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Let's pray.

Father, we will tread on serpents now, and I pray that you would fulfill your promise in Roman 1620 that Satan will soon be crushed under your feet.

That by the word of our testimony and by the blood of the Lamb, the powers of darkness will be nullified and driven back.

And a great space of light and truth and hope and cleansing and power and righteousness and justice and

compassion will be created. I ask this in the mighty name of Jesus, amen. This is

sanctity of human life weekend.

Martin Luther King weekend and sanctity of human life we can always come back to back in January in this country.

And we think at, that globally and nationally racism with all the carnage that

comes in its wake and abortion with the 50 million babies that

have been killed since Roe v. Wade 1973. These two racism and abortion we think are stupendous

shattering stupendous, shattering, and related sins. They're staggering because the scope and the depth of the assault on the image of God in both is huge.

And they are related because both racism and abortion are driven by the treasonous notion that myself is central and myself is sovereign.

My race is better than your race.

And therefore I have a right to think of you and act towards you with

disrespect, distaste, I have rights over you.

Mine is better.

It's mine. I am central I am sovereign and if I want my baby, my baby is a person.

And if I don't want my baby, my baby is not a person.

If I want her, it's illegal for you to kill her.

And if I don't want her, it's legal for you to kill her.

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