Break The Curse

Take what you know to be true and speak out! Our goal must not be merely to limit but to end the murder of innocents. Currently we provide a little funding for New Life Pregnancy Center. I ask you, is it enough to send money to a missionary and yet never speak the gospel ourselves? By the same turn is it sufficient to fund the New Life Pregnancy Center who does a great work and yet say nothing when we have it within our power and responsibilities to speak to our elected officials?

We need to speak out, even at the risk of offending people. We need to win in the court of public opinion, and we need to win on capital hill, and in the supreme court.

But we have to do more than speak out, we’ve got to step up to the plate and take action.

2) Step Up: Proverbs 24:11-12

NLT “Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; don’t stand back and let them die. 12 Don’t try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn’t know about it. For God knows all hearts, and he sees you. He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew! And he will judge all people according to what they have done.”

We have got to do whatever we can to save those innocent lives. What does that mean you can do? “In addition to equipping yourself to think persuasively and argue persuasively on the pro-life issue, we need to begin acting as if we believe that abortion is a serious moral wrong.”2

We normally act based on what we believe to be true; but too often we’ve decided to become completely passive. Many might agree with the person who says “I believe abortion is wrong but I don’t have a right to tell a woman what to do?”

Oh really? Than why do we lock up thousands of people in prison for murder, rape and drugs every year? Haven’t we made an action based upon what we believe to be right or wrong? If we really believe abortion is murder (And it is) than we have the mandate to act against it.

How do you do that?

Pray for God’s intervention certainly, but how about being the intervention?

Give liberally to places like the New Life Pregnancy Center (Pastor: list a local crisis pregnancy center)

Rescue the perishing by intervening in the process if we can.

Yet as we step up to the plate to take action, we’ve got to remember that our goal is not to destroy people but to bring them redemption. We need to destroy the sin, but we have got to make sure that in the process we don’t destroy the sinner. Remember the purpose of Christ? To seek and save the lost? We too have got to reach out with compassion in hopes of redemption.

3) Reach out: Matthew 11:28-30

It is sad to say, but it’s easier as a Christian to confess to sins of adultery, fornication, or theft than it is to be a Christian who has had an Abortion. We cannot forget that the procedure has two victims. The child is gone but the mother remains and more often than not, she is daily haunted with a memory she can’t erase. To that woman, God offers the sacred gift of complete forgiveness. Abortion has created a multitude of walking wounded who silently suffer their guilt and their shame. And the devil uses the rhetoric to keep them locked in feelings of guilt, even if they’re Christians now.