Humility is the experience of the utter, utter, utter, forsaking of self-reliance and reliance upon what God can do and I cannot do.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

What kind of power can break through the hardest hearts?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Ezra 8, verses 21 to 23,

to show how humble fasting becomes a cry for God to do

what no human argument can accomplish. This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem

Baptist Church on January 22nd, 1995.

My purpose this morning is not to rehearse all of the pro-life arguments that we have developed in

preaching and teaching and writing over the past seven or eight years.

Those are all available in the file cabinets and in the booklets.

There are biblical reasons.

There are philosophical reasons.

There are psychological reasons.

There are medical, scientific reasons.

There are legal reasons.

We could multiply reasons that for most of us, I would guess, in this room, are very compelling reasons for taking up the cause of the unborn in this country.

But even though it's not my purpose to rehearse all of those, it is remarkable to me as I've come toward this Roe v. Wade anniversary every year

and the sanctity of life Sunday and our focus on this.

How amazing it is that there are outcroppings of validation of old arguments in new ways.

And the reason I think that happens year after year, that in our culture there are public,

wide, open to analysis validations of pro-life argumentation is because the evil is so obvious.

It is so obvious.

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