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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 1994

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

You cannot worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating his supreme creation with contempt.

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Morning texts found in Psalm, chapter 8. The book of the Psalms, chapter 8. Please follow along as I read.

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Oh Lord! Please follow along as I read.

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O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth, who has displayed thy

0:22.4

splendor above the heavens from the mouth of infants and nursing

0:28.2

babes thou hast established strength because of thine adversaries to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

0:47.0

What is man that thou dost take thought of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him.

0:55.0

Yet thou hast made him a little lower than God, and does crown him with glory and majesty, thou dost make him to rule

1:04.0

rule over the works of thy hands.

1:06.0

Thou has put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts

1:12.0

of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever

1:16.3

passes through the paths of the sea.

1:18.9

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth?

1:24.0

I want to put before you this morning two massive realities in our world. One is abortion and the other is racial alienation

1:41.8

in the enmity. My aim in putting these two together is not to dwell on the

1:48.2

awful connections that exist between the two realities, like the fact that the biggest abortion provider in the world

2:02.1

Planned Parenthood, was founded by Margaret Sanger whose driving principles were explicitly

2:11.0

racist. In her book, Women and the New Race, she wrote, the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it." In her book, The Pivot of Civilization, she said that

2:29.1

inferior races were in fact human weeds and a minister civilization.

2:37.0

She was part of the eugenics movement, which was led by Thomas Malthus, from which Malthusian birth control philosophy came, namely,

2:50.0

that all defectives, delinquents, and dependents should be eliminated from the race

2:56.3

through calculated birth control, including abortion.

2:59.5

That's the root and abiding significance of Planned Parenthood, I believe.

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