The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I mentioned to you last week at the beginning of our time in the Word of God that the among all of the disastrous things that are going on in our

country and in our world, the thing that disturbed me most was the war on children. It has reached

epic proportions in our country. It's nothing new, I might say.

There has always been on the part of Satan and the kingdom of darkness an effort to destroy

children, to bring them so close to the darkness that they could never see the light.

They are the most defenseless of all humans.

The enemy of our souls is against them.

They already have sin built in and are more easily attracted to him than they are to their

creator, more easily deceived than taught the truth.

This then raises to massive proportions the responsibility that the people

of God have with regards to children. The creation mandate in Genesis chapter 1, verse 27 reads this way.

God created man in his own image.

In the image of God, he created him.

Male and female, he created them.

God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply.

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