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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

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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Page 67 CHAPTER 4 SHARING THE LOT WITH FELLOW CHRISTIANS We have learned that God has promised to lead and guide us into His moral will. And we discussed how He leads us into His moral will. We also pointed out that God’s will is a lot like a parking lot. In addition, we discovered that in non-moral areas, God leaves the decision to us. The non-moral decisions of life can be likened to the parking spaces that are within the parking lot of God’s moral will. The Lord has also promised to give us wisdom in making such decisions. But what happens when Christians who fellowship together hold to different views on the boundaries of the parking lot? That is, what do you do if your brother or sister in Christ believes that a particular practice that you regard as a legitimate parking space is outside of God’s will? That’s the subject of this chapter. I will say quite candidly that if you can wrap your arms around