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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
be six, get Airbernardista in Instagram. You mean every other
Thursday at three pm Eastern time. We can catch the
real ar Bernards live on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday
at three pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We are most like God when we are creative, when
we explore our creative ability, and everybody, everybody has creativity
built into them as the human species.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry.
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought evoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivates you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:09):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a R. Bernard.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I shared with you the communicable attributes that God shared
with humanity at the creation of Adam and Eve. We
went through a list of them. I want to review
that list only to remind you of the order in
(01:40):
which we should understand the image of God. In a
book that I'm writing, lessons for my grandchildren, a Christian
social ethic, I go through eleven key social ethics that
are foundational to society and that they should know and
(02:02):
embrace as part of their life journey. And it begins
number one with the life and dignity of the human person.
That life and dignity is intrinsic in every human being.
The Bible says in Genesis one twenty six, and God said,
(02:26):
let us make man in our image and in our likeness,
and let them have dominion. Amen. So we explored what
does it mean to be made in the image and
likeness of God? Is it the power to reason? Which
(02:53):
we do have the power to think. In fact, I
want to revisit them. Let's go through them again, if
it's all right with you, even if it's not. Because
one of the philosophies upon which we understand our faith
(03:14):
that Thomas Aquinas presented is called gradation. And gradation simply
means that we can observe that there are levels of life.
In fact, a ranking system, a hierarchy, beginning with inanimate matter,
then going into plant life, then animal life, then human life,
(03:39):
and then based upon biblical revelation, angelic life, that spirit
realm within and even within that realm, there's a hierarchy
and ultimately the ultimate life, which is a God. And
each level of life has shared attributes specific to that
particular speed, she's or level of life. So when God said,
(04:05):
let us make man in our image, in our likeness,
he had certain things in mind. We know. The story
is that He took man from the dust of the earth,
formed him, fashioned him, and then breathed into him the
breath of life. That breath block the spirit that was
(04:29):
breathed into man is where God shared some of his
own attributes. He shared the power of reasoning. So let's
just go over it again. We have in the image
of God the power to reason, which means that we
(04:50):
have the power of mind to think, to understand, to
make judgments. The Bible says in Isaiah, God so beautifully said,
come let us reason together. So God engages our intellect,
our thinking. We are rational beings, logical beings. In the
(05:14):
New Testament, the very well known text says, you'll be
transformed by what come on, talk to me. The renewing
of your mind. In the mind, we establish a set
of values that we live by that inform our conscience
to help it judge our actions, our conduct. So we
(05:39):
have the communicable attribute of God, the power to reason,
to think, and thinking is important because the quality of
your thinking determines the quality of your life. If you
want to change your life, change the way you think.
How many know, don't point, but how many millions of
(06:00):
people who suffer from thinking thinking. Yeah, it's just unfortunate,
but it leaves them in a place where they're not
experiencing the kind of life that God intended for them
to experience. Second communicable attribute is creativity. In fact, in
(06:22):
Genesis where it says in the beginning God elohem, it
speaks of God in a creative context as creator, God
as creator. In fact, we are most like God when
we are creative, when we explore our creative ability. And everybody,
(06:46):
everybody has creativity built into them as the human species.
Whether we use it, that's a different story. So we
have the power to create with our words, our actions.
We have the ability to imagine new things, and we
have the power to reimagine all things. And that's why
(07:09):
fashion is cyclical. It goes around and around and around.
It's funny how millennials today think that tide is new.
They think the platform shoes are new, they think that
fantacy dress sneakers are new. But this goes back to
period of time when I was a teenager and all
(07:31):
of these things were our reality and our experience. But
we have the ability to imagine new things and to
give new meaning to old things, reimanaging the past and
what it could be out into the future. We also
have and the attribute of speech, the ability to not
(07:52):
only think and reason, but the ability to express our thoughts,
our desires, our feelings, our emotion, our ideas. We have
the power of speech to share our perceptions. We have
the power of self awareness. We are aware that we
(08:13):
have an individual identity or personality that is unlike anyone else.
In fact, we demand that because we do things to
try to stand out and to be different, and we
tend to gravitate two different Amen, ladies. Can you imagine
(08:33):
if you're invited to an event of wonderful evening dinner
and you all show up with the same dress, That
is bad news. See, we guys are different. We look
where'd you get yours? That's all we say we just
you know, it's okay, Hey, I like that's how you
work with it. But for a woman to show up
(08:54):
with the same dress, that is a major crisis because
it robs of distinction of uniqueness. Amen. So we are
aware that we have a personality unlike everyone else. There's
a unique DNA to us. It is that self awareness.
We are aware of ourselves born. We could spend some
(09:17):
time with that we don't have. But we also have
self determination, and this simply speaks of free will. We
have the power to choose. We have the power to choose.
I will venture to say that the life that you
(09:37):
live today is the sum total of all the choices
that you've made along the way. And what's nice about it,
if you've made bad choices in the past, you don't
have to repeat them. You can make better choices in
the future. That's the beauty of free will. We're not stuck,
(09:58):
We're not robotic, not pre programmed. God is secure in
himself enough to allow us to make decisions, even if
those decisions are against him. That's really secure, Amen. But
his hopes is that you would be influenced by righteousness
and a moral standing. So we have self determination. Our
(10:22):
choices determine our future. Hello, our choices determine our future, right,
and we become servant to the choices that we make.
That's why you need to take time in making certain choices,
because you have to make sure you want to serve
that choice for as long as it may require. Specially
(10:47):
when you're talking about marrying somebody. You know why you
need to take more time when you think about who
you're going to marry. I'm gonna give you one good reason.
Because you're going to live longer, so you're gonna have
to serve that choice. You have to be willing to
(11:09):
serve that choice for a long time, and especially if
you get married early in life. Pats Karen and I
got married when we were nineteen. We were just in love.
We weren't thinking about the future and all that stuff. No,
(11:30):
it was the moment. And here it is fifty years
later that we've been together, forty seven married, three years dating. Right,
the life expectancy for men today in America is eighty
nine and for women it's ninety two. So if you
(11:54):
get married at nineteen, let me see you know the
mass our choices, we become servant to the choices that
we make. And let me tell you something. The choices
that we are today, if they're expressed in public, they
are captured, memorialized, and disseminated around the world in seconds.
(12:23):
And that's why you, even more so have to be
conscious of what you do in public and the choices
that you make. Amen, that's the society in which we live.
How many know that you were filmed at least by
at least twenty cameras on your way to church today?
That's right. I've learned that whenever our drive through an intersection,
(12:46):
I just smile, so at least it'll be a happy ticket.
We also have self transcendence. We have through the power
of our mind, the ability to revisit the past. We
(13:08):
have the power to revisit the past, and as I
share from time to time, this is where women have
the advantage. Women have been gifted by God. I don't
know why. I don't think it's fair, but they've been
(13:29):
gifted with total recall. We men recall the headlines. Women
recall all the details at an amazing speed. Computers have
nothing on women. All they have to do is associate
(13:52):
how they felt when it happened, and all the information comes,
all the data comes back. It's unfair. In an argument,
we lose. So I've learned two words that are very
effective in marriage. Yes, dear, you got it. You got it.
(14:19):
But we can reflect on the past and the present,
and we can imagine and plan for the future. How
many you know that you're sitting in my imagination. You
are sitting right now in my imagination. I drew it
out on a napkin and then it went through a
(14:39):
process and here we are. That is power, That is power,
that is transcendence. Amen. We have the attribute of self reflection,
the ability to review our words, our thoughts, our motives,
our actions. And I recomm men, you do this on
(15:01):
a daily basis. At the end of the day. You
should reflect on your day. What do you need to
change about yourself? Amen? And you should be looking to change,
to grow, to develop. That's why I say, if you're
the smartest one in your group, you need a new
group because you want people around you who are going
to stretch you, challenge you, bring out the best in you,
(15:25):
not settle for mediocrity from you. Who believe in the
gifts and the talents and the capacity that is inside
of you and They're willing to challenge you to dig
deep inside of yourself and come out with the real you,
the true you, the abundant you. You need people in
your life like that. You don't need to be surrounded
(15:46):
by yes people. How many understand what I'm talking about here?
Very very very important, And when you reflect, you think
back and you can make adjustments along the way. Let
me change that. Let me change this. You know, too
often we forget that we are human beings, not human doings.
(16:09):
I'm gonna try that one more time. We are human beings,
not human doings. What I mean by that is we
tend to identify ourselves by what we do, not by
the person we are. And what you are is more important.
How many understand what I'm talking about? Because when you
fail at the art of being, whatever you're doing is
(16:31):
destined to collapse. So more importantly is the person that
you're becoming in the process. Not what you're getting, not
what you're receiving, but who are you becoming in the process.
That is so so critical to growth and development. Self reflection, Boy,
(16:52):
we could spend some time on that because it talks
about conscience, about empathy, but we'll move on. We also
have been given a sense of morality, an awareness that
there is a moral standard, a universal moral standard, that
there is right and wrong conduct, that there's moral and
(17:13):
immoral behavior. We have that universal sense of it, and
even our own conscience is designed to convict us when
we are engaged in behavior that's inappropriate. The whole idea
of manners and etiquette, all of those things are very
critical because they protect the boundaries amen. So we have
(17:38):
an awareness of a moral or ethical aspect of our conduct.
And we also have built into us the desire, the
preference for right over wrong. That is true, that it's
built into us. We also have affections. All of these
(18:00):
things God shared with us placed inside of us. Our
affections that aspect of consciousness that makes us aware and
manifests itself in our feelings, in our emotions, our passions,
and our desires. And we are also created as social beings.
(18:23):
We are social. We need others in our life. You've
heard me say it again and again. We don't grow
in isolation. We grow in community and the brilliance of
God to create something called family, which is essentially the
first community that we experience in our growth journey, in
(18:43):
our growth process. And in the context of family, we
are socialized and should be prepared for the larger community
that we will end up being a part of. But
what I emphasize to you is that these things are
capacities that are given to us, but they are not
(19:06):
primarily what is meant by the image of God. Because
if this is what is meant by the image of God,
then there's a problem because when a child is conceived
in the womb, that child has all of these capacities,
(19:27):
but it is not actualized until that child leaves the
womb goes to a growth process. And if we're saying
that the image of God is these things, and at
what point in that growth process do you become officially
the image of God. But I share it with you
at the image of God begins at conception with a
(19:53):
rank that God confers upon every human being at the
moment of concept and continues right up to their last
breath at the moment of death. Why because it levels
the playing field. Because if our dignity and worth and
(20:13):
value is conferred upon us from the womb, from the
very point of conception, then we are to be treated
with respect and dignity and worth and value, not later
in life, not at some point in life, but from
the very beginning of the conception of life. If we
(20:34):
understood this in our society, it would influence our public policy,
our legal codes, our social systems and structures, how we
treat people. How many understand what I'm talking about. See,
because this means that the image of God is a rank.
It's a status that's conferred upon every human being, regardless
of their educational status, regardless of their wealth, regardless of
(20:57):
their last name, regardless of their race, regardless of their ethnicity,
regardless of where they were born, what family they came from.
Everyone has that stamp of human dignity, worth and value,
which also means because of that intrinsic worth and value,
we are entitled to a quality of life consistent with
(21:22):
that worth and that value, which also should be reflected
in our policies, in our legal codes, in our social
structures and systems and procedures and processes. That was a mouthful,
but let me know what I'm talking about. Yeah, turn
your neighbor, say you, neighbor, you have respect, dignity, and
(21:43):
honor because you are the image of God. It'll influence
how we treat that child in the womb, Amen, and
it'll force us to be balance in our thinking how
we respond to these social issues, because I want the
(22:05):
people who fight on behalf of the child in the
womb to have the same fight for that child after
it's born, to have a quality of life consistent with
the same dignity and work that you were fighting for
while it was in the wound. I'm just saying good. Fact,
I think I'm preaching good at this point. Come on
(22:27):
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Speaker 3 (22:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
be six, get Airbernardista in Instagram. You mean every other
Thursday at three pm Eastern time. We can catch the
real ar Bernards live on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday
at three pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We are most like God when we are creative, when
we explore our creative ability, and everybody, everybody has creativity
built into them as the human species.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry.
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought evoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivates you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:09):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a R. Bernard.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I shared with you the communicable attributes that God shared
with humanity at the creation of Adam and Eve. We
went through a list of them. I want to review
that list only to remind you of the order in
(01:40):
which we should understand the image of God. In a
book that I'm writing, lessons for my grandchildren, a Christian
social ethic, I go through eleven key social ethics that
are foundational to society and that they should know and
(02:02):
embrace as part of their life journey. And it begins
number one with the life and dignity of the human person.
That life and dignity is intrinsic in every human being.
The Bible says in Genesis one twenty six, and God said,
(02:26):
let us make man in our image and in our likeness,
and let them have dominion. Amen. So we explored what
does it mean to be made in the image and
likeness of God? Is it the power to reason? Which
(02:53):
we do have the power to think. In fact, I
want to revisit them. Let's go through them again, if
it's all right with you, even if it's not. Because
one of the philosophies upon which we understand our faith
(03:14):
that Thomas Aquinas presented is called gradation. And gradation simply
means that we can observe that there are levels of life.
In fact, a ranking system, a hierarchy, beginning with inanimate matter,
then going into plant life, then animal life, then human life,
(03:39):
and then based upon biblical revelation, angelic life, that spirit
realm within and even within that realm, there's a hierarchy
and ultimately the ultimate life, which is a God. And
each level of life has shared attributes specific to that
particular speed, she's or level of life. So when God said,
(04:05):
let us make man in our image, in our likeness,
he had certain things in mind. We know. The story
is that He took man from the dust of the earth,
formed him, fashioned him, and then breathed into him the
breath of life. That breath block the spirit that was
(04:29):
breathed into man is where God shared some of his
own attributes. He shared the power of reasoning. So let's
just go over it again. We have in the image
of God the power to reason, which means that we
(04:50):
have the power of mind to think, to understand, to
make judgments. The Bible says in Isaiah, God so beautifully said,
come let us reason together. So God engages our intellect,
our thinking. We are rational beings, logical beings. In the
(05:14):
New Testament, the very well known text says, you'll be
transformed by what come on, talk to me. The renewing
of your mind. In the mind, we establish a set
of values that we live by that inform our conscience
to help it judge our actions, our conduct. So we
(05:39):
have the communicable attribute of God, the power to reason,
to think, and thinking is important because the quality of
your thinking determines the quality of your life. If you
want to change your life, change the way you think.
How many know, don't point, but how many millions of
(06:00):
people who suffer from thinking thinking. Yeah, it's just unfortunate,
but it leaves them in a place where they're not
experiencing the kind of life that God intended for them
to experience. Second communicable attribute is creativity. In fact, in
(06:22):
Genesis where it says in the beginning God elohem, it
speaks of God in a creative context as creator, God
as creator. In fact, we are most like God when
we are creative, when we explore our creative ability. And everybody,
(06:46):
everybody has creativity built into them as the human species.
Whether we use it, that's a different story. So we
have the power to create with our words, our actions.
We have the ability to imagine new things, and we
have the power to reimagine all things. And that's why
(07:09):
fashion is cyclical. It goes around and around and around.
It's funny how millennials today think that tide is new.
They think the platform shoes are new, they think that
fantacy dress sneakers are new. But this goes back to
period of time when I was a teenager and all
(07:31):
of these things were our reality and our experience. But
we have the ability to imagine new things and to
give new meaning to old things, reimanaging the past and
what it could be out into the future. We also
have and the attribute of speech, the ability to not
(07:52):
only think and reason, but the ability to express our thoughts,
our desires, our feelings, our emotion, our ideas. We have
the power of speech to share our perceptions. We have
the power of self awareness. We are aware that we
(08:13):
have an individual identity or personality that is unlike anyone else.
In fact, we demand that because we do things to
try to stand out and to be different, and we
tend to gravitate two different Amen, ladies. Can you imagine
(08:33):
if you're invited to an event of wonderful evening dinner
and you all show up with the same dress, That
is bad news. See, we guys are different. We look
where'd you get yours? That's all we say we just
you know, it's okay, Hey, I like that's how you
work with it. But for a woman to show up
(08:54):
with the same dress, that is a major crisis because
it robs of distinction of uniqueness. Amen. So we are
aware that we have a personality unlike everyone else. There's
a unique DNA to us. It is that self awareness.
We are aware of ourselves born. We could spend some
(09:17):
time with that we don't have. But we also have
self determination, and this simply speaks of free will. We
have the power to choose. We have the power to choose.
I will venture to say that the life that you
(09:37):
live today is the sum total of all the choices
that you've made along the way. And what's nice about it,
if you've made bad choices in the past, you don't
have to repeat them. You can make better choices in
the future. That's the beauty of free will. We're not stuck,
(09:58):
We're not robotic, not pre programmed. God is secure in
himself enough to allow us to make decisions, even if
those decisions are against him. That's really secure, Amen. But
his hopes is that you would be influenced by righteousness
and a moral standing. So we have self determination. Our
(10:22):
choices determine our future. Hello, our choices determine our future, right,
and we become servant to the choices that we make.
That's why you need to take time in making certain choices,
because you have to make sure you want to serve
that choice for as long as it may require. Specially
(10:47):
when you're talking about marrying somebody. You know why you
need to take more time when you think about who
you're going to marry. I'm gonna give you one good reason.
Because you're going to live longer, so you're gonna have
to serve that choice. You have to be willing to
(11:09):
serve that choice for a long time, and especially if
you get married early in life. Pats Karen and I
got married when we were nineteen. We were just in love.
We weren't thinking about the future and all that stuff. No,
(11:30):
it was the moment. And here it is fifty years
later that we've been together, forty seven married, three years dating. Right,
the life expectancy for men today in America is eighty
nine and for women it's ninety two. So if you
(11:54):
get married at nineteen, let me see you know the
mass our choices, we become servant to the choices that
we make. And let me tell you something. The choices
that we are today, if they're expressed in public, they
are captured, memorialized, and disseminated around the world in seconds.
(12:23):
And that's why you, even more so have to be
conscious of what you do in public and the choices
that you make. Amen, that's the society in which we live.
How many know that you were filmed at least by
at least twenty cameras on your way to church today?
That's right. I've learned that whenever our drive through an intersection,
(12:46):
I just smile, so at least it'll be a happy ticket.
We also have self transcendence. We have through the power
of our mind, the ability to revisit the past. We
(13:08):
have the power to revisit the past, and as I
share from time to time, this is where women have
the advantage. Women have been gifted by God. I don't
know why. I don't think it's fair, but they've been
(13:29):
gifted with total recall. We men recall the headlines. Women
recall all the details at an amazing speed. Computers have
nothing on women. All they have to do is associate
(13:52):
how they felt when it happened, and all the information comes,
all the data comes back. It's unfair. In an argument,
we lose. So I've learned two words that are very
effective in marriage. Yes, dear, you got it. You got it.
(14:19):
But we can reflect on the past and the present,
and we can imagine and plan for the future. How
many you know that you're sitting in my imagination. You
are sitting right now in my imagination. I drew it
out on a napkin and then it went through a
(14:39):
process and here we are. That is power, That is power,
that is transcendence. Amen. We have the attribute of self reflection,
the ability to review our words, our thoughts, our motives,
our actions. And I recomm men, you do this on
(15:01):
a daily basis. At the end of the day. You
should reflect on your day. What do you need to
change about yourself? Amen? And you should be looking to change,
to grow, to develop. That's why I say, if you're
the smartest one in your group, you need a new
group because you want people around you who are going
to stretch you, challenge you, bring out the best in you,
(15:25):
not settle for mediocrity from you. Who believe in the
gifts and the talents and the capacity that is inside
of you and They're willing to challenge you to dig
deep inside of yourself and come out with the real you,
the true you, the abundant you. You need people in
your life like that. You don't need to be surrounded
(15:46):
by yes people. How many understand what I'm talking about here?
Very very very important, And when you reflect, you think
back and you can make adjustments along the way. Let
me change that. Let me change this. You know, too
often we forget that we are human beings, not human doings.
(16:09):
I'm gonna try that one more time. We are human beings,
not human doings. What I mean by that is we
tend to identify ourselves by what we do, not by
the person we are. And what you are is more important.
How many understand what I'm talking about? Because when you
fail at the art of being, whatever you're doing is
(16:31):
destined to collapse. So more importantly is the person that
you're becoming in the process. Not what you're getting, not
what you're receiving, but who are you becoming in the process.
That is so so critical to growth and development. Self reflection, Boy,
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we could spend some time on that because it talks
about conscience, about empathy, but we'll move on. We also
have been given a sense of morality, an awareness that
there is a moral standard, a universal moral standard, that
there is right and wrong conduct, that there's moral and
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immoral behavior. We have that universal sense of it, and
even our own conscience is designed to convict us when
we are engaged in behavior that's inappropriate. The whole idea
of manners and etiquette, all of those things are very
critical because they protect the boundaries amen. So we have
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an awareness of a moral or ethical aspect of our conduct.
And we also have built into us the desire, the
preference for right over wrong. That is true, that it's
built into us. We also have affections. All of these
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things God shared with us placed inside of us. Our
affections that aspect of consciousness that makes us aware and
manifests itself in our feelings, in our emotions, our passions,
and our desires. And we are also created as social beings.
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We are social. We need others in our life. You've
heard me say it again and again. We don't grow
in isolation. We grow in community and the brilliance of
God to create something called family, which is essentially the
first community that we experience in our growth journey, in
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our growth process. And in the context of family, we
are socialized and should be prepared for the larger community
that we will end up being a part of. But
what I emphasize to you is that these things are
capacities that are given to us, but they are not
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primarily what is meant by the image of God. Because
if this is what is meant by the image of God,
then there's a problem because when a child is conceived
in the womb, that child has all of these capacities,
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but it is not actualized until that child leaves the
womb goes to a growth process. And if we're saying
that the image of God is these things, and at
what point in that growth process do you become officially
the image of God. But I share it with you
at the image of God begins at conception with a
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rank that God confers upon every human being at the
moment of concept and continues right up to their last
breath at the moment of death. Why because it levels
the playing field. Because if our dignity and worth and
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value is conferred upon us from the womb, from the
very point of conception, then we are to be treated
with respect and dignity and worth and value, not later
in life, not at some point in life, but from
the very beginning of the conception of life. If we
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understood this in our society, it would influence our public policy,
our legal codes, our social systems and structures, how we
treat people. How many understand what I'm talking about. See,
because this means that the image of God is a rank.
It's a status that's conferred upon every human being, regardless
of their educational status, regardless of their wealth, regardless of
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their last name, regardless of their race, regardless of their ethnicity,
regardless of where they were born, what family they came from.
Everyone has that stamp of human dignity, worth and value,
which also means because of that intrinsic worth and value,
we are entitled to a quality of life consistent with
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that worth and that value, which also should be reflected
in our policies, in our legal codes, in our social
structures and systems and procedures and processes. That was a mouthful,
but let me know what I'm talking about. Yeah, turn
your neighbor, say you, neighbor, you have respect, dignity, and
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honor because you are the image of God. It'll influence
how we treat that child in the womb, Amen, and
it'll force us to be balance in our thinking how
we respond to these social issues, because I want the
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people who fight on behalf of the child in the
womb to have the same fight for that child after
it's born, to have a quality of life consistent with
the same dignity and work that you were fighting for
while it was in the wound. I'm just saying good. Fact,
I think I'm preaching good at this point. Come on
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that word. Yeah. A Or Bernard is.
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