Sidewalk Training: Biblical and Effective

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.759 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours. Send Me, 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.150 Lord, I am you. Welcome to the Gospel centered pro life podcast. 3 00:00:10.349 --> 00:00:14.550 In this episode and the next several episodes we're going to go more in depth 4 00:00:14.589 --> 00:00:17.989 with some of our sidewalk training. So we hope this will be a blessing 5 00:00:18.070 --> 00:00:26.260 to you. Stay tuned. Me, Lord, I felt show Passish, 6 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:36.890 touch your heart. Use Me. Welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. 7 00:00:36.929 --> 00:00:40.649 From appreciate you guys joining us and, as always, appreciate you if 8 00:00:40.649 --> 00:00:44.850 you guys, would leave us some good reviews on whatever podcast platform that you 9 00:00:45.049 --> 00:00:48.289 use. We've got a lot of reviews. We've shared some of those in 10 00:00:48.329 --> 00:00:52.880 the past. Unfortunately, a lot of those reviews are bad reviews from our 11 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.119 pro abortion friends who don't like what we do, and so I think it'd 12 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.439 be great if we could counteract those with some good reviews. But, and 13 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.510 you get the get it from one star or like half a star, I 14 00:01:06.590 --> 00:01:10.510 think maybe at this point to at least two stars or something. I don't 15 00:01:10.510 --> 00:01:12.590 know, be nice. Be Nice to know that we're loved and that you 16 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:18.390 guys appreciate what we do. So please leave us a review and at the 17 00:01:18.430 --> 00:01:22.099 end of this episode, as all of our other episodes, we give our 18 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:25.739 email address so you can reach out to us with questions you might have about 19 00:01:25.739 --> 00:01:30.739 this podcast or encouragement that you want to get of or suggestions that you have 20 00:01:30.859 --> 00:01:37.290 for other podcasts. But what we've thought to do in a couple of episodes 21 00:01:37.329 --> 00:01:42.569 of the podcast is to go through our training. So we do monthly. 22 00:01:42.609 --> 00:01:46.049 I want to mention this to you guys who are maybe praying about getting involved, 23 00:01:46.049 --> 00:01:48.719 or maybe you've been involved on the sidewalk at your abortion center but you 24 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:53.879 want some training, some more training. If you already volunteer under love life 25 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.519 or if you're one of our sidewalk missionaries, you know you've already been trained 26 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.069 under this training. But for those who haven't, we do a monthly training 27 00:02:02.189 --> 00:02:06.790 what we call our sidewalk outreach one hundred and one training. We do it 28 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:10.270 the first Saturday of every month. We do it over zoom from two PM 29 00:02:10.389 --> 00:02:15.300 to four PM eastern time. And in order for you to get plugged into 30 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:19.460 that training, what you'd have to do as you would have to fill out 31 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:23.340 one of our applications, our sidewalk out reach application. I'll look over that 32 00:02:23.419 --> 00:02:27.780 application, maybe ask him qualifying questions. If I don't see any red flags 33 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:30.050 or anything like that. I'll put you in the hopper to get an invitation 34 00:02:30.210 --> 00:02:34.250 to that training. That wouldn't necessarily mean that you're a part of love life. 35 00:02:34.289 --> 00:02:36.689 If you go through that training you may already be a part of love 36 00:02:36.810 --> 00:02:39.250 life, but at least you'd be getting some training from love lives, from 37 00:02:39.289 --> 00:02:43.729 training from Vicky Myself, and so if you want to get involved in that, 38 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.840 please just reach out to me, Daniel at Love Life Dot Org, 39 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.879 and I'll send you along the appropriate information for you to get in that training. 40 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.319 Again, we do it once a month, the first Saturday of every 41 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:58.909 month, and we'd encourage everyone who who wants to get involved in sidewalk out 42 00:02:58.909 --> 00:03:00.990 reach to be under that training. Vicky and I have a little bit of 43 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:05.509 experience in this world of sidewalk out reach and we think we have something we 44 00:03:05.590 --> 00:03:09.509 can impart to you and we're actually going through this next couple of episodes and 45 00:03:09.629 --> 00:03:13.460 will maybe put some other episodes in between as we go through, but I 46 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:17.659 thought we should go through that training and maybe expound a little bit on some 47 00:03:17.780 --> 00:03:23.219 of the points that we make through that training to help further equip people who've 48 00:03:23.219 --> 00:03:25.180 gone through that training grou have not yet and the spur those who have not 49 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:28.610 yet gone through that training to go through that training, because it would be 50 00:03:28.689 --> 00:03:31.409 very helpful for you. Yeah, because the training is a lot of information 51 00:03:31.449 --> 00:03:35.169 all at once, so we were thinking maybe just break it down and be 52 00:03:35.250 --> 00:03:38.449 able to spend a little bit more time on each area for those who wanted 53 00:03:38.490 --> 00:03:40.759 a little bit more meat, yeah, and just st are our basic points 54 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.479 that we make in the training. Yeah, absolutely, and that's really what 55 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:49.840 this podcast is about. Yeah, this podcast is about training and equipping people 56 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.080 to be an effective witness at their local abortions. That's what this podcast is 57 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.509 about. We do other things. We've talked about other subjects that maybe you're 58 00:03:57.550 --> 00:04:00.870 not directly associated with sidewalk out reach, but most of what we do is 59 00:04:01.069 --> 00:04:06.509 associated with sidewalk out reach and all of what we do is from a biblical 60 00:04:06.590 --> 00:04:12.060 perspective and I think can be applied in some capacity on the sidewalk right. 61 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:18.620 So with that, the format for our training is my favorite format for anything, 62 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:21.980 because I like to know the INS and outs, the why, what 63 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:26.649 and how of any thing that I'm looking at, and so the format of 64 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:30.410 the training is a what, why and how, and I say always the 65 00:04:30.529 --> 00:04:33.370 how is the meat, and right now we're going to start with the what, 66 00:04:33.810 --> 00:04:39.439 what sidewalk route reach is and kind of breakdown we're going through again through 67 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.040 our training or one hundred and one sidewalk out reach, one thousand and one 68 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.160 training, and just kind of expounding on the slides. So if you've been 69 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.680 in that training you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. You maybe even remember 70 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.949 some of the slides as we went through. But again, so we do 71 00:04:53.110 --> 00:04:57.029 a what, why and how. China lay a foundation of what is sidewalk 72 00:04:57.110 --> 00:05:00.230 out reach and one of the things that often like to say is for me 73 00:05:00.389 --> 00:05:02.670 it's helpful to understand. If I want to know what something is, it's 74 00:05:02.670 --> 00:05:06.339 help for me to understand what that thing is not. We always say, 75 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:11.740 and we did a whole episode about this months and months ago, about how 76 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:15.860 sidewalk out reaches not protesting and what's the difference on you remember doing that episode? 77 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:18.379 Yeah, and so we kind of broke down again. Not that protestings 78 00:05:18.459 --> 00:05:21.329 bad or anything like that, because I don't think that protestings bad. We 79 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:25.930 should protest things that are evil. We should protest abortion. It's just not 80 00:05:26.050 --> 00:05:29.410 what sidewalk out reaches at an abortion center. Yeah, and even though there 81 00:05:29.410 --> 00:05:32.250 are people that do protest at the abortion centers, I think to me it's 82 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:34.879 not the best scenario, it's not the best use of our time to be 83 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:40.319 out there on the sidewalk in kind of a typical protest stands. It's also 84 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.040 got a lot of negative connotation. So I think there's that. There are 85 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.480 a lot of people who really say, I don't want to be involved with 86 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:50.110 those people that are, you know, screaming at at everybody and holding signs 87 00:05:50.189 --> 00:05:55.189 that are saying how terrible abortionist and yeah, yeah, that's so. So 88 00:05:56.670 --> 00:06:00.230 what sidewalk out reach is? Well, first and foremost, it's not protesting 89 00:06:00.269 --> 00:06:03.300 and it's not harassment, even though we're told that we're harassers and we're harassing 90 00:06:03.339 --> 00:06:08.500 the women. We're not doing that right. We're there bringing the hope of 91 00:06:08.579 --> 00:06:11.579 the Gospel and the whole help of the local church. That's what we say. 92 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:15.259 Yeah, so, first and foremost we're talking about sidewalk out reaching. 93 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:17.180 Again, this is a foundation for our training. What it is? Well, 94 00:06:17.379 --> 00:06:21.329 it's not harassment and it's not a protest. Again, not that protesting 95 00:06:21.410 --> 00:06:26.689 is bad, it's just not what we're doing right. Yeah, but really 96 00:06:26.730 --> 00:06:30.769 getting into the the depth of what we're doing, really getting into what sidewalk 97 00:06:30.810 --> 00:06:34.279 out reach is. We always like to say sidewalk out reaches. First and 98 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:40.120 foremost it's it's biblical, right, so we say it's Biblical and also it's 99 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:46.189 effective. But we have to understand that effectiveness is not is for the Christian 100 00:06:46.310 --> 00:06:51.269 is not really the highest gage of why we do what we do and what 101 00:06:51.430 --> 00:06:55.589 we actually are called to do. Right, we should. We want to 102 00:06:55.670 --> 00:06:58.389 be effective, we want to bear fruit, we're supposed to bear fruit, 103 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:01.379 is Christians. But the effectiveness, in the mindset of the world of what's 104 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:05.740 effective and the mindset of the Christian of what's effective can be two different things. 105 00:07:06.019 --> 00:07:11.819 Yeah, effectiveness as a Christian is first obeying God. I mean you 106 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:15.930 can almost say in one sense, like Jesus was not very effective because the 107 00:07:16.089 --> 00:07:21.129 twelve men that he raised up abandon him at his deepest hour of need. 108 00:07:21.250 --> 00:07:25.689 Right, they when very effective in the eyes of the world as far as 109 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:29.290 leadership goes and raising up a group. Now, ultimately, I mean I 110 00:07:29.410 --> 00:07:32.160 gide here. Yeah, he was killed. Doesn't look very effective at first 111 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:36.720 glance, right, right, so doesn't I don't say that to say that 112 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.839 we shouldn't be effective and we shouldn't seek to be effective, and I think 113 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:46.910 there are certain methods and things that we can employ in a biblical framework that 114 00:07:46.029 --> 00:07:49.790 can be effective, and I think our methods are effective. I know that 115 00:07:49.910 --> 00:07:56.069 they are. But again, first and foremost it has to be is what 116 00:07:56.230 --> 00:08:00.939 we're doing biblical? So talk a little bit about the biblical nature of sidewalk 117 00:08:00.980 --> 00:08:05.259 outreach. Yeah. Well, there are so many verses that that would support 118 00:08:05.379 --> 00:08:07.779 what we do out there, and we have two that are, I think 119 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:13.129 probably are kind of our mantras, the the verses that really guide us the 120 00:08:13.290 --> 00:08:18.689 most, and one of those is proverbs thirty one, eight, eight through 121 00:08:18.769 --> 00:08:22.329 nine, and so that speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, 122 00:08:22.930 --> 00:08:26.600 speak for the rights of all who are destitute, speak up and judge fairly, 123 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.480 defend the rights of the poor and needy. Yeah, so that's truly 124 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:37.240 a call to action. It's saying that we are to speak for those who 125 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.669 can't speak and for those who are vulnerable, were to defend their rights and 126 00:08:41.990 --> 00:08:45.789 for the poor and the needy. And what a beautiful in my opinion, 127 00:08:45.789 --> 00:08:50.389 and I think ours, love lives. This is a beautiful description of the 128 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:54.870 unborn. Yeah, the unborn can't speak, they can't run away, their 129 00:08:54.909 --> 00:08:58.860 rights are definitely being violated, the most basic right of all, the right, 130 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:05.019 the right to life. They're in great need for an advocate. So 131 00:09:05.259 --> 00:09:11.809 that's one of our guiding verses, that we are to speak and and in 132 00:09:11.090 --> 00:09:16.730 that also one of, I think, one of the really important parts of 133 00:09:16.169 --> 00:09:22.370 that versus speak up and judge fairly. And I think we did a whole 134 00:09:22.409 --> 00:09:26.320 podcast on on judging, because Christians, are we here all the time. 135 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.759 We well, you shouldn't judge, but that's not accurate at all, not 136 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.720 biblically. Yeah, the Bible says at the righteous man judges all things. 137 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:41.389 Yeah, yeah, and we judge with not our righteousness but with the righteousness 138 00:09:41.629 --> 00:09:48.350 of Christ. And where do we find that? Well, it's within everyone 139 00:09:48.389 --> 00:09:52.190 who has, you know, called upon Lord as their Lord and Jesus is 140 00:09:52.269 --> 00:09:56.620 their Lord and Savior. It's the righteousness of God. And but you can 141 00:09:56.860 --> 00:10:00.580 find it in the Bible, in the words of scripture. It tells us 142 00:10:01.019 --> 00:10:05.580 what is righteous, yeah, and what is wrong. And if we, 143 00:10:05.259 --> 00:10:11.330 who are called to be salt and light, cannot judge right from wrong, 144 00:10:11.289 --> 00:10:16.490 then how are we supposed to be salt and light? To the world. 145 00:10:16.529 --> 00:10:20.759 Yeah, so that's really a significant part of that. We are to judge. 146 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.720 We are to judge, though, fairly and righteously. The the I 147 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:30.600 think in the NIV it says judge righteously. Yeah. Yeah, one of 148 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.399 the things you could say is, are we called a judge? Yes, 149 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.470 we're called a judge, but we're not called to be judgmental. Yeah, 150 00:10:37.590 --> 00:10:39.789 there's a difference there. Yeah, we're judging. When you judge, you 151 00:10:39.909 --> 00:10:46.590 make assessments of behavior. Like when you look at abortion and the action of 152 00:10:46.629 --> 00:10:50.419 abortion, you should judge that, as a Christian, as wrong, and 153 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:56.100 those who were involved in it you should judge as being in the wrong. 154 00:10:56.139 --> 00:11:00.179 Right. That's right. But being judgmental is just writing those people off. 155 00:11:00.379 --> 00:11:05.970 Being judgmental is from the perspective of I'm better than they are. And the 156 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:09.289 reality is, and even some of the folks that maybe you're listening now, 157 00:11:09.409 --> 00:11:13.049 some of the folks that are involved in love life, you yourself personally, 158 00:11:13.009 --> 00:11:16.610 folks that we know closely, have been involved in an abortion themselves. Yeah, 159 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:20.200 and so we have no right to say that we're better than they are. 160 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.679 Now, by God's grace, our hearts have been changed and by the 161 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.879 Holy Spirit we're better in the sense that our actions are different because we've been 162 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.559 changed. But it's not our own wisdom and grace that's done that. It's 163 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.629 the grace of God. It's the mercy of God. Right, and and 164 00:11:35.990 --> 00:11:41.309 with that understanding of God, as he has taught us, as he has 165 00:11:41.470 --> 00:11:45.789 entered our life, we under we can judge that what we be dead yea 166 00:11:45.870 --> 00:11:50.059 in being involved in abortion was wrong, it was evil, it was rebellion 167 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:54.860 from God, and we can speak that. Yeah, can tell O, 168 00:11:54.980 --> 00:12:00.419 there's not, and we speak from a perspective of, again not being judgmental, 169 00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:03.690 but judging behavior, that it's wrong, that it's sinful, that it's 170 00:12:03.809 --> 00:12:07.649 destructive, and out of a love for God and a love for people, 171 00:12:07.330 --> 00:12:11.730 we got to warn, we got to make a judgment and warn that what's 172 00:12:11.769 --> 00:12:16.639 happening inside of those abortion clinics is sinful and it's wrong. It's yeah, 173 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.960 the picture that I have in my mind is, and I think I've given 174 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.120 it maybe on this podcast of certainly given it on the sidewalk when people say 175 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.559 you shouldn't be judgmental, is one you know if you're if you're standing on 176 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.909 a roadside and there's a bridge out ahead and you know that the bridge is 177 00:12:30.950 --> 00:12:35.870 out ahead, and someone comes speeding towards you in a vehicle and they're going 178 00:12:35.870 --> 00:12:37.149 to go down that road with a bridge is out ahead. If you start 179 00:12:37.190 --> 00:12:41.509 waving your arms and yelling and saying don't go that way, you're going to 180 00:12:41.590 --> 00:12:45.059 fall off the brink that's there because the bridge is out ahead. Yeah, 181 00:12:45.299 --> 00:12:48.740 are you making a judgment? Yeah, yeah, you are actually making a 182 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:52.419 judgment. You're making a judgment that they're headed really fast toward a place that 183 00:12:52.539 --> 00:12:56.899 they don't want to go, that they need to stop right and you might 184 00:12:56.980 --> 00:13:01.490 even raise your hands and you might even raise your voice. You're not being 185 00:13:01.529 --> 00:13:07.250 judgmental, but you're making a judgment and the motivation is, and this can 186 00:13:07.289 --> 00:13:11.129 be the difference between making a judgment and being judgmental. Being judgmental in a 187 00:13:11.210 --> 00:13:16.639 motivation is tear others down to build yourself up. Making a judgment and assessment 188 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:22.120 of behavior is to point out a truth so that others won't be torn down. 189 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.000 Right you want to be you want to see these MOMS going into the 190 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.990 abortion center. You don't want to see him being torn down by abortion and 191 00:13:28.110 --> 00:13:31.389 ultimately under the judgment of God. You want to warn them that the bridge 192 00:13:31.429 --> 00:13:35.309 is out of head. Don't do that way exactly. You're protecting your action, 193 00:13:35.549 --> 00:13:39.990 then, is is protective. Yeah, it is not to rip apart 194 00:13:41.029 --> 00:13:45.019 or to condemn. We're not condemning from the judgment. I thought. I 195 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:48.620 love the word warning. We're warning you are going down a dangerous and destructive 196 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:52.740 path, not only for the baby, which is quite clear, yeah, 197 00:13:52.740 --> 00:13:56.289 but it is a dangerous and destructive path, yeah, for the mother as 198 00:13:56.409 --> 00:14:01.769 well. Yeah. So there's clearly a call to speak, a biblical call 199 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:09.250 to speak, a biblical call to judge rightly and to defend those, those 200 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:13.600 babies through your speech. Absolutely what prayer is great. We've said that so 201 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.799 many times. Prayer is great, it's essential, it's critical, but we 202 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.360 do believe we're called to do more than that. Yeah, that the Bible 203 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.190 is a call to action. Absolutely, not only prayer and word in his 204 00:14:26.350 --> 00:14:30.750 prayer is and the second verse that I think is one of our kind of 205 00:14:30.789 --> 00:14:35.509 our guiding principles, is proverbs twenty four, eleven and twelve. I think 206 00:14:35.509 --> 00:14:39.899 it's also on. It rescue those being led away to death, hold back 207 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:43.620 those staggering to the slaughter, and then it goes on. That's the call 208 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:46.700 to action. Yep, that we are to rescue, in that we're to 209 00:14:46.820 --> 00:14:50.659 hold back those even that are still struggling towards the slaughter. But in verse 210 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:54.970 twelve it says, if you say, but we knew nothing about this, 211 00:14:54.570 --> 00:14:58.809 does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does Not he who guard 212 00:14:58.850 --> 00:15:03.769 your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have 213 00:15:03.970 --> 00:15:09.279 done? So that's first the call to action what we should do, and 214 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.320 then saying now you know, basically it's written, now that it's in the 215 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.039 word. Now you know. You know what God says that we are called 216 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.029 to do. You know what's happening out of the abortion centers, because there 217 00:15:24.110 --> 00:15:28.389 are people standing in front of the abortion centers telling you. And to now 218 00:15:28.549 --> 00:15:33.110 claim ignorance, that is not okay, God. God says, you can't 219 00:15:33.590 --> 00:15:39.100 pretend that you don't know just by saying we knew nothing about this. You 220 00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:45.419 do know. And if you know, God sees that you know. And 221 00:15:45.580 --> 00:15:50.210 it says in this verse he he's going to weigh yeah, your heart. 222 00:15:50.289 --> 00:15:58.090 He weighs your heart. He knows. You knew that today there were forty 223 00:15:58.289 --> 00:16:03.049 three babies killed at the abortion center. That well, forty three that showed 224 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:07.000 up praise God for chose, for the MOM's chose life, but I think 225 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.240 it was forty five, I'm sorry, forty five, and one abortion center 226 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:18.389 out of for in one city, and for us to then say that we 227 00:16:18.629 --> 00:16:23.669 don't know that babies are being slaughtered there and now that we do know that 228 00:16:23.909 --> 00:16:30.389 we're doing nothing about it. God doesn't give us a pass that we can't 229 00:16:30.509 --> 00:16:34.580 plead. The American church cannot plead ignorance on the issue of abortion. Yeah, 230 00:16:36.139 --> 00:16:37.700 and then you know, we know that this is happening, we know 231 00:16:37.820 --> 00:16:41.779 the slaughter is taking place in our cities. Yeah, and so does not 232 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:48.009 he who weighs the hearts know it? Doesn't he know that we know he 233 00:16:48.169 --> 00:16:52.570 does? Yeah, and so that's why it's our responsibility. Now we know 234 00:16:52.769 --> 00:16:56.809 that not everyone can be on the sidewalk, not everyone can be out there 235 00:16:56.090 --> 00:17:00.720 on a regular basis for whatever reason. Yeah, but everybody can do something, 236 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.599 and that's why we're calling as a ministry, Love Life, naturally is 237 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:11.279 calling the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up to do something about the issue 238 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.109 of abortion, because we've been silent too long. We have an and there 239 00:17:15.190 --> 00:17:19.230 will be repayment. That's the end of that verse. Will he not repay 240 00:17:19.470 --> 00:17:23.470 everyone according to what they have done. Yeah, every one of us is 241 00:17:23.630 --> 00:17:30.099 culpable, every one of us is responsible and in what we've done on this 242 00:17:30.299 --> 00:17:37.700 issue. So those are huge calls to action and that's why we are standing 243 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:41.500 there, that's why we're not home just praying in our living room. Yeah, 244 00:17:41.859 --> 00:17:44.730 that, and I don't ever mean that to sound like just praying. 245 00:17:44.930 --> 00:17:52.769 Praying is incredibly important and certainly paves the way, but the the call from 246 00:17:52.890 --> 00:18:00.440 God is clearly that we are to also be taking action, especially with the 247 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:06.880 staggering numbers and years that this has been going on. Absolutely what how? 248 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:08.599 You know? One of the things that I think I heard you say at 249 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.750 first. I can't remember, but I say it often out at the sidewalk 250 00:18:14.150 --> 00:18:21.430 is today there was one kindergarten class in one single facility obliterated. Yeah, 251 00:18:21.630 --> 00:18:25.829 a whole kindergarten class, and actually now it's probably two kindergarten classes from today. 252 00:18:25.869 --> 00:18:27.819 Yeah, and that's you know, when you think about it in those 253 00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:33.140 terms, that these are little human beings that had a plan and a purpose 254 00:18:33.259 --> 00:18:41.730 before God that have been wiped out in just one facility staggered. We must 255 00:18:41.089 --> 00:18:45.609 rescue those. We must rescue we are God says, rescue, hold back 256 00:18:45.730 --> 00:18:51.009 those staggering towards the slaughter. One of the things that we often say is 257 00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:53.569 we do our one our journeys, which is a one hour look at the 258 00:18:53.650 --> 00:18:59.559 ministry, out at the abortion centers for pastors. Mainly that's focused on pastors 259 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.000 and ministry leaders, and one of the things that we say to these pastors 260 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.440 is, if you know, you knew when and where the next school shooting 261 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.349 was going to take place, right where a shooter was going to show up 262 00:19:11.150 --> 00:19:15.349 and kill a kindergarten classroom of children? Yeah, if you knew when that 263 00:19:15.430 --> 00:19:18.230 was going to take place and where it was going to take place, wouldn't 264 00:19:18.230 --> 00:19:21.390 you be there? Would in the church be there? Wouldn't we try to 265 00:19:21.470 --> 00:19:23.859 do what we could to stop that? And yet that's what's happening at these 266 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:29.660 abortion centers. We know exactly when that there killing is going to start, 267 00:19:29.819 --> 00:19:33.180 we knew where it's going to take place. Shouldn't we be there bringing the 268 00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:36.779 Gospel, pleading with these mothers not to go in there and take the life 269 00:19:36.779 --> 00:19:40.890 of their child? Yeah, we've got to be standing in the gap as 270 00:19:41.009 --> 00:19:44.529 the church. And so again the side wokoutreach thing. It's not just some 271 00:19:44.970 --> 00:19:48.450 protests. It's not just some political anks that's bound up in our hearts and 272 00:19:48.529 --> 00:19:51.089 we've got to just let it out at that place. No, this is 273 00:19:51.130 --> 00:19:55.319 a biblical ministry because we are called to give a voice to the voiceless, 274 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.599 we are called to protect the innocent, we are called to hold back those 275 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:04.319 who are stumbling toward the slaughter. Yeah, yeah. And and in terms 276 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:10.230 of is it biblical, besides those two versus, just think about all the 277 00:20:10.309 --> 00:20:17.230 verses that mention the unborn child in the Bible and the value of human life. 278 00:20:17.309 --> 00:20:21.500 And there there's hundreds of yeah, I mean they're you know, but 279 00:20:22.180 --> 00:20:25.900 basically it boils down to that every human being, it's made in the image 280 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:30.619 of God and therefore every human being being from conception bears the image of God, 281 00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:33.740 yeah, and is loved by God, and God has a plan and 282 00:20:33.819 --> 00:20:41.490 a purpose from conception. So we are to care about every human being from 283 00:20:41.490 --> 00:20:45.930 the moment of conception, and this is which we've said many times. This 284 00:20:45.970 --> 00:20:51.119 is the last moment, or the last few moments that these babies are going 285 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:53.319 to be alive. And so we hear all the time. Well, why 286 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:59.200 are you out there in such an annoying, harassing manner out on the sidewalk 287 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:03.680 speaking for those babies. Shouldn't you be, you know, stopping them long 288 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.430 before they come to that point? But if we think about your analogy with 289 00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:15.029 the kindergarten class that that is is being shot and it makes national news and 290 00:21:15.390 --> 00:21:19.940 everybody rushes in to try and rescue them, they don't say will wait? 291 00:21:21.140 --> 00:21:25.619 No, we should stop those shooters, you know. Yeah, it's too 292 00:21:25.700 --> 00:21:29.900 bad that those babies are being those children are being slaughtered in the kindergarten. 293 00:21:29.980 --> 00:21:33.490 But but let's go, you know, work on the mental health programs that 294 00:21:33.609 --> 00:21:36.769 that made, that that one shooter do what he did, and let's go. 295 00:21:37.250 --> 00:21:40.049 Why? That's where we need to put our energy. No one would 296 00:21:40.049 --> 00:21:44.089 ever say that that's ludicrous. You run to the place where someone is being 297 00:21:44.130 --> 00:21:48.119 actively slaughtered? Yeah, and you wouldn't have any question of doing that if 298 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.640 it was five year olds, six year olds, but we question it with 299 00:21:52.799 --> 00:22:00.789 the unborn because we don't know or understand maybe that the Bible is very clear 300 00:22:00.869 --> 00:22:04.349 that the unborn is as precious in the sight of God. Yes, the 301 00:22:04.390 --> 00:22:07.829 five for the six year old. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, 302 00:22:08.349 --> 00:22:15.900 another couple biblical passages, understandings that we have of these babies. Again, 303 00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:19.779 the Bible is very clear about protecting the innocent. The Bible is very clear 304 00:22:19.819 --> 00:22:26.500 about giving a voice to the voiceless, about lifting up the oppressed. and 305 00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:30.730 WHO's more oppressed in society than these unborn children? Yeah, it's well said 306 00:22:30.769 --> 00:22:36.769 that the the womb is the most dangerous place in the United States of America 307 00:22:36.809 --> 00:22:41.329 right now, since a terrible irony the womb that was so perfectly designed by 308 00:22:41.410 --> 00:22:47.440 God to be the perfect place of protection and it no longer is a safe 309 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.960 place. Yeah, the statistics are what we call the tragic truth, and 310 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:55.039 we're talking to pastors. Yeah, is that every week in the United States 311 00:22:55.079 --> 00:23:00.630 of America, about seventeen thousand babies die every week in the United States, 312 00:23:00.710 --> 00:23:07.069 every week. Wow, and that's like that should weigh heavy on us and 313 00:23:08.470 --> 00:23:11.470 you know, pastors need to understand this. If that's true, and it 314 00:23:11.630 --> 00:23:15.460 is true and these, these children are precious in the side of God, 315 00:23:15.779 --> 00:23:19.059 then these passages that apply to given a voice, for the voices, to 316 00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:23.339 helping the oppressed, to hold back those you are stumbling towards the straw the 317 00:23:23.380 --> 00:23:26.569 slaughter, rescue those who are being led away to death, these applied to 318 00:23:26.609 --> 00:23:30.809 the unborn and the there's a passage in Luke chapter ten that we share all 319 00:23:30.849 --> 00:23:33.730 the time. Yeah, we're talks about, of course, the parable of 320 00:23:33.809 --> 00:23:38.529 Good Samaritan. And the man asked Jesus, you know who's his neighbor? 321 00:23:38.890 --> 00:23:42.519 WHO's my neighbor? and Jesus and then Jesus gives the parable Good Samaritan. 322 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.880 This is in Luke chapter ten. I don't have to go over it. 323 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:48.759 For many of you guys, you probably read this, maybe even memorize this. 324 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.470 Jesus talks about how this man who went from who was going from Jerusalem 325 00:23:56.750 --> 00:24:02.230 to Jericho, was beaten by thieves, left naked and half dead in the 326 00:24:02.349 --> 00:24:06.109 ditch and the religious people pass by on the other side of the priest and 327 00:24:06.150 --> 00:24:07.630 Levite. They see the man, but they pass by on the other side 328 00:24:07.630 --> 00:24:11.339 of the road. But the Samaritan, he looks on the man with compassion 329 00:24:11.380 --> 00:24:15.059 and goes to the ditch and gets him out of the ditch, cleans off 330 00:24:15.140 --> 00:24:17.940 his wounds, puts him on his animal and takes him to an end to 331 00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:22.180 provide for his needs. And we equate this with the scenario that we do 332 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:25.130 without the abortion center and said we say there are two in the ditch. 333 00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:27.329 There's the mom who's believe the lives of the enemy and through her sin, 334 00:24:27.529 --> 00:24:32.130 got herself wrapped up in a situation she didn't account for and she's there to 335 00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:34.250 take the life of her baby. She's in a ditch, but that baby, 336 00:24:34.369 --> 00:24:37.849 even more so, is in a ditch right. That baby is going 337 00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:41.079 to be left dead inside of that place. And so we as Christians, 338 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.359 if we're going to love our neighbor as ourself, and and that's really the 339 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.519 key to this, what Jesus is talking about is loving our neighbor as ourselves. 340 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:55.750 He was dealing with some religious people, religious hypocrites really, who touted 341 00:24:55.829 --> 00:24:59.869 about their goodness and they're good works and all the sacrifices they gave and the 342 00:24:59.950 --> 00:25:03.670 tithe and stuff they gave, and yet they wouldn't even go and help their 343 00:25:03.710 --> 00:25:07.180 neighbor who is in a difficult spot. They're willing to give tithe as long 344 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:08.900 as they could be recognized for the tide that they'd given. Yeah, and 345 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:11.779 that's for many Christians. Listen, I don't want to I want to preach 346 00:25:11.900 --> 00:25:15.500 too much, but many Christians, you know, they attend church, they 347 00:25:15.660 --> 00:25:21.339 sing in the worship team, they teach Sunday school and in reality, if 348 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:22.730 you boil it down, why they do it. The motivation is to be 349 00:25:22.849 --> 00:25:27.329 seen. And on a sidewalk, I mean you might get seen, but 350 00:25:27.369 --> 00:25:30.529 I'm going to tell you it's not the best place to be. You're not 351 00:25:30.569 --> 00:25:33.809 getting a lot of hand claps on the sidewalk at an abortion center. Yeah, 352 00:25:33.890 --> 00:25:37.240 get a lot of rejection from people, from from even believers, that 353 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:38.960 thank you're crazy for being out there. That's that's a little bit of a 354 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.240 rabbit trail. The point here is we're called to love our neighbor, even 355 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.319 when it don't look good to other people. Were called to love our neighbor, 356 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:51.789 to go to the ditches. That Samaritan went to the ditch and he 357 00:25:51.950 --> 00:25:56.190 loved his neighbor as himself. If you were left half dead and naked in 358 00:25:56.269 --> 00:25:59.190 a ditch, wouldn't you want someone to come to you rather than passing by 359 00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:02.029 on the other side of the road? Yeah, and and he was a 360 00:26:02.150 --> 00:26:04.500 Samaritan, who is the enemy of the Jews. Yeah, so here's a 361 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:08.779 Jewish man in the ditch and he's a Samaritan and he was willing to help 362 00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:14.180 his enemy because the enemy was in need. Yeah, saw the need and 363 00:26:14.660 --> 00:26:19.410 helped him, and so we're called we may not like any of the reasons 364 00:26:19.609 --> 00:26:26.569 for why they're there and feel that they are may be very selfish and maybe 365 00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:32.450 very sinful people, but we are called to help them. Yeah, absolutely, 366 00:26:32.450 --> 00:26:37.920 and hopefully then lead them to a much better understanding of God so that 367 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.799 ultimately they'll never be back in there in that ditch. Yeah, absolutely. 368 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:48.710 You know, another story that Jesus gives, and it's really just a picture 369 00:26:48.950 --> 00:26:52.509 of the last days, is in Matthew Chapter Twenty Five. Is that we're 370 00:26:52.549 --> 00:26:56.430 talking about how sidewalk outreach is biblical, being at an abortion center right with 371 00:26:56.549 --> 00:27:00.789 the grace of God and the love of God, bringing the Gospel, bringing 372 00:27:00.910 --> 00:27:03.059 the hope of the Gospel and the help of the local church to the people 373 00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:07.980 going into the abortion center. Another passage that comes to mind that shows me 374 00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:11.539 this is like, this is biblical and we're motivated by what the Bible says 375 00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:15.490 comes out of Matthew Chapter Twenty Five, and this is Jesus talking in verse 376 00:27:15.569 --> 00:27:18.849 Thirty One, Mathew Thirty one, and it says when the son of man 377 00:27:19.049 --> 00:27:22.609 comes in his glory with all the Holy Angels with him, then he will 378 00:27:22.609 --> 00:27:26.049 sit on the throne of his glory and all the nations be gathered before him 379 00:27:26.049 --> 00:27:30.599 and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep 380 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.079 from the goats. And he gets on to say. Then the king will 381 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.640 say to those on his right hand, come you, blessed of my father, 382 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:38.240 and here the kingdom prepared from you, from the foundation of the world. 383 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.839 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and 384 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.470 gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me and I was 385 00:27:44.509 --> 00:27:47.390 naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I 386 00:27:47.509 --> 00:27:49.869 was in prison and you came to me. And then the righteous answer, 387 00:27:49.910 --> 00:27:52.589 and I'll just sum up the say, well, when did we do all 388 00:27:52.630 --> 00:27:56.069 these things? And he says, whatever you've done to the least of these, 389 00:27:56.150 --> 00:27:59.140 you've done it for me. So if you close the clothes the least 390 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:02.660 of these, if you gave a voice to the voiceless, it's like you 391 00:28:02.779 --> 00:28:06.940 identified or it's like you did it for me, and because Jesus himself identifies 392 00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:11.180 with you oppressed in society, the marginalize, the margin last, the oppressed, 393 00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:15.369 those who society cares nothing about. Right and it's funny that the Social 394 00:28:15.569 --> 00:28:22.490 Justice folks have have really capitalized on this and really jumped on this as far 395 00:28:22.490 --> 00:28:25.250 as, like, you know, some of the other stuff that's out there 396 00:28:25.250 --> 00:28:32.279 and just kind of twisted all of this around. Certainly we should look out 397 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:36.440 for the oppressed in society, right, we should write. But if we 398 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:41.829 ignore, because of some political motivation or whatever, the most oppressed, and 399 00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.869 we're talking about these babies who literally cannot give themselves a voice, who have 400 00:28:45.069 --> 00:28:52.509 literally, as society, been tagged as Nonhuman, expendable, expendable property. 401 00:28:52.750 --> 00:28:56.059 You look at the way that that Rov Wade view the unborn. It was 402 00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:59.940 somehow this, this unborn child, was property of the mother. Ye, 403 00:29:00.299 --> 00:29:03.859 YEP, if we're talking social justice and we want to push for a show 404 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:07.779 social justice, and yet we neglect that. We hadn't neglect that group of 405 00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:11.009 people, these unborn children. Were missing the point. We're missing really what 406 00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:15.609 Jesus said here, right, and as the church, we've really got a 407 00:29:15.650 --> 00:29:18.529 champion this stuff. Yeah, we do, because, I mean think about 408 00:29:18.569 --> 00:29:22.329 who are the most vulnerable among us us, and I can't think of any 409 00:29:23.130 --> 00:29:27.000 people group more vulnerable. Yeah, and an unborn child, they're just did 410 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:33.920 they cannot flee, they can't speak, they can't flee and and so they 411 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:40.750 are the least of us to the nth degree. and Jesus, it's clear 412 00:29:41.390 --> 00:29:45.630 we are. When we protect and do for the least of us, we 413 00:29:45.789 --> 00:29:48.910 do for Jesus. Yeah, now he goes on to say to those who 414 00:29:49.069 --> 00:29:52.740 he judges. Yeah, he says, when I was naked, you didn't 415 00:29:52.819 --> 00:29:56.140 clothe me, when I was in prison, you didn't visit me. When 416 00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:59.779 I was thirsty, you didn't give me water, when I was hungry, 417 00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:03.299 you didn't feed me. And they say, well, when did we see 418 00:30:03.299 --> 00:30:06.299 you in such a state? And we didn't meet your needs. I'm paraphrase 419 00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:08.890 it again, right, and he says, whatever you've not done for the 420 00:30:08.930 --> 00:30:14.569 least of these, you've not done it for me. Again, Jesus identifying 421 00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:18.690 himself with the marginalize. And who is more marginalized, Yep, in our 422 00:30:18.769 --> 00:30:22.640 society than the unborn? Yeah, and so, as believers in Jesus, 423 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.039 now, we don't believe in a workspace salvation. I don't believe that if 424 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.920 you got to in an abortion center that somehow that makes you saved. But 425 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:36.349 it certainly is. And again, I don't want to just say abortion center 426 00:30:36.390 --> 00:30:38.910 ministry. There's all kinds of other ministries that people can be involved in and 427 00:30:38.990 --> 00:30:41.910 there's all kinds of ways to be involved in this ministry. Everybody can do 428 00:30:42.069 --> 00:30:47.109 something. As believers in Jesus, though, when there's a marginalized group of 429 00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:52.460 people and we're refusing to do anything for them, but to ask yourself, 430 00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:56.460 is this a manifestation that my heart is not right with God? Yeah, 431 00:30:56.539 --> 00:30:59.019 because I if I love him, I'll do it. He says yeah, 432 00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:03.500 and he says go, yeah, and and and care for those who cannot 433 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:07.450 care for themselves. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and it's not like doing 434 00:31:07.490 --> 00:31:11.769 these things makes you a Christian, but it certainly was. is like the 435 00:31:11.930 --> 00:31:17.289 the fruit doesn't make the tree what it is. The fruit is a natural 436 00:31:17.490 --> 00:31:21.559 outflow of the trees being of what it actually is. And so, as 437 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:26.240 a believer in Jesus, we see those marginalized in society and we find ourselves 438 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.319 doing nothing to give them a voice, nothing to help them, then we 439 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.349 need to assess our own hearts. Yeah, Paul says, I believe it, 440 00:31:34.470 --> 00:31:37.910 First Corinthians first or Second Corinthians. He says, examine yourself and see 441 00:31:37.910 --> 00:31:41.710 if you are in the faith. We need to make a serious examination of 442 00:31:41.750 --> 00:31:45.950 ourselves. A modern church needs to make a serious examination of herself. Well, 443 00:31:47.029 --> 00:31:52.140 the not we're even walking in the biblical framework of Christianity. That's that's 444 00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:55.859 for sure, and I think it can also be applied to as we're out 445 00:31:55.859 --> 00:32:01.609 there speaking and judging righteously. Part of that is that being able to tell 446 00:32:01.769 --> 00:32:07.769 the women that are showing up for an abortion, if you're claiming to love 447 00:32:07.970 --> 00:32:13.289 God, if your faith is a true saving faith, then you should be 448 00:32:13.609 --> 00:32:17.440 obeying you should be doing what he tells you to do, which in clutes 449 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:23.759 that shall not murder but to protect the vulnerable. And and so we can 450 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.200 and should be saying that to them as well, and I like what you 451 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:34.549 said. It's not that that proves they are or are not a Christian, 452 00:32:34.990 --> 00:32:37.630 but if you love God, you will do what he say. It says 453 00:32:38.309 --> 00:32:43.109 and I think it's an important warning to them. If you love him, 454 00:32:44.029 --> 00:32:46.819 do what he says. Yeah, especially in this area. Yeah, absolutely. 455 00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:52.099 So I want to jump into just to finish this episode up. I 456 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:55.539 think we've really majored on the important thing, which is talking about sidewalk out 457 00:32:55.579 --> 00:33:00.170 reach being biblical. Right. Hopefully we've shared a biblical framework with you guys. 458 00:33:00.529 --> 00:33:02.890 There's many other scriptures that we can share, but we're not going to 459 00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:06.809 Labor that point. It's Biblical to be out there that place of death. 460 00:33:06.849 --> 00:33:10.369 Yeah, and so let's just talk a little bit about the effectiveness of it. 461 00:33:12.130 --> 00:33:15.480 Is it effective to be on the sidewalk in front of an abortion center? 462 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:16.839 And I think yeah, you can speak to that. As far as 463 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.039 your experience and what really drew you out to the sidewalk. Yeah, well, 464 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.440 I came to the sidewalk because I had had an abortion, I was 465 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:31.549 post abortive, and I was friends with someone on Facebook, Lisa Mets Ger, 466 00:33:31.710 --> 00:33:38.750 who was reporting every day about all these saves, these saved babies, 467 00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:44.299 and I could not believe it, and I think that my experience is true 468 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:47.019 of many people, that they just they feel that most people's minds are made 469 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:51.619 up when they show an abortion center. That was what I believe to be 470 00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:54.420 the truth and that is so far from the truth. There is so much 471 00:33:54.500 --> 00:34:00.769 conflict out there. So reading on social media, she was just a facebook 472 00:34:00.769 --> 00:34:05.170 friend, reading about all these number of women who had changed their mind because 473 00:34:05.410 --> 00:34:09.119 people showed up, really impacted me and and made me feel not only because 474 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:13.519 of my history but because of what I was seeing. I heard it was 475 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:17.559 effective and that's what the value I think of of pointing out that it is 476 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:22.599 effective is there are people like me who would have remained on the sideline because 477 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.429 I thought it was useless. Why put my time? I loved the Lord, 478 00:34:27.909 --> 00:34:30.150 but why put my time and energy into something that, first of all, 479 00:34:30.150 --> 00:34:35.190 I did I really didn't understand the calling. Yeah, the universal calling, 480 00:34:35.710 --> 00:34:39.699 but I also didn't I didn't understand it was effective. I needed to 481 00:34:39.820 --> 00:34:44.739 know that for me to go out to the sidewalk. And I think my 482 00:34:44.860 --> 00:34:50.820 idea of what effectiveness means has changed a little bit, but at that time 483 00:34:50.900 --> 00:34:55.929 it was tangible proof that babies are saved because we're out there. And I 484 00:34:57.010 --> 00:35:00.170 have some statistics. Yeah, that that I want to share with you. 485 00:35:00.929 --> 00:35:06.809 One of them I think we've shared before on former or previous podcast. Plan 486 00:35:06.969 --> 00:35:10.880 parenthood told Abby Johnson, who was then a manager at plan parenthood, that 487 00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:16.199 when pro life people just show up to the sidewalk, the no show rate 488 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:23.550 for abortion increases by seventy percent and that's that's a pretty huge percentage of people 489 00:35:23.550 --> 00:35:29.750 who decide not to come, maybe even come and have the abortion because there's 490 00:35:30.030 --> 00:35:36.179 pro life people simply on the sidewalk. Yeah, abortion rates in the past 491 00:35:36.340 --> 00:35:39.340 decade have decreased. Now this is hard to find the statistics, and I 492 00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:44.260 could. I couldn't even find more recent ones, but the ones that I 493 00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:47.179 did find, and there from the Gutmocker Institute, which is kind of an 494 00:35:47.300 --> 00:35:52.929 arm of the abortion industry. However, they have reported that abortion rates fell 495 00:35:53.010 --> 00:35:57.889 by nineteen percent, from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and seventeen. 496 00:35:58.849 --> 00:36:04.760 And so the pro abortion movement says this might be because of increased restrictions on 497 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.320 abortion, although actually they don't like to admit that. So they say maybe 498 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.400 not that. Then they say maybe birth control. But if you review, 499 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:15.239 and I won't go into it, our podcast last time on birth control. 500 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:20.230 Well, birth control actually has increased abortion rates as supposed to decrease to the 501 00:36:20.469 --> 00:36:28.230 the research shows. So what maybe has caused that decrease in abortion us? 502 00:36:28.630 --> 00:36:32.699 I think it's the pro life people that are showing up in greater numbers on 503 00:36:34.099 --> 00:36:38.059 the sidewalks of the abortion centers. Yeah, and and speaking for life. 504 00:36:38.739 --> 00:36:45.820 So we we have found in our city alone it through, starting with cities 505 00:36:45.900 --> 00:36:50.690 for life, now love life. Over fivezero people have changed their mind and 506 00:36:50.889 --> 00:36:55.809 chosen life's amazing today for did yeah, in just this one. For that 507 00:36:55.889 --> 00:36:59.929 we know, of Ye there may have been more and our afternoon team is 508 00:36:59.969 --> 00:37:05.400 still out there. We may hear about more even from today. And something 509 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:12.000 like ninety this this year alone, just at this are single city. So 510 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:16.510 those are those are good numbers. Those are babies that would have been dead, 511 00:37:16.550 --> 00:37:22.469 yeah, that instead are living and breathing and and have a future, 512 00:37:22.829 --> 00:37:28.949 the hope in a future which the Bible promises them so clearly. The not 513 00:37:29.070 --> 00:37:32.300 leaves the number for so far this year. I'm Chrissy who keeps up with 514 00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:37.739 the numbers for us, text me every Saturday and gives us, gives me 515 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:40.860 an update of how many babies have been saved and kind of gives me a 516 00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:46.250 total for the year. And so it's up to like eighty nine babies. 517 00:37:46.289 --> 00:37:50.730 That's for this year. Yeah, and then if you add to that ninety 518 00:37:50.809 --> 00:37:53.929 three, then right, so it's it's amazing. And again we're talking about 519 00:37:54.010 --> 00:37:59.360 individual lives that have been spared from death. We're talking about women who were 520 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:04.480 right at the moment before they were going to take the life of their baby, 521 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.199 their heart was turned, yeah, and they chose life for their baby. 522 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:13.750 That's amazing and so many have told us. If you hadn't been there, 523 00:38:14.349 --> 00:38:17.590 my baby wouldn't be here. Yeah, and knowing that, how could 524 00:38:17.630 --> 00:38:24.909 we not continue to show up? So clearly it's effective. But, like 525 00:38:25.110 --> 00:38:31.579 I said, kind of my my understanding of what it means effectiveness, yeah, 526 00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:36.579 has shifted a little bit. I love to see baby saved and to 527 00:38:36.659 --> 00:38:39.739 see the tangible fruit of our obedience. But, as you alluded to earlier, 528 00:38:39.980 --> 00:38:45.570 it is our obedience. Yeah, we we can't force someone to change 529 00:38:45.610 --> 00:38:52.730 their mind or their heart. We're not responsible for the the conviction that happens 530 00:38:52.170 --> 00:38:57.039 in their heart. Yeah, that's Scott's work. Yeah, but we are 531 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:02.039 called to be there. And then some of the verses that that I looked 532 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:07.760 up while I was thinking about this podcast is we are also called to so 533 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:14.510 seat. But the effectiveness God promises us. He said it is word never 534 00:39:14.750 --> 00:39:19.550 returns, floyd and and in Galatian nine, let us not grow weary of 535 00:39:19.670 --> 00:39:23.659 doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give 536 00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:29.380 up. Yeah, so know that if we're sewing those seeds, there will 537 00:39:29.539 --> 00:39:32.940 be a harvest, there will be reaping, and I love in some one 538 00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:37.699 twenty six verses, five to six, it says he who goes out weeping 539 00:39:37.739 --> 00:39:43.010 bearing the seed for sewing. That feels like me sometimes for all of us 540 00:39:43.050 --> 00:39:46.610 on side box ministry. We do weep. It is so grievous, but 541 00:39:46.809 --> 00:39:51.369 we are sowing the seeds, sometimes weeping. But listen to the end of 542 00:39:51.409 --> 00:39:57.639 that. First shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with 543 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:01.920 him. Will come home home being the ultimate home, in my opinion, 544 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:08.309 and you said, to God himself, bringing these Sheaves, the harvest of 545 00:40:08.510 --> 00:40:13.190 those seats that we planted. So we may not see it now, we 546 00:40:13.349 --> 00:40:16.630 may not see it in this life, but there are sheaves that we are 547 00:40:16.670 --> 00:40:21.739 going to be carrying with us when we come before Jesus. Yeah, yeah, 548 00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:25.460 absolutely, yeah, like you mentioned, and starting this podcast I talked 549 00:40:25.500 --> 00:40:34.019 about effectiveness, and effectiveness is not gaged by the numbers, even though we're 550 00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:37.210 not wrong and keeping track of numbers and glorying in the numbers. We often 551 00:40:37.250 --> 00:40:42.610 say we don't take responsibility for the victories, and so we don't take responsibility 552 00:40:42.650 --> 00:40:45.849 for the apparent defeats. Right, but we do glory in the victories that 553 00:40:45.929 --> 00:40:50.679 God lets us see, and it's all by His grace anyway. It's all 554 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.519 him doing the work. He's doing the changing of the hearts. When a 555 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:58.599 baby is saved. God is doing the saving and of course brings to mind 556 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.320 a scripture that many of you guys will know, and First Corinthians chapter three. 557 00:41:04.469 --> 00:41:08.510 Paul is talking about well a Poulos and Paul and the work that they've 558 00:41:08.590 --> 00:41:12.909 done. People were kind of clinging to one or the other. Yeah, 559 00:41:13.309 --> 00:41:15.989 and Paul says in Verse Five of First Corinthians Chapter Three. Who Then, 560 00:41:16.150 --> 00:41:21.739 is Paul and who was a paulace? But ministers through whom you believed as 561 00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:27.739 the Lord gave to each one. I planted a police watered, but God 562 00:41:27.860 --> 00:41:30.739 gave the increase. So neither he who plants as anything nor he who waters, 563 00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:36.769 but God, who gives the end increase. God gives the increase. 564 00:41:36.969 --> 00:41:38.489 Yeah, God is the one that changes the hearts. And so we're out 565 00:41:38.489 --> 00:41:45.650 there in our effectiveness is gaged in what they're not. We're planting or watering. 566 00:41:45.690 --> 00:41:49.800 Yeah, and really we can't get the cart before the horse. Like 567 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.440 the effectiveness is not the most important. No, what are you what are 568 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:57.159 you planting and what are you using too water? Are you planting the seeds 569 00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:00.519 of the Gospel? Are you watering it with the truth of God's word? 570 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:05.030 God's going to honor that. We always make those two promises that if you 571 00:42:05.110 --> 00:42:07.469 commit to go out to the sidewalk, God will use you to say babies, 572 00:42:07.630 --> 00:42:10.670 babies will be saved. That's a promise I can give you, and 573 00:42:10.750 --> 00:42:15.070 I give you that based on God's word, based on this watering and sewing 574 00:42:15.110 --> 00:42:16.980 principle, that there's going to be an increase. God gives the increase. 575 00:42:17.059 --> 00:42:20.780 You don't, but God does. Yeah, but some of those babies that 576 00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:22.940 are saved you might not find out about until you stand before the Lord and 577 00:42:23.099 --> 00:42:27.780 your presence, just you standing there, you offering help, you proclaiming the 578 00:42:27.860 --> 00:42:30.809 Gospel, you holding up a sign, whatever it might be. God's going 579 00:42:30.849 --> 00:42:32.889 to use it and you might see an eternity, a baby that was saved 580 00:42:32.929 --> 00:42:36.329 because of your efforts, that we're there. You might be able to see 581 00:42:36.329 --> 00:42:37.809 it now. God might allow you, like we are able to see you 582 00:42:37.889 --> 00:42:40.329 today. Yeah, MOM's that said. They chose life. Praise God. 583 00:42:42.289 --> 00:42:45.159 Either way, God is doing the increasing, all right. God is the 584 00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:50.920 one that's ultimately changing the hearts. Yeah, and so just again, understanding 585 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:55.320 are our victory is in obedience and obeying the Lord and being faithful. So 586 00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.670 the two promises are God will use you to say babies and also there's victory 587 00:43:00.750 --> 00:43:04.670 in the fact that you're going to grow spiritually if you go out to the 588 00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.789 sidewalk. That's our second promise. First, God will use you to say 589 00:43:07.829 --> 00:43:10.750 baby. Second, you will grow spiritually. You will grow in ways you 590 00:43:10.829 --> 00:43:15.539 would not otherwise grow because of you're in the battle. You're on the front 591 00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:19.179 lines of the front lines of this battle between light and darkness, and that 592 00:43:19.219 --> 00:43:24.500 also itself is effective in making you more like Jesus Right. And so yes, 593 00:43:24.619 --> 00:43:29.090 I walk out, reaches Biblical. Yes, it's effective. Go Out, 594 00:43:29.289 --> 00:43:32.250 do what God's called you to do, step into this biblical ministry and 595 00:43:32.929 --> 00:43:37.409 I'm telling you, God's going to do amazing things through you. And so 596 00:43:37.530 --> 00:43:40.090 we're going to wrap this up again. These next couple of podcast that we 597 00:43:40.170 --> 00:43:45.719 do are going to be focused on training and further training based on our sidewalk 598 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.320 out reach training. If you want to get connected with us to receive our 599 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:54.679 sidewalk out reach training, we do it live on zoom the first Saturday of 600 00:43:54.829 --> 00:43:59.110 every month. We do it from two PM to four PM eastern time. 601 00:44:00.429 --> 00:44:02.030 Reach out to me, Daniel Love Life Dot Org. What I'll do is 602 00:44:02.030 --> 00:44:06.630 I'll shoot over to you our application as our sidewalk out reach application. We're 603 00:44:06.630 --> 00:44:08.469 going to make sure. Just want to know who you are, want to 604 00:44:08.510 --> 00:44:12.539 have some kind of connection to you. Doesn't necessarily mean you're a part of 605 00:44:12.619 --> 00:44:15.059 love life when you do this this training, but we want to make sure 606 00:44:15.059 --> 00:44:20.099 we're training people that you know, are in line with the spirit of the 607 00:44:20.219 --> 00:44:22.900 Ministry, which is the Gospel that are going to be coming on our training. 608 00:44:22.980 --> 00:44:25.369 So if you want to get plugged into that, Danuelt Love Life Dot 609 00:44:25.409 --> 00:44:30.130 Organ I'll get you the appropriate information that you need. If you want to 610 00:44:30.130 --> 00:44:31.929 reach out to us, you can reach out to her, Vicky at Love 611 00:44:32.010 --> 00:44:35.409 Life Dot Org, and reach out to me, Daniel at Love Life Dot 612 00:44:35.449 --> 00:44:38.199 Org, for any suggestions for future podcasts and things like that. We'd love 613 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:43.639 to hear feedback on this podcast on the other episodes that we've done. So 614 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:54.469 until next time, God bless give me our love for love, give me 615 00:44:55.230 --> 00:45:07.460 our love for gratitude. I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's 616 00:45:07.579 --> 00:45:10.219 too precious in some you