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The Eric Metaxas Show

Eric at St. Michael's Church (continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Eric continues his sermon at St. Michael's Church and addresses questions about culture-changing faith, as well as highlighting stories from his new memoir, "Fish Out of Water."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, folks, welcome the Eircomit Taxes Show.

0:12.0

In hour one, we played my remarks at St. Michael's Anglican Church that's in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the most historic

0:22.9

churches in one of the most historic cities, just heavenly. The Reverend Al Zadig is the

0:28.6

rector there. We, he let me talk for a while. Then we did some Q&A. And so in our two,

0:36.7

we're going to continue playing that because I did a lot of talking.

0:40.6

And here it is.

0:43.8

All of us understand that. There's certain rules, right? The Constitution says, I can't do this.

0:48.3

And you're like, well, but I want to. Well, you can't. We have rules. God has rules.

0:56.8

And the issue of life, I mean, this is where we have failed in the evangelical church. I think sometimes we get so focused on scriptures that we forget

1:01.9

what the Catholics are really good at is the bigger picture and the idea of natural law. And, you know,

1:08.3

because just because there's not a verse on abortion, and we, you know, we all find our verses on abortion.

1:14.1

But I'm just saying that that's not how God works. God's laws and his will go beyond scripture verses. It's the whole council of scripture.

1:23.7

And the whole council of scripture makes it very clear that every human being is a human being for whom Jesus died.

1:32.2

And we simply do not have the right to take the life. That's it. Now, what you do after that, you could do anything you want, but you need to know that God doesn't

1:44.9

give us that right. So when people couch these things in terms of choice, these are euphemisms, right?

1:50.3

I mean, it's like, you know, putting down a dog. You say we put him down. We didn't blow his brains

1:54.3

out. We put him down. When we talk about euthanizing someone, what do you mean mean murdering? No, euthanizing someone. We use

2:04.4

these terms. God says life is sacred. Human life is sacred. And there's just no way around it.

2:11.8

And if somebody says, well, that's very upsetting to me. You could say, well, it's upsetting to me

2:15.6

too, because there are plenty of people that I would love to kill, but I can't. And the fact of the matter is that our emotions cannot get us around.

2:25.0

I mean, you could be miserable and saying, how am I going to do this? How am I possibly going to

2:31.3

have this baby? Or how is she going to have this baby? You don't need to have this baby you don't need to know god knows

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