At Victory, We Stand Against Abortion

This past Sunday, pastor Josh preached against abortion, America’s genocide. Listen here:

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Child Sacrifice: Excerpt from the Sermon

“They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons…” (PSALM 106:37)

When the Israelites had grown in their hardness toward God and had matured in the sin of the Gentiles, they began worshiping the idols of the Gentiles. One such mode of worship was human sacrifice. Now, I want us to understand the purpose of these human, child sacrifices. If we’re not careful, we’ll miss it, and we’ll begin to think the Gentiles and the fallen Israelites had some kind of pious purpose behind their sacrifice, as if they were reverencing a pagan god with the flesh of their offspring. And as wrong as that would be, they had no intention toward piety. They had every intention toward debauchery, the liberty of their lusts, and the refusal of any kind of godly duty or responsibility. They were anti-God and they were anti-God’s law— and they were anti-God and anti-God’s law because they were pro-flesh, on a mission to feed their carnal pleasures.

In v. 39, we’ll see that God, through the psalmist, calls Israel a whore or a harlot. What is a harlot? A harlot is a woman who removes herself out from the headship of one man and submits herself to another man or men. She is an adultress—a cheater. At the very core, harlotry is an expression of the rejection of things like duty, responsibility, companionship, love, etc.

So, one could possibly say that the child sacrifices were performed for the same reasons they are today—to forgo any sort of responsibility. It’s a pseudo kind of freedom where the woman or women say to themselves, “If I could do what I want, then I’d be free.” Or, to be more specific, “If I could avoid the responsibility of obedience to God, I could be free.” To get even more specific, “If I could simply get rid of this child, which is a blatant expression of disobedience to God, then I could really be free.”

Notice, the first problem was Israel yoking herself to the pagans. The following issue was Israel’s adoption of the pagan ways of living. The pagans were more authoritative to the Israelites than God was. The more pertinent question to the Israelites was, “What do the Gentiles think?” not, “What does God say?” And so, if I could summarize the central issue in a few words, it would be this: Israel traded God for the world. And, likewise, our nation and many parents in our nation, have traded God—by trading their children—for their worldly passions.

Brethren, when a nation or a people in general trade God for the world, anything and everything becomes morally feasible. There’s no standard of righteousness.

“And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.” (PSALM 106:38)

“And shed innocent blood…” This is key. We live in a world, in a society, where it is legal to shed innocent blood. Now, the psalmist doesn’t mean here that the “innocent” are without sin. What it means is that the “innocent” are blameless before their fellow man. They haven’t done anything worthy of civil punishment. They’re innocent in that regard.

The next part of the verse says their children were sacrificed to idols, probably to a god or gods referred to as Molech. But the same is true for our country today. Thousands of women, mostly in their twenties, are walking into abortion clincs every year to have their children torn apart limb by limb, or chemically exterminated—for what? For no strings attached. They do not want to be tied down to an infant who would no doubt change their lives forever. Clubs, maybe even school, date nights, all those things would be a thing of the past for the most part. So, mothers everywhere are sacrificing their children to their idol.

They have a false sense of self-love and a misdefined notion of freedom, or liberty. Really, what something like abortion indicates is that people are enslaved to their lusts, so much so that they’d kill babies, without question, to keep those lusts.

“And the land was polluted with blood.”

I can’t say anything less for the United States. I’m not sure how many live children Israel managed to discard into the fires of Molech, but I’m certain it came nowhere near the amount of infants our nation, our government, and the citizens of this country have allowed to be tossed into bio-hazardous trash cans—either burned alive by chemicals or torn apart by forceps.

Yes, our country has indeed shed and continues to shed innocent blood at a cyclic rate never before seen in the history of the world. What’s happening now is worse than the Gulags in Russia, during the Soviet era. It’s worse than Hitler’s campaign against the Jews. Infants in America are the most persecuted demographic in the history of the world. There’s nothing that comes close to our infanticide.

According to abortion surveillance at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2016 alone 623,471 babies were massacred in their mothers’ womb. Here’s what a breakdown of that number looks like: 1.2% of those were late term abortions, taking place after 21 weeks; 7.7% of those were mid-term, at about 14-20 weeks gestation; and 91% were early term, 13 weeks or younger. Now percentages can be a bit deceiving at first glance. So, I did the math and came up with the actual numbers: 7,482 babies of 21 weeks or older were murdered. Babies who are born premature at 21 to 24 weeks can live. It happens every day. Yet, over 7,000 of them were slaughtered in 2016 alone. Babies 14-20 weeks numbered to 48,007 in 2016 alone. And, of course, 567,359 babies were murdered who were 13 weeks or younger.

Using conservative measurements, if you were to lay each of these babies killed in 2016 on top of one another, back to stomach, they would reach a length of 40 miles, give or take a few. That’s the body count from 2016 alone. If we were to take the figure of abortions in the U. S. since Roe v. Wade in 1973, we’re looking at a 61,628,584 murder toll. If you were to do the same with that number as we just did with the 2016 figure, the length of murdered infants would stretch 3,890 miles. That’s a line of murdered infants longer than the distance between Kansas City and Iceland.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 24% of women in the U. S. will have an abortion by age 45. The year 2017 was up 200,000 abortions from 2016, making the total approximately 862,000 in all. If our land isn’t polluted with blood, I don’t know what land would be. The Canaanites and Israelites looked like angels compared to us, if we’re just going by the numbers.

Church, we have a responsibility to stand against the genocide. The question is, How do we stand against it? There’s multiple ways to speak up for the unborn, but perhaps the greatest is by way of example. The church should be a place where children are cherished and treasured. The church ought to be the place where kids can hear the Word of God preached and taught, where they can be raised in the way that they ought to go, seeing their parents and other believers as examples to which they can look up. The church ought to be the place where children are seen as blessings rather than curses; as opportunities in and of themselves rather than the obstruction of opportunities like career goals.

This idea that kids are somehow a burden, which has found popularity even among Christians, needs to go. Psalm 127:3-5 says:

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

Children ought not be seen as some economic burden to the family unit. Why? Because God doesn’t think that way. Children are a heritage from the Lord. The man that has children is a happy man. There is nothing in the Scriptures about children being burdens. The church should be the place where children are seen as an expression of liberty, power, and happiness rather than burdens to be discarded in favor of economic, educational, or career goals.