Jesus Christ and the Fight for Life

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John Piper, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons

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🗓️ 19 January 2007

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There are several reasons why we must be engaged in the fight for life, and the various aspects of Christ’s work in redemption directly relate to the efforts of the pro-life cause.

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper.
0:03.5	More information from Desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W.W.
0:08.5	Desiring God.
0:11.0	O.G.
0:12.0	Why don't we pray one more time and ask the Lord's help.
0:17.0	Father in heaven this is tremendously serious what we're about here and I pray that
0:29.4	you would cause the ripple effect from this little assembly to be beyond all proportions.
0:37.0	It is your way to take five loaves and two fish and feed 5,000.
0:45.2	It's your way to take 12 apostles, imperfect,
0:49.8	and turn the Roman Empire upside down in a few hundred years and bring 1.3 billion people
0:58.4	under the sway of Christ's name and it's your way Lord to take a Wilberforce and his perseverance and
1:08.6	disestablish the African slave trade in Britain and what would it be here Lord I
1:16.8	pray that you would give vision to everyone in this room and everyone who hears my
1:21.6	voice Lord give us a vision for how we might be used of you to make abortion unthinkable in our land.
1:32.0	So grant us the proper compassion and the proper intensity and the
1:37.8	proper abhorrence so that we communicate the truth that light shines upon our land.
1:45.0	I ask this in Jesus' name, amen.
1:50.0	The title is Jesus Christ and the Fight for Life.
1:59.6	So I'm going to divide this into two parts, one on Jesus Christ and one on the fight for life
2:04.9	and how they interweave. What's so clear is that Jesus Christ came into the world to be admired and marvel at and wondered
2:19.6	and to be the Lord at the universe and to capture our hearts and our attention for himself.
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