In this episode, we re sharing a clip from a video of a group of Nigerian Christians singing in the rubble of a church that was attacked by radical Islamic terrorists, and how they managed to stay together in the midst of the rubble.
00:00:00.840Chrissy Teigen joined Kamala Harris at the White House to promote abortion ahead of the election and offered their fair share of abortion propaganda.
00:00:11.740We are going to refute their absolutely demonic nonsense on today's episode of Relatable.
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00:00:30.000Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
00:00:40.940We've got a lot to get into today, but I wanted to start with this incredible clip that I've seen circulating on X.
00:00:50.120And we did our best to research the full context of what's going on here.
00:00:55.300But even if we don't know every detail of this story, what happened before and after this clip, it shows us the hope that we have in Christ and the common cause, the common joy that we share with believers all over the world.
00:01:13.640This video is of Nigerian Christians singing in the midst of rubble after radical Islamists burned down their church in Nigeria.
00:01:28.140The Christians that attend this church responded in the aftermath by gathering together, praising and worshiping God in the midst of what looks like destitution.
00:02:13.740And then there's the cross behind them.
00:02:15.900So somehow, even after being the victims of a terrorist attack, after being burned down by these Islamic terrorists, this part of the church with the cross is still standing.
00:02:29.780And man, now I'm thinking how many stories I've seen like that over the years after a church burned down, was attacked in some way, or even was just in the middle of a tornado, some kind of storm.
00:02:41.460It seems like the only part of the church still standing was this cross.
00:03:05.500But at the end of the day, those that we are truly related to in this profound spiritual sense, the people whose side we are really ultimately on, whose team we're on, is the fellow believer.
00:03:19.580The fellow believer in Yemen, in China, in North and South Korea, wherever they are, whatever language they speak, whatever is their ethnicity, their nationality, whatever their skin color is, their socioeconomic status, their gender, that is our team.
00:03:42.720We have more in common with those Nigerian Christians than we do the secular person here who shares our skin color, our nationality, our general cultural norms, because we are going to spend eternity with that person.
00:04:02.900We share the most important thing with that person, and that is the gospel.
00:04:06.700That is the hope that we have in Christ.
00:04:08.900And we are to care for through our prayers, through our encouragement, through our edification, through our resources.
00:04:16.900We are to support the persecuted Christian.
00:04:20.320Yes, we do endure a form of persecution even here in Western civilization in the United States.
00:04:26.440I don't think that we can or should just brush past the real exclusion and punishment that Christians in the United States sometimes endure for standing up for what God says is good and right and true.
00:04:43.980I think of, for example, I think of, for example, Laurie Smith or Jack Phillips, who have stood firm on the word of God and have been punished for years because of that.
00:04:53.460There are many of you who have endured loss of relationships, loss of opportunities, loss of finances because you have stood firm on the word of God.
00:05:03.340And even though you are not enduring the same kind of persecution that, say, Christians in China or Nigeria are enduring, it still counts as a trial of many kinds.
00:05:15.760And what does James 1 say about trials of many kinds?
00:05:19.400That we are to rejoice in them because it is the testing of our faith, and the testing of our faith produces steadfastness, and steadfastness has its full effect, making us sanctified, lacking in nothing.
00:05:34.640And all of our trials, be they small or big, are outweighed by an eternal weight of glory that we will share with the people in this video, these Nigerian Christians, one day on the other side of eternity.
00:05:53.400And so this is just great perspective.
00:05:56.020It's a great reminder of what is being endured by our brothers and sisters around the world, that if they can rejoice in their suffering, if they can rejoice in this amount of destitution, then we can rejoice in our inconveniences, our discomfort, our even real feelings of despair and hopelessness and depression and anxiety, all of the things that weigh us down here.
00:06:22.060If they can rejoice and praise God in that, we can rejoice and praise God in our circumstances too.
00:07:43.800You'll remember that Chrissy Teigen, a couple of years ago, she went through this horrifying loss of her pregnancy.
00:07:50.980She had very serious pregnancy complications, and she shared about that online in the pictures that she posted after losing her precious baby.
00:08:01.360She was obviously, and rightfully so, very emotional.
00:08:06.820And I remember there was a lot of cruelty towards her during this time, even from people who profess to be pro-lifers, just bringing up all of these things about Chrissy Teigen that they didn't like or that they don't agree with, some actually legitimately horrible things that she said in the past.
00:08:25.240And I just thought it lacked so much compassion, especially for people who call themselves Christians and pro-life.
00:08:31.720If you didn't have anything nice and supportive to say to her at the time, I think the better option would have been just not to say anything.
00:08:38.300But at that moment, I think the right and godly thing to do would have been to offer prayers and offer encouragement and offer love and kindness in that moment.
00:08:49.800And I actually appreciated when she shared those vulnerable photos of herself crying in the hospital.
00:08:56.900Some people thought, oh, that's just a show.
00:09:02.220I genuinely saw it as this could be really helpful for someone who is going through the same kind of situation.
00:09:08.860Now, she has later said that it wasn't a miscarriage, so I'm a little bit confused about the whole situation.
00:09:18.160I wouldn't be speculating if she hadn't made this whole thing public, but she later said that it wasn't a miscarriage, but that it actually was an abortion.
00:09:28.080Now, I don't know if she is saying that for the purpose of activism, because you see a lot of pro-abortion activists saying, oh, miscarriage is abortion too, which is actually insane.
00:09:37.920Obviously, those things are different in a miscarriage.
00:09:40.440The baby is dying naturally, tragically, but naturally.
00:09:44.340But when it comes to an abortion, you are inducing their death.
00:09:48.700It is the purposeful killing of a child.
00:09:51.100So I don't know exactly what happened there.
00:09:53.580I still have a lot of compassion for the feelings of loss and sadness that she felt during that time.
00:09:59.300Obviously, that was a very wanted baby.
00:10:02.320But it does seem like after that she has now doubled down on her abortion advocacy and her abortion activism.
00:10:13.120I don't know if it was because of that experience, if she feels like she needs to justify it, or if it's just some kind of like genuine increase in passion about this issue.
00:10:24.400But now she is so outwardly pro-abortion that she is actually going to the White House, sitting down with Kamala Harris, and talking about how great abortion is, and how important abortion clinics are, and how actually they're this great and hopeful place.
00:10:43.620And so I'll play you that clip in a second if we're talking about how awesome abortion clinics are, and we'll respond to it.
00:10:49.460But let me back up, and let me tell you why this whole thing is happening.
00:10:52.360Like, why is there this partnership between Chrissy Teigen and Kamala Harris?
00:10:55.700So Chrissy Teigen was invited by Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House to be a part of this event on so-called abortion rights.
00:11:07.460Now, there is no right in the Constitution to kill your child.
00:11:12.220Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, and of course there were subsequent Supreme Court decisions after that that all relied on the same reasoning.
00:12:07.600This is a distinct human being with his or her own DNA, and abortion is purposely killing an innocent child, which by definition is murder.
00:12:32.580It's always wrong, and because it's always wrong, it should not be legal because these children have a right to not be killed.
00:12:41.400They have the most fundamental right, which is the right to life.
00:12:44.880So when you hear all these euphemisms that you're about to hear, just keep that in mind.
00:12:49.660So Vice President Harris had to explain to everyone out there on social media what exactly Roe v. Wade does, or Roe v. Wade was, and what the Dobbs decision did.
00:13:00.960And in her classic style, she is going to talk to you as if you are in a classroom for kindergartners.
00:13:09.120So two years ago today, the highest court in our land, the United States Supreme Court, took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America.
00:13:21.560And thereafter, in state after state, laws have been proposed and passed that will criminalize health care providers, sometimes prison for life for health care providers,
00:13:32.360that punish women, that make no exception even for rape or incest, that are threatening the availability of IVF, that are attempting to threaten the availability of contraception.
00:13:43.560And understand that what the court took, Congress has the power to put back in place.
00:13:50.580And when Congress passes a law that puts back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade, Joe Biden will sign it into law.
00:14:19.340He was the undercover reporter that revealed, inarguably, this is not an opinion.
00:14:26.180He revealed that Planned Parenthood was trafficking baby body parts from babies that had been aborted in their clinics in the state.
00:14:35.600So instead of Kamala Harris saying, wow, that's illegal, you're not supposed to be able to sell body parts, this is awful, let's keep Planned Parenthood in check.
00:14:43.660She actually sent authorities to David Daleiden's house to make sure that he didn't have any evidence of that and tied him up in court in litigation for years and years.
00:14:58.120He has been punished for his undercover journalism.
00:15:02.200She doesn't care about the First Amendment.
00:15:07.260She doesn't care about dignity and justice.
00:15:09.700She is radically pro-abortion, not pro-choice, whatever that even means.
00:15:15.360If you believe in the legality of killing an unborn child, you are effectively pro-abortion, by the way.
00:15:21.400But she is unapologetically pro-abortion.
00:15:25.460She voted against, at every turn, the Born Alive Infant Survivors Act when she was in the Senate.
00:15:33.960That was an act that simply said, I think it was introduced by Ben Sasse at the time in 2019, I believe it was, and the legislation just said, look, if a baby survives an abortion, you have to give that child the same medical care that you would give any other child that was struggling to live after birth.
00:15:56.060It didn't say that we're restricting abortion.
00:15:59.960It didn't limit any kind of freedom, so-called, of abortion.
00:16:06.320And still, she said no, that we should not protect those children who are born alive after an abortion.
00:16:12.600She is bloodthirsty, radically pro-abortion.
00:16:15.940So this legislation that she's talking about that the ardently Catholic president would sign if Congress passed it is a radically pro-abortion law that would basically make it impossible for any state, including the most conservative state,
00:16:36.160to protect unborn children from death in any or induced death, murder in any state of pregnancy.
00:16:45.500She supports abortion through all nine months for any reason funded by the taxpayer without apology.
00:16:56.16040-week abortion, she would say, trust women.
00:17:01.980That is the platform of the Democratic Party.
00:17:04.820Last Thursday, she hosted this conversation with Chrissy Teigen, along with other abortion rights activists at the White House,
00:17:15.100to discuss the so-called reproductive freedoms ahead of the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
00:17:22.580Now, you heard her say they took away this right.
00:17:26.760Remember, that's not what the Dobbs decision did.
00:17:29.040The Dobbs decision simply said, look, this is a decision that should be made by the states.
00:17:36.840They said this is if a state wants to ban abortion, they should be free to do that.
00:17:44.880And so many states passed laws that then heavily restricted abortion, and the Supreme Court did not weigh in on whether or not a state should ban abortion,
00:18:03.620but simply said, look, this is up to the states to decide.
00:20:54.140Feeling hopeful and excited before an abortion is not a flex.
00:21:02.680That is actually a sign of a calloused heart, of selfishness, that you have been so deluded by your own wants that you think that you can lay another human life on the altar of your own desires.
00:21:20.060That is the definition of self-centeredness and narcissism.
00:21:25.420And let me just acknowledge something, that it is true that your life will be easier if you do not have a baby because babies are hard.
00:21:37.060And having responsibility for someone else is really difficult.