The King's Ambassador - Lyrics

These are words to song I wrote some years ago.  I was desiring to write something that would sound like a charge to Christians as ambassadors of the King, not only exhorting them to go and preach the Gospel, but also to give a brief description of the message to be proclaimed.

"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" (II Corinthians 5:20).
 
O, take your cloak. and here's the Scroll,
Now what ye waitin' for?
The King has chosen you to be
His ambassador!

The King is sending you,
Out to ev'ry land,
To tell the people living there
They've broken the King's command

They've rebelled against His word,
And followed the devil's lie.
Warn them of the punishment -
The soul that sins will die!

So, take your cloak. and here's the Scroll,
Now what ye waitin' for?
The King has chosen you to be
His ambassador!

But there is good new as well:
The Ruler loves them so
The Prince became redeemer when
To Calvary He did go

He gave His blood and died,
And in a grave was laid;
But on the third day, He rose again,
The ransom now is paid!

So, take your cloak. and here's the Scroll,
Now what ye waitin' for?
The King has chosen you to be
His ambassador!

So now what must they do,

To make the promise theirs?

To be forgiven of their sin,
Adopted as royal heirs?

Tell them to call on Christ, 

And on His name believe:

The King awaits to welcome them

He's ready to receive!

So, take your cloak. and here's the Scroll,
Now what ye waitin' for?
The King has chosen you to be
His ambassador!

Abortion must be abolished.

WAKE UP, MINNESOTA! The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than You Think!

Do you really understand the extent of the murders by abortion?

The horrific number of babies murdered in our nation is over three thousand babies EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I want to try to hit that number home by making Population Parallels using cities and towns in the "North Star" State.  

                                     

Picture in your mind, if you can, the intentional slaughter of every born person in the city of Pine City (population of 3,123) happening EVERY DAY!

Or the intentional slaughter of the combined citizens of 
Pillager (469), 
Motley (671), 
Pine River (944), 
Fifty Lakes (387), and Ironton (572) EVERY DAY.

Or the populations of Breezy Point (2,346) and Long Prairie (3,458) EVERY 2 DAYS!

The population of Thief River Falls (8,573) EVERY 3 DAYS!

The populations of Willmar (19,610) and Aitkin (2,165) EVERY WEEK!

The population of Stillwater (45,688) EVERY TWO WEEKS!

The population of Duluth (86,265) EVERY MONTH! 

Think of it—the current amount of children that are brutally sacrificed to the god of Self in our country is like having the populations of 

Winona (27,592), 

Mankato (39,309), 

Fergus Falls (13,138), 
Virginia (8,712), and 

Hallock (981)—all murdered in ONE MONTH.

And then the populations of 

Andover (30,598),

Stillwater (18,225),

Wadena (4,088),

Owatonna (25,599),

Detroit Lakes (8,569),

Nisswa (1,971),

Walker (941), and

Pequot Lakes (2,162) the NEXT MONTH.

Followed by the murder of the populations of 

Monticello (12,759),

Hibbing (16,361),
Bemidji (13,431), 
International Falls (6,424),
Mountain Lake (2,107), and 

Moorehead (38,065) the THIRD MONTH.

And the murder of the populations of 

Brainerd (13,590), 
Alexandria (11,070) and

Elk River (22,974), with

Albert Lea (18,016) and Faribault (23,352) thrown in the FOURTH MONTH.

If the first of those four months was January of this year, by the year's end there would still leave enough time to kill off the populations of 

Minneapolis (382,578), 

St Cloud (65,842), 

Buffalo (15,453), 

Plymouth (70,576),

Crosslake (2,141),
Fairmount (10,666),

Minnetonka (49,734),

Worthington (12,764),

Two Harbors (3,792),

and Rochester (106,769)!

And the NEXT YEAR, 

St. Paul (285,068),
Bloomington (82,893),
Crosby (2,836),
Brooklyn Park (75,781),
Hastings (22,172),
Eagan (64,206)
New Ulm (13,522),
Baxter (7,610),
and Maple Grove (61,567) would be totally gone BEFORE AUGUST.

If the murders of the preborn across our nation were actually murders of the born in the state of Minnesota, the ENTIRE STATE POPULATION (5,303,925 people) would be gone before 6 years had passed.  

The "North Star" State would be COMPLETELY empty.

And that is just the number of reported abortions.

Wake UP, citizens of MINNESOTA!!!  

The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than You Think.

If this seems horrific to you, imagine the indignation of the all knowing God of heaven, 

Who is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!

Who has made these precious babies in His image!

Who declares them to be His heritage and a blessing!

Who sees their slaughter in the secret places! 

Who hears the cry of their innocent blood!

Who commands US to open OUR mouths for those who have no voice, for those who are being slaughtered!

Who commands US to warn the wicked and rescue the weak!

Who will bring judgment to a people that allows the shedding of innocent blood to happen in their communities without seeking justice!

Leviticus 20:1-5

:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"

:2 "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones."

:3 "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name."

:4 "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:"

:5 "Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."

WAKE UP, MINNESOTA!  WAKE UP, CHURCH!

Let us NOT hide our eyes!

Let us NOT be silent NOR absent when they are being slain!

Let us plead for justice and call for truth!

May our communities awaken and repent of our apathy toward our culture of child sacrifice which is murdering our neighbors!

I lived in Minnesota for six years in my youth.  It gets mighty cold and the snow and ice makes for-
- beautiful and breathtaking landscapes.
- exciting sports: ice hockey, snowmobiling, ice fishing, and skiing. 
- just plain fun: like snow forts, snow men, snowball fights, and sledding.  
- a lot of work: snow shoveling, snow plowing, etc.

For three winters, I worked as a lift operator at a ski hill, and even did snowmaking.  I loved laboring in the snow and the ice, serving skiers and snowboarders.  The hard work, shoveling, and all, made me strong.  Physical snow and ice are to be expected in Minnesota.  It comes with the territory.

But it SHOULD NOT BE that the hearts of people in Minnesota are cold towards the plight of their neighbors in the womb who are being murdered!  Jesus said, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matthew 24:12).  When an individual or a society becomes so self absorbed and abounding in "going their own way", the care, compassion, and concern for the least of these will grow faint.  

Has that become true of you?  

Has your own selfishness and busyness with your own interests caused you to be absent from the engagement?  Silent when you should speak?  Negligent when you should obey God in loving your neighbor as yourself?  

Wake up, dear reader!  Thousands of our preborn neighbors are being slaughtered every day!  And we are content to go about our lives and agendas for the most part as though there is nothing wrong?  Are we satisfied to just vote every election for someone who says they will do "something" about abortion?

We need to wake up and bestir ourselves, and bring the heat of the word of God into conflict with the coldness of heart.  

"Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD"  (Jeremiah 23:29).  

                                               

It puts me in mind of the zeal of William Lloyd Garrison, and the fervent Christians, who like him, rose up as abolitionists in the days of slavery and called the culture to repent.  

Garrison wrote, 'I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice to melt." 

                                 

Be an abolitionist today.  An abolitionist of human abortion.  

Minnesotan Christian, if this post agitates your conscience, and you desire to do something practical and just to oppose the evil slaughter done to your preborn neighbors who are murdered at the rate of TWO EVERY MINUTE, then you can contact me for more information, for ways you can be salt and light, and seed with truth the culture that is at peace with child sacrifice.  I would love to get you connected with other abolitionists in your state as well!

You can read other posts I have written on this blogsite about abolition, and also go to Abolish Human Abortion and learn how to engage biblically for your preborn neighbors in a culture of death.  

To be clear, I am not calling on you to be more ProLife.  I am calling you to become an abolitionist yourself.

The church needs to rise and bring the Gospel into the engagement for lives and souls.

We have "MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT"!

Abortion must be abolished in Minnesota.  

(Using a 2010 census as source for population numbers http://www.togetherweteach.com/TWTIC/uscityinfo/23mn/mnpopr/23mnpr.htm) 

Friendship Evangelism

For decades now, there has been an overwhelming push among Christians for "Friendship Evangelism".

The basic idea is that it is best to first establish a relationship with an unsaved person before you share the Gospel with them.  The common reasoning being that if you take the time to build a friendship (to let the other person know you care) you will have earned the right to speak directly to them regarding spiritual matters!  This is in hopes that your life will have already reflected the truth and that your friend will want what you have once you share the Gospel with them.  In the meantime, don't talk directly about their sin or the payment for sin—doing so might offend.

Those who espouse this type of evangelism often look down on, or try to dissuade, Christians who preach in the open air or hand out tracts—being overt in sharing Christ boldly before they have made relationships is not very pragmatic.

When I was a young man my father became a minister to a small church in a rural community in Minnesota.  That summer, my family went to the county fair to hand out tracts and talk with people about the Gospel.  It was a precious time that I remember well—but later discovered that some folks at the church were not happy at what we were doing.  These individuals went to one of the other church leaders and complained that we were "ruining the church's silent witness" in the community.  Huh?  Yes.  That's what they said. 

Their SILENT WITNESS.

There have been many excellent writings exposing unBiblical aspects of "Friendship Evangelism"—it ignores the clear commands of Scripture and it takes the urgency of the need for Christ (the fact that we do not know when someone might die) and replaces it with apathy.  I am not going to address those specific errors in detail at this time as it has already been covered by others.

But I do want to share a few of my own thoughts to consider what it means to be a real friend to all those with whom you are in contact.

My Opening Statement:
If your soul purpose for building a friendship is to evangelize then sharing the Gospel with strangers and new acquaintances is one of the best ways to make friends.

I. "What will they think of me...if I keep it from them?"

If we don't let people know that we are saved and that we desire others to know and trust in Jesus Christ as well, but keep it purposefully hidden for months or even years, might not those same people wonder at the truth of our sincerity?  When we finally get around to talking about the Gospel, they may ponder— "Why were they keeping the best news in the universe from me for so long?  Why didn't they tell me sooner?"

I well remember the account of a Buddhist-turned-Christian convert in China, who asked Hudson Taylor how long his people in the British Empire had known of the Gospel.  Hudson replied that the English had known about the Gospel for hundreds of years.  The new Christian gasped, and exclaimed:  "Hundreds of years?! How can it be that your people knew the way of salvation for so long, and have only come to tell us in China about it so recently?"  Millions of his own people had died without Christ, and he could not fathom why someone had not come and told them sooner!

I know of other accounts similar to this recorded example, from different countries.  If this was the response of those who were living on the other side of the world, how much more for those who live on the other side of the street, and with whom you may have close acquaintance? 

And if they die before you are able to tell them of their need for Christ, consider the grave reality of what they will think when they are condemned to eternal torment in the lake of fire—"Why didn't my Christian friends warn me?!!"

II. "It will surely be easier once we get to know each other."

This statement is a myth! There is actually a great weight of testimony that demonstrates that it is more difficult to start sharing the Gospel with family and friends than with strangers and new acquaintances.  

We have to remember that no matter how awkward we feel, or how fearful we may be, our openness to share the good news of the Gospel is not what will offend another person.  They will most likely be refreshed with our honesty.  It is Christ and Him Crucified, He is the rock of offense—and He is the One that draws all men to Himself!  Why not start by letting any new friend or acquaintance know upfront that your faith is real and of utmost importance to you—as you build your friendship around common goals, hobbies, or your season of life bringing the Gospel into any conversation will be consistent with who you are.  What is more awkward then springing "Jesus" on a friend just out of the blue after weeks, months, and years of hanging out.  The truth be told, it rarely is done.  

III. What do true friends talk about?

One mark of a true friend is that they will talk with you about what is most important to them.  For instance, someone who loves sports is not going to hide this passion from those he gets together with.  He is going to talk about it.  It will come out in conversation—even if the other individual does not understand or care about the game.  His friends are extremely likely to know early on in their relationship which sport he is into most, what team is his favorite, how the draft pick went, and who won the game—and he will probably invite those same friends into his home to watch a game on TV. It is ridiculous to even consider that this person would wait for months or even years before talking about it.  

A true friend will tell you what they value.

To befriend a person in order to first establish a close enough relationship with them in order to then have finally earned the right to share your faith, says a lot about your faith!  If Jesus Christ is your life, if both He and what He has written is important to you, then to keep the Gospel to yourself is a dishonest approach in that relationship.  

And consider the fact that not only is Jesus supposed to be your life and Whom you are to love because of what He has personally done for you, as Christians we KNOW Jesus Christ is the ONLY HOPE of eternal life for all men!  Evangelism is not about sharing our own praise testimonies with unbelievers as much as it is about plainly laying out the truth of sin, the cure to that sin which is the way of salvation, and how one can go about finding this redemption!  Why would any believer keep the knowledge of the truth from friends who they know are in desperate danger of hellfire without it?  

Real friends will tell you the truth about what you need no matter how you respond, because a real friend cares more about you than they care about what you think of them.

Summation:
What most mean by friendship evangelism is not friendship nor evangelism.

Final Thought: 
Straightforward evangelism is being the truest kind of friend.

Abortion must be abolished

WAKE UP, OKLAHOMA! The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than You Think!

Do you really understand the extent of the murders by abortion?

The horrific number of babies murdered in our nation is over three thousand babies EVERY SINGLE DAY..

I want to try to hit that number home by making Population Parallels using cities and towns in the "Sooner" State.  

               

Picture in your mind, if you can, the intentional slaughter of every born person in the city of Roland (population of 3,169) happening EVERY DAY!

Or the intentional slaughter of the combined citizens of 

Vera (241), 
Kiowa (731), 
North Enid (860), 
Wanette (35o), and Covington (527) EVERY DAY.

The populations of Marlow (4,662) and Pond Creek (856) EVERY 2 DAYS!

The population of Clinton (9,033) EVERY 3 DAYS!

The populations of Seminole (7,488) and Miami (13,378) EVERY WEEK!

The population of Stillwater (45,688) EVERY TWO WEEKS!

The population of Edmond (81,405) EVERY MONTH! 

Think of it—the current amount of children that are brutally sacrificed to the god of Self in our country is like having the populations of 

Ponca City (25,387), 

Bartlesville (35,750), 

Guymon (11,442), 
Woodward (12,051), and 

Broken Bow (4,120)—all murdered in ONE MONTH.

And then the populations of 

Ada (16,810),

Moore (55,081),

Marlow (4,662),
Boise City (1,266), and

Noble (6,481) the NEXT MONTH.

Followed by the murder of the populations of 

Muskogee (39,223),

Elk City (11,693),
Yukon (22,709), and 

Tahlequah (15,753) the THIRD MONTH.

And the murder of the populations of 

Owasso (28,915), 
Choctaw (11,146) and

Ardmore (24,283), with

Poteau (8,520) and El Reno (16,749) thrown in the the FOURTH MONTH.

After only 4 months of such mass murder, by year's end it would still leave enough time to kill off the populations of 

Tulsa (391,906), 

Broken Arrow (98,850), 

Altus (19,813), 

Salpulpa (20,544)
and Norman (110,925)!

And the NEXT YEAR, 

Oklahoma City (579,999),
Lawton (96,867),
and Midwest City (54,371) would be totally gone BEFORE OCTOBER.

If the murders of the preborn across our nation were actually murders of the born in the state of Oklahoma, the ENTIRE STATE POPULATION (3,751,351 people) would be gone in 4 short years.  

The "Sooner" State would be COMPLETELY empty.

And that is just the number of reported abortions.

Wake UP, citizens of OKLAHOMA!!!  

The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than You Think.

If this seems horrific to you, imagine the indignation of the all knowing God of heaven, 

Who is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!

Who has made these precious babies in His image!

Who declares them to be His heritage and a blessing!

Who sees their slaughter in the secret places! 

Who hears the cry of their innocent blood!

Who commands US to open OUR mouths for those who have no voice, for those who are being slaughtered!

Who commands US to warn the wicked and rescue the weak!

Who will bring judgment to a people that allows the shedding of innocent blood to happen in their communities without seeking justice!

Leviticus 20:1-5

:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"

:2 "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones."

:3 "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name."

:4 "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:"

:5 "Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."

WAKE UP, OKLAHOMA!  WAKE UP, CHURCH!

Let us NOT hide our eyes!

Let us NOT be silent NOR absent when they are being slain!

Let us plead for justice and call for truth!

May our communities awaken and repent of our apathy toward culture of child sacrifice that is murdering our neighbors!

If this post agitates your conscience, and you desire to do something practical to oppose the evil slaughter done to your preborn neighbors who are murdered at the rate of TWO EVERY MINUTE, then you have an opportunity on the 26th of June, 2018, to vote for a man for governor who will seek to END THE SLAUGHTER of the perborn IN OKLAHOMA.
His name is Dan Fisher, and he is an abolitionist.  

The other candidates claim the moral opinion of "prolife"—but they are completely content with keeping baby murder legal and will continue to only regulate this evil as if it is healthcare.  Dan is the only candidate who has promised to move to abolish abortion as the murder that it is.  

Think of it...Oklahoma has the opportunity to restore equal protection for ALL their people Sooner than the rest of the states in the Union.  Oklahoma can set the example of justice and truth for the nation.

Please go right now to Dan Fisher's Website.  Look at his plan.  Vote for this man ASAP.

And then go to Abolish Human Abortion and learn how to engage biblically and justly for your preborn neighbors in a culture of sacrifice.  Become an abolitionist yourself.

The citizens of Oklahoma need to rise up and establish justice and equity,           no matter what the rest of the nation does. 

Abortion must be abolished.  

(Using a 2010 census as source for population numbers http://www.togetherweteach.com/TWTIC/uscityinfo/36ok/36ok.htm) 

What If?

What if there were no "Prolife Movement" legislative machine?

Perhaps I should back up for context...

I have written posts already on the Prolife Movement, including the problems of trying to incrementally trim and regulate abortion.  You can read them here.

It must be understood that Abolitionists call for justice and equity for the preborn child to be established.  It is of upmost importance that we point out the inequity of regulating abortion (which is a staple strategy of the Prolife movement) as if it were healthcare instead of the homicide of innocent and vulnerable human beings it actually is.  

Hundreds of Prolife bills have been put into law, federally and in various states, but NOT ONE of which treats abortion as the murder that it is.  This is appalling.  

Consider the words of the God and Judge of all:

"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" (Exodus 23:2-3, 6-7).

[To "wrest" here means to "put away, turn aside, pervert, overthrow, cast aside."  It carries the concept of wrestling away the just protection from those who need it.  It should be plain that God is against the subverting of justice and equity.]

These political moves and bills may claim to be saving some babies, but they are actually withholding equal justice from...

—those younger than 20 weeks,

—those younger than 15 weeks,

—those whose heart cannot yet be heard beating,

—those who are inconvenient,

—those whose fathers are criminals (rapists),

—those who may have health issues.

And the list goes on and on and on and on.

And yet people, well meaning Christian people—sincere Prolife people—are still following the crowd to turn away protection under law for the weakest and poorest among us.  Bible believing Christians are promoting, funding, voting for, and then cheering over the political victories that Prolife organizations and lobbyists are fighting for—those things that we should really be weeping and repenting over.

And we've been doing this for over 4o years.  Over a million are still murdered every year.  We are confident in our method and ask God to bless what in reality are really just wicked measures and iniquitous decrees.

There is danger in opposing evil in a manner that God calls evil.  When we compromise, we are collaborating with murder—complicit in the crime.

God told one such nation that allowed child sacrifice in their society while claiming piety,

"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;  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." 

"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" 
(Isaiah 1:15-18).

Notice that the Lord commands us to "Cease to do evil, Learn to do well". 

NOW, BACK TO THE FIRST QUESTION.

In response to the call of abolitionists, who point out the inequity of all this, some Prolifers have raised the question, "What if there was no Prolife Movement legislative machine?"
  
They ask and defend their stance with the reason that if we didn't have these bills, if we didn't regulate abortion and pass laws to save some, there would be NO PROTECTION AT ALL for babies in the womb.  "What would we have if we didn't have these organizations, lobbyists, and lawmakers pushing for such bills?"

—Well, we might have what France, Germany, Russia, and many other nations have.  Those  secular humanist governments only allow abortion up to 12 weeks.  

What fools we are to think that we are so conservative in all our laws and regulations!  

The preborn have more "protection" under those God hating governments than in the most Pro-life states in our land.

—We might have Christians actually repenting of their apathy and compromise and rising up to love their preborn neighbors themselves instead of trusting and paying someone else to do it for them.  

—We might have Christians going to the gates of death in droves, to stand and plead for lives and warning the wicked and rescuing the weak.  [Abortion mills across the country today are by and large operating with LITTLE OR NO Christians present on the sidewalk to plead for lives, preach the Gospel, and provide assistance assistance to those who will turn away.]

—We might have droves of Christians repenting and engaging with our society, in the church assembly, in the public square, in congress, and on social media bringing the Gospel into conflict with the culture of child sacrifice.  

—We might have God's people rising as an army pressing on, spreading the truth, seeding the land with literature, destroying misinformation, and declaring what God says about the holocaust, demanding the need for abolition.  

—We might have a flood of voters swelling with "a voice as strong as thunder", demanding the END OF ABORTION, the ABOLITION OF HUMAN ABORTION.  

The Lord knows.  

"Duty is ours.  Results are God's." 

Abortion must be abolished!

[Note: It should be recognized that there are and have been Christians in the Prolife Movement who have stood for righteousness, and true justice.  This post is concerning the movement as a whole, and specifically the strategy of regulating murder politically, legislatively, which has been naively adopted by MANY who have not thought through what "regulatory means" means, or have been trained to think that it is the best way.  Often even the staunchest of Prolife Christians, who have sought to protect and rescue our preborn neighbors for years, have been shocked to have found ourselves to have compromised in how we have allowed for this in lawmaking.  It is humbling.  We pray for eyes to be opened, for humility, and for repentance among our fellows.]

It Is Loving to Prosecute Murder

Question: After abortion becomes abolished as homicide, should women who still choose to hire someone to abort their children face any type of punishment?

Many Christian and Prolife leaders have protested that this would not be loving.

Many well-intentioned Christians would say that to make the mother prosecutable for the abortion of her son or daughter would be UNLOVING. 

However, it is the LOVE of Christ which constrains me to share the following. Please hang on with me as you read, for the truth's sake.  Here goes.

It will always be the most loving to treat murder as what it is—therefore, the abortionist and the mother who is are pursuing the murder of an innocent child should be prosecuted.  

One reason that empathy falls too heavy on the side of the mother for even those who seek justice for the preborn is largely due to women being broadly painted (by the prolife movement) as one of the victims in the abortion act.  But the fact is, no matter how they have be deceived, they know full well what they are doing.  Standing at the gates of death, I have seen and heard countless women who unashamedly shout that it is their right to kill their baby!  They laugh and mock what I am doing and tell me that I should do something worthwhile, like, save a tree.  They curse at me and my wife and children.  They rationalize their premeditated murder away and boast that it is "legal", which makes it "okay".  

Now abortion WILL brutalize the mother.  It will bring spiritual, emotional, and physical consequences—just as it does to all who murder—but especially to the abortive women, since the victim is her own child.  The mother who murders her baby in the womb may do so in a desperate situation, and MAY do so believing a lie.  But for the sake of God's word and true mercy on the baby that has been abused to death by the signed consent of his/her mother, we must treat the mother (in a desperate situation) who murders her baby at 3 months gestation no differently than the mother (in a desperate situation) who murders her 3 year old.

AGAIN will I state it.

If we do not treat it as such, we are hypocrites, guilty of having "respect of persons", and are perverting justice and equity (James 2:4,8-9).

If we will not truly treat abortion as murder, we are not only acting treacherously against our God and neighbor (thus breaking the first and second greatest commandments: Matthew 22:37-40), but we are also communicating to the ungodly that we don't really think it is the same as murder, and further entrenches the abomination of child sacrifice AS JUSTIFIED in our society.  That is UNLOVING to the lost all about us.  We undermine our position, and they see our inconsistency.

We Christians need to repent of our apathy, our compromise, and our inconsistency with God's law and grace.

We must agree with true justice and equity based in the Scripture, and protect the innocent and punish the evildoer.  

We need to cry mightily unto God, as the king of Nineveh decreed (Jonah 3:8-9), that God may have mercy on our nation.  If we stand for some lives and not for others, we become human rights hypocrites, failing to love our neighbor.

PUNISHING MURDER IS LOVING!

—IT IS LOVING to the real victims, the children in danger of destruction, showing care and respect to the value of their lives.

—IT IS LOVING to the millions already slain, vindicating their humanity and worth as image-bearers of their Creator.

—IT IS LOVING to other preborn children, who will not be murdered because their parents do not want to be punished as murderers.  It will be unfeigned love, for it will give them equal protection under the law.

—IT IS LOVING to parents, who will not murder their babies now that it is a punishable offense, thus sparing them becoming guilty of their children's slaughter.

—IT IS LOVING to the mother, already guilty of murder herself, giving her swift opportunity to face up to what she has done, repent of it, and find salvation and healing in Christ Jesus alone, thus removing YEARS of guilt, cover up, justification, and hardening, and if unrepentant rejecting Christ, eternal torment.  Also the father, if he was pursuing that murder as well.

—IT IS LOVING to families being pressured by angry relatives to abort, giving them the ability to say, "You're telling me to commit a felony?  To MURDER?"  Thus giving the legal clout to stand their ground.

—IT IS LOVING to the abortionists who will stop aborting because it is a punishable offense, bringing before their conscience the seriousness of their violence before the court of the Lord, showing them the depth of their sin, that he or she may personally face up to what they did, to repent, crying to God for mercy, and trusting in Jesus alone to save them from their sin, including their blood guiltiness.  It gives them more impetus to "cease to do evil, Learn to do well" (Isaiah 1:16-17). 

—IT IS LOVING to those in the medical profession or medical schools who may be tempted to seek that line of murderous occupation and will now be turned away by the knowledge of punishment they will be spared the guilt of murder on their conscience and record (Proverbs 19:25).

—IT IS LOVING to the abortionist who refuses to stop killing, for punishing him will stop him from adding to his "kill count", and thus his blood guiltiness before God.  It will remove any rationale of being a "hero of women" or being viewed as "a pillar in the community".  It can show him his sin in all its ramifications, and can humble him and bring him to the only place where he can find cleansing for his mass murders--at the foot of the cross, by the shed blood of the Lamb.

—IT IS LOVING to the other employees at the murder mills who will forsake it or not apply to work there because they don't wish to be punished as partakers of murder so that they may forsake the foolish and live, repenting of their involvement and be saved.

—IT IS LOVING to our society at large, bringing the perceived value of all life back to the place where it belongs.  Is it any surprise that people today are murdering fellow students, fellow employees, neighbors, family members, friends, enemies, and strangers, when we will countenance the murder of the MOST vulnerable and the MOST innocent?

—IT IS LOVING to the victims of rape, under aged and incestual molestation, and human trafficking, whose attackers, oppressors, and "owners" are escaping the evidence of their wickedness by pressuring or forcing to have the baby killed, covering up their crimes, and therefore presently being able to continue oppressing this victim and others.

—IT IS LOVING to the neighborhoods, communities, states, and this nation, in the midst of whom, innocent blood has been shed, to resolve that guilt and satisfy the demand of justice (see the example of the an unsolved murder in Deuteronomy 21:1-9), turning away impending judgment.  It is a humbling and acknowledgement of the evil we are guilty of, and, as some have said, "giving God a reason to show mercy", rather than arrogantly and proudly denying our bloody crime in the face of judgment.  It is "standing in the gap", repairing the breach, that God would not destroy us as we deserve (Ezekiel 22:30, but really the entire chapter). 

—IT IS LOVING to our Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth, "The Power that hath made and preserved us a nation" thus far, the Giver of Life and Life Everlasting, the One Who has granted inalienable rights in the first place, that we would be acknowledging His truth, recognizing and turning away from our perversion of justice and the slaughter of those made in His image.

—IT IS LOVING to our nation to remember that if our cause is NOT just, we will not CONQUER, or we will CONQUER in vain.  We must turn our hearts to turn the course of this people.  Let us who fear God, in returning the laws from targeting millions of our citizens to be massacred, instead to reflect liberty and justice for all, truly trusting God for the results, and do what is right. 

If we as Christians do not consistently obey and speak the truth in our society, as salt and light, if we are recreant to our responsibility, how can we expect our society to return to right and justice?  If we refuse to speak the truth, we expose our lack of love to all these.  We become manifest as hypocrites.

From a child, I have loved the Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem.  I love the words, the music, and the history behind it.  My favorite verse being the final one:

"And thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation

Blest with vic'try and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust'

And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

That we may not vainly say, "In God we trust" when we do not follow His commands.  

Jesus said, "And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46).

"Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."(Romans 12:9).  "Love without dissimulation" means that we are not just pretending to love, feigning that we care, but actually loving with sincerity, with a pure heart fervently (I Peter 1:22).

We MUST show love without dissimulation.

Abortion MUST be abolished.