Because "His Precepts are Right", Call for JUSTICE and Plead for TRUTH

Psalm 119:128 “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right: and I hate every false way.”

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.  I don’t want you to do that either.  But 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.  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”.  

JUSTICE - God is JUST.  He is a JUST God and a Saviour.  In Him, there is no respect of persons.

Exodus 23:2-3,6-8

:2 “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:”

:3 “Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.”

:6 “Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”

:7 “Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.”

James 2:4,8 “Are ye not then partial 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 have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.”

Partiality in protecting people from murder is transgressing God’s true justice. Inequity is Iniquity.

Jesus said “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24).

Equity and Justice must be established.  Equal justice under the law.

TRUTH – God is TRUTH.  He cannot lie.

Also in Exodus 23:1 “Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”  Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Truth telling.  True treatment.  Treat the preborn like who they are.  Treat abortion like what it is. When the ProLife Movement regulates abortion, they are treating it like what the proaborts say it is: “Healthcare”.  They are not telling the truth.  Abortion is Homicide.  In the list of things that God hates in Proverbs 6, “hands that shed innocent blood” (v.17) is found, but lying is found twice: 2) “a lying tongue” and 6) “a false witness that speaketh lies.” Jeremiah 9:3 tells about the wicked, that “they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth;” Should we not then “be valiant for the truth” ourselves? Therefore, because His precepts are right, we must demand Equal Justice and Truth, and reject Partiality and Falsehood.

Isaiah 59 speaks of a culture of violence and vanity, in which people’s “feet run to do evil”, and “shed innocent blood” (verse 7).  Verse 8 says, “Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity [going their own way], and “wasting and destruction are in their paths.”  “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man: but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 16:25).

It is described as a day when the vulnerable and the innocent are not being protected from violence. Verse 14 “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.”

In such a day, one of God’s declarations in verse 4 was that “none calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth;” instead they trust in vain strategies, and iniquitous measures.  They hatch all sorts of plans, and then call on God, petitioning Him to bless their efforts.  They are choosing their own way too, in opposition of the evil.

What is the LORD’s response? 

Isa 59:1-3 “Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”

Isaiah 59:3 “For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity…”

How can the ones against the bloodshed, have blood on their hands? 

A. By being complicit in the murder.  “Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed...” (Ezekiel 22:4).

B. By being either complacent or cowardly in the midst of the murder, silent, absent, and negligent, not seeking to warn the wicked, nor speak for the weak. Ezekiel 33:8 “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.”

C. By compromising with the crime, in making and supporting bills regulating how to commit the murder.  Psalm 94:20 “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?”  Isaiah 10:1-2 “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!”  In the New Testament, Paul spoke of lifting holy hands up in prayer.  Bloody hands all over the country,

When the LORD God says, “WOE”, it is wise for people to say, “Whoa…” and consider our ways. 

What is God’s charge to those in authority? ESTABLISH TRUE JUSTICE.

Jeremiah 22:3 “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.”

What is God’s charge to you and me as His people?   To love in TRUTH and live according to JUSTICE.

To love our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.  To love our neighbor as ourself.  If I am not loving my preborn neighbor, the least of these, how am I loving my God and Saviour, in Whose image they are made, and Who takes very personally how we treat the least of these?  We are commanded to love not just “in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth” (I John 3:18).  Unfeigned love.  I am sure that the priest and the Levite felt bad for the guy on the road, but Jesus didn’t equate that sympathy for love.  True love in I Corinthians 13, “rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.”  Thus, we cannot approve of ProLife laws that regulate abortion as if it is healthcare.   That is bearing false witness against our preborn neighbors and the God in whose image they are made.  We are also commanded to be “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4).  “Open thy mouth for the dumb…” (Proverbs 31:8-9).  For JUSTICE and TRUTH.

What if I was being dragged into that building to be killed?…sidewalks and society and statehouse.  Totally and immediately abolish. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

What can we do?

Engage!  Put the truth out where it can be seen and heard.  In the day when truth is fallen in the streets, take the truth to the streets and intersections!  Engage privately and publicly.  Spread the word!  Abortion must be abolished.

Evangelize Go to the abortion mills and elsewhere to Preach and Plead.  Call the lost to repent and believe the Gospel.

Expose the evil of our Holocaust, and the injustice of ProLife incremental regulatory strategy.

Expound the truth of God’s word concerning life in the womb, child sacrifice, justice and mercy.

Educate, Exhort, and Equip the church to take their role as salt and light in the midst of this Holocaust.

Enjoin the magistrates to establish equal protection under the law for the preborn.

Jeremiah 5:1 “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.”

It is imperative to press for bills that are both JUST and TRUE.  We need to be pressing our leaders to support these and move them forward, and REJECT all iniquitous bills.  Because they are contrary to God's precepts, we must refuse them as "false ways".

Don’t let Isaiah 59:4 describe YOU.  Call for JUSTICE.  Plead for TRUTH.

Because all God’s precepts concerning all things are right, 

ABORTION MUST BE ABOLISHED.