This is the most detailed MRI scan of an unborn baby.
At just 20 weeks, she is moving, turning her head, kicking—even standing. Her beating heart is also visible.
Children are a gift from God.
A corrupt generation gets so embedded that it takes generations, if ever, to root it out. That’s where we are: lust for pleasure, selfishness, materialism, sexual perversion, anger, hate, vengeance, unforgiveness, prejudice, lack of submission to authority, civil rebellion, corrupt leadership.
Hope for a Doomed Nation — John MacArthur // May 24, 2015
Listen: any other god but the God of Scripture, any god that anybody devises, the god of Islam, the god of Mormonism, the god of Judaism—any other god but the God who is the Trinity; the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; the God of Scripture, Old Testament and New; the God of the gospel. Any other god is an idol. Any other god is an idol, whether you’re an atheist or you worship a false god, that’s idolatry.
If you’re an atheist, you worship yourself. But any other god means you hate the true God, that’s what it says. “Those are those who hate Me,” and that’s what we’re seeing in this country, folks. You have to see, they hate God. They hate the true God. And Jesus said in John 15, “They hate My Father and they hate Me, and they will hate you.”We just have to set the record straight, this is how it is, okay. This society is not your friend. They hate God; they hate Christ; they hate you. This is going to create generational impact to the third and fourth generation.
What does that mean? Please, it doesn’t mean when a father sins, his kids pay. No, it’s not a father, it’s fathers. It’s not a child, it’s children. It’s not a generation, it’s generations. What this says is when you have a corrupt generation, it will take three or four generations with the best conditions to change that.
So here it is: you’re not going to fix it; don’t try. Neither will your children, neither will your grandchildren, and probably neither will your great-grandchildren. This is your world, and their world, and the next world, and the next world. And it may be the last one; Jesus may come. But you’re not going to change it, so stop trying. You can’t change it politically, can’t change it financially, it’s how it is.
Ezekiel 18:20 says the sins of an individual are never punished in his children. You only are punished for your own sins; that’s a different issue. This is generational impact. A corrupt generation gets so embedded that it takes generations, if ever, to root it out. That’s where we are: lust for pleasure, selfishness, materialism, sexual perversion, anger, hate, vengeance, unforgiveness, prejudice, lack of submission to authority, civil rebellion, corrupt leadership. That’s going to be around for your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren. It’s not going to change.
So what do we do? Well, first of all, remember this: this culture is not going to help you in anything that is God-honoring. Don’t look to the culture for any help in your personal holiness. In order for you to be personally holy, you need to separate. This culture offers you nothing. The less exposure, the better.There was a time when I was a boy growing up that it was cultural morality, cultural dignity, cultural honor, cultural honesty. There was a kind of Christian mentality. No more; they’re your enemy. They hate everything that you love. They’re you’re enemy. They’re God’s enemy, Christ’s enemy, your enemy. They’re not going to help you in your personal life: separate.
Parents, they’re not going to help you in your parenting. They’re not going to help you; you’ve got to know that. They’re not going to help you. They’re not going to help you in any way. They’re not going to help you through the toys they make for your kids. They’re not going to help you through the entertainment they provide for your kids. They’re not going to help you through the schools. They’re not going to help you. They’re against you.This raises the stakes in personal holiness and raises the stakes in parenting. And they’re not going to help the church, they’re going to come against us really strong.
He loved us in eternity past. We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. He didn't set his love on us when we were living in this world and embraced his son. He set his love on us in eternity past and wrote our names in the book of life because we constituted the bride that he would give to his son. He loved us from everlasting to everlasting.
If you're looking for something to rejoice about, how about starting there with an incomprehensible infinite love and a love that is eternal going back and going forward. He loved you before you existed. He loved you before anyone existed. You are loved in the Son and the Son is eternal. — John MacArthur
The cross assaults your emotional sensibilities. Then the cross collides with your intellectual pride, and then it crushes your self-determining will. You want to be a Christian, do you? It's the end of you. You're done. Try to sell that. This is not -- listen, this is not the gospel of self-fulfillment. This is the gospel of self-denial. It's not about you becoming all you can be. This isn't the army. This is about the end of you. — John MacArthur
I will never forget this unplanned, Holy Spirit–filled moment during Charlie Kirk’s memorial when the band began to play and the crowd held up signs with Charlie’s face that said, “Here I am, Lord send me.”
It felt like, for a brief moment, tragedy might spark a spiritual revival and unify Christians on the Right. But in the months since, things have felt increasingly divided and disoriented. It appears we've lost people to a conspiratorial world view and pro-Islam world view.
I asked @JeremyDBoreing whether we’re heading toward a great revival or total fracture.
His answer, and his reflection on Pentecost, is powerful: