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James says, "you desire and do not have; so you kill" (jas. 4:2). we kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. and we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. and if self-enhancement is god, then the one who is at work in the womb shaping a person in his own image is not god and the assault on his work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.
-John Piper
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James Says, "you Desire And Do Not

John Piper
James says, "you desire and do not have; so you kill" (jas. 4:2). we kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. and we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. and if self-enhancement is god, then the one who is at work in the womb shaping a person in his own image is not god and the assault on his work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.
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