tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60461614360106930002024-03-13T06:37:41.287-07:00There's Still Time to Win a Battle Before the Sun Goes DownKevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-63195055378697372772023-02-11T17:38:00.007-08:002023-10-05T04:18:28.329-07:00Is "Saving Babies" the Standard? If Not, What Is?<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Many Christians have followed the ProLife strategy of opposing preborn child sacrifice by supporting the passing of legislation that regulates abortion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Abolitionists shine light on these bills as being iniquitous decrees (Isaiah 10:1-2), and call on our brothers and sisters to </span><i>"cease to do evil,"</i><span> and </span><i>"learn to do well"</i><span> (Isaiah 1). We do not want the Church to oppose evil in a way that God calls evil.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The major justification from ProLife Christians is that these bills save some babies, and that makes it okay to implement the practice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Save the Babies" becomes the mantra. It is the focus, the end all. If some babies may be saved, it makes the legislation "a worthy effort" to be applauded.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllzHt8PgnI75ILPoJ-L1tQbe-SWgBgl6jijPV1vM3q8a9OhFTYYb6HJWDgBnoFLSVxOB36OaOz9Z5hzXGsZs2rq43YuQVdXYjaJj5ML78O4EHUIwE35B8E7VfHLvy15H_dQheQvy-Nx03nLein-SDNNcHg8a6TvcNn5JiErYXKWKoXGvwbu_VY1VnNw/s1400/savethebabies.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1400" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllzHt8PgnI75ILPoJ-L1tQbe-SWgBgl6jijPV1vM3q8a9OhFTYYb6HJWDgBnoFLSVxOB36OaOz9Z5hzXGsZs2rq43YuQVdXYjaJj5ML78O4EHUIwE35B8E7VfHLvy15H_dQheQvy-Nx03nLein-SDNNcHg8a6TvcNn5JiErYXKWKoXGvwbu_VY1VnNw/s320/savethebabies.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now I am all for saving babies. That is why I am often found at the gates of death, pleading for their lives, and calling parents to deliver their children, not destroy them. But is that the final Standard for the laws that we push? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We could ask, do these laws <i>really</i> save babies?</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Much could be written to expose that the vast majority of ProLife bills <b>do not as a matter of course actually save babies</b> from murder. They merely lay rules about how, when, where, why, and by whom, babies can be murdered. Contrary to common belief by most people in the pew and in the pulpit, the claim that so many babies are delivered by those regulatory bills is grossly overestimated. But that is not the topic for this post. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Then what <i>is</i> the question in this post? "Is Saving Babies the Standard?"</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I want to point out that whether a bill may save some babies is not the Standard for whether we support this tactic. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are Christians. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are image-bearers of the living God of the Bible. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are made for His glory. The goal and chief end of man is the glory of God.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are not necessarily supposed to simply embrace what is projected to do some good, what looks likely to succeed, or even save some lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are to obey the words of our King. Our engagement must be <i>"according to the Scriptures."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So <i>"what saith the Scripture?"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>God commands that we use just weights, measures, and balances.</b> He condemns compromise and injustice:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proverbs 11:1 <i>"A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proverbs 16:11 <i>"A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proverbs 20:23 <i>"Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Notice He does not say to use false scales in order to the advantage of some and disenfranchise others. He doesn't say it is okay to make <i>slightly less</i> unequal balances. The scales of justice are to be equal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>God commands that we not bear false witness in judgment.</b> Exodus 23:1,7 <i>"Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness...Keep thee far from a false matter..."</i> We are to be men of truth. God does not say to enact laws that neglect to speak the truth or treat things as what they are. Regulatory laws do not call abortion murder, do not treat the preborn like the humans they are, and do not treat their homicide as the murder it is. They treat it like healthcare, thus make a law that is a schoolmaster of falsehood, teaching the public that it is healthcare.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>God does not say to pervert justice in order to save some,</b> even if everyone else seems to think it is a good idea. Exodus 23:2-3,6-7 <i>"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause...Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>God commands magistrates to protect the innocent and defenseless.</b> Jeremiah 22:3 <i>"Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"</i> He does not say to compromise judgment, or to tell oppressors that they have until this age that they can spoil their young prey. He doesn't say to do wrong a little less at a time. He doesn't say to give approval to make rules so that violence to the vulnerable has to be done in a well-lit room with clean tools. He doesn't say to permit the shedding of innocent blood as long as the one hiring the kill has had a chance to view the picture of the victim first, or had twenty-four hours to think it over. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>God commands us to not be partial.</b> It is not the Lord who says to make partial laws that protect some people and permit the murder of others, stripping justice from them, and giving immunity and impunity to their killers. In fact, He condemns that behavior in judgment. Proverbs 17:15 <i>"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD."</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>See it in His statutes.</b> Deuteronomy 16:19-20 <i>"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. That which is altogether just shalt thou follow..."</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>See it in His sagacious statements.</b> Proverbs 24:23 <i>"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment."</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>See it in Himself.</b> Romans 2:11 <i>"For there is no respect of person with God."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>See it in the Standard for His saints.</b> James 2:1,4,8-9 <i>"My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. ...Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? ...If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is not He who says, <i>"...let us do evil that good may come"</i> (Romans 3:8). Instead, He says, <i>"...overcome evil with good"</i> (Romans 12:221).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He doesn't say, Proving what is projected to save some, but denies due process and equal protection to others. He does not say, "Proving what is acceptable unto the professionals, the practitioners, the politicians, the party, or the populace." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He says, <i>"Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord"</i> (Ephesians 5:10). We must obey Him, and trust Him for the results. Jesus is King, and we follow His word. And we believe that <i>when</i> we as the Church <b>reprove</b> that which is partial, when we cease to <b>approve</b> iniquitous measures, when we <b>prove</b> and pursue just and true laws that glorify the King, in His Providence, <b>babies WILL BE SAVED</b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sometimes I wear a shirt that says, "Save Babies...Ask me how." There are many things that can be done towards saving the innocent from murder, but the how must be according to the Scriptures, to the glory of the Lord.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Abortion must be abolished, not regulated.</b></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-2289878889735145212023-01-29T03:01:00.007-08:002023-02-14T05:09:35.900-08:00Astounding Advice - What Would YOU Say to That?<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One morning I met a gentlemen in his 80's. A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">s a man half his age I asked him what words of wisdom he would share with me that I might learn something.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was astounded by his answer: "Just do what you want. Whatever feels good to you, go ahead and do it."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wow! That was not what I was expecting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I told him how that could possibly work </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">in some limited areas, but there are a lot of scenarios in which that advice is downright destructive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He was quiet. Then, "Are you married?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Me: "Yes."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"For how long?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Me: "11 years."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Well, I was married for 25 years, and then my wife ran off with all but $75 of my money."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I responded gently feeling like this was a great opportunity to speak truth in regard to his previous advice. "That is terrible," I said, "But then again, she was just doing what she wanted, wasn't she? She was doing what felt good to her at the time."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He was quiet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I went on. "Often when we do what we want to do, go the way we want to go without, it will affect others in a harmful way. And when going our own way is in violation of God Law and design, it is sin."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He still said nothing. So I kept talking.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The Bible tells us that all of us </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">have done that, like sheep we have all gone astray and have turned every one to his own way. That is called iniquity. The Bible also tells us that, 'There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.' We deserve death and Hell."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> I continued.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"That is why I have turned from going my own way, and have trusted alone on the One Who laid down His life to save me. Jesus Christ paid the price for my sin with His own blood, and then rose again. The Bible tells us that in the Garden, the Son said to the Father, 'Not My will, but Thine be done'. He has saved me, and He guides the way I live now." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The older gentleman was not too talkative after that. Just a </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">few more summing up words, and then the conversation was over. Please pray that man will be turned from the way that leads to destruction to Jesus Christ, Who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And abortion must be abolished.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-30125464293647808882023-01-22T03:44:00.006-08:002023-01-22T07:01:33.605-08:00The Reality about Roe and Dobbs<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade. For nearly 5 decades, it was treated by both proaborts and prolifers as the law of the land. In actuality is was the lie of the land.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">The murder of our
preborn neighbors was never in the Constitution.</span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">The 1973 decision was an iniquitous decree,
violating the US Constitution and the Higher Law of God.</span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">No court has the authority to say that murder
of a people group is okay.</span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">The Triune God
of the Bible is the Author of life, and the Judge over all, and thus He alone
has the jurisdiction to say when life is to be taken away.</span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">And He says in Jeremiah 22:3 to </span><i>“Execute
ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor
the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.”</i><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif">Jesus reiterated while He walked among us,
<i>“Thou shalt do no murder.”</i></span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Century Gothic",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Roe v. Wade
decision violated the Constitution also.
The US Supreme Court took a supposed "right to privacy" to
mean that murder of your own children can happen in the <i>privacy of the womb</i>.
It was not a law, for courts do not make
laws. They render opinions, and when an
opinion violates the Constitution and the Higher Law of the Creator, it is
without constitutional authority and ought to be ignored. For the last 50 years, babies didn’t die
because of Roe v. Wade. Many tens of
millions of babies were murdered because states bowed to Roe v. Wade.</span><span face=""Century Gothic", sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Friday, June 24<sup>th</sup>
of 2023, the Supreme Court itself officially recognized the egregious
error that it made. They admitted the
ruling almost 50 years ago was unconstitutional, and have returned the question
to the states. Here in Dobbs we find
another error in judgment, a half correction:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US Supreme Court
was <b>right</b> to say that abortion is not a right in the Constitution. BUT…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US Supreme Court
was <b>wrong</b> to then allow the states to deprive humans of the right to
life if they so choose. Just as the
federal courts did not have a right to say abortion is a “right”, the states do
not have a right to do so either—they have the duty to criminalize homicide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With that in mind,
consider that in 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court took the right to the
"pursuit of happiness" in the state Constitution and said it included
the <i>pursuit of homicide.</i> This
violates both the right “to life” and “equal justice” recognized in general to
humans in the Kansas Constitution. Thus,
Bleeding Kansas, with its iniquitous court opinion, has fabricated its own
state “Roe”, called “Hodes and Nauser v. Schmidt”. Both courts, the US Supreme Court in 1973 and
the Kansas Supreme Court in 2019, were dead wrong—both fallacious, both vain
and iniquitous.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Hodes case is
unconstitutional and as Kansans we ought to ignore it, as we should have
ignored Roe. What was national should now strike closer to home for the
God-fearing people of the Sunflower State. We must defy Hodes and follow the
Constitution and the Higher Law of God, even if the courts will not. As Elders
our prayer since Friday has been,<i> “Lord, may Your people, who refused to
ignore Roe, do justly now that they can no longer use it as an excuse.” </i>Our
God commands that,<i> “That which is altogether just shalt thou follow”. </i>We
must call for justice and plead for truth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must reject
compromise, and demand of our legislators that, </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Abortion must be abolished.”</span></b></p><p><b><span face=""Century Gothic",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-25780266459946805232023-01-02T07:53:00.003-08:002023-01-02T07:55:00.010-08:00Whose Side Are You On?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things" </i>(</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 15:28).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This tweet is just a single example of the kind of evil that gushes from the heart of the soul in rebellion against the God Who made him. We live in a society filled to the brim with not only hearts full of wickedness, but a people who celebrate, laugh at, or shrug off such trash being spewed out on the internet instead of seeking to curb it. We live in a generation that hates God and loves death. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumnIWYytDZOtl0T0MJu34w0DMKPpLm6FS-L55EX-_P2UlOv01rAIJQN_SLOe7zFYqACw--RYAqaGgg4VouIBRjH8Sby29mxPBurIsL7R7D_HqRKGx_Rnay6L6GPay62sh_wxtkyR5YsyVVEo8HhgI9Pc7Sgg491lEDKzuQCuFbnwZn6i1BNUfVBOM9w/s750/evil%20blog%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="750" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumnIWYytDZOtl0T0MJu34w0DMKPpLm6FS-L55EX-_P2UlOv01rAIJQN_SLOe7zFYqACw--RYAqaGgg4VouIBRjH8Sby29mxPBurIsL7R7D_HqRKGx_Rnay6L6GPay62sh_wxtkyR5YsyVVEo8HhgI9Pc7Sgg491lEDKzuQCuFbnwZn6i1BNUfVBOM9w/s320/evil%20blog%20photo.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I recognize and mourn over the reprobate nature of this tweet and pray that the Lord would give the author repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth. I pray that she will be brought from death unto life everlasting through faith in Jesus Christ alone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But there something else that grieves me. And that's what my post is about. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here is the awful truth: If this woman would actually do such a thing she is proposing, she would face no prosecution! That pierces my heart and should yours as well. Every single state in our Union, including every acclaimed ProLife state, proports that woman who kill their preborn children are victims. Every single Prolife legislation that has ever been put forth or passed has secured language to this end. And every ProLife leader and organization has done their due diligence to educate the church and inform elected officials that mothers who kill their babies at home (through mail order abortions<span>—</span>which is very mush on the rise) or hire an assassin to do the job at an abortion mill, should be <b>immune to prosecution</b>!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even in cases of partial birth abortion, in which there may be <i>some </i>penalty for the abortionist, the mother who hired the abortionist <i>faces no penalties</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is the fruit of being ProLife but not Biblical. The ProLife doctrine, <i>that mothers should never be prosecuted</i>, is how we ended up with Roe v. Wade in the first place. The Texas statute that was the reason for the Roe v Wade court case claimed that children in the womb were protected by the 14th amendment, and yet the same statute did not give them equal protection by treating abortion like murder. Mothers who hired doctors to kill their children were completely free from any charges. Due to that partiality in judgment, the Supreme Court cited their inconsistency and stated that the preborn were not persons under the law with the same protections and far more than 60 million children have been murdered under color of law because of it. Abominable.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Looking at Isaiah chapter 59, we see the evil of bloodshed and injustice in a society. Scriptures states that truth is fallen in the street (v.14), and people make haste to shed innocent blood (v.7), and people are found crying out to God to deliver and to save in such an evil day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">God responds, saying that He is able to hear and save (v.1)<span>—</span>but that He will not hear, nor bless and deliver (v.2), because those coming to Him are lifting hands defiled with blood themselves (v.3). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He points out that they gone their own way (iniquity), and have been using falsehood, trusting vain measures, to deal with the problem. What they haven't done is call for justice and plead for truth (v.3-4). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How can we expect God to bless our own Nation when even those who are against the bloodshed refuse to treat it like murder? How can we expect God to deliver such a culture of death when the "champions of the innocent" hatch iniquitous decrees, compromising (and thus collaborating) with homicide<span>—</span>treating abortion like healthcare. Is the ProLife movement raising bloody hands to ask God to bless their efforts?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As intensely grieved as I am over this tweet the Scripture states plainly that, <i>"wickedness proceedeth from the wicked"</i> (I Samuel 24:13).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am more horrified at the way that we as the Christian community have been taught to permit this atrocity under color of law. This is one of the reasons why I will not be a part of the ProLife establishment and call myself an <i>abolitionist </i>instead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let it not be said of Christians in this generation, <i>"None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth</i>" (Isaiah 59:4).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Christian, whose side are you on? I implore you to leave the ProLife ideology and practice. Stop giving money to ProLife organizations who refuse to be Biblical and instead openly promote falsehood and partiality in giving justice to the preborn. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Want to know where to begin? Watch this documentary and go to God's word for direction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPu59scsBA8&t=362s</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Abortion must be abolished.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-63193811380861494972022-12-30T15:02:00.000-08:002022-12-30T15:02:15.347-08:00Answers to the 2022 Kansans For Life Survey <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was sent a link to a survey from KFL (Kansans For Life), the largest Pro-Life organization in my state, last week. As a way to both exhort anyone who is reading this blog post <i>to follow a biblical approach to ridding our nation of child sacrifice</i> and to equip my brothers and sisters with solid and truthful answers I have copied their questions and my answers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Q— Do you believe pro-life advocates have the power to change our culture into one that values life?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A</span>—<span> I believe what the scriptures teach. It is th</span><span>e living and true God that has the power to change hearts. He tells us that His church is to be the salt and light in the world, bringing His truth into conflict with darkness and decay. When the Christians of our state/nation rise in obedience to the Bible in regards to the murder of the preborn, it will massively impact the culture that is at peace with child sacrifice. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>However, I do not believe that pro-life advocates are changing our culture into one that values life. On the whole, Pro-Life leaders and organizations (in their perspective, policies, and practice) are inconsistent with the Gospel and Scriptural precept. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>For instance, pro-life bills do not treat abortion like the homicide it is, but rather regulate it like healthcare. In doing so they treat abortion no different than the proaborts. This teaches the culture to not value life equally. Psalm 119:128 <i>"...I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.</i> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Q</span>— Do you believe most Kansans understand the reality of what happens in an abortion?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>Yes, abortion is murder, and everybody knows it. Everyone is without excuse. https://freethestates.org/2021/02/everybody-knows-it/ </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Q</span>— Do you believe minor girls should, at minimum, have the protection of required parental consent before an abortion is performed on them?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>This question seems to ignore the children being slain. To require such a thing is to treat the murder of the babies these minors carry as a viable medical practice</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—no different than any other medical procedure for a minor.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Abortion is homicide, and to treat it other than what it is would be to promote a falsehood and establish partiality in law. Would it be righteous to put into law that high school-age shooters are allowed to gun down preschool students if they have permission from the children's parents? If this is absurd, then so is the other. Exodus 23:1-7; Deut. 16:19-20; James 2:8-9 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Q</span>— Add your thoughts about the greatest challenges ahead for the pro-life movement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>The greatest challenge to <i>equal protection for the preborn</i> presently is the ProLife Movement itself. In all prolife states where abolition bills have been put forward since 2016, it has been the ProLife leadership and organizations who have worked mightily to kill those bills. They have done all that can to keep these bills from even getting out of committees. This past year, when Louisiana had an abolition bill get through the committee and enough legislative support to pass it, the ProLife organizations surged and gutted the bill. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>At that time over 70 major ProLife organizations signed onto a letter to all legislators in the Union, saying that they will NEVER support giving children equal protection from murder in the womb. Kansans For Life signed that ungodly letter. Christians are rising up to expose the iniquitous compromise, the partiality, and the error of the ProLife Movement. We are calling our prolife neighbors to repent, come to Christ, and follow HIS word in engaging for the lives of the preborn. We are calling for abortion to be abolished to the glory of God. Duty is ours. Results are God's. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Q</span>— Now that we're in a post-Roe America, where do you think KFL should focus most of its energy?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>Repenting of iniquitous measures and establishing equal protection for all by backing a bill of immediate and total abolition of abortion as murder. It is also vital that KFL and all Christians in our state ignore the iniquitous and unconstitutional Hodes opinion as we should have ignored the iniquitous and unconstitutional Roe. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Q</span>— As a pro-life advocate, if you haven't made a gift to Kansans for Life yet this year, will you tell us what is holding you back from financially supporting our lifesaving mission?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>I was prolife for 30+ years, believing that it was Biblical, but now am an abolitionist of abortion. Exodus 23:2 <i>"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:"</i> I cannot in good conscience support an organization that refuses to seek justice for the innocent, refuses to establish equal rights for the preborn, all the while purporting itself to be the champion for the preborn in my state. So many Christians and churches support KFL, thinking that they do well, not realizing the partiality they are joining in. I am now committed to call for justice and plead for truth, and exhort my fellow Christians to do the same. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqVwqIArKwIwSpsRlf0GxmlpREEiEvz_cg49WJqOu95fEIqZp-4cMwitoBizBp6mlhCBMbUECg97w0YO56XCb06pfhAQEj8F-3rZEVyZgudl4wRaO0yTmU5CPbu_IwZi9XmDn_2BQqnKfWjb5yhIUCvLatQaUeyjzU2wcUErnFYKIWFx2RTD_5BB6KWA/s687/Prolife%20shirt.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="687" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqVwqIArKwIwSpsRlf0GxmlpREEiEvz_cg49WJqOu95fEIqZp-4cMwitoBizBp6mlhCBMbUECg97w0YO56XCb06pfhAQEj8F-3rZEVyZgudl4wRaO0yTmU5CPbu_IwZi9XmDn_2BQqnKfWjb5yhIUCvLatQaUeyjzU2wcUErnFYKIWFx2RTD_5BB6KWA/s320/Prolife%20shirt.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Q</span>—If you would like to enter a drawing for a 2023 KFL T-shirt, please provide your name and two ways to contact you should your name be drawn (phone number, etc.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>I will not be entering into the drawing for the shirt, since what is printed on teh shirt is not truthful. KFL does not show that it believes that "every life is precious" and purposed enough to be protected <b>equally</b>. KFL has repeatedly opposed legislation that would protect children from murder, and signed that letter this years that refuses ever to support just treatment of this form of homicide. This coming year, you will have again an opportunity to show a change, to actually allow for and support the passage of a just bill of abolition of abortion. Because I care for you, I call you consider your ways, search the Scriptures, and to repent. <i>"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool"</i> (Isaiah 1:15-18). If you are interested in talking about the Biblical response to child sacrifice being perpetuated under color of law, feel free to call me at (and I gave them my number). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Abortion must be abolished.</span></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-67140584979341838792022-04-19T22:38:00.003-07:002022-04-29T17:32:08.097-07:00The Born Alive Act was Dead Wrong<p>Read it and think.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JXBUuV4hSbMstDiMra9zo70P5N1b37vtOrX0PXOH6zIIACi3snA_dP3MhsiZw61O6bDLmOc8wO6j99D0WBdbKzMuvz12L1bvogcjJeGPqSOTq6rn7BezVQaPiHAt8mrJpLKJB49ETliIp6wF2KVQSIaK3nX-GZEj0A8q_ffIbL8xNamai4LtyLyRxA/s919/image_6483441.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JXBUuV4hSbMstDiMra9zo70P5N1b37vtOrX0PXOH6zIIACi3snA_dP3MhsiZw61O6bDLmOc8wO6j99D0WBdbKzMuvz12L1bvogcjJeGPqSOTq6rn7BezVQaPiHAt8mrJpLKJB49ETliIp6wF2KVQSIaK3nX-GZEj0A8q_ffIbL8xNamai4LtyLyRxA/s320/image_6483441.JPG" width="223" /></a></div><p></p><p>This is a tweet by Greg Abbott about the Born Alive Act, which was put forward by Representative Jeff Leach, and passed by Texas. Much was made of this ProLife victory that happened years ago. </p><p>Governor Abbott said, "In Texas we support the lives of innocent children. The Texas House voted 93-1 for the Born Alive Act." </p><p>Jeff Leach is quoted here also, saying "A baby <u>who survives an abortion</u> deserves the full protection of the law and the highest standards of medical care." </p><div>Both Abbott and Leach have been praised by the prolifers and Christians for this and other deeds, being lauded as champions of the preborn. But these men are two of the chief leaders who are responsible for murder by abortion remaining "legal" in Texas:</div><div> </div><div><b>Greg Abbott</b> personally gave a promise to a dying teenager, abolitionist Jeremiah Thomas (who earnestly called on him to do justice for the children being slain) that he and the Texas Republican Legislature were determined and would abolish abortion in Texas. Then, Abbott completely broke his word, and never has sought to do what what he promised.<p><b>Jeff Leach</b> heard the testimony of hours upon hours from abolitionists in favor of HB896, a bill of complete and immediate abolition of abortion, lasting into the early morning hours of the next day, and singe handedly killed that bill that would have provided equal protection for all preborn children under the law.</p><p>These men have perpetuated the homicide of many thousands of children by their compromise and regulatory bills. </p><p>Take this bill mentioned in Abbott's tweet for example:</p><p>If a baby survives an attempted abortion and is born alive, then the state says that they have protection.</p><p>This is basically the same as saying that you can hire someone to shoot, or strangle, or poison your neighbor in an alley, and the law WILL NOT prosecute you or the hitman.</p><p>However, if your neighbor survives that attack, and gets out of the alley alive, then it is illegal to kill them after that. Furthermore, there still will be no prosecution for the violent crime that you attempted in the alley to commit against your neighbor. </p><p>And the government will depend on the people present (that's you and the assassin) to have enough integrity to follow the decree and not kill the neighbor, but instead report their survival and give them medical assistance.</p><p>Absurd and Evil. They <i>"lie and do not the truth!"</i> They care about what pleases man and not God. Their inconsistency and iniquity is showing. Political officials need to cease to do evil, and learn to do well. </p><p>Consider the Born Alive Act in the light of God's command to rulers in Jeremiah 22:3 <i>"Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place."</i> </p><p>The true and living Triune God of the Bible declares, </p><p><i>"E</i><i>xecute ye judgment and righteousness," </i>Did this bill establish <b>equal</b> justice?</p><p><i>"deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor:" </i>Unless they are still in the alley (<b>womb</b>)?</p><p><i>"do no wrong," </i>So allowing the murder to happen under color of law at first is<b> right</b>?</p><p><i>"do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow," </i>This still permits violence to the <b>vulnerable</b>.</p><p><i>"neither shed innocent blood"</i> The blood of the innocent is freely shed as long as the victim is in the "<b>UNSAFE Place</b>". </p><p>So what is the verdict? <i>"Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord,"</i> this legislation was iniquitous, promoting partiality and falsehood, which <b>God hates</b>.</p><p>The Born Alive Act was and is <b>Dead Wrong</b>. It is compromise and collaboration with, and thus complicity in, child sacrifice. Do not support ProLife organizations, legislators, or laws, which leech away justice from the innocent by denying justice and delaying abolition through delivering bills of regulation and partiality as victories. Be not deceived. Be not distracted. </p><p>Repent with us. Abortion must be abolished, not regulated.</p></div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-63426381341309453062022-03-23T21:37:00.000-07:002022-03-23T21:37:37.738-07:00It Adds Up When You Do The Math<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don't know
how often I have heard it said in various ways by fellow believers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
<b>"Unfortunately, at this time the church does not have the people, the
power, nor the funds, to make an impact on the evil of abortion in this
country." </b><br />
<br />
<b>"We cannot really do anything but vote, give to pro-life groups
and crisis pregnancy centers, pray, and hope for the best. There is
nothing else we can do that will make a difference."</b><br />
<br />
I for one, want to counter this sentiment with truth. And I will take only one aspect of action in which the church needs to participate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Let's take into
consideration a very practical use of numbers. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s
say that 15,000 Christians within an hour of an abortion mill in any given city decided to love their preborn neighbors in
word, deed, and truth. I hasten to say
that this would be but a fraction of the believers who attend Bible preaching
congregations. But these 15,000
individuals set aside time in their very busy lives to be present at the death
camp. What would that accomplish?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If just 59 of the 15,000 went to that abortuary on one day, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and
then a different 59 went the next day, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and then another 59 went the day after,
and on, and on...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">you would have 59 Christians at the mill EVERY SINGLE DAY of
the YEAR without ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL having been there twice. <br />
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Imagine, 59 Christians, exercising various roles at the Gates of Death—Preaching
the Gospel. Pleading for the lives of little image-bearers. Praying
fervently on site for God to work in hearts. Providing help, information, and
resources at the entry. Provoking with signs, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67HI7NDmQMW1hZSRHVayKnr0ElG5HOzF8k-4ZfL7MdQXmXKTQcKP-fgMgzgTITQtU6yGwgnQjSi9ohYSC7RsU5QBf4v4MQ-Va24T3APjKxPBAje6EREJTCQxlbOfQ5dDuPF_Y4Ix8d0yI0YUKiUKnGhyWm2nOyLzpmWq9QxX8fw7eiXHlYEIjPbxLJA/s1024/777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67HI7NDmQMW1hZSRHVayKnr0ElG5HOzF8k-4ZfL7MdQXmXKTQcKP-fgMgzgTITQtU6yGwgnQjSi9ohYSC7RsU5QBf4v4MQ-Va24T3APjKxPBAje6EREJTCQxlbOfQ5dDuPF_Y4Ix8d0yI0YUKiUKnGhyWm2nOyLzpmWq9QxX8fw7eiXHlYEIjPbxLJA/s320/777.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">What if they chose to take on a little more? If each person
in the multitude of 15,000 committed to stand just one day a month, that would
mean that the mill would have 483 Christians outside it EVERY DAY with each
person only giving one day a month to plead for the lives of the innocent and
provide truth to all who enter (and that is if every month had 31 days; 5
months have fewer).</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This
by itself would have a HUGE impact on the business that sheds innocent blood.
This would clearly showcase the Gospel to the lost, deliver numerous
babies from slaughter, and shut down the mills!
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When 1% of the church will show up regularly to stand at the abortion
mill, abortion business places will shut down. Darkness cannot stand the presence of
Light. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I
well remember the morning in Pensacola in 2006, out in front of a baby butcher
shop, when a police officer looked at me and my friend, and said <b>"This
must not be a real issue for the church, since you two are the only ones
here." </b>In the middle of a conservative Christian
"stronghold", surrounded by hundreds of churches, and only two
Christians were standing as emissaries for Christ at the Gates of Death.
What message is the church sending the world by our silence and absence
from the field? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
God has commanded us to </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"love our neighbour as ourselves"</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">,
</span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"visit the fatherless in their affliction"</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, to </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"open [our] mouth"</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"plead the cause of the poor and needy"</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, to do
</span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"justice and equity"</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Prayer is never meant to be a substitute for obedience. Imagine if Isaiah had said in prayer, </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"Here am I; send someone else!"</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> (Isaiah
6). I would that the thousands upon
thousands of believers in every city would learn about, get involved, and
then </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">engage </b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">for their pre-born neighbors being slaughtered!
I would that they would take God's command to </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">"Open thy
mouth for the dumb in the case of all such are as appointed to
destruction" </i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(Proverbs 31:8) at His word. Truly God has made Himself clear, and has
given us all we need to make a huge impact simply by assembling as His
ambassadors at the Gates of Death </span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(not to mention all the other ways to effect
abolition of this evil)</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">. It is not enough, nor honest, neither is it consistently
"Christian" for us to say, "We cannot make a difference right now."</span></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Let us stop being silent, absent, and negligent. </span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Let us be OBEDIENT, and watch what our God will do.</span></h1><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>"Some want to live within sound of church and chapel bell. </b></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I want to
run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell."</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> C.T. Studd</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Abortion must be abolished.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-55612493088313350372022-02-26T19:08:00.001-08:002022-02-26T19:12:37.452-08:00Just Follow What is Altogether Just<p>Thus saith the LORD: <i>“Judges and officers shalt thou make
thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy
tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not
respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. <b>That which is altogether just shalt thou
follow</b>, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee”</i> (Deuteronomy 16:18-20).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyAFFhEGEEG7cwTbO8tRcl2xRN6lmsEPpD3y-YEfzHhN3gBK1SUb7cNpV3fNn0rlgAJQf18j7-vkFtj_X317US4Oqpx7DGcOj8ju51WagmehgTAjAJsKD1eKHgps5vzUHI9Cq_wcPnl9GvdJYjp9zLnx6X3fOmz6cJ3t_xlN2aH5RLy6QMe_e3F5A9Fw=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyAFFhEGEEG7cwTbO8tRcl2xRN6lmsEPpD3y-YEfzHhN3gBK1SUb7cNpV3fNn0rlgAJQf18j7-vkFtj_X317US4Oqpx7DGcOj8ju51WagmehgTAjAJsKD1eKHgps5vzUHI9Cq_wcPnl9GvdJYjp9zLnx6X3fOmz6cJ3t_xlN2aH5RLy6QMe_e3F5A9Fw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">This passage of Scripture in which God lays out how leaders
in Israel were to rule justly, and what the people were to follow is
instructive. Let the leaders and people
of today pay heed. As Jehoshaphat later
warned leaders in Judah, “…Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but
for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.” Ye will answer to God, who is the Ruler of
all. It is recorded in Scripture, "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." God has granted in these united States, that the people of the states choose our leaders and are to keep them accountable. What are we to follow? <b>That which is altogether just. </b>For God is Just, and we answer to Him. Micah 6:8 <i>"He hath shewed thee, O man, what i good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, </i><b style="font-style: italic;">but to do justly</b><i>, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"</i><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Consider the three fold instruction in Deuteronomy 16:19. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>1. <i>"Thou shalt not wrest judgment."</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">What does "wrest" mean? That is wrestle away justice, depriving the innocent of protection of the law. DO NOT compromise justice. Today, the preborn are the ONLY people group who are denied equal protection from murder in our society. ProLife legislation regulating how, when, where, why and in what circumstances abortion can be done are allowing murder as long as one hops through their hoops. This violates God's statute here.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>2. <i>"Thou shalt not respect persons."</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">DO NOT be partial in judgment. Punish the evildoer. Protect the innocent. Making bills that protect those whose heartbeat can be protected or who are known to feel pain, is showing them partiality over those younger and more vulnerable. Making bills that do not establish equal justice for born and preborn shows respect to persons, and transgresses God's precepts. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>3. <i>"</i>N<i>either take a gift."</i></b> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thou shalt not receive bribes. DO NOT compromise for money's sake. As the verse warns, <i>"for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.</i>" Taking a gift can cause one to to act not for the sake of precept and principle, but for a price. There are multitudes of ProLife politicians who shrink back from putting forth, coauthoring, or promoting bills of abolition, that establish equal protection for all from murder, because they are afraid that groups that donate to campaigns may not applaud that action. Do what is JUST because God's word commands it and you answer to Him.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abortion is the murder of innocent image bearers of the living God.</b> </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is unjust to murder them. And <b>it is unjust to allow them</b> to be murdered under color of law. And yet, in every state, regulating homicide is what the ProLife leadership does. Making rules about when, where, how, and in what circumstances you can murder your child is NOT treating abortion like murder. It is treating abortion like what the proaborts say it is- "healthcare". Abortion is NOT healthcare. it is the homicide of the most innocent and vulnerable of humans. If you treat murder as if it is a medical treatment, and allow it as long as they follow rules you set, and then ask God to bless your efforts, you are raising bloody hand to pray.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>"Surely those who shed the blood of the preborn - Will be judged by God, Whom they do scorn And those who allow it do share in the stain - Are found to be taking God's name - in vain." </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been told, "You are just against bills of regulation because they're just not ENOUGH for you."</p><p class="MsoNormal">NO. I am against regulating abortion because it is not JUST.</p><p class="MsoNormal">We live in a culture that is at <b>peace</b> with child sacrifice, and <b>perverts</b> justice. </p><p class="MsoNormal">-The government sworn to protect the innocent from murder <b>protects</b> the murder of the innocent. </p><p class="MsoNormal">-The society that purports to be against bullies <b>promotes</b> the bullying of babies to death. </p><p class="MsoNormal">-The medical community that is sworn to "do no harm" are the ones who <b>practice</b> the murder. </p><p class="MsoNormal">-And the ProLife community seeks to regulate the murder, and end up <b>permitting</b> the murder they oppose, up ending justice.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In such a day, Christians must follow what God says, forsake partiality and consistently call on their leaders to do justice! Jesus is King! Demand what He commands: </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>"That which is <b>altogether just</b> shalt thou follow."</i> Just follow what is <i><b>"altogether just"</b></i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>"Saviour, let me not make man's wisdom my trust - But rather to heed Thy way which is just. From paths of compromise make me depart - Search me, O God, and lead my heart." </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>God is Just, So Abortion must - be ABOLISHED.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-75083021687351371212022-02-02T15:34:00.006-08:002022-02-02T15:57:08.275-08:00ProLife Pragmatism or Preaching? <p><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">I am a Christian. I want to be grounded upon the word of God, and be a faithful ambassador of Christ. This is why I am an abolitionist.</span></p><p><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;"><i>"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God"</i> (I Corinthians 5:20)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_oVCbI_QIZq030zHE45ipAGzy4b9kVVx_npQ00Lri051uy887EMXv3F5OosXl2ne1WuegKjK-YunuXzw9abw5m3Fq-lGPxIsMNHtDnQPe6OrFXMeexdhdP27AiEXMNA1KRi4v8HSXHBwOmxFAsvSwmk94LR-EWguBCRTEOTB8bNfwKUMnHv-4nNOpOQ=s1585" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1585" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_oVCbI_QIZq030zHE45ipAGzy4b9kVVx_npQ00Lri051uy887EMXv3F5OosXl2ne1WuegKjK-YunuXzw9abw5m3Fq-lGPxIsMNHtDnQPe6OrFXMeexdhdP27AiEXMNA1KRi4v8HSXHBwOmxFAsvSwmk94LR-EWguBCRTEOTB8bNfwKUMnHv-4nNOpOQ=s320" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.0pt; margin: 10pt 0in 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">Our King, the King of kings, has commissioned us to declare His message. Carrying His Gospel into this world, we are heralds, not negotiators. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.0pt; margin: 10pt 0in 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;"><i>"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ"</i> (Galatians 1:10).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.0pt; margin: 10pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">We call abortion murder because it is murder,
and we know the God Who can save and forgive repentant murderers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Abortion
is sin and the only answer for sin is repentance and a saving faith in the
finished work </span>of Christ (Mark 1:15). The Gospel brings redemption from destruction; it is the wellspring of love, hope, and
joy, and is the real answer to abortion.
We are to use the word of God, His declaration of Creation, the Law, and
the Gospel. It is all <i>“according to
the Scriptures”</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">As
abolitionists, we are committed to the unwavering truth of the good news that
God the Son, Jesus Christ, entered the womb to redeem the world. The
Eternal Word became flesh in the form of a zygote (John 1:14) and went through
all the stages of development in the womb, was then born as a baby and grew to
manhood. Fully God and fully Man, Jesus lived a sinless life, testified
of the truth, and laid down His life in the place of sinners, the Just for the
unjust (II Corinthians 5:21; John 18:37; I Peter 3:18). His precious
blood was shed to atone for sin, for <i>"without shedding of blood is
no remission"</i> (Hebrews 9:22). He died for our sins, and
rose again the third day (I Corinthians 15:3-4). His payment upon
the cross purchased redemption for a lost, wandering, and wicked people from
the punishment of their sin (Romans 6:23; I Timothy 2:5-6). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;"><i>"And
we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of
the world"</i> (I John 4:14). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">All Christians
are commissioned as ambassadors of Christ (I Corinthians 5:20), and are to proclaim
the good news to every creature, bringing the Gospel of the kingdom into
conflict with the culture of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
we go into the fray, engaging the culture, unashamed of the Gospel of Christ,
knowing it is the POWER of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16). This we
seek to do, not only at the mills, but elsewhere too, in conversations, in the
open air, on campuses, and at statehouses, speaking the truth about life and
life everlasting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We plead in the name
of Jesus Christ, in the cause of little babies made in His image, and for the
good of all who will turn!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">For
instance, at the abortion mills, the gates of death, we speak the truth…"Your
baby is not your problem, your baby is your blessing. Sin is your
problem—the selfishness in your heart. The only remedy for your sin is
turning and trusting in Jesus Christ alone, Who died and rose again to pay the
price for sin!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">However, it
is the accepted "wisdom" among a large portion of the ProLife community
to NOT do this: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">To NOT call abortion “sin” or "murder", </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">To NOT warn their hearers about God's judgment for abortion as
murder, or openly share the Gospel as the only remedy for sin, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">when conversing with a student on a campus, with a congressman in his office, or counseling a woman who plans to abort her baby. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">I have been told that preaching outside the abortion mill has never made a difference. I know better. We have had prolife people, even Christians, reprimanding us, yelling at us to stop proclaiming the way of salvation. One abolitionist sister I know was standing beside a car, sharing the Gospel with a mom, and was suddenly shoved out of the way by a prolife woman, who said, "This is not the place for that!" </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">So why would the ProLife Movement lean this way? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">A large
percentage of people in the ProLife Movement are not Christians and cannot be expected
to promote the one true way of salvation that they do not possess themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it has been the Roman Catholic
Church, for over 40 years, that has been the main mover and shaker within the
Prolife Movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">Sadly,
even numerous evangelical ProLife leaders and organizations have been
influenced by Catholic leaders that it is better to keep the Gospel out of any
initial dialogue with mothers who are looking for an abortion, and they do not
always contain a clear Gospel message when it is discussed due to
ecumenical involvement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">There are numerous Christians who rally for the ProLife position, take time and opportunity to
boldly engage others in dialogue regarding abortion, and even go to abortion
mills to pray or protest are often carefully trained to NOT use the Gospel
with people unless the other person brings up spiritual matters. There are
two reasons for this (and perhaps more):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">1. In their objective to save a baby they use pragmatic (not
providential) reasoning—they are taught that moral, emotional, logical, and
scientific arguments are what works and that sticking to those facts foremost
are necessary to persuade a woman to not go through with her
abortion. Abolitionists use logic, science, etc. as well, but we will not
shun to share the Gospel openly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">2. They are afraid of offending the hearer and therefore
losing a conversation. Although they do not deny the true Gospel or the need
for sinners to come to Christ, they instruct ProLife Christians to "keep
the Gospel in your back pocket"—having it readily accessible if the
other person brings it up! I have heard this in training sessions
and lectures, and have been told personally by ProLife leaders that the
abortion mill is not the place to preach the Gospel. It could offend
them and turn them away from listening to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">ProLife Pragmatism wants to pursue what the professionals propose will produce. The multitudes want to do what works, and follow the experts their leaders. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, abolitionists first of all seek to follow Jesus Christ. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"And
he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (Mark 16:15). All the world includes the streets, sacrifice centers, statehouses, and all of society. And there happens to be "creatures"
there in those places. We speak the truth in love, for our Lord has instructed: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"And thou shalt speak my words unto them,
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most
rebellious"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (Ezekiel 2:7). We trust God to use His
word. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">And we believe that God's work done God's way will work for God's glory.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><o:p><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">Abortion must be abolished. </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">[I do not
want to leave out the fact that there are within the Prolife Movement,
Christians that are truly saved and hold to the Gospel with unwavering
allegiance. They unashamedly preach the Gospel and c</span></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">all their hearers to
repent from any murderous intent toward their children and turn to the Savior.
I greatly appreciate the testimony of these saints—our family has
ministered with them at the very gates of death—our family was one of them for
many years! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: georgia;">But it is all too easy as a Bible believing Christian to assume that everyone else who is part of
the ProLife Movement is believing about the subject the same as
you. It is the ideology and practice of the ProLife establishment
that I are contrasting.]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-46228513314325583012022-01-24T18:49:00.001-08:002022-01-24T18:55:36.097-08:00An Assessment of the Value Them Both Amendment: What it Says, Does, and Establishes<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Copperplate Gothic Bold", sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232;">My Kansas Brothers and
Sisters, i</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Copperplate Gothic Bold",sans-serif"><span style="color: #f1c232;">s the Value Them Both
Amendment in Bleeding Kansas right or wrong? S</span></span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Copperplate Gothic Bold",sans-serif"><span style="color: #f1c232;">hould Christians vote
for it? It is time to ASSESS THE MATTER.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Copperplate Gothic Bold",sans-serif"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Copperplate Gothic Bold",sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1dnvKpSBGFHDboszqDSCJO2aq2MMJHiIH7RrWCnGrgVJVMMlTdSsZqTAjGQFqflGJlT3reo-0RAqhDR16YgNdfJ0ggUZUDCdM6ipg-ixdjlkBc2OUTO-zd9QODVrCibU2rCKtOdkM5uwK0vkQ2IohxhSLGWpw-m1I46rjwLLNtTCYGpvm2zOQKqG6jw=s626" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="626" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1dnvKpSBGFHDboszqDSCJO2aq2MMJHiIH7RrWCnGrgVJVMMlTdSsZqTAjGQFqflGJlT3reo-0RAqhDR16YgNdfJ0ggUZUDCdM6ipg-ixdjlkBc2OUTO-zd9QODVrCibU2rCKtOdkM5uwK0vkQ2IohxhSLGWpw-m1I46rjwLLNtTCYGpvm2zOQKqG6jw=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">In Bleeding Kansas, for decades there
have been numerous pro-life bills passed, which have regulated how, when, where,
and so forth killing of the preborn is to be committed under color of law.
These iniquitous bills are opposed by abolitionists as iniquitous, and will
need to repealed when a true bill of abolition is passed into law. However, on
August second of this year, Kansas voters will face an even deeper question on
the ballot. What do we want to engrave into our state constitution concerning
abortion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is wise to ponder, for however
hard making an amendment to the constitution may be, it is exponentially more
difficult to remove an amendment once inserted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Abolitionists understand that
there are many who sincerely believe that this is needed and will be good in
Kansas for babies. Therefore when we speak, we must have charity and clarity
and above all verity-the TRUTH. Our intent is to glorify the true and living
God by speaking for truth and justice. Let's consider the amendment, see what
it says, what it does, and what it seeks to establish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I. What does the VTB
actually <i>say</i>?</span></b>
Most of the people I have spoken with who support the amendment have not read
it for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s do that,
reading the whole paper:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"> A PROPOSITION to amend the bill of rights of the
constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section thereto stating
that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and reserving to the people
the ability <b>to regulate abortion</b> through the elected members
of the legislature of the state of Kansas. WHEREAS, This proposition to amend
the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas shall be known
and may be cited as the Value Them Both Amendment. Now, therefore: Be it
resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members
elected (or appointed) and qualified to the House of Representatives and
two-thirds of the members elected (or appointed) and qualified to the Senate
concurring therein:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Section 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution
of the state of Kansas shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the
state for their approval or rejection: The bill of rights of the constitution
of the state of Kansas is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as
follows: "</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">§ <b>Regulation of abortion</b>. Because Kansans value both
women and children, the constitution of the state of Kansas does not require
government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to
abortion. To the extent permitted by the constitution of the United States, the
people, through their elected state representatives and state senators, <b>may
pass laws regarding abortion</b>, including, but not limited to, laws that
account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or
circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother." </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Section 2. The following statement shall be printed on the
ballot with the amendment as a whole: </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">"Explanatory statement. The Value Them Both Amendment would
affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the
government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas,
through their elected state legislators, the right to <b>pass laws to
regulate abortion</b>, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of
pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of
the mother. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">"A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm
there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the
government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas,
through their elected state legislators, the right to <b>pass laws to
regulate abortion</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">"A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no
changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the
people, through their elected state legislators, <b>from regulating
abortion</b> by leaving in place the recently recognized right to
abortion." </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Now we have read what the VTB
Amendment says.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">II. What does the VTB <i>do</i>
with abortion?</span></b><b> </b>While the amendment says that
abortion is not a right in the state constitution, it also tells us what they
want to do with abortion. <b>REGULATE IT.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Five times the word <b>regulate</b>, <b>regulating</b>,
or <b>regulation</b> is found in the whole paper, the introduction,
the amendment itself, and the explanation. There is no wording that conveys the
idea that the amendment gives space for abortion to be abolished, only <b>regulated</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Consider the following
terminology of the actual amendment (the portion which would be in the state
constitution):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">§ <b>Regulation of abortion</b>. Because Kansans value both
women and children, the constitution of the state of Kansas does not require
government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to
abortion. To the extent permitted by the constitution of the United States, the
people, through their elected state representatives and state senators, <b>may
pass laws regarding abortion</b>, including, but not limited to, laws that
account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or
circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother." </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“Regulation of abortion.”</u> - The heading for the VTB is <b>Regulation</b>
of abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is abortion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is homicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The intentional premeditated killing of an
individual human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regulating homicide as if it is “healthcare”
(even unsavory healthcare that we don’t approve of) is unjust and
unjustifiable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not true telling
about, nor true treatment of abortion. Yet, regulation is what this amendment
is all about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This amendment is for
making laws to regulate the murder of a people group under color of law, rather
than to protect that people group under the law from murder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“Because Kansans value both
women and children…”</u> -
This is the basis for the name of the amendment: “The Value Them Both”
amendment. Yet, this amendment is NOT valuing women and children equally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not secure equal protection AT ALL
for children, as the rest of the amendment makes clear. It perpetuates
partiality, which God hates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says
that we are to have NO respect of persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Deuteronomy 1:16-17 <i>“And I
charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your
brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye
shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face
of man; for the judgment is God's...”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">James 2:1,4,8-9 <i>“My brethren,
have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of
persons. ... 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of
evil thoughts? ... 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect
to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">(Exodus 23:2-3,6-7; Psalm 82;
Psalm 119:126-128, Isaiah 10:1-2; Jeremiah 22:3). So the Value Them Both
Amendment fails to value them both, and the rest of the amendment bears this
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s go on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“…the constitution of the state
of Kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create
or secure a right to abortion…”</u> - What if there had been a proposed wording for the Kansas
state constitution back during the question of slavery at our beginnings as a
state, that said, “Because Kansans value both slave holders and slaves” and
went on to say that they were not saying that slavery was a right in Kansas,
nor that the state government would give funding to slave holders to get
slaves, but that they would secure the right to regulate how slaves were to be
treated in Kansas, in what circumstances you could rape your slave woman or
whip your slave if you had a mind to in Kansas, or wait a certain amount of
days before you could tear a child from the arms of your slaves and sell the
baby or parent away in Kansas?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Could Christians, or any honest
person really consistently say that it was <u>“valuing them both”?</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That “as ourselves” gives the
required level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is that level, what
is that plain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give them the same
protection we enjoy and expect for ourselves. That is, EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE
LAW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything less is partiality,
respect of persons, and iniquity before God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">To say that we value both of two
groups, and so we are establishing the right to regulate how, when, where, why,
and in what circumstances we will let one group murder the other group is
hypocritical on a heinous homicidal level. To my mind, VTB fits better as
standing for “Violence to Babies” than “Value Them Both”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“To the extent permitted by the
constitution of the United States,”</u> - This wording exposes the false narrative that is embraced by
the ProLife Movement, that Roe v Wade is the law of the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. Constitution, just like the Kansas
State Constitution does NOT give anyone the right to commit murder against
babies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they did, we would be bound
to defy and obey God’s higher Law, which states “Thou shalt do NO murder”
(Matthew 19:18).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, both the
National Constitution and the State Constitution recognize the right to life,
to equal justice, etc., for mankind, humans in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This amendment’s wording is treating the idea
that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Roe v Wade (and subsequent declarations),
allowing a “right to abortion”, it is treating it as if it were
constitutional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is false.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Supreme Court is dead wrong in this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were wrong about slavery, and they are
wrong now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they violated the law of
the land (constitution) and the higher law of God, they were the ones who were
unconstitutional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have NO authority
to say that murder is okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Rusty
Thomas says, “Roe v Wade is the LIE, not the law of the land.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And courts don’t make laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Pro-Life Movement has believed for
decades that we must bow to the courts and fit within their parameters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Wesley Thomas and Bradley Pierce have
said, “The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">So the fact is, the only
constitutional legislation about abortion that would truly be in accordance to
the U.S. and Kansas Constitutions would be a bill that establishes “equal
justice, protection from murder for the preborn just as for the born.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that would be a bill of abolition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“the people, through their
elected state representatives and state senators, <b>may pass laws
regarding abortion</b>,”</u> -
Do the people of Kansas or the legislators who represent them, have the right
to regulate murder?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do have the right and DUTY to secure
equal protection for those targeted for murder by abortion.</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“<b>may pass laws regarding
abortion</b>,”</u> –
This phrase may be construed by some to mean that perhaps a bill to outlaw
abortion could fit. However, it is not standing alone. Right afterwards, come
express situations of exception that do not square with that interpretation. It
does not say that the Kansas legislature may pass laws to abolish or do away
with abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Summing up the 2<sup>nd</sup>
question: So what does the Amendment want to do about abortion? The volume of
the whole Proposition is saying that regulation is the focus and intent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. In the introduction: “and reserving to the
people the ability <b>to regulate abortion</b> through the elected
members of the legislature of the state of Kansas.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2. In the title of the amendment: “<b>Regulation
of abortion</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3. In the explanation statement on the ballot:
“would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators,
the right to <b>pass laws to regulate abortion</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. In the summary of what a yes or no vote is
interpreted to mean: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">YES “would reserve to the people
of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to <b>pass
laws to regulate abortion</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">NO “could restrict the people,
through their elected state legislators, <b>from regulating abortion</b> by
leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">It is in the light of all of
those that we must see the intent in the wording “…<b>may pass laws regarding
abortion</b> …” The laws are understood to be laws regulating the practice of
murder by abortion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><u>“including, but not limited to,
laws that account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest,
or circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother.”</u> – <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now some
have pointed out</span>
the wording of the amendment “may pass laws…including, but not limited to…” and
then the particular situations listed, thinking that it perhaps could be read
to say that a law that would outlaw abortion in cases of rape, incest, or
danger to the life of the mother could be passed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They surmise that hopefully it could allow
even a bill of abolition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, we do
not want to misinterpret the messaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can comprehend the caution and question here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, from the wording and the past record, strategy, and mindset of
the Pro-Life Movement, it must be confessed that the intent is that it is
speaking of laws <i>allowing</i> abortion in those circumstances,
not <i>outlawing</i> abortion in those circumstances. Pro-Life
lobbyists, leaders, and legislators are the ones writing in those exceptions
into their bills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pro-Life presidents
openly have stated that those are the cases where they think abortions should
be permitted. This
wording is simply giving one of the most common component of standard Pro-Life
regulatory legislation: that of writing in those exceptions in which abortion
will be allowed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">III. What does the VTB <i>establish</i>?
</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will be the fruit of putting this into
the Constitution law of Kansas?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
establish partiality against the preborn, legitimize wicked opinions and
iniquitous decrees, and preclude the most oppressed, marginalized, and murdered
people group in our society today from the rights recognized to all humans in
general given by our Creator and professed by our state.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Psalm 119:128 <i>“Therefore I
esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every
false way.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Abortion must be abolished, not
regulated.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-38212227728754199882021-06-24T04:41:00.000-07:002021-06-24T04:41:14.427-07:00What Does Your Car Say to the Passing World?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--eqEaH2x_Hs/YNRtLiHelWI/AAAAAAABsKs/yOZU7AaWQCkguYeVpvV16U_bcA-BMzGPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s852/car1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--eqEaH2x_Hs/YNRtLiHelWI/AAAAAAABsKs/yOZU7AaWQCkguYeVpvV16U_bcA-BMzGPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/car1.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FNInjdnWROc/YNRtLhqlo7I/AAAAAAABsKo/Dcu8nPhS4QwQnJOVFBae31wz0RFB1FNUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s852/car2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FNInjdnWROc/YNRtLhqlo7I/AAAAAAABsKo/Dcu8nPhS4QwQnJOVFBae31wz0RFB1FNUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/car2.jpg" width="150" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Two Buicks parked</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Side by side;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is where truth</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And error collide.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">At least you can tell </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Where each of them stand:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Following the word of God,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Or the "wisdom" of man.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">But most Christians' cars</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Have no sticker or sign </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There's no way to tell </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Their side of the line.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">They may not have thought of it,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Or it's not to their taste;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">But when I see a blank car,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It seems such a waste.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">For people passing by</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the road, in the lot,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Could see a message from God</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">But from those they do not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Truth for the Christian,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Truth for the lost;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Concerning the Gospel,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And our own Holocaust.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Be a witness for Christ</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wherever you are:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">When you drive, when you park,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tell the truth with your car.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vg2d85f4NhA/YNRuQExoiCI/AAAAAAABsK8/-mRQnGW68Rwd1fcqi90hgGjHMkbtzCLGACLcBGAsYHQ/s206/car4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="155" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vg2d85f4NhA/YNRuQExoiCI/AAAAAAABsK8/-mRQnGW68Rwd1fcqi90hgGjHMkbtzCLGACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/car4.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">#Thomas<b>Car</b>larkson</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What does YOUR car say to those who pass by about what you believe?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion must be abolished. </span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-52704785619221978802021-05-24T06:36:00.002-07:002021-06-24T04:43:11.840-07:00Abolition Explained<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abolition is based on 5 Tenets; that
which abolitionists hold fast to be true, and will not let go.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I urge you to take the time to read
this post and search the Scriptures that are included—and as you do, prayerfully consider what YOUR
response must be to this great evil in our land!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span> </span><span> </span>1.</b><b> </b><b>Abolitionism is Biblical. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A ProLife person is defined as one who is for life, thus against
abortion. But an important thing to highlight is that a ProLifer can hold that position on <i>any basis</i> they
choose. Religion, upbringing, science, preferences, etc. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abolitionists on the other hand are opposed to abortion essentially
on the grounds of the word of God! There is a Standard for our perspective and practice. <i>"All
other ground is sinking sand." </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As abolitionists, we will not cling
to any humanistic reasoning but will choose to seek out of the Book of the Lord
what God would have us do in regards to this great evil. Instead of
neglecting its use, we are resolved that the Bible is the foundation for
everything we do. <i>“…Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all
things to be right; and I hate every false way”</i> (Psalm
119:126-128). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most likely the Christians who are reading this blog would agree on the foundation that God says to <i>“do no murder.”</i> But
the reason I want to lay this out so firmly is that AFTER building a foundation
of WHY we believe this to be true, we can all too easily accept humanistic
strategy and compromise as we seek to end abortion. We must test
every strategy, every effort, every bill with Scripture. We must
take care to <i>“[prove] what is acceptable unto the Lord”</i> (Ephesians
5:10). Everything else builds up from there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>There are two vital truths that are
straight from Scripture upon which Abolitionism stands.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><u>IMAGO DEI</u></i> - Human beings are made <i>"in the image of
God"</i> (Genesis 1:27). That includes all of mankind,
regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity (Genesis 9:6). To condemn the
innocent blood (Psalm 94:21) is to contemn God (Psalm 10:13) in Whose image
they are created. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><u>Incarnation</u> - The Creator Himself, Jesus Christ (God the Son)
became human (Philippians 2:6-8) in order to rescue lost and
rebellious mankind from sin, death, and Hell (Hebrews 9:27-28). He
entered the womb to redeem the world (Matthew 1:21). It was as a zygote
that <i>"the Word was made flesh"</i> (John 1:14).
These murders are being committed in the very place of the incarnation of
our Savior and King. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is on both the basis
of Creation and Salvation that abolition stands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Moreover</b>, the concept of abolitionism (the removal of evils) is derived
from the word of God. <br />
<b>It flows from the charge to do what is just, reflecting the justice and
equity of our God.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"He hath shewed thee, O man,
what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"</i> (Micah 6:8).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>In the
midst of a society, sick from the sole of the foot to the head with </b>(Isaiah 1:1-4, 16-17)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—gross immorality, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—bloodshed of the innocent and
weak, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—and rampant iniquity and
inequity, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>God’s people are plainly instructed to</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—wash, make themselves clean, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—put away the evil of their deeds
from God’s sight, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—cease to do evil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—learn to do well,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—seek justice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—relieve the oppressed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—deliver the fatherless, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—plead for the widow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Abortion is human sacrifice to the
God of Self.</b> Therefore, abortion is both
murder and idolatry—child sacrifice, an abomination (Deuteronomy 12:31)
which pollutes the land and which God must judge (Psalm 106:37-38). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of all people,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—these little ones are the MOST
vulnerable of all victims. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—they are the MOST innocent of all
victims.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—they are also in the MOST danger of
imminent destruction EVERY DAY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those targeted by abortion in the womb are the LEAST of these, and
Jesus said that as we have done it unto the least of these, we have done it unto Him
(Matthew 25:40). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So WHY do we oppose
abortion? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Because of what God tells us in His
Book.</b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the Scriptural view, abortion is murder: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—treachery against those whom God
says are blessings (Psalm 127:3).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—gross child sacrifice (Jeremiah
7:31).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—the destruction of people made in
God’s image (Genesis 9:6).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—the defiling of the place where
Christ entered the world (Isaiah 7:14) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—injustice against one’s neighbor,
which is forbidden (Leviticus 19:13,15-18)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—violence against the weakest and
most helpless (Jeremiah 22:3). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Thus it is “homicide in the
worst degree”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—a violation of God's holy law and
character (Leviticus 18:21; Jeremiah 32:35)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Abolition is the Biblical
response. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .75in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>2.</b><b> </b><b>Abolitionism is Providential.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Much of the Prolife Movement works
according to a <b>pragmatic mindset</b>—claiming to follow what
"will bring results", "what the experts recommend", and
what they “feel will <b>work"</b>. Most prolifers have
swallowed this pragmatic mindset (even if they have done so unintentionally) in
one way or another. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This can be seen in various
ways: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Believing that voting for ProLife candidates, giving to
pregnancy centers, and supporting ProLife organizations is sufficient
to win against abortion. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thinking it is not worth taking time to stand and plead
outside of abortion mills. Saying that, "Calling out at an abortion
mill has never saved a baby! <b>It doesn't work</b>!"
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Discouraging the use of aborted images in public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In just the last couple of years, well
known and respected ProLife leaders have said that <b>"It doesn't
work</b> to use those ugly graphic images. People will just
turn away from you. Graphic images will actually drive women inside to
abort their baby."<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those same ProLife leaders have counseled to NOT call
abortion "sin" and "murder", and to avoid bringing the
Gospel into the arena of abortion. Their reasoning: <b>"It
doesn't work</b> to call abortion 'sin', or mention the judgment of
God, or that Jesus is their only hope. That could greatly offend a
pregnant woman and she will turn and not listen to you."<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Creating and supporting ProLife laws that <b>incrementally
trim and regulate</b> child sacrifice<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This pragmatic mindset is accepted
by most within the Prolife Movement solely because they are focused on what the
"experts" (those who lead organizations) advise will save the lives
of babies, instead of what the God of all creation proclaims in His word must
be done in the face of great evil. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They, intending to do well, want to
do <b>"what works"</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Prolife Movement has been
fighting abortion this way for decades, and YET, it is still "legal"
and it is accepted to kill babies in America. Despite all their pragmatic
thinking, this way is <b>NOT working</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Over a million babies are murdered
every year by abortion within the limits of ProLife legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the culture becomes more
calloused (and the church more complacent) over the daily slaughter of their
neighbors while ProLife Organizations grow. Abortion is more deeply
entrenched in our society's thought and laws because of ProLife legislation and
education. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As I have already stated, <b>ABOLITIONISTS</b> base
their reason for opposing abortion upon the <b>word and attributes of God</b>,
rather than the advice and reasoning of man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As abolitionists, we also rely
on <b>God's infallible providence</b> not the wisdom of the world,
the pragmatism of fallible man, or the platitudes of professionals <b>in
how we work</b> against the evil of abortion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Psalm 20:7-9 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7 <i>"Some trust in chariots,
and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">8 <i>"They are brought
down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9 <i>"Save, LORD: let the
king hear us when we call."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As abolitionists, we choose to put
our trust in the providence of God not the pragmatism of man. We
rest in the means and methods that God has laid out for us in His word.
We look to the living and true God to lead us, knowing that He is our
ever present, all knowing, and all powerful Guide. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He knows <b>what will work!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is He that is the sovereign LORD
of all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-that has created and sustained each
of us, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-that has redeemed us from our own
wicked sin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-that has granted life to these
little ones in the womb,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-that knows the hearts of people and
turns hearts toward the children,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-to whom every one of us will stand
before and give account.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Can we not trust Him, <i>"...seeing
he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;"</i> (Acts 17:25)?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is the <u>power of God</u> working through
His Holy Spirit that changes hearts (Proverbs 21:1; Zechariah 4:6; John
16:8). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He has deemed <u>people to be active participants</u> in
this arena (Exodus 3:8-10; Matthew 9:38; John 20:21). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are called to be <u>faithful</u> (I
Corinthians 4:2), to <u>walk uprightly</u> (Psalm 84:11;
Proverbs 2:7), to <u>speak the truth</u> in love (Ephesians
4:15), and to <u>trust Him</u> above our own
understanding (Proverbs 3:5-7): <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Trust in the LORD with all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"In all thy ways acknowledge
him, and he shall direct thy paths."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Be not wise in thine own eyes:
fear the LORD, and depart from evil."</i> ‘<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We therefore shun doing wrong <i>“that
good may come”</i> (Romans 3:8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
reject unjust action, dishonest words, and iniquitous laws which purport to
“get what we can.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We choose rather to
HOLD FAST to righteous, practical means in order to expose the unfruitful works
of darkness, warn the wicked, rescue the weak, and effect abolition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of embracing the compromised methods of people who
say we need to do "<b>what works</b>", we obey God and do what He
says we are to do. As abolitionists, we believe that when we obey God, that
God's ways <b>do work</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Duty is ours. Results
are God's." As abolitionists we must go forward, crying
out, "Watch what our God will do!" <b>God's work done in
God's way will <u>work</u>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></o:p></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">3.</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">Abolitionism is Gospel Centered.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As abolitionists, we are
committed to the unwavering truth of the good news that God the Son, Jesus
Christ, entered the womb to redeem the world. The Eternal Word became
flesh in the form of a zygote (John 1:14) and went through all the stages of
development in the womb, was then born as a baby and grew to
manhood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fully God and fully Man,
Jesus lived a sinless life, testified of the truth, and laid down His life in
the place of sinners, the Just for the unjust (II Corinthians 5:21; John 18:37;
I Peter 3:18). His precious blood was shed to atone for sin, for <i>"without
shedding of blood is no remission"</i> (Hebrews 9:22). He died
for our sins, and rose again the third day (I Corinthians 15:3-4). His
payment upon the cross purchased redemption for a lost, wandering, and wicked
people from the punishment of their sin (Romans 6:23; I Timothy 2:5-6;
Revelation 20:15; 21:8).<i> "And we have seen and do testify that the
Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world"</i> (I John
4:14). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To be consistently Christian, we
must recognize that the chief weapon in the fight against abortion is the
Gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Gospel is the Answer to the
issue of Abortion</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion is sin (the sin of murder)
and the only answer for sin is the Gospel. We call abortion murder because
it is murder, and we know the God Who can save and forgive repentant murderers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We go to the battle against abortion
as Christians, speaking the truth about life and life everlasting. We plead in
the name of Jesus Christ, in the cause of little babies made in His image, and
for the good of all who will turn!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For instance, at the abortion mills,
the gates of death, we speak the truth…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Your baby is not your problem,
your baby is your blessing. Sin is your problem—the selfishness in your
heart. The only remedy for your sin is turning and trusting in Jesus
Christ alone, Who died to pay the price for sin!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So as ambassadors of Christ, we
share the truth about sin, and the Gospel, and call them to repent and believe
the Gospel. Romans 6:23 <i>“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”</i> <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Gospel is the Opposite of
Abortion</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion is the stronger making the
weak to take the hit for them. The Gospel is the Almighty laying down His life
for those who were without strength to save themselves. Romans 5:6 <i>“For when we were
yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Gospel is the Death Blow to
Abortion</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus came to destroy the works of
the devil. I
John 3:8 <i>“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Without a doubt murder, idolatry,
and child sacrifice are among the works of the devil. So we go into
the fray, engaging the culture, unashamed of the Gospel of Christ, knowing it
is the POWER of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Therefore, abolitionists purpose to
bring the Gospel into the engagement with child sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This we seek to do, not only at the mills,
but elsewhere too, in conversations, in the open air, on campuses, and at
statehouses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, it is the accepted
"wisdom" among a large portion of the ProLife community to NOT do
this: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To not call sin “sin”, warn
their hearers about God's judgment for abortion as murder, or openly share the
Gospel as the only remedy for sin when counseling a woman who plans to
abort her baby, in whatever environment they are in – across a table, a hotline
call, a sidewalk outside an abortion mill, or inside a counseling room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>So why would the ProLife
Movement lean this way? </b>As
already pointed out, a large percentage of people in the ProLife Movement do
not believe in their own need for the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Secular ProLifers who are in rebellion against their Creator are understandably
not champions of the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are also many ProLifers who
are deeply entrenched in a cult or false religion. They follow <i>"...another
Gospel: Which is not another"</i> (Galatians 1:6-7). The
Watchtower Society, Mormonism, and Catholicism do not possess the true message
of salvation. In fact, it has been the Roman Catholic Church, for over 40
years, that has been the main mover and shaker within the Prolife Movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadly, even numerous evangelical ProLife
leaders and organizations have been influenced by Catholic leaders that it is
better to keep the Gospel out of any initial dialogue with mothers who are
looking for an abortion, and they do not always contain a clear Gospel message
when it is discussed due to ecumenical involvement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many Christians who rally for the
ProLife position, take time and opportunity to boldly engage others in dialogue
regarding abortion, and even go to abortion mills to pray or protest are often
carefully trained to NOT use the Gospel with people unless the other
person brings up spiritual matters. There are two reasons for this (and
perhaps more):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->In their objective to save a baby
they use pragmatic (not providential) reasoning—they are taught that moral,
emotional, logical, and scientific arguments are what works and that sticking
to those facts foremost are necessary to persuade a woman to not go
through with her abortion. Abolitionists use logic, science, etc. as
well, but we will not shun to share the Gospel openly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->They are afraid of offending the
hearer and therefore losing a conversation. Although they do not deny the true
Gospel or the need for sinners to come to Christ, they instruct ProLife
Christians to "keep the Gospel in your back pocket"—having it readily
accessible if the other person brings it up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have heard this in training sessions and lectures, and have been told
personally by ProLife leaders that the abortion mill is not the place to preach
the Gospel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could offend them and
turn them away from listening to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But abolitionists first of all seek
to follow Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>"And he
said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature"</i> (Mark 16:15). All the world includes abortion
mills, and statehouses. And there happen to be "creatures"
there in those places. <i>"And thou shalt speak my words unto them,
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most
rebellious"</i> (Ezekiel 2:7). We trust God to use His
word. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I do not want to leave out the fact
that there are within the Prolife Movement, Christians that are truly saved and
hold to the Gospel with unwavering allegiance. They unashamedly preach
the Gospel and call their hearers to repent from any murderous intent toward
their children and turn to the Savior. I greatly appreciate the testimony
of these saints—our family has ministered with them at the very gates of
death—our family was one of them for many years! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But it is easy as a Bible believing
Christian to assume that everyone else who is part of the ProLife Movement is
believing about the subject the same as you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>It is the ideology and practice of the ProLife establishment that we are
contrasting.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>4.</b><b> </b><b>Abolitionism is Body-Driven.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We believe that seeking and working
for Abolition is something the church needs to take part in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The primary means God has ordained to display His manifold
wisdom to the world is through His people (Titus 2:11-14). Seeking abolition
is a responsibility of the church. It is a mandatory ministry to fulfill
her ordained purpose—to be salt and light in this sin-sick culture of decay.
The church was specifically commissioned to bring the Gospel, and teach the
nations to obey Christ’s commands (Matthew 28:18-20).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Scripture, <i>"pure
religion and undefiled"</i> (genuine and practical Christianity being
lived out) is to <b>look after the fatherless</b> (abandoned
children) <b>and the widows</b> (women in great need) when they are
in their affliction (James 1:27). This is something we are to do, not
just leave to humanitarian organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As Christians, we are commanded
to <i>"abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good"</i> (Romans
12:9), to reprove and expose evil (Ephesians 5:11), and We are
exhorted to seek to rescue the weak from death and hold back the stumbling from
the slaughter (Proverbs 24:10-12), and open our mouths for the innocent being
slain (Proverbs 31:8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God warns us not to stop our ears
“at the cry of the poor” (Proverbs 21:13) nor hide our eyes from their needs
(Proverbs 28:27). The preborn are the poorest and most vulnerable in all
of our society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are told in scripture that the
righteous considereth the cause of the poor; <b>it is the wicked that
takes care not to know it</b> (Proverbs 29:7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As abolitionists we desire to see
churches educated, exhorted, and equipped to fulfill their ordained purpose in
this sin-spoiled and darkened world (Matthew 5:13-16). The love of Christ
constrains us to call for justice, mercy, and equal protection for the innocent
and the weak. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Every age has its evils and every
age has its abolitionists. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Historically, Christians have
confronted the accepted evils in their cultures with the light of the Gospel:
most famously today are probably the abolitionists of the slave trade in the
British Empire, and then of chattel slavery in the United States. But
there have been others: infanticide in Rome, temple prostitution/slavery in
India, and twin killing in Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>God's people rose up to Assist and
Agitate in those sinful societies:</b> exposing
abominations, reproving the wicked, standing for justice and
mercy, rescuing the fatherless, helping the weak in their
distress, calling to repentance, and demanding that leaders abolish
evil practices. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The tragedy is that today <i>much</i> of
the American Church is<b> absent from the battle against abortion
altogether.</b> It seems we have outsourced loving our preborn neighbors
to others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christians are often sincerely
prolife in opinion but not Biblically consistent in their practice. They
do not go corporately (or individually) to the abortion mills, neither do they
seek to engage the culture concerning the holocaust of the preborn. I
heard a poll that perhaps only 2% of Christians witness of their faith on a
regular basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fear the percentage of
those who have ever gone one time to an abortion mill to pray and plead for the
babies being slain would be much lower than that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This work of abolition is <i>also
imperative</i> to be consistent with the <b>TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Scripture plainly states,
"And thou shalt <b>love the Lord thy God</b> with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, <b>Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself</b>. There is none other commandment greater
than these" (Mark 12:30-31). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus tells the story of the good
Samaritan to his disciples so that there would be no misunderstanding regarding
exactly who the neighbor we are commanded to love, is. The preborn human
is the most marginalized, abandoned, victimized, abused, tortured, "beaten
and left for dead" neighbor in our midst. Two babies are murdered
every minute of every day in the midst of hundreds of thousands of
Bible-believing churches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is an exercise: What if I and
others like me were being dehumanized and destroyed, carried into buildings to
be slain. What would I desire? To have people pleading
for my life on the sidewalk. To have people calling on the
government to stop the bloodshed and protect me. If that is what I
would want, how can I not do it for my neighbors who ARE being murdered?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is the role of the Church, the
role of every individual Christian, to say “Lord, what will You have me
do? Some might ask, Are you saying that we should drop everything
else and only focus on the preborn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we must live as though they
are actually being murdered, and love them as we love ourselves, not just in
word and in tongue, but in deed and truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are a lot of ways that Christians can engage justly for their
preborn neighbors, many of which can be done while just living life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we must resolve to take right action in
obedience to our God Who is over all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"If
thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are
ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not
he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not
he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?"</i> (Proverbs 24:11-12). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Church must do as the "good
Samaritan" did, and ENGAGE for the cause of the vulnerable and defenseless,
to speak for the weak at the very gates of death. There are many abortion
mills where the sidewalks are empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
message does that send to the world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Police
officer…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Church must also ENJOIN the
magistrates in their state to establish equal protection under the law from
murder for the preborn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The legislators
need to hear from US, to do their jobs and abolish abortion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This brings us to the 5<sup>th</sup> tenet. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 319.5pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>5.</b><b> </b><b>Abolitionism is Immediate and Uncompromising.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion is the abominable sin of
child sacrifice and as such abolitionists call for its immediate and total
abolition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We see this in God’s dealing with
Judah: <i>“They said, Turn ye again NOW every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings…”</i> (Jeremiah 25:5). Jesus called
people to repentance, and declared to sinners, <i>“Go, and sin no
more” </i>(John 8:11)<i>.</i> The time to repent is NOW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time to engage to protect people from
murder is NOW.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Psalm 119:126 </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">“It is time for thee, LORD, to work:
for they have made void thy law.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Psalm 119:128 <i>“Therefore I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things to be right: and I hate every false way.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I don’t want to oppose evil only to find out later
that that I was opposing it in a way that God calls evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want you to do that either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fear that the Christian community has been
well trained to be ProLife in its perspective, practice, and policy concerning
abortion, yet not Biblically consistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And if we have been doing it wrong, it is best to NOW “prove what is
acceptable unto the Lord”, “cease to do evil, and learn to do well.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Abolition</b> is a call not only to abolish abortion itself, but
also to forsake the practice that has largely become characteristic of the
Prolife Movement, namely, REGULATING the mass murder of the most vulnerable,
telling WHO can murder, WHEN they can murder, WHY they can murder, WHERE they
can murder, and HOW they can murder under color of “law”, rather than actually
engaging for the abolition of that murder under law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would we do that for any other murder?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You can’t murder your spouse,
unless you wait 24 hours before you carry out the deed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You cannot murder your boss by
dismembering him; no dismemberment, unless you have already poisoned him to
death<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You
cannot murder your teacher unless you give her a proper burial.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God forbid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are many prolifers who have said to me, “You’re against abortion regulation laws because they’re just not <b>enough</b>.” But the answer is a resounding "No! The
primary reason I am against abortion regulation laws is because they are
not <b>just</b>."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">JUSTICE</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God is JUST. He is a JUST God and a Savior. In Him, there is no respect of persons.</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Exodus 23:2-3,6-8<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">:2 <i>“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;
neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">:3 <i>“Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in
his cause.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">:6 <i>“Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor
in his cause.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">:7 <i>“Keep thee far from a false matter; and the
innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">James 2:4,8 <i>“Are ye not then <b>partial</b> in
yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? …If ye keep the royal law,
according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do
well: but if ye <b>have respect to persons</b>, ye commit sin, and are
convinced of the law as transgressors.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Partiality in protecting people from murder is
transgressing God’s true justice. <b>Inequity is Iniquity.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus said <i>“Judge not according to the appearance,
but judge righteous judgment”</i> (John 7:24).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Equity and Justice must be established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Equal justice under the law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Isaiah 10:1-2 <i>“Woe unto them that decree
unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To
turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of
my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the
fatherless!”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the LORD God says,
“WOE”, it is wise for people to say, “Whoa…” and consider our ways. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laws that say, after 20 weeks, or after the
heartbeat is detected, we will not allow abortions. It dehumanizes
the babies that are not protected and undermines the truth that these innocents
are people and that abortion is murder.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">TRUTH</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">God is
TRUTH.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">He cannot lie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also in <b>Exodus 23:1</b> <i>“Thou shalt not raise <b>a
false report</b>: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exodus 20:16 <i>“Thou
shalt not <b>bear false witness </b>against thy neighbour.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Truth
telling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treat the preborn like who they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treat abortion like what it is. Regulatory bills that require well-lit rooms, wider
hallways, clean instruments…When the ProLife Movement regulates abortion by
ProLife legislation, they are treating it like what the proaborts say it is:
“Healthcare”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not telling the
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abortion is Homicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the list of things that God hates in
Proverbs 6, <i>“hands that shed innocent blood”</i> (v.17) is found, but lying
is found twice: 2) <i>“a lying tongue” and 6) “a false witness that speaketh
lies.” </i>Jeremiah 9:3 tells about the wicked, that <i>“they are not valiant
for the truth upon the earth;”</i> Should we not then <b>“be valiant for the
truth”</b> ourselves? Therefore, because His precepts are right, we must demand
Equal Justice and Truth, and reject Partiality and Falsehood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Isaiah 59</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">
speaks of a culture of violence and vanity, in which people’s <i>“feet run to
do evil”,</i> and <i>“shed innocent blood”</i> (verse 7).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verse 8 says, <i>“Their thoughts are thoughts
of iniquity</i> [going their own way], <i>and “wasting and destruction are in
their paths.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There is a way that
seemeth right unto a man: but the end thereof are the ways of death”</i>
(Proverbs 16:25).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is described as a day when the vulnerable and the
innocent are not being protected from violence. Verse 14 <i>“And judgment is
turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter.” </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In such a day, one of God’s declarations in verse 4
was that <b><i>“none calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth;”</i></b>
instead they trust in vain strategies, and iniquitous measures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They hatch all sorts of plans, and then call
on God, petitioning Him to bless their efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are choosing their own way too, in opposition of the evil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What is God’s charge to those in authority? ESTABLISH
<b>TRUE JUSTICE</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jeremiah 22:3 <i>“Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye
judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor
the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What is God’s charge to you and me as His people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To love in TRUTH and live according to JUSTICE.
True love in I Corinthians 13, <i>“rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, we cannot approve
of ProLife laws that regulate abortion as if it is healthcare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is bearing false witness against our
preborn neighbors and the God in whose image they are made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to urge our state magistrates to stop
regulating murder, and instead establish true equal justice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jeremiah 5:1 <i>“Run ye to and fro through the streets
of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if
ye can find a man, if there be any that <b>executeth judgment</b>, that <b>seeketh
the truth</b>; and I will pardon it.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>JUSTICE and TRUTH.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is not an issue of what<i> <b>seems</b></i> practical,
achievable, or reasonable. It is an issue of <b><i>obedience</i></b><i> to
God</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Don’t let Isaiah 59:4 describe YOU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call for JUSTICE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plead for TRUTH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Because all God’s precepts concerning all things are
right, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ABORTION MUST BE ABOLISHED</i></b><i>.</i></span></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-79918990676984151732021-04-23T21:21:00.000-07:002021-04-23T21:21:06.627-07:00George and the Dragon<p> This day, April 23rd, is said to be the day on which a particular Christian martyr was slain for the testimony of Jesus Christ back in AD 303. He was a soldier, by the name of George.</p><p>Among the few other things that we are told about George's life before his martyrdom, is that at one point, he slew a dragon (which I believe could have been a dinosaur). This account was told as history for centuries. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-inIx_ePHm40/YIOP0a8SDoI/AAAAAAABkLc/eY6Fzwf8K987HtdOqHHE6EWosnPlCJpigCLcBGAsYHQ/s982/St-George-Dragon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="982" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-inIx_ePHm40/YIOP0a8SDoI/AAAAAAABkLc/eY6Fzwf8K987HtdOqHHE6EWosnPlCJpigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/St-George-Dragon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The way I read it, there was a region that was ravaged by a terrible dragon, which terrorized the pagan people of the land. To placate its hunger, they would leave out a couple of sheep on a regular basis. This only worked until they ran out of sheep. In the face of the vicious threat, the people began to cast lots for whose children would be put out for the beast to devour. How dark and despairing the circumstances must have been! To save their own lives, they were giving up their own children to the appetite of the dragon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But then, one day, the lot fell on the daughter of the king. In desperation, her father offered great rewards to anyone who would take her place. There were no takers, and the tearful daughter was removed to the place of slaughter away from town, and bound there to await the creature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, along came George the soldier, who seeing her tears and distress, inquired of the cause, and upon hearing the situation, manfully set himself to battle with the dragon, despite the maiden's pleas for him to save himself. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The dragon appeared, and ferociously attacked, but the courageous George relented not, but fought valiantly and finally slew the dragon. When the townspeople emerged, they discovered the princess alive and whole, and their dread nemesis slain. They joyously received George, who refused reward, giving God the glory and preaching the Gospel unto them. Just about the whole community professed faith in Jesus Christ and were baptized as Christians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That is the story of saint George and the dragon. A tale of Interposition. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">INTERPOSITION: to position oneself between two parties; to
intercede; to take up the cause of one and face the other; to entreat on behalf
of another; to encounter the foe; take the hit; to strike the blow; to stand in
the face of incoming danger in defense of others.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">George played the role of hero in this legend. He steadfastly engaged to defend the innocent and the weak from the vile beast. He came on the scene, and his actions and testimony led to repentance and faith on the part of the people of the land.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today, there is a fearsome dragon of monstrous proportions, feasting on the children of our culture, who are sacrificed to it by parents for their own sake. THIS dragon's violence is protected by the governing leaders, and promoted by society. Even those in leadership who profess to oppose the dragon are making rules to decide who they will protect for now, and who they will permit to be eaten. This dragon's name? Abortion. And none of the players in this scenario thus far are playing the true hero.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The most oppressed people in the land (the preborn), who are being murdered daily for the appetites of pride and lust and greed, need a Christian to NOT follow the multitude to do evil (Exodus 23:2-3,6-8).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are we not to love our neighbors, including the least of these, as ourselves?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are we not to take up the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and engage for the lives of these poor and needy? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are we not to bring the Gospel of Jesus to the secret places where they murder the innocent, and shine the Light of the truth of the Scriptures on the lair of the dragon?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are we not to open our mouths to call out to our leaders for justice and plead for truth?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are we not to be a testimony of the Truth, calling people to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Duty is ours. Results are God's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Don't seek to make the dragon less gory in its murder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Don't seek to make the dragon wait a fortnight to eat, thinking that it may change its mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Don't seek to limit the dragon to consuming just smaller children.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Slay the Dragon. Abolish Abortion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Abortion must be abolished.</div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-50354966157091724732021-03-05T16:28:00.001-08:002021-03-05T20:54:29.923-08:00Show Me the Seal and the State of the State of Missouri<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Behold, the Great Seal of the State of Missouri.</span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83twwPq2Z5E/YCyVw43K3HI/AAAAAAABgAY/QksLmsMr4s0TduMhN8yowzp6UpXjLlMewCLcBGAsYHQ/s900/missouri-state-seal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83twwPq2Z5E/YCyVw43K3HI/AAAAAAABgAY/QksLmsMr4s0TduMhN8yowzp6UpXjLlMewCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/missouri-state-seal.jpg" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Missouri is the “Show Me” State, so let's consider what the
Missouri Coat of Arms shows us in our day.
It contains much that may be missed at a glance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Shield</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The shield, or rather circle, is divided into three
parts, a half on the East, and two quarters on the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The half section is a field of white on which is
emblazoned a bald eagle grasping the olive branches of peace and the arrows of
war in its talons. This is from the seal of the United States, and represents
that Missouri is a part of the Union. The background is white, symbolizing
purity. Inside the Missouri state Capitol rotunda, the words <i>“Righteousness
exalteth a nation”</i> are etched into the wall, quoting Proverbs 14:34.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We must also remember the rest of the verse: <i>“but sin is a reproach
to any people.”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The lower quarter section to the west is a field of red
with a white bear walking on all fours. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bear is to indicate the strength and
bravery of the citizens of Missouri, and the white again is for purity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The red field is meant to depict valor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when the blood of over 58,000
children is on our hands, under “color of law,” how is our bravery doing? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we walk surrounded by the bloodshed of
the least of these, how are we clean? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
are things to bear in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The upper quarter is a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">field of blue with a crescent moon. This moon represents
two things. In heraldry, the crescent moon means the second son. Missouri was
the second state to be carved out from the Louisiana Purchase. Additionally, it
represents the state of Missouri at the time of its induction into the Union: a
state with a small population and huge potential for growth. But what about the
SMALLEST POPULATION TODAY WITH HUGE POTENTIAL, those children in the womb whom we
do not protect? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blue field
represents vigilance and justice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Then should
we not consider the measure of our VIGILANCE? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>“Whoso <b>stoppeth his ears</b> at the cry
of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard”</i> (Proverbs
21:13). <i>“He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that<b> hideth
his eyes </b>shall have many a curse”</i> (Proverbs 28:27). <i>“The righteous <b>considereth</b>
the cause of the poor: but the wicked <b>regardeth not to know it</b>.”</i> Proverbs
29:7). Vigilance must be shown towards the preborn, the poorest and most needy
in our land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">And should
we not weigh out the balance of our JUSTICE? <i>“How long will ye judge
unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and the
fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy:
rid them out of the hand of the wicked”</i> (Psalm 82:2-4). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>“Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment
and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor:
and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place”</i> (Jeremiah 22:3).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Equity and
Justice must be established. Truth telling. True Treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Belt</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The
red, white, and blue circle is surrounded by a belt inscribed “United we stand,
divided we fall”, indicating the advantage of the union of the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">But
in the area of child sacrifice, and the rampant bloodshed, we are in error
before the God to Whom we will give account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though hand join in hand, we shall not be unpunished. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LET US REPENT, FOR WE ARE UNDONE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Helmet</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Above
the shield and belt, a helmet is depicted, representing Missouri’s state sovereignty.
It is the duty of the lesser magistrates to protect the lives and rights of the
people in their jurisdiction, and to stand in the gap for them to interpose
when injustice is decreed from higher up (i.e. Exodus 1; I Samuel 14; Daniel 3).
In the face of tyranny, we must assert state sovereignty to protect the preborn
and abolish murder by abortion under the law. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The Upright Supports<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The
seal is upheld by two grizzly bears standing, one on each side of the shield. These
upright supporters of the Seal symbolize Courage & Strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes courage and strength to stand for
the weak in a day when they are being slaughtered under color of law, and we
will give an account to the Keeper of our souls for how we live in regards to
our actions in a culture of child sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>“Finally, my
brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might”</i> (Ephesians 6:10).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If thou faint in the day of
adversity, thy strength is small. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are
ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that
pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know
it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Proverbs 24:10-12).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Be of good courage, and let us behave
ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the
LORD do that which is good in his sight”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (I Chronicles 19:13).<i> Duty is ours. Results are God’s.</i>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><u>The Motto </u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">At
the base of the seal is a scroll…SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO, meaning “Let the
welfare (health, safety, good) of the People be the Supreme Law.” It is the
motto of the state of Missouri. But Abortion is not healthcare. It is Homicide
in the worst degree, attacking the most vulnerable and innocent of victims. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the Missouri state motto requires that the
law must establish justice to protect the lives, the welfare, the health, the
safety, and the good of the people targeted for slaughter. Abortion is MURDER.
It must be abolished.</span></span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-55733878539947860052021-02-26T17:49:00.005-08:002022-04-29T17:18:22.168-07:00Vote NO on "Value Them Both", if You Love the Preborn... <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H84ohxY1Df4/YDmmOOtARjI/AAAAAAABgyk/OAQutc_doqQZYbab2cJQZ8WVaZzD4vNQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s610/VoteNO2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="610" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H84ohxY1Df4/YDmmOOtARjI/AAAAAAABgyk/OAQutc_doqQZYbab2cJQZ8WVaZzD4vNQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/VoteNO2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 15pt;">ATTENTION:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Both the House and the Senate of Kansas have
passed a resolution to put an amendment (Value Them Both) to the bill of rights
of the Kansas state constitution on the ballot on August 22, 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Although
Kansans for Life (and almost every other ProLife organization in the state) are
calling people to vote yes, Abolish Abortion Kansas urges you to NOT support “Value
Them Both” (VTB) and to spread the word to others. <b>This is an
iniquitous amendment.</b> Here is the wording:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">"<b>Regulation
of abortion</b>. Because Kansans <b>value both</b> women and children, the
constitution of the state of Kansas does not require government funding of
abortion and <b>does not create or secure a right to abortion.</b> To the
extent permitted by the constitution of the United States, the people, through
their elected state representatives and state senators, <b>may pass laws
regarding abortion,</b> including, but not limiting to, laws that account for
circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or circumstances of
necessity to save the life of the mother...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Explanatory
statement on ballot: “The Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is
no Kansas constitutional right to abortion, and would reserve to the people of
Kansas, through their elected state legislators, <b>the right to pass laws to
regulate abortion</b>..."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">What is wrong with this?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -.25in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>I.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">This amendment does NOT value them
both. </span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">It shows partiality and God is against it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">"<b>Are ye not then partial</b> in your selves, and are
become judges of evil thoughts? ...If ye fulfill the royal law according to the
scripture, <b>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself</b>, ye do well: But
if ye have <b>respect to persons</b>, ye commit sin, and are convinced of
the law as transgressors"</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> (James 2:4,8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Valuing
children in the womb equally would require that those children be given equal
protection under the law from murder, even as men and women themselves today
have protection from murder under the law. Loving our neighbors as
ourselves requires it. (See also Exodus 23:2-3,6-8; Deuteronomy 16:18-20;
24:16-17; Proverbs 24:11-12; 31:8-9; Jeremiah 9:3; Matthew 25:45; Mark
12:30-31)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Consider
the ludicrous action of putting forth an amendment that stated: “We value both
men and women, therefore we reserve the right to <i>regulate</i> how women can
be raped <i>when and if men decide to do it</i>." That would be
offensive and demeaning to both men and women!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">But
that is exactly what the VTB amendment is proposing: "We value both women
and preborn children, therefore we reserve the right to <i>regulate</i> how the
preborn can be murdered <i>when and if women decide to do it</i>." This
is offensive and demeaning to both women and children! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -.25in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>II.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">This amendment protects the WRONG thing.</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Instead
of protecting the preborn, it merely protects the ProLife regulatory laws and
the freedom to make more! The amendment states correctly that "a
right to abortion" is not in the Kansas constitution, but then stoops to create
and codify "the right to pass laws to regulate abortion." The
people of Kansas <i>do not have the right to regulate the murder</i> of some
humans! But they <u>do have the duty to protect humans from being murdered</u>. Regulatory laws make allowance for babies to
be slain—the amendment would ensure that vulnerable children are allowed <i>abandonment
to destruction</i> by their parents. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">God
says, <i>"<b>Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees</b>, and
that write grievousness which they have prescribed; <b>To turn aside the
needy from judgment</b>, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,
that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!"</i> (Isaiah
10:1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">When
God says, "Woe”, His people should say, "Whoa!" Regulating <i>who</i> can
murder, <i>when</i> they can murder, <i>how</i> they can
murder, <i>where</i> they can murder, and <i>why</i> they
can murder is making an iniquitous decree. Regulating abortion is
treating it like Healthcare, not what it is—Homicide. Sadly, what the ProAbortion
crowd calls <i>healthcare</i>, the ProLife establishment treats as nothing more.
Repent with us. (See also Psalm 94:4-23; Proverbs 11:1; Jeremiah 8:11;
Micah 6:8; Galatians 4:16; Ephesians 4:15; 5:7-11)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -.25in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">III.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">This amendment is unnecessary and an enemy of
abolition and equal protection.</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Our constitution already
gives humans in general certain rights, such as: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">1.
"Equal rights. All men are possessed of <b>equal and inalienable
natural rights, among which are life</b>, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">2.
"Political power; privileges. All political power is inherent in the
people, and all free governments are founded in their authority, and are
instituted <b>for their equal protection</b> and benefit."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">10.
"Trial; defense of accused; witness against self; double jeopardy.
In all prosecutions, the accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in
person, or by counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against
him; <b>to face the witness face to face</b>..." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Not
only will the amendment <i>not</i> protect babies from murder, it will be an
obstacle to the future abolition of this great evil. Although abortion is
not a right in the constitution, VTB expressly puts abortion in the
constitution itself as something to be regulated, not condemned as the murder
it is. It would specifically establish that the right to life and due
process of law (which is already in the constitution) would not apply to the
preborn. <u>It would be similar to
amending the constitution to secure the right to regulate how slavery of a
certain people group would be operated in the state.</u> If it takes a
lot of both time and money to get a new amendment passed, it is far more
difficult to remove.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">"Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,
and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do
no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed
innocent blood in this place"</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> (Jeremiah 22:3). (See also Psalm
82:1-8; Psalm 119:126-128; Isaiah 1:4-6,13-18; 59:1-15; Amos 5:12-15; Luke
18:2-5; John 7:24)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">We
as Christians, and as Kansans, must rise up against this amendment and vote it
down. We must persistently show our legislators what they must do and
demand that they stop regulating murder! We do not want the regulation of
child sacrifice in our constitution! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Call
your legislators to do their duty <i>to do justly</i> in establishing equal
protection for all people, born and preborn. <i>"Run ye to and fro
through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad
places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment,
that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it" </i>(Jeremiah 5:1)<i>. </i>Be
on the right side of history. Become an abolitionist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Do
<b>not</b> support the VTB amendment on the ballot. </span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">Abortion must be
abolished.</span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">(For a more in depth look at the VTB, go to and read: http://timetowinabattle.blogspot.com/2022/01/an-assessment-of-value-them-both.html)</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-20394866363399768722021-01-12T22:59:00.005-08:002021-01-13T10:47:16.566-08:00Upside Down<div class="separator"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our culture in the United States is functionally </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">upside down</b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-90cQBtT4M/X_6Z-XOcw-I/AAAAAAABbkY/YG3bDWtbZ9kGmiaxf52AcrBUnhMJI8OowCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/UpsideDownUS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="800" height="195" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-90cQBtT4M/X_6Z-XOcw-I/AAAAAAABbkY/YG3bDWtbZ9kGmiaxf52AcrBUnhMJI8OowCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h195/UpsideDownUS.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />One striking example is the area of education.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<b>The Professors:</b><br />
The ones most trusted in Academia and most esteemed to teach in "higher education"--passing knowledge to the next generation</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who are subverting even the existence of knowledge, and leaving students with NO basis for truth and reason.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All the while, the Bible gives us the picture of what is right side up. <i>"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction"</i> (Proverbs 1:7). This is confirmed multiple times, in multiple ways, through the entire scriptures. It is the word of God alone that gives us the standard of what will make us wise and what will (even though believing ourselves to be wise) make us fools.<br />
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But it is especially acute in the area of <b>abortion</b>. Consider these...<br />
<br />
<b>The Prey: </b><br />
The ones who are the most innocent, the most harmless, and the most vulnerable people in the land </span></div><div><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>are the ones </b></i>who are the most condemned, hated, and targeted with violence and execution. (Preborn)<br />
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<b>The Procurers:</b><br />
The ones who should have the most vested interest in caring for and protecting these innocent victims </span></div><div><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>are the ones </b></i>who are actively seeking out their slaughter, hiring assassins to murder them. (Parents)<br />
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<b>The Practitioners:</b><br />
The ones who have sworn an oath to help the weak, to heal, and to "do no harm"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who commit the most murders in the land (hundreds and thousands each), and are hired to do so.<br />
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<b>The Powers:</b><br />
The ones who are sworn to uphold the document that does recognizes the victims' rights and guarantees equal protection</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who dehumanize the victims and secure the ability to destroy their lives.<br />
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The ones who are bound to make sure laws are according to the Constitution</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who pervert the Constitution in their opinions. Indeed, the ones whose task of impartial judgment (symbolized by a blindfolded individual with scales and a sword) are the ones who are partial in their judgment, stripping equal justice from the poorest and most needy.<br />
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The ones who are elected to write laws to establish equity for all the people in the states</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>making mischief by laws that are inconsistent and arbitrary.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Pragmatists: </b><br />
The ones who are dedicated to do "what works" for good end results</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who keep doing what isn't working (in explicit opposition to the word of God) destroying the possibility for good end results.<br />
<br /><b>The Perpetuators: </b><br />The ones who are the most lauded in the ProLife Movement as the champions of the preborn</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><b>are the ones </b></i>who are diligently stopping the bills that would abolish abortion and finally protect the preborn, and thus are prolonging the Holocaust.<br /><br />
<b>The Permissioners:</b><br />
Many millions of Christians, whose opinion largely is opposed to the murders of their preborn neighbors (in the their votes, in their charity, and in their prayers)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
<i><b>are the ones </b></i>who are allowing the murders which take place in their cities and states <i>to continue without taking meaningful action to stop it or even go to speak up for the weak in the place where it is being committed</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The truth that is becoming more and more evident in this upside down world (a truth that Francis Schaeffer actually penned 30 years ago) that boldly states:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Every abortion clinic should have a sign in front of it, saying, <i>Open by permission of the church</i>." Francis Schaeffer<br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tobM3Gsr-Zg/XLVNctkIB4I/AAAAAAAAiqc/cu8SVIZORPQTCOOPpwgn67canMtCYl0zgCLcBGAs/s1600/AHADecalpic_large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tobM3Gsr-Zg/XLVNctkIB4I/AAAAAAAAiqc/cu8SVIZORPQTCOOPpwgn67canMtCYl0zgCLcBGAs/s320/AHADecalpic_large.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />This sad state of affairs is poignantly illustrated in the symbol of abolition. The upside down A represents the culture that has subverted God's righteous Law, to allow for the slaughter for fellow image bearers, humans in the first stages of life. Even many in the ProLife Movement are using worldly reasoning and actions in their opposition of the evil. Abolitionists are seeking to turn this whole system to right thinking and right action, in accordance with God's Higher Law, illustrated by the upright A in the symbol.<br />
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The world, and our society may say,<br />
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<i><b>"These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;"</b></i> (from Acts 17:6),<br />
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But in reality, we are seeking to turn things right side up.<br />
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ABORTION MUST BE ABOLISHED.</span></div></div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-26024986730116413102021-01-12T22:18:00.003-08:002021-01-13T11:32:43.921-08:00Missouri--Abortion Free? Or Not.<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There has been much made of the recent news that the last freestanding abortion mill in Missouri is not performing abortions at this time. This is heralded as a victory of Missouri's regulatory laws. Many ProLife editorials and leaders are now calling Missouri "the first Abortion Free State" and this news is being shared throughout social media! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But is it true?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHWuUzM86Mw/X_6KEKd_kqI/AAAAAAABbkI/G0e9ynpySdcFmWhGFr7GFch8qRvcGoiFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/RedMO.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="226" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHWuUzM86Mw/X_6KEKd_kqI/AAAAAAABbkI/G0e9ynpySdcFmWhGFr7GFch8qRvcGoiFgCLcBGAsYHQ/w226-h226/RedMO.png" width="226" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As one born in Missouri, who loves Missouri, and who has preached in the Capitol building in Jefferson City, the Capitol of Missouri, year after year--calling for residents and the legislature to repent for allowing this great evil to be allowed under "color or law"--I feel pressed to speak.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">First, I am glad to hear that children are not being murdered in the St. Louis Planned Parenthood at this time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But in reading this <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2021/01/11/missouri-is-the-first-abortion-free-state-after-last-abortion-center-stops-killing-babies/" target="_blank">article</a>, we must understand that it does not mean that <i>any</i> of those children are being spared--in fact, any mother who would contact that specific Planned Parenthood, will simply and easily be referred just over the border to Granite City, Illinois. Or, depending on where the mother lives, just over the state line on the western side into Kansas, to Overland Park.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It should also be stated that while abortion may not <i>presently </i>be happening at freestanding abortion mills in the Show Me state, this could change <b>as soon as</b> they want to follow the specific ProLife regulations put forth in the bills that have passed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moreover, untold numbers of babies are being murdered by abortions bought at Walmart, CVS, or Walgreens--"on the corner of Happy and Homicide" through Plan B and other abortifacients. Freestanding abortion mills (or doctor offices for that matter) are not needed when mothers chose to kill their babies earlier--another fruit of ProLife regulatory legislation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Online. Did you know that mothers can simply order the kill pills online and have them delivered straight to their front door!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And at hospitals. Barnes Jewish Hospital, for instance, will still murder babies for a fee--the only requirement for "pregnancy termination" is a preborn child must present abnormalities or the mother must present pregnancy complications. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So what if regulations grew so high in number that abortion decreased in number because there were to many hoops to hop through, too much red tape? Here is my detailed <a href="http://timetowinabattle.blogspot.com/2019/02/but-what-if-regulating-eventually.html" target="_blank">answer</a> to that question. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, to put it plainly: No! Missouri is not abortion free. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>But it can be!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A bill of abolition is set again to be put forward again this year!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">LET'S NOT GET DISTRACTED BY FAKE VICTORIES.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Missourians need to <b>support </b>the bill of total and complete abolition put forward by Mike Moon, and <b>demand </b>that the legislature in the state of Missouri establish equal protection under the law for preborn humans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">#SHOWMEABOLITION</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Abortion must be abolished in Missouri.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-4538210584057396942021-01-12T21:43:00.006-08:002023-02-11T18:17:54.652-08:00Blood Guilt and Manasseh<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We find in the word of God a record of a king named Manasseh. He was the son of godly King Hezekiah, but chose the way of iniquity and idolatry and led Judah into gross abominations in God's face. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Deuteronomy 18:9 </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations."</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">First on the list?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Deuteronomy 18:10 <i>"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire..." </i><b>CHILD SACRIFICE.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But Manasseh disregarded the Law of God, and led his people into those very things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel" </i>(II Chronicles 33:9).<i> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD"</i> (II Kings 21:16).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin"</i> (Jeremiah 32:35).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The shedding of innocent blood defiles a people and pollutes a land. Not Judah--not even Jerusalem, the apple of God's eye--was spared the devastating judgment for the sin of child sacrifice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That was the kingdom of Judah.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: <b>and the land was polluted with blood</b>"</i> (Psalm 106:36-38). </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykNls9EfWzc/X_5xLiVtnWI/AAAAAAABbjc/VunQTC5Okv0mk8Zj_DyGh3CF4VE1L7iQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/tremblePsalm106.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykNls9EfWzc/X_5xLiVtnWI/AAAAAAABbjc/VunQTC5Okv0mk8Zj_DyGh3CF4VE1L7iQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/tremblePsalm106.jpg" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let's look at another nation, say, the United States of America. Here is a pie chart showing the comparison of deaths in various wars that the United States have been involved in:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IoC2R_s3gUY/X_5xg11aolI/AAAAAAABbjk/k9pUsFezPCUC4D2KYCWbnpJTgQh-lXDGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Pie%2Bchart%2Bof%2Bdeath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IoC2R_s3gUY/X_5xg11aolI/AAAAAAABbjk/k9pUsFezPCUC4D2KYCWbnpJTgQh-lXDGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Pie%2Bchart%2Bof%2Bdeath.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We murder roughly the same number of innocent image-bearers in the womb each year, as American military personnel who have died in all American wars put together. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We have slain over 65 million children under "color" of law, and those are just the reported abortion murders. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I tremble for my country.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Innocent blood stains "the amber waves of grain".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It gushes in a trespass higher than the "purple mountain majesties".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It flows "from sea to shining sea".</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Blood Guilt Runs Deep</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bloodguilt splatters all of society, which <b>promotes</b> the shedding of innocent blood, celebrating the slaughter of son and daughter as they exult in the worship of Self and so many other false gods.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bloodguilt splatters ProAbort leaders who have <b>pursued</b> the murder of color of law,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">AND</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bloodguilt splatters ProLife leaders (politicians, organizations, etc.) who have <b>produced</b> iniquitous bills and measures to regulate that murder INSTEAD of establishing equal protection under that law, thus <b>prolonging</b> the Holocaust (Jeremiah 22:3; Psalm 82).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bloodguilt splatters the medical community, which swears to "do no harm" at yet calls homicide "healthcare", and <b>practices </b>the butchering and poisoning the most vulnerable; who kill with forceps, needle, vacuum, or pill, assassinating their victims for a fee; and as doctors and nurses bring on themselves curses from the One Who said, <i>"Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person"</i> (Deuteronomy 27:25).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Bloodguilt splatters mommies and daddies, who </span><b>procure</b><span> the murder of their children, and also grandmas and grandpas, and other relatives, and friends, who </span><b>push</b><span> for that murder, who </span><b>pacify</b><span> the conscience, saying </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It's for the best."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"You're not ready yet."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It's not really a person yet."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"God knows your heart." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And for those who <b>play an active part</b>, such as driving the mom to the assassin's business and <b>providing</b> <i>immoral</i> support? Bloodguilt.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It also splatters Christians and churches, who have <b>permitted</b> the murder of our neighbors:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By our silence and absence from the gates of death (Proverbs 31:8-9; I Corinthians 15:34),</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By our neglect to obey God in seeking to deliver those ready to be slain (Proverbs 24:11-12).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By our failure to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked and trust on Christ (Ezekiel 3:18-19 & 33:7-9).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By not demanding that our leaders cease to do evil in regulating murder, and prod them to do well in establishing equal protection of the preborn (Isaiah 15-18 & 59:2-4).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By (sincerely and/or misguidedly) paying financially to support candidates, ProLife organizations, and bills that are partial and wrest protection of the ones we think to help (Exodus 23:2-3,6-7; James 2:8-9).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It splatters on pulpits, whose pastors do not speak about it in church or in the open public square for fear of offending someone, and it splatters on pews and parishioners, some of whom subsequently have not done their duty to love their neighbors as th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">emselves in word AND deed, and some of whom are murdering their babies, thinking it no big deal, because it is not dealt with by the Christian community as it ought to be (Ezekiel 22; 23:37-39).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Because God's Law and Gospel are not brought into conflict with the culture of child sacrifice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are told in the Scriptures...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYiqTFMwEw0/X_6HYsf_CZI/AAAAAAABbj8/eEQsWKvHkWUG3vrJAGpKMXrRvA5DqSzGACLcBGAsYHQ/s1094/Americanhandssign_1024x.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="707" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYiqTFMwEw0/X_6HYsf_CZI/AAAAAAABbj8/eEQsWKvHkWUG3vrJAGpKMXrRvA5DqSzGACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Americanhandssign_1024x.png" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The bloodguilt runs deep indeed.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people"</i> (Proverbs 14:34)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The name Manasseh means "causing to forget". Have we forgotten Who the LORD is? </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver"</i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> (Psalm 50:22).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let U.S. repent. Let US repent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And let us bring the Gospel into conflict with this bloody abomination, and call our countrymen to turn to Jesus Christ, Who is the only Savior from sin. He is the only One Who can redeem those who are stained with the blood of the innocent, because He shed His own blood for the guilty. </span><i style="font-size: large;">"In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Colossians 1:14).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Abortion must be abolished.</span></p><p><br /></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-26681291624886985082021-01-07T22:15:00.005-08:002021-01-08T05:30:44.244-08:00Sackcloth and Ashes NOW<p></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6sslIjxeKk/X7kILbvuK_I/AAAAAAABWLo/bW6iWaL7TqESrXEU7QYDMgKbvR2iWrZ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/sackclothashesNOW.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="640" height="120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6sslIjxeKk/X7kILbvuK_I/AAAAAAABWLo/bW6iWaL7TqESrXEU7QYDMgKbvR2iWrZ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/w362-h120/sackclothashesNOW.jpg" width="362" /></a></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>If the body of Christ would repent of our apathy in regards to child sacrifice, cease </span><span>to do evil in regulating murder, and learn to do well in engaging for the criminalization of murder by abortion<span 115="" 12pt="" entury="" font-size:="" gothic="" line-height:="" quot="" sans-serif="">—</span>abolishing this great evil in each state<span 115="" 12pt="" entury="" font-size:="" gothic="" line-height:="" quot="" sans-serif="">—</span>it would not matter who was our President.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I implore the people of God to REPENT. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us take the example of another people who greatly deserved the wrath of God.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> <i>"But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?" </i>(</span><span>Jonah 3:8).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us humble ourselves and heed rebuke for our complicity, collaboration, compromise, and complacency concerning the horrific slaughter of the preborn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us repent of our silence and absence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us cry mightily unto God for forgiveness and mercy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us turn from the violence that is in OUR hands.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us call for justice and equity for the oppressed and defy the evil and unconstitutional court opinion that says you must allow for the murder of some people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us go to the gates of death to rescue the perishing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us exhort one another to be salt and light<span 115="" 12pt="" entury="" font-size:="" gothic="" line-height:="" quot="" sans-serif="">—</span>bringing the Gospel into conflict with the culture of death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us quit ourselves like men.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And, let us do exploits in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion must be abolished.</span></p><p><br /></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-28489406556900296882021-01-07T21:55:00.001-08:002021-01-08T08:35:33.812-08:00Now That's What I am Chalking About.<p> Once an individual (or family) has come to embrace the tenets of abolition, there comes a question:</p><p>"How are some practical ways that I can get truth out to my neighbors, to expose the evil of the preborn holocaust, bring the Gospel to bear, and point them to where they can learn more about being on the right side of history?"</p><p>There are a multitude of ways to do this, </p><p>some more involved than others, </p><p>some taking more time or resources,</p><p>some more daunting perhaps.</p><p>Here is but one way of many...</p><p>It is true that you might not be able to do ALL the types of seeding the culture...</p><p>But just about anyone can grab a piece of chalk and write something when they park the car. </p><p>Write something right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oXTERymdLTU/X_fmbEUOxRI/AAAAAAABbQ4/FOnYGoOp-NY1agHm0_gSb5ujfvwg3RBFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkLoveThyNeighbor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oXTERymdLTU/X_fmbEUOxRI/AAAAAAABbQ4/FOnYGoOp-NY1agHm0_gSb5ujfvwg3RBFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkLoveThyNeighbor.jpg" /></a></div><p>When you are out and about, consider how you can share truth with others, including those you may never meet, but who will come along after you have left.</p><p>Ever wonder how you could witness the truth about the Gospel and the abortion holocaust with people you don't know without even talking with them or seeing them? </p><p>What if you put messages like this on the sidewalk when you went for a walk each day? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U3196VlhYfo/X_foop9Wc0I/AAAAAAABbSA/NEDXErMVKSEZF9KnRjsX8oLyv97974vygCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkRightSide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U3196VlhYfo/X_foop9Wc0I/AAAAAAABbSA/NEDXErMVKSEZF9KnRjsX8oLyv97974vygCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkRightSide.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y-X_WaJ2IQ0/X_fosNV3vKI/AAAAAAABbSE/GiaeeWhFwAsKSPSj0WilCXYmh3U9UAIrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkSalvation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y-X_WaJ2IQ0/X_fosNV3vKI/AAAAAAABbSE/GiaeeWhFwAsKSPSj0WilCXYmh3U9UAIrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkSalvation.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VqkXPquKFRI/X_fo2wlPgrI/AAAAAAABbSI/7jWpcxXJSXUow0s-CzcYxFTaYWvIKo0qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkNoPeace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VqkXPquKFRI/X_fo2wlPgrI/AAAAAAABbSI/7jWpcxXJSXUow0s-CzcYxFTaYWvIKo0qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkNoPeace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbaoPRMCweU/X_fo2xZOrMI/AAAAAAABbSM/nb7fC7_yjiEzDyqCmEhj908LHHQ0icLagCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkWhatTime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbaoPRMCweU/X_fo2xZOrMI/AAAAAAABbSM/nb7fC7_yjiEzDyqCmEhj908LHHQ0icLagCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkWhatTime.jpg" /></a></div><p>Or when you stopped to pump gas?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyq4OxIluN4/X_fncbDa3GI/AAAAAAABbRI/06WhHr4i6wotUWXqb83yUk8_FVhD4EoJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkEstablish.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyq4OxIluN4/X_fncbDa3GI/AAAAAAABbRI/06WhHr4i6wotUWXqb83yUk8_FVhD4EoJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkEstablish.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FAyKrDLVYUw/X_foGwsggBI/AAAAAAABbRo/BavrFdVWjQE7Zomddv0LdUjHzvJtVFlSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkCheckOutFTS.jpg" /></a></div><p>On your own steps. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zSyUeuRX5kk/X_fpMsg1gII/AAAAAAABbSg/ovxwYJQ8sjsuheFcSzV_atmqN3PfbJz1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkActs1631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zSyUeuRX5kk/X_fpMsg1gII/AAAAAAABbSg/ovxwYJQ8sjsuheFcSzV_atmqN3PfbJz1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkActs1631.jpg" /></a></div><p>Or the street corner.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aivdFB1PX8o/X_fpdWCfPBI/AAAAAAABbSs/hX8aCSla-Lg8oeOKj6CZcWdVzePyZz9_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkOurHolocaust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aivdFB1PX8o/X_fpdWCfPBI/AAAAAAABbSs/hX8aCSla-Lg8oeOKj6CZcWdVzePyZz9_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkOurHolocaust.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0n-v1BefvM/X_fpdfQVVRI/AAAAAAABbSo/WNVYy-2ClCwEQaUgZyMKtLzKuIFIHCZpACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalksidewalkGospel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0n-v1BefvM/X_fpdfQVVRI/AAAAAAABbSo/WNVYy-2ClCwEQaUgZyMKtLzKuIFIHCZpACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalksidewalkGospel.jpg" /></a></div><p>You might write a little.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lYciZR2KhK8/X_fp0XqklcI/AAAAAAABbS4/-ihIQy0IKLIW1CWURk6qHGk85RnwylgVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkBench.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lYciZR2KhK8/X_fp0XqklcI/AAAAAAABbS4/-ihIQy0IKLIW1CWURk6qHGk85RnwylgVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkBench.jpg" /></a></div><p>Or you might write a lot.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYqeIdGXcoA/X_fqDx9yu3I/AAAAAAABbTA/LH3IOjmbMUMBouBA1o8uegQNjRrZgNpgACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkDoMatters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYqeIdGXcoA/X_fqDx9yu3I/AAAAAAABbTA/LH3IOjmbMUMBouBA1o8uegQNjRrZgNpgACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkDoMatters.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0hczN6MC_E/X_fqD72FxYI/AAAAAAABbS8/Y_iavn3pxywrIkivz4hFCFlKSotHEzc0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkRomansRoad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0hczN6MC_E/X_fqD72FxYI/AAAAAAABbS8/Y_iavn3pxywrIkivz4hFCFlKSotHEzc0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkRomansRoad.jpg" /></a></div><p>You may simply leave a Web site for someone to look up.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PlTTZQDDFns/X_fqahSeNlI/AAAAAAABbTQ/Xwh2S7eI_ZUzXPAFURDl7Z-Uzxnuwz0UgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkWebsite.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PlTTZQDDFns/X_fqahSeNlI/AAAAAAABbTQ/Xwh2S7eI_ZUzXPAFURDl7Z-Uzxnuwz0UgCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/TruthChalkWebsite.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7zMatIXQYfc/X_fqlSkgH0I/AAAAAAABbTU/ymhuveDvpcYLT7sUxX9abkLgnDJ944GpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkFTS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7zMatIXQYfc/X_fqlSkgH0I/AAAAAAABbTU/ymhuveDvpcYLT7sUxX9abkLgnDJ944GpwCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/TruthChalkFTS.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p>Or you may just put down a symbol to stir curiosity, so that people have to seek out for themselves what it means.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AGvaCjtFdec/X_fq4Jcap5I/AAAAAAABbTc/57lsDVLp6PEj6H1MSD6AZjnXd4P2p4k1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkAbolition.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="226" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AGvaCjtFdec/X_fq4Jcap5I/AAAAAAABbTc/57lsDVLp6PEj6H1MSD6AZjnXd4P2p4k1QCLcBGAsYHQ/w170-h226/TruthChalkAbolition.jpg" width="170" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvfuSBzyic0/X_frHagv3kI/AAAAAAABbTg/TfcWJE84VO8CAoNIj4MLUJMHuPQ3GaidgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkTrash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="220" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvfuSBzyic0/X_frHagv3kI/AAAAAAABbTg/TfcWJE84VO8CAoNIj4MLUJMHuPQ3GaidgCLcBGAsYHQ/w166-h220/TruthChalkTrash.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><p>Later, you just might see people reading what you wrote. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lMY5T8CpeOQ/X_fsMrXwBlI/AAAAAAABbT8/ia_vm1Jo1MQLSDQ8u9lO3SVbIGCj23BFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMore.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lMY5T8CpeOQ/X_fsMrXwBlI/AAAAAAABbT8/ia_vm1Jo1MQLSDQ8u9lO3SVbIGCj23BFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMore.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1KII5bMXcjs/X_fsMo-jy-I/AAAAAAABbT4/3Vjn4lViI3gkwkMNt7Dx13dfuL--NXqowCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMoreLook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1KII5bMXcjs/X_fsMo-jy-I/AAAAAAABbT4/3Vjn4lViI3gkwkMNt7Dx13dfuL--NXqowCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMoreLook.jpg" /></a></div><p>If they are trying to wash it away, that can be a sign of conviction. It's doing its job.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may come back later and find that someone responded, and you can add more.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUqJCR6QqBw/X_frrHBdjeI/AAAAAAABbTs/ElLHur1NKU4kOsQkmzWuJBqZUHAc84YGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkGasConversation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUqJCR6QqBw/X_frrHBdjeI/AAAAAAABbTs/ElLHur1NKU4kOsQkmzWuJBqZUHAc84YGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkGasConversation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Who could be encouraged, convicted, challenged? Only the Lord knows.</p><p>Why not sow some seed today and trust Jesus for fruit?</p><p>And of course, it also can be done at most abortion mills, right at the gates of death.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZIbqiW7YlXg/X_fxz8q1oNI/AAAAAAABbVA/bT64da2o0o40gVQIkAv_UixbzzNHHRIUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZIbqiW7YlXg/X_fxz8q1oNI/AAAAAAABbVA/bT64da2o0o40gVQIkAv_UixbzzNHHRIUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ma2H-U_p6qQ/X_fxzjfd0jI/AAAAAAABbU4/WMqxv9VKIi4bdjNwISTOwzXFot_sZYs5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ma2H-U_p6qQ/X_fxzjfd0jI/AAAAAAABbU4/WMqxv9VKIi4bdjNwISTOwzXFot_sZYs5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjW6aqYfbF0/X_fxzk3_RrI/AAAAAAABbU0/mBeZOXb8FHgYNXIFTHba5wi67h3x448RwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjW6aqYfbF0/X_fxzk3_RrI/AAAAAAABbU0/mBeZOXb8FHgYNXIFTHba5wi67h3x448RwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWPNFW5DfBo/X_fxznqmU-I/AAAAAAABbU8/1rbubU5f5loUU7nm238fZ2wKDS_JMJSogCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWPNFW5DfBo/X_fxznqmU-I/AAAAAAABbU8/1rbubU5f5loUU7nm238fZ2wKDS_JMJSogCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghYF8-EBiZk/X_fx0Vn2ghI/AAAAAAABbVE/AtJi2bTYUqcf3mcE2VN1Qj_YN1jZQ3dbACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghYF8-EBiZk/X_fx0Vn2ghI/AAAAAAABbVE/AtJi2bTYUqcf3mcE2VN1Qj_YN1jZQ3dbACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill5.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5K2mGZfN9E4/X_fx08NApMI/AAAAAAABbVI/Rc_MpEs2MB8qGU8meLwSN3wC7bRcI7H8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5K2mGZfN9E4/X_fx08NApMI/AAAAAAABbVI/Rc_MpEs2MB8qGU8meLwSN3wC7bRcI7H8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BTmo5lrDjxk/X_fx1Rnz_gI/AAAAAAABbVM/-M1V6cvzseIKCShWkQU4qUOyVP0W8r7KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BTmo5lrDjxk/X_fx1Rnz_gI/AAAAAAABbVM/-M1V6cvzseIKCShWkQU4qUOyVP0W8r7KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill7.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18CHFWq9Xxk/X_fx11cbRuI/AAAAAAABbVQ/guGLI3G15zkimBdF2_39MKQ87FtatKTTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18CHFWq9Xxk/X_fx11cbRuI/AAAAAAABbVQ/guGLI3G15zkimBdF2_39MKQ87FtatKTTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill9.jpg" /></a></div><p><b>Abolitionists call it by various names:</b></p><p>#TruthChalk</p><p>#PavementPreaching</p><p>#SidechalkCounseling</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>That's what I am chalking about.</b></p><p>It doesn't have to take long to do.</p><p>It is not vandalism. It washed away easily, so will last till the next rain, or bucket of water, or sprinkler cycle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zLgPNOG1GN8/X_fw-McP5mI/AAAAAAABbUc/gNCK1gyhnUsLWZidOKDb92zFXY9LG1wQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkWet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zLgPNOG1GN8/X_fw-McP5mI/AAAAAAABbUc/gNCK1gyhnUsLWZidOKDb92zFXY9LG1wQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkWet.jpg" /></a></div><p>It certainly doesn't cost much. Sidewalk chalk is inexpensive.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5fio5_0enA/X_fxINyDFkI/AAAAAAABbUg/HAMjAcAlVoEZF-UbyW_cScKoBRRfKgR8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkMill8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5fio5_0enA/X_fxINyDFkI/AAAAAAABbUg/HAMjAcAlVoEZF-UbyW_cScKoBRRfKgR8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkMill8.jpg" /></a></div><p>It is so easy that even grown ups can do it! An individual, a family, or a group of youths, or a church, can take this and run with it, sharing truth with their society wherever they go.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2mxi-8Lo2Y/X_fxfRmMPJI/AAAAAAABbUs/f7k6Eg7ndq0vtLZfROD7rN09IBmrTXsdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/TruthChalkChildren.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2mxi-8Lo2Y/X_fxfRmMPJI/AAAAAAABbUs/f7k6Eg7ndq0vtLZfROD7rN09IBmrTXsdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TruthChalkChildren.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>So #WritewhatsRight.</p><p>Abortion must be abolished.</p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-20781627327914206642020-09-15T20:53:00.015-07:002020-09-17T06:01:38.902-07:00"You Aren't Doing It Right."<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It just so happens that occasionally when a follower of Jesus Christ is evangelizing in the public square, another Christian will approach him. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of course, one may assume that the newly arriving believer is there </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to stand in solidarity with a brother, and help hold another sign, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">to hand out Gospel tracts,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">take a turn proclaiming truth to the hearers, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">or maybe just stand nearby to lift up the engagement in prayer support. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Or that at least that they will say, "Amen!" or "So grateful to see you out here for the Gospel!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, that is not nearly as common as you might think! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most often, they approach with the statement: "You are not doing it the right way."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I personally endeavor, when in such a situation, to listen before I speak. I know that it is good to be patient and humble when dealing with a brother or sister in Christ, even when they are communicating criticism. Criticism can be constructive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">But sadly, most often their advice does not contain good instruction or biblical directives, merely personal opinion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I have found that they most likely do not have experience in open air evangelism or abortion mill ministry themselves, but they are certain that what I am doing should be </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">done another way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A way that is not so bold, not so offensive, not so loud. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Below are several of their objections, and Scriptural foundation for why we do what we do. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I.</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Objection:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Loudly preaching in the city streets is never effective<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span>open air prea</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ching is not a productive way to communicate truth."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Scriptural foundation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 1:20 </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">"Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:"</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 1:21 "</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words..."</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 8:1 <i>"Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 8:2<i> "She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 8:3<i> "She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors."</i></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;">II.</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Obection:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Jesus had one on one conversations with people<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span>He was personal! He did not, nor would not, condone street preaching. [Sadly, this statement reveals a shocking lack of knowledge of what Jesus actually did.] </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Scriptural Foundation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">As we read the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), we find that during Jesus' time here on Earth, He spent a huge portion of His ministry preaching to multitudes, which included places like the sea shores, mountainsides, streets in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">towns and cities (all open air). Jesus went where the people were. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mark 5:21 <i>"And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">John 6:3 "<i>And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples...</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him..."</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rom 10:14-15 "<i>How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;"> And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Luke 14:23<i> "And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Fact check: </i>My street preaching has lead to many one on one conversations, as well as ongoing discipleship.</span></p><p><i style="font-family: georgia;">Reality check:</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Jesus preached more in the public square than most Christian pastors or Bible teachers do today. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>III.</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Objection:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Calling out to people sounds like you are yelling at them</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">yo</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">u are turning them off by your manner. </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">And</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> holding pictures of aborted babies (at the places that are killing babies) will only repel a mother from coming to talk with you</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">she needs your compassion, not your condemnation."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Scriptural foundation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezekiel 33:8-9 <i>"When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."</i></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezekiel 7:23, 22:2 "<i>Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations."</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proverbs 31:8-9 <i>"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is sad that many believers, when exposed to street ministry, will boldly state in passing (or in outright condemnation on the ministry), "You are doing it all wrong!" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">They assert that <i>anything we do</i> that might "feel" fanatical or uncomfortable to them must be ineffective and unloving. That opinion is based solely on a humanistic worldview and exposes their wrong thinking. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I remember one such man who was concerned with my manner of ministry specifically outside of the abortion mill. He </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">urged me to "follow Isaiah 58" instead of what I was doing (which happened to be calling out to women with truth and the gospel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">offering them help and hope in Christ, and our families willingness to assist them in their time of need).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Isaiah 58 gives directives for believers to fast and pray in order to loose the bands of the oppressed, brake every yoke of those burdened with sin, to give bread to the hungry, and to bring the poor into our own homes (important parts of loving our neighbor as we love ourselves)</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">b</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ut the very first verse of Isaiah 58 tells the reader exactly how God desires His word to be proclaimed.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I quickly turned in my Bible and read out loud the very beginning of the passage to that man, </span></p><p><i style="font-family: georgia;">"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins" (Isaiah 58:1).</i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I then turned to him and stated, "Brother, I appreciate your exhortation<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span>but that is exactly what I am doing."</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fy7wgaqcWc0/X2GJz8cNybI/AAAAAAABN0w/a4r5DXAqzQYcenhKybUFOzJLEG5ryRU3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s373/voice%2Btrumpet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="280" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fy7wgaqcWc0/X2GJz8cNybI/AAAAAAABN0w/a4r5DXAqzQYcenhKybUFOzJLEG5ryRU3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/voice%2Btrumpet.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZjF9y8vaek/X2GJ1rs52MI/AAAAAAABN00/6I0R9EA6x48psE6RyiGHkdI6JtCH9JFQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s373/apathy%2Bdeath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="280" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZjF9y8vaek/X2GJ1rs52MI/AAAAAAABN00/6I0R9EA6x48psE6RyiGHkdI6JtCH9JFQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/apathy%2Bdeath.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most Christians who react to the public proclamation of the Gospel (outside of some scheduled respectable church service) as to being loud or too forthright or lacking a personal touch, have actually never engaged in such a discipline themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The following is a line of dialogue that I have experienced on many occasions: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(<b>A.</b> approaching Christian <b>B.</b> Bible preaching Christian)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>A.</b> "I don't think you should evangelize the lost this way."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>B.</b> "Oh? I</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">f there is a B</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">iblical way to do it better, I would be grateful to learn. Could you share with me how YOU evangelize the lost?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>A. </b>"Um, I don't really, haven't ever, well, I don't actually go out to evangelize the lost..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>B.</b> "Then I must say that I think the way that <i>I am doing it</i> is better than the way that you <i>are NOT doing it</i>."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let's get busy with the work of Evangelism, Church. It is our duty! Work for the night is coming.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion must be abolished.</span></p>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-20489642926239529112020-08-06T19:45:00.006-07:002021-04-11T04:21:36.949-07:00About the Middle Finger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I6p69KfYGFQ/XzauGIQsJAI/AAAAAAABMwE/uXNbCC_wHtY502EbmCNBgFwS3bJ3rz04QCLcBGAsYHQ/s612/hand%2B1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="612" height="199" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I6p69KfYGFQ/XzauGIQsJAI/AAAAAAABMwE/uXNbCC_wHtY502EbmCNBgFwS3bJ3rz04QCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h199/hand%2B1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The following may be a "handy" reminder for Christians who engage in the public square:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those who stand for the Gospel publicly <i>and </i>who speak out against child sacrifice (the sin of abortion) in our culture will often encounter people who do not appreciate the light being shone into their darkness.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whether they are walking into the murder mill or they are simply driving by, there seems to be a common response<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>the middle finger.<br />
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Somehow our society has attributed this gesture as a way to curse and speak in a vulgar way without words.<br />
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It is easy as a human to be downcast, or downright angry, when someone arrogantly lifts their middle finger at you. Many Christians are alarmed or offended<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>discouraged, or indignant.<br /><br />
I would submit, however, that there are certain things we can <i>and should</i> remember when encountering this perverted form of opposition from those who hate God.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Stop and Remember...</b><br />
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Remember</b> that the curse causeless shall not come</u>. [Proverbs 26:2]<br />
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Remember</b> to bless those that curse you</u>. [Matthew 5:4; Luke 6:28; Romans 12:14,17-21]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Do not be afraid to wave at those who seek to curse you. I have seen it dismay the receiver, on a number of levels. First, it is completely counter intuitive to human nature and confuses those with blasphemy in their hearts. Secondly, it shows that they cannot rile us. Our response can cause coals of fire on their heads<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>they will have to wrestle with the fact that we responded more civilly and more loving than they, although the narrative they believe makes Christians the "haters". And thirdly, I have seen instances in which they have been confounded in their plan, and have believed that we thought they were supporting what we were doing (and who wouldn't?).</span></div><div>
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Remember</b> to rejoice</u>. [Matthew 5:10-12; II Timothy 3:12]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are commanded in Scripture to rejoice and be exceeding glad at any persecution that comes. God has promised that those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer. And <i>really</i>, I would have to say that getting a finger thrown in our face is <u>the lowest level of persecution</u> we could receive. God says, blessed are the persecuted, the reviled, and the evil spoken of for His sake.<br /><br /><u><b>
Remember</b> that only fools make a mock at sin</u>. [Proverbs 14:9]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><u><b>
Remember</b> that this could be a sign of the Holy Spirit's conviction.</u> I am always grateful for indicators that the Lord is working in the hearts of men. I’d rather see some type of reaction than none at all.<br /><br /><u><b>
Remember</b> that a finger is not an argument</u>, (the finger is just an appendage of the hand, which you cannot extend but for the grace of God), and if someone has to resort to a gesture instead of giving a reasoned response they are evincing that they have lost the debate.</span></div><div>
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One thing that always comes to mind when I see someone show me the middle finger when I’m calling out to them on behalf of children in the womb, is that at least they are <i>doing something</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most Christians won’t even lift a finger to stand against murder by abortion so rampant in our land.<br /><br />And there is a question.<br /><br />It is worth asking.<br /><br />The question is, what are YOU doing to bring the Gospel into conflict with abortion? What are YOU doing to love your preborn neighbor in word and deed and truth (engaging for equal protection under the law in a day when the culture at large, including the ProLife leadership and legislators<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>and the church at large<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span>are allowing the abomination of child sacrifice to continue under "color of law")?<br /><br />Need ideas? Contact me.<br /><br />
Abortion must be abolished.</span><br /></div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-69755513715787497562020-08-06T19:10:00.010-07:002020-08-20T06:12:35.690-07:00Worse Than Coronavirus<div><font face="">Millions of Americans are worried about the COVID-19. Our culture, economy, and every other aspect of life has been impacted by this virus. It is being pushed to our attention just about anywhere we look.</font></div><div><font face=""> </font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qd18Kyo4hQw/Xys3LoEUVpI/AAAAAAABLcQ/9B8-Y0noTV4yOFZuVJIm7p9p_TPX6nxfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s327/coronavirus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="327" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qd18Kyo4hQw/Xys3LoEUVpI/AAAAAAABLcQ/9B8-Y0noTV4yOFZuVJIm7p9p_TPX6nxfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/coronavirus.jpg" /></a></div></div><div><font face=""><br /></font></div>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">COVID-19 is real.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div>And COVID-19 is a real concern for many people. </div></span><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It certainly has caused sickness, suffering, and death.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lockdowns and edicts have been put in place--every extreme and minor measure has been taken by medical authorities and political leaders to </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">stop it</b><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">! It h</span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as taken precedence in our nation and our homes through the media. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">However, there is another malady in our midst. It is not only more sinister than the dreaded Covid, it is pure evil.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is also a <i>real concern</i> for many people (over 3000 a day--every day of every month--to be exact). It causes great suffering...but most assuredly always causes death. It has slain millions for decades and yet has <i>not </i>taken precedence in our nation or in our homes, and most certainly <i>not </i>in the media. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And in the face of such horrific numbers and documented statistics, our medical community or our political community have done nothing to<b> stop it</b>! </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">If you have not already guessed it, the evil to which I am referring is the sanctioned practice of child sacrifice! And here I would like to point out a few comparisons when considering a threat to our nation.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Although the danger of COVID-19 is</span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">constantly</b><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">kept before the public eye. </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The deathtoll from the intentional murder by abortion is ignored.</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span face="">As of August 4, the deaths in the United States caused by COVID-19 tallied 156,549. </span>The U.S. deathtoll on August 4 itself was 1,392. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Looking at the news coverage one would think that the Coronavirus is the greatest danger facing our country at this time, when in fact that is far from the truth. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Deaths caused by a disease are most certainly t</span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ragic, but the death statistics of COVID-19 cannot be compared to death caused by abortion. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There are (at least) 120 deaths that occur by the act of abortion every single hour (of every single day) statistically in our nation alone. </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How many deaths were recorded by abortion from just May and June of 2020? </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">More than 180,000! Over 180,000 little girls and boys betrayed by their parents and systematically destroyed in our own neighborhoods and in our own counties without one news report. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><font face="">Two months of abortion deaths surpassed the COVID-19 deaths of seven months! Let that statement sink in.</font></div><div><font face=""><br /></font></div><div><span face="">And <b>over 3,000 more</b> will be added to the abortion death count <u>every single day</u> going forward.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What I desire to point out in this blog post is the utter mockery our nation has made of justice and mercy. To call on every citizen to love their neighbors by staying inside or wearing a mask so as to keep each other safe from possibly getting a virus but ignore our littlest neighbor being purposely targeted for death--rather, exploiting and profiting from their murder--is unfathomable. </span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The reasoning behind keeping abortion "safe and legal" is the </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">OPPOSITE</b><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> reasoning given for quarantine, the practice of social distancing, or the wearing of face masks. <i>And yet</i> those who desire to see the evil of abortion alive and well do so under the false pretense that they <i>care for humanity</i>. Standing for abortion rights (or doing nothing in one's power to stop abortion) is a human rights hypocrisy. For a community to do all it can to keep itself and others safe, especially the elderly and those with weaker immune systems while at the same time allowing citizens to target the most vulnerable </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on purpose</i><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> is unspeakable. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And it is worth noting that, as Politifact states openly, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Abortion is an elective procedure, not a contagious ill</span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ness."</span></b><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Humans incidentally dying by a virus in the teeth of our exertions is a <b>tragedy</b>.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Humans being intentionally murdered with government and societal cooperation under "color" of law is a <b>travesty</b>--and an heinous <b>treachery</b>. </span><br />
<span face=""><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let me expand on that last statement:</span></span></div><div><font face="">Abortion (child sacrifice) is an abomination</font></div><div><font face=""><b>PROTECTED</b> by government,</font></div><div><font face=""><b>PROMOTED</b> by society,</font></div><div><font face=""><b>PROCURED</b> by parents,</font></div><div><font face=""><b>PRACTICED</b> by the medical community, and </font></div><div><font face=""><b>PERMITTED</b> by the church.</font></div><div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Did I just write, "Permitted by the church"? </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Yes I did! As </font><span style="font-family: georgia;">Francis Schaeffer wisely pointed out, "Every abortion mill should have a sign over the door that reads: </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Open by Permission of the Church</b><span style="font-family: georgia;">." We are allowing child sacrifice to thrive just down the street from our places of worship while we live at peace with its existence. Christians may not <i>like </i>abortion<i>,</i> but we have learned to accept and tolerate it. This makes God's people complicit to the evil of our day.</span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We have been taught to be ProLife, but not Biblically consistent in our dealings with the murder of the innocent. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia">Millions of ProLife Christians have done little to nothing to Biblically and practically seek equal protection </font><span style="font-family: georgia;">for the preborn. They have been taught to think it is wrong but not taught what it means to obey </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">specific commands that follow their sentiment.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Millions of ProLife Christians are not demanding that their leaders establish equal justice by abolishing abortion as the murder that it is.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Millions of ProLife Christians have never once stood on the sidewalk outside an abortion mill to preach the Gospel and plead for the lives of the least of these. </span></div><div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Multitudes of conservative, Bible believing Christians will say that abortion is murder, but won't treat it as the murder that it is. (Just consider for a moment what the Church's response might be if the murder of 3 year old's became legal and protected fully under the law?) Is it more important to earn money, play a round of golf, enjoy a church potluck,or practice hospitality in the home with other believers than it is to take a few hours in your life to be a voice for the voiceless--to plead with our legislatures to protect every human no matter their size of location, or to go where they are being murdered and plead for their very lives to be spared?</font></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Consider:<br /><br /></span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The number of the deathtoll from COVID-19 is grievous, the deathtoll from abortion is far greater.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The deaths from the virus are incidental, the deaths from abortion are intentional.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is well over a 90% recovery rate for those get sick from COVID-19, but if you are aborted, there is no chance of survival.</span></li></ol></div><div><font face="georgia">Finally, i</font><span style="font-family: georgia;">t is wise to remember that God is watching. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Psalm 106:37-40</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">37 <i>"Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,"</i></span></div><div><span><font face=""><div>38 <i>"And <b>shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters</b>, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood."</i></div><div>39 <i>"Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions."</i></div><div>40 <i>"Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance."</i></div></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people"</i> (Proverbs 14:34).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">The Almighty God judged His own people for their shedding the blood of </span><span face="">their children in human sacrifice. How shall we escape, who have slain many, many more than they, and much else besides? </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">After the persistent massacre of over 60 million fatherless children in the face of God, whatever tragically happens to our nation is far less than what we deserve.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Thou God seest me."</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let us repent, and beseech His mercy in the midst of wrath (Habakkuk 3:2).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><font face="">Lest we receive a judgment </font><b>Worse Than </b><font face=""><b>Coronavirus</b>.</font><br /></span>
<span face=""><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abortion must be abolished.<br /></span><br /></div></div></div></div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-78354065046118028372020-08-05T13:51:00.008-07:002020-08-20T06:21:52.960-07:00Headline: Captain Quarters Now Made Safe on Slave Ships<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4-DIJBtSL3c/XysZ-YR9CMI/AAAAAAABLX4/Ta61ILJDxb4iYGio_TQvSuZBMmk91Q94gCLcBGAsYHQ/s269/SlaveshipDiagram.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4-DIJBtSL3c/XysZ-YR9CMI/AAAAAAABLX4/Ta61ILJDxb4iYGio_TQvSuZBMmk91Q94gCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/SlaveshipDiagram.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia">I have heard some ProLife people justify making laws to ensure that abortion mills are cleaner and safer for women, by citing those who worked to require slave ships be more comfortable and healthy for the slaves (so that they would more likely survive their overseas voyage) in the past as their example. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><b>This "likening" is error on a number of levels:</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">1. This type of regulatory law in our day is treating murder like healthcare. That is deceitful. Legislation that requires making buildings "look" more respectable and safer mollifies the conscience of parents--it helps them along in excusing what they are doing and in making their vain arguments seem substantive. We are not to lie. Murder should not be made safe (it cannot be made safe <i>because it is not safe</i>) nor respectable to society. I have dealt with this in other posts. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">The ProM</font><span style="font-family: georgia;">urder crowd insists that abortion is healthcare. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The ProLife establishment declares that it isn't, and yet persists in treating it like healthcare.</span></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Christians need to stand for truth in word and deed.</font></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia">2. One plausible justification for requiring that the slaves' holding areas on ships be made safer would be that once they docked and were purchased they may survive to possibly be freed, to risk escape (and many did), or be eventually be emancipated. Slaves often <i>were </i>worked to their death or executed unrighteously, but being a slave did not automatically mean death. <b>Abortion does not enslave. Abortion slays outright.</b> Slavery and abortion are not the same thing. Therefore this parallel is erroneous. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Comparing both <i>regulatory logic </i>does not compute:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">One is saying, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Help the slaves not die while they are on the way to be slaves."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><font face="georgia">The other is saying, "Help those murdering their children not die while murdering their children."</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Do you see the disconnect? One is helping the victim, the other is helping the perpetrator. Do you see the lack of both justice and mercy? What those specific ProLife regulatory laws are actually saying is, "Help the babies not die while they are being murdered." </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">And the reasoning would be comical if it wasn't evil.</font></div><div><font face="georgia"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia">3. And so, the only way we could make these ProLife regulations an actual parallel, would be if the abolitionists in the past were seeking laws to require that the cabin space for the Captain/Slave Traders be made more commodious and safe, <i>not </i>the quarters for the slaves themselves. Oh, the horror. The "health and sanitary" regulations for abortion centers today are not to keep the babies safe. It is to help the mothers who are hiring the assassin. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">I am going to say it again.</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">In the act of abortion, the <i>victims are the babies in the womb</i>, not the mothers. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">The mothers are the ones seeking out the slaughter of their son or daughter. To get hurt yourself while slaying an innocent person is a risk the murderer has always been willing to take. There are prisons full of convicts who were both physically and emotionally wounded by committing the act of murder. But they are still guilty of that act, and we would scoff at setting up "safe killing stations" for those who feel the necessity to murder another human. Instead we prosecute and punish the murderer in order to enact justice for the slain and to show society what is acceptable and what is not. </font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Inequity is iniquity.</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><font face="georgia">Abortion is murder and must be abolished.</font>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046161436010693000.post-30638632179848436822020-07-02T01:19:00.004-07:002020-08-20T11:23:08.912-07:00SHOCK! The U.S. Supreme Court Did Not Give Women the Right to Have Abortions?<div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><img alt="Supreme Court rules on Roe vs. Wade in 1973 - New York Daily News" 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/></span></div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div>We have been lied to, folks.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The U.S. Supreme Court did <i>not </i>give women the right to have abortions!</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The pro-choice activists have sidestepped the issue and boldly claim that a woman has a <i>constitutional right </i>to end an unwanted pregnancy. And sadly, many in the pro-life political establishment also believe a woman's right to an abortion is constitutional. However this is ignoring a glaring fact.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The fact: The Supreme Court cannot make laws. In 1973, the "right" to kill a preborn child was a perverted opinion impudently made by a panel of judges--and that is all. </span><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Abortion is <b>MURDER</b>. And murder is unconstitutional (making the Roe v. Wade null), no matter your size, stage of development, or location. Abortion is not something a woman chooses to do to her own body. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It is a woman making the decision <b>to kill another person's body</b>.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">No court has the jurisdiction to give someone the right to murder an innocent person. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">You may not like your neighbor, but <i>no matter how inconvenient it is to have him live next door</i> you </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">have no right to shoot him to death (the same is true of your child who lives in your house and eats all your food). </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There is never a good reason to commit murder. No matter how desperate the situation--deciding to kill an innocent human being is will never be the right choice. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">So let us be reasonable. </span><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Destroy misinformation.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ignore Roe and defy tyrants.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Establish equal justice for all people.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Abortion is not a Right.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Abortion is a Wrong.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>"It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law"</i> (Psalm 119:126).</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Abortion must be abolished.</span><br />
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</div></div></div></div>Kevan Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055555130523387588noreply@blogger.com1