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Ask Pastor John

The Strong Murder the Weak Every Day in America

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

Christianity, Pastor, John Piper, Theology, Ask, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Killing an unborn child is illegal if the mother wants the baby — but legal if she doesn’t. The rights of the weak rest in the hands of the strong.

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0:00.0

Every day in America, the strong, murder, the weak, and it's legal.

0:11.4

It's legal for the strong to murder the weak in America because Americans have grabbed

0:16.4

for a godlike power to determine what is real and what is not real, who is human, and

0:23.0

who is subhuman.

0:25.6

They profoundly, important point made by Pastor John and his latest sanctity of human

0:30.1

life Sunday sermon, and an eclipse recently sent to us by a listener to this podcast.

0:35.1

Here's Pastor John to explain.

0:39.5

Abortions come from self-deification, deification, what in the world is that?

0:46.8

To deify something is to treat it as gods.

0:51.6

To self-deification is to act as though you're God.

0:58.3

I can hear someone say, oh, here it comes, some over-the-top overstated, fevered rhetorical

1:08.2

sermonic flourish about our becoming gods if we're pro-choice, you listen, and judge

1:21.3

if it's fevered.

1:24.4

In 1992, in the case of Planned Parenthood versus Casey, the Supreme Court Justice Anthony

1:34.2

Kennedy spoke a sentence, one of the most important sentences uttered in the last 50 years

1:43.2

for echoing and shaping our culture.

1:47.9

He said, at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence,

1:59.9

of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life that's breathtaking.

2:10.8

Here's one of the outworkings of that self-deifying worldview.

2:19.2

Minnesota, along with 37 other states, have fetal homicide laws, what that is, laws about

2:31.3

how you can treat a baby in the womb.

2:34.8

You can read these, just like I did, just go to Google, type in Minnesota statutes, 609-266-1

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