Love The Right To Abort Babies
Evidently, the majority of voters in Ireland love the right to abort babies in the womb. Two-thirds of the votes were in favor of overturning the country’s ban on abortions. That’s an even higher percentage of people in Ireland who love the right to abort babies than Americans. According to the Pew Research Center in 2017, 57% of Americans favored abortions for any reason while 40% of Americans say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
So in both countries, the majority of people love the right to abort babies. You do realize that when we use sanitized words like abort or abortion that we are still talking about killing a baby? We are actually talking about murder? Why isn’t murder wrong? It’s wrong in God’s eyes (which is the most important Judge of all and He is Judge of all – there is judgment to come and it will come).
13 Year Old Dumped Live Baby In A Dumpster
When women kill their baby after it’s been born, they typically go to prison for murder. A 13 year old girl was just charged about two weeks ago for second degree murder. Her baby was born in February 2018 and she immediately put the live baby in a dumpster where the child died. Why is it we can see that it’s murder after the baby is born, but we don’t consider it murder while the baby is it in the womb? Is it really out of sight out of mind?
Women in favor of abortion love to say “my body, my choice.” What about the baby’s choice? The baby doesn’t choose to die. A lot of times the babies try to get away from the abortionist as the doctor is ripping the little baby apart – limb by limb. God made us with an innate desire to live and even unborn babies have this desire.
It’s Not My Body My Choice
It is not “my body, my choice.” It is your desire to murder your unborn child if you are pro-choice. Maybe it’s for financial reasons. Or could be a woman doesn’t want to admit her sexual sin of adultery or fornication. But it’s not your body, your choice. It is a precious life made in the image of God that is snuffed out every time an abortion is successful. A woman’s choice is a death sentence for a child, for her own child. You see, when you have an abortion you are still a mother. You are just a mother that “chose” to murder her own child. Now you are the mother of a dead baby.
When an abortion is successful, the child dies. When an abortion is unsuccessful it’s typically where the abortionist accidently kills the mother too. But make no mistake, when a woman pays a doctor to abort her child, she is paying the doctor to murder her baby. The baby is alive and the doctor has to kill the living child.
Greatest Sin of Our Nation
Folks, this is an abomination. It is the greatest sin of our nation. Any country that kills it’s most helpless members of society is not a great nation. No matter how wealthy or powerful they are, abortion is sinful and it is horrible. Murdering babies in the womb is the ultimate depravity of man.
Now you may say what about the case of rape? I’m glad you asked. You need to talk to Jason Lovins. His mother was a 15 year old teenager walking home from the pool one day when a man raped her. A few months later when the doctor told her that she was pregnant, many “Christians” told Jason’s grandmother that no one would blame her daughter if she had an abortion. But I love what his grandmother said. She said no and replied, “The Lord knew this baby was coming. He’s numbered the hairs on his head and already knows his name.”
Thank God that Jason’s grandmother didn’t listen to the advice from others, including other Christians that told her that the baby should be aborted. Instead, the faith-filled grandmother trusted that God already knew the child and had a plan for him. Jason says that he was told over and over again growing up that his grandmother, mom and God loved him. He didn’t need an earthly dad because God was his Father and that’s what’s most important. Jason is a successful Christian musician. He’s very talented and I’ve heard him say that he’s very grateful that his mother did not abort him.
Horrific Crime Of Rape
Is rape wrong? Absolutely! It is a horrific crime that should be severely punished when the perpetrator is caught. But do two wrongs make a right? No. Should Jason Lovins have been killed in the womb because his biological father was a rapist? Absolutely not. It makes no sense to punish the child with a death sentence for the crime that his biological father committed.
God takes murder very seriously because He made each one of us in His own image. The sanctity of life is important to the great Creator God. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image (Genesis 9:6). The sixth commandment is “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13). Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death (Exodus 21:12). And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death (Leviticus 24:17).
Murder is wrong and God says a murderer shall be put to death. So how much more offensive do you think it is to God when a woman pays a doctor to kill the baby that’s growing inside her? The shedding of innocent blood is an abomination to God. There is judgment coming. If you have had an abortion, you need to cry out for God to forgive you. You need to repent and put your trust in Jesus Christ.
Have You Ever Forced Someone To Have An Abortion?
Maybe you are walking by tonight and you have forced a woman to have an abortion. You too need to repent from your sins and put your faith in Jesus. If either of these scenarios describe you, not only do you need to repent and believe the Gospel, but you also need to turn away from your pro-choice, pro-abortion, pro-murder beliefs and you need to stand up for the voiceless.
You need to let people know that abortion is murder and cry out against this heinous, evil deed. You need to go from where you love the right to abort babies to pleading with women to carry the child to full term. There are people out there ready to adopt babies if women really can’t or don’t want to keep them. But killing a child in the womb is not the answer.
Never Had An Abortion
Now maybe you are out here tonight and you can say that you are pro-life, that you’ve never had an abortion, never forced someone to have one and you’ve never paid for or driven a woman to an abortion clinic. Oh, but that doesn’t mean that you and I are sinless, because we are not. How many times have we been silent when we should have spoken up against the horrors of abortion?
Beyond that, none of us are sinless and the Bible says the soul that sins, it shall die. We have all sinned against God and the wages for our sin is death. Physical death in this life and eternal death, never ending death in the next life. We have all rebelled against God. None of us are right with God on our own.
None of us are righteous on our own. Apart from Jesus Christ, we have no righteousness. In Isaiah it says that our very best righteousness is as filthy rags to God. Isaiah 64:6 says: But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Our iniquities have taken us away. We are sinful creatures, but God is Holy!
Abortion Is An Awful Sin
Yes, abortion is an awful sin. But all sin is exceedingly sinful to God. He is so righteous that He cannot look at sin in His glory. His eyes are too pure. He is too Holy. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13a). This is the crux of our problem – God is Holy and we are sinful creatures.
So How can a Holy God reconcile sinful men and women to Himself? Only through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and man. Our rebellion, our sins, separate us from God and the only way back in a right relationship with God is through Christ Jesus alone.
Jesus is the sinless Son of the Living God. He is the propitiation for our sins, the sins of those who repent and trust Him. Propitiation means that the wrath was satisfied. God’s righteous anger over sinful men and women was satisfied by the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Lord. But there is no universal salvation. Salvation is the free gift from God, but you must receive the gift.
Repentance And Faith In Jesus
The only way to receive salvation is through repentance and faith. Repentance from your sins and faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ who suffered, bled and died on the cruel cross. Repentance starts with godly sorrow. For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death (2 Corinthians 7:10).
Either God has convicted you over your sins that led you to repent and trust Jesus for your salvation or the guilt of your sins remains upon you. Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation. But if you have not repented and surrendered your life to Jesus, then all you are working for is death. Physical death and the second death, which is never ending suffering in the lake of fire and brimstone.
Folks, this is what compels us to come out and share the Gospel with you. Yes, abortion is a horrendous sin. People loving the right to abort babies is sickening. Watching the videos and seeing the pictures of young women in Ireland being giddy and crying tears of joy for the right to legally kill their own babies makes me sick to my stomach. I want to throw up. But even if abortion is not your pet sin, you have fallen short of God’s glory, His standard of perfection. We all have.
Not One Of Us Are Perfect
None of us are perfect. We’ve all sinned, each and every one of us. If Jesus Christ is not your Lord and Savior tonight, you are merely working for death. We are pleading with you to repent from your sins and trust in the Lord with all your heart. Oh, do this tonight and be saved. If God is convicting you over your sins and revealing His Holiness to you, do not reject such a great salvation.
Come to Jesus tonight. Admit that you are a sinner. Confess your sins to God (the sin of being pro-abortion and your other sins). Cry out for God to have mercy upon your soul. Repent from your sins and surrender your life fully and completely to Jesus Christ the Lord. Call upon the mighty name of Jesus tonight and be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13).
Don’t forget, if Jesus is not your Lord and Savior, your guilt remains upon you. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him (John 3:36). Believe on the Lord Jesus tonight, on His perfect sacrifice for guilty sinners like you and me. Believe that Jesus died, was buried and rose again the third day. Trust Jesus. Repent and trust in the Lord Jesus and be saved. Don’t put it off. Repent and believe the Gospel.
(This message was proclaimed in downtown Springfield, MO on June 1, 2018)