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23 Oct 2023

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24 Feb 2026

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   24 Feb 2026

   There is NO 'Ethical' IVF

   TL;DR IVF is wrong, even in its most carefully constructed “ethical” form. Even when only one embryo is created, immediately transferred, and none are frozen, discarded, or genetically screened. The problem with IVF is foundational, not merely executional. At its core, IVF replaces God’s design for conception, allows humans to own other humans, and voluntarily increases a child’s risk of death by 10X. Repent Labs is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Is IVF Necessary? IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is a medical fertility treatment where eggs are retrieved from a woman’s ovaries, fertilized with sperm in a lab, and then an embryo is implanted in the uterus to achieve pregnancy. It’s commonly used when natural conception fails due to issues like blocked tubes, low sperm count, or ovulation problems. Embryos undergo preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), where a cell sample checks for chromosomal issues or genetic diseases to select healthy ones. Viable extras (often several from 8 to 10 embryos) are frozen via cryopreservation for future use. The first thing to understand is that IVF is not the necessary and exclusive fix for infertility. For those that are struggling with fertility, yet still want a biological child (if God wills), there are great alternative treatments, the best of which is NaPro. IVF operates like a numbers game: spend $12K to $30K per attempt, plan for 3 to 4 cycles minimum, intentionally create dozens of children knowing most won’t survive, and hope “probability” works in your favor, all while insurance fights you at every turn. Costs can easily exceed $100,000. It’s a high-tech, high-stakes gamble that assumes your body is broken beyond repair and needs to be bypassed entirely. NaPro works like actual medicine: it investigates the root cause and restores what’s not functioning properly. It costs (at max) roughly what one IVF cycle would, except it’s treating you as a patient with a medical condition rather than a customer buying lottery tickets with human embryos. The “Perfect” IVF Scenario Christians who oppose IVF typically focus on the industry’s most obvious ethical violations: frozen embryos warehoused indefinitely, genetic screening that reduces children to quality-control metrics, the routine creation of dozens of embryos knowing 91% or more won’t survive, and gay couples purchasing children through surrogates. These objections are valid. They’re also insufficient. Because even if you stripped away every one of these problems, even if you constructed the most carefully constrained IVF scenario imaginable, the procedure would still be categorically sinful. The issue isn’t merely how IVF is practiced. The issue is what IVF fundamentally is. Before addressing the core problem, let’s acknowledge what most Christians already reject. If you’re freezing embryos, you’re incarcerating your children. If you’re doing genetic screening, you’re treating image-bearers like defective products. If you’re creating ten embryos knowing nine will die, you’re responsible for their deaths. If you’re using surrogates or donors, you’re bypassing God’s design for procreation. But some Christians push back here. They ask: “What if we avoid all of that? What if a married Christian couple uses only their own gametes, creates a single embryo, transfers it immediately without freezing or screening, and implants it in the mother’s womb? Wouldn’t this be ethical? After all, we’re just using technology to overcome the effects of the fall, the same way someone might use surgery to save their life.” It’s a reasonable question. It deserves a serious answer. The Fantasy of “Ethical IVF” A truly “perfect” IVF setup (one that creates only a single embryo, transfers it fresh immediately, never freezes or discards embryos, never uses genetic testing, and operates this way as standard practice) essentially does not exist in today’s market. Why? Because the entire IVF industry is built around the assumption of multiple cycles. Biologically, IVF depends on ovarian stimulation to retrieve multiple eggs because attrition is massive at every step. Not every follicle yields a mature egg. Not every egg fertilizes. Not every embryo develops normally. Not every transfer implants. Forcing the system into a “one egg, one embryo, one transfer” model makes success rates catastrophically low and cancellation rates high. The mechanics work like this: when a clinic retrieves eggs, they don’t know which ones will successfully fertilize. If you start with five eggs, perhaps three become actual embryos. Of those three, maybe one or two develop properly. This uncertainty is why clinics retrieve multiple eggs in the first place. Even if a couple requests “only one embryo,” the cycle success rate drops to 5-20% (just for this stage). This means paying for a new cycle over and over until you successfully can move on, which could take 5-10 cycles. Economically, clinics survive by spreading high fixed costs (labs, embryologists, equipment, accreditation) over many embryos, transfers, and add-on services like frozen embryo storage and genetic testing. A clinic that never generated surplus embryos, never froze them, and never used screening would sacrifice most of the revenue and success leverage that keeps it profitable. Even if one couple chose an ultra-restrictive protocol, the clinic’s broader business would still rely on conventional IVF practices just to stay solvent. At best, a couple might negotiate a more constrained version for themselves inside a system whose default remains multi-embryo creation, freezing, and selection. But a clinic structured and committed to operate exclusively under “ethical” constraints? It’s a pipe dream. But let’s be generous. Let’s assume such a clinic existed. Let’s grant that you could find a way to do it profitably. Would IVF then be permissible? No. Even in the “perfect” scenario, IVF remains objectively sinful. Here’s why. 1. IVF Replaces God’s Design Instead of Restoring It God’s Word is clear: there is one exclusive path to creating and receiving children. The marital union. In Genesis 1:28, God blesses Adam and Eve and commands them: And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Immediately after, in Genesis 2:24, we read: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. This one-flesh union is personal, bodily, and exclusive, so the “fruit” of the marriage naturally proceeds from the embrace God ordained. In other words, the Bible weds the “what” of multiplication to the “how” of marital intercourse. The child is received as the gift that comes from husband and wife cleaving to one another. To seek offspring apart from that union severs what God joined, whereas receiving children through conjugal oneness honors the shape of creation. Psalm 127:3 reinforces this: Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. You can actually take this imagery further. The seed (man), the tree (the woman’s womb), and the fruit (children). God designed one process for procreation, and He embedded it in the covenant of marriage. Sexual intimacy within marriage is the means. The womb is the location. Children are the gift. IVF fundamentally alters this design. Conception Begins in the Lab, Not the Womb The objection here is predictable: “But we’re still married. We’re still using our own samples. We’re just using technology to help the process along. Isn’t that dominion? Are you saying cars are sinful too?” The issue isn’t technology, but what technology does. IVF doesn’t start with marital intimacy. It starts with samples. The sperm and egg are retrieved separately, brought to a laboratory, and combined by a technician under fluorescent lights. Day zero for that child is not in the mother’s womb. Day zero is in a petri dish. You can’t appeal to the marital act that produced the samples (even though most IVF sperm samples are taken sinfully) because those samples were not connected together in the mothers body via the one flesh union. Instead, you have a technician who combines these samples and creates an embryo. Now, the child’s existence has begun, not through the one-flesh union of husband and wife, but through a mechanical procedure in a lab. Dominion vs. Demonic Technology The purpose of technology matters. Doug Wilson put it well: “In order to evaluate a tool, we have to account for the telos, the end, the purpose. Hammers are used to build both brothels and barns.” Dominion technology works within God’s design to restore what the fall has broken. NaProTechnology, for example, investigates the root cause of infertility and treats it medically. The goal is to restore the body so that conception can occur naturally: through the one-flesh union, in the womb, as God designed. The process hasn’t changed. The design hasn’t been circumvented. IVF does the opposite. It doesn’t fix what’s broken. It abandons the original design entirely and substitutes a new process. The end result may be a child, but the means by which that child came into existence is fundamentally different from what God ordained. Consider pornography. The technology that makes porn more accessible isn’t neutral. It’s being used to provide sexual pleasure (a good thing) outside of God’s design for marriage. The efficiency of the technology doesn’t justify its use. The purpose disqualifies it. IVF operates on the same principle. It creates children (an immeasurably good thing) through a process God never authorized. No amount of technological sophistication changes that. Jesus Anchors Marriage to Genesis When the Pharisees questioned Jesus about divorce in Matthew 19:4-6, He didn’t cite a verse about divorce. He went back to Genesis: Matthew 19:4–6 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Jesus took the principle from Genesis and applied it to a specific situation. The creation account isn’t just descriptive. It’s normative. God’s design for marriage, sexuality, and procreation is the blueprint. Any deviation from that blueprint, no matter how technologically sophisticated, is sin. IVF asks us to believe that God’s design can be improved upon, that we can relocate conception from the womb to the lab and call it progress. But if God’s design is truly His design, then our job is to work within it, not around it. The Slippery Slope Is Already Here If you accept the premise that conception can legitimately occur outside the womb, you’ve opened a door you can’t close. If it’s acceptable to take one piece of the pro-creation process and perform it in a lab, what about: * A single woman cloning herself and growing the embryo in an artificial womb? * A married couple using an artificial womb instead of the wife’s body because it’s “safer” or more “convenient”? The argument that “we’re still using a married couple’s gametes” doesn’t solve the problem. It concedes that the location and means of conception are negotiable. Once you’ve moved conception out of the womb, you’ve lost the foundation to argue it must stay tied to marriage at all. 2. Parents Choose Higher Risk for the Child Here’s the part most IVF advocates don’t want to acknowledge: the child never consented to being brought into existence with a drastically higher chance of death. The Statistics Are Devastating CDC 2022 ART data reports about 251,000 egg retrieval cycles resulting in roughly 94,000 live births, a roughly 37% success rate per cycle, but with an average of 4 to 6 embryos created per cycle (from 10 to 15 eggs retrieved, 70 to 80% fertilized, and 40 to 50% reaching blastocyst stage), this equates to 1.0 to 1.5 million total embryos (children) and a 6 to 9% live birth rate per created child. Long story short: 91 to 94% of children conceived through IVF die. In stark contrast, natural conceptions in the same year produced 3.67 million live births from roughly 5.5 million recognized pregnancies, yielding roughly a 67% live birth rate per clinical pregnancy after typical 10 to 20% miscarriages. If we control for abortion (roughly 17% of pregnancies), the natural success rate rises to roughly 85 to 90% carried to term (assuming viable), far above IVF’s success rate. That’s a 10x higher failure rate. The Abortion Parallel The objection here is predictable: “But natural pregnancy has risks too. Miscarriages happen. That’s a part of our fallen world.” However the question that must be asked is: who decided? Natural risks fall under God’s sovereignty. IVF risks are your culpable choice. You knowingly subjected your child to a process with a 91% death rate because you wanted a child badly enough to bypass God’s design. People actually make the same objection with abortion. “Since miscarriages happen so often, the abortion doesn’t matter anyway, let me kill it.” And all Christians should read that and say, “The answer is obvious. God stopped the development of those miscarried children. You, on the other hand, have hired a hitman to murder your child.” We must apply the same logic to this situation. God’s Design Is Better NaProTechnology, by contrast, has higher success rates than IVF, operates within God’s design, and doesn’t create and destroy children at industrial scale. It restores the body so that conception can occur naturally. The child’s life begins where God intended: in the womb, through the marital union. The principle is this; God’s design is always better, because it’s His universe. It’s better to eat food straight from the farm than to bleach it, strip the nutrients, and artificially add them back in. It’s better to breastfeed than to use formula (when physically possible). It’s better to conceive naturally than to manufacture a child in a lab. Culpability Through Purchase In natural conception, you don’t control the developmental process. Miscarriages happen under God’s sovereignty. You didn’t choose to create the child in a high-risk environment. You followed God’s design, and the outcome, however painful, was not your doing. But with IVF, you chose to create your child in a laboratory. You chose to pay for a procedure with a 91% death rate. You chose to subject them to handling, potential freezing, and implantation, all of which carry significant risks. You made that decision. The clinic made it possible. You’re both culpable. The Entitlement Idol The mentality driving IVF is difficult to escape. As much as couples may protest otherwise, the willingness to bypass God’s design reveals an underlying assumption: I am entitled to children, no matter what God thinks. When natural conception fails, the biblical response is prayer, medical treatment that restores the body (like NaPro), and submission to God’s sovereignty. Infertility is painful. It’s heartbreaking. But it doesn’t grant us permission to rewrite the rules. Pursuing IVF, even in its “cleanest” form, reveals that the desire for children has eclipsed obedience to God’s design. You want a child so badly that you’re willing to create one through a process God never authorized, a process that statistically results in far more death than natural conception. And once you’re in the system, the temptation to compromise intensifies. You’ve spent $50,000. Two years of heartbreak. You’ve done one embryo at a time, and it hasn’t worked. Maybe you try ten embryos next time. Maybe you freeze some. Maybe you add genetic screening “just to be safe.” Hannah vs. Hagar Scripture gives us two contrasting examples of how to respond to infertility. Hannah, barren and heartbroken, prayed. She wept at the door of the temple daily. She pleaded with God. And God, in His timing, answered her prayer and granted her a son (1 Samuel 1). Hagar, by contrast, represents the flesh. Abraham had a promise from God that he would have a child. But when Sarah remained barren, Abraham took matters into his own hands. He went to Hagar, Sarah’s servant, and conceived a child outside of God’s design. Paul uses this as an illustration in Galatians 4, contrasting the child of promise (Isaac) with the child of the flesh (Ishmael). What Abraham did was sinful. He didn’t trust God. He subverted God’s design because he wanted to force the outcome on his own terms. IVF is the modern Hagar. It’s taking matters into your own hands. It’s saying, “God hasn’t given me a child through the means He designed, so I’ll use technology to make it happen myself.” And to make it worse, Abraham had a promise from God. Modern Christian couples do not even have that, and yet they’re willing to do the same thing. 3. IVF Turns Children Into Commodities Even with pure motives and no intent to traffic children, IVF still involves purchasing a child. You pay a clinic. The clinic retrieves eggs, fertilizes them, and creates embryos. Once the egg is fertilized, you have a child, no matter how small. The clinic’s job is to produce that child and implant it. Whether the child survives development is another question, but make no mistake: you paid someone to create a human being for you. Legal Classification as Property In most U.S. states, embryos are legally classified as property: chattel or marital assets. They can be disposed of via patient contracts, consent forms, and judicial rulings. Only Alabama and Louisiana treat them differently. Legally, you own the children the clinic creates for you. Can humans own other humans? The nature of the transaction also shifts how children are perceived. They’re no longer a heritage from the Lord, received as a gift through the covenant of marriage. They’re a deliverable, expected from a service provider you’ve contracted for a product. The Distinction from Adoption Someone might object: “But adoption involves money too. Are you saying adoption is sinful?” No. Adoption is fundamentally different. Adoption is a response to sin. A child has been abandoned, orphaned, or removed from an unsafe situation. The adoptive parents step in to provide what the child’s biological parents cannot or will not. The fees involved cover legal processes, agency costs, and administrative work. The parents are not paying to create a child. They’re paying to legally formalize their responsibility for a child who already exists and needs a home. IVF, by contrast, is seeking through money and scientific manipulation to create a child. You’re initiating existence, not responding to abandonment. The clinic’s deliverable is a human being. Conclusion IVF is not a gray area. It’s not a matter of personal conviction or disputable opinion. It is, by definition, a fundamental departure from God’s design for procreation. Even in the “perfect” scenario (where no embryos are frozen, no genetic screening is used, and only one embryo is created), IVF still relocates conception from the marital union and the womb to the laboratory and the technician’s hands. It still commodifies children. It still reduces their survival rate tenfold for the sake of adult desire. The issue isn’t just the industry’s abuses. The issue is the procedure itself. God has ordained one method of procreation: the one-flesh union of husband and wife, within marriage, resulting in children as a gift from the Lord. Any process that circumvents this design (no matter how technologically sophisticated or carefully constrained) remains sin. If you are struggling with infertility, you are not crazy for suffering. That pain is real, and it’s heartbreaking. But the answer is not to bypass God’s design. The answer is submission to His sovereignty, medical treatment that restores rather than replaces, and trust that He is good even when He says no. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.repentlabs.com/subscribe (https://www.repentlabs.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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   30 Sept 2025

   Apostate: The Consequences of LGBT, Transgenderism, Abortion, IVF, Surrogacy & Feminism

   For the last century, America has been conducting a massive social experiment, tearing down every boundary that held society together for thousands of years. "Love is love," they said. "My body, my choice," they insisted. "Gender is just a construct," they declared. Well, the results are in…and they’re ugly. The statistics don't lie, the bodies don't lie, and the broken families littering our streets don't lie. When you look at the data - not opinions, not feelings, but hard numbers - you see a nation bleeding out from self-inflicted wounds. Mental illness at unprecedented levels. Suicide rates that would have been unthinkable two generations ago. Children turning to crime and addiction at rates that should terrify us all. Murder, disease, anxiety, abuse…and so much more. * What happens when you break up the family and "liberate" women? * What happens when children don't have their fathers? * What happens when homosexuality spreads like wildfire? * What happens when children cut off their genitals in exchange for a “new gender”? * What happens when parents decide that having sex does not mean “consenting to pregnancy”? A nation once built upon Christian principles, America has now become an apostate, and God has given us up to our own destructive desires. As it is written: “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”Romans 1:28–32 For the non-Christians in America…some of the most sobering proof that Christianity is true is seeing what happens when society rejects its principles. If everything is just stardust bumping around, then none of these things matter. But if God designed creation in a specific way, and everything he made is interconnected (family, relationships, society)…changing even one detail has catastrophic consequences. This is a wake up call to everyone in America. * For the Christians; we need to be bold and teach our nation the whole counsel of God and what it says about all areas of life. * For the non-Christians; Repent and turn to God. Look at what’s happened to our society when it’s built on godless principles, and put your trust in the King of the cosmos; Jesus Christ. TABLE OF CONTENTS * The Consequences of Feminism * The Consequences of Homosexuality * The Consequences of Transgenderism * The Consequences of Surrogacy and IVF * The Consequences of Murdering Children via Abortion 1. THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEMINISM The first area I’m going to cover is women’s liberation; basically, when we decided that women didn’t need to be attached to a family unit, and that they really aren’t any different from men. To be clear: this isn't going to be a comprehensive history of feminism (there are plenty of substacks (https://isaryan.substack.com/) that cover this). I want to focus on what's happened to our country as a result. The Feminist Blueprint of Death Kate Millett, a huge feminist influencer in the 1960s, laid out the plan clearly. As Joy Pullmann notes in her book False Flag, Millett's "feminist catechism declared that the feminist goal was to make cultural revolution by destroying the American family, which they would accomplish by destroying monogamy." How would they do this? By "promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality." Right from the start, second-wave feminists declared these things were connected. They argued that patriarchy was historical, not natural, that femininity and womanhood were not biological conditions but socially constructed ideals that could and should be reconsidered. They wanted nothing less than the eradication of patriarchy. But here's the thing: if gender roles and family structure are just cultural constructs with no biological basis, then there shouldn't be any consequences for changing them, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. Commitment Destroyed The statistics tell a devastating story: * In 1960, only 5% of US babies were born out of wedlock. By 2010, that number had risen to 41% * The number of children living with only their mother has doubled in the last 50 years * The United States has the world's highest rate of children living in single-parent households: 23% When you're not married, the commitment isn't there. People can argue "it's just a piece of paper," but if it's just paper, then get it. You're making a covenant before God to be with this person for life. Children pick up on this. They understand the difference between parents who are committed and those who always have one foot out the door. Children Being Abused by Predatory Men & Their Own Mother Here's where it gets dark. Children with two married biological parents have the lowest rate of domestic abuse by far. It's not even close. The worst rates of abuse (mental, physical, sexual) occur when children live with one parent whose unmarried partner is in the house. Think about it: biological mom, dad leaves, she gets a boyfriend who's not married to her. That's the worst-case scenario for abuse. These men aren't committed to these children. They're dating the mother, maybe for sex, maybe for a relationship, but the children aren't their primary concern. When you remove the natural protector, the biological father, you leave the household as sitting ducks for predatory men. But here's what will flip everything you thought you knew: mothers are more likely to abuse their children than fathers. According to 2021 data from the US Department of Health and Human Services: * 38.0% of child victims were maltreated by their mother acting alone * 23.9% by the father acting alone * 20.0% by both parents (co-perpetration) The feminist agenda has pushed this narrative that mothers are always the safe option, the default parent. But look at what actually happens. When you remove the balancing influence of a father, mothers are more likely to abuse. That quarter of American children in single-parent households? They're not just susceptible to abuse from random unmarried partners. They're more susceptible to abuse from their own mothers. The testimony of one woman, Maggie, raised by a single mother, captures it perfectly: "The absence of my father in my life has led to so many awful things. I constantly felt unloved, unworthy, and abandoned. I craved a father figure and protection. This led to me seeking out unhealthy and abusive relationships with men who simply didn't care about me. Men cannot mother. Women cannot father. Kids need, crave, and benefit from having the right to both." Broken Home = Future Degenerate Adults Joy Pullmann's research reveals the broader impact: "People who do not grow up in the homes of their two married biological parents make, on average, worse citizens than people who do. Children afflicted by their parents' and communities' lack of sexual self-discipline have more trouble regulating their emotions, refraining from violence, following logical arguments, providing for themselves, achieving their potential, and respecting others' rights." Think about that list: * Can't regulate emotions * More violent * Can't follow logical arguments * Can't provide for themselves * Don't respect others' rights Sound familiar? Turn on any news channel covering a riot or pride parade. You've seen these people. These children are also: "far more likely to demand public resources than to contribute to them and to accelerate sexual chaos. Look into the background of a transgender person and you'll almost always find parental divorce or another serious childhood trauma.” When you have a large portion of America full of complacent, lazy people relying on the state, completely dependent on what the government may or may not do, that's the fruit of broken families. They're looking for mommy and daddy everywhere, including in their voting booth. It’s simply natural law that men and women are different and have specific, distinct roles. We all know this because God designed it that way. If you decouple women from the family unit, you break down the family unit. If you do that, you destroy the child. The child grows up broken, demanding the state be their parent, supporting authoritarian policies that promise safety like a "substitute mommy”, and functions as a consumer citizen, not a producer. 2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF LGBT So we’ve seen how "liberating" women destroyed the American family. Children without fathers. Mothers overwhelmed and abusing. A quarter of our nation's children living in broken homes, susceptible to predators and dysfunction. But that was just the beginning. Think of liberating women as step one. We still had the potential for a heterosexual unit. Sure, women were "liberated," roles were confused, divorces skyrocketed, but at least there was still the possibility of a man and a woman together. Even if it wasn't ideal, even with step-parents and broken homes, there was still some semblance of the natural order. Step two asks a darker question: If women are exactly like men, if they should be "liberated" to do the same things with no distinct family roles, then what about sexual relationships themselves? Must you have a man and a woman to form a family unit? Or can you have woman and woman, man and man? And if you have a gay relationship, which obviously cannot procreate biologically and exists outside God's design, what do you do? Try to have children through surrogacy or IVF? Just not have children? Marry someone who already has a child? This is step two in the destruction of America: degrading the sexual ties themselves against God's design. God Is Clear Let's start where we should always start: God's Word. The Bible affirms that marriage and sexual intimacy are ordained for one man and one woman. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:24 Notice the specifics. A man leaves his father and mother (already implying the natural order) and holds fast to his wife. They become one flesh. This is a specific, designed union from the beginning of creation, woven into the fabric of reality itself. Jesus affirms this when asked about divorce: "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." Matthew 19:4-6 Jesus takes this for granted as the created order. God has joined man and woman together in the unit of husband and wife to procreate, be fruitful, multiply, and take dominion. This is in the creation mandate itself. Contrasting this, Romans 1:26-27 shows what happens when we reject God's design: "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." This couldn't be more explicit. Paul is referring to homosexual relationships as an extension of God's judgment. When God gives a nation up, homosexuality is one of the pivotal sins we can visualize as a sign of that judgment. People try to perform interpretive gymnastics with these passages, claiming Paul meant something else. Don't waste your time. Any reputable translation, any serious scholar who isn't a deconstructionist fraud will tell you the same thing: Paul is talking about homosexual behavior. Higher Rates of STDs Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for a disproportionate share of serious sexual diseases. Although MSMs comprise only about 2% of the US population, they represented 67% of all new HIV infections in 2022. The rate of syphilis among MSM was 46 times higher than that of heterosexual men. The very nature of these acts, because they're outside God's design and misuse the body in ways it wasn't created for, naturally leads to disease. It's like putting water in a car's gas tank instead of gasoline. It's not just that it won't work; it will break other systems. Higher Rates of Cancer Gay men have significantly higher rates of certain cancers such as anal, colon, and testicular cancer, partly linked to higher rates of HIV and lifestyle factors. Lesbian and bisexual women have higher risks of breast and ovarian cancers, possibly related to lower childbirth and breastfeeding rates. Makes sense, doesn't it? When you reject God's design for procreation and family, the body itself rebels. Suicidal, Depressed and Broken Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth have significantly higher rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts, major depression, anxiety, and conduct disorders than their heterosexual peers. A US twin study found that men with same-sex orientation were much more likely to have attempted suicide, even after controlling for depression and substance abuse. Here's the crucial point: these alarming health disparities persist even in socially accepting environments like Canada, undercutting the claim that stigma alone causes the poor outcomes. Why? Because they're living against their design. They're trying to force their bodies and souls into patterns God never intended. Romans 1:27 warns they would receive "in themselves the due penalty for their error." This isn't just about eternal judgment; they're receiving penalties in real time through destroyed health. More Domestic Abuse Here's something the media won't tell you: domestic violence is notably higher in same-sex couples. The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association itself recognized this "hidden epidemic." * 37% of lesbians have been physically abused as adults or children * 32% had been raped or sexually assaulted, often by their partners Think about that. We're talking about two people in a relationship, and their own partner is sexually or physically abusing them at these rates. Gay male relationships also experience significant domestic violence, but notably lesbian couples have the highest rates of all. Remember earlier when we learned that single mothers had higher abuse rates? Now put two women together without the balancing the influence of a male presence. The abuse rates skyrocket. It's taking one of the worst situations (a woman not tied to a man in marriage) and doubling it. Shorter Relationships, More Cheating Homosexual relationships, particularly male partnerships, tend to be shorter-lived and less monogamous than heterosexual marriages. Gay author Andrew Sullivan himself noted that male couples are more likely to accept "extramarital outlets." The data backs this up: * 79% of heterosexual married couples valued complete sexual fidelity * 79% of lesbian couples valued complete sexual fidelity * Only 50% of gay male couples valued fidelity Think about it. Men already struggle with lust as visual creatures. Without the balancing influence of a female partner, you put two men together with those same struggles. Of course infidelity rates explode. They're both fighting the same temptations with no complementary influence. What Happens to the Children This is where it gets heartbreaking. These children didn't ask for this. Biology matters. Children fare best when raised by their married biological mother and father. Any deviation from this structure introduces risks. You cannot go to any intellectually rigorous institution and find data with a different conclusion. Children need their biological mother and father. End of story. Same-sex parenting arrangements deprive a child of either a father or a mother. Two lesbians raising a son cannot provide a male role model. Two gay men raising a daughter cannot provide the unique nurture of a mother. The Devastating Statistics According to the Regnerus study, children of lesbian mothers or gay fathers were: * 3–4x more likely to grow up on welfare (59–69% vs 17%) * More likely to have lower educational achievement * More likely to report depression * More likely to have been arrested * Rated their childhood family life as less secure Alarmingly, daughters of homosexual parents reported far more sexual partners in adulthood and were much more likely to identify as non-heterosexual themselves. Why? Because of the instability. The Regnerus study found that only 2 out of 248 children with a gay parent had lived with that parent and their same-sex partner from birth to age 18. It's a revolving door of relationships and partners. 10X The Sexual Abuse Perhaps most disturbing: 23% of those with lesbian mothers reported having been touched sexually by a parent or other adult caregiver during childhood, versus only 2% of those with an intact biological family. That's a 10x increase in child sexual abuse. When your entire outlook on sexual relations is scattered by habitual sexual sin, when you've already rejected God's design for sexuality, why wouldn't that deviation extend to other areas, including age? Jesus takes children seriously. Why don’t we? "Whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be drowned" Matthew 18:6 Fertility & Fatherlessness When marriage is redefined as an emotional union of any two adults, it sends the cultural message that children are optional and procreation is unrelated to marriage. Countries leading in same-sex marriage (Netherlands, Sweden, Canada) also suffer some of the lowest fertility rates in the world, well below replacement level. We already have a fertility crisis from abortion. Add in gay couples who biologically cannot have children, and society accelerates toward collapse. To make it worse, if society says two women can raise children just as well as a mother and father, then a man might more easily rationalize: "My kids don't really need me. Their mom can do the job or find someone else." Same-sex marriage institutionalizes the idea that children don't need both a mom and dad, further eroding paternal commitment even in heterosexual contexts. The Propaganda Machine Objection 1: "These stats don’t necessarily mean all of these issues are inherently because someone is transgender, it could also be external factors." Because we already know the biological family is what makes humanity flourish, any deviation from that will always cause the same issues. Children need their biological mother and father. Period. Any deviation from this causes harm. So when Dad decides he's now "Mom," it doesn't matter if society is accepting. The fundamental structure God designed has been shattered. All of the data I’ll share can be traced back to rejecting God’s normal order in family, marriage, parenting, childhood, etc. Objection 2: "It's all due to discrimination. If we were just ‘nicer’ to trans people, the problems would disappear." This is wrong for multiple reasons. First, the data shows problems persist even in accepting environments. Second, God uses all means to bring judgment, including societal rejection. When someone feels like the "odd one out" for denying reality, that discomfort is part of God's mercy, warning them to turn back. Whether consequences come from biology breaking down or society rejecting delusion, God is sovereign over both. He's given us up as a nation, and these are the fruits. Marriages Destroyed First off, only around half of romantic relationships survive through a partner's gender transition. Think about why. You're a woman who married a man. That man, his masculinity, his role as husband and father, that's part of who you married. When he decides he's now a woman, he's becoming a different person entirely. The person you made a covenant with before God is essentially abandoning their identity. Even if the marriage doesn't end in divorce, it faces breakup, loneliness, and relational conflict. Why? Because one spouse has placed a massive psychological burden on the family so they can chase a delusion. Americans think individualistically: "I can do what I want as long as I have my career, my money, my family." There's no concept of ties, responsibilities, duties that come with being a husband or father. People think we're all just interchangeable units that come together for fun. That's not reality. As a man, I have specific responsibilities as a husband and father. If I "transitioned" to a woman, I couldn't just change my responsibilities. That's not how God designed it. When Dad becomes "Mom," you don't have two moms. You have a broken family structure that mirrors the homosexual dysfunction we covered in Chapter 2. All those abuse statistics, mental health crises, and developmental problems? They're back, but worse. Children Becoming Infertile Research shows that roughly 80% of pre-puberty children with gender dysphoria eventually desist, meaning they stop identifying as transgender by adulthood. In one study, 61% had reconciled with their birth sex. Let that sink in. The vast majority of kids who think they're transgender at age 8, 10, 12, or 14 grow out of it. Yet what are parents doing? Taking their children to doctors to mutilate their genitals. Putting them on puberty blockers. Permanently altering their bodies for what is overwhelmingly likely to be a phase. These drugs pause normal development, but studies show they cause loss of bone density during crucial growth years. Teen patients on blockers had bone density scores below average, with the longest users showing the worst outcomes. Weaker bones, higher fracture risk, and unknown long-term effects on development. Worse, puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones may prevent normal maturation of sperm or eggs, effectively sterilizing the patient. We're talking about 11 and 12-year-olds being made infertile because they said they felt like the opposite sex. These are weighty consequences for adolescents, many of whom cannot grasp the impact on their future ability to have children. Critics correctly argue that children cannot give truly informed consent for treatments that sterilize them and impair their physical development. Higher Rates of Prostitution & 100X HIV Due to discrimination and employment difficulties, roughly 13% of transgender respondents reported engaging in sex work. Transgender women (male to female) are twice as likely as transgender men to have done sex work. In some international studies, 24–75% of trans women reported involvement in the sex industry. Even as fake women, biological men transitioning to female can't escape the male disposition toward sexuality. They're still twice as likely to enter sex work compared to women transitioning to men. The biological differences between men and women persist even through the delusion. Transgender sex workers face especially high rates of HIV infection and physical assault. A CDC survey of 1,600 transgender women in seven major US cities found that 42% tested positive for HIV. Compare that to 0.3–0.4% in the general population. That's over 100 times higher. 19X Death by Suicide The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) is the largest survey examining the experiences of transgender people in the United States, with 27,715 respondents. The findings were: * 39% of transgender respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the past month (vs. 5% general population) * 40% have attempted suicide in their lifetime (vs. 4% general population) A landmark long-term study in Sweden tracked all transgender persons who had sex-reassignment surgery in the country over several decades and found: * Post-surgery transgender individuals are 19 times more likely to die by suicide * Trans people are nearly 5 times more at risk of suicide attempts * Trans people are almost 3 times more at risk of psychiatric hospitalization When you deny the gender God gave you, when you rebel against something so fundamental it stares you in the face every day, it's hard to have a foundation for hope. You're saying to God, "I know better than you. I'll be my own god." This spiral devastates the transgender community. Mental health issues lead to transition. Post-transition brings new problems. Regret sets in. But they're still denying God, so they have no foundation for hope. Despair deepens until suicide seems like the only escape. Cutting Up the Body A Dutch study examining five decades of data found transgender women (males on estrogen) had 1.8 times the mortality rate of normal men and 2.8 times that of women. They died at higher rates from cardiovascular disease, blood clots, lung cancer, HIV, and suicide. Despite 50 years of medical advances and massively increased social acceptance, mortality rates haven't improved. The problems are inherent to fighting against biology. The surgeries are horrifically complex with astronomical complication rates: * Phalloplasty (creating a penis for women): 76% of patients experience complications. Over one-third develop urethral fistulas. About a quarter get urethral strictures. Multiple follow-up surgeries are common. * Vaginoplasty (penile inversion): notable complication rates include wounds coming apart, narrowing requiring dilation, and functional issues needing corrective procedures. These aren't simple operations. They're complex attempts to remake what God designed, and the body fights back. Chronic pain, infection, difficulty with urination, sexual dysfunction - the list goes on. The Full Picture Let's sum up what transgenderism accomplishes: * Destroys marriages * Destroys parenting relationships * Confuses and harms children * Has an 80% regret rate in youth * Destroys fertility * Encourages prostitution and sex trafficking * Causes HIV rates over 100x normal * Results in astronomical suicide rates * Requires complex surgeries with majority complication rates * Demands lifelong hormone dependence * Reduces life expectancy It’s like God is saying: "You want to deny my design? You want to be your own god? Try it. See how it works." 4. THE CONSEQUENCES OF IVF & SURROGACY Now we arrive at the inevitable conclusion: if family structure doesn't matter, if sexual boundaries are meaningless, if even biological sex is optional, then why should children come from families at all? Welcome to the world of IVF and surrogacy, where children are manufactured, frozen, bought, and sold like commodities. Where the adult desire for offspring trumps the child's need for their biological parents. Where we've turned procreation into a business transaction. Definitions IVF (In Vitro Fertilization): A medical procedure where eggs are fertilized by sperm outside the body, in a lab. The resulting embryo (a human being, not a potential one) is then implanted into a woman's uterus. Surrogacy: An arrangement where another woman carries and delivers a baby for someone else. Variations of surrogacy: * Traditional surrogacy: The surrogate provides the egg, making her the biological mother * Gestational surrogacy: An embryo created via IVF is implanted into a surrogate who has no genetic link to the baby The Entitlement Complex All IVF & surrogacy arrangements flow from the same poisoned well: the belief that adults are entitled to children. God gives us the natural desire for children, especially the women who bear them. That's normal and good. But when natural barriers arise (infertility in a heterosexual couple, or the obvious barrier in homosexual couples), we see an underlying thread of entitlement emerge. Just because God's design includes the command to be fruitful and multiply doesn't mean you can circumvent His sovereignty when He closes the womb. You can't go around God to fulfill His commands on your own terms. Here's Brian, a child of surrogacy, reflecting on his experience: "I don't care why my parents did this. It looks to me like I was bought and sold. You can dress it up with as many pretty words as you want, but the fact is that someone contracted you to make a child, give up your parental rights, and hand over your flesh and blood child. When you exchange money for something, it's called a commodity. Babies are not commodities. They're human beings." Brian captures it perfectly. We've taken the glory of a child being born to parents who will raise them in God's natural order, and we've turned it into a sterile transaction. So, let’s go through all of the different combinations and scenarios where these transactions occur. Scenario 1: The Infertile Christian Couple A husband and wife, perhaps even Bible-believing Christians who want to fulfill God's mandate to fill the earth. They're infertile. What are their options? They could adopt. They could pursue legitimate medical solutions if there's an identifiable, fixable problem. But here's the key: God gives children. Period. It doesn't matter what natural means He uses to give them or block them. The blockage might even be a judgment, or discipline, for a time. Ultimately, God is sovereign. Scripture is full of barren women crying out for children. What's the consistent message? God opened the womb. God gave the child. Not technology, not human ingenuity. God. Scenario 2: The IVF Route When couples choose IVF, here's what they're actually choosing: * Mass incarceration of children: About 1.5 million embryos are currently frozen in the United States. Human beings suspended in liquid nitrogen. * Mass murder: The CDC reports that only 2.3% of IVF embryos result in live birth. That means 97% die during freezing, thawing, implantation, or early development. * Eugenics in practice: The IVF industry grades embryos. If they don't meet certain criteria, they're discarded. Killed because they might have Down syndrome or aren't “perfect.” * Even “safe” IVF is deadly: Some argue for using only one embryo (not common). But even then, you're intentionally putting your child in extreme danger for your own desires. This is essentially abortion with a scientific wrapper that makes people feel justified. Scenario 3: Two Dads and a Surrogate With two dads, you need: * Sperm from one dad * An egg from a female donor * A surrogate to carry the baby The result? A child with at most 50% relation to one dad, 0% to the other, and a complete absence of a mother. Katie Faust puts it beautifully: "When a child is born, this is supposed to be the day they meet the mother they already love. Newborns are put on their mother's chest because we are igniting the existing bond that is already present. The mother's voice, smell, and characteristics soothe the baby. Exclusively the mother herself lowers the baby's cortisol levels. Not strangers, not even the child's father can do this." When a surrogate hands over that baby for money, trauma is immediate and lasting. Scenario 4: Two Moms and Missing Fathers With lesbian couples, you might have: * Sperm from a male stranger * IVF using one mom's egg * Either mom or a surrogate carrying the baby This fragments motherhood into three pieces: genetic, gestational, and social. God designed them to be one. Heather Barwick, raised by two moms, shares her experience: "I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn't need or want a man. Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary." The truth can be suppressed but not destroyed. Children long for their father and mother - not substitutes, not social arrangements, but their own parents. The Marxist Endgame The biblical model is clear: hierarchy, family ties, responsibilities, connections, community, nations. Father as head of household, mother, children. The Marxist model seeks to flatten everything. Make everyone interchangeable. The result? * Women's liberation → destroyed families * Homosexuality → destroyed sexuality * Transgenderism → destroyed identity * IVF/Surrogacy → destroyed procreation The endgame? No family ties at all. Every child manufactured and distributed by the state or market. No biological connections. Just interchangeable units in the machine. 5. THE CONSEQUENCES OF MURDERING CHILDREN VIA ABORTION We've traced the descent step by step. First, we "liberated" women from their God-given roles. Then we normalized sodomy. Next, we pretended gender itself was changeable. After that, we turned children into manufactured commodities. Now we arrive at the inevitable conclusion: disposable children. When you've destroyed every aspect of God's design for family, sexuality, and procreation, what's left? Kill the children who survive all your other rebellions. Murder the ones you couldn't prevent through your perversions. Sacrifice the inconvenient reminders that actions have consequences. I've done extensive work on abortion specifically. During last year's election season, I focused on it for three to four months straight. But for this series, I want to stay on theme: What are the consequences? What happens when a nation commits child sacrifice on an industrial scale? The Mental Health Apocalypse A 2011 meta-analysis in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that women who had undergone induced abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of developing mental health problems compared to women with no abortion history. This analysis of 22 studies covering over 160,000 women suggested that nearly 10% of all mental health problems in the population were attributable to abortion. Think about that. In a group of 160,000 women, one in ten mental health issues could be directly traced to abortion. That was the only factor that could explain the problem. The issues include anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. When you kill your child, whether you try to rationalize it or not, regret follows. This isn't like other mistakes we make in daily life that we can forget. This cuts deeper. There's forgiveness in Jesus Christ. If you've had an abortion and don't know Jesus, there's forgiveness and reconciliation available. But if you continue to rebel against God, there will be regret over your sin. No matter how young the mother, no matter how crazy the situation, at bottom, women still have the natural desire for children. As depraved as some might become, it's still in their bones. There's always going to be a lingering, deep regret that bubbles up because they intentionally discarded the life of their own child. If this really was just "a woman's choice," if there were no problems, if "when life begins" was just a religious question, then this should be a happy day. "Hey, I don't need to be a mom right now!" (Even though she already is one) But the regret proves we all know that's nonsense. We know what we're really doing. If we didn't, if it really was just a clump of cells or a simple procedure, there wouldn't be this regret. The Suicide Epidemic The same 2011 meta-analysis reported that women with a history of abortion were 4 times more likely to die by suicide than women without abortion history. Let that sink in. If Woman A has had at least one abortion and Woman B has never had one, Woman A is 400% more likely to commit suicide. Additionally, 34% of suicides among post-abortive women could be associated with their abortion experience. A third of all suicides among women who've had abortions are directly linked to that decision. Suicidal behavior and substance abuse showed the strongest correlations. Just like with the transgender situation we covered, when you have no hope, no Christ, nowhere to turn, suicide becomes your final "hope." PTSD Symptoms We usually think of PTSD in terms of military service or extreme violence. But a 2010 study in the Journal of Pregnancy found that 52% of women who had early abortions met criteria for PTSD at some point afterward. For late-term abortions (after 20 weeks), 67% met PTSD criteria. Symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, trouble sleeping, and hyperarousal. A 2004 US study reported that 65% of women experienced some PTSD-like symptoms after abortion, with risk heightened when women felt pressured, ambivalent, or had later-term procedures. So far, we have women who get abortions (legally, whether pressured or not, even if brainwashed by media that it's "just a procedure") and afterward: * Become depressed * Become suicidal * Suffer PTSD symptoms That alone should be enough. If abortion clinics told women these risks beforehand (which they don't, because they want your money), many might reconsider. Think about pharmaceutical ads: "Here's the magic pill that cures this disease!" What do they always say at the end? "May cause death." They legally must disclose risks and get consent. They don't do that with abortion. If they told women these statistics, many would have second thoughts. But it gets worse. Cursing Your Future Children A 2009 meta-analysis found that women with one prior abortion had a 35% higher risk of preterm birth. If a woman has an abortion, then years later wants a baby, she has a 35% higher chance of that baby being born before 37 weeks. The risk nearly doubled (93% risk) for women with multiple abortions. And by the way, multiple abortions are increasingly common, especially with the mass distribution of the abortion pill making it very easy to kill your child. Some analyses estimate that 31% of premature babies in NICUs are born to mothers whose only known risk factor was a prior abortion. Walk into a NICU with 30 babies. Ten of them are there because their mother had an abortion. That's the only identifiable risk factor. Annually, US hospitalization costs for abortion-related prematurity exceed $1.2 billion. They're profiting from this destruction. The mechanisms include cervical trauma from dilation, uterine scarring or inflammation, and higher risks with surgical abortions. Believe it or not, when you're pregnant with a baby in your womb, God has a particular process that He designed. If you interrupt it with surgical tools halfway through, you curse yourself biologically. Your future babies will likely be premature. Abortion = More Breast Cancer A 1994 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that abortion increased breast cancer risk by 50% before age 45. How many abortions are we having every year? Over a million documented ones, and we can't even track the abortion pills taken. It's well over a million annually. The highest risk groups were: * Teen abortions: 150% increased breast cancer risk * First abortion after age 30: Double the risk * Teen abortion plus family history of breast cancer: Nearly 100% increased risk of developing breast cancer by mid-40s A 2014 Chinese review confirmed a dose-response relationship: * One abortion: 44% increased breast cancer risk * Two abortions: 76% increased risk * Three abortions: Even higher Having multiple abortions is incredibly common. You have almost a 50% chance of getting breast cancer before age 45 after just one abortion. They won't tell you that at the clinic. The explanation? Abortion interrupts breast cell differentiation, leaving vulnerable, undifferentiated cells exposed to cancer risk. When you interrupt the natural process of pregnancy, all the interconnected systems break down. Now What? I hope by now you see the point I've been making throughout this series; We live in God's universe. People hear that and say: "We're just evolved animals from the Big Bang, we make up our own ethics, enough of your religious nonsense Joe!” But that doesn't coincide with reality. Our culture says all these things are good: * Women's liberation? Good! * LGBT? Celebrate it! * Transgenderism? No problem! * Manufacturing children? Sure! * Killing unwanted children? Your choice! If these really weren't problems…if they weren't going against divine design, we wouldn't see all of these consequences. God’s Design for Family The man is head of household, loving his wife sacrificially, protecting and providing. Wives submitting to husbands as we all submit to God, being homemakers (not 1950’s housewives, nor working for a corporation), raising children, leading in childbearing. Together as a family, bringing everyone up in the knowledge of the Lord. God’s Design for Relationships God made men and women distinct and different. They go together specifically. Screw up that relationship, and consequences flow. Gender Reality God made you male or female. You can't change your gender. Children as Gifts You're supposed to have children with your spouse. If you can't, pray to God. Don't circumvent Him with IVF, freezing embryos, or surrogacy. That's against His design. Life is Sacred If you have sex and conceive a child, but selfishly don't want that child, tough. Killing them is murder, and God sees it. The Choice Before Us America is falling. As I finish up editing this, it's been 2 weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination attempt. We're starkly divided between good and evil in our country, and people are waking up. Many of you listening might not be Christians. Maybe you're unsure, maybe you're atheist. Whatever your belief system is, you can't deny the reality in front of you. All the leftist principles running through America lead to: * Death * Mental illness * Suicide * Cancer * Children being abused * Children becoming criminals * Societal breakdown When you follow God's way in all these areas, mankind flourishes: * Lifespans increase * Mental health improves * Children are born and raised well * Society flows like water This is the most powerful testimony that Christianity is true. If you're not a Christian, go read your Bible (https://www.esv.org/John+1/). God made the world. Deep down, when your head hits your pillow at night, you know this. You know God exists and made everything. But instead of bowing the knee and following Him, we disobey him because WE want control. Every disobedience heaps judgment on our heads. Every lie, every lustful look (which Jesus says is adultery in the heart), every selfish outburst…These "little" things we think are normal? Each one is active rebellion against God. Judgment is coming. God will judge every work and secret thing we've done, whether good or evil. The judgment for the wicked who won't bow the knee is hell: being tormented day and night forever and ever. he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night...” Revelation 14:10–11 You might think that's harsh. But tonight when you go to bed, think about never escaping God's judgment. How horrible that would be. But here's the good news: Hell isn’t the only thing that lasts forever. How do you escape the judgement to come? You have to bow the knee and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn to God in remorse and plead for forgiveness. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came as both man and God. He lived a perfect life, died on a cross, and rose from the dead. God poured out all His wrath on Jesus instead of on his people. If you turn to Jesus in faith, acknowledge Him as Lord, and follow Him because He first loved you, God won't put that judgment on you. Jesus’s death on the cross will be the payment for your sin. Now Christ's perfect righteousness gets applied to you. You're good, and you'll live with God forever instead of going to Hell. While you await your life in eternity, you’ll strive to do good things on earth, not so you get into heaven, but because you love the God that saved you. If that's news to you, think about it. Read your Bible. Find a local church. Message me. The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil Ecclesiastes 12:13–14 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.repentlabs.com/subscribe (https://www.repentlabs.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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   23 Apr 2025

   Playing House: How 'Liberating' Women Destroyed America

   Today in America, our culture wants nothing to do with God. Although we live in God’s universe, we are quick to make up our own rules, and feed our flesh, even when our decisions fly in the face of reality. God will not be mocked. A man reaps what he sows, and if you sow destruction in this life, you will get destruction in return. What happens when you break up the family and “liberate” women? What happens when children don’t have their father? What happens when homosexuality runs rampant in the streets, and even props up its own parade? What happens when children are mutilated by “doctors” to artificially change their biological gender because their parents want to “support them” in their decision to deny the body that God gave them. What happens when parents decide that having sex does not mean consenting to pregnancy, and their defenseless child is ripped apart or starved in the womb as an offering to Moloch. A once Christian nation, America has become an apostate, and God has given us up to our own destructive desires. As it is written: And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Romans 1:28–32 Will we continue to deny reality, or will we submit to the way, the truth, and the life; Jesus Christ? What We’ll Cover * The Destruction of the American Family * Feminism and Its Impact on Society * The Consequences of Family Breakdown * The Role of Fathers and Mothers * The Christian Perspective on Family and Society Sources The Courageous Radicalism of Kate Millett (https://newrepublic.com/article/144740/courageous-radicalism-kate-millett) False Flag by Joy Pullmann (https://bookshop.org/p/books/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann/20707173) children living with only their mother has doubled in the last 50 years (https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/number-of-children-living-only-with-their-mothers-has-doubled-in-past-50-years.html) US Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Children & Families (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2021.pdf) Repent Labs is a reader-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.repentlabs.com/subscribe (https://www.repentlabs.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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