Posted on 07/21/2015 6:18:05 AM PDT by Gamecock
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This is where he lost me, because the romantic idea of blaming abortion on the man is not in keeping with the facts in our culture. Surveys show men are over-whelmingly pro-life and it is women who are pro-abortion. By and lage, abortion is legal and easily accessible because women want to abort their children, not because men want their children aborted. Legally speaking, men don't even have a say in it.
Good stuff.
“If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves.....”
I am of the opinion that the “humble” part is very hard for most Americans.
He speaks to an important reality. Many women would keep those babies if not pressured by the men in their lives. I have seen this first hand. Repeatedly. It is almost the predictable pattern for a given set of circumstances. Make no mistake. Many children would be alive today, but for certain heartless men who do not want to live with the real world consequences of their fantasy life.
Peace,
SR
True humility is very hard for everyone. I would even say it's impossible but for the grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. Even then we can only approach it but never achieve it.
Especially important given today’s latest news about the eugenicists at Planned Parenthood.
Amen!
I don’t understand your objection. He didn’t make an absolute statement, nor was it romanticized in any way. While it may be true men are more pro-life, it is equally true that certain men—boyfriends, husbands, and even fathers—drive expectant mothers to abortion centers all the time. Anyone who does sidewalk ministry can tell you this. It is common to see men pacing about outside while a girlfriend, wife, or daughter is inside having a child murdered.
I have known boyfriends who insisted upon abortions and thought highly of themselves for their willingness to foot the entire bill. I have also seen grown men cry over the haunting memory of a former girlfriend’s abortion that they had helped secure.
Early in my legal career I knew a wealthy married politician who bought a home for his mistress in exchange for agreeing to abort his child and remain silent.
Several months ago I happened to talk to John Barros, a man who has dedicated his life to sidewalk ministry at an abortion clinic in Florida, and he specifically mentioned R.C. Sproul, Jr. He talked about how R.C. personally visits the same clinic and personally witnesses to young women and men. Some of his older children also visit to witness and pray with them. R.C. knows what he is writing of and he has invested his own time to help save babies.
Wow! While false religion is as the gates of Hell spiritually, abortion, and the taking of innocent life by those who are not the authors of it, manifests Hell at work, for as the Lord who said to allow the little ones to come to Him stated,
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
And as saith the Wisdom of God,
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. (Proverbs 8:36)
Excellent verses.
I was utterly appalled by that undercover video of that planned parenthood abortion doctor. I thought maybe that wasn’t a real woman, but a demon who looks human, and that really goes for all of them.
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.......The power of the Gospel....”the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18).....
God’s church IS the assembly of people who have been called out of the world by the power of the gospel of Christ.....Satan has the power of death, and he will always use that power to try to destroy the body of believers in Christ..... But we have this promise from Jesus that His church, the called out will prevail:...
Romans 1:16 tells us..... For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is ‘the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes’....
It is Jesus that said in Luke 4:18.... The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised...
We do not therefore do this in our own ability or in our own power but by ‘the power that has been sent to live and dwell in us’....for Jesus tells us in John 15:5 “ for without me ye can do nothing”.
Furthermore,...2 Corinthians 10:4 tells us ...”For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but ‘mighty through God’... to the pulling down of strong holds”.....It is by the Spirit dwelling in us, through us and through the use of his name, that this power becomes operative to bring down false teachings, and everything which sets itself up against God.
We cannot stand unless we are standing on the Gospel before we can stand against the attacks of the Enemy!....
....therefore... we, as the body of believers with Jesus Christ as the Head... are his Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against us!
The second video released now...and another of satans followers speaks clearly............... She says..."I Want a Lamborghini".... ......Planned Parenthood Employee Laughs While Negotiating 'Sale of Baby Body Parts' which are 'older' than this wee born baby.
I was appalled as well. I had heard for years that the fetal parts were sold but the denials were always yelled louder!
....”While it may be true men are more pro-life, it is equally true that certain menboyfriends, husbands, and even fathersdrive expectant mothers to abortion centers all the time”.....
My first battle with this killing of the unborn ....the Pastor of the Methodist church, which the family attended drove the young mother to the Abortion Mill...and who interjected himself once he learned the family had decided NOT to abort the child.......I would learn of this after the Pastor had done his deed........Two weeks later the young mother was killed while crossing the street.
The adults, from the mother and father, to the Pastor all which had walked this young mother to take her babies life....then faced the unimaginable guilt and torture.
I cannot express the depth of grief I experienced in fighting for the life of this young mothers child, convinced they had chosen to let this child live.......to only learn that a Pastor had persuaded the family otherwise, and further to take them to the abortion clinic himself and the child was aborted.......
It still affects me to this very day.....
Very good stuff.
Always a pleasure to read some RCS.
Thanks.
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