Anniversary of Roe v Wade

Roe v. Wade is arguably one of the most embattled public issues of our lifetime. But, of all the issues in our society where Christians are needed to take a stand, the issue of abortion is one of the most profound time-wasters for Christ’s church.

The irony of it all is that Satan has befuddled American believers in Jesus to the point that the so-called terrorists we have come to fear in the aftermath of 9/11 have no ability or intention of creating the carnage that we, ourselves have committed upon our own. Each and every year, American women decide to kill their own children as a convenient method of quickly resuming the ungodly lifestyles that led to such a demonic dilemma. They never realized, that to their own children, they were the terrorists. And in choosing to disobey God by engaging in demonic bastardizations of God’s sanctified blessed unions, they became God’s enemy, embracing a lifestyle of intimate relations that appeased their own sexual urgings and propelled them down a path of natural and unnatural consequences far from the protective presence of a holy God.

The result? More than one million children each year are sentenced to death by more than one million women, most of whom are professing Christians.That’s what is occurring right here in America today.

You are likely already aware of the monumental impact of the problem. And you seek to remedy it. But take note of how the problem has grown and manifested itself in many other ways in our society, like a virus that mutates to the point where there is no cure. Every dose of medication shows little positive results. Every slight downward trend raises hope that it will continue its downward trajectory. But every approach to eliminating the abortion issue soon becomes obsolete.

Why? 36 years after Roe v Wade and abortion is still the major focus of battle for Christians seeking to save the children impacted by it.

Christians fighting wrong battle

The answer to the problem of abortion is simple. Christians engaged in the abortion debate have lost sight of the problem and moved forward to engage in a fight against demonic powers without God.

That’s the reason why the battle rages on. And with each slight reduction in the abortion numbers, we hear cheers of hope erupt from a lost people and a lost cause. Satan understands the war and recognizes that conceding a battle or two gives an enemy hope and keeps the enemy engaged. We are that enemy.

Of course, there are those who will maintain that God does not approve of the deaths of innocents. And I agree. But God also did not approve of King Herod’s massacre of innocent children in the aftermath of the birth of Christ. God didn’t approve of the Babylonians kidnapping Daniel and others. God didn’t approve of the Crusades. And we could keep up this exercise of naming the things that God did not approve of endlessly.

How shall we live?

The abortion debate is centered around the main issue of how God wants those of us who believe in Him to live. And the reality of the abortion debate becomes quite evident when we begin to ask questions of ourselves, not of society. When we ask important questions within the church family, targeting that body of believers in Jesus Christ, the answers to societal problems are revealed, since our society is a reflection of us.

I could not say this about every society. But in those areas where Christians comprise the majority of the peoples, there you will see society as a mirror image of the influence and impact of the majority of the people. The United States is such a place.

Our nation’s boastful ways (”We are the greatest nation on Earth”) are prevalent throughout the church.

Our aggressive and destructive ways (inside our own country as well as targeting others) are fueled by strong support from the church.

Failure to believe and obey God

Christians (at least professing Christians) comprise the majority of the United States. And the problems that exist in this nation are primarily consequences resulting from a failure of the church to obey God.

The church has failed to set itself apart from the enemies of God and therefore finds that families within the church body have become more akin to families outside the church. In other words, there is little difference between “the world” and “the church.”

World vs Christian view

When we speak of a “World view” and a “Christian view,” in the case of the abortion issue in particular, there is little difference. And that has led to much confusion and division within the church.

If we drop the labels of “World” and “Christian” views and use the correct terms of “Jesus” and “Satan,” the reality of the abortion issue becomes crystal clear. But we first have to get over our own aversion to using the name of Jesus and stop pretending that Satan and his demons don’t exist. There is no way to reconcile belief in Jesus if one doesn’t also believe in the reality of demons. Jesus knew demons existed. So why don’t we?

World doesn’t believe in Satan, demons

Followers of Jesus ought to know well that demons seek to influence our children long before they reach the age of adulthood. Demons seek to cause rebellion and the seeking of self-centered desires. Demons influence our children to corrupt the natural sexual desires God gave us, which are to be a blessing in sacred marital unions. Demons seek to offer counterfeits to God creations, especially marriage.

And followers of Jesus have failed to stand up and expose such counterfeits. And that has left our children vulnerable to the lies of the “world,” which are really the lies of “Satan.” And one of Satan’s biggest lies is evident in the issue of abortion. Long before anyone gets to the moral dilemma of life over death for an unborn child, the choice of death was made by two people who chose for themselves a sinful act. And believers in Jesus are aware that without salvation through Jesus, the result of choosing sin is death.

Choosing death

Therefore, by the time a young girl or adult women discovers she is pregnant with a child conceived out of wedlock, she already made a decision for her own life … and she chose death. The same is true for the boy or man with whom she committed the sin. And where was the church to help these lost souls? Where was the church to lead them back to the path of life? Where was the church to persuade these two to beg Jesus for forgiveness and grace? And where was the church to point out the folly of Satan’s plan to capture them both in an evil web of deceit that looked good, felt good and yet pulled them into the grave?

The church was asleep. Mothers and fathers were tending to their own affairs while the children announced loud and clear their intentions the moment they uttered the words, “boyfriend” and girlfriend.”

Christian boyfriends and girlfriends

There is no such thing as a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” in a church headed by Jesus. These terms, which are placed upon intimate relations between both youth and adults, are conducted outside of the boundaries of marriage. No such relationships are condoned by Jesus.

Why does the church accept such terminology or relationships?

The elimination of the acceptance of the terms “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” is a step in the right direction: a path leading back toward the boundaries God initially set for relations between men and women.

Those are not simply terms used by the “World,” but rather terms that are prevalent inside the church. How can Christians not understand what a 15-year-old is saying when she tells her mother that she has a “boyfriend?”

And how could a Christian mother proudly parade her pregnant teenage daughter around America, along with her daughter’s “boyfriend,” without Christians pointing out the obvious? Forget the obvious point of two underage teens willfully breaking the sexual laws of the land. What about the willful ignoring of God’s law, which was designed to protect their hearts, minds, bodies and souls, in addition to any other souls born of their sexual union? Such sinful lifestyles are in desperate need of repentance and God’s grace, rather than crowds of cheering Christians oblivious to the hypocrisy being celebrated.

So where is the church when young and old alike are “hooking up” under the guise of legitimacy through counterfeit relationships? The church is embroiled in a political battle over court processes and decisions related to abortion procedures. The church is busy trying to remove Satan’s solution.

Satan’s Problem, and Solution

Even Satan recognizes there are inherent problems in the counterfeit relationship of “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.” Satan can see the natural consequence of conception of new life, for which sexual relations were established. That interferes in Satan’s plan to focus our attention on the pleasure we receive from sex. God intends for sexual relations to be enjoyable. It is God’s desire that married men and women desire one another and seek to engage in sexual activities. The result, of course, is new life.

Satan elevates the idea of pleasure to the highest priority and causes us to see conception as a problem that undermines our pursuit of selfish desires. After all, conception brings another life into the equation and interferes in our fanciful pleasure. The birth of a child is burdensome in Satan’s view. And such natural consequences of sex must somehow be reduced, if not altogether eliminated.

When we begin to think like that, we are adopting Satan’s view. But the church fails to teach that lesson.

Satan’s protection

Satan recognizes that once we adopt the all-out pursuit of sexual gratification, we will engage in sexual relations with a variety of partners. After all, the gratification of one’s own sexual desires can mean wild pursuits of sexual fantasies with multiple partners at one time or multiple partners one at a time spread out over time. In either case, the end result is multiple partners. And out of such arrangements comes the natural consequence of the spread of sexual disease. Satan realizes that the spread of sexual disease is yet another problem that interferes in the plan to corrupt the process of sacred sexual union. There had to be a way to mitigate the risks of sexual disease and continue the pursuit of sexual desires outside of the marriage contract.

Satan protects our heart

Satan’s approach to sex is fraught with numerous problems, not the least of which is the emptiness we feel when we have given away our most inner selves to someone who discarded our misguided affections along with the memory of our sexual interludes and engagements. Heartache is the one thing Satan hasn’t found a way around. It reveals to us in a very strong profound way that what we experienced didn’t stem from God.

Satan protects our bodies

Satan has offered us condoms to lower the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (though the lie fails to inform us about HPV, which causes cervical cancer and could care less if a condom is in the equation), pills to prevent pregnancy, morning after pills in case we forget the daily pill, and abortions in case all else fails.

The church battles Satan

The church ignores the spiritual battle and chooses to blame the government. The church then seeks to overturn secular laws that support the option of abortion.

Imagine that? The body of believers in Jesus Christ willingly engages in a battle against Satanic secular forces that hold no reverence for Jesus, YHWH, Yeshua or any other name we hold aloft. We engage in this battle devoid of Christ’s leadership and seek to eliminate the temptations offered by Satan to Christian men and women who have already gone astray from God’s Word.

In other words, the church ignores the fact that the lamb is lost and blames the power luring the lamb away for doing what that power has done since Eve first disobeyed God. Then, the church leaves the protection of Christ to engage in full-on battle against the evil force by seeking to persuade that force to change man-made laws.

Victims of the battle

The church has forgotten that its role is behind Jesus, not in front. Now take a look at who the victims of Satan’s influences are: Christian men and women … and their offspring. Here’s a look at the decimation the battle has caused in Black America alone.

40% of the 1 million abortions in America each year are attributed to decisions made by some women of African American descent. The entirety of all African American women comprise less than 5% of this nation’s population. And no one is saying that all African American women are having abortions. Therefore the tiny percentage of those that are comprise a HUGE portion of the total of all abortions in America annually. That number rises above 60% when one adds in Hispanic women.

So why focus on such demographics? Because the overwhelming majority of the men and women in these small demographics are Christians. Followers of Jesus Christ. And the impact of Satan’s false promises of sexual pleasures without consequences have taken a tremendous toll on these tiny populations within the family of God. That isn’t to dismiss the enormous impact of such lies on the majority of this population, but rather to demonstrate significantly how the adoption of Satan’s view can utterly destroy the framework of the family within small segments of our society. imagine the carnage caused in the majority populace!

The result of that destruction?

Destruction of Black America

Rising out-of-wedlock birth rates as a result of pursuit of sexual relations outside of marriage. That means more children born in poverty. More children vulnerable to the influences of demons while single parents seek ways to survive economically.

Rising abortion rates (still steady or rising among African Americans) as a result of women deciding to mitigate circumstances that would interfere in their individual sexual relationships. That carries with it the cyclical rates of daughters, many of whose mothers had abortions, having abortions.

Rising rates of sexual diseases, as evidence by the epidemic rates of STDs and AIDs in Black America. That means more men and women dying due to disease. That also means children impacted as a result of being born from a diseased parent and/or losing parents to disease.

Rising rates of violence and drugs, as evidence by the rates of homicides, incarcerations and drug addiction (narcotics, alcohol, cigarettes) in Black America. It is obvious how this impacts children and disrupts the family. Demonic influence makes a profound impact upon children whose parents are influenced by demons.

Lowered rates of marriage, as evidenced by the sinking marital rate in Black America, which speaks of numerous problems for future generations as Black America whittles away at itself.

Impact upon America

These problems are not just limited to Black America. As a black American, i am sensitive to what is going on regarding this particular demographic. But the reality is that we can remove the word “black” and use the word American and the point would remain the same. We can remove the word American and use the word Christian and the point would be driven home.

Most Black Americans are Christians. And what is occurring in Black America is occurring around this country to Christians of every race.

Identifying the real problem

Abortion isn’t the problem in Black America, though a percentage of black women represent the largest percentage of abortions related to a single demographic. And abortion isn’t the problem in America as a whole. It is a symptom.

Ask any doctor what happens if you remove a symptom of a disease. You allow the disease to work without knowing the impact.

Abortion reveals the impact of a terrible disease that is plaguing followers of Christ. That disease is telling us we are dying. And we seek remedy in the removal of a single symptom. And the power we beseech to remove the abortion element is the same power that placed it as an option and a distraction.

Removing the abortion option will not remove the influence that tells us we can corrupt our bodies, minds, spirits and relationships without consequence. Satan is the unidentified influence behind abortion and every other man-made idea that seeks to reduce or remove the natural consequences of disobeying God.

The Solution

But if we choose to repent of our sinful acts and forego the pursuits of sexual relations outside of marriage, God will heal us … and our land. There is no other method available to us.

Satan is far more powerful than we are. And the spiritual battle is God’s to fight, not ours. But Satan has already lost this battle. He seeks to drag us all down when he finally receives the punishment he deserves. And so he roams the Earth like a lion seeking to devour those who trust in his lies.

The church must abandon this political pursuit and pay close attention to the millions of hurting men and women who are deeply embroiled in their own self-centeredness, ignoring the truth they know and explaining away the consequences they endure. They need help. Let’s use the energy and efforts (and monetary resources) currently devoted to a futile political war to overturn a secular court decision. Let’s direct those efforts toward better use in reaching lost souls who believe in Lord Jesus but have fallen to the power of demonic influences.

Our nation is filled with people who have chosen death for themselves long before they chose death for their children. When the church wakes up and realizes that repentance from the lifestyles we lead is the first step toward getting God’s attention and forgiveness, then our land and peoples will begin to experience the grace of God’s healing touch.

Such healing begins with God’s people turning from our search for government solutions and returning to trust and faith in God.

And Satan can continue to offer abortions across America. None of God’s people will be interested.

Posted on January 25th, 2009 by MikeGreen
Filed under: Truth & Christians, thebook

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