show you what California is doing look at Romans chapter one go to Romans chapter one go to Romans chapter one now let's look at what California lawmakers if you want to even call them that are or are doing look at Romans chapter one and look at verse number 30 so Romans chapter one is talking about people that hate the Lord quite frankly they're people that hate the Lord the Lord has given them over has rejected them and then they've just gone into all these what these abominations these unnatural abominations and then verse number 30 verse number 29 30 and 31 gives us descriptions of what these people are like in the things that they will do look at verse number 30 backbiter's haters of God these people hate God despiteful proud boasters look at this one inventors of evil things let me explain to you what this pill called the r u 486 pill is California Senate bill 24 by state representative or senator Connie Lava Democrat will go into effect in 2023 this is going into effect in California this is done this is going into effect in 2023 with the University of California it requires the University of California in California State University systems will be required to offer students medical abortions a medical abortion is a non-surgical way to terminate a pregnancy that involves taking two prescription pills hours apart basically you can now you know I mean this has been around for a while but now they were requiring universities to hand out these pills where you take this pill and it kills your child you don't have to go into a doctor you don't have to go to a Planned Parenthood you know murder center you just get two pill and look they have to hand these pills out to you at the University they have to give them to you this is a law they're turning university clinics into abortion centers it by law in 2023 they are encouraging murder they're making it as easy as they possibly can now look that I mean what if you're I mean the medical profession the medical profession is becoming it's becoming like the public school system how could you I mean how could a Christian operate within the medical system today I just I'm not saying it's not possible but they're turning the nurse at the University clinic into an abortionist they're turning the you know the the health advisor at the University clinic into the abortionist they're turning a pharmacist into an abortionist how could a Christian be in these in in these in these professions it's like Gresham's law like you won't find too many Christians in the public school system anymore because what Christians gonna sit there and teach evolution and perversion to children the bad drives out the good the medical profession is becoming that way I mean doesn't the hippie the Hippocratic oath which by the way the Hippocratic oath is like praying to false Greek gods by the way just so you know you sit there and the actual Hippocratic oath is like dear Zeus or whatever you know I promise to not do this and whatever but the point is is that the Hippocratic oath is really first do no harm what a joke what a joke the medical profession they're now handing out these they're being forced to hand out like a general clinic in a university will now be forced in 2023 to hand out pills that murder children it's crazy you say man that's bad no that's way worse this on March 22nd 2022 this was just a few days ago governor Newsom signed SB 245 which expands access to reproductive health that's abortion by eliminating out-of-pocket costs for abortion services covered by health plans that means your tax dollars now from your California taxes will now pay copays or whatever people can't pay to murder their children that's what this means the goal we just gotta get as many abortions as possible done in California but wait there's more and you're I mean your tax dollars are paying for this your tax dollars are paying for this AB 2223 it's not passed yet but it's being passed it's in the process of being passed through several different stages it legalizes self abortions at any stage of pregnancy they're basically making sure that none of these laws none of these laws that be possibly done like these 26 states are doing that they're they're trying to make a state law that covers this but then it goes further notice how it says it legalized self abortions like what what's a self abortion like I don't know taking an abortion pill but illegalized self abortions at any stage of pregnancy not that it matters because it's a person after conception it's a person after conception but then it goes further new language added to AB 2223 last week revealed the disturbing intent the proposed legislation would shield a mother from several civil and criminal charges for any quote actions or omissions related to her pregnancy quote including miscarriage still birth or abortion and then it adds this word or perinatal death although definitions of perinatal death vary all of them include the demise of newborns seven days or more after birth why would you put that in there why would you put that if you're just trying to protect abortion why would you put this quote in there that says perinatal death which by any definition the best definition you can find is up to seven days after birth some of them are 28 days or more these definitions of this word all of them include at least seven days after birth the bill from assembly woman Buffy wicks additionally protects anyone who quote aids or it sits a pregnant person in exercising these rights it also allows a woman to sue any police department or legal authority which arrests or charges her for hurting or killing her child under the provisions of the bill now you go on you look at like fact checks of all this this and you go to these these these liberal wicked as hell fact check sites by the way and they're like oh yeah you know that's not the intent of the bill the intent of the bill is not to allow you to murder your child well why would you put in there that that police can't investigate this would police investigate an abortion today in California abortion is legal what's going on here you have to ask yourself this question of abortion is legal in California today why would they why would they say perinatal and why would they take put this thing that says that the police department or legal authority can't arrest or charge them and she could even sue them for even bringing a charge against her no one's going to charge against someone who has an abortion in California what is going on here what's going on you know what's going on several attorneys have weighed in on this by the way I'm going to read you I'm going to read you what these attorneys have said look these are pro-life attorneys but there are attorneys they know what the law says and I'm just going to read you three there's dozens and dozens of these of attorneys who have weighed in on this and what this means AB 2 2 this is from attorney and chief executive offer officer Alexander Snyder of the legal what life legal defense foundation quote AB 2 2 2 3 is not only a pro abortion bill this is a lawyer this is someone who has looked at the legal ramifications of what this bill says here's your fact check right here it removes okay let me just quote it I'll stop interjecting it is not only a pro-abortion bill it removes all civil and criminal penalties for killing babies born alive under any circumstances the bill expressly authorizes any person to facilitate late term abortions and infanticide without legal bleep repercussions life legal condemns the use of euphemisms like personal reproductive decisions and reproductive justice to justify and encourage the killing of babies in and outside the womb here's another one from attorney Matthew McReynolds with the Pacific Justice Institute California lawmakers have crossed a red line by seeking to legitimize the killing of hours old even weak old infants this is not about expanding abortion rights this is a degree of evil that overwhelming majority of Americans regardless of that how they identify politically cannot stomach I hope he's right that was me continuous quote we'll be working to defeat this insane and diabolical bill here's another one attorney and president of the national center for law and policy dean broils AB 2 2 2 3 seeks to legalize the killing of babies in California after birth depending on how the term perinatal is interpreted by the courts this bill legalizes the infanticide of children several weeks after birth and possibly as late as their first birthday if this barbaric bill is enacted there will be no criminal or civil liability for a mother or those who assist her with killing her baby post birth and you're like they try to make a sound like extremists for getting upset over this because no one's ever killed a child before no one's ever had a child and put it in a dumpster before no one's ever murdered a baby that's been you know after it's been born before give me a break this look what they love murder these people love murder and look they hate children you must here's a quote from the california family org governor newson formed the future of abortion council last year in an effort to turn california into a sanctuary state for the procedure organizers listed AB 2 2 2 3 as part of their legislation package and implement implemented a 45 point plan to expand and protect access to abortion in california boy we're not 20 years ago even even the most liberal democrat candidate for anything used to stand up and say we should make abortion and rare they would always say that because even the even the the wicked liberal who is for abortion when it would say it's bad we don't want it but it's just so which makes no logical sense then because if it's bad why is it bad it's bad because it murders that's the only thing so even that made no sense but now they're trying to just expand it it's just like the more the better even to the point where we can kill children that are that are born a few weeks ago maryland introduced a bill that decriminalizes neglecting newborns to death like if you just take a newborn and and do not feed it until it dies they want to decriminalize that in maryland using the same perinatal death language though the bill you know the bill the hearing through the bill that hearing was canceled in 2019 the virginia governor ralph northam was widely condemned for radio interview asserting doctors could decide to allow children to die after birth if that's what the mother and family desired this was something that a lot of people didn't know that will that barack obama had voted for before he was even president he was president for eight years in this country and before he was even elected president he voted against a bill that would require doctors to give medical attention to a child that survived an abortion there was a bill that said if a child survived you know there's people walking around today that are pro-life advocates that are survivors of abortion that there was an abortion procedure performed on their mother and they happen to survive they're walking around today in their pro-life advocates barack obama said no if a child survives an abortion it is is right there in the doctor's hands let that child die and we voted we vote him in for eight years in this country to be president of this country we deserve everything that we get in this country I need to get hail fire hail insurance for my house rate right after church today because got to just destroy this place right now because does he doesn't get any more wicked than this well I mean what what do we have to do here's here's the point folks God was right God was right left to ourselves we will murder our children God was correct how could this be because evil exists that's how because there's people that hate the Lord that exist we need to wake up and realize this these people that run this state are wicked as hell their reprobates and they're all gonna burn in hell for eternity every single one of them every single one of these people that are pushing this stuff they're done God doesn't want them saved turn to Psalm 82 God was right left to ourselves leaving the Lord we will resort to abominations that's exactly what we are seeing and you want we perform those abominations against the most vulnerable first because these abominate these people that that are abominable people they're cowards they'll come for the most innocent they'll come for the weakest they'll come for that just the the children among us look at Psalm 82 look at Psalm 82 we should look at Psalm 82 as a prayer we should look at Psalm 82 right now as a prayer look at what the Bible says in Psalm 82 look at verse number two is everybody there look down at the Bible Psalm right in the middle of your Bible look at Psalm 82 in verse number two and we we read these things that are happening my wife told me two weeks ago about this I really paid a lot of attention to California politics and you know my wife told me about this in New York I said to my wife you know I was I was actually I was talking to my wife and I was like man there's just a lot of positive pro-life stuff going on in this country right now I'm excited about it people are banning abortion in all these states they're coming out and look this is what we've been after for a long time because like every state is not him all like this there are some people that still have caught there's there's states that have the majority of people that still have a conscience you know I have a conscience because of the Bible that's why that's the only reason and there's there's places that are not as depraved as we become here as the majority and not we but the majority in this state has become and I told my wife this is super positive she's like yeah but did you hear about this thing where they're gonna allow like infanticide in California like that can't be real I was like I can't I can't it can't be real I was like look it's real it's crazy it's real look at Psalm 82 look at verse number two God how long will you judge unjustly and accept persons of the wicked this is somebody who's in dire straits and and you know we see the same we see the same you know appeal to God from in revelation with the people saying how long you know with the people up in heaven looking down at the tribulation saying God how long are you gonna let this go on this is what David is saying here he's saying how long are you gonna accept the persons of the wicked defend the poor and fatherless he's like do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked they know not neither will they understand see see that right there verse number five it says they know it is talking about the wicked right here it says they know not neither will they understand don't ever understand people that are for people that are to this level of unnatural wickedness they will never understand they're rejected that's what he's saying in verse number five they're rejected they're done before they're dead on this earth they're they're twice dead walking around they walk on in darkness see what he says he says they'll never understand Lord you know David here is saying they're never gonna get it Lord they're walking on in darkness they're never gonna get it he's like push them that's what David is saying defend defend the poor and the fatherless all the foundations of the earth are out of course he's like this is not he you know what he's saying he's like this is not natural he's like this is not natural is what he's saying this is why we must resist and speak out against this evil these people are reprobate haters of God plain and simple it's much more folks than liberal versus conservative it is much more than that and as we forget God more and more in this country in this state and we accept this dogma that God is not needed it'll just it'll just get worse and worse and worse what do we actually see happening we see it happening we look and we sit look we don't need to experiment with our own society we've seen it from the other societies why are we doing it here it makes no logical sense can't we learn from the failures of others it's gonna end the same way that it ended for them but I suppose they don't teach that anymore I mean can we honestly say that we're more moral today than we were 200 years ago can people not figure out the graph and what direction that what slope line is today this is not look this is not rocket surgery it's easy to see that we're declining morally today God was right leave him forget him and we will fall into the worst sort of evil and look this state is literally governed by reprobates right now we should expose it we should shine the light on it we should not shy away from it so I do want to give you a silver lining though I do want to give you a silver lining to leave you with this morning as you know the Bible exposes this evil as we see this and we see things like this and it is so clear to us we're just like it's so clear to us we almost can't believe that it's happening but then when you read the Bible you can believe that it's happening but you realize that just we're living through it but here's the thing here's how I look at things we're these weird people right we're the saved we're saved right so that's one percent of people and then we're saved people in this church that are actually doing something about our salvation we're being fruitful we're going out we're trying to get other people saved we're preaching the gospel to the lost so we're like one percent of one percent remember this sermon we're like one in ten thousand we're like super rare so we're like these super rare group of people over here on this side okay like one in ten thousand super rare but then on the other side you have these super wicked as hell people over here and look they're more than one in ten thousand at this point they're saying that you know I don't know one two three percent of society maybe who knows who knows but it's quite a lot of people you know who we're after we're after the the chunk in the middle we're trying to persuade them we're trying to persuade them like you know what don't go this way because because the middle's moving this way we're like don't go this way but you know what these things if there's a silver lining at all and I'm just trying to be optimistic here it's that these things we need to shine the light on these things because this is the people in the middle like look at how wicked that side is look what happens when you forget the Lord look what happened to your children look where things are going when you keep moving this way it's like no come come over here come come this way this is what we're trying to do we're trying to persuade people and things like this because I have hope for the 95% or whatever it is in the middle I have hope for them I feel like they can be persuaded because when you show them how clear this is we're now like getting ready to legalize murdering born babies and you and I know that there's no difference between a born baby in an unborn baby but like hello this is where this direction gets you that's the silver lining we need to we need to yell this stuff out because people can say yeah that is messed up and then you know what we can get them over to our side we can get them over to the Bible side because like that that abortion used to be bad all around and I think that most of those people in the middle there aren't just the lovers of murder I believe that they believe that still we just need to show them what is happening there's people out there that love murder they hate children I mean they hate children and it like it makes sense now doesn't it make sense that they don't care whether they're born or not now doesn't make sense that that was never really an issue for them as they start pushing these laws that just allow okay let's just slide it a little bit further after birth because there's no scientific moral biblical or spiritual or any kind of evidence that being born makes you a person or not a person it has nothing to do with it and you know what I'm quite frankly I'm quite frankly sick of morality lessons from this side too I'm sick of this side telling me what love is and what hate is I'm sick of it you're out here you're trying to legalize murdering children you've been murdering millions of children in this country for decades you're gonna tell me what love is give me a break take it somewhere else God's coming for you that's the answer I have for these people look at the last verse of Psalm 82 because ultimately this is where it goes and by the way Roman 7 let me just read for you Roman 7 you turn to Psalm 82 Roman 7 the Bible says in Roman 7 9 let me give you a little bit more hope this morning the Bible says in Roman 7 9 it says Paul says this he says I was alive without the law once this is this is what he's saying about children he says I was alive without the law once he's talked about when he was a child and he didn't understand the law he was alive he was not condemned at that point that's what Paul saying I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died but when I understood the law now I need to be saved because he died spiritually look all these aborted babies all these tens of millions of children that have been killed all these people that are be murdered in California in the coming years all these children are going to be in heaven God will take all these children to heaven that that is another silver silver lining for us there but we should be against this to speak out against but God will protect these children he will take them to eternity with him no matter how wicked we get down here all these abominations that these heathen did in the Old Testament all those children are in heaven that were sacrificed to false gods God took those children and he took them to heaven and then God went and he came for the people that did those things and he will it God does not change hello we have the Bible God does not change look at Psalm 82 look at the last verse verse number eight a rise oh God judge the earth for thou shalt inherit all nations that is how it will end right there and that's how it always does why we can't figure it out is beyond me but God will protect children one way or the other God will protect children and he will judge those that come for the innocent I hope I upset you a little bit this morning because this is upsetting let's bow our heads and have a word