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Providing Shade for Our Children, Part 2 - John MacArthur
"I mentioned to you last week, at the beginning of our time in the Word of God, that among all of the disastrous things that are going on in our country and in our world, the thing that disturbed me most was the war on children. It has reached epic proportions in our country; it’s nothing new, I might say. There has always been, on the part of Satan and the kingdom of darkness, an effort to destroy children, to bring them so close to the darkness that they could never see the light. They are the most defenseless of all humans, and the enemy of our souls is against them. They already have sin built in, and are more easily attracted to him than they are to their Creator, more easily deceived than taught the truth. This then raises, to massive proportions, the responsibility that the people of God have with regard to children.
The creation mandate in Genesis chapter 1, verse 27, reads this way: “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’” God created a man and a woman to produce children. In the third chapter of Genesis came the Fall of man and the human race. And God says to the woman, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth”—the creation mandate wasn’t ended; it would continue, but painfully so—“in pain you will bring forth children.” Adam called his wife Eve “because she was the mother of all the living.” Transcript
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