Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. Second Kings chapter sixteen verses two and three and he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God as his father had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. Wow, this is talking about Ahaz here, who continued the spiritual decline among God's people here in Second Kings, and he took things to a whole nother level here, burning his son as an offering, sacrificing his son according to the despicable practices of the nations. And we read this and we think, I can't fathom that. It's like someone sacrificing burning their son as an offering. How evil and wicked is that? And I want to be careful, because this is not a one-to-one correlation. At the same time, for those who live in in my country in the United States, we live in a country where over one million children this year will have their lives taken from them in the womb of their mothers, will have their lives sacrificed on the altar of well, so many different things. Regardless, these children's lives will be sacrificed. And those one million children join approximately seventy-two million other children in other countries around the world whose lives will be taken in the womb this year alone. This is rampant evil and wickedness. And there's so much we could talk about here that contributes to this that we need to talk about and need to address. But first and foremost, as God's people, whom God has called to do justice for children in the womb and the moms who carry them and their dads, we must work and labor in so many different ways from so many different directions to love children in the womb and the moms who carry them and the dads in this picture. So I just want to lead us to pray. God have mercy on us for all the evil and wickedness that we've become accustomed to in our world and that even some professing Christians advocate for.